Highlights

  • In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone, underbarrel launcher attachments are disabled due to a new exploit allowing unlimited grenades.
  • Recent issues in Call of Duty were fixed within 24 hours, restoring the game to normal. Players face challenges with new exploit glitches.
  • Cheating remains a prevalent issue in Call of Duty, despite anti-cheat efforts and humorous measures like the "Splat" function.

Underbarrel launcher attachments are currently disabled in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone due to a frustrating new exploit that allows users to abuse them. Recent patches in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 suggest that the development team could fix this issue in a reasonable amount of time.

Recently, on February 23, Call of Duty was in a semi-broken state that saw players unable to progress their accounts. Skill-based matchmaking was also temporarily disabled and multiple modes like Zombies and Ranked Play were taken offline. However, much to the satisfaction of Call of Duty fans, the severe issues were fixed within 24 hours and the game returned to its normal state. Following the introduction of Call of Duty's newest issue, fans are hoping for a similar tempo.

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Over the last couple of weeks, a new exploit has begun to spread throughout Call of Duty that allows users to fire unlimited, semi-automatic grenades from an underbarrel launcher attachment. Over recent days, the exploit has increased in popularity, with more and more users falling prey to the glitch. In response to this, the official CODUpdates Twitter account announced that underbarrel launcher attachments have been temporarily disabled while the development team investigates the issue, as fans hope for a fix within the next day or so. Call of Duty streamer Fifakill_ posted a video to his Twitter account that showed him being pummeled by an abuser's semi-automatic grenade launcher.

Call of Duty Temporarily Disables Underbarrel Launcher Attachments

Given that the glitch has been in the game for some time now, users probably would have preferred to see it fixed earlier in the month, but of course, any fix is better than no fix. The exploit appears to only be an in-game glitch rather than a new form of cheating software, so Call of Duty's recent anti-cheat upgrades are likely not much of a factor here.

Like many popular first-person shooters, cheating is a constant issue for Call of Duty. Recent titles have made it more inconvenient for console players to disable crossplay, causing many console users to enter matchmaking with the PC player base and its bad apples who decide to download cheats.

In response to the cheating issue, Call of Duty's anti-cheat system has implemented a number of counters, including the humorous "Splat" function, which cuts a Warzone cheater's parachute after cheats are detected. Despite the system's supposed improvements over recent months, cheating is still a prevalent issue within Call of Duty and probably isn't going away anytime soon.