Halo PC Servers Crashed, and a Fix

[p0lar_bear]

UPDATE!!!
Roger Wolfson, the head of Halo PC's support team from way back when, has managed to do the unthinkable and INCREDIBLY AWESOME by fixing up the problem in an official patch. This hotfix comes in the form of a zip archive containing fixed versions of halo.exe, haloce.exe, haloded.exe and haloceded.exe. You can find the technical crapola and download on the bungie.net forums. A local mirror will follow soon.

As an added bonus, this fix breaks bitterbanana's aimbot. Suck it down, botfags! (Sadly, a few good hacks like Yelo battery also broke. Oh well. )
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Programmer Luigi Auriemma, known for finding the "haloboom" and "haloloop" crash exploits in older versions of Halo, has found another haloloop exploit in Halo's v1.07 Dedicated Server, allowing someone to crash servers by way of sending them into an infinite loop, a la previous versions.

Since Halo for the PC is no longer supported by Bungie, Gearbox, and Microsoft, it is highly unlikely that there will be an official patch for this. (EDIT: I just ate my words with a side of fries.) However, one of our community members has created a quick workaround of his own.

Please note that this workaround is offered as-is with no expression of warranty or anything like that (I'm bad at legal jargon). Use this patch at your own risk. Apparently, this fix doesn't work on the Halo dedicated server for Vista.

[itszutak]

Just a little update from halo.bunige.org:
http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=23294

Bungie releases Halo PC DS Hotfix
Whoa. Remember yesterday, when we mentioned that an exploit for Halo PC Dedicated Server had been identified, and worked around by a fan, and how that was good because the game is no longer supported? Well, Bungie's Roger Wolfson, who was the head Bungie guy for Halo PC back when it WAS supported, released a hotfix today, and will be watching the Bungie.net thread for feedback in case other fixes are needed. Now THAT is support! Thanks, Roger. You rock. (Louis Wu 20:59:09 UTC)

Can someone test to see if this fix works on Vista?
(Hotfix and forum posts at http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.a...ewreplies=true )

[Syuusuke]

I could try it but...I don't have the actual program, this Halobroom?

[NullZero]

There should be a mirror of the exploit somewhere.

[Syuusuke]

Yea found it, works for Vista servers too. coolio.

[legionaire45]

They broke the FoV/TP hack D: .

Well worth getting rid of the botters/exploiters though for the moment. Halo PC/CE is safe again for all 10 96,000 people who play it! Woot!

[Con]

Well worth getting rid of the botters/exploiters

where does it say anything about botters?

[ExAm]

I won't be downloading this. I'm not playing without Battery :/

[StankBacon]

where does it say anything about botters?

aimbot doesnt work with the update.

I won't be downloading this. I'm not playing without Battery :/

fov nub.

[Heathen]

So what? Download it and then extract the files into your Custom Edition folder and voila? Or do I have to let it search for updates or anything?

Also, is there a list of the most popular or played maps on CE? I would like to have maps where alot of people play, but also good gameplay.