**UPDATES AS OF JULY 1 2024; updates regarding the BOIII Client, Steam Infinite Warfare and CoD WWII, Steam BO1, MWR H1, and a quick note about Plutonium/clients** 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 - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJZxZKaGyLPPYKc.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.

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

Your coverage of the custom PC clients is an invaluable asset to keep these communities alive!

I hate how hackers cant let anyone have any fun.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

This video came at a good time, I’ve been thinking about what previous cod to play on pc today

I play on Consol, but this is still fascinating to watch, good video

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 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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Amazing video, thank you so much man! Incredibly informative, I feel a lot better about playing now:)

You're doing god's work my friend

thanks very much for these video, now i can play with COD2. Thanks again.

Damn, thank you so much for the video. I really wondered which COD games I could go back to playing... Thanks :)

i'm not even a pc gamer, but this is interesting

i'm just hoping one day, cod on pc can be safe to play once again

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

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

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

Amazing video!

I actually ran into someone using the Nuke exploit in Cold War a few days ago lol. Thanks for the video.

I’m so glad to hear H1 is back up i’ve been missing that client now we just need to repopulate it

holy fuck can we just come together as a community and boycott new releases until this shit is fucking fixed

Thanks for uploading this im getting back into CoD 4

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

happy new year mike. thank you for sharing this info.

You are my people. I will be here forever.

always great to have this information going forward, much appreciated man! Maybe someday we'll get that WW2 client lmao

A really good video, specially rn that some cods are on sale, thanks a lot man

We need more people on Modern Warfare Remastered (h1-mod)!

thank you a lot man for this video

Ive played WaW, Mw2, Mw3, Bo2, Bo3 and WW2 all over steam services in the last year and never had any issues. EU btw

You forgot to mention the best one, Call of Duty United Offensive! Still is decently populated.

Always love you doing these videos for us very helpful❤ and happy new year Mike 🎉

Its been so long since this been waiting so long. Now hit some trickshots this year

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...

why are hackers gay

Yo i hope you have an amazing year ahaead

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.

I remember watching you when I got into cod in 2018

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

very in depth, thank you

5:58 it does work with a torrent version mine is from torrent and it works

Babe wake up, new rxqe upload

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 don't understand a thing ,how come people are getting banned from playing Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War Campaign ??

Understandable video mike thank u ❤️💯

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.

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

love your vids

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

13:30 That no-scope.

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

great video !

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.

Are the console versions safe? I've been playing some WAW on xbox and was unaware of this issue..

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.

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?

well put together vid, time to hit closer perchance? need a new rxqe tage

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

After hearing bo1 is safe I’m gonna pick it up since it’s on sale, thanks! :)

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 ?

As of today, COD 4 is still very VERY alive! the game is at a reasonable price in steam as well :3!

There's also T4M that can be used for WaW, allows for fov changes in the SP.

Plutonium is great, but it's unplayable. All servers are set for 18 ppl and none of the maps plays well.

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.

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.

Are private matches while playing with bots safe? There shouldn't be a problem right

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.

This might be a dumb question as I am a pc noob, but can i safely play black ops 3 while i just turn my internet off and play offline? I only play custom zombie maps so i dont need to be online, or is that still unsafe?

Are they safe to play on consoles? Like the xbox one backword compatibility

Great video! Quick question: is playing the single player story modes safe to play from the security issues plaguing the PC CoD games?

am i the only person that noticed worldoftshirts dying in the kill feed?

Great upload dude full of great info..my old iw4x still working...should i update it to new set up?

Hey dude I just got cod bo1 and i have a question if i play campagin and zombies will i get rce or a virus?

Hello again ,I have another question I don't know if I said it before but I ask again ,is Black Ops 1 safe to play Campaign on Steam ?

I watched the relevant parts of the video. Glad the WaW CD keys are working again! That said, I want to be absolutely certain that the game won't allow hackers in the second I open the game. I don't really play multiplayer, and I often do the other two modes in singleplayer. I used Plutonium at one point, but removed it soon after since I learned about a security breach they had at one point. Is singleplayer still safe without it, or should I just uninstall and pray the devs get it together?

I played bo3 in a private match with my friend with no t7 patch and had 2 different people randomly join my game should I do anything or am I probably fine?

I was locking at picking up some cod games from steam sale so this is perfect getting this 20 minute old video recomended

1:46 so does that mean i can safely play mw2's (2009) campaign?

Can i play survival mode with a Friend in private game on MW3 2011 without risk?

wow i asked how to play cod 4 in another video and just came across this thanks 😂

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)