Modern Warfare 1.06 Patch Brings New Glitches

The multiplayer aspect of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has suffered quite a serious setback as far as fair-play goes with the “Javelin glitch,” but it is a rather big step toward mindless fun. While it is called “Javelin,” this glitch worked with pretty much any launcher weapon, and pretty much turned people into suicide bombers. If you don't see why one would want to blow themselves up, you only need to look at the news, but in-game, mix this with a couple of appropriate perks and you become a god of war with your knife. The glitch has eventually been fixed by Infinity Ward with the MW2 1.06 patch, but as everybody knows, a patch only causes a tear in the fabric somewhere else.

So yes, while it fixed one glitch, 1.06 has managed to create two new problems. One of them is the “private match,” which, with all due respect, sounds more like internal sabotage than an update glitch. Creative strategist Robert Bowling gave an official admission of the glitch on the Infinity Ward forums and said that a patch to fix it was on the way. "Update on the matchmaking glitch that has players joining hacked Private Matches with custom rulesets when attempting to search for public games; we're aware and currently working on a fix. I'll keep you posted on its progress."

The other glitch is the "infinite ammo" one, where some players are generously found by the game with Santa's bottomless sack, but this one is filled with ammo, not ribbon-wrapped presents. The glitch manifests by randomly removing ammo counters from weapons from players that enter a match, the end result being that anyone with a grenade launcher becomes an entire artillery unit. You can rid yourself of the problem by disconnecting from Xbox Live and restarting your Xbox 360, but why would anybody want to have limited ammo is a mystery.

Robert Bowling posted on Twitter that, "Preparing an in depth [Modern Warfare 2] Status Report for players to stay aware of what we're addressing & how it's progressing. Lots of updates in works." But it will most likely take a few days before we see anything solved.