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Bungie Wields the Banhammer
Gamespot reports that an update to Halo 2 via Xbox live has dropped the hammer on cheaters who have been warned in previous weeks to cease their malicious ways. From the article: "These undefeatable foes aren't some new alien species that have invaded the ruckus created by Bungie. These are the work of hackers and modders, gamers who spend time improving their stats with cheats at the expense of others. As with any high-profile title, cheaters will run rampant in an effort to 'pwn n00bs' and generally frustrate those who play fairly. Bungie has not taken kindly to these folk."
As an H2 player I have seen a number of different cheats over time. We should have a small grace period of minimal cheating until new cheats are found. Hopefully bungie keeps up with the updates or else this game will be unplayable for myself and many others.
PS.
Does anyone know why people on Team Slayer sometimes kill themselves the whole game?
It's called griefing. They ruin their own teams chances of winning by -1 suiciding themselves over and over again.
Why don't you just link the bungie.net article? News sites just continue a pointless cycle of linking.t oupdate4&p=4040317/
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=au
You WILL provide me with full details about that "mod" that "hackers" are using to "cybersexual" with people. I will not stop until my countrymen are free to play video games without encountering sex of any sort.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Senator
Halo for PC isn't that bad though. Since its fairly easy to run a modded map, the people that like to do weird stuff play those maps. Regular people play the other maps.
The ones that get out of line can usually be taken care of with a little social engineering. If they're relatively new to the game, having somebody tell them to "press Alt F4 for the mod list" sometimes works. Other times you can just annoy them until they leave. For example, follow them around and keep walking in front of them. This usually has the effect of making them TK you. 6 of those and you're banned from the server.
So there are ways of dealing with jerks online, you just have to know how to handle yourself most importantly.
Yet, another part of me is saying "Ya know, I wish they diddnt have the power to do that. I mean, sure, they're cheaters, but they bought the game and now bungie gets to tell them how to play it?
They're not telling people how to play it, they're telling people how to play it on their servers (Xbox Live). If you had read TFA, you'd see that people are still able to play with their mods via system link. It's one thing if you hack the game for your own personal enjoyment, but completely wrecking their matchmaking service by unbalancing the game through cheating? C'mon, that's not even a fair comparison. It has absolutely nothing to do with your issue with software licenses.
You can play the game any way you want to. You just can't cheat while playing on bungie's service. Seems fair to me.
If you went to play a game of pickup b-ball at the gym and proceeded to take the ball and run around screaming "my ball baby!! my ball!!" and not actually playing the game, do you think you'd be alowed to continue to play there even if you payed to get in? I doubt it, you'd be harming the experience that other people payed for too!
Now, you can go home and play with a basketball anyway you want. But as soon as you enter a public arena that you don't control you have to learn to play well with others.
This is quite possibly the worst idea I've ever had!
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But as soon as you enter a public arena that you don't control you have to learn to play well with others.
Unless you play on the NBA. Then it's called "yelling the ref" until he gives you a good call.
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Halo 2 uses predictive netcode, as does basically every other internet FPS today. It also uses things like simplified physics and event priority to ensure that the game is as playable as possible. Lag is lag, but in most games, you can at least aim directly at your target. The problem is that Halo 1 was never written with internet games in mind.
English is easier said than done.
Has anyone gotten banned for having non-Halo 2 mods on their Xbox, e.g., disablable modchips, software mods, cheats for other games, installed Linux? I think I have the font exploit somewhere (not that it worked for me) and I know I have the "Emergency Linux" MechAssault hack - will Bungie bother me about these, or does it only look for Halo 2 hacks?