A few days ago, I decided to mod my Halo 4 profile, to unlock, complete, and cheat everything. I completed all commendations, unlocked all armor and loadout items, and generally just ruined the game for others, as well as myself. Just about right after I made this decision, I regretted it. So now I am apologizing to everyone. To the Community, to the Creators.
I’m not expecting to be ‘let off the hook’ for this. And I hope I won’t be. Instead, I hope 343i can stop these mods from being able to be used. Especially the ‘no-head/no armor’ mods. They ruin the game for not only the modder, but the players and creators as well. I’m infinitely sorry for using this.
Thank you for making an amazing game, and making it better each and every update. I will continue to play, support, and (hopefully) love every game you release, with and beyond Halo, on this account, or another.
> Through the clouds of deception and greed shines the light of hope and a good deed.
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> Hopefully 343 will be able to get these mods in check before they become too widespread.
Definitely. The program I used is still fairly buggy, so not TOO many people have modded their unlocks yet. Maybe 343/Microsoft could get the program removed from downloading. Hopefully.
First off, Halo 4 is not an “Amazing game” it is horrible.
Secondly, cheating is the most pointless thing I have ever heard of.
For players who mod, IP flood, gamerscore hack, or leaderboard hack, those are the players that ruin gaming.
“Modding” in-game is probably the least offensive of all of these, but its still annoying and ignorant.
If you already learned your lesson and feel regret for the deeds you have done, there is no reason to burn yourself on the stake and recieve punishment.
You made a wrong decision, it happens. I’m sure the Halo community does not feel personally insulted by your actions. As for the developers, it’s their fault in the first place for not patching these mods by now.
Regaurless of whether you get banned or not, the important part is that you learned your lesson, and you should think about consequences before you act.
Besides, consequences dictate all of societies actions.
If it was not illegal to rob banks, then there would be thousands of people at the bank tomorrow robbing it.
(People’s morals fly out the window when there is no law and order)
> First off, Halo 4 is not an “Amazing game” it is horrible.
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> Secondly, cheating is the most pointless thing I have ever heard of.
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> For players who mod, IP flood, gamerscore hack, or leaderboard hack, those are the players that ruin gaming.
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> “Modding” in-game is probably the least offensive of all of these, but its still annoying and ignorant.
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> If you already learned your lesson and feel regret for the deeds you have done, there is no reason to burn yourself on the stake and recieve punishment.
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> You made a wrong decision, it happens. I’m sure the Halo community does not feel personally insulted by your actions. As for the developers, it’s their fault in the first place for not patching these mods by now.
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> Regaurless of whether you get banned or not, the important part is that you learned your lesson, and you should think about consequences before you act.
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> Besides, consequences dictate all of societies actions.
> If it was not illegal to rob banks, then there would be thousands of people at the bank tomorrow robbing it.
> (People’s morals fly out the window when there is no law and order)
I myself find Halo 4 to be nothing less than amazing. That’s, of course, just my opinion though.
I agree 100% with you on your second point, but it only took me the last few days to realize this. This is one of the reasons I posted this. The main reason is to hopefully bring more attention to 343/Microsoft about these mods, and hopefully get them to patch them.
While I’m all for not doing what you said OP, its nice to see a change of pace.
While its obvious people are thankful for coming out and saying it, players are honor bound to not abuse the system others utilize in the manner you did. Thousands if not millions to billions can say they never modded an Xbox.
For that, I do hope your Xbox is perma banned from being able to access Xbox Live. Nothing personal, but the fairness of this must take its course no different then anyone else who was caught without an apology.
it happens i modded my gamerscore when i got my new xbox about 2 years ago and i had halo 3 legit and they removed everything all because i wanted to mod 3 achievements well it was my fault and i had to own up to it
> While I’m all for not doing what you said OP, its nice to see a change of pace.
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> While its obvious people are thankful for coming out and saying it, players are honor bound to not abuse the system others utilize in the manner you did. Thousands if not millions to billions can say they never modded an Xbox.
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> For that, I do hope your Xbox is perma banned from being able to access Xbox Live. Nothing personal, but the fairness of this must take its course no different then anyone else who was caught without an apology.
I’m willing to accept whatever punishment is laid out for me. As you said, it’s fair.
> it happens i modded my gamerscore when i got my new xbox about 2 years ago and i had halo 3 legit and they removed everything all because i wanted to mod 3 achievements well it was my fault and i had to own up to it
I did the same, I was sad. I only modded one achievement too in a game that wasan’t Halo related and it all got reset. I learned my lesson, I still play on the same account but it’s hard to prove now that i’ve gotten certain achievements legitimately now.
> A few days ago, I decided to mod my Halo 4 profile, to unlock, complete, and cheat everything. I completed all commendations, unlocked all armor and loadout items, and generally just ruined the game for others, as well as myself. Just about right after I made this decision, I regretted it. So now I am apologizing to everyone. To the Community, to the Creators.
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> I’m not expecting to be ‘let off the hook’ for this. And I hope I won’t be. Instead, I hope 343i can stop these mods from being able to be used. Especially the ‘no-head/no armor’ mods. They ruin the game for not only the modder, but the players and creators as well. I’m infinitely sorry for using this.
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> Thank you for making an amazing game, and making it better each and every update. I will continue to play, support, and (hopefully) love every game you release, with and beyond Halo, on this account, or another.
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> A few days ago, I decided to mod my Halo 4 profile, to unlock, complete, and cheat everything. I completed all commendations, unlocked all armor and loadout items, and generally just ruined the game for others, as well as myself. Just about right after I made this decision, I regretted it. So now I am apologizing to everyone. To the Community, to the Creators.
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> I’m not expecting to be ‘let off the hook’ for this. And I hope I won’t be. Instead, I hope 343i can stop these mods from being able to be used. Especially the ‘no-head/no armor’ mods. They ruin the game for not only the modder, but the players and creators as well. I’m infinitely sorry for using this.
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> Thank you for making an amazing game, and making it better each and every update. I will continue to play, support, and (hopefully) love every game you release, with and beyond Halo, on this account, or another.
> A few days ago, I decided to mod my Halo 4 profile, to unlock, complete, and cheat everything. I completed all commendations, unlocked all armor and loadout items, and generally just ruined the game for others
Unless you’re actually affecting gameplay (ie. lag switches, headless player model, etc.) then trust me, you’re not really ruining the game for anyone. Firstly, 343i already did that and secondly, the only people you’re ruining the game for are people butthurt enough to care about what you’ve unlocked.
> Who gives a -Yoink!- though? It’s not like you harmed anyone, it’s just a vidya. If anything you helped the security dolts at 343…
I think your a little confused.
How you help security is not by breaking it.
How you help is by generating a report which shows HOW you broke it, then submitting it for review to Microsoft AND 343, and only THEN have you actually done anything noteworthy.
You think security analysts with X amount of years of schooling, X amount of certifications, and X amount of experience is monitoring every single Xbox right now? Do you even think there is someone willing to go through the master log file, if the Xbox system utilizes one?
Information security is a very documentation oriented process. Breaking/modding an Xbox is not helping anyone.
EDIT: Just some loose criteria, in case your wondering:
How you broke it:
What did you do to the physical hardware?
What software system did you use?
What programs did you use?
What port access points did you utilize?
What security tools (pinging the network, nmapping it, etc.) did you use?
What information did you know going into the mod?
What did you learn about the mod while it was active?
What other features did you notice didn’t work properly?
What was your aim with the mod?
And yes, I do this for a living, and there is literally thousands of questions I could ask.
Depending on the program you used, it may be possible to reinject a previous backup of the save, that is, if you backed it up. The majority of script kiddy modding programs often auto backup.
I say this from my own modding experience. Though I definitely must agree… The easiest way to make halo no longer worth playing is to mod your commendations armor and what not, though based on videos I’ve seen, the physics mods applied to the campaign look rather fun. Like the super jumps and such.
I say, as an experienced modder, that mods should only be used for personal recreational games, not competitive games.
You wanna mod minecraft? awesome. You wanna mod skyrim? Sure. Hell I’d even say go ahead and mod borderlands (as long as you share >:])
But Halo…?
Mods are for marines. True Spartans have but only luck.
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> Depending on the program you used, it may be possible to reinject a previous backup of the save, that is, if you backed it up. The majority of script kiddy modding programs often auto backup.
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> I say this from my own modding experience. Though I definitely must agree… The easiest way to make halo no longer worth playing is to mod your commendations armor and what not, though based on videos I’ve seen, the physics mods applied to the campaign look rather fun. Like the super jumps and such.
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> I say, as an experienced modder, that mods should only be used for personal recreational games, not competitive games.
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> You wanna mod minecraft? awesome. You wanna mod skyrim? Sure. Hell I’d even say go ahead and mod borderlands (as long as you share >:])
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> But Halo…?
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> Mods are for marines. True Spartans have but only luck.
I didn’t backup, and it wouldn’t matter since everything’s already synced with Halo’s servers. Something like that, I don’t know. I’ve never really been one to mod. Besides Minecraft. So I really had no clue what to do besides follow people’s tutorials.
As for recreational mods, I completely agree after this. This experience taught me that cheating my way through definitely ruins the fun.
well it was my fault and i had to own up to it