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OMGGGGGG BUNGIE UV RUINED MY LIFE IM JUST GONNA GO KILL MYSELF WITHOUT MY MODDED LVL 16 IM NOTHING. BUNGIE LOOK AT THESE STATS
www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStats.aspx?player=MisterMarbIes AS YOU CAN TELL IV W0RKED MY 37 YEAR OLD ASS OFF FOR MY MODS AND NOW WHAT...LITTLE KIDS GET TO WALK ALL OVER ME BECAUSE I NOW DONT HAVE MY MODS.

WHAT HAPPENED BUNGIE YOU USE 2 B COOL.

ps; do me a favour and ban all kids under the age of 15, rapers,wiggers and halo SIuts

thank you have a nice day.

oh and ps again i steel things...
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Thank you to everyone who has continued to assist us in tracking down and removing various cheaters from our community and thank you as well for your patience as we continue to work towards making the Halo 2 online experience the best it can be.


call me a fanboy if you want, i dont care what people say (i refer you to my member name), but i think it is more than obvious that bungie cares. they work hard to fix the problems, which is voluntary(no legal binding) and then they take the time to thank us.

thats like santa claus thanking me for the bike he gave me when i was 4.

  • 07.22.2005 8:02 PM PDT
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The faq said my disc wouldnt be ruined by the update but after i got it this is a scratched in ring around my disc! I can load the game but i am unable to load any of my maps.

  • 07.22.2005 9:38 PM PDT
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LOL Nice job makeing a new patch bungie i just got modded in a game of lock out! wow wtf you guys need to make a newer patch and quit waisting my time. just whn i thought it was safe to play again i lose my lvl...wow thanks alot bungie

  • 07.22.2005 10:19 PM PDT
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Hi mom and dad its beenin going well sorry i cant call bungie disconnected my phone and messed up my e-mail so for the next few weeks we can talk to each other over the bungie site. were way back here in the pages so im pretty sure no one will read this.


thanks love Blake

  • 07.22.2005 10:22 PM PDT
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Bungie please ban emeraldelement the reason being is because hes no good. Thank you very much i love you bungie

  • 07.22.2005 10:35 PM PDT
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hello bungie piggyjpizzle and emeraldelement had a head to head and the deal was the loser would quit halo 2 for ever. piggyjpizzle smashed emerald 10-0 and emerald didnt quit so bungie could you please take action and bann emeraldelement.

  • 07.22.2005 10:38 PM PDT
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WOW emerald acually got banned thank you bungie your the best

  • 07.22.2005 10:39 PM PDT
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Bungie should let us real gamers humiliate the modders before banning them. Perhaps a few matches with them playing as a butt naked Master Chief with no shields so we can give them a good send-off.

[Edited on 7/22/2005]

  • 07.22.2005 11:47 PM PDT
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Hey Santino99 - I spoke with support and the guys I know who dev games and the following was suggested:

Open following ports:

UDP - 88
UDP - 3074
TCP - 3074

Increase MTU size to 1492.

None of this worked for me but it may work for you. My ports were all open by default. I even tried adding LIVE as a service in my router and specifying the ports but no luck! Thanks to the modders out there and Bungie having to counter your cheating I can no longer play online. You've got no excuses ... your a bunch of LOSERS. Make your own game and see how you like it being modded. Lazy F*****S.

  • 07.23.2005 2:18 AM PDT

It's sticky 'nade time!

First: Thank you Bungie. I got so Blamming sick and tired of being modded out of about every single Team Slayer match I played lately. (Aimbot, 1 shot kills with BR, guys running around in overshield the entire game, anyone?) Yesterday, had a fun time killing a player that was obviouly used to cheat and now had to do without. Enjoyed every minute of it!

Second: It funny to read that I am not the only 1 listening to the harddrive of my X-box for the new maps so we could cancel the match before we got stuck in another modded match. Still not used to not having to do that any more:-) I guess it's now just a matter of being patient while the AU cleans out the garbage so the honest players can have some good old fashion fun again. And to me, Halo2 is the one and only game I continue to get back too. Have a bunch of other games that are Live playable, but Halo2 just makes me going back to matchmaking, because sofar it's the only really enjoyable game that'r really sweet to play on Live. Same goes for my friends too.

  • 07.23.2005 12:25 PM PDT
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Well I must say, Bungie it looks like you have done a very well job on the cheating but....I don't know if your aware of this realitivly old but now new cheating. About 1 out of 8 games you run into a host that can boot your party. Most of my friends list is complaining about it. Something about the host gets your ip address and then selectivly boots players. Do u think you can find a way to stop this?

  • 07.23.2005 1:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: skater fo sho
i love modders



TRUE DAT BOY!

-blam!- YOU BUNGIE! SUCK MY WHITE AMERICAN -blam!- -blam!-ES!

MODDER 4 LIFE

  • 07.23.2005 1:47 PM PDT
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God bless your soul! ITS ABOUT TIME someone took the time to do all that coping and pasting! -blam!- YOU BUNGIE

  • 07.23.2005 1:55 PM PDT
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bungie i was online and some guy told me he was gonna come to my house and kill me. in the morning there was a knock at the door i opened it and bang i got a screw driver in the stomach. thanks alot bungie. they did that because i threatened to report them for modding the new maps.


Bungie y wernt u there to help me when i needed you??

  • 07.23.2005 2:36 PM PDT
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STK OGRE 1 and 2 suck well not really.

I had a head to head aginst rippon and took him to skool. i had a head to head agints walka and took him to skool. i had a head to head aginst nakamura and took him to skool. i started having a head to head aginst ogre1 when i was up 4-0 he started modding the new maps wow the ogres are no good. oh and pacmayne was there and he was cheating as well. he mods but wasnt modding the new maps he was standbying.

  • 07.23.2005 2:40 PM PDT
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the ogre brothers came to my house and wanted to fight me and started calling me nameslike -blam!-et -blam!- and -blam!- so i told them not to mess with the guns but they persisted. ogre one swung at me and hit me in the face knocking out a tooth.i got pissed and grabbed ogre 2 and started ringing the living -blam!- out of him he soon started to cry. i turned around and ogre 1 was just looking at me crying aswell.so i went and 1 punched him stright down to the ground. next time the ogres cheat ima really do somthing bad.grrrrr

  • 07.23.2005 2:44 PM PDT
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my game will not load any maps it says i failed to load the maps even the ones i dowloaded plz would some one help me bungie i read the stuff on the news but i still have no idea what to do go get a new disc or what and theres a big ring around my god damn disc why lie tell the truth


[Edited on 7/23/2005]

  • 07.23.2005 7:23 PM PDT
Subject: Banhammer Update (I can't load the maps)
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Here is the deal.. I put the Halo disc on and the game loads, but I'm not able to load the maps. My halo 2 disc works just fine on other xbox. Does it has to do with the last update? Bocause I couldn't play after I downloaded it. I called xboxlive, microsoft... and they tried 100 different things and I'm still not able to load the maps and I'm also not able to play campaign. Can someone from BUNGIE help me?

Thanks!

  • 07.23.2005 7:51 PM PDT
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The same thing holds true to braz1l1an as it does to me. I don't like this update, even if it gets rid of modders. no offense Bungie, but I think you may have lost even more honest players due to your somewhat crappy autoupdate. + if anyone can help me too I would very much appreciate it tytytytytytytytytyty.



OH YEAH I BOUGHT A NEW HALO2 DISC JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WASN'T because of scratches, and guess what bungie??? IT STILL GLITCHES AN -blam!-! PLEASE FIX IT NOW!!!!!!!

[Edited on 7/24/2005]

  • 07.24.2005 12:04 AM PDT
Subject: Banhammer Update
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My disk has the same ring you mention and I don't think it was there before the update, but I can't be sure. I do know that I have experienced the same map loading problems many have complained about. I feel confident that the problems many of us are experiencing is strictly due to the update itself and how it affects the operation of either the hard drive, the software, or the cache. Like may people, my gaming was perfectly fine prior to the update and now map loading is either very very slow or impossible. I have a neighbor that doesn't play Halo on Live. I brought his XBOX over to my place, inserted my disk (with scraches/ring) and didn't have any trouble loading the maps that came with the original game. Everything was working fine. Then I loaded my Live account info on his XBX and logged on to live. Once I loaded the update, the same problems showed up on his XBOX. I should mention that in all of these scenarios, I was attempting to load maps in the split screen mode and WAS NOT logged on to Live when attempting to load the maps. I wanted to make sure that any delays I was experiencing were not due to the live system in any way. So now, I have two comfirmed cases where everything was working fine before the update and not afterwards. Since my disk was working well on his computer before the update, I don't think the ring on the disk is the problem. I should also mention that I am an average dad of two who doen't have the time or interest in modding in any way. I have also tried deleting everything from my XBOX and have downloaded the updates and maps a second time to no avail. When I call 800-4MY-XBOX all I get is " we apologize for you inconvienence" and "try again when fewer players are on line". I think both XBOX (Microsoft) and Bungie themselves realize that something in the update is causing these problems but they are not sure what, why or how to fix the problem. I am so glad that they are attempting to get rid of the cheaters; however, I would rather play with cheaters than not be able to play at all. If you find a solution to our problems, please post info so we can all benefit.

[Edited on 7/24/2005]

  • 07.24.2005 12:23 AM PDT
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This is dumb i can't even play my gametype saves from AR. they have cool gametypes like double team that actually goes to 30 kills

  • 07.24.2005 5:14 AM PDT
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Finally we can play without some$%#&*?? hacker beating my team senseless.TEAM SLAYER 4EVER!

  • 07.25.2005 12:59 PM PDT
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O.K you say that you'll get band from xbox, now is that your xbox or your gamertag, will people still be able to start a new account on the same xbox with a different gamertag or will they need a new xbox.

  • 07.25.2005 1:22 PM PDT
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do people who use mods out of match making get banned too you know just for fun in custom games without cheating YA no really im getting amod soon for out of mattchmaking use and if i get banned ill be one pissed -blam!-

[Edited on 7/26/2005]

  • 07.25.2005 3:49 PM PDT