Infinity Ward en Sledgehammer Games hebben in een interview bekendgemaakt dat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 naast patches, ook updates zal krijgen die je niet hoeft te downloaden en die voor kleine aanpassingen zullen zorgen. Dit liet Mark Rubin weten in een interview met The Guardian. 

Rubin legt uit waarom men niet gewoon patches kan uitbrengen:

"One of the big things we've changed is the ability to alter the game post-launch. That doesn't sound like a cool feature, it sounds simple - it's like 'why can't you just release patches?' Well, games don't work that way - you can patch some things, but for others, it's a significant deal, patching is not broad enough to do everything in the game.

So one behind-the-scenes feature allows us to update files, sometimes without even doing a full patch - we can just tweak things like weapon balance, which we could never do before. In the past, we'd put out a game and realise, 'hmm, that's weapon's really over-powered' but there was nothing we could do about it.

With twenty million people playing the game, you learn more in the ten minutes after release than you do in months of pre-launch playtesting. So that tech feature was a big thing for us."

Ook vertelt Rubin dat ze van Treyarch's ervaringen met Call of Duty: Black Ops geleerd hebben hoe ze het beste hackers en cheaters kunnen tegengaan. Rubin zei:

"Security was a big problem in previous games. So we've done a whole lot on that to create what we hope is a much more secure game. Part of that is learning from Treyarch's work on Black Ops and being pro-active and aggressive on banning, watching the leader boards, looking for cheaters."

Hopelijk betekent dit dat we in Modern Warfare 3 een stuk minder hackers (het liefst geen enkele natuurlijk) zullen tegenkomen, want in Modern Warfare 2 was het eerder regel dan uitzondering dat er gehackte lobby's waren.