Halo 3 seems to be a magnet to hackers. You always hear about people manipulating the game. It was even a problem in Halo 2, in the form of "Standby-ing"
Standby-ing was the act of pressing a “standby” button on your modem, (not available on all) which would send the opposing players to a “please wait” blue screen while the standbyer's run around and rack up kills.
Now, they seem to be taking it to a new level; Using botnet software to find out they're opponent's IP address, then point a few dozen zombie machines at them in a distributed denial-of-service attack.
I'd never heard of this method until a few days ago. And it tickles me how some people will risk getting themselves in trouble with the law over exacting revenge on someone who stole their flag...
Apparently these types of programs are becoming mainstream, so you can probably expect to start seeing similar attacks emerge from other Xbox live games.
What do you think makes Halo so appealing to Hackers? I have to say, to put yourself at a risk of being arrested over a Halo 3 game is pretty hardcore lol.
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Why would anyone cheat in a multiplayer video game?
What are they getting out of it? They aren't getting paid to win.
It's one thing to use cheats to explore a single player game or unlock all of its features or whatever. But how is it fun when playing competitively?
It would be like me beating up kids a preschool. Yea I would be guaranteed to win everytime, but what would that prove?
Some people just need to get a life.
Sounds pretty fucking dumb to me, and I'm a fan of Halo (I know, we're a rare breed around Dtoid). This is just taking shit too far and ruining the experience for others. Not cool, griefers are dickholes.
That takes a lot of fuggin time and effort for such a little payoff.
You are not alone, I love Halo.
By hardcore I mean they take the game pretty damn seriously to put themselves at risk like that heh.
how bout post a link to your reports of botnet software ip hacking. i mean, if your going to blog on it after all.
anyway... popular online community is target of grievers. welcome to online
It was just odd on this occasion that I could actually see them moving from territory to territory when I might usually get a black screen and see nothing besides the scoreboard.
I did read that there was a brand new software mod update a few days ago. It's sad that since Christmas the number of modded/extremely laggy games has gone up more.
Modders = No Skills.
"anyway... popular online community is target of grievers. welcome to online "
lolwut. Been playing online for quite a while sir. thank you for the welcome though.
Also, people who do this deserve to get AIDS as a result of being raped by a bear. A large, muscley grizzly bear.
I can relate with you three as well. I am one of those rare people at DToid who actually likes Halo.
We should all hide out in here. It's scary outside. There are so many haters.
That or we could just sit around on Fridays and play some games with each other. I heard IRC is good for organising this
Let us band together my brothers!
"...find out they're opponent's IP address..."
Their*
*sigh*
Jesus Half, seriously?
And yea, this really sucks, one of the main reasons I don't play online anymore, I'm sick and tired of all the assholes that use exploits because they MUST WIN OR THEY WILL DIE IF THEY DON'T.
Then when you tell them to stop it they say "If its in the game the publisher wants us to use it"
People who play for fun are a dying breed.
Picture 4 kids eating cake.
MLG fanboy, Elitist, Casual Gamer and Worthless Guest.
The cake resembles kills.
All four get a peice of the cake, even the diabetic.
Halo 3 = Easy... So, why the FUCK would you hack it?