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The gamertag linked to this account is an old one. My new one is James Voe Guy.

hi guys, recently matchmaking has been a nightmare, i know that in the past it was'nt rare for odd things to happen in halo 2 matchmaking but recently things have been out of control (for me anyway, i live at the most northerly point in scotland so it probably has something to do with that). heres a few things that are realy getting on my pecks.


1. shot through walls.

pretty self explanitory.


2. body magneticaly attracted to bullets

if someone shoots at me but misses (i see the bullet go flying past me about 2 meters away) i'll die and then my body will fly to the spot where the bullet just past, i will still be able to see the mark on the wall where the bullet hit when it missed me.

3. feather weight boxer

my beatdowns seem to be as inafective as firing a bb gun at a rampant elephant i.e i'll be running behind someone beating them down again and again and nothing happens untill the realise that the smaking sound is me hitting them in the back at which point they turn around and noscope me in the face.

4.is it green or red

i have a full green bar conection but it still lags like hell

5 ouch....my behind

i get booted from games even if i dont betray anyone. and i mean booted as in "you were booted from the game". one time it even happened when i was in a party with 3 of my friends and i had'nt even fired a shot (they did'nt boot me either).

6. bullet proof heads

it takes at leat 2 headshots to kill someone now compaired to the one head shot of the good old days

7. zombies

if i shoot someone with no shield in the face they somehow still have time to pop me in the face or throw a grenade before they die.

i almost prefered getting modded and standbyed every second game, atleast then you knew that you were definetly getting cheated out of your rank and you knew why it was happening (noobs). since the new maps came out and the ranks got reset matchmaking has gone down the tube. i know that posting this wont help me out at all but it might make me feel slightly better if i know that im not the only one that is suffering.
cheers guys

  • 07.10.2007 8:12 AM PDT
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All of that sounds mostly like lag, dunno what else to say. As for getting booted, I'm not exactly sure on that but my guess would be NAT or firewall problems if you really hadn't fired a single shot yet.. I remember me being in games and always going to blue screen. Then when it came back everyone in the game fell to the ground and disconnected. I just turned Universal plug n play on, on my router, and my NAT shows up as open instead of moderate and strict like it had been the first few months I had it, been fine since. Either that or you fired 1 or 2 harmless shots into your friend then he died a little later on in the game, sometimes if you've been betraying recently, it'll let them boot you for just that. Maybe that's host related though.

[Edited on 07.10.2007 10:14 AM PDT]

  • 07.10.2007 10:08 AM PDT