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[Draugoth]

Seems that the abandoment of Halo: MCC updates have now started to show signs, peopel are reporting being banned by hackers from playing online matches:

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[Gamer_By_Proxy]

 

[Arsic]

The tea bag into perma ban combo.

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[willothedog]

 

[Saber]

The real question is can the hackers ban people automatically whenever they pronounce their pronoums wrong?

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I'm no programmer or hacker, but on one hand these things are scummy, but also clever and hilarious.

 

[LordCBH]

Oh look another product ruined by 343.

 

[bighugeguns]

We're going to see more insane stuff like this as studios prioritize using AI to make crappy concept art and texture work aka profit crazy instead of plugging vulnerabilities because Lord knows the h@x0rz are getting to know AI real good.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

Oh look another product ruined by 343.

Twice!

 

[Fake]

'The hunter become the hunt'.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Aim assist(s) users deserve that anyway.

 

[bighugeguns]

Very embarrassing for Microsoft. They're usually pretty squared away with security.

Call of Duty BO6 on Gamepass is going to be a hacking bloodbath unless they call in some major AI guns internally.

 

[SHA]

They target the 2h and the holiday season, glad I'm out of the multiplayer bs for a while.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Is this the pc version only?

 

[GloveSlap]

This could be bad for me if true. I get salty sore losers sending me angry messages over Halo 3 on a regular basis accusing me of cheating/etc.

 

[Fabieter]

Is this the pc version only?

If you don't disable crossplay than it would say no its not.

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Unknown?]

PC was a mistake! /s

 

[mitch1971]

The real question is can the hackers ban people automatically whenever they pronounce their pronoums wrong?

Or write it wrong?

 

[ReBurn]

Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work

Security is now officially a top priority inside Microsoft.

www.theverge.com

 

[Drew1440]

Oh that's just an intended game mechanic, not a bug.

 

[EverydayBeast]

SONY gamers enjoy this

 

[//DEVIL//]

What a perfect gif for this situation lol

 

[rapid32.5]

343 is the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

What a perfect gif for this situation lol

I use it sarcastically for basically all Xbox news. It’s my thing.

 

[Pop]

343i just dogshit as usually

 

[IFireflyl]

To be clear, this isn't new, and they aren't able to ban players directly. What they're doing is spoofing a player's XUID so that it looks like the player is logged in multiple times. The ban is "legitimate" in that it's 343's auto-ban functioning as it should because a player is, as far as it can tell, in more than one place at once which isn't possible.