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Those button glitches are a result of a glitch that happened when Bungie made an update to increase the damage of melee attacks. My chronology may be off here, but I believe the 1.1 update was actually what caused this glitch. Basically, when Bungie upped the power of melee attacks, people soon realised that they could totally deplete their opponents shields with one melee attack, and then use an animation glitch to get a near instant head shot with the BR. Double shooting was around before this update, but no one seemed to know about it (at least not enough people knew about it to make it a wide spread exploit).
Those glitches can't be patched, because Bungie has said that the potential problems a patch would create far out weigh the benefits. Only Bungie seems to know what might happen, but they think its a bad thing, and I for one trust their judgment.
On that note, the 1.1 update (which is again based on my oft flawed powers or recollection) increased the power of the grenades, and melee attacks. It also weakened the magnum (which did put the kibosh on all the whoring that was going on). In particular, it strengthened the Plasma grenades, which was an absolute necessity because unless you stuck someone with one, they were totally useless. That update also got rid of the sword flying glitch, which was a bit of a problem in the higher echelon of matchmaking.
The 1.5 update was a bit more recent. If my nearly useless memory is at all accurate, it changed the way the banhammer works, and it erased all the host and connection data we had all accumulated during our few years of Halo2 MM tenure.
And, just so you know, all of those glitches you mentioned are now considered cheating when used in MM. Customs and LAN matches can use whatever rules they want to use, so if a tourney thinks their use is okay, then its okay. Their system, their rules.
Now, if this thread continues to be a discussion about button glitches, this will be locked. If you want to continue discussing the updates, then please feel free. I'd imagine I either got something totally wrong, or I left something out of my description. So, please clarify if I made a mistake (and yes, you can make fun of me, so long as it does not drag this off topic).
[Edited on 05.27.2007 8:41 PM PDT]