When Halo 2 Gets Laggy...

[dcemuser]

Just thought I'd start up a casual discussion thread, might be a welcome change of pace from mapping/bug submission. Anywho, I've had a lot of strange experiences when Halo 2 got really laggy. Here's a couple, and feel free to share yours.

On H2V, we had a host who was pretty laggy (it wasn't terrible though), but we were still having a lot of fun. When he started the countdown to a level that nobody wanted to play, multiple people delayed at the same time and the countdown turned to "-:--" for about 10 seconds. During this time, I typed "uh..." and it didn't appear. After the countdown turned back to normal, the text "Server: uhh..." appeared in the chatbox without my name next to it. And it wasn't a dedicated server. I rapidly mashed F11, soon to realize I was an idiot and it didn't capture text or pre-game lobby screenshots...

On H2X a couple of years ago, XBL assigned somebody with a terrible connection as host for some reason and we played the laggiest game EVER. On Zanzibar, the level was empty besides the players, there were no weapons, no fusion cores, no boxes, no gate, and no spinning fan of doom!

(sorry about the terrible picture quality, it was from an old digital camera)

Eventually it got to the point where the game fell apart and everyone got kicked, but it was the weirdest game of Halo I've played.

[et_cg]

On H2X, you must've been bridged.

(It was probably me)

[stunt_man]

On H2X, you must've been bridged.

(It was probably me)

Lmao!

I myself haven't had very many weird experiences besides stunts in Halo:CE. I remember trying to get to the moon on EarthCity. That was a lot of fun, using the lifepods and pelicans... Ahh CE...

[et_cg]

I have tons of stories; especially ones to back this one up:
http://www.freewebs.com/h2cheat/

Just look at #23. That's me. I was a bored child.

I did mod in matchmaking, just to see if I could do it. I did it quite a bit. Kind of like drugs... Once you try it, you do it for a while, then something usually happens and you quit. Well, I found something stronger, actually. I went to dual bridging for a while. In my own house, haha. I'd have a friend in the living room bridge to my laptop, bridging me host. Then I'd do all the team stand-bying/etc.

It was, in fact, a lot of fun. But I realize to this day, I would've been much better off not cheating.

Everytime lag happened in a game, the first thing people suspected back then was stand-bying, modding, or bridging.