- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Ok, here's the deal with cheating in HaloPC.
The netcode is server-authoritative. In other words, the server has the final say about what's happening in the game. If you make a cheat on your computer (the client) to do something like have infinite overshield, make the pistol bullets more powerful, or make all your shots hit, it will look like it's working on your screen, but you're only fooling yourself. What the server says goes, and since the server sees the game correctly (regardless of hacks you have on the client computer), all those infinite ammo/health, aimbots, etc. do nothing.
I've played HaloPC almost every day since it came out, and I've never once seen anything I'd consider cheating of this sort. Some people are just really good (I've played with Rival-WerD, and that dude is a machine. One of the best in the game). And most other things that maybe look like cheating (someone not dying from a tank blast or something) can easily be attributed to lag.
Now, about the invisible wall thing. That is a known, working cheat because of the way it works. The map textures and everything reside on the client's machine, so if the client cut and pastes transparent textures where the solid textures used to be, his maps will have transparent walls. Besides that, there really aren't any serious cheats for HaloPC. All of the other cheats like aimbots, infinite health, super-powerful guns, etc. are impossible unless the mod is installed on the server. But for normal, dedicated servers (like the Bungie servers), you have nothing to worry about along those lines.
Hopefully that made sense. :-)
Edit: By the way, it's been my experience that most people that accuse others of cheating are generally poor players. They probably come from Counter Strike where they're used to lots of cheaters. It's a lot easier on the ego to accuse a good player of cheating than to admit that someone might just be a lot better player. I've been accused of cheating a lot, and I'm not even a stellar player (I lost to WerD 25-0 for 5 straight games when we played 1 vs 1). Just my two cents.
[Edited on 6/7/2004 6:15:09 AM]