MW2 “Rocket Glitch” Gets Players Banned

Been playing some Modern Warfare 2 lately? Seen any one exploding upon death? If your answer is yes then you may have fallen victim to the first notable glitch in Infinity Wards latest shooter. The glitch involves using a frag or Semtex grenade in conjunction with a rocket launcher which turns players in to “suicide bombers” exploding upon death. I experienced opposing players using the glitch which I have to say is very annoying, you may laugh the first time it happens but it soon gets old when any close range kill equals a death for you.

If you have not yet seen the glitch you can check it out here, we do not advise that you use the glitch as it can get you a 24 hour – 2 week ban on xbox live and more importantly its cheating! Stephen Toulouse aka stepto cleared up the situation with a couple of tweets earlier today;

While IW works on getting the MW2 glitch fixed, people we catch using it will receive suspensions from LIVE. Play fair everyone. :>

For those asking, cheating suspensions are usually 24 hours for first offense. But egregious cheating can be 2 weeks!

So there you have it, Infinity Ward is working on the problem but until then if you are playing online and come across a glitcher reporting them and leaving the game is really the only thing you can do


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  • typok

    Good to know they are working on it. Ive been dealing with it almost every game for several days now. What i dont get is why they arent fixing the matchmaking problems? Thats the worst part of the game!

  • jayman99

    It is not cheating, I learned about it today for the first time and I feel that it is something any good player can adapt to. It is a function of the game and once experienced, if I were to see another person running at me with a rocket launcher I will definitely not be killing that person at close range. It puts people at no more of a disadvantage then someone with a low range weapon has against a sniper on the other end of the map. I think it is ridiculous so many people are whining about this and even more ridiculous that any person would be banned for using a feature that IS included in the game at the moment. Absolutely absurd. Time for people to grow up and play the game for what it is, how it is, and if they don't fix it, it will not effect my life.

  • jayman99

    Agreed, there invite and party system if terrible right now. This should be there priority, not some glitch that is completely adaptable.

  • elsk

    Its a glitch not a “feature”

  • jayman99

    I disagree, I highly this was an accident.

  • jagpal

    its gay and fuk u



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