Intoxication
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Just thought I'd warn you, if you have not heard there are people called 'host booters' and 'standbyers'. Now every since Title Update 2 (TU2) came out Bungie said that they are stopping and banning them, which is true but most of them still lurk. Basically it's Halo 3's version of Halo 2 modding, but worse.
They have different programs which I would rather not mention. When they are in your party one program gets your IP address, once they have your IP they enter it into a 'host booter'. Now what this does is if they get the 'host' in matchmaking they can flood (ping) that IP address with bots (packets). Some have servers full of thousands of bots while others have only ten, whatever host booter they use it varies of how many bots are needed to ping the IP. Now what the results can be are, believe it or not... 1. Being kicked out of the current game. 2. Internet shut down and must restart it. 3. Fry your router which I highly doubt is possible. Some may imitate it an attempt to act cool or scare you.
So now, to end this. I recommend you don't accept random friend requests or invites from people or this could happen to you, a caring, soft warning from your daily Halo Hub mod, Intoxication.
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They have different programs which I would rather not mention. When they are in your party one program gets your IP address, once they have your IP they enter it into a 'host booter'. Now what this does is if they get the 'host' in matchmaking they can flood (ping) that IP address with bots (packets). Some have servers full of thousands of bots while others have only ten, whatever host booter they use it varies of how many bots are needed to ping the IP. Now what the results can be are, believe it or not... 1. Being kicked out of the current game. 2. Internet shut down and must restart it. 3. Fry your router which I highly doubt is possible. Some may imitate it an attempt to act cool or scare you.
So now, to end this. I recommend you don't accept random friend requests or invites from people or this could happen to you, a caring, soft warning from your daily Halo Hub mod, Intoxication.
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Thanks for the heads up.
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No problem, this is the short easy explanation by the way...
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i see, theres always someone who wants to take the fun out of things
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So in other words there are idiots online that use your IP to mod and shift the blame to you? Thanks for the heads up.
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Intoxication
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No, they can flood your IP and kick you offline for periods of time.
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Pooly
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Ah, I get it now, I read it to quick >_<
That seems a pretty stupid thing to do to somebody TBH.
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That seems a pretty stupid thing to do to somebody TBH.
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Intoxication
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Amazing what people will do for a virtual number, eh?
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Wow, that is just plain dumb. I mean who would do that? If people are going to mod, they should at least mod in custom games. For fun, not to take the fun out of Ranked matches.
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This isn't modding, did you read the first post? Modding would be configuring your Xbox with a hardmod chip or softmodding it in Halo 2, this is completely different from that. And the whole point they do it is to take people's fun away, theres clans that are dedicated to this ****.
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The_Fury4
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Well you said "Halo 3's version of modding". But I get ya'.
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By that I meant something such as a form of cheating, not exactly modding. That was just an example.
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reminds me of those guys who lagg SWAT to pieces meaning you drop dead randomely
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^ I played against those a couple of times.
Anyway, many thanks for the heads up, never knew this. Freaking dumb asses ruin everyone's fun....
Anyway, many thanks for the heads up, never knew this. Freaking dumb asses ruin everyone's fun....
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One question. Does this happen when you join their random party or it could happen in matchmaking?
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Both, you see in matchmaking if they get the host they can do it. And if your in their party their always host, so yeah.
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one was Shwat guns with me and anbu. that was laggy as hell
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Wow thats sad.. Well thanks for the heads up.
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Yeah. Pity that people have to cheat to win.
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