Halo 2 Update On Monday

hollismb writes "Bungie has released all the details and set a date for the upcoming Halo 2 AutoUpdate, which includes a list of fixes to cheating and glitches. The update will also include changes to weapon balance, and you can look for it on Xbox Live on Monday, April 18th."

Comments

Re:A basteon dies

[SetupWeasel]

That's not an excuse. We are talking about a company that bans players for replacing their broxen drives. Weapon balancing is one thing, cheating is another. If cheating occurs in the game without modification, they needed better and more thorough play testing. If people are modifying the game, they should check for that and ban them like they did with the console modifications.

Fact is that Bungie was going to have to release Halo 2 this past Christmas to get the big sales. They probably cut short that part of the development.

Re:How about the other 90% of gamers?

[Fred Or Alive]

The disc version of the extra maps (due in June, at the same time the second batch of premium maps is added to Live) will also install these updates onto your Xbox. But you have to pay for the disc. So if you want the extra maps as well, that's your solution. Or you could find a mate who has the disc already.

The other solution is to borrow someone else's gamertag (you can copy them onto memory cards), sign in to Xbox Live with Halo 2 on your Xbox, and it'll download the patch automatically. You could also use this to get the maps when they're out, but I think Xbox Live may charge you for each download of premium maps.

Game Examples?

[DeadScreenSky]

Please name a online multiplayer videogame that was fairly popular and didn't end up requiring a patch to fix something.

No matter how extensive your testing unit (and MS certainly has that for Xbox games), having 100,000+ players at nearly all times for months banging around in a reasonably complex competitive videogame is going to find unforeseen glitches. Sure it would be wonderful if this kind of thing didn't happen, but that seems to be an enormously unreasonable expectation on your part.

And why are you pretending online console games having patches is a new thing? Xbox, PS2, and IIRC even Dreamcast online games have all had patches of some kind. This thing happens.