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Posted by: diesel 06
> frankie, usually i wouldn't bother u about such things, but i have been a proud and devoted bungie and halo member for a very long time, and i would never cheat or do anything to interfere with halo 2 online play. the situation i'm in is that i just recently purchased action replay after advise from a friend, and experimented with using some of the options it made available, i did download a profile known as "a caring muslim" but i did not know it's power, and i absolutely didn't use it in matchmaking, and i wasn't warned about the violation at any time from bungie or xbox live, but after the update i have been permanently banned from matchmaking. i cannot allow this to happen, after paying $50 for xbox live, i demand full use of it since i did nothing wrong, and i really hope u can help me or at least guide me in the correct direction because i've looked all over bungie.net and xbox.com, and i havent found any topics on the bans, so please help me.
u can contact me at hommie_1900@hotmail.com.

thanks,
an honest spartan, Diesel


That sucks! They should warn every person of what they are doing first not just ban em without telling them. Somebody should sue bungies ass for doing that!

I hate this feedback system and I hate your way of banning without warning! Warning I mean by emailing the person and sending a message to him thru a gamertag.

Not everyone reads the news on bungie.net or has time too luckily I do so I know what to stay away from.


Oh ya and for those that want to know about what would happen with the auto update trying to play it with other xboxs halo 2 is pretty flexible and as long as your the host it should be fine ofcourse its untested for me. Maybe Ill try it on xbconnect sometime to see if it works.

For me I dont have to worry about that Ill just copy the stuff by my own means!
many people will know what I mean and then many noobish people will not know what I mean or they will say what its possible how! Its called linux.

I respect microsoft and bungie and do not pirate games only backup everything I have legally I own it I can back up legally. No I cant use backups on live and will not! Cannot lol Im not that smart people get banned for trying to play backups on live

Edit: I am using another original non modified xbox to play on live with because of the fact that the other one got banned for having the hdd changed because it was bad.

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  • 04.18.2005 8:12 PM PDT
Subject: This is dumb
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YOU SUCK this update is the gratest thing about halo 2 its amazing!!! i have not gotten cheated yet and ive one almost every single game ive played. nades are amazing the way they should be!!! POWERFULL if you dont know how to throw a nade? go back and cheat some more yA noobs!

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  • 04.18.2005 8:13 PM PDT
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Does no one read the weekly updates? They have told us REPEATEDLY that they can't stop people from using standy. They would have to physically go to the person's house and stop them from pushing the suspend modem button. All they can do is make it worthless to the people that do it. I don't know how they intend to do that, but they say they figured out a way. THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN NO LONGER BE STANDBYED, THEY CAN STILL PUSH THE BUTTON!!!

I realize we play in spite of the few things we dislike because overall we like Halo, but you can point out things you don't like in a mature manner, without resorting to dropping names and death threats on Bungie. We complained about the game, they offered some fixes, and we still just complain. Grow up, and at least act somewhat like a human when you want to talk about a problem you're having with the game. It's common courtesy.

  • 04.18.2005 8:47 PM PDT
Subject: Weekly What's Update: Massive Attack!
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i just had quik question is super bouncing(yourself) TO GET ONTO ROOFS considered cheating cause i don't want to do it if it is considered cheating hey and fretfire someone had to tell them to grow up u got my respect

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  • 04.18.2005 8:50 PM PDT
Subject: Weekly What's Update: Massive Attack!
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of course you didnt get the maps retard because they come out april 25th this was for the glitch fixes and for lagging and dual weilding and the other stuff that bungie is refusing to tell us... Which by the way if we are the primary customers of bungie and are what is keeping the company from going piss pore why wont they tell us everything that is on this patch???

  • 04.18.2005 8:58 PM PDT
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hte updates are not that great..the granades are way too much
the fuse is good but the xploding part..is a no the plasma and pistols being tweaked sucks...
and the rocket lunge totaly needs to be put back in!
it didnt do anything wrong!

  • 04.18.2005 9:30 PM PDT
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I LOVE THE UPDATE!!! I thought I loved grenades before they are awsome now. I can finnally do something about people who duel wield against me before I can get a good combo. I LOVE BUNGIE!!! (now I just want maps)

  • 04.18.2005 10:03 PM PDT
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Firstly, every calm down and remember... it's just a game. Albeit a very good one.

Ok, two things:

To the guy who asked how to remove the update from their xbox. Go to the xbox dashboard and delete all Halo2 space in memory (back up your profile and savegames first though). You will however be required to re-install the patch each time you log onto xbox live, but if you really can't stand the update then just play system link for the rest of your life.

Final point is to anyone who thinks that grenades are over powered now that they do more than tickle you. Get a real-life grenade, take to an empty field and throw it. See that big bang? That's because grenades are meant to be powerful and really do hurt, it's finally added a touch of realism to the game.

Thankyou for the update Bungie, I've yet to encounter any cheaters, and in-game people really seem more cheerful because they don't live in fear of Standby anymore.

  • 04.18.2005 10:14 PM PDT
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And why does nobody use correct spelling in these forums?

Don't bother replying if it'll involve the words "idiot" or "retard".... I'll find you.

  • 04.18.2005 10:29 PM PDT
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haha, then you should take your plasma pistol and shoot at the guy accross the field so he doesnt get you with his covy riffle.....dont even try to relate halo to the real world...its not real and never will be

  • 04.18.2005 10:43 PM PDT
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The only thing im not happy with in this update is, i thought for sure they would have done something with the plasma pistol/battle rifle combo (newbie combo as some call it). I thought they would of done something to tone down the damage on that combo since they took away from the pistol and plasma rifle. =0( oh well atleast everything else is fixed.

  • 04.19.2005 12:18 AM PDT
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This update is just a peice of grunt. Firstly, wtf was wrong with sword lunging? yeah i know you have a thousand reasons why YOU dont like it and your on of the creators of the game, but me and my buds loved to get ontop of levels and couldn't wait to get out of these new maps, and we had lunging wars. Sword lunging and glitching was one of the main reasons i loved Halo2 so much, other then the fact it is a kick ass game. Secondly, the plasma pistol is still a -blam!- cheap ass weapon. How many people complained about sword lunging? Compare that to how many people complained about the cheap plasma pistol/battle rifle combo? i seriously think this update messed up halo2, my day was ruined when i signed on halo2. Sure you have great things on that update, but you lied to the population when you said you would reduce the plasma pistol damage, and you pissed off a great amount of people by getting rid of sword lunging. Maybe for your next update, you could stick by your promise and fix your lie about the plasma pistol, and just maybe allow us to sword lunged, even if it goes against your moral cheif rights.
for all the glitchers out there... XBConnect is still there
sorry for you time
and revengesrage, XBConnect does work, it works well, no cheaters

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  • 04.19.2005 12:24 AM PDT

Trespassers Will Be Shot,
Survivers Will Be Shot Again!!

Black Hawk Down is gonna kick halo 2s ass

  • 04.19.2005 12:42 AM PDT
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I was jsut wondering why its seems that super jumping has been left in the game. It really ticks me off when a little -blam!- hides on the roof of zanzibar with a sniper away from my smg and i was waiting for this patch to destroy it. Please tell me why this has not happened. Has some crazy thing happened where super jumping has been made legal or something???>!!!

  • 04.19.2005 12:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: obstidon
I completely agree with trackster, what a way to kill my favorite game. Granade fights are no fun and thats what everyone is doing now just throwing granades every where. They are like frekin nukes. The magnum has now been reduced to nothing.(I can throw rocks and do more damage) And the SMG Plasma Rifle combo was also reduced badly. Those were the only combos that I used. Im ok with the other changes that made certain weapons stronger but not the good weapons weaker. Whats the point of having different guns if they are all going to have the same exact power. With this new update Bungie is encouraging players to use cheap combos like Plasma Pistol and Battle Riffle.


Thanks for expressing your opinion maturely (I'm being serious). It's nice when people can say things intelligently.

However, I disagree. Have you even TESTED the frag grenade on system link? It is NOT a nuke. Before the patch, a frag grenade took off your shield. Now, all it does is... take off your shield :) The frag grenade is only SLIGHTLY tweaked. It does just a little bit more damage. How can this not be a good thing?

I think you guys forget that dual wielding is supposed to be an EQUAL option to grenading, and it still is. The whole game has been balanced in a genius way. Dual wielding provides raw power that rips through enemies, but grenades are a powerful counter, that is and now does work just as well as dual wielding, when applied correctly.

A person with a grenade and an smg should be equal to a person with two smg's, the way the game was designed. Two weapons means not that you are supposed to win, only that you are sacrificing a grenade and a melee attack for the ability to pwn quickly and without too much hassle. However, if you are not careful, you can be naded or melee'd back, it is the same as someone turning around and shooting you with the smg and plasma rifle. Only, it takes more skill to nade accurately :)

Also, the magnum is not worthless. Have you tested it in a game on your own? Because of the new update, I can now run around SINGLE wielding a magnum. If I throw a well placed nade, and it makes contact, ONE magnum shot to the head will take an enemy down. That, my friend, is awesome.

And also, haven't you noticed that better nades helps people not whore weapons like the sword, the plasma pistol/battle rifle combo, or the rocket launcher as much? In the original release, if I spawn on Ivory Tower with an smg, and you have a rocket launcher, what chance do I have? The game quickly degenerates into who can hold the best weapons, or in many cases, ANYTHING better than an smg, since nades were almost worthless. It's pretty ridiculous that in Ivory Tower, when a team camps the third floor with a sword, RL, and Sniper, that the whole team can throw nades up there, not get a single kill, and still get wiped out. That's absurd. That's not balanced in the slightest.

But now, thanks to the update, the Rocket Launcher STILL overpowers the smg, but you at least stand a chance due to a grenade that has been tweaked to perfect, and a melee as well. People act like these things suck, but they don't get it- LEARN to use them! EVERYONE has access to these new toys that balance the game, and they should make use of them! It makes the game a much better experience, and I'm sorry you don't lik eit.

I think the real problem is that noobs who ONLY dual wield are now getting a rude awakening, since they are nowhere near as good as they think they are. For months, veteran gamers and Halo-ers have been complaining that the weapons are imbalanced, and that the smg spawn is terrible- well now, they have been vindicated thanks to some great additions by Bungie. I believe we will now start to see a HUGE separation between people who are truly good at the game, and people who just know how to bullet hose a dual wielding combo.

  • 04.19.2005 1:02 AM PDT
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I'm very happy with the updates, the only people whining about grenades are scrubs who've only been good at duel-wielding and can't make a frag bounce where they want it to. Finally I can single-wield against duel wielders and stand a chance...it's a lot more balanced now.

Now just need to fix the sniper auto-aim so using the sniper rifle actually takes skill again.

PS: To those idiots who get their rears handed to them in matchmaking and then cry about how they'll own someone as long as it's "MLG" rules...MLG is for scrubs who wet their pants when they realised Halo 2 was different from Halo 1, and they desperately want to go back to the pistol. I can make up all sorts of stupid rules and then practice only playing those special rules and beat someone who's better than me at it, simply because they're not used to it.

  • 04.19.2005 2:31 AM PDT
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aaaah! mucho problemo!!!! all last night i played with the update working fine, then this morning my xbox live won't work!! I ran a troubleshooter, and everything worked fine, except zbox live wouldn't work!! baddaybaddaybadday!

EDIT: hmm, xbox live must have gone offline for a litlle while, anyway, it's working perfect now...

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  • 04.19.2005 3:44 AM PDT
Subject: Weekly What's Update: dMassive Attack! bungie sucks
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I'm specheless
you just suck guys i got xbox live for just few weeks i wasnt cheating but for sure i was spending hours daily playng with my friends and glitching because its so fun and probably noone is going to say that im wrong but you have to ruin it
my english is not perfect so i;m not going to wite a lot more but just say that it was a big mistake and after all that every weeks bully of how hard it is to make the update i though that you will do something good with it not to try to suck out the fun out of the multiplayer
now i think i will just stop using the xbox live(good that i had 2 monts trial) and delete the freaking update from my xbox and just play on lan parties and i home a lot of peple are going to do the same

  • 04.19.2005 4:48 AM PDT
Subject: wow my xbox is messed up now
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i downloaded the patch and now it won't let me play campaign or xbox live. I am realy frustrated! Ive tried evreything whenever i go intomatchmaking it usualy says matchmaking failed or it will never go to the # 3. My campaign won't even load up. Whenever i want to start a custom game it won't even if i'm the only person in my custom game. I tried playing a split screen on xbl and it wouldn't load him into xbl. I tried seeing if the maps would load off of xbl and they still don't load and i want to play halo. I hope this is just a bug that will be fixed because this is realy frustrating me and i downloaded the update and it said it was complete. so i went on to play halo and it didn't work. Also whenever i press "y" to see what my friends are doing it takes about 5 minutes to load up and my screen always freezes. I just bought all my xbox stuff not to long ago. i'm realy confused can someone help me?

  • 04.19.2005 5:07 AM PDT
Subject: Weekly What's Update: Massive Attack!
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yo man guys or whatever
we mast do something about the changes send messages to everyone and lets protest maybe one day without playing halo 2?? we must schedule the protest but first send this message toi as many people as possible

  • 04.19.2005 5:43 AM PDT
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Posted by: vegamo
fretfire i think u need to shut up... THERE IS A WAY TO STOP STANDBY... BY SUSPENDING THE PLAYER RIGHT AWAY!!!!! I MEAN RIGHT AWAY.. IN OTHER WORDS.... ''NOW'' u need to stfu and learn how to freakin play u retard... im a MUCH better player than you... and to proove it... send me a friend request and bring ur best buddy and play against me and my cousin 2vs2 mlg... ill leave ya on zip cause we never lost an mlg match playing with people over level 20 + that do not standby.... dont talk like u know -blam!- about the game cause u dont.... we do read the fourms but they dont offer much,.... halo 2 screwed up cause of standby!!! peroid!!!! bungie should of fixed that before the game came out... its their problem and they should fix it... i dont care if they PUT 100 NEW MAPS AND 100 NEW WEAPONS AND 100 NEW FEATURES.... IF STANDBY ISNT FIXED...WE AND SPECIALLY I WILL STILL TALK AND TALK AND TALK ABOUT IT DAY AND NIGHT !!!! OK????? PONK??? MY GAMER TAG IS VEGAMO... SEND ME FRIEND REQ AND WATCH UR ASS GET RAPED BIATCH!~~~



This is my favorite post ever. Thanks for giving a perfect example of why people need to grow up. Seriously, do you think your ability to beat me on Halo has ANY effect on me whatsoever? I could care less if you can kick my ass on a video game. I'm so proud of you!

My POINT was, they have told us time and time again that they can't STOP people from using standby. You know what, even if they suspend the people that do it, they have to do it before they can be suspended, so you'll still get standbyed! Use some common sense or shut your mouth.

  • 04.19.2005 6:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: Deano 90
I was jsut wondering why its seems that super jumping has been left in the game. It really ticks me off when a little -blam!- hides on the roof of zanzibar with a sniper away from my smg and i was waiting for this patch to destroy it. Please tell me why this has not happened. Has some crazy thing happened where super jumping has been made legal or something???>!!!


You can easily get on the roof with a grenade, especially now that they've been tweaked a little. You don't have to super jump to do it.

  • 04.19.2005 6:33 AM PDT
Subject: This is dumb
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Ace work on the update guys! Plasma grenades are now useful, even if you dont get a stick!
So yeah generally its brilliant. However there is one thing you have missed; The Superjumps!
In Zanzibar this is one glitch that can really screw over an attacking or defending team! Having a guy sit on top of the base with a Rocket Launcher makes it almost impossible to arm a bomb or grab a flag! And before you say "snipe him off" anyone with intelligence will stay back out of the view of the snipers making it impossible to take him out if you cant Superjump!
So in all this is one thing that needs to be altered with the next update!

  • 04.19.2005 7:26 AM PDT