Bungie Lightly Spanks Cheaters in Halo: Reach

Would I get banned if I used a mouse and keyboard in multiplayer? There is an adapter for that.

Some weren't cheating, they just had a flakey dsl connection .

Spanking? Give me a pool stick.

cery true...why do people have to cheat?

But $80 for a simple adapter is too much. Not cheating, just an unfair advantage. Then again, my video card costs almost as much as a xbox.
...My mouse and keyboard cost almost as much as a xbox...

How about a 72 hour ban and a reset on the first offense?
Wait, never mind, some of those people would kill someone if they had to be deprived of Reach for 3 days. Halo fanatics scare me.

I suppose even though it only might be a small minority that might have legit reasons they should still examine each case to its own, practical - no, Faithfull to their customers - yes. When one wields the Banhammer, one hold's great power and responsibility lol

^ Prove it

Hey, if it's in the game...

Taking advantage of a weak ass architectural design is not cheating. Patch it and move on.

F*ck you Activision and IW for selling most than anyone else ( crossplatform game ) your product and not doing jack shit about the sickly increasing way of cheating that sucked all the fun possible out of what we paid to you.

Thank you Bungie. We love you for loving us.

In this instance I'd say "lightly spanking" is perfectly fine, since amassing credits affects gameplay in no way whatsoever. It's simply to unlock armor upgrades and different voices for your character. Treating this like modding a multiplayer match for an advantage or something similar is totally inaccurate.

FIX YOUR PROGRAM before its released and we wont have these problems

So can one draw this comparison:

Online gaming hacks to gain advantages in points

it to

Athletes doping to increase strength, performance, and recovery

???

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

^^^Yes 100% true. They are both sad pathetic people that need artificial means to make up for the lack of skills, dedication, honesty and moral fiber.

No, they were cheating. A bad connection will cause the glitch once maybe twice. These people were doing it tens , if not hundreds of times. Bungie can tell the difference.

i thinks toms needs some antispam for its comments everything new lately has been spammed in the comments at least once.

So what? Seriously. They bought the game if they want to unlock everything quickly let them. Some of us hate unlocks with a passion (along with day one dlc and all the other tricks that gimp a game for new players). In a multiplayer game everyone should have access to the same classes and load-outs. Not everyone can spend two hundred hours playing just to work their way to being evenly equipped with the jobless, emotionally stunted, relationship free, super-gamers.

I came across a couple people last night crying about this, all I could do was laugh. I hate cheaters, or anyone that has to use an exploit to play the game or get items. They are probably the same people that buy the manual on day one so they don't have to figure the game out for themselves. Keep droppin' the hammer Bungie!

...Except all new players ARE on even ground in terms of gameplay. The changes are only aesthetic.

The entire (and only) point of credits in halo reach is to show how much time you've invested playing the game. If you can spend 15 minutes doing one glitch - that doesn't even really involve actual playing - to earn just as many credits as someone who plays for 10 hours, that's wrong.

Everyone is on the same playing field on Reach. The only thing the unlocks do is make your character more aethetically pleasing, and show you are a higher rank than someone else. Everyone can tell who did the exploit by looking at their campaign commendations.

In Halo, yes - but he was making a point about games generally. While everyone in Halo might be on equal footing, that's hardly true in a game like Modern Warfare, where weapons, weapon upgrades, and perks are all unlocked based on rank. Systems like that reward people who have endless amounts of time to play, which doesn't sit well with a lot of people.

bungie should have punished them by giving all the cheaters permanent pink armor and a blinkerfluid icon on the chest plate AFTER they fixed the game. don't ban cheaters, just take away their cheats and mark them, the rest of us will take care of the cheaters once they are marked }

There is some genius in this that could be applied to any game. Stick a scarlet letter of some sort on people who get kicked from games for griefing/cheating.

I love this idea as well. Or maybe increase the size of their hit box.

People who have a problem with spending time trying to accomplish things in games can go ahead and stop gaming. It's people like that that caused devs to think most games these days need to be easy enough for toddlers to beat it. No-lifers are sad individuals in the real world, but they did work to achieve what they had in their virtual world, and no one deserves to have a hand up to the same level. If you get beat by them, shrug it off and find another match with someone else who did bother with living.

i hate cheaters they are the lowest of the low in the gaming world. I am pc user and think its more prevalent in that format as its easyier. But I agree with with the console fanboys it's pathetic. A sure indicator of little skill and they know it.

Some do it just to annoy non-cheaters and they should get banned for a week every time they do it or have their health & armour points reduced by 75% for a week. Too much?

Go Xbox.

I did not saw you should...Programers should only release solid tested software...Not this crap that is full of holes

It's like you intentionally missed the point. No one supports cheaters or hackers but a number of gamers, myself included, detest grind. Unlocks frequently (perhaps not in this case) support and encourage what we consider to not be very good gameplay: grinding to get a super weapon the bestows an advantage perk that not everyone has access to (mortars, air strikes, super sniper rifles etc.). I don't care about losing to players more skilled than me; if I did I'd never play because there are a lot of players much better than me. I don't think the exploit bungie is addressing here is important because it's not a hack the effects gameplay (it's not like they're glitching into an area of the map where they can't be killed or something similar). They're just avoiding the grind necessary to kit themselves out they way they want in a game they paid for. The worst they're doing is making a mockery of the entire e-penis system.

But then I'm an older gamer. I consider things like xbox live or steam achievements to be a step backwards. I play for enjoyment of the game. Not to collect digital swag and call everyone I kill a noob.

Exploits are not cheats. Big difference.

The fault is with Bungie, not the exploiters. You all have low gaming IQ, enough said.

That is the problem buddy....most of the kids are like this and I suspect many of those that post here.

Still, to make the gaqme interesting and to drive you to come back for more, there has to be challenges and thus things to unlock or achieve.

I say find the cheaters and beat their arse with a wet noodle and pull their pants down in front of their friends, OR ignore them and just be happy.

Oh and another thing...it is just a game. It will be dead in less than a year and a diffferent game will be the hot topic. Go play chess or something....pick a sport.

Pacman never had cheats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!