- Spartan 7007
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SPARTAN 7007 back online after a 3 week vacation. Pleased to see the positive comments. My thanks to those of you who believed me, trusted my word, and supported the points I made in my post. Catching up on all the Halo Reach news, I see that major changes are in the works regarding Bungie, and a new company 343.
Understand that Final Bungie ViDoc will be out on 8/4. I received a note of thanks from Bungie this evening when signing online to Halo Reach regarding their last 20 years in video gaming.
I really like the Halo Reach game, it is Super. Have not yet looked at prior Halo games, or Call of Duty, so I don't really have a comparator. But what I do see is a well designed warfare game with strategy, technique, and differentiation in player skill levels.
Hopefully some change will come about regarding the BanHammer design parameters, credit score banning, and the game policing actions. Based on forum post comments of others, these appear to be the sore spots of Halo Reach.
For those of you that inquired, the credit score bans that were imposed 5/2/2011 on my console and account were lifted some time during the last 3 weeks. I am convinced that the Halo Reach forum moderators are not commenting on the credit bans because there are in flaws in the BanHammer programming that interpret any low KD ratio's as AFK. I like everything that Bungie did in developing Halo Reach and making it a fantastic game, but the BanHammer algorithms are flawed, and will hopefully be removed in the near future. It is not right to punish a player who is developing new gaming skills, and not tell that player what they did wrong, what they are being punished for, and how long the punishing bans will last. I continued to play even though I was banned, and with my low kill and high death rate, the BanHammer system just kept reapplying the bans. I was told that it was all computer driven. I am playing solo Halo Reach games for the time being and able to gain score points. Really gun shy about getting back into Matchmaking BTB and Team Snipers, although these were my favorites and I played for hours at a time. Have plenty of videos and commendations to prove that I was indeed at the switch, but what does it matter at this point?
SPARTAN 7007