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Only one week after “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ went on sale, some PC players appear to have found a workaround solution to their dissatisfaction with Infinity Ward’s new IWNet system. When Infinity Ward announced that it would forgo dedicated servers for the new matchmaking setup similar to what console players experience, a large number of gamers signed a petition expressing their discontent. Now, some of those code-savvy complainers have reportedly recreated a dedicated server experience by unlocking the game’s developer console.

Well, you can’t keep a good PC gamer down. Certain cracks already allow some online play, and now the console has been enabled, allowing players to kick, change POV and FOV, and presumably do most of the stuff Infinity Ward decided had to stay in the cookie jar.

DOWNLOAD LINK for the MW2 Unleahsed console enabler tool (use at your own risk) (USENET)

Of course, the darker side to all this newfound freedom is the ability to use it to cheat, and the servers that have been set up so far are all “ranked” and still considered “legal” by IWNet, Modern Warfare 2‘s console-esque matchmaking service.

Folks who like their games in “vanilla” flavor only shouldn’t despair though. After all, MW2 uses anti-cheating tech from Valve, who, are very, very aware of what PC gamers can do, and how to deal with them.

Probably most Ccall of Duty 4 console commands work. Here’s a nice tip I found to get Ping numbers instead of signal barswootsauce. When u are in game pull down the console and type: (without the quotes)

“/cg_scoreboardpinggraph 0″
“/cg_scoreboardpingtext 1″

Setting both to 1 will show both text and ping. You need to type this in the console because it won’t work when added to .cfg files. This saves as far as I can tell but it will turn the graph back on if you close the game.

If you are one of those who want to know it all, check this txt file. It has an explanation of every string line in the MW2 main multiplayer exe file.