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I for one, am very excited about ODST.

Halo 3 mutliplayer has gotten so... rotten thanks to the cheating.. it's not the same.

Hopefully ODST will refresh the many frustrated players out there!

  • 06.05.2009 6:35 AM PDT

Posted by: oQuiKSh0To
I for one, am very excited about ODST.

Halo 3 mutliplayer has gotten so... rotten thanks to the cheating.. it's not the same.

Hopefully ODST will refresh the many frustrated players out there!
You're joking right? There's no cheating in Halo 3 multiplayer, there never has been. The only thing that made it slightly less fun was that Bungie went and sealed off almost every hiding spot. Of course I'm happy for Firefight, and finally some city maps, but please, there has never been any cheating in Halo 3's matchmaking, like ever.

  • 06.05.2009 6:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: oQuiKSh0To
I for one, am very excited about ODST.

Halo 3 mutliplayer has gotten so... rotten thanks to the cheating.. it's not the same.

Hopefully ODST will refresh the many frustrated players out there!
You're joking right? There's no cheating in Halo 3 multiplayer, there never has been. The only thing that made it slightly less fun was that Bungie went and sealed off almost every hiding spot. Of course I'm happy for Firefight, and finally some city maps, but please, there has never been any cheating in Halo 3's matchmaking, like ever.


Yes, there has. Why do you think the Banhammer was created?

  • 06.05.2009 6:49 AM PDT

Yeah, I'm excited for ODST too, and telling from the trailer it also looks better and improvements have been made.

  • 06.05.2009 6:50 AM PDT
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Firefight is something that looks great, levels like that are almost necessary for major FPS's now, i want to see if MW2 has anything similar to -blam!- Zombies

  • 06.05.2009 6:51 AM PDT

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Posted by: oQuiKSh0To
I for one, am very excited about ODST.

Halo 3 mutliplayer has gotten so... rotten thanks to the cheating.. it's not the same.

Hopefully ODST will refresh the many frustrated players out there!
You're joking right? There's no cheating in Halo 3 multiplayer, there never has been. The only thing that made it slightly less fun was that Bungie went and sealed off almost every hiding spot. Of course I'm happy for Firefight, and finally some city maps, but please, there has never been any cheating in Halo 3's matchmaking, like ever.

Obviously a cheater.

  • 06.05.2009 6:54 AM PDT
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  • 06.05.2009 7:08 AM PDT
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Fight hard, have fun

I think this is gonna be a nice blend between Halo 1, 2, 3 and a little fr/other modern combat FPS's.

From the videos I've seen this is just gonna be hellafun. Awesome pistol and smg...ah have to wait but it will be sweeeeeet!!

Also the firefight idea is great...


  • 06.05.2009 7:12 AM PDT
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Firefight was the answer to so many cries of "We want to fight AI!"

So host booting, boosting, all that, isn't cheating?.. Honestly?..

  • 06.05.2009 9:15 AM PDT
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I'm with the OP on this one.

I am tired of Bungie's online grief-making system.

I'm tired of dealing with 2nd accounters. Those who should be playing at a higher level due to greater skill deciding to play down, by way of a 2nd account, in order to beat up on lesser skilled players.

I once had trust in matchmaking's ability to find me a fair match based on the merits of TrueSkill. However, with little or no incentives for players to stick with and play upon their primary accounts, players, left and right, are starting over.

It is the rare game where I don't bump into a 2nd accounter. Again, I'm not trying to win every game. I'm in it to have fun. These days, such a thing (fun) is a difficult to quantify when I am being smacked down at every turn due to playing a supposedly evenly matched team of nothing but heavily skilled and experienced players.

So that, just like the OP, when I had seen that ODST will bring with it a new mode (Firefight) which allows me and my buds the ability to play online against AI in a constantly changing battlefield...

I can imagine playing ODST Firefight a whole heck of a lot. I can imagine playing this kind of mode more than matchmaking in general. That is, at least, until Bungie finds a way to provide incentives for players to stick with their primary account and not play down in order to grief the average gamer.

And to the issue regarding whether or not cheating exists in Halo 3 matchmaking... DDos, modders, IP hacks, EXP boosting... What are these if not forms of cheating? Though not as rampant as what you would expect to find on a PC game, there are still cheaters here in the console world... And Bungie, though they have made good by keeping the Banhammer tuned, has seen their fair share of such.

  • 06.05.2009 9:34 AM PDT

Posted by: oQuiKSh0To
I for one, am very excited about ODST.

Halo 3 mutliplayer has gotten so... rotten thanks to the cheating.. it's not the same.

Hopefully ODST will refresh the many frustrated players out there!


Yes and I will be one of those players :D

Firefight will keep me entertained.

  • 06.05.2009 9:35 AM PDT
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I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.

I don't care for the actual Matchmaking on Halo that much (I play still, but mainly Social or with friends) so I'm just super excited about Firefight (N-Zombies for CoD was ace, this looks better!) and if people cheat on that, we all get to higher levels, so meh.

  • 06.05.2009 9:37 AM PDT

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I'm with the OP on this one.

I am tired of Bungie's online grief-making system.

I'm tired of dealing with 2nd accounters. Those who should be playing at a higher level due to greater skill deciding to play down, by way of a 2nd account, in order to beat up on lesser skilled players.

I once had trust in matchmaking's ability to find me a fair match based on the merits of TrueSkill. However, with little or no incentives for players to stick with and play upon their primary accounts, players, left and right, are starting over.

It is the rare game where I don't bump into a 2nd accounter. Again, I'm not trying to win every game. I'm in it to have fun. These days, such a thing (fun) is a difficult to quantify when I am being smacked down at every turn due to playing a supposedly evenly matched team of nothing but heavily skilled and experienced players.

So that, just like the OP, when I had seen that ODST will bring with it a new mode (Firefight) which allows me and my buds the ability to play online against AI in a constantly changing battlefield...

I can imagine playing ODST Firefight a whole heck of a lot. I can imagine playing this kind of mode more than matchmaking in general. That is, at least, until Bungie finds a way to provide incentives for players to stick with their primary account and not play down in order to grief the average gamer.

And to the issue regarding whether or not cheating exists in Halo 3 matchmaking... DDos, modders, IP hacks, EXP boosting... What are these if not forms of cheating? Though not as rampant as what you would expect to find on a PC game, there are still cheaters here in the console world... And Bungie, though they have made good by keeping the Banhammer tuned, has seen their fair share of such.


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This is an excellent post

  • 06.05.2009 9:38 AM PDT

Remember Reach!

Posted by: RvB Rocks95
there has never been any cheating in Halo 3's matchmaking, like ever.


I hope you were being sarcastic when you said that...

  • 06.05.2009 9:42 AM PDT
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An excellent post indeed, he said more than i ever could!

  • 06.05.2009 10:44 AM PDT