Glitch in Modern Warfare 2?

14/11/2009 in News

I’ve been playing through the single player campaign of Modern Warfare 2, but I seem to have encountered a glitch. It’s not preventing me from progressing through the game, but it is hampering my enjoyment of it, so I was wondering if anyone else has had this kind of thing happen, or if you could offer any solutions.

Every time when I get up to Act 1, Mission 4, the game appears to load fine at first, but then when I encounter the first enemies, I discover that nearly all of them have been rendered without weapons. They aren’t even programmed to melee attack either. There are a small number of badies with guns, but it’s not until towards the end of the mission that most of them have weapons.

It seems that this glitch is apparent in the PS3 and 360 version. I’ve tried playing it without the game installed, and with it installed, and I have cleared my consoles cache.

If anyone has any suggestions for how to fix this, or has heard anything about a patch, please let me know.

Update: Reader StuAA encountered the same glitch, he says:
“Last I heard, Keith Vaz was putting pressure on IW to get it patched ASAP. Also doesn’t it have a level skip option before that bit? I expect they’ve left it in from the debug versions. Sloppy work, IW.”

Any other theories?

Update2:
I have heard back from Activision support, and they aren’t exactly sure what the problem is:

See the official response here if you like, you’ll need to sign up for an account.

I’m going to have to probe further.