HALO 2 Battle Reports thread

[Bond]

I encountered the first girl while playing Halo 2 online tonight. She was 13 though... so it wasn't that much fun.

[Bond]

Here's some information on cheating if anyone is interested:

"There's a lot of talk on Bungie's own forums, and in other places about various glitching and cheats being used online in Halo 2, and how these glitches and cheats are being used more and more by people to win.

One glitch Bungie has somewhat addressed, and that is the being able to reach through walls and celings to grab things, such as flags and/or weapons. It has only been somewhat addressed, though, as instead of fixing the problems with a new patch, Bungie has removed the maps with the most abuses of this glitch from the matchmaking playlist. Great, even less maps and game types to play in ranked games...

Another way people have learned how to cheat is by using newer cable or DSL modems with the standby feature on them. Apparently, by turning the modem to standby, cheating players can run around the maps, unhindered. This is most often used in CTF maps, and the cheating player then runs and grabs the flag, and returns to close by where he needs to capture it, and then turns the modem back to active. At this time, their Xbox then sends new info to the server, which then updates the rest of the players by stating the flag has been taken and then almost immediately captured. Players will know this has happened when their flag just disappears, even if they are watching it (or camping it, if you want to call it that), and then in a matter of seconds they hear that the flag was captured, in far less time than it would take to run the flag back to the capture point.

This particular glitch seems to work the most if the person perfoming it somehow figures out that they are the one hosting the game. If the host tries to perform this glitch, then other errors can occur, as well, such as multiple plasma swords or rocket launchers spawning on the map at the same time. However, one does not need to be the host in order to perform the glitch.

From the sound of it, this glitch uses a bug in the netcode for Halo 2, which forces the other Xboxes in the match to update to the input given from the cheater's Xbox; instead of forcing the cheater's Xbox to catch up with the rest of the game, the rest of the game is forced to catch up with the cheater's Xbox.

It is sometimes easy to catch this cheat, though, as the lag on the game should become higher while the cheater(s) is (are) cheating.

One glitch, which is hard to do, but possible, in matches involves the plasma sword. As those of us who have played Halo 2 know, when the reticule turns red while you are holding the sword, you may perform a rushing one hit kill attack. Apparently, it is possible to use another weapon, with a longer range, get that weapon's reticule to turn red, and the quickly switch to the plasma sword and hit the attack button, and fly accorss the map and kill them. It is hard to do in game situations, but not impossible. As of now, Bungie has stated (second to last letter) that they do not see this glitch as a problem, yet.

It also seems that certain levels have glitches in them that allow bomb carriers to hide with the bomb, especially when their team is losing, and forcing the "sudden death" part of the game to go on for a long time, in hopes that the opposing team will simply quit in frustration. One such game that has been brought up went on for 1 hour 27 minutes.

Another cheat, which has just started to pop up involves being able to grab the flag in CTF matches from a great distance away. Looking at pics on Bungie.net, which records information from the game servers while playing matched games, which follow the route the flag takes, it is clear that the flag is somehow being picked up from far away. It is currently not well known how this cheat works, but it is different than the modem standby cheat, as the game screens show that the flag simply started moving from a position other than where it sits in the base."

[DarkMaster]

I dont understand why people cheat in these types of online games. What do you gain by cheating? A higher ranking? Who gives a sh*t about how high your ranking is, it doesn't even do anything. I mean, in an MMORPG at least cheating will get you something (like more money or better equipment, etc), but in a game like Halo2 where the whole purpose of playing is to have fun and test your skill, cheating completely does away with that. Not that I condone cheating either way, mind you, but in this particular case it's beyond idiotic.

[Bond]

I agree. It really gets you no where and is more annoying than anything else, especially the stand by cheat.

[dropCGCF]

I have it now. anyone wanna play?

please invinte me to a game tonight. you KNOW my username.

oh, also, please invite me to a game. I only have one connection and it's going to be on X for the rest of the night.

[Bond]

I would invite you to a game, but my communicator still doesn't work, and it's annoying as hell. Hopefully I'll be able to buy a new one tomorrow.

[Bond]

I accepted your friend request dropCGCF. I ordered my new communicator and I should have it within a week.

[Neo]

What sensitivity does everyone use?

[dropCGCF]

I use 6. I used to go 8, but i need less.

I also use Legacy with centering and an inverted Y-axis. It just feels natural, I guess.

I got thirty medals on a team slayer game.

[dropCGCF]

So, who wants to play tonight?

[jeepnut]

This message is just to let everyone know that I have voice comm now.

[CamFu]

Neo, I haven't seen you online in a while? Whats up, we NEED you online.

I was just reading over this and notice you guys talking about cheaters. I had my first experience of it last night. It was right before Crash and PapaSmurf whooped up on me.

It was in CTF Big Battle. So I playing with 8 other guys/girls. These guys where so obessed with getting this "glitch" to capture 2 flags at once, that they weren't even playing the game. And to top this off, they where my teammates. What was funny was they tried it like 5 times, and failed to hit this glitch. We had like 30 seconds to get the flag, and this glitch had to have a full Warthog to work, and I pass by them and they start yelling at me to get in the Warthog. I tell them to quit worrying so much about cheating and play, and they started being real grownup and calling me names. I ignored them, I laughed at them. Did my little trash talking. Anyway, they screwed it up again, and blamed it one me. Said if I just worked with them, they could have gotten the flags. I just keep playing the game, and guess what! They start killing me.

Now, here is the fun part of it. I started laughing when it gave me the option to boot them from the game. I hit x 5 times. Then it was 3 against 8. Which wasn't so bad, because the guys that I was playing with that time around just wanted to play. We held our ground pretty well. But in the end, we lost.

Well, I'm going to be on again tonight. Probably around 4 PM MST.

[Crash]

4pm? good i'll be home at 4:30, lets play

[Neo]

I used to play a lot but I never saw anyone else.

[Crash]

ha, neo, you're never on... at least not at night.. you need to be!