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Took a break from playing Halo2 for a while because of all the cheating. Started back a few weeks ago hoping the last update slowed down the cheating. Boy was I wrong. Seems now a lot more people have the programs on their puters to team standby so if the game picks them as host they start cheating as soon as they start getting their butts kicked. Same ole' crap as before. Here is my question.

Why the heck do people still cheat in a 3 year old video game, then talk smack because they can cheat to win? Makes no sense to me. I'm really impressed with with that awesome skill you cheaters have at using programs to make up for your lack of skills! Hope you are as impressed with yourselves! What is the big prize you seek from cheating? Better go check your stats! You might have leveled up! ....LOL

  • 08.06.2007 10:03 PM PDT
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are you sure you dont just suck?

[Edited on 08.06.2007 10:07 PM PDT]

  • 08.06.2007 10:06 PM PDT

Posted by: torque_bow
Took a break from playing Halo2 for a while because of all the cheating. Started back a few weeks ago hoping the last update slowed down the cheating. Boy was I wrong. Seems now a lot more people have the programs on their puters to team standby so if the game picks them as host they start cheating as soon as they start getting their butts kicked. Same ole' crap as before. Here is my question.

Why the heck do people still cheat in a 3 year old video game, then talk smack because they can cheat to win? Makes no sense to me. I'm really impressed with with that awesome skill you cheaters have at using programs to make up for your lack of skills! Hope you are as impressed with yourselves! What is the big prize you seek from cheating? Better go check your stats! You might have leveled up! ....LOL

Sounds like this guy has the same problem as you...http://youtube.com/watch?v=0lc2MksvqRY]teabag makes you good

  • 08.06.2007 10:10 PM PDT
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I agree with Qsk, you probably suck.

ITs not them cheating, its you atempting to blame something neutral for your losing streaks.

When and where do you even get standby'd? custom games lol, since you cant bridge anymore... i have only been standby'd once in all my matchmaking games since the new maps.

  • 08.06.2007 10:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Just Legit
I agree with Qsk, you probably suck.

ITs not them cheating, its you atempting to blame something neutral for your losing streaks.

When and where do you even get standby'd? custom games lol, since you cant bridge anymore... i have only been standby'd once in all my matchmaking games since the new maps.


First off I know don't suck. I was a 43 about a year ago when all the cheating was prominent...mods, standby, etc. So then i played mostly MLG. When they reset the ranks I went upto a 29 in a couple weeks, got bored with playing so moved on over to Gears.

I know what team standby is...does niot take a rocket scientist to know when your team is all in red bar and theirs is green that you are getting cheated. Granted they do not turn on the team standy program ASAP like before, they just turn it on a few times a game to regain control when they start losing then again at the end of the game to assure the win.

  • 08.06.2007 10:21 PM PDT
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w e you say, i havent heard been spamed in H2 chat about being standby'd like at all since the map update.

  • 08.06.2007 10:23 PM PDT
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Maybe you have not run into it but I have in the last week. Twice today. Played a Slayer game tonight. We went up 35 to 14 and I over heard a guy on the other team tell his buddy (who was host of the game) to quit. Said he was gonna standby to try to get host and team standby us if he did. He did, got host and put all 4 of us in red bar after he got host. He then told everyone on his team to quit leaving just him killing us as we walked into walls and lagged all over the map. I know what happened.

  • 08.06.2007 10:37 PM PDT
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when that happens everyone on your team quits cept 1 and he hides

  • 08.06.2007 10:47 PM PDT
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Thats exactly what my friends did. Left me in the game. I stuck his butt twice when he got close to me. He then lagged me out making the game null and void. I checked his stats....he has a lot of (unreliable) marked games....most of which his team finished 1st when they were tagged as unreliable. This guy definately cheats!

  • 08.06.2007 10:51 PM PDT
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cheaters are lame, just nowadays its not so bad. Its kinda sad when they have to standby to get past lvl like 20 in slayer because they couldnt otherwise... they should realy just stop playing. If somone decent knew you were a cheater, they would take you off their list.

Which leads me to beleive that cheaters have no friends except bad kids on their lists... they must feel cool.

  • 08.06.2007 11:05 PM PDT

Never eat yellow snow, unless of course, you spilled your Mt. Dew!

People learn new words like "standby" and they want to use it every time there is any delay in the game. Forget the fact that there are truly numerous people with actual crappy connections. I don't feel that I come across cheaters that much at all and definitely have not come across a modder in forever. Part of the reason is #1 I don't go bonkers over any little oddity while playing and respond by cursing alleged standbyers. #2 The modders are being pwned by the banhammer to the point modding in matchmaking isn't worth numerous free trials. People seem to be jumping the trigger with the "standby" thing especially since they can't see what's going on. If people could see what the enemy were up to they would probably be surprised as to how little standbying happens.

The times I do notice standbying is timely issues right when the enemy is planting a bomb. As soon they just get into the circle everyone goes to blue screen and when you return the bomb is planted. Super sucks.

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  • 08.07.2007 2:29 AM PDT

"Thoughts are the shadows of feelings; always darker, emptier, and simpler."

In think Bungie should just close XBL off of halo 2 until they completely re-do the multi.

  • 08.07.2007 3:16 AM PDT
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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

People cheat because they are likely sad and pathetic little people, who are compensating for a lack of something.

If you encounter a cheater, send a link to their stats to h2cheats@microsoft.com along with a description of what happened.

  • 08.07.2007 3:24 AM PDT