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Subject: My friends sheild is weaker?
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My friend recently got a 360 for christmas, and he updated his XBL account, and we played halo online and whatnot for the remainder of christmas break, and it was great.

but we all went back to college, and havent played since we recently came home.

so we came home and downloaded the new maps, and we have just recently noticed that his sheild is substantially weaker.

we just did a custom game to test it out.

he dies in 2 beatdowns, whereas we died in 3.
we had another player stand next to him while i threw a grenade, THAT WAS CLOSER to the other player, and he died and the other player did NOT.
he takes 3 battle rifle bullets to the head, whereas we take 4 to the head to die.
he took 22 SMG bullets to kill, wheras we die in 24

not only is his shield weaker, but he himself is weaker.

he shot a rocket at my feet, and i did not die.
he stuck me once and I DID NOT DIE.
his melees are the same.

does the new maps have anything to do with this? is it some sort of glitch on his account?

he tried changing his player profile, and also switched from sparten-> covenant, and that didnt work either.

  • 06.16.2007 6:13 PM PDT

try changing the handicap its in the settings when you press start during the game

  • 06.16.2007 6:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: WingZEROperfect
My friend recently got a 360 for christmas, and he updated his XBL account, and we played halo online and whatnot for the remainder of christmas break, and it was great.

but we all went back to college, and havent played since we recently came home.

so we came home and downloaded the new maps, and we have just recently noticed that his sheild is substantially weaker.

we just did a custom game to test it out.

he dies in 2 beatdowns, whereas we died in 3.
we had another player stand next to him while i threw a grenade, THAT WAS CLOSER to the other player, and he died and the other player did NOT.
he takes 3 battle rifle bullets to the head, whereas we take 4 to the head to die.
he took 22 SMG bullets to kill, wheras we die in 24

not only is his shield weaker, but he himself is weaker.

he shot a rocket at my feet, and i did not die.
he stuck me once and I DID NOT DIE.
his melees are the same.

does the new maps have anything to do with this? is it some sort of glitch on his account?

he tried changing his player profile, and also switched from sparten-> covenant, and that didnt work either.


For your "he stuck me once and I did not die" when you get stuck, you automatically die.
And another thing, check if his handicap is on "normal" rather than "severe" or slightly or whatever.
If that doesn't work, then that is very odd, ha. :]

  • 06.16.2007 6:19 PM PDT
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If you wanna see an airplane cemetery, why don't you just find an old airplane and look at where it goes?

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Some of those can be explained such as the difference in the strength of melees since it depends on whether you were lunging or running at him or not, but for the rest, it seems like there's some kind of a glitch.

  • 06.16.2007 6:20 PM PDT
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no, there is no handicap, we are all set to none.

all the tests were done standing still, including the melees.

  • 06.16.2007 6:26 PM PDT
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If you wanna see an airplane cemetery, why don't you just find an old airplane and look at where it goes?

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Okay, but it still would do more damage if you were further away from him because the game would automatically lunge at him, even if you didn't move the thumbsticks.

  • 06.16.2007 6:37 PM PDT
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trust me, we did it all the same way. and regardless of the meelee, the other weapons are still different.

  • 06.16.2007 6:39 PM PDT
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If you wanna see an airplane cemetery, why don't you just find an old airplane and look at where it goes?

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The only way to be completely sure is if in both tests, you were right next to each other so that you were both touching. Regardless of this, were you playing online with a really bad connection? Netcode glitches could be reponsible for some of these problems, especially for the explosives.

  • 06.16.2007 6:42 PM PDT
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regardless of grenades, he still dies faster via bullets.

his network connection is perfect. so is ours.

  • 06.16.2007 6:57 PM PDT
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yea..i start to notice that it takes 3 hits to kill some1 as b4 the update it take 2

  • 06.16.2007 9:11 PM PDT

check the handicap

  • 06.16.2007 9:32 PM PDT
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its NOT the handicap.

  • 06.20.2007 10:29 PM PDT
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are you positive that his update was the most current as compared to yours. I'm sure you already know this but the new maps had to be re-downloaded after the initial release could he perhaps have not gotten the second update. Also are your video configurations exactly the same? Are you both playing on sdtv's or hdtv's and again were the video settings correct for the kind of display you were both using. And one last question... is the language option set to english on both xbox's? because this affects the auto update parameters. I'm really interested in finding out the reason for this. If you could get back to me that would be great. Thanks

  • 06.21.2007 5:13 AM PDT
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Did you take turns being host?

  • 06.21.2007 6:00 AM PDT
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send an e-mail to bungie. they probably know a lot more than we do.

  • 06.21.2007 8:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: WingZEROperfect
My friend recently got a 360 for christmas, and he updated his XBL account, and we played halo online and whatnot for the remainder of christmas break, and it was great.

but we all went back to college, and havent played since we recently came home.

so we came home and downloaded the new maps, and we have just recently noticed that his sheild is substantially weaker.

we just did a custom game to test it out.

he dies in 2 beatdowns, whereas we died in 3.
we had another player stand next to him while i threw a grenade, THAT WAS CLOSER to the other player, and he died and the other player did NOT.
he takes 3 battle rifle bullets to the head, whereas we take 4 to the head to die.
he took 22 SMG bullets to kill, wheras we die in 24

not only is his shield weaker, but he himself is weaker.

he shot a rocket at my feet, and i did not die.
he stuck me once and I DID NOT DIE.
his melees are the same.

does the new maps have anything to do with this? is it some sort of glitch on his account?

he tried changing his player profile, and also switched from sparten-> covenant, and that didnt work either.


For your "he stuck me once and I did not die" when you get stuck, you automatically die.
:]

Not if the person throwing the stickie has his handicap on severe.

  • 06.21.2007 8:08 AM PDT