- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Screen watching isn't cheating, it's just natural. If you play system link regularly and play on teams, you should watch every screen on your tv to know where your teammates are, it's good strategy. Now when you're playing split screen it's natural to let your eyes wonder, if you're playing split screen you deserve it! Buy another XBox, play system link, and if not quit whining about someone 'screen watching'. Play 4 way ffa on small maps is what we do, like prisoner, no powerups.. it's nice pistol practice. Screen watching is only wrong if you're on seperate TVs.
Now about glitches, if someone knows something you don't then you need to learn it, plain and simple. Backpack reload, quick invis, return invis, double invis, double melee.. just to name a few are simple but effective things that make good players better. Because your buddy can reload his weapon faster and never be unarmed, and also can master smacking you in the face twice before you can so much as hit him once doesn't mean he's cheating, it means you need to ask him how to do this and practice. Websites have all of these tricks for ppl to lean, even videos of more things most of you don't know probably. It's not cheating, if everyone is using it then it's completely fair, and if not then the people who aren't need to learn how to.
What is cheating exactly? In Halo I consider cheating using cheap tactics, such as parking a ghost on top of a base at Crap Gulch and proceeding to spawn -blam!- your enemy over and over by doing nothing but driving forward. I don't consider using glitches everyone can learn cheating, I don't consider screen watching cheating if you're playing on the same screen. If you don't like the glitches learn em, if you don't like screen watchers, learn to watch yourself. But when you get to where you spawn -blam!- with a vehicle, you've went beyond cheating into noob-ing, and that's much much worse. :) Cheating is doing anything that gives you an advantage over EVERYONE and takes the skill out of the game.
[Edited on 9/7/2004 8:36:05 PM]