Slide canceling is aCall of Duty: Modern Warfareglitch that allows players to initiate a slide and then cancel it so that they can stably fire their weapon almost immediately with no negative repercussions. It’s a very powerful maneuver, especially for aggressive players, and it is certainly a divisive topic within theModern Warfarecommunity. Despite players' differing opinions on slide canceling, it’s been allowed inModernWarfaresince launch,but it appears that things may be changing soon.
Recently,Infinity Ward launched a publicly visible Trello boardto track many of the team’s ongoing priorities. A Trello board is just a webpage that can be used to track separate tasks, and one of Infinity Ward’s listed tasks has to do with slide canceling inModern Warfare. When this Trello board launched over a week ago, it confirmed that the the ability for players to “cancel their recovery state when sliding” is a bug planned to be fixed inModern Warfare’s next update.
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Since the Trello was first made public, the slide canceling task has been updated. It is indicated that the fix for the problem now requires more testing and won’t be included withModern Warfare’s next patch. According to the update, the new release date hasn’t been determined as of yet, but that doesn’t mean that Infinity Ward is reconsidering the fix. It just means that it will take a while longer than expected.
For now, players can assume that theslide canceling maneuver inCall of Duty: Modern Warfareremains a known exploit and thatInfinity Wardintends to fix it. That fix won’t be in the nextModern Warfarepatch, planned for January 22, but is still being worked on for a later release.Modern Warfareplayers who are experienced with the slide cancel will continue to able to make the most of the glitch for the foreseeable future. Hopefully for those who don’t use the exploit and don’t like having to deal with it being abused by other players online, the fix will come sooner rather than later.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfareis available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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