Comments on: Halo 3 Beta, Part 7 : Custom Gametypes, Will You be Banned?

By: Waffle Deluxe

Waffle Deluxe — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:21:27 +0000

If I win the mythic contest would you reveal the number of my posts to be over 9000? Pretty Please?

By: Suicide Samurai

Suicide Samurai — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:33:23 +0000

I admit it. I snuck a look when I first heard about it, and while it got me excited about the possibilities, it was nothing compared to the multi-player bungie had set-up for us.

By: bsangel

bsangel — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:35:56 +0000

Very true. Excellent point Excardon.

By: Excardon

Excardon — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:20:03 +0000

Another overlooked reason on why NOT to play customs during Beta is because due to the small size of participants of the Beta, playing customs takes away from the already small matchmaking population.

It’s getting a bit harder to find a match already and my ranks are not high at all. The Beta was meant to test out Matchmaking for more reasons than just playing 3 maps and have the general public comment on it.

Things like gametypes vetoed and player postions on a map can not be properly weighed through custom games. The randomness of matchmaking with a large variant of players is the best way to test out every situtation and see if there are similiarities across the board.

In short, playing customs not only can ruin the game for the individual; but it potentially can mess up some of the statiticial data that Bungie may be processing as well.

By: d3adly reaper

d3adly reaper — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:49:18 +0000

The custom games are so *edited* its not even funny i didnt know what to think but i messed around and there were so many options i couldnt go through them all. Im going to start one tonight with my friends so they can see that i was the first one of them to play a custom game on halo 3 beta.
Also dont you think if bungie was worried about this slip they would have already stopped it? Yeah… its makes you think what they are really thinking.

By: Quantifier

Quantifier — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:44:50 +0000

though i won’t try to play any customs, there’s definitely a strong desire within me that wants to, if for nothing else than to walk the maps and learn the weapon spawns, etc. Like the others, i can wait til September though.

My main frustration with MM is that i was on vacation for the first week away from my box and don’t know the weapon/equipment spawns, etc.

I’m actually looking forward to getting back to H2 (familiar territory) after the beta.

By: L askan

L askan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:33:40 +0000

BADCUSTOMERSRVC
Games: 412
Customs: 0
I can wait a couple months.

By: bsangel

bsangel — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:22:04 +0000

Thankyou KP.

The only information I can find from Bungie’s opinion on this matter is in the Halo 3 Beta forums.

“Custom games, and anything that can be found in them, (i.e. weapons, custom settings, etc) are off topic in this forum. They were not intended to be viewable in the Beta, and as such, they are not to be discussed in here.”

“Since we ninjas are being directed to be more ruthless, some members may need to be more careful.

The Bungie.Net forums already have a rule for “no modding discussions”. Combine that with the ruthless directive and we have a more deadly rule.

Modding discussions in the Beta forum are even MORE forbidden.

Someone hacking files in the beta are not “helping things out”. By taking it apart, they are not using the game as the populace will see it. In some cases, they are “peeking behind the curtain” and are able to “spoil” both the experience of the players and the intent of the creators.

As such, ANY thread or post discussing a mod or hack of the beta will result in a blacklisting. That was thread OR post. In other words, if you see such a post, and value your account, don’t reply. Just PM a moderator and walk away.”

By: KP

KP — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:37:27 +0000

You won’t be banned.