Modern Warfare 2 “EXE/BAD CHALLENGE" XP glitch: How to fix, possible reasons, and more

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is finally underway, bringing with it a host of enhancements and features. However, on the day of its release, one of the year's most anticipated games encountered numerous setbacks. It was riddled with network issues and bugs, preventing players from having a good time.

Although many of these issues have been addressed, a new glitch known as the "EXE/BAD CHALLENGE" error has emerged.

This error is prevalent among users of the last generation of consoles, i.e., PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. While the developers have not yet acknowledged the issue, the community hopes that the game shall receive quality improvement updates in the near future.

Hence, this article discusses a few possible workarounds until the glitch is fixed.

The developers of Modern Warfare 2 recently gave out 10 Double XP and 10 Double Weapon XP tokens to players due to a miscommunication with their Vault Edition features. However, as players were trying to use these XP tokens, they quickly realized that they were getting kicked out of the lobby to the main menu and were greeted with the "EXE/BAD_CHALLENGE" error message.

As previously mentioned, the gamers affected by it the most are running the title on a previous generation of consoles.

While players wait for Infinity Ward to resolve the glitches, here are some possible fixes and workarounds that can be implemented for the time being:

Possibly the simplest and easiest way to avoid encountering this glitch is to not wait in the lobby screen with all the players. To do this, once you have started the match queue, simply head over to the Weapons tab and proceed to edit a class. Then, wait there until the game begins.

Most of the time, a simple game restart can solve the problem. If