- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: B3OWULF
Posted by: defghik
This has nothing to do with you or your internet connection. Halo 2 has very inconsistent melee's, you will have the same problems on split screen or LAN. If you get screwed over by a melee, just shake it off, it wasn't your fault.
As a programmer years ago, I can tell you that software doesn't work sometimes, and not others. It either works or it doesn't. Sometimes there are other applications or subroutines that make a program act erratically, but this isn't the case with a tried-and-true game engine. Melees work when used properly, and in the absence of possible connection issues. It's just code, and code doesn't change by itself, then change back again.
I'm not denying the existence of "bugs". But a missed melee is not what can be described as a bug. Bugs manifest themselves in ways that are difficult to quantify, but there would be other symptoms if a bug were associated with a missed melee.
If you're noting inconsistencies in split-screen or LANs, what's happening is missed melees. This is entirely possible and probable with fast gameplay, and consistent with proper game engine function.
Posted by: FeArToXiC
BUTTON GLITCHING??!?!?! WHAT? Are you serious?
Yes, I am serious. I have enough experience in this game to have seen this scenario played out time and time again.
Posted by: FeArToXiC
Uhhh, it doesn't make the other person cancel their melees. I've been BXRed before and my melee still hits the other person.
I'm sorry, but it does. Depending upon the exact timing of your melee -- and the reception of your data at the host machine -- it may allow you to trade punches in-between the glitching. I have (rarely) been able to take down someone trying to BXB me, and I don't use glitches. But more often than not, your action will be cancelled, especially if there are latency problems.
Everyone please don't be so quick to personally attack, or to question facts that you have little knowledge of. What happens as a result of conflicting advice is that OPs never get the answers they're looking for!
Programmers != Know Halo 2's Internal Workings