- Don Gino Goddo
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There used to be an email address you could report cheaters to but I think it was something MS was doing and not Bungie- I love the fellows at Bungie but if we are stating opinions on this thread I would have to agree with the people who say Bungie doesn't care about cheating, currently on Halo 3 at least- let me explain why I feel that way-
Last bungie day in the bungie day play list when everyone wanted to play the folks at bungie for a chance at recon- I have never in my life seen so many cheaters in one day- host booting, rapid fire controllers, standby/lag switching, not to mention modded modems and network hacks via router firmware- the first game I played a 5 star general on the other team forced host, booted 2 people out of the game and somehow made me spawn over and over directly under the platform he was standing on and was able to shoot me 2 or 3 times before I could even move when spawning, while the whole time telling me he was going to forcefully have sex with my mom and make me watch(he said the r word but I didn't want to print it). I muted him, avoided him, reported him for cheating and filed a voice complaint for what he said, which not only should he have been banned for but he deserved to have his face beat in; not only did any of that do any good, I ended up in a game with him again. This took place in the bugie day playlist so I figured he would be banned but guess what? He wasn't. Before the game ended he was shooting me with 1 trigger pull from br and it was killing me. Later me and a friend played a match against Japanese players which were not taking damage when we shot them and were somehow killing us with 1 or 2 trigger pulls from br. Almost every other game had a couple of 50s on the other team and of course in usual halo fashion I would get a 12 or a 7 and a 9 on my tean who would either die 20 some times or quit out, possibly booted. Rapid fire in almost ever game anyone of a high rank was in. It was the absolute worst day of halo gaming I ever experienced due to the cheating.
MS are the ones that do something about cheating if the auto cheat-detection on bugie's end doesn't, but they will only investigate cheaters after they get a certain number of cheating complaints against them. There is something running on live that will detect hard mods and ban users in countries that hard mods aren't allowed in, which currently I am only for sure is usa and canada. Live's market in other countries is so small that in some places you do not get banned for hard mods. Bugie has an automated cheating detection algorithm in place but I guess that some people have figured out the varibles and know how much time they can lagswitch or standby for; and have figure out how much data they can drop on their end(incoming data from other players) and still stay connected while not triggering the algorithm that will ban them. When playing the reach beta, unless it was seriously flawed, it seemed as if things have changed and people were disconnecting a lot more ofter, as if the perameters have changed and bungie isn't allowing people with high latency and high data loss to stay connected, and those are the two main things cheaters manipulate to cheat, besides rapid fire. I also love how bungie changed the way the weapons fire so rapid fire controllers won't give the jerks who use them an advantage.
I used to get host booted quite often. I read on a website somewhere if you enable a certain setting in your router it will keep you from getting host booted if they are using bots to disconnect you on the 3074 ports, but of course it won't stop a ddos attack. If you suspect you got host booted, make sure you get everyone's gt that was in the game. If you do a little looking around, you can find that email address I was talking about to report cheaters, and you should report them there. Also, if you can get into your router and get the ip adrresses in your log, and if you can figure out who was attacking your ip, you can report them to your isp and if they really were using a program to disconnect you from the game and the net, your isp will block them from ever being able to connect to you again and may even persue criminal charges, depending on what they did. It is a crime to disconnect other people from the net using flooding programs, but only your isp can do anything about it.
I am a 8+ year halo vet been playing on live since h2 came out and have seen so many cheaters in isn't funny. Hey, does anyone remember the dummy glitch from h2 or people grabbing the flag through the walls and floor? I H8 cheaters!
Oh and how is anyone over 40 not legit? Believe it or not there are legit 50s. People do cheat, but just because someone beats you or is beter then you at Halo doesn't mean they are cheating. Remember, we are playing this game over the net and there will always be lag and latency and it will effect game play and as long as bungie continues to use the player host/ client matchmaking model and not dedicated servers, people are alway going to be able to manipulate it and cheat.
Sorry for the long rant. Don't take too much exception to any of it, it's only a matter of my opinion. Thanks for your time. Much love from the Don, take care