- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The Xbox version runs well. Any technical problems in Halo PC are solely because of the conversion process.
Not all of them are necessarily Gearbox's fault - trying to make an Xbox game run on all different kinds of PC is difficult.
Granted. Which is why Gearbox shares no small part in this blame game circle. Unfortunatly, they ignore the Halo PC issue altogether, all the way down to their standard forum users. CE is Gearboxes baby; they've washed their hands with PC. When contacting the Gearbox forums, this is the bulk of what we hear. "It's a Bungie thing, not Gearbox. Read this from the Bungie website, they as much as admit it."
I've looked, but can't find anything to nail these posters ears back. If you can set down a link that shows Gearbox holds proprietary responsibility for its port, not Bungie as the primary liscense holder, then I can take that into their forums when I next go there. Otherwise, they will continue to send me, and everyone else, right back here.
Bungie doesn't really have an official contact point (most developers don't, and the Webmaster doesn't count).
But the tech support links are listed here. And while they adsolve themselves from blame on Mac issues, Bungie has not (in their own website to my knowledge) ever claimed absolution for Halo PC. Gearbox is only listed for Editing comments, I think a primarily Custom Edition thing now. Security patches are listed here, a vital upgrade for halo PC. Whether you or Bungie wishes it or not, BUNGIE is the start of this chain.
Typically, I've sent my emails through those links, reporting IP Jumper TeamKillers as bug exploiters, lag issues, etc, etc. I've tried others, but those are the best line of contact open to me, that I see, for contacting Microsoft about Halo PC problems. Remember, when I say Bungie, I now include it as a subsidiary of Microsoft, and so one (in this case accurate) avenue of grousing. I can't very well contact Microsoft's Windows tech support and expect an answer from them on a halo PC problem. So I try to start at the source. And to me, the source looks like Bungie. if it's not, if Bungie and Microsoft do not hold the keys to halo PCs issues, as gearbox wants to claim, point me to proof.
Bottom line: Bungie is the first stop in the release of security patches for halo PC. If they aren't the ones making these upgrades for the game, who is? If Bungie can make security patches to halo PC netcode, they can install programs like punkbuster to assist people on the TK problem, patch the auto-lead hack (after a month of one or two programers designing a mirror of the app to make it safe and user friendly) into the game as a "fix' to the lag issue, killing the aimbot and lag birds with one throw as it were. And if they can, then they should.
[Edited on 10/23/2005]