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[Kamerican]

[Halo2] Cheating in the game viewer?

[fugitivesoldier]

Sounds like a hideous combo of Standby cheating and a netsplit.

Things like that may not be visible on the GV, but Bungie and XBL have access to much more detailed info, such as connection/network status throughout the game, etc.

[kamerican]

Can you look at the game overview and tell if there was cheating?

[fugitivesoldier]

Personally, I can't find anything overtly incriminating.

A netsplit is accidental; no one is to blame but the network.

Standby is different, though.

You can report them, and if Bungie and Xbox Live confirm any foul play, they will take action.

[Fi-loggedout]

Hiya,

What is this "standby" thing of which you speak? I know the net goes down occasionally (and you can hear everyone whining about it!), but is there a way to deliberately make the network connection die so that your team can cheat?

Cheers!

Fi

[krystyn]

[url=http://spaces.msn.com/members/shreddies/Blog/cns!1pGZHhkFiKNc-5JNmY5-UnTg!157.entry]a bit of an explanation[/url]

Sometimes, you don't even get the blue screen. You'll be standing at the base, watching your flag wave in a non-existent wind, and then suddenly, it's gone. A few seconds later, you hear the announcement that the flag has been captured. And then it will happen again, because cheating bastards are also quite often GREEDY bastards.

[Fi]

Ahhh! Thanks! I'll bear that in mind. It is good to know that they wil be dealt with so harshly though.

I think I might create my own XBL account over the weekend, and when I do I'll probably come and join the Beekeepers clan - hope that's ok!

Fi

[krystyn]

Woo woo!

[INCyr]

[fugitivesoldier]

Client Standby is what is described here.

[INCyr]

Ah. I was referring to Krystyn's after comments. I've never heard of Standbying without a blue screen. Hence, what she described sounded more like dummying to me.

[krystyn]

Oh! Well, shoot.

Whatever it is, it sucks!

[fugitivesoldier]

It is hard to tell the difference between Dummying and Client Standby, yes.

But as long as you know it is cheating, the method is irrelevant.

[Grifter_7]

Last night while playing I came across a glitch I had never seen before and I don't know how they did it.

Here is the Game viewer for it: BIG TEAM BATTLE

Here's the glitch. As you can see in the game viewer we were the Blue team, however one of my teammates, NJWOODYEE , showed up in-game as a RED PLAYER. Before everyone replies that the blue team Elites look red sometimes dependant on the users secondary color selection, the player was a SPARTAN.
I was baffled as I looked around the interior of our base and saw a red Spartan with a "Friend indicator Avitar" above his head. I had to double check that I was on the Blue team. When I targeted him with my weapon the targeting retical showed GREEN, as it does when you aim at a teammate.



I did a search and this was the only related subject I could find on glitching and team color change: Related Post Here 2nd post on the page.

Has anyone else seen this or does anyone know how they are doing this? If it worked to confuse me, the I know it confused the Red Team.

Edit: Added the players name, NJWOODYEE.