I just wanted to community to be made aware of an issue that is plaguing the Halo community. For the past couple updates I have been noticing an increase in people quitting, and honestly I thought nothing of it at first. Thought it may have been due to poor connections, laggy games etc. However that was all put to rest when I had begun to hear about an exploit in the network server of this game. Let me break it down for you. upon locking into a match, and the map starts, and your about to play, click the center home button on your xbox controller, from there go to settings go to netowork, and where the options selects to go offline click that quickly, but then turn it back on. you will end up ending the game and getting credited for a win, and from there you will level up. My concern is until this is fixed, and everyones rank is reset we will never know who has a legitimate level and who has been exploiting this already very vulnerable system. this was not made as a instruction to continue the exploit of the system but to make 343 and the community aware of this very serious issue.
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> Oh my god, who the hell cares? If their level is higher than they deserve they’ll play against people way better than them and will be miserable.
That’s not the point.
Also, they won’t be miserable as being able to play against harder players is not the reason they are boosting their rank. They do it do brag. So if anything they will be the opposite of miserable.
Never the less this is a fairly major and easily reproducible rank boosting exploit and should be fixed before they do a rank reset.
Also you can join and play game a game and if you are going to lose; home button, then while halo is highlighted press start and quit. Halo will close and that game won’t count as a loss. Your EXP won’t decrease. I agree that these exploits should be fixed.
The game currently gives you the ability to quit at no penalty, or dashboard> go offline for a win. These two exploits break the ranking system entirely and it makes it a pain for people just trying to play the game.
Scenario 1: Search for game, find players, choose map, player dashboards and everyone disconnects and has to re-search.
Scenario 2: Search for game, find players, choose map, player dashboards, game starts and its uneven teams because of the rank exploiter.
Even if you don’t care about ranks, the people that are quitting are ruining every other players experience by quitting and resulting in failed matches or uneven teams.
At this point… who really cares about quitters. These idiots are bad at the game. This is the only time they will ever see a 50. Let them enjoy it now… because once the game works and the ranks reset they’ll end up quitting after I tbag them a few thousand times.
I have noticed that in the most recent patch I have been getting booted from the game during the map loading screen about 1/4 of the time, so I assume this is happening to a lot of other people as well. So this may not be an issue of people quitting (although that certainly happens in some cases) but may just be people getting disconnected before the game starts.