**UPDATES AS OF SEPT 14 2024; updates regarding the STEAM BO3, BOIII Client, Steam Infinite Warfare and CoD WWII, Steam BO1, MWR H1, and a quick note about Plutonium/clients** AS OF SEPT 14 2024, STEAM BO3 MATCHMAKING DOES NOT WORK. With and without T7 Patches, you currently cannot join any online games, MP, zombies, co-op, nothing to my knowledge. Please check out the BOIII client for the time being. Only Campaign and solo zombies are working. Will update when I know more - x.com/GunofTZ/status/1835006586466476393 NEW EXE FOR THE BOIII CLIENT IS AVAILABLE HERE: www.mediafire.com/file/2mr1435pvjo4ddw/t7x.exe/file **THIS IS JUST AN EXE, NOT A NEW CLIENT** This exe provides some fixes for client/server side exploits that were reported after the shut down last year. Simply drop the new exe into your BO3 directory and run it to launch the BOIII client. As of mid June 2024 - INFINITE WARFARE ON STEAM WORKS AGAIN! Server Fast File error was addressed and you can play the game again! Unfortunately though alike many older steam CoDs, there are cheaters with tools capable of crashing games and sending the host migration packet - th-cam.com/video/N0A1CUcMk0s/w-d-xo.html - so be cautious of that. Steam CoD WWII: As of April 30th, apparently the NA dedicated server issues have been fixed, but there still may be issues. I personally haven't experienced any problems with WWII servers over the past few weeks of playing, but do read this if you're curious: The biggest upcoming issue is with Call of Duty WWII on Steam; not a security risk, but a server issue. According to this Reddit post, CoD WWII's for the North American region are seeing a decline in dedicated servers, meaning for NA players, it may lead to worse connections as the game is seemingly throwing more players into EU Dedicated Servers/lobbies. Check the reddit thread here: www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/17gkyt3/well_guys_most_cod_dedicated_servers_shutting_down/ MWR H1 CLIENT HAS BEEN REBRANDED TO 'AURORA'! New Updates for the MWR H1 Mod and potentially IW7 Infinite Warfare coming very soon huge eyes emoji + exploding head emoji - discord link has been updated!: discord.gg/RtHXcWFdEt BO1 Steam - one thing I have been made aware of is an issue with Black Ops 1 on Steam, and that is, your rank getting randomly reset. Ironically enough, this had never happened to me in the years (since 2016) that I had been playing BO1 steam, but it just happened to me the other day. This is what the error looks like - gyazo.com/be801d7e2f36c34e57fcd614c18d8a91 - I don't know what causes it or how to prevent it, but just be aware of it. Lastly; just a quick note that I thought of randomly, but when it comes to playing on clients, be aware that some servers do not allow VPNs. You also have to have a name longer than 3 characters. Some servers will kick you for either of those reasons. Do feel free to run VPNs on non-client versions of the games like steam/bnet if you wish. That's it for now, will continue to keep you all updated as I learn more information throughout the year :) Jan 1 2024 - Quick note regarding Plutonium, after the vid was posted I was made aware that the steam verification check is only needed for server owners. Illegitimate copies of games work for players, however, after everything that happened last year I wouldn’t be surprised if it does become a requirement to actually own the games on steam. I would recommend owning the games on steam/bnet.
just a quick correction, the devs of sm2 changed engine cause they were lazy to figure out a solution to the issue. But a lot of devs from zombies could have help giving some feedback, appearently. and you don't play mp on BO3, even with the patch. But thank you very much for videos like this rage. It helps
If it's true ? I'm sorry to hear@@0xSASS but i'm sure some people would have helped. I've heard that there was an error you weren't able to fix so you changed engine for that. I can understand the beef though. Zombies and mp had been at war since a long time in cod. From what i've seen.
thankfully a handful of games did receive some support and updates over the past year, but again some issues are so deeply rooted into the foundation of these games that the devs can only put these bandaid fixes on them. unfortunately we can't control the prices of games, but there's been loads of sales on steam to get the games at better prices
@@Rxqe to fix pretty much every problem they just need to put anticheat on the older ones and have dedicated servers - but thats too much money to spend for activision
@@saltynutzftw don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility, but I don’t think it’s as simple as that because security updates for BO3, 4 and Cold War were already outdated within days as the makers of these cheat tools and such had already cracked the security. I think there needs to be a small team dedicated to keep the security of these games up to date
@@Rxqe i wouldnt mind installing some crazy anticheat software like if it had like root access of my pc or something if it meant i had no cheaters at all like valorant
Man, I pray Microsoft goes back and fixes some of these issues. It's heartbreaking to see the state of these older CoD's especially when recent Call of Duty games can't even touch games like Bo1, AW, and Bo2, just to name a few. These games were so many of our childhoods. It's insane that we need to fear for our safety just because we want to play a game. The T7 patch and client devs are the people keeping these games alive. They really are the heroes of old school CoD.
The worst part is that I played CoD MW2 about 2 years ago and I made friends and now it is just infested with hackers that will find your IP in 2 seconds. Love your videos keep up the good work.
Black Ops 1, (the multiplayer at least) is definitely vulnerable to RCE. I've been RCE'd on BO1. He was opening calculator and stuff on my PC and later the guy even showed me a screenshot of the tool he used. It also had the ability to browse your file system amongst other things. It happened in a private match by the way, so if you're the host at least you are definitely vulnerable.
Thank you for the heads up on this, you're honestly one of the first people that has told me about BO1 RCEs. If it happened in a private match, I would imagine it was probably easier for the hacker to do it in a p2p connection based setting instead of through server browsers, very sorry to hear this.
@@SuperBranFlakezyea they need you connected too the server in order too do anything but they can see a list of all the players connected too the server that’s how they give people rats and malware pretty much anything they want too do
Good on you for making this video. People needed to hear all of this and it doesn’t seem many content creators are too informed on these matters. Hopefully we see a boost on these clients now.
One note on CoD1: Honestly it’s gotten to the point where the expansion pack, United Offensive, is a lot more commonly populated that any version of CoD1. It’s really sad to see but that’s what I’ve noticed recently.
On behalf of the AlterWare team thanks for making this video. - Future I would exercise caution even on CoD4 and WaW PC version because having the server browser instead of P2P does not guarantee anything. CoD4 has an RCE exploits that is only patched on the CoD4x client. WaW has the same RCE which is only patched on plutonium. This mean that the community run servers for WaW and CoD4 can compromise your if the server owner choose to. Client versions are okay.
Gotcha! Thank you for the heads up on this man. Yeah I figured that with servers, it's up to the server owners to not only provide the security but also gotta hope that they're the ones who aren't trying to access their players data. Good to know about CoD4x and WaW Pluto
you can't even play cod4 without cod4x apart from like 5 servers so its pretty much a none issue unless you are trying to play on some uber modded russian 1.6 server with 0 pop on the other hand cod4x gave a bunch of neckbeards the opportunity to gatekeep and control how people play the game, 90% of servers now ban you just for hitting a bounce or getting out of map for clips and also gave them the ability to IP/Mac ban instead of just keycodes, which is a bigger red flag than playing on the dodgy none cod4x servers
Nice video, I came back to COD on PC after playing years ago and was confused about all the RCE stuff, this is perfect. Worth noting that MW2 and MW3 have FOV changers available which you can use on steam should the steam version become the best option at any point.
I'm a little late to this video but I just want to put a comment saying thanks. This is an extremely in-depth video that answered any and all questions that I may have had regarding playing old versions of COD. It's actually insane to me that for Infinite Warfare, that entire segment was basically just "it's fucked, R.I.P"
If you make this video in 2025 I think that you should talk about how Steam BO2 servers have been backdoored since around last year. You’re extremely unlikely to see hackers or people using RCE in BO2 anymore because Blasts Mods backdoored the servers, almost anyone who uses any sort of cheat is automatically banned as a result of his anti-cheat. Even though it may not seem like it now, BO2 is VERY unsafe to play since he can RAT anyone playing the game online. Activision/Treyarch needs to be made aware of this.
You forgot to mention a major issue in Black Ops 1 Steam where your rank is randomly reset. It affects a lot of people, seen many players lose max prestige (myself as well)
Seems like the same bug you can get in world at war by going on some modded servers, it resets your rank after, and in WaW it also erases your campaign progress :(
@@thechugg4372 That’s normal though, certain mods will have different stats for their mods/servers and your stats should be back to normal once you unload the mod and vice versa
thanks for doing this Mike, there's currently someone going around on Pluto BO2 crashing and kicking people out of servers, I'm sure it will be fixed soon. regardless of the server crashing - it's still safe!
The fact that the people at SM2 switched games, backpedaled on their "need to own" status, and then got immediately shut down was the biggest bag fumble of that year. Absolutely brutal to see probably the best cod game we could have ever gotten slip through our hands like that. I hope someone out there does it again but properly this time. Really sucks to see it go but they had it coming with trying to advocate for piracy. That in combination with MW2 maps coming to MWIII just meant that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and gave activision all the reason to nuke them.
What happened with sm2 really was tragic. Definitely would've been one of the greatest CoD experiences. I don't know exactly what caused the change of the need to own status when changing from IW4 to H1, but I know that was definitely one of the biggest red flags for them. Even if they stuck on the need to own MWR, I think you make a good point, the MW2 Remastered maps coming to MWIII could've been a good enough reason for it to get hit, but who knows what would've happened. That's always the risk with these kinda games, especially the MW2 Remastered projects that have come and gone, there's always a chance Acti is holding the real MW2R as the ace up their sleeve and can drop it whenever so it would force them to shut projects down.
@@Rxqe Good thoughts! I totally agree with you. It really is a shame to see, but that doesn't mean something equally as epic won't come out in the future, and there are already many amazing projects in the works. I am really excited about what is to come with BO4 over the next couple of years. I've seen some cool zombies alterations and being able to place objects through kinda like a dev mode, so hopefully it will have a bright future.
For me I bought infinite warfare purely for offline play on my Steam Deck. I would've done BO3 but it was slightly more expensive on the recent steam sale and I'm strapped for cash, but it was worth buying one despite the budget issues as I ain't paying £50+ for an old COD game I only want to play offline for a few private matches against bots and maybe some zombies, and I miss the exo COD's as I played BO3 and IW a lot at launch. I've got COD4 from the old disc copy I got, but I fancied a futuristic COD to substitute Titanfall 2 for while I'm offline, and IW fits perfectly with both my desire for exo COD and budget
Just to be extra sure: are these advices to be applied to COD multiplayer functions only? Playing the single player campaigns or extra modes (like Spec Ops and Zombies) is perfectly safe? Just want to be extra sure.
On June 14th, 2024, vanilla IW's servers got fixed (The fastfile error no longer exists, it's fully playable again), would be nice to see you update that in the pinned comment.
Thank you for making these videos on the old COD games for PC. I just started to replay some of them that I played in the past, starting with the campaigns and I was searching how is the multiplayer doing. Can't wait to try some of the games that I didn't play :D
Did mention CoDUO in last years vid, a good friend of mine told me about a base assault server thats decently popped and figured the same for this go around
Just a heads up, most of the old cods are still active and populated on the PS3 in 2024 the games below are the best ones to play: 1. Cod 4 2. BO1 3. WaW Keep in mind to play BO1 and have your level save, you have to be on a PlayStation account that played the game prior to 2018. For WaW and Cod4 you can play on a brand new account.
Plutonium has not added steam verification yet, only server owners have to verify as of rn Edit: also for infinite warfare there is the iw7x client that isnt fully dead, people are working on servers and I personally made a fork for iw7x that allows for pirated copies
in my experiences of mw2, Free-For-All is the safest game mode to play. i’ve never once ran into a malicious hacker, and it’s fairly quick to find a game. i’d avoid Team Deathmatch. Team Deathmatch is where i’ve experienced all of the malicious hackers and cheaters. Bo2 i’ve never tried to join an online game for my own safety, and Ghosts and Advanced Warfare are so dead to the point that you can’t even find a match, so i wouldn’t worry about those two
I got WW2 for Christmas this year and I have about 250 hours in 2 months. Do I need a life? Absolutely! However, besides some cheaters in MP here in there, I have no issues. I play from EU and there are almosr always players on Shipment and TDM. Zombies also has some players, but zombies is usually played alone since new players can c*ckblock you during EEs. No security issues were encountered (and I work in the field). WW2 is updated for bug fixes and stuff quite a bit. I saw bugs from 3 months ago be fixed when I tried it just about a month later.
Another great video Mike. Two quick questions: (1) What exactly changed between this Everything you need to know and the 2023 one. (2) I had decided to mod the game to replace the SAS announcer (Wallcroft) with the MW2 2009 Militia Announcer and the spawn theme with the COD4 Opfor. Do this make the game any better? P.S. as of lately, I did play a lot of IW5 Original MW3. No safety issues so thanks Mike.
what changed from 2023 to 2024 is quite literally what this video is in its entirety, and if you modded the files to what you want then I would guess it makes it better? idk I haven't done that, so if it makes your personal experience better then all the power to ya
It's incredibly annoying that simply playing one of the biggest series in modern gaming on PC *AT ALL* requires modding and just avoiding certain titles cuz screw you I guess.
i have the torrented versions of the games and i can play it on plutonium, it doesnt matter if u dont verify that u own the game you just click play and thats it
sadly the best experience of older cods is on console, mw2 on xbox is like we were in 2010, thanks to cross-platform the newer cods will last much longer
that's correct, I mean even back then there were still plenty of cheats evem back in the old days but for sure nowadays cod will last much longer with crossplay
I watched this all fully knowing I'll never play another game of cod again and can't run the new ones anyway. Just interesting to see what's broken and how bad
How do these clients have such a low amount of players? This is awesome, idk how i did not know about most of these clients until now, i only knew about plutonium
As someone who's newish to COD and have been really wanting to check out the games I've missed out on, huge thank you for this video and keeping it up to date! For BO3, what would you recommend? steam with patch or the cilent?
@@Rxqe lmao hell yeah dude, i am a certified courtney laplante simp 😂 i also noticed later in the video you have that eternal blue hoodie, wish i had that one
They should turn these games intro cross platform, it may be not that fair for console players, but the amount of mouse players (pc) is soo small that its more fair than selling a dead game
Hi man, thanks for the vid! I really appreciate the work. I've been looking at this for a while and am still wondering if it is safe to play the new MW2. I do want to play some cod, but god damn it is frustrating that billion dollar companies just dont care to this extent.
Okay, so I'm a little stupid, and some of this stuff went over my head. While I think I got most of it, i do have some questions just to clear things up: So, for context: I'm mainly just getting WaW, BO1, and BO2 for some classic zombies solo or with just one, maybe 2 friend(s) if we do go multi-player it'll probably still just be us 2-3. Just to relive some old school nostalgia 1. RCE exploits shouldn't affect me/us as we will be in private servers and not with any randoms, correct? 2. If 1 is correct, then it shouldn't matter if we are running straight steam ver or a client ver, right? Along with that, even if we are playing privately, would you still recommend playing cliented versions? 3. Outside of the community patch, would you still recommend playing BO3 with a client? again, keeping the private lobby in mind. (This one isn't as likely for me/us to play, but it's not off the table) From what i understand, I/we should be safe as long as I/we remain in private lobbies and not interacting with anyone regardless if we are playing the raw steam ver or cliented ver, but like I said, I just wanted to clear all that up before I eventually dive and and end up getting my computer bricked or worse from malware. Either way, thanks for the video. It definitely helped even if some of it whizzed passed me
Ideally yes, RCEs shouldn't affect you and your friends if you guys are playing together on steam in your own private match. Unless you or your friend have some unwanted attention from someone who would want to go out of their way to harm. I personally would recommend playing on the clients regardless as they do provide the most up to date protections; plus you can uncap fov/fps, provide unlock all, etc. Clients are just better for protection/customization. You could play solo, or if friends join, you guys could create a server and play (although I personally don't know how to set a server up, I think you could join off each other using radmin vpn - host would give their ip to the friends, friends would type /connect insertiphere into the console and can connect that way). For BO3, yes I would highly recommend the BOIII client. If you're going to play steam, you definitely should be using the community patch even in a private lobby as it not only fixes the FPS problem with steam BO3, but also provides security. You and your friends would all need to be running the T7 patch, enter a custom made password in that box, and then join off each other. That's just for steam, BOIII client does not need T7 patch. Hope this helps!
@Rxqe I see thank you. It definitely helps. I've never run a cliented version of any game before, so im still figuring things out. I'll keep all this in mind. Thank you again
Amazing Video Man , thank you. i think you said it at the start of the video . but just to be clear if i wanted to play all the call of dutys just for the story mode is that ok ? or do i run a risk of a RAT or RCE ?
hey man, saw the cod franchise getting discounted and i was wondering if it’s safe to play in steam 2024 nowadays? i’m a huge fan of these old games and i don’t see a lot of people making video about the hacking situation and such. i’ll be waiting for the response! thanks.
If your playing solo gamemodes, then no problem. The public servers are the problem. You'll mostly not have any problems but it also dépends on wich COD you buy
Cod4 didnt work for me. If i try to connect to the server it says that i have to manually install the mod. I tried to manually install the mod in the mod folder but now cod4 Multiplayer is not starting anymore with the error code "Impure file iw3mp.exe detected"
I recently bought waw on steam and there’s not that many populated servers and most of it is crouch only servers. I just want to play regular multiplayer servers to get the real feeling of cod. I can’t afford WW2 or bo3.
@@Rxqe Xenia - Xbox 360 emulator and RPCS3 - PS3 emulator. Have seen both emulators play games at > 60 fps and there isn't a recent video for 360 era COD titles to get a rough idea of performance so I may have to sail the seas. It's plausible that Lossless Scaling's frame generation feature could give us high fps without causing bugs in the game
Just so there is no doubt, which is the best and safest way to play Zombies singleplayer and with friends? Is it the steam version of bo3 or the boiii client? Does the boiii client support playing custom zombies with friends?
BOIII client does support custom zombies with friends tmk, but I'm not 100% sure how to set up a server. What you could do if you decided to use BOIII, is use radmin for everyone to connect to each other. That would be the safest way with friends. However, steam BO3 with the T7 patch would be the easier way to go about it with less hoops to jump through in getting BOIII set up. For T7 community patch, if say you're hosting a lobby, you can set a password in the T7 patch and tick the friends only box. Then have all your friends get the T7 patch, enter that password in their patch, and then join you to be the absolute safest. So really both are good options, Steam with T7 may just be easier to set up. Singleplayer offline is fine regardless of however you wanna go about it, but if you're on steam, you may as well run the T7 patch
Hello, what an amazing job that you have done. I would like to ask. There are many players on playing iw6x? The last time that I have had checked. Just a few were playing, less than 30 in the whole client.
Not to my knowledge man, the IW6 client was never super populated :( do join into the alterware cord though, I believe they have chats and everything for Ghosts
My guy listens to BB, thank you for the useful info. I wanna play some of the games, but don't trust the steam version at all. And these games are still expensive af.
Been wanting to play some ghosts and advanced warfare recently, want to double-check if I'm safe or not from RCE/RAT exploits and if there is anything else I should know about ghosts/aw. Also, could I play steam bo3 multiplayer safely if I'm running the community patch? (btw you're the goat)
refer back to the beginning of the video and the ghosts/aw section of the video. exploits are a possibility, but due to the smaller playerbase, I honestly doubt anything would happen. same for BO3, refer back to that section of the video. you SHOULD absolutely be running the T7 patch if you want to play BO3 steam, otherwise, I would highly recommend just playing the boiii client.
@@Rxqe One final question I have is about an anti-rce. Would Malwarebytes Premium be considered one and will it protect me perfectly fine? Thanks for the help!
@@Alastair.C I'm not too sure about that honestly. I would assume that having extra security on your pc in general would help for alerts if anything goes wrong, but I don't know what could happen worst case scenario
UPDATE on MW2 2009 on Steam - You join random lobbies that's ends up being Domination high teams, no kill cams, and cannot click escape to change class or leave the game... You have to Task Manager to quit the game... Sucks.
those are just people force hosting lobbies with anti leave, they're just there hosting 9v9 dom lobbies but yeah I can imagine that gets a little annoying
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**UPDATES AS OF SEPT 14 2024; updates regarding the STEAM BO3, BOIII Client, Steam Infinite Warfare and CoD WWII, Steam BO1, MWR H1, and a quick note about Plutonium/clients**
AS OF SEPT 14 2024, STEAM BO3 MATCHMAKING DOES NOT WORK. With and without T7 Patches, you currently cannot join any online games, MP, zombies, co-op, nothing to my knowledge. Please check out the BOIII client for the time being. Only Campaign and solo zombies are working. Will update when I know more - x.com/GunofTZ/status/1835006586466476393
NEW EXE FOR THE BOIII CLIENT IS AVAILABLE HERE: www.mediafire.com/file/2mr1435pvjo4ddw/t7x.exe/file **THIS IS JUST AN EXE, NOT A NEW CLIENT** This exe provides some fixes for client/server side exploits that were reported after the shut down last year. Simply drop the new exe into your BO3 directory and run it to launch the BOIII client.
As of mid June 2024 - INFINITE WARFARE ON STEAM WORKS AGAIN! Server Fast File error was addressed and you can play the game again! Unfortunately though alike many older steam CoDs, there are cheaters with tools capable of crashing games and sending the host migration packet - th-cam.com/video/N0A1CUcMk0s/w-d-xo.html - so be cautious of that.
Steam CoD WWII: As of April 30th, apparently the NA dedicated server issues have been fixed, but there still may be issues. I personally haven't experienced any problems with WWII servers over the past few weeks of playing, but do read this if you're curious: The biggest upcoming issue is with Call of Duty WWII on Steam; not a security risk, but a server issue. According to this Reddit post, CoD WWII's for the North American region are seeing a decline in dedicated servers, meaning for NA players, it may lead to worse connections as the game is seemingly throwing more players into EU Dedicated Servers/lobbies. Check the reddit thread here: www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/17gkyt3/well_guys_most_cod_dedicated_servers_shutting_down/
MWR H1 CLIENT HAS BEEN REBRANDED TO 'AURORA'! New Updates for the MWR H1 Mod and potentially IW7 Infinite Warfare coming very soon huge eyes emoji + exploding head emoji - discord link has been updated!: discord.gg/RtHXcWFdEt
BO1 Steam - one thing I have been made aware of is an issue with Black Ops 1 on Steam, and that is, your rank getting randomly reset. Ironically enough, this had never happened to me in the years (since 2016) that I had been playing BO1 steam, but it just happened to me the other day. This is what the error looks like - gyazo.com/be801d7e2f36c34e57fcd614c18d8a91 - I don't know what causes it or how to prevent it, but just be aware of it.
Lastly; just a quick note that I thought of randomly, but when it comes to playing on clients, be aware that some servers do not allow VPNs. You also have to have a name longer than 3 characters. Some servers will kick you for either of those reasons. Do feel free to run VPNs on non-client versions of the games like steam/bnet if you wish.
That's it for now, will continue to keep you all updated as I learn more information throughout the year :)
Jan 1 2024 - Quick note regarding Plutonium, after the vid was posted I was made aware that the steam verification check is only needed for server owners. Illegitimate copies of games work for players, however, after everything that happened last year I wouldn’t be surprised if it does become a requirement to actually own the games on steam. I would recommend owning the games on steam/bnet.
Was gonna say I got my copy of WAW to work but once it goes on sale I'll definitely buy it now since they fixed the key issue 👍
just a quick correction, the devs of sm2 changed engine cause they were lazy to figure out a solution to the issue. But a lot of devs from zombies could have help giving some feedback, appearently. and you don't play mp on BO3, even with the patch.
But thank you very much for videos like this rage. It helps
@@Amarok-7 That's not what happened with sm2 at all (we posted devblogs that clearly did not show any sign of laziness)
If it's true ? I'm sorry to hear@@0xSASS but i'm sure some people would have helped. I've heard that there was an error you weren't able to fix so you changed engine for that. I can understand the beef though. Zombies and mp had been at war since a long time in cod. From what i've seen.
@@Amarok-7 imagine lying werido
The fact that Activision is allowed to sell these older games at full price and refuse to fix these major exploits and issues is wild to me
thankfully a handful of games did receive some support and updates over the past year, but again some issues are so deeply rooted into the foundation of these games that the devs can only put these bandaid fixes on them. unfortunately we can't control the prices of games, but there's been loads of sales on steam to get the games at better prices
@@Rxqe to fix pretty much every problem they just need to put anticheat on the older ones and have dedicated servers - but thats too much money to spend for activision
@@saltynutzftw don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility, but I don’t think it’s as simple as that because security updates for BO3, 4 and Cold War were already outdated within days as the makers of these cheat tools and such had already cracked the security. I think there needs to be a small team dedicated to keep the security of these games up to date
They do go on sales quite often on steam
@@Rxqe i wouldnt mind installing some crazy anticheat software like if it had like root access of my pc or something if it meant i had no cheaters at all like valorant
Your coverage of the custom PC clients is an invaluable asset to keep these communities alive!
very happy to help man, thank you
It’s better to be aware of what’s going on and not have future problems
I hate how hackers cant let anyone have any fun.
Haters gonna hate! More people are bad now :( Where's the honour and justice... sad world we live in now.
Man, I pray Microsoft goes back and fixes some of these issues. It's heartbreaking to see the state of these older CoD's especially when recent Call of Duty games can't even touch games like Bo1, AW, and Bo2, just to name a few. These games were so many of our childhoods. It's insane that we need to fear for our safety just because we want to play a game. The T7 patch and client devs are the people keeping these games alive. They really are the heroes of old school CoD.
for real man, I really do hope there's something the devs and higher ups can do to fix the old games. shoutout the man serious for BO3
I do think that Microsoft is going to change everything.
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AW? youre young kid 😂😂. that game sucked
@@motalkbadazs It was the only good advanced movement cod. Bo3 gets carried by the zombies. Other than that, it's not even close.
The worst part is that I played CoD MW2 about 2 years ago and I made friends and now it is just infested with hackers that will find your IP in 2 seconds. Love your videos keep up the good work.
really is sad, unfortunately some people just wanna watch the world burn. appreciate you though man thank you :)
you mean the og 2009 mw2?
@@aw55550 yeah, the new one is fine
Black Ops 1, (the multiplayer at least) is definitely vulnerable to RCE. I've been RCE'd on BO1. He was opening calculator and stuff on my PC and later the guy even showed me a screenshot of the tool he used. It also had the ability to browse your file system amongst other things. It happened in a private match by the way, so if you're the host at least you are definitely vulnerable.
Thank you for the heads up on this, you're honestly one of the first people that has told me about BO1 RCEs. If it happened in a private match, I would imagine it was probably easier for the hacker to do it in a p2p connection based setting instead of through server browsers, very sorry to hear this.
Think this would be immune in steam deck/linux?
You are vulnerable because it's not a dedicated server
Can they only control ur pc if the game clients open?
@@SuperBranFlakezyea they need you connected too the server in order too do anything but they can see a list of all the players connected too the server that’s how they give people rats and malware pretty much anything they want too do
Good on you for making this video. People needed to hear all of this and it doesn’t seem many content creators are too informed on these matters. Hopefully we see a boost on these clients now.
happy to help man!
One note on CoD1: Honestly it’s gotten to the point where the expansion pack, United Offensive, is a lot more commonly populated that any version of CoD1. It’s really sad to see but that’s what I’ve noticed recently.
shoutout CoDUO and the base assault servers yeehaw
@@Rxqe Historians Base Assault and Rebel Alliance Vanilla Capture the Flag really be carrying the last of the cod1 community rn
Yoooo lahgic whats good! Been a min
@@ipopxanaxforfun ayyy doing good man! Just working and learning to be an adult lol. Hope you’re doing well man!
@@Lahgic aye been in the same boat as you haha! And yeah life has been good! Been sober for almost 3 years and mainly just working and saving
On behalf of the AlterWare team thanks for making this video.
- Future
I would exercise caution even on CoD4 and WaW PC version because having the server browser instead of P2P does not guarantee anything.
CoD4 has an RCE exploits that is only patched on the CoD4x client. WaW has the same RCE which is only patched on plutonium.
This mean that the community run servers for WaW and CoD4 can compromise your if the server owner choose to. Client versions are okay.
Gotcha! Thank you for the heads up on this man. Yeah I figured that with servers, it's up to the server owners to not only provide the security but also gotta hope that they're the ones who aren't trying to access their players data. Good to know about CoD4x and WaW Pluto
you can't even play cod4 without cod4x apart from like 5 servers so its pretty much a none issue unless you are trying to play on some uber modded russian 1.6 server with 0 pop
on the other hand cod4x gave a bunch of neckbeards the opportunity to gatekeep and control how people play the game, 90% of servers now ban you just for hitting a bounce or getting out of map for clips and also gave them the ability to IP/Mac ban instead of just keycodes, which is a bigger red flag than playing on the dodgy none cod4x servers
Nice video, I came back to COD on PC after playing years ago and was confused about all the RCE stuff, this is perfect. Worth noting that MW2 and MW3 have FOV changers available which you can use on steam should the steam version become the best option at any point.
happy to help man! and yeah exactly things like fps/fov unlockers are relatively common to come by so not too bad, but def need antirce's
This video came at a good time, I’ve been thinking about what previous cod to play on pc today
happy to help! haha good timing
I'm a little late to this video but I just want to put a comment saying thanks. This is an extremely in-depth video that answered any and all questions that I may have had regarding playing old versions of COD. It's actually insane to me that for Infinite Warfare, that entire segment was basically just "it's fucked, R.I.P"
If you make this video in 2025 I think that you should talk about how Steam BO2 servers have been backdoored since around last year. You’re extremely unlikely to see hackers or people using RCE in BO2 anymore because Blasts Mods backdoored the servers, almost anyone who uses any sort of cheat is automatically banned as a result of his anti-cheat. Even though it may not seem like it now, BO2 is VERY unsafe to play since he can RAT anyone playing the game online. Activision/Treyarch needs to be made aware of this.
You forgot to mention a major issue in Black Ops 1 Steam where your rank is randomly reset. It affects a lot of people, seen many players lose max prestige (myself as well)
I honestly didn't know about that, I haven't had that happen to me. Is it common? Where could I learn more about it?
Seems like the same bug you can get in world at war by going on some modded servers, it resets your rank after, and in WaW it also erases your campaign progress :(
@@thechugg4372 That’s normal though, certain mods will have different stats for their mods/servers and your stats should be back to normal once you unload the mod and vice versa
Welp at least there's Plutonium for BO1 too.
thanks for doing this Mike, there's currently someone going around on Pluto BO2 crashing and kicking people out of servers, I'm sure it will be fixed soon. regardless of the server crashing - it's still safe!
of course man! and thank you for the heads up, yeah thing is on all the clients/server browsers, it's up to the owners to keep the security up to date
I was literally just going to look into whether or not there were any clients left. This video came at the perfect time, thanks rxqe!
haha perfect timing, happy to help man!
Awesome. I levelled up my mw2 2009 steam but now I'm seeing hackers again where you can't choose to leave the game. Will be updating iw4x. Thanks
also one thing about CoD2: if you have RivaTuner Statistics Server installed, turn it off before you launch the game, otherwise it won’t boot up.
thanks for the heads up! :)
The fact that the people at SM2 switched games, backpedaled on their "need to own" status, and then got immediately shut down was the biggest bag fumble of that year. Absolutely brutal to see probably the best cod game we could have ever gotten slip through our hands like that. I hope someone out there does it again but properly this time. Really sucks to see it go but they had it coming with trying to advocate for piracy. That in combination with MW2 maps coming to MWIII just meant that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and gave activision all the reason to nuke them.
What happened with sm2 really was tragic. Definitely would've been one of the greatest CoD experiences. I don't know exactly what caused the change of the need to own status when changing from IW4 to H1, but I know that was definitely one of the biggest red flags for them. Even if they stuck on the need to own MWR, I think you make a good point, the MW2 Remastered maps coming to MWIII could've been a good enough reason for it to get hit, but who knows what would've happened. That's always the risk with these kinda games, especially the MW2 Remastered projects that have come and gone, there's always a chance Acti is holding the real MW2R as the ace up their sleeve and can drop it whenever so it would force them to shut projects down.
@@Rxqe Good thoughts! I totally agree with you. It really is a shame to see, but that doesn't mean something equally as epic won't come out in the future, and there are already many amazing projects in the works. I am really excited about what is to come with BO4 over the next couple of years. I've seen some cool zombies alterations and being able to place objects through kinda like a dev mode, so hopefully it will have a bright future.
For me I bought infinite warfare purely for offline play on my Steam Deck. I would've done BO3 but it was slightly more expensive on the recent steam sale and I'm strapped for cash, but it was worth buying one despite the budget issues as I ain't paying £50+ for an old COD game I only want to play offline for a few private matches against bots and maybe some zombies, and I miss the exo COD's as I played BO3 and IW a lot at launch. I've got COD4 from the old disc copy I got, but I fancied a futuristic COD to substitute Titanfall 2 for while I'm offline, and IW fits perfectly with both my desire for exo COD and budget
I play on Consol, but this is still fascinating to watch, good video
glad you enjoyed man :)
Amazing video, thank you so much man! Incredibly informative, I feel a lot better about playing now:)
happy to help man, you're welcome
thanks very much for these video, now i can play with COD2. Thanks again.
I want to play it so much but 20euros may be too much for it ? Idk
Just to be extra sure: are these advices to be applied to COD multiplayer functions only? Playing the single player campaigns or extra modes (like Spec Ops and Zombies) is perfectly safe?
Just want to be extra sure.
Damn, thank you so much for the video. I really wondered which COD games I could go back to playing... Thanks :)
you're welcome man!
On June 14th, 2024, vanilla IW's servers got fixed (The fastfile error no longer exists, it's fully playable again), would be nice to see you update that in the pinned comment.
Thank you for making these videos on the old COD games for PC. I just started to replay some of them that I played in the past, starting with the campaigns and I was searching how is the multiplayer doing. Can't wait to try some of the games that I didn't play :D
for the older games if you want to play online use clients to make sure your pc doesn’t get rated
@@morsecoding_ sure. Thanks !
of course man! happy to help :)
@@Rxqe
I actually ran into someone using the Nuke exploit in Cold War a few days ago lol. Thanks for the video.
haha yup there it is, such an odd feature, don't know what they get out of getting a 5 killstreak nuke but pop off LOL happy to help man
I’m so glad to hear H1 is back up i’ve been missing that client now we just need to repopulate it
for real, would love to play more of it
i just got it i want it to be populated so bad
Thanks for uploading this im getting back into CoD 4
you're welcome man!
I've been playing a shit ton of world at War custom zombies with my friends over the last few weeks it's been an absolute blast
love that, custom zombies is so dope
Great video!
holy fuck can we just come together as a community and boycott new releases until this shit is fucking fixed
Cheers boss got a mate who just got PC who could use this video! Also I'd do the absolute baddest of things for that WW2 client...
perfect! hope this vid helps :) and same, a WW2 client would be so nice
A really good video, specially rn that some cods are on sale, thanks a lot man
happy to help :)
You're doing god's work my friend
happy to help :)
happy new year mike. thank you for sharing this info.
you too man! happy to help :)
Always love you doing these videos for us very helpful❤ and happy new year Mike 🎉
happy to help! and happy new year to you too :)
Ive played WaW, Mw2, Mw3, Bo2, Bo3 and WW2 all over steam services in the last year and never had any issues. EU btw
Same
Maybe all the hackers and the exploiters just are from the us
Its been so long since this been waiting so long. Now hit some trickshots this year
you should see me on MW3, hitting epic zrg noscs rn
i'm not even a pc gamer, but this is interesting
glad it caught your attention! lol
thank you a lot man for this video
you’re welcome!
always great to have this information going forward, much appreciated man! Maybe someday we'll get that WW2 client lmao
of course! happy to help :) one day a WW2 client would be so dope to have
I remember watching you when I got into cod in 2018
my man! glad to have you back :)
You forgot to mention the best one, Call of Duty United Offensive! Still is decently populated.
Did mention CoDUO in last years vid, a good friend of mine told me about a base assault server thats decently popped and figured the same for this go around
i'm just hoping one day, cod on pc can be safe to play once again
likewise man
it's sad i have to do some research before hoping online in any of these games now and that Activision refuses to let the fan clients stay up
Just a heads up, most of the old cods are still active and populated on the PS3 in 2024 the games below are the best ones to play:
1. Cod 4
2. BO1
3. WaW
Keep in mind to play BO1 and have your level save, you have to be on a PlayStation account that played the game prior to 2018. For WaW and Cod4 you can play on a brand new account.
Cod 4 and WaW it’s extremely rare to find cheaters, on BO1 maybe 1 of every 15 games u play there will be a cheater.
love that for PS3, good to see some old gen is still going
Plutonium has not added steam verification yet, only server owners have to verify as of rn
Edit: also for infinite warfare there is the iw7x client that isnt fully dead, people are working on servers and I personally made a fork for iw7x that allows for pirated copies
correct, little mistake on my part. although I won’t be surprised if it’s integrated for all users eventually
We need more people on Modern Warfare Remastered (h1-mod)!
FOR REAL
Yo i hope you have an amazing year ahaead
thank you, you too man!
in my experiences of mw2, Free-For-All is the safest game mode to play. i’ve never once ran into a malicious hacker, and it’s fairly quick to find a game. i’d avoid Team Deathmatch. Team Deathmatch is where i’ve experienced all of the malicious hackers and cheaters. Bo2 i’ve never tried to join an online game for my own safety, and Ghosts and Advanced Warfare are so dead to the point that you can’t even find a match, so i wouldn’t worry about those two
that would make sense since tdm is the most popular game mode
Understandable video mike thank u ❤️💯
happy to help :)
well put together vid, time to hit closer perchance? need a new rxqe tage
have had a few closers I could go with but am waiting til I hit the one where I know in that moment that I've hit it
I don't understand a thing ,how come people are getting banned from playing Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Campaign ??
i can play offline right? i just wanna play campaign and solo zombies
I got WW2 for Christmas this year and I have about 250 hours in 2 months. Do I need a life? Absolutely! However, besides some cheaters in MP here in there, I have no issues. I play from EU and there are almosr always players on Shipment and TDM. Zombies also has some players, but zombies is usually played alone since new players can c*ckblock you during EEs. No security issues were encountered (and I work in the field). WW2 is updated for bug fixes and stuff quite a bit. I saw bugs from 3 months ago be fixed when I tried it just about a month later.
glad to hear WWII is a good experience for you man :)
Another great video Mike. Two quick questions: (1) What exactly changed between this Everything you need to know and the 2023 one. (2) I had decided to mod the game to replace the SAS announcer (Wallcroft) with the MW2 2009 Militia Announcer and the spawn theme with the COD4 Opfor. Do this make the game any better?
P.S. as of lately, I did play a lot of IW5 Original MW3. No safety issues so thanks Mike.
what changed from 2023 to 2024 is quite literally what this video is in its entirety, and if you modded the files to what you want then I would guess it makes it better? idk I haven't done that, so if it makes your personal experience better then all the power to ya
Lmao what the fuck are these questions
dont hit the pipe before typing out a question
It's incredibly annoying that simply playing one of the biggest series in modern gaming on PC *AT ALL* requires modding and just avoiding certain titles cuz screw you I guess.
its the unfortunate part of games and security becoming outdated
i have the torrented versions of the games and i can play it on plutonium, it doesnt matter if u dont verify that u own the game you just click play and thats it
for now the steam verifications are for server owners, but I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a requirement for all players
@@Rxqe yea but we know everyone is coming to just play
You are my people. I will be here forever.
my man
very in depth, thank you
you're most welcome gamer
@@Rxqe and happy new year!
sadly the best experience of older cods is on console, mw2 on xbox is like we were in 2010, thanks to cross-platform the newer cods will last much longer
that's correct, I mean even back then there were still plenty of cheats evem back in the old days but for sure nowadays cod will last much longer with crossplay
I watched this all fully knowing I'll never play another game of cod again and can't run the new ones anyway. Just interesting to see what's broken and how bad
:( well im glad the news is still interesting hahaha
Just wrapped up Infinite Warfare campaign, and wanted to ask. Is the solo mode of Zombies safe? I’m considering playing
How do these clients have such a low amount of players? This is awesome, idk how i did not know about most of these clients until now, i only knew about plutonium
because people don't look too far into installing them/have their worries about them
I feel like cod need a small team on all the old cods just banning hackers and and fixing some really bad bugs on some of the old cods
I would agree, would love to see a dedicated team for security updates and such on all the older call of duty games
5:58 it does work with a torrent version mine is from torrent and it works
love your vids
thank you!
As someone who's newish to COD and have been really wanting to check out the games I've missed out on, huge thank you for this video and keeping it up to date! For BO3, what would you recommend? steam with patch or the cilent?
t7 with friends, boiii is discontinued iirc
As of today, COD 4 is still very VERY alive! the game is at a reasonable price in steam as well :3!
indeed it is, best cod
Great upload dude full of great info..my old iw4x still working...should i update it to new set up?
yes I would recommend updating 4x as that has the newest updated servers
14:17 is your name here a reference to Jaded by Spiritbox? if so that's genuinely my favorite band and i love that you did that
you're the first one to notice haha yes it is a Spiritbox reference, love them so much
@@Rxqe lmao hell yeah dude, i am a certified courtney laplante simp 😂 i also noticed later in the video you have that eternal blue hoodie, wish i had that one
Great video! Quick question: is playing the single player story modes safe to play from the security issues plaguing the PC CoD games?
if you actually watched the video and listened you would have that answer
They should turn these games intro cross platform, it may be not that fair for console players, but the amount of mouse players (pc) is soo small that its more fair than selling a dead game
great video !
thank you!!
Hi man, thanks for the vid! I really appreciate the work. I've been looking at this for a while and am still wondering if it is safe to play the new MW2. I do want to play some cod, but god damn it is frustrating that billion dollar companies just dont care to this extent.
oh dude yes the new MWII 2022 is safe, appreciate you checking out the vid and happy to help!
13:30 That no-scope.
gamed on em
Babe wake up, new rxqe upload
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Okay, so I'm a little stupid, and some of this stuff went over my head. While I think I got most of it, i do have some questions just to clear things up:
So, for context: I'm mainly just getting WaW, BO1, and BO2 for some classic zombies solo or with just one, maybe 2 friend(s) if we do go multi-player it'll probably still just be us 2-3. Just to relive some old school nostalgia
1. RCE exploits shouldn't affect me/us as we will be in private servers and not with any randoms, correct?
2. If 1 is correct, then it shouldn't matter if we are running straight steam ver or a client ver, right? Along with that, even if we are playing privately, would you still recommend playing cliented versions?
3. Outside of the community patch, would you still recommend playing BO3 with a client? again, keeping the private lobby in mind. (This one isn't as likely for me/us to play, but it's not off the table)
From what i understand, I/we should be safe as long as I/we remain in private lobbies and not interacting with anyone regardless if we are playing the raw steam ver or cliented ver, but like I said, I just wanted to clear all that up before I eventually dive and and end up getting my computer bricked or worse from malware.
Either way, thanks for the video. It definitely helped even if some of it whizzed passed me
Just use the clients. they're easy to set up and you can uncap your fps, unlock all, unlocked fov, etc
Ideally yes, RCEs shouldn't affect you and your friends if you guys are playing together on steam in your own private match. Unless you or your friend have some unwanted attention from someone who would want to go out of their way to harm. I personally would recommend playing on the clients regardless as they do provide the most up to date protections; plus you can uncap fov/fps, provide unlock all, etc. Clients are just better for protection/customization. You could play solo, or if friends join, you guys could create a server and play (although I personally don't know how to set a server up, I think you could join off each other using radmin vpn - host would give their ip to the friends, friends would type /connect insertiphere into the console and can connect that way). For BO3, yes I would highly recommend the BOIII client. If you're going to play steam, you definitely should be using the community patch even in a private lobby as it not only fixes the FPS problem with steam BO3, but also provides security. You and your friends would all need to be running the T7 patch, enter a custom made password in that box, and then join off each other. That's just for steam, BOIII client does not need T7 patch. Hope this helps!
@Rxqe I see thank you. It definitely helps. I've never run a cliented version of any game before, so im still figuring things out. I'll keep all this in mind. Thank you again
Amazing Video Man , thank you. i think you said it at the start of the video . but just to be clear if i wanted to play all the call of dutys just for the story mode is that ok ? or do i run a risk of a RAT or RCE ?
If you play campaign you’re completely safe
hey man, saw the cod franchise getting discounted and i was wondering if it’s safe to play in steam 2024 nowadays? i’m a huge fan of these old games and i don’t see a lot of people making video about the hacking situation and such.
i’ll be waiting for the response!
thanks.
If your playing solo gamemodes, then no problem. The public servers are the problem. You'll mostly not have any problems but it also dépends on wich COD you buy
Cod4 didnt work for me. If i try to connect to the server it says that i have to manually install the mod. I tried to manually install the mod in the mod folder but now cod4 Multiplayer is not starting anymore with the error code "Impure file iw3mp.exe detected"
Are the console versions safe? I've been playing some WAW on xbox and was unaware of this issue..
console is fine, this video is about pc
i play crack version on plutonium and it works
There's also T4M that can be used for WaW, allows for fov changes in the SP.
if you use Plutonium you can use coop for campaign and have access to the dev console
I recently bought waw on steam and there’s not that many populated servers and most of it is crouch only servers. I just want to play regular multiplayer servers to get the real feeling of cod. I can’t afford WW2 or bo3.
Are they safe to play on consoles? Like the xbox one backword compatibility
yes
Still play black ops 3 zombies 💔💔 the best zombies ever made by jason blundell.
never got into it, but I respect tf outta BO3 zombies, looks incredible
wow i asked how to play cod 4 in another video and just came across this thanks 😂
hahaha no problem man
I just hope I can still play the MP against bots in local play/private matches without being compromised should I buy them on Steam.
offline against bots is fine.
@@Rxqe Good to know, thank you.
I hope that Xenia or RPCS3 can make old COD games playable again hopefully with netplay and high fps.
I'm not familiar with those, are those different launchers or emulators?
@@Rxqe Xenia - Xbox 360 emulator and RPCS3 - PS3 emulator. Have seen both emulators play games at > 60 fps and there isn't a recent video for 360 era COD titles to get a rough idea of performance so I may have to sail the seas. It's plausible that Lossless Scaling's frame generation feature could give us high fps without causing bugs in the game
Just so there is no doubt, which is the best and safest way to play Zombies singleplayer and with friends? Is it the steam version of bo3 or the boiii client? Does the boiii client support playing custom zombies with friends?
BOIII client does support custom zombies with friends tmk, but I'm not 100% sure how to set up a server. What you could do if you decided to use BOIII, is use radmin for everyone to connect to each other. That would be the safest way with friends. However, steam BO3 with the T7 patch would be the easier way to go about it with less hoops to jump through in getting BOIII set up. For T7 community patch, if say you're hosting a lobby, you can set a password in the T7 patch and tick the friends only box. Then have all your friends get the T7 patch, enter that password in their patch, and then join you to be the absolute safest. So really both are good options, Steam with T7 may just be easier to set up.
Singleplayer offline is fine regardless of however you wanna go about it, but if you're on steam, you may as well run the T7 patch
I was locking at picking up some cod games from steam sale so this is perfect getting this 20 minute old video recomended
perfect timing! haha hope this helps man
Hello, what an amazing job that you have done. I would like to ask. There are many players on playing iw6x? The last time that I have had checked. Just a few were playing, less than 30 in the whole client.
Not to my knowledge man, the IW6 client was never super populated :( do join into the alterware cord though, I believe they have chats and everything for Ghosts
My guy listens to BB, thank you for the useful info. I wanna play some of the games, but don't trust the steam version at all. And these games are still expensive af.
of course man, I completely understand all of that, just happy to help give the information
Are private matches while playing with bots safe? There shouldn't be a problem right
yeah private matches with bots is perfectly fine
Plutonium is great, but it's unplayable. All servers are set for 18 ppl and none of the maps plays well.
I mean 9v9 is great and most maps work just fine but ye it does get chaotic, would be cool to have reg 6v6
Been wanting to play some ghosts and advanced warfare recently, want to double-check if I'm safe or not from RCE/RAT exploits and if there is anything else I should know about ghosts/aw. Also, could I play steam bo3 multiplayer safely if I'm running the community patch? (btw you're the goat)
refer back to the beginning of the video and the ghosts/aw section of the video. exploits are a possibility, but due to the smaller playerbase, I honestly doubt anything would happen. same for BO3, refer back to that section of the video. you SHOULD absolutely be running the T7 patch if you want to play BO3 steam, otherwise, I would highly recommend just playing the boiii client.
@@Rxqe One final question I have is about an anti-rce. Would Malwarebytes Premium be considered one and will it protect me perfectly fine? Thanks for the help!
@@Alastair.C I'm not too sure about that honestly. I would assume that having extra security on your pc in general would help for alerts if anything goes wrong, but I don't know what could happen worst case scenario
UPDATE on MW2 2009 on Steam - You join random lobbies that's ends up being Domination high teams, no kill cams, and cannot click escape to change class or leave the game... You have to Task Manager to quit the game... Sucks.
those are just people force hosting lobbies with anti leave, they're just there hosting 9v9 dom lobbies but yeah I can imagine that gets a little annoying
Happens on ww2 sometimes also