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[GhaleonEB]

Are you making Halo for the Gizmondo?

I am told Microsoft does have a relationship with the handheld maker, but I can tell you right now the arrangement does not include Halo.

All the people in the house say,

Where's our downloadable content, huh?


A perfectly good question and one I intend to skip delicately around. We haven't announced a schedule or a timeline or anything in fact, and we haven't clearly specified exact types of content other than to say expect multiplayer maps. What I CAN say is that contrary to internet rumors, Bungie did not trash all of its Xbox debug kits after Halo 2 shipped. A very large array of Xbox debugs is humming hotly away in our test room this very minute, and the testers and the Bungie team are busily testing "things" in the lab daily, from 1pm to 5pm. And I can tell you personally, that some of the "things" they are testing are quite enjoyable.

A big update on the current cheating situation preludes the Q&A:

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=weeklywhatsjan07

 

[Wario64]

" What I CAN say is that contrary to internet rumors, Bungie did not trash all of its Xbox debug kits after Halo 2 shipped."

Haha, wtf

What have we done so far? A lot. Certainly on the technical side we're making progress and politically, we've been banning Xbox Live accounts regularly when we find clear evidence of cheating (and the evidence is hard to refute since we track very detailed information about the game and network experience) and we ban offensive Gamertags, abusive players and other miscreants all the time. It just takes time. If you ARE cheating, quit it now, firstly because we're politely and respectfully asking you to do so, and secondly because it's very often a terms of use violation, and one we can act upon by banning you, banning your credit card, etc.

 

[SantaC]

It's very difficult to get the scene cheater free. Look at Counter-Strike. As soon as a fix is out, a new cheat is made like 1 week after.

 

[Kuroyume]

From simple team killing, abusive language, racism – people playing loud music or screaming continually through their headsets – to sophisticated, planned network exploitation.

Indeed.... this is amore of an annoyance to me than the cheating.

 

[ToyMachine228]

Yeah, seriously, the best thing that we as legitimate Halo 2 players can do, is to Leave Feedback on Xbox Live after we play a team, or player who is cheating. It's really easy to nail these guys in Clan Matches, so then you can report the entire clan.

 

[epmode]

It's very difficult to get the scene cheater free. Look at Counter-Strike. As soon as a fix is out, a new cheat is made like 1 week after.

it's relatively easy to hack a new steam account, but having your live account banned would be an effective deterrent, if enforced.

 

[strikeselect]

From simple team killing, abusive language, racism – people playing loud music or screaming continually through their headsets – to sophisticated, planned network exploitation.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[scarybore]

First of all , LOVE HALO 2!!! The game rocks and so does the online play. My question is I heard that if you complete the game on legendary you unlock the black armor. Is that just an urban legend? The game is almost impossible on legendary, but I will finish it if that means I’ll unlock the black armor.


It's a lie I'm afraid. There is no suit of black armor unlockable or otherwise. I can tell you that black armor existed way early in development and was removed for balancing issues (it was practically invisible in shadow) but it is not in the finished game at all

Least I can finally understand why its not in there, but it should have atleast been available in the logos or for your secondary color.

From simple team killing, abusive language, racism – people playing loud music or screaming continually through their headsets – to sophisticated, planned network exploitation.

The only thing worse than all of these is the 12 year old american children that come and and try to trash talk you with their squeaky little voices.

 

[HAOHMARU]

This new plasma sword snipe cheat is fucking killing my online experience.

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

:lol :lol :lol

OF all the people who coule have qouted this....

From simple team killing, abusive language, racism – people playing loud music or screaming continually through their headsets – to sophisticated, planned network exploitation.

YOU qouted it....thats funny to me.

Should be funny to others as well....nutter? ramirez? donkey? ironclad?

peace

 

[fse]

Never heard of it. The cheat sounds bad though.

 

[Kuroyume]

How is that funny from me?

 

[strikeselect]

OF all the people who coule have qouted this....



YOU qouted it....thats funny to me.

Should be funny to others as well....nutter? ramirez? donkey? ironclad?

peace

Yes, it should, but who in god's green earth would scream continually through their headset?!

:lol :lol

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

How is that funny from me?

um.....you're not cerrius.

Yes, it should, but who in god's green earth would scream continually through their headset?!

:lol :lol

Who in gods earth would Blast Crappy music thru a whole match while the whole team begs them to please turn the music down....

YOU :lol

 

[raYne]

From simple team killing, abusive language, racism – people playing loud music or screaming continually through their headsets – to sophisticated, planned network exploitation.

:lol :lol :lol

The last time I played (some time ago) some guy was blasting his music via headset in the lobby way before the match started. We tried to get him to turn it off be he refused. Thanks to the wonder that is proximity chat we all knew exactly where he was at all times because as soon as he got in proximity chat range whether running, crouching, sneaking, standing on the roof... anything, you could always hear his music before he even popped up on screen. Needless to say he died a LOT. :lol

 

[strikeselect]

um.....you're not cerrius.



Who in gods earth would Blast Crappy music thru a whole match while the whole team begs them to please turn the music down....

YOU :lol

Blasting crappy music is one thing, but straining your vocal cords to annoy others?!

:lol :lol

I gotta try that out sometime

 

[DopeyFish]

Blasting crappy music is one thing, but straining your vocal cords to annoy others?!

:lol :lol

I gotta try that out sometime

you do play against me often, don't you?

 

[op_ivy]

Blasting crappy music is one thing, but straining your vocal cords to annoy others?!

:lol :lol

I gotta try that out sometime

:lol i think i kicked you once. damn kids and their rock music!