I’m just curious how they feel about modded gametypes. Have people gotten banned for them? What is their official stance?
As far as I know, modding on Xbox 360 is not allowed. However I’ve heard that mini slayer was originally a modded game type that 343i saw and liked and implemented it into the game. If this true I think that is a pretty good community involvement.
I mean, simply playing modded games. I don’t know if I’m allowed to mention what it is, but a neat modded gametype was just released and I want to know if it’s safe to play it.
It doesn’t matter what some individual employees of 343i feel (and some of them dont mind mods in customs), because 343i IS Microsoft, and Microsoft explicitly says it is not okay. That said, none of them actively go after people who simply download gametypes, I’d even wager to say that’s impossible to track down individuals who download gametypes, but people who are the direct maker of mods are much more subjugated to punishment, and simple re distributors /may/ get caught.
Unless 343i and Microsoft ever decide to authorize or approve of the tools used to create community-made modified content, it is against the Xbox Live Terms of Use.
Having modified content on your Halo Fileshare can result in you getting banned/punished as well as the removal of all and any modified content on your Fileshare.
Currently Microsoft and 343i do not explicitly hunt down modified content and the creators of these gametypes, and they currently do not punish users for using the content. However, advertising it can get you banned.
‘We will ban you for discussing and spreading them, but we will also put our own modded gametypes into matchmaking (lightning flag, mini-slayer).’
It’s just getting silly. Microsoft should just come out and allow modding.
> ‘We will ban you for discussing and spreading them, but we will also put our own modded gametypes into matchmaking (lightning flag, mini-slayer).’
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> It’s just getting silly. Microsoft should just come out and allow modding.
That will cause problems beyond what you can imagine. Without some way to regulate each and every online match to remove cheaters as soon as they appear, modding will ruin XBL as we know it.
I’d rather have a zero tolerance policy than allowing modding and picking and choosing the good parts.
You can download and play all you want. Just don’t be making them.
Apparently when we make modded gametypes to take out sprint it’s wrong, but when they do it for lightning flag and make us minis in the mini slayer thing it’s no big deal
You guys are mistaking the altered gametypes they do are mods. Well, technically they ARE, because modders and the devs make their gametypes the same exact way. One’s official and one isn’t.
343i has methods of easy access to hidden gametype options. The end user, us, only have what you see. Hidden in these gametypes is everything from player size to what Wheelman perk does to grenade damage radius to weapon switch speed to weapons exploding on death and so on and so forth.
I’d wager that they have a fancy graphical user interface to play with that, whilst modders have to go down into the actual code and do trial and error. I’d say it’s modding for people to do that, since it probably was meant to be done with a GUI and not code based.
But when it comes to the gametype scripting engine, Megalo, modders make gametypes the same exactly way 343i does, by learning the Megalo code and altering it. The only difference is one side is ‘official’ and the other is ‘bad’. Likewise, one side works for the community and gives them what they ask for, like real neutral and 1-flag gametypes with correct Forge labels, while the other is a company with massive man power and will only do action sack gametypes instead of putting in staples of Halo like 1-flag.
> > ‘We will ban you for discussing and spreading them, but we will also put our own modded gametypes into matchmaking (lightning flag, mini-slayer).’
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> > It’s just getting silly. Microsoft should just come out and allow modding.
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> That will cause problems beyond what you can imagine. Without some way to regulate each and every online match to remove cheaters as soon as they appear, modding will ruin XBL as we know it.
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> I’d rather have a zero tolerance policy than allowing modding and picking and choosing the good parts.
Hosting modded gametypes in a fileshare does not effect matchmaking.
All this paranoia and fearmongering is unwarranted. People already hack and are already banned for it. Allowing people to share mods is not even remotely relevant.