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Posted by: Achronos
This thread is becoming stupid. It is on the verge of being locked. After I post this, by the way, a few of you are going to get banned for trolling. Hopefully that will clean it up a bit.
1. Yes, exploiting a glitch is cheating in matchmaking, and no, I don't care that MLG players use the button combos. They're still glitches.
2. Of course, that being said, the mechanism by which such cheating is reported is through the Xbox Live feedback mechanism. Since the players you're playing against would be the ones reporting you, if the players don't care that you're using it, then you have nothing to worry about. If, as you say, "everybody at my level is doing it", then I guess it won't matter, will it?
3. I suggest not using the argument about you being blamed for our bugs. I'm not blaming you for our bugs. I'm blaming you for using them. There is no difference between deliberately superjumping and deliberately interrupting an animation with your button combo. I've read all your arguments, and none of them address the fact that you are exploiting a bug for your advantage. You simply try to justify yourself.
4. Finally, to answer your question on who is playtesting Halo 3 for balance: gnomes. Underpants gnomes.
5. If you think that last answer was silly, that was deliberate - as the question itself lacks understanding of the process. There are two kinds of testing here. First, there are playtests. That's when we bring people in from all walks of life (yes, all) and instruct them to do various things in the game. It gives us insight into how various kinds of people approach a problem. We do this not only for gameplay, but for UI, among other things. There is also testing to find bugs and insure the game isn't broken in some way. These bugs can be as serious as crash bugs, to the more mundane missing texture. The people doing that are professional testers, of varying experience and game skill levels.
So, in both cases, simply calling up the top MLG winners and asking them to playtest would not be productive. In the first case, a lot of times a playtest is dependent on a random sample of people to be an effective measurement (for the things that are being tested in that manner). For the second case, having skill in Halo 2 is not a prereq for effectively testing Halo 3. That's not to say we won't have Halo experts bang on the game, but it is to say that I think you overestimate the impact they could have. You probably don't agree, but there's probably nothing I can do to convince you of that, so I won't try.
Perhaps I overestimate...I could agree with that. I am encouraged that you have "Halo experts bang on the game..." and I thank you for your candid response.
And I chortled at the gnome comment. :) Thanks for cleaning up the thread. You are providing interesting information and we all appreciate it.
And no, I guess nobody is giving cheating feedback that I play with for doing a button combo. It's pretty much status quo to do the button combos, I don't think anyone really thinks about it anymore...it just is what it is. Although, I am saddened you'd think I'm cheating Tom. I do not feel like I'm hurting anyone's gaming experience, nor are they hurting mine with button combos.
Anyway, thanks for the responses.
[Edited on 6/20/2006]