halo 2 co-op system link?

Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:01 pm

i heard microsoft and bungie announcing there wasn't going to be halo 2 co-op on xbox live or system link which i was pretty mad about but we cant have everything! lol however when i go into setup on system link it has a switch to co-op mode why is that there if it doesnt have system link co-op?

Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:18 pm

Yeah, apparently they forgot to take it out of the menu Confused

Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:33 pm

lol cheers its still a shame though that it dunt work

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1536

dfunked wrote:

Yeah, apparently they forgot to take it out of the menu Confused

this shows how serious Bungie/Microsoft were when they released this game Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:50 pm

hmmm. Maybe they will add it as download content. Razz

For a price no doubt Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:13 pm

of course it will be downloadble content

its their conspiricy to force people off of tunneling networks and onto LIVE

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

or maybe some halo 2 hacking crews could take a look at and see if the functionality is still there (just disabled) and maybe they can re-enable it.

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:17 am

that would be mother shitting sweet

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:19 pm

[MF]AmO wrote:

or maybe some halo 2 hacking crews could take a look at and see if the functionality is still there (just disabled) and maybe they can re-enable it.

I bet this will happen before m$ releases co-op as downloadable content.

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:34 pm

There will never be sys link co-op for Halo 2. Bungie said that themselves, ot maybe they are lying. I do not have the link here now and I don't really remember the reason why they won't have sys link co-op. probably demanded high bandwidth. Confused

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:43 pm

as they said before, what microsoft doesnt want to do... Hackers can do it instead Very Happy

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:09 pm

How would hackers be able to implement co-op for sys link if there even isn't any netcode for the co-op?

Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:54 pm

why dont you ask one yourself? they can do anything if they wanted to. maybe rebuild it, and modded xbox's can run it?

Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:20 pm

well i think that u could hook up 2 controllers to ur xbox and sing in to ppl onto the co op thing and then have someone else in ur room using kai and mabey it will work. i will try it and get bak to u guys.

Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:20 pm

Well.. maybe if the hackers reverse-enginered the existing netcode for the multiplayer and implemented it into the co-op. THEN, it maybe would work. But it still is a lot of work to do.

If the hackers CAN get co-op to work over system link, why haven't they done it with Halo? (Halo 1)

Oh well Smile

Kai Admirer Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 442

Link to Playing Campaign Co-op Online Wink

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:40 pm

OMG.. thats cool.. Maybe there was some netcode for co-op there.. Very Happy

EDIT: I read through that thread now and it seems somewhat believable and another part of me says: "NO, that's impossible!"

I don't really know what to believe. IF it was true... then GREAT! but i'm wondering why bungie didn't implement it by themselves? They said that it wouldn't work because of packet sizes or something similar. They also said that adding Sys Link Co-op never was a part of their "todo-list".

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:04 pm

its almost impossible...but anything is possible, just won't happen anytime soon

Team XLink Moderator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1223

well heres how I see it. Bungie was at some point developing that aspect of the game. They prolly worked with the code and there probably where some sync problems or something. Well if you remember the announcement for the Syslink NOT being available was right at the end of development hinting that it could have been nearly complete but they disabled it last minute because of timing issues with their release schedual. Now typically if they decided NOT to go through with it, I doubt they would try to remove the code for it because then you get into the issue making sure other network aspects are not affected by this removal. Instead the simpler route is just making it unaccessible to the user in the GUI. There for if all they did was disable it (which could be way off the mark btw, just my thoughts) then all some halo 2 hackers would need todo is figure out if the code is there and if it is possible it to enabled it. Then they could proceed to figure out what didnt work with syslink or did not allow it to be ready by launch day.

Just my 5 cents