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But private matches are listen servers to the very word of their definition. You still have to portforward and they are already joinable (I think) through the friends list in PlutoIW5. The only thing they don't do is to heartbeat.
I think you are looking back at aIW and 4D1 through rose tinted glasses or the players did behave drastically different in your region than they did in mine.
MSGaBe said in Where is ALL players?:
M8, ure missing the point.
Whats the difference between you and a knife?
MSGaBe said in Where is ALL players?:
Mr Android...cod mw 2 and cod mw 3 on steam have around 1000 players each today.Yeah , there are times when the russian hackers are a plenty , but at least there are ppl u can play with.
As you correctly said yourself: STEAM not us.
I got the game today [plutonium mw3 ] , tried to play but there were max 70 ppl online. 20 of them were on 2 servers and all they did was look at the sky and run in small circles...u could not kill them. The other populated server was a free for all sh*tfest on rust with helicopters and other crafts on but NO rpgs to takeem down.Thats just stupid.
As already said it depends on where and when you play. What also helps is populating non shit servers 
Idaho said in When did people stop using common sense?:
The problem with dedis is not only on how poorly admins manage their population but also in the way they're configured, no map rotation, stupid time or score limits, unnecessary high player counts, all servers have 18 players when most maps can't handle that, the list goes on and on...
I am not saying you don't have a point here but everything you listed is possible with lobbies as well. And not all servers are configured like that.
Idaho said in When did people stop using common sense?:
With matchmaking you have at least the possibility of enjoying the vanilla game, so yeah from time to time a kid would ruin the lobby with stupid scripts but it's something that even happens on PS3 and 360, you just leave the lobby and get matched again
You can do the same with dedicated servers and blacklist them.
Idaho said in When did people stop using common sense?:
That's one of the reasons I want matchmaking so badly, server admins can rarely be trusted to provide people with a proper game experience...
And then what? Kids with force host kicking you from lobbies instead? Its not like MM will magically solve the issue. With dedicated servers you can at least ignore the bad ones, with MM it can happen, that it will put you into the same lobby over and over again.
I mostly still have the same admins I have had 10 years ago due to the lack of decent to good applicants, I am not sure if its because our servers are less popular or because too much has changed during the years.
xvc said in When did people stop using common sense?:
When did pc cod's go from wow you're nuts to wow ban this cheater
I would say pretty much at the same time when the shift happened from asking your local teen to fix your PC to asking your local teen's dad to fix your PC.
Gbenwwl said in Is chromatix texture mod allowed?:
Also do you consider it cheating?
Although it does not hook the game it fullfills 100% of the criteria for cheating... 
It might be a bit ugly but you could try to reset your settings and get rid of the stored token by deleting your config as described here https://forum.plutonium.pw/topic/784/how-do-you-change-the-game-directory
@Vexbane A third option (which is the one I suggested you to use) is to use the built in restriction system of the game:
