Bungie Turns 15,000 Halo: Reach Cheaters Into Noobs

[Digikid]

Haven't players of online games on Xbox Live learned by now that abusing exploits and glitches will only lead them into the depths of despair?

Judging by the lack of enforcement of any kind in MW2 I think it's safe to say that people expected more of the same from Bungie, but are now seeing they were wrong to think so.

Quite. And Bungie are mostly forgiven for their past sins (ODST). Good on ya Bungie.

Hey now. ODST was a GOOD GAME.

Eh... without wanting to start an argument I have to say the gameplay was boring, the story was flat and unintersting, the cutscenes were very badly animated and look like something of off robot chicken (which I'll admit aren't my words but I can't remember who first made the comparison) the graphics were average at best, the soundtrack totally didn't fit with the game at all (okay at night saxophone was cool but not in the middle of a fight in the action segments), the characters were tiresome boring sterotypes, the voice actors were good but they really phoned it in, I didn't feel any urgency like I was supposed to I was just bored, VERY VERY BORED! And don't think I just can't appreciate the mood because I bloody loved Shadow of the collosus, Ico, Braid and Limbo. Firefight was kind of fun but there was no reason to not be able to play with strangers like you could with ANY OF THE LAST GAMES! And putting the Halo 3 maps in dosen't count. If I want to play the Halo 3 maps. I'LL FUCKING PLAY THEM ON HALO 3!

Hang on weren't you the guy that showed me Boobs and Kittens?

LOL!!!! Yes that was I.

Anyways back on topic they are lucky that they got what they did. Sure it was a bug that started it but that is not Bungies fault....they tried to fix them all. The BEST way to find bugs is to let the public find them. That happened and now it will be fixed.

 

[Deef]

God, the whines and threats of the f'ng cheaters resounded on the Bungie forums. Reading them just made my day.

Listen you little twats: just because they didn't EXPLICITLY state that doing a DAILY challenge multiple times a day was cheating....use some fucking common sense.

It'd be awesome if Bungie took a page out of Valve's book and issued a free download of an actual 'Halo'-helmet to those people that didn't exploit.

The best part is that Bungie did in fact post on the forums several times saying that the challenge resetting glitch was bannable.

 

[duchaked]

hahaha the title for this thread was a double kill

I wish other companies on the consoles would treat their games the way Bungie does. You cheat? Get banned, fuckwad. You're a douchebag? Get banned, fuckwad. You post pictures of penises in your file share? Get banned, fuckwad.

We need more companies that ban fuckwads, is the jist of what I'm saying I guess.

on top of that, what's this voice ban I heard about? perma-mute?? sweet...

 

[Silver Patriot]

Good for Bungie


Also this quote amuses me.

Posted by: RossCoBrit

Posted by: VirulentStrife

Posted by: I is Krazy
99% OF YOU PUNKS, WAAAH MAMA THOSE BAD MEN BEAT ME TO GETTING THE EPIC BARNEY LUNCHBOX!!!! I HAVE 549,782 LEGIT NERD POINTS AND MY ARENA RATING IS SOO HIGH!!!!

...

I'm not even gonna.

Oh come on, you've got to play with him.

He's like an excited puppy.

Can we keep him?

 

[AstylahAthrys]

i hate you bungie you should of warded us earlier but you know what i Guess i'll play MW2 instead of your grapy game

Apparently Halo Reach tastes like grapes. Nummy.

I notice most of the people who whine have poor spelling and grammar. So, essentially, all we lost was 15,000 12-and-13-year-old kids. I think I owe Bungie my firstborn =P

 

[Sennz0r]

I love it how half the whiners are saying they'll move on to Black Ops and never look back. Good riddance, at least then I don't have to play SWAT the whole damn time and I can play some good old-fashioned Team Slayer for a change.

 

[ecoho]

ok this is just funny as hell if you want to farm points legaly just do forge and multiplayer you earn points even on easy i mean its just stupid that these people have to resort to bull shit like this.

 

[Senaro]

I love it how half the whiners are saying they'll move on to Black Ops and never look back. Good riddance, at least then I don't have to play SWAT the whole damn time and I can play some good old-fashioned Team Slayer for a change.

My favorite part is that people are saying that bungie just lost 15,000 of it's best supporters, and the mod replies with "We do regret any departures as a result of this action, but we have a greater responsibility to the remaining several million players to maintain a degree of integrity in the online population."

 

[Sennz0r]

I love it how half the whiners are saying they'll move on to Black Ops and never look back. Good riddance, at least then I don't have to play SWAT the whole damn time and I can play some good old-fashioned Team Slayer for a change.

My favorite part is that people are saying that bungie just lost 15,000 of it's best supporters, and the mod replies with "We do regret any departures as a result of this action, but we have a greater responsibility to the remaining several million players to maintain a degree of integrity in the online population."

Have you seen the petition they're trying to get signed? Priceless I tell you

 

[Silver Patriot]

I love it how half the whiners are saying they'll move on to Black Ops and never look back. Good riddance, at least then I don't have to play SWAT the whole damn time and I can play some good old-fashioned Team Slayer for a change.

Thought I would let you know on Tuesday SWAT is getting it's own playlist.

 

[TraderJimmy]

"tuning the banhammer"? So did they add strings to the mighty artifact?

Nah, that's silly - it was a v8 engine.

 

[Sennz0r]

I love it how half the whiners are saying they'll move on to Black Ops and never look back. Good riddance, at least then I don't have to play SWAT the whole damn time and I can play some good old-fashioned Team Slayer for a change.

Thought I would let you know on Tuesday SWAT is getting it's own playlist.

I am very glad to hear that. Thank you sir, for letting me know

 

[l0rD ChUcKl3s]

i just got banned without actually doing any cheats whilst some one i know who did do this didn't. how the hell do i appeal to counter act this?

EDIT: ow wait just found out my brother and his friends did it, god i hate him

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I'm glad I don't cheat then huh? =D

 

[Amnestic]

EDIT: ow wait just found out my brother and his friends did it, god i hate him

This is why I never let anyone but me play my Xbox unless I'm in the room watching them. The last time my brother played without my knowledge I yelled at him for five minutes once I found out.

He didn't play again.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Let our ridicule spread out accross the internet with a mighty;
Ha! Ha!

 

[Epictank of Wintown]

You know, the people whining about this are the same type of people that would, like, light kittens on fire and punt puppies, then be surprised when they got in trouble for it.

"But nobody TOLD me it was bad!"

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Good. I've got most of my credits through playing Matchmaking Firefight by myself or with friends. I hate going online and doing competitive matchmaking. Halo brings out some of the worst people on Xbox, and I refuse to interact with them on something I'm paying for.

 

[cricket chirps]

its an in game bug that should have been patched. if it couldnt be patched then bungie should have put out a warning through the game telling people they will be reset if they continue useing the bug. i am one of the people who did so and i CERTAINLY would have stopped if such a warning was issued. i GREATLY believe that this was handled horribly. every last one of my friends who played halo reach were useing this glitch and two of my friends are actually selling Reach now because of this. i am definately not going to be playing for a while because of this. bungie should have just banned the abusers for a few weeks so that they would fall behind in rank to those who wernt useing it, and then patched the glitch or put out the warning for continued use. i am an extreamly angry halo fan bungie, way to make me hate the series with the last game. great big bang ending.

 

[cricket chirps]

I have mixed feelings on this...

While I'm really glad that Bungie is taking a hard stance against cheaters, the racking up of extra credits by loopholes (reseting the daily challenges) in the system doesn't really seem like "cheating" to me. I mean, I guess technically it is, but the way I see it is, the focus should be on people who's cheating harms other players' gaming experience, like modding or other things that give one player an unfair advantage over another player (other then skill of course).

If it was like MW2 where EXP gives you extra weapons and abilities, I would agree, but the credits in Reach are basically worthless to gameplay, only adding cosmetic changes to the player.

My point is, as long as Bungie is keeping most of its cheater detecting resources toward the harmful cheaters, I'm fine with it. I just don't want them to miss out on harmful cheating because they are too busy doing this.

thats how i feel about it exactly! om MW2 people had a HUGE advantage in doing this. in Reach it does literaly nothing. im soooooo dissapointed that they did this. it just kinda ruins the experience for me knowing that ill be playing forever now just to get to where i already was. i may not even enjoy the game after that and this is only a few weeks after the game came out that i was expecting to enjoy for two to three years to come. why bungie? why????