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Subject: Bungie Servers? WTF?!?!?

Well ive been hearing alot of talk about "Bungie servers" on Halo 1... did Bungie used to have their own servers? Also why (if they were ever there) did they go away?

Im sorry if this is a dumb question but i just got Halo PC a year ago.

  • 01.03.2010 10:48 AM PDT

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

MS probably did with halo PC, and i know they did with H2PC, but they both were closed after a while. There are other servers for both, though.

  • 01.03.2010 6:58 PM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

Bungie ran both U.S.A official servers based out of Redmond, Washington and E.U. servers based somewhere in Europe. There were a lot, 8 CTF servers and 8 team slayer servers in both regions for a total of 32 servers.

They ran from 2003 to around Christmas time in 2007 give or take a year, I forget. Depending upon your location, they were the lowest pinging servers around. Living in Seattle, I could ping as low as ~16 with a steady ping @33. They had some problems though and were a visible target to -blam!-s and then later, cheaters as well as Halo Bloom type denial of service attacks.

Before H2v came out, on this forum, we were told to expect some awesome surprise. That awesome surprise came in the form of them killing the Halo PC servers and replacing them with the H2v fail servers. By that time we were used to being neglected by Bungie, so I think most people just sorta laughed it off, but it was a metaphor for Bungie's attitude towards us.

The Bungie servers were totally un-moderated and was the Wild West of dedicated servers. We had a lot of problems with TKers that used direct IP to work around the autoban. By that time Gearbox was done doing updates for the game, so it just rotted in front of our eyes. But in the early days, they were a lot of fun to play on and where a lot of us got pretty good playing other good players.

[Edited on 01.03.2010 7:11 PM PST]

  • 01.03.2010 7:10 PM 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: Frnksnbns
The Bungie servers were totally un-moderated and was the Wild West of dedicated servers. We had a lot of problems with TKers that used direct IP to work around the autoban.

I hope someone beat ME=KING with a very large object.

  • 01.03.2010 7:17 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Posted by: DusK
Posted by: Frnksnbns
The Bungie servers were totally un-moderated and was the Wild West of dedicated servers. We had a lot of problems with TKers that used direct IP to work around the autoban.

I hope someone beat ME=KING with a very large object.

(ME)=KING
If you want to relive the experience, just play some Custom Edition. For some idiotic reason, not only is FF enabled on most servers, but the TK penalty is disabled. I think they want to ruin what's left.

  • 01.03.2010 8:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: n357
(ME)=KING
It was the worst of times.

It was the best of times.

The servers were ablaze with life at all times. Ugly, brutal, short-lived life. Battles with all 16 blazing away at each other, team matches causing as much fratricide as free for all. Nowhere was safe, the guns and tanks and banshees - oh, the banshees! All raining death and blue and green fire and lead and shells across the maps.

Friends were enemies, allies turned hostiles and the shifting sides meant death was everywhere. Newcomers met their deaths fast and repeatedly, more experienced ones died slow. But they all met their ends in the Bungie servers, where anarchy reigned supreme.

It was the worst of times.

...
It was the best of times.

  • 01.04.2010 3:58 AM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Posted by: Reaver225
Posted by: n357
(ME)=KING
It was the worst of times.

It was the best of times.

The servers were ablaze with life at all times. Ugly, brutal, short-lived life. Battles with all 16 blazing away at each other, team matches causing as much fratricide as free for all. Nowhere was safe, the guns and tanks and banshees - oh, the banshees! All raining death and blue and green fire and lead and shells across the maps.

Friends were enemies, allies turned hostiles and the shifting sides meant death was everywhere. Newcomers met their deaths fast and repeatedly, more experienced ones died slow. But they all met their ends in the Bungie servers, where anarchy reigned supreme.

It was the worst of times.

...
It was the best of times.

This. +2

  • 01.04.2010 5:56 AM PDT

Posted by: Nessy

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

Posted by: DusK

I hope someone beat ME=KING with a very large object.


Eventually a few people including me just starting doing it right back to ME=KING. The original guy used the name "TK Police" and I copied his name and played as "TK Police2." I still see him around from time to time, you might remember him as J PhD Ringo. He played the servers all the time and was pretty good.

  • 01.04.2010 4:48 PM PDT