• Press Win+R to open the run dialog.
• Enter steam://open/console into the box that appears, this will open Steams console.
  
• In steams console enter this for the English version of the files, see bottom for instructions for other languages.

download_depot 42690 42682 6067691797475126381
download_depot 42690 42683 6381783964590594065

For languages besides english ONLY DOWNLOAD ONE LANGUAGE PACK
Swap out the line

download_depot 42690 42683 6381783964590594065

For the relevent language below.

Spanish

download_depot 42690 42684  2528087911534752870

German

download_depot 42690 42685 3657601166463056212

French

download_depot 42690 42686 7088412265150636376

Italian

download_depot 42690 42687 8273360275068894160

DOWNLOADING DLCS IF OWNED
You can only download DLCs with this method if you own them.

download_depot 42690 42695 9005316271397236436

download_depot 42690 42696 2478272765185873756

download_depot 42690 42697 5810618727794750362

download_depot 42690 42698 5997898371746217629

• These files will likely download to their respective folders in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_42690\depot_42682
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_42690\depot_42683

• Download and run this script by double clicking it, it will move all the files to C:\Games\MW3, this is configurable by editing the variable in the script if desired.
  move.bat

If you ever need to verify the game files, this script is an interactive way to pick what files need to be verified, and it will tell you which depots need reinstalled. Once downloaded it will move them to the C:\Games\MW3 by default, and is configurable the same way as the move script from before. (this only includes base game + all language packs, it will be updated for DLCs soon)
mw3verify.bat

To my knowledge the DLCs were not updated and wont need redownloaded, I may be wrong. Feel free to correct me.
Hadi77KSA informed me that they were, I verified this on SteamDB as well. However, you cannot legally obtain the DLCs with this method without actually owning them.

Some of the information here I found from YourPalTaika, I just wanted to provide a more in depth guide since his was a bit lacking in my opinion.

DOWNLOADING DEPOTS HAS NO PROGRESS BAR. IT ALSO TAKES LONGER THAN STANDARD DOWNLOADS. WAIT FOR THE DEPOT DOWNLOAD COMPLETE MESSAGE TO APPEAR BEFORE CONTINUING.

IT APPEARS THAT THE 42682 / 42751 CANNOT BE DOWNLOADED BY EVERYONE, USE 42680 INSTEAD OF 42682, ALL OTHER NUMBERS SHOULD BE THE SAMEM ALSO 42751 IS NOT NEEDED AND PROVIDES 0 BENEFIT

If you get a message stating something about ragdoll.cfg then you either didn't copy all the files over properly or you didn't wait for the downloads to complete.

Here are video instructions as well, it is slightly different than the tutorial, but is straight forward and easy to follow, and still gets the game running, the 2 copy and pasted ones in here are:

download_depot 42680 42682 2661317971072643596
download_depot 42680 42683 1595601894688570808

video

Eldor made a joke (potentially) about rolling out a matrix server again. With discord adding its bs age verification globally in march is there any chance this could really be done?

GhostRider01250 my bad dude, was mid day and my pc is right infront of a window, couldnt see the grid of earths

I have an issue with my server.
My server is a T6 server hosted in a Windows VPS.
I have my firewalls set to accept all the ports between 4970-5000 TCP/UDP from all addresses on the server.
I see it in plutools.pw as online and running in port 4977.
In the console it is showing heartbeats being successful.
I DON'T see it in server list
I CANT connect to it by command and ip:port

If i could get some help or ideas on this I would appreciate it.

be glad it only doubled lol, from what i hear thats usually a perm ban

Plutonium never got a C&D, and I highly doubt they intend on making any of those games, and if they do they will probably have the exact same verification as the current games.

Been seeing a couple bans related to people using ayn thors. I'm assuming they're having the same. Some times GameHub lite gets mentioned with these reports as well, so it could be that software instead. I'm just wondering if its all AYN thor, maybe some other AYN devices, or the software thats causing the issue, and issuing something like the steamdeck LCD system for them instead of account / hwid bans for the people who use it. I don't own one of these devices so I can't help attempt to figure out what's causing them.

If a staff member could contact me via discord or email I have accidentally come across an issue that can cause the anticheat to straight up not run while players can join servers. My discord is synchole.net, and I'm sure yall can find my email through my profile. I'm not going to use it, but I would prefer to bring it to light, it should be a relatively easy fix.

Actually I found 2 issues.

The first 1 allows you to completely bypass the anticheat running at all, as well as HWID bans.

The 2nd allows some players to bypass game account bans.

Nah. I'll give the devs time to contact me, at least like 48hrs. Like you said, if I know about it, someone else probably does, and its already being exploited (doubt it). So 48 more hours of it being abused by a bad actor is nothing, this would have existed for a couple years at least.