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Subject: Speed hack or something?

Let there be CHAOS!

Its been a while since I've really played Halo PC/CE (played a bit last night and a few nights before that though) so forgive me if I'm a little behind on info (like hax people are using lol). I realize Halo PC/CE's netcode is completely server side so things like speedhacks should NOT work for clients. Last night though, I was playing CE in a Blood Gulch CTF match and there was this one guy... think his name was predator42 or something... everytime he was driving a warthog, it would skip forward constantly, as if he was driving 2 times its normal speed. I got in one as well to see if the server was just modded but nope... it drove at the regular speed for me.

Anyone else seen this? It wasn't just lag or something, it was clear that his hog was just driving faster than it should (and of course the clients don't know how to interpret this so it just kept popping forward)

[Edited on 07.12.2009 5:22 AM PDT]

  • 07.12.2009 5:22 AM PDT
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Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

I've seen that before. I still blame it on lag.

  • 07.12.2009 5:47 AM PDT

All I ask is that you don't try to capture me.

Nope, that's either a modded warthog, or a really laggy player. Not a speedhack.

  • 07.12.2009 6:36 AM PDT
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It's entirely possible to speedhack in Halo.

Although the server does check player positions and work out whether or not their current location would be possible based on movement speed, it does this at intervals rather than non stop.

You're perfectly free to move around the map as you see fit between checks.

Anyway, that's just my understanding from my testing.

[Edited on 07.12.2009 9:38 AM PDT]

  • 07.12.2009 9:18 AM PDT

Let there be CHAOS!

Posted by: Btcc22
It's entirely possible to speedhack in Halo.

Although the server does check player positions and work out whether or not their current location would be possible based on movement speed, it does this at intervals rather than non stop.

You're perfectly free to move around the map as you see fit between checks.

Anyway, that's just my understanding from my testing.


Interesting... I'd say this guy was up to something then. It was definitely not just laggy warping, he was just getting around the map much faster than he should.

Wish I was on his team so I could've gotten in a hog with him :P

[Edited on 07.12.2009 10:54 AM PDT]

  • 07.12.2009 10:53 AM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Posted by: Btcc22
It's entirely possible to speedhack in Halo.

Although the server does check player positions and work out whether or not their current location would be possible based on movement speed, it does this at intervals rather than non stop.

You're perfectly free to move around the map as you see fit between checks.

Anyway, that's just my understanding from my testing.

I had heard something about packet spoofing techniques being used as a speed hack, resulting in a player that looks like he's lagging.

I wouldn't know crap about it though. Whenever I've seen excessive skipping, said player always had a ping over 150. So I always figured it was lag.

  • 07.12.2009 10:07 PM PDT
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It looks laggy because your game is trying to predict their location based on the movement speed set in your own map files and because the server is correcting their location each time it checks. :)

  • 07.12.2009 11:41 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

The bungie.net community is the halo PC community that is renowned for being unbelieveably sucky.

A really high ping can give you the laggy hog effect. But there is also a cheat out there, although rare, it has been used a few times that I've seen. It allows a person to move incredibly fast up and down the map at will. In other words, they can turn it off and on when they want. I asked one of the noobs using it and he confirmed it was a cheat.

  • 07.14.2009 12:58 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
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50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

I've seen speedhacks in H2V used in Glitch games, but i havent seen ones like that in Halo 1. He could be using a lag switch or a speedhack.

  • 07.14.2009 5:42 PM PDT