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Subject: Playing with modders = BAD!

Life is what you make it not what you do with it.

Why is it that you cant ban the ip address cause that would stop them for good because if all you do is ban the account they just get a new and continue to do it my brother was on earlier today and he played 4 games consecutively that were modded or standby games

  • 08.04.2006 8:23 PM PDT
Subject: Bungie Blows!
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-blam!- Bungie, Halo 2 ain't fun anymore if they start banning people for no reason.

  • 08.05.2006 8:44 PM PDT

Life is what you make it not what you do with it.

Who said anything about for no reason that is a good reason

  • 08.07.2006 7:24 PM PDT
Subject: Playing with modders = BAD!
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just to point out that the modders that are still operating are now showing up on W-E cuz for some reason they don't think the scanners are in full force at that time. any truth to this rumor?

  • 08.07.2006 11:47 PM PDT

Life is what you make it not what you do with it.

looks like bungie stopped this forum or people just dont care why is it that we cant get an answer to any question that is asked from the people that pay to platy the game the right way and always wind up getting screwed by the people that dont give a damn and cheat all the time

  • 08.22.2006 11:46 AM PDT

i know this one kid that lives near me and partys up with modders all the time to boost his level. ive reported him before but he still isnt banned.i know a lot of people that mod to boost and ive reported them and half of them still arent banned.you guys need to focus on modders that boost and not the ones that just mod in custom games because the ones that mod in custom games arent doing anything wrong.

  • 08.22.2006 6:52 PM PDT
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YAY bungie! You guys need cheerleaders! "GO BUNGIE GO! HAMMER THOSE MODDERS! GOGOGGO!!!" lol

  • 08.23.2006 9:40 AM PDT

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OMFG!!!!! got burned by this guy!!!!!!!!!

  • 08.28.2006 8:49 PM PDT
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Bungie needs to annouce an offical crusade on modders to retake the holy land of xbox live

  • 08.30.2006 7:47 PM PDT
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Can there not just be some sort of detection right in the game that detects the cheating or modding party. So that people who quit or lose the game don't get their ranks changed.

  • 09.03.2006 6:46 AM PDT
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Agree i got banned for no reason..
Play only on my 360, have no headset, and dont know anything about cheating.
How can i find out why i got banned?

  • 09.03.2006 8:34 AM PDT

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Posted by: Fearless Viking
Agree i got banned for no reason..
Play only on my 360, have no headset, and dont know anything about cheating.
How can i find out why i got banned?


Seeing as you live in Spain, its quite possible that when you play on an American host, you lag quite a bit. This continous lag could have been seen by Bungie as stand by(cheating). I doubt anyone at bungie can/will do anything, but you might have some luck PMing a moderator. Upgrading your connection (if you have dial up, get cable) would prevent this from happening again.

  • 09.03.2006 6:50 PM PDT
Subject: Playing with modders = BAD!
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can we have an update on how many are getting banned and how many per day compared to when the crackdown started also is there anything you can do to halo 3 so its harder for cheaters

  • 09.04.2006 8:48 PM PDT
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does sending live footage of modding get the people banned instantly? My xbox has an ATI wonder capture card, so i can send vids of modders to you guys. Will that help?

  • 09.05.2006 8:22 PM PDT
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Is this to mean that all modding is bad? I figure you don't lose money and they can turn off their mod chips from what i have read online. i also agree in banning cheaters but not modders, it is bungies fault that they don't make xbox for more than the first few games. it just sounds like bungie just wants to ban those who play online demos alot so they can save room. I also read that modding is to make xboxs work better. if they made the xbow modable themselves and sold the parts they'd make the money and lose less players. and if modders don't get caught they either really good or part of bungie/microsoft. plus everythin is so flippen expensive that if they want to risk breaking they xbox let them.

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  • 10.03.2006 6:38 PM PDT

RIP Halo 2.

Banning people who play custom game swith modders is a load of BS. Why the hell would you allow modders to still play customs if the people that play with them will get banned? Why are you giving cheaters the power to get other people banned? It's absurd.

  • 10.04.2006 7:53 AM PDT

RIP Halo 2.

Posted by: Ap0c0lypseG35
Why is it that you cant ban the ip address cause that would stop them for good because if all you do is ban the account they just get a new and continue to do it my brother was on earlier today and he played 4 games consecutively that were modded or standby games
Posted by: menach
why dont they ban IP's rather then specific GT's. That would solve most of cheating.

IP addresses change all the time. It's very easy to get a new one. ISP's rely on DHCP and will commonly reassign and recycle IPs. So cheaters would eventually be unbanned, and some innocent person who got stuck with their IP would be banned. The only thing that would make sense is banning the Xbox's MAC address, and this can only be done by Microsoft.

Posted by: Dknte1
just to point out that the modders that are still operating are now showing up on W-E cuz for some reason they don't think the scanners are in full force at that time. any truth to this rumor?

The "scanner" is the same as it's always been - 6 hours and you're banned. It's not fast or effective enough in my opinion. I believe MD5 hash checking upon signin is the way to be.

Posted by: iwantbuttcheese
this isnt the place to ask this but ok...
THIS RULE IS SET IN STONE....
If at anytime you log on to xboxlive with a modded dashboard you will be banned from matchmaking withing 6 hours or the second you sign off of xbox live, which ever one comes first... so lets say you signed on at noon and started modding at 6 o clock a message will pop up and say ur banned hahaha u stupid hacker <-- not really but thats wut i get from it
and it will sign u off... and from then on when ever u try and play matchmaking it will log u off and tell u that... so yea... just dont mod and you wolnt get baned... simple enouf right?

No, you're wrong. Modded files such as dashboards or anything not interfering with or relating to Halo 2 are not picked up by the Bungie banhammer. In fact, they aren't even picked up by the Xbox Live banhammer. The only thing XBL bans for is for a modded BIOS or hardware - you get instantly banned when signing onto Live. No 6 hours, nothing. Your HDDkey and EEPROM are banned, meaning the Xbox can't ever go on Live again (not entirely true, but I'm not elaborating).

Posted by: Anonymous101
does sending live footage of modding get the people banned instantly? My xbox has an ATI wonder capture card, so i can send vids of modders to you guys. Will that help?

No. h2cheats seems to be completely unmonitored and basically not worth your time. They ae slower than the 6 hour auto-ban at the very least. People have submitted video evidence over and over again to no avail. Bungie tells you to email them, but I doubt it's even monitored any more. Which is rediculous, because you are supposed to use it to appeal bans that were given unfairly (yes it does happen). Oh, and for clarification, your Xbox does not "have an ATi card," but rather your ATi capture card has an Xbox's video feed attached to it.


I hope my post clarified some things for all you guys.

  • 10.04.2006 8:09 AM PDT
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yay i hate those guys who hang w/ modders jus to get there rank up whatever happened to a good old fashioned no cheating?

[Edited on 10/4/2006]

  • 10.04.2006 1:26 PM PDT
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i jus had to read it man thats a lot of info and thanks for it, i sorta get it now

  • 10.04.2006 1:30 PM PDT
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Osmosis!

And these people are only doing it to make a number... LOOK! 50!

  • 10.04.2006 6:47 PM PDT
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Modders are so proud of their rank

  • 11.08.2006 9:13 PM PDT
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yea good job u guys
Posted by: antiherosk8er
Good job guys.

  • 11.26.2006 12:52 PM PDT
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ya, but one qeustion if you go in alone, and the modder is in your party then what about that?

  • 11.27.2006 2:57 PM PDT
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i mod on a new account every day

  • 12.22.2006 9:44 AM PDT