Splents

So you’ve suspected that there are hacks in the game all along, but haven’t had the evidence…

This is about as good as the evidence will get, and unfortunately Infinity Ward are either incapable or unwilling to address the problem.

From a technical point of view, I find the hack funny. Having said that, I’m sick of rage leaving games because some n00b is using tools similar to this. Ah well.

So you’ve noticed that whenever you get into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 you get this annoying “NAT Status: Strict”, or perhaps more annoying – when you and your friends try joining the game lobby it says unable to connect, and counts the connection attempts up until it throws an error.

You’ve followed the borderline offensively abandoning instructions left on Infinity Wards website, with still no change.

Well  I have a few more suggestions that have so far worked for everyone I’ve shared them with.

1. You have additional network adapters – perhaps from VMWare, perhaps physical. Try disabling all but the one you need for internet in the network control panel. 90% of the time, it works every time.
2. You have uPNP disabled in the network control panel. Enable it

Restart Steam and see if it helps. Hopefully it does, because usually this means you won’t have any more squad trouble.