Curious Characters

Games Other Halo
1

Good afternoon, Waypoint.

After six months of sporadic playing, I’ve noticed a pattern that has appeared with great frequency over time.

Whenever I play Regicide or FFA in general, there are often a few gamers who have not only the same name, but one of them has a number in brackets at the end of it.

Not only that, when I look at their service records, they are usually SR1, and they frequently have armor pieces that they really shouldn’t have. Heck, I’ve seen some people with EVA, Scout, War Master, and Raider, for example, but since that last one automatically nets you large amounts of XP, these characters don’t have any.

Not even for Raider. I’ve even seen CIO armor on one of these people, but no indication is available that should indicate an extended period of work necessary to get the armor. Unless hacking or something else in involved, they shouldn’t be able to get such armor.

Often, one of these people is fairly inept at playing, and are beaten fairly easily, even by someone like me. I’m not that good at the game yet, but I have often noticed that the SR1-ranked people do much better than the more ‘normal’ one of the pair. Fortunately, for the game level that I am at, these people aren’t too hard to take down.

How do these people do it? Are they hacking the game, do they transfer data to one another, or are they mere boosters?

2

I’m guessing you mean something like this in the lobby:

snickerdoodle
snickerdoodle(1)
snickerdoodle(2)

Right?

Those are simply guests that are playing on the same console as the gamertag holder. No hacks or cheating or anything, just a bunch of friends playing on the same Xbox. :slight_smile:

3

I can’t tell if the OP is serious or not.

4

Those players with (1) and (2) at the end of the name are guests of that same name. It means they’re playing splitscreen on the same account.

5

> I can’t tell if the OP is serious or not.

Neither can I. Guests…

6

are you new to Xbox Live? because those are guest accounts, they are not just in halo, they are all over, and always show up as -insert gamertag here-[#1-3] depending on the number of players playing on one account.

7

Don’t feel bad i thought the same thing once, i was like OHMYGOSH they´re hacking!.. but they were guests :stuck_out_tongue:

8

Ah, thank you all very much for information.

I really appreciate it. That actually makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.

How silly of me not to consider that.

I would like to apologize to those who wondered why I asked these questions in the first place.

Had I known and done the necessary research, then I would not have posted this.

My sincerest apologies.

I wish you all well.

9

> Ah, thank you all very much for information.
>
> I really appreciate it. That actually makes a lot of sense now that I think about it.
>
> How silly of me not to consider that.
>
> I would like to apologize to those who wondered why I asked these questions in the first place.
>
> Had I known and done the necessary research, then I would not have posted this.
>
> My sincerest apologies.
>
> I wish you all well.

You sir, are the nicest person on these forums.

10

People need to learn that not everyone knows everything, and show some respect, as he was asking a polite question that was in no way ranting or insulting to anyone.

11

Ya know, as funny as this thread is, I have actually seen this like three or four times. Not a guest, and each had a separate bio. I couldn’t figure it out, wasn’t a name misspelling for intentional reasons to be a clan like thingy, so I just gave them both bad reviews for being numpties that had the same gamertag and same spartan tags.

12

clan boosting?

13

Again, thank you.

To be honest, whenever I see this happening, it can be interesting, for in the FFA and Regicide games I have participated in, now that I know what I know now, it adds an extra dimension to things I didn’t know was there.

Still, though these players are playing on the same console etc., am I correct in thinking that as using guest accounts, these players have access to the same armor, poses, etc. as the original account?

In other words, is the fruit of the original account’s labors shared with the accompanying guests?

If so, that would make sense, though I’m probably still missing something.

14

Yes, the armor and such is shared across guest accounts. :slight_smile: