Bungie Doing Some Re-balancing of Halo 2

[AmishSlayer]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/15/news_6122355.html

I'm impressed, they are actually beginning to even out their ridiculously imbalanced game. The first issue - Close combat.

Before dual wielders would destroy any helpless person that spawned with his petty smg.

Now the dual wielder will find himself doing less dmg while the melee attacks and grenades his opposition will actually hurt more than they did before.

One thing I don't like is the fact that they reduced the timer on the grenades. This will only promote the death grenade - when players know they're gonna die they just throw grenades hoping to get lucky...now this will increase their chances even more. Who knows....maybe I'm wrong about this because maybe it'll help to kill snipers because long range combat needs a looking-at still.

They're also fixing a sword bug and "stand-by"-ing so that'll be nice.

I might actually test out these new changes to see if it helps much.

 

[Datrix]

Also check here
So it's just going to be an auto-update... I need to get XBL again! ;(
BTW, I always knew I could trust Bungie. Just hopefully it doesn't make the game less entertaining and cause the noobs to start crying over "the balancing!".

 

[Lemonking]

Bungie sold there soul to Satan himslef....they betrayed us PC Gamers

 

[oldagerocker]

lets just all admit it... pre this patch, halo 2 sucked multiplayer. The developers have been so restricted by the Xbox that the game just isnt as good as they couldmake it, in all departments. I welcome these updates, the Mp is currrently horribly unbalanced and really, abit shit. As i said before, and i'll say it again; it's just not counter-strike.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Awesome I might just have to log back into Live to check it out

I just got annoyed with how I had to run network cables everywhere just so I could play XBL... My house just got rewired with network cables, so I can now just drop a cable into the basement and solve that problem

 

[AmishSlayer]

lets just all admit it... pre this patch, halo 2 sucked multiplayer. The developers have been so restricted by the Xbox that the game just isnt as good as they couldmake it, in all departments. I welcome these updates, the Mp is currrently horribly unbalanced and really, abit shit. As i said before, and i'll say it again; it's just not counter-strike.

Exactly. I had completely dropped the game after playing for a few weeks and realizing how horribly balanced the game was before. I hope these changes help a lot.