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what the hell you dumb a$$ what do you think when there are talking about "ON TOP" of the level

  • 02.05.2005 9:27 AM PDT
Subject: Cheating FAQ
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If somebody is cheating and your sure of it take action. Im sure bungie is trying their best I mean thousands people got banned for cheating. So if someone is cheating, report them so bungie could try fixing the problem. Bungie probably knows how it feels in a clanmatch where the whole team quits and your only versing one person then they standby and win then you lose the level your on after you worked hard on it. So just take action and report them. If we don't do anything about it it won't change. So just report them. Yes the cheaters can get another account but atleast you made them pay another 50 bucks for it. While were waiting for Bungie to get rid of all the hacks and glitches lets have atleast a fun wait. Im sure Bungie will do their best.

  • 02.05.2005 10:03 AM PDT
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I really hate these stupid cheaters! I just got done playing a team slayer game on foundation and they used standby! On team slayer! I would appreciate if you would do somthing about thes guys. The gamertags are AirBurbank, I hate this name,and L1vesucknuts. thank you

  • 02.05.2005 1:12 PM PDT
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I've seen those two, TWICE! Once with a standby and another without. They sucked ass without it. Oh, and the attitudes of cheaters are even more annoying, as well.

Cheater 1: "Uh huh? Suck my d1@k!"

Cheater 2: "As long as everyone can do it, it's not cheating!"

Uh, yeah it is cheating, no matter who's capable of it or not.

Any idiot can count cards in blackjack, but it's still cheating.

  • 02.05.2005 1:30 PM PDT
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What is bungie's stance towards use of keyboard/mouse adapters on the xbox? Imo, that gives the player using those mods an advantage over players using xbox controller. (assuming they're good with mouse and keyboard, which I'm not)

  • 02.05.2005 4:39 PM PDT
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To Bungie,

First I would like to say that Halo 2 is a spectacular game and I’m delighted that you developed it. I would also like to commend you on your efforts to improve the game play by punishing those who cheat. Recently I have noticed publications on the Bungie website that talk about punishments for those who curse. Now I agree that those who denigrate or other wise verbally attack other players should have some sort of action taken against them, I believe it is unfair for someone to get in trouble for cursing. Halo 2 is rated M (for Mature), which means that no one under the age of 17 should play the game with out the consent of their guardian. According to the ESRB this is what will be contained within Halo 2: “…may contain mature -blam!- themes, more intense violence and/or strong language.” The link is: http://www.esrb.org/esrbratings_guide.asp. My concern is that I who am 21 curse all be it not all the time but it has been known to happen. During the course of the game I might say something like “That’s bulls**t.” or something like that. Or may be even use the “f” word. I feel that as long as a person’s statements are not directed in a mean way towards another user then people should not be punished for cursing. Numerous times I have seen statements from Bungie claiming action against those who curse.

From the FAQ:

Q. What kinds of things is Xbox Live suspending people's accounts for?

A. “…shout profanity…”


There have also been claims that profanity is one of the reasons under the Xbox live Code of Conduct a person can be banned. No where in the Xbox Live Code of Conduct does it say cursing is not allowed. The C.o.C. link: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/codeofconduct.htm. Someone can leave negative feedback complaining about profanity. How can someone complain about profanity when the ESRB already said that profanity should be expected during game play? If the contention is well what about the smaller kids who play? I say, oh well. Their parent’s should be monitoring them or know of that cursing is expected as per the rating. How are we to be punished for something we did not agree to? I would appreciate your guidance on this issue. Thanks for all your hard work.

  • 02.05.2005 5:32 PM PDT
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Yea...I am one of " The Sweeps" friends...XxFadedShotsxX. I was playing with him in matchmaking when this happened. We knew it was stand by the mintue it happened but it was pretty -blam!- how they had to do it on a Team Slayer match. So do somthing that will prevent and further use of Stand By to ensure that everyone is getting a fare chance.

L8erzZz

  • 02.05.2005 6:36 PM PDT
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If u and buddys are hosting a invite only game of gliching for -blam!-s and gigles can u be BANED?????

  • 02.05.2005 7:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: SketchFactor
If you play Halo 2 on Xbox Live, then you've no doubt encountered a dirty cheater at some point in the past few weeks. We received hundreds of mails per week accusing people of cheating, protesting bans from cheating and asking questions about cheating in general. To help shed some light on this problem, we've whipped up this quick [url=/Stats/page.aspx?section=FAQInfo&subsection=cheat&am p;page=cheat]FAQ[/ url] to better explain what's going on.

To date, THOUSANDS of players have been banned from Xbox Live. And more are certain to follow. Read this FAQ and understand what you can do to help and what we're doing to help you.

  • 02.05.2005 8:59 PM PDT
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I once encountered a cheat where I threw 2 plasma grenades at a guy (IPFREELY) they both went on him, and exploded, he didnt even have shields down then he shot me with a plasma rifle bang! Instant Kill!!! What the h3ll is up with that?

  • 02.05.2005 10:07 PM PDT
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To tell the truth I'm very disappointed with Halo 2 online. Just yesterday my clan and I were up 2-0 on colosuss (however your spell it) and we heard the other team say "Ok im gonna use it." This was right before we capped the winning 3rd cap. Well needless to say they won. I don't get mad at video games and I don't trash talk on XB Live but if there is one thing that pisses me off its cheaters online. What makes it even worse is that this dude who used it sounded like he was 9. I didn't pay 55 bucks for Halo 2 and then another 50 for xb live to be cursed out and cheated by a 9 year old who balls havent dropped yet. My guess is he has an older bro who taught him how to use the stand-byon the modem. His response after the game was "Go ahead report us we'll just report you back." My four teammates and I all reported these cheaters and nothing happened. I know because I have two accounts and I added him as a friend on the other, he is not banned. This little prepubesent gamers tag was D 2 NASTY. I'de appreciate it if everyone on this forum could help me out. everyone send him a friend request. Send messages with the request telling him how he ruins the game and how he needs to wait about 8 years to play the game legally. If you guys would help me I'de be glad to return the favor.

  • 02.06.2005 7:55 AM PDT
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Yo buddy. In regard to your first question, I have no idea. I have the same problem. I can't tell you how many times I'll be chillin with full shield and then all off a sudden I hear "dink dink dink.... BOOM" and I drop dead. In all the games I've played I've only managed to kill somebody with a single frag grenade once. I've seen guys run over two or sometimes even three grenades that I've thrown while I'm shooting them and they'll bring me down faster. In regard to your second question, I have to say I've never really had that problem specifically with higher levels. There have actually been games where I'll spank considerably higher ranked players. There are also games though when I'll play lower ranked players and get shatted on. I definitely agree with you though that in some games it's like there's a joke being played on you. In a recent game I was wielding an smg and a plasma pistol and managed to sneak up behind an opponent only carrying a single smg. Totally unaware of me I hit him with a charged pistol shot ( which instantly took his shield down) and opened up on him with my smg. At this time he turns around and brings me down faster with his single smg. Should not be possible. I've noticed though that in certain games the other team seems invincible. No matter what guns I have I get brought down faster. Even when I encounter opponets who have just been in a fight and have lost their shield. In regard to your third question, I totally agree with you. Though it doesn't happen to me all the time, it does happen too often. My buddies joke around about it saying that they gave us "defective shotguns", which is certainly what it seems like. There are times when I'll shoot someone at point blank range two, three, sometimes even four times and they'll turn around and take me down with a single blast. There are even times when it seems like other players have "long range shotguns" that take me down in one or two hits from a considerable distance away. The only explanation I have for all of these things is connection. It's the only thing that makes sense. Though it definitely seems like the game is "cheating" or you've been handicapped, this obviously can't be the case. So it has to be that for that particular game, your opponents have a better connection than you. Know though that you're not the only player out there who is experiencing these things. If you have problems like this all the time though, you should try improving the quality of your connection. If you're using a splitter spend some money and get a good one with the gold plated connections. Monster cables and a good router also work wonders. I hope some of this info helps you out and good luck.

  • 02.06.2005 8:34 AM PDT
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dude I've also been cheated by that same guy in a team slayer in ivory tower, the little piece of crap still barely beat us, it ended up being 47-50. and yes I've reported him quite a bit

  • 02.06.2005 8:35 AM PDT
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I have to say the one thing worse than the defective shotguns is when you lunge with the sword and you "stub your toe" so you don't move an inch.

  • 02.06.2005 8:41 AM PDT
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You got stand-by buttoned my friend. When you see a player running and then just continue off into a wall, he has turned of his modem and lagged out of the game. He most likely turned off his modem, blasted you, and then turned his modem back on and you dropped dead. Stand by buttoners are hard to spot sometimes because it's hard to be sure if someone is using the button, or if the game or that player is just lagging due to a bad connection. There are signs to watch for though. First of all, stand bying is used the least in slayer games. It's hard to effectively use this cheat in these situations, more often it will turn against the cheater before help him. On the other hand the most notorious and effective use of the stand by button is on capture the flag. Any time you see your flag magically vanish and then see some dude half across the board with the thing, you've been stand byed for sure. If you suspect a player of cheating, hit select and check out the score card. Note the connection status bars next to each players name. If the player you suspect of cheating has a yellow or red status bar, than it's totally possible your hunch is correct. The best advice I can give you is that to recognize and fight stand by using players, you need to understand how it works yourself. I'm not suggesting that you cheat yourself, but grab a couple buddies and set up a custom game for yourselves and experiment. Understanding how the stand by process works will help you greatly.

  • 02.06.2005 9:04 AM PDT
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Last night I was really depressed to find out that I had fallen victim to a cheater that I had been cheated against before. His ID is "HereticSaddam"--remember that name because every time I've met him, he's cheated. First it was on Coagulation a while back, and 90% of the people in that game left negative feedback for cheating (even the people on his team). Last night, it was on Waterworks (where about 90% of the people yet again left negative feedback). That was the first time I had been cheated agianst on Waterworks, but the route map on bungie.net clearly hsows that he disappeared and reapeared at our flag. Afterwards, our flag was somehow transported to the front of the enemy base! Just a suggestion to you awesome people at Bungie---how off the wall is a "non-playlist" or a list of people you want your matchmaking to ignore? The feedback hasn't helped me much against this guy, but if I could add this cheater to a list to where I would never see again........This would make my Halo 2 online experience much better! Oh, btw, I suggest looking at "HereticSaddam" stats. His big team battle stats are a little fishy........Thanks again Bungie for making the best game ever, and sorry that cheaters like him are ruining your game that you worked so hard on.............

  • 02.06.2005 10:28 AM PDT
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The Guardians are the forces of nature that kill you when u fall from high places without the shields on

  • 02.06.2005 11:01 AM PDT
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I just got stanbyed again in a capture the flag game! It was Zanzibar.BUT anyway The cheaters names were Rebel3, XxNickHxx,and Snowboy.I would really appreciate if you can do somthing about these 3 gamertags.Thank you.

  • 02.06.2005 1:16 PM PDT
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Cubids boner ill be glad to help you out because i have been cheated alot! so tell me how i can help you and ill see wut i can do. My tag is Sweepstr141.

  • 02.06.2005 2:55 PM PDT
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so who are the guardians?


KILLemALL 4444

  • 02.06.2005 6:20 PM PDT
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Alright, um let's say your playing a game such as skirmish with a lvl 20! and you meet up with a guy that is very low rank and they use dumby glitch or stand by, would it be alright to use it against them to becase recently i should of been a 16 but these people keep glitching i lost my 15 when this player in colossus stood at his base and grabbed the flag 3 times in less then 2 seconds and when we played again he armed the bomb from his base to are base while we were at there base kicking butt when they respond and we notice the bomb was missing in a second when it was just there and the BOMB ARMED BOMB PLANTED and because they were red they won >:( so anyways would it be alright to use glithces against them if they were using it? and would we be able to fix are rank if we reported are problems i know many people whole should be 20's and 30's

  • 02.06.2005 6:47 PM PDT
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How about banning these guys then. Their clan is level 42. There names are StK FaTaL, StK Apocalypse, xXGodOfWarXx, and StK KaStRo. These guys suck. We were playing team skirmish on Zanzibar assault.
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStats.aspx?gameID=76197101&am p;player=DLR%20Maverick
They were using stand by so they could arm the bomb. I

  • 02.06.2005 7:23 PM PDT
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Bann all the -blam!- cheaters i get standbyed every -blam!- day it is so inoying. Why cant bungie just bann them!. Yesterday it was a clan called HSS we played them 5 games on minor clanmatch and they -blam!- had to standby in all of the games. How do you avoid them they lock you into the game!!! :(. I cant go on like this cant you bann HSS so i can see that you really are doing something. I mean HSS is only one of thousands of clans that standby but it would really be a sign if you banned them it would show that you are doing something for the honest people playing Halo2. Friendly regards Zaifer

  • 02.06.2005 11:07 PM PDT
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I really didn't know where to write about this but this seemed like a good a place as any. I played with a guy the other day by the name of Minetto24 and me and my friend beat his team pretty good but he proceded to curse us and tell me that he had friends at the Xbox company and he was gonna find my address and come kill me! now however I don't really think he will do anything I was curious if you someone could actually find that info out. and if your banning so many people why don't you ban people like that. I was teaching my little brother to play on team training the other day and all you hear is people cursing people out f this and f you and it kinda lame.

  • 02.06.2005 11:16 PM PDT
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Listen Bungie, I have a question for a friend on Xbox Live who has 2 Gamertags, one the 2-month free trial, and one a normal 12-month subscribtion. He told me to post his question on a forum, because he didn't want to release his name. His question was: "If I have 2 Gamertags, and I cheat on one, will the other gamertag be affected, and will you boot both of them?" Please respond.. And will someone please explain what Dummying is.. I dont want to know how, but I just don't know what the heck it is, and people on XBL say in games "Oh he just dummied" , and things like that, and no-one will be willing to explain to me what it is.. Thanks!

P.S. Bungie Rules!

  • 02.07.2005 3:38 AM PDT