- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: IIDWells55XII
Are you kidding me? People -blam!-ing auto-team standby now. Auto -blam!-ing team standby. Do you know what that means? It means they don't have to do anything and for roughly four seconds at a time my team glides into a wall while theirs kills us. No one has to push a button. Just because you don't see at whatever rank your at doesn't mean you get to pass some huge generalization the issue is resolved - the exact same thing Bungie has done.
6 hours (enough games to go from 1 to high 30s) is not "resolving the issue" at all. It still means people getting screwed over and has done nothing to discourage cheating. Modding probably increased since that update. They haven't made it more difficult or out of the mainstream.
If they want to make a futile patch to stop cheating, fine. Hell, I genuinely hope they get it together and release one that actually does something. I'd love to be able to go into a game of Slayer on someone else boxes and not have to worry about:
-Spawning in the same place the whole game in front of "i m0dz 4 48hr" and his full-auto BR that shoots sniper rounds
-Playing on a terrible bridged host
-Getting standbyed
-Getting bridged out
But I sure ain't holding my breath here. Bungie has made empty promises before and has had a continued "Oh, we fixed it" attitude while ignoring legitimate complaints. IF they want to go release this patch, that's fine. But there's no reason to punish those of us who have worked hard to achieve our ranks. We suffered through griefers, cheaters, derankers, etc. - we shouldn't have to do it again just ot get back to where we belong.
The invention of new methods to cheat is not Bungie's fault. Do you have any idea what would be going on right now if they never patched anything? Complete chaos. I'm not going to even attempt to describe the modding situation, it would be simply too graphic. Nearly every game would contain at least one modder, most likely more. They'd all be flying around shooting what they can, while you'd be straight up -blam!-. Battles over host would rage every game, no one would ever find a match. In the bridging department, if you think your 4 seconds of team standby lag is bad, try 18 seconds - 7 of which your whole team would be in blue screen while they do God knows what. The good ones may even be able to keep you in blue screen for the entire game... you have no choice but to either sit through it or turn off your machine. Even in the low level and custom games, there'd be people pulling all sorts of glitches, secondary standbying, and in the midst of the chaos I'm sure whoever the host is would be persuaded to do what he can.
I'm sorry, it's one thing to press a button sitting right in front of you or perform a glitch, it's quite another to reroute your entire home network and set up programs on your computer just to cheat. They have most certainly gotten cheating out of the mainstream. The problem remains right now that there are kids who are willing to waste their entire day soely on cheating in a game. They're willing to make a new account and sit there for 6 hours as you said, doing nothing but cheating. That's not something the average person is going to do. You can never completely get rid of these kids, but you can make it so inconvienent that most just say "screw it" and move on. I'm willing to bet that this coming update is going to try and expediate the process of banning modders. Perhaps with the improved banhammer functions instead of "6 hours" we could be seeing modders getting kicked off in 15 minutes. How many kids would be willing to make an account just for a few games? Certainly less than were when it was at 6 hours, and that's what we're trying to do.
[Edited on 04.08.2007 1:10 AM PDT]