Halo 2

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Xbox Live updates

A common complaint regarding Halo 2's online play has been the widespread cheating which occurred almost immediately upon the game's release. Users exploited bugs in the game and vulnerabilities of the network to win ranked games and thus increase their matchmaking rank. In response to these complaints, Bungie released an automatic update for Halo 2 (a mandatory patch) on Monday, April 18th, 2005, which fixed many of the various bugs and cheats in the game (though some inevitably persist), slimmed down split-screen HUD information, and rebalanced various weapons to promote use of single-wield weapons, grenades, and melee attacks. For example, the melee attacks and grenades are now far more powerful. Melee attacks have also been given a lunge ability like that of the Energy Sword, though with a much shorter range. A full list of changes can be seen here. This brings Halo 2 up to Version 1.1.

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Halo 2 also supports downloadable content, with Bungie making various new multiplayer maps available. Four maps were made available to download on Monday, April 25th, 2005. Two of these were immediately free to download (the "Bonus Pack"), while the other two (the "Killtacular Pack") had a charge attached (US$5.99, £2.99) until July the 5th (in actuality, late June), when they too became free to download. On the 5th, 5 new maps were made available in a pack for $11.99, and will similarly be made free to download on August 30th. The Map Pack disk (below) was also released on that date. For further information on the map packs and their contents, see the list of downloadable maps.

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Another update was added in July, 2005 (a week or so after the release of the map pack). The update added a detection tool that would automatically detect and ban 'modders' using modified content on their Xboxes. Modified versions of the downloadable maps would allow people to use cheats such as 'super jump' and 'automatic reload' during matches on Xbox Live. Any players who are detected using modified content would be automatically banned from Matchmaking on Xbox Live. The update also fixes a teleporter glitch on the map, Relic.

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Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack

Unofficial Content

There are additional maps and mods for Halo 2, only avaible for Xbox consoles that can execute unsigned code.

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This content can be downloaded via Mimesis (a Homebrew xbox application that resembles the layout of the download manager of Halo 2) or manualy via FTP uploads or homebrew installers.

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An example of this kind of content is Halo 2: Combat Evolved (Current Version 1.5)

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There are some cons for using this kind of content because the terms of service of Xbox Live, that's why this content is more safe to use on a tunneling enviroment like XBconnector Xlink Kai

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