Taking Halo 2 to Xbox Live

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday December 15, 2004 @02:48AM from the from-LAN-gaming-to-anonymous-jerks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In this new interview, Bungie Studios engineering lead Chris Butcher explains how his team took Halo 2 multiplayer battles to Xbox Live, with minimal glitches. Turns out there are a lot of clever tricks involved." From the article: "It's actually the same network model we used in Marathon back in the day, although Marathon had some bugs in it. The thing with this networking model is if there's a bug in the computer code where two machines could provide the same inputs but get different outputs, there can be problems. There are lots of different ways that could happen."

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Re:Slightly more readable version... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-15 03:26 · Score: 1, Interesting

Although each client apparently still has a full version of the game world at hand, unlike Quake-style games where a client is only sent relevant stuff - might this allow for some audacious, map-spanning ultra-vision hacks and so on?
Considering the difficulty (impossibility?) of getting a hacked XBox on Live, I'd say this isn't much of a problem.