Bungie says that they're not playing around anymore when it comes to Halo 3, and is warning the "naughty" to get ready (for something) in a message called Harbinger of Doom.
There are those of you doing things you shouldn’t be in Halo 3. Some of you have gotten a little too famous for your own good. This ain’t a church and there is no redemption or salvation once you have been judged. Apologies are now officially too late to save you.
The storm approaches.
Love, Bungie
That's a pretty classy message in itself, but we like how they left it at that, giving no further details. Ars Technica wanted to know more, and found out through one of the members of their forum community (a Bungie employee) that the ban-hammer is almost ready to drop.
Forum member ferrex says, "Basically, we're almost done dialing in the Banhammer, and a few people who helped us test Phase One are about to help us test Phase Two."
It looks like they're cracking down on network attacks, and right now they're doing their best to make sure that no game issues will be confused for abusive behavior.
The end is nigh, cheaters.
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12:10 PM on 10.22.2007
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So, what's the deal?
Bungie is talking about DDoSers and network attacks. Things like slowing a person's network connection down or booting him.
Especially when you can't run unsigned code on a 360...
Love, Bungie"
Lulz
I have seen some "misterious" slow down, as in, the game would lag all of a sudden when my team was winning then it would stop lagging when the other team catched up.
Personally, I find their gamertag and spam it with free porn offers from Cthulu. Don't think about that too much.
See what I did there?
Thats happened to me once or twice.
Speaking of hammers..god i hate that weapon some people are near unkillable with that fucking thing....perhaps that could be sombody abusing the system
I'm gonna get banned.
:D
And how do you help to test a ban? Is like being the guy who volunteers to test a cyanide pill.
And more important: if they tested the the Phase One with you, it is a good sign they can test Phase two? Is like being twice a suicide bomber.
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit
Actually, I interpreted phase two to be the actual bannings... Maybe I'm reading into it more wit than what is called for.
Incidentally, has anyone had connection problems with Halo 3, lately? It was nearly impossible to play last night, due to lag.
LOLZ!
lmao
what a bunch of dorks, thats right out of lord of the rings type shit....
wankers