How often do you run into Cheaters on XBL?

I used to occasionally play Halo & Halo 2 multiplayer on XBL back in the day (I have less time and money these days). I remember running into cheaters every so often. Usually these cheaters were invincible to all forms of damage expect rockets, grenades or any explosive.

My question is how often do you run into cheaters on XBL? What can we do about them? Can users report them to MS? What kind of penalties, if any, do cheaters face? How harsh are these penalties? How do you personally react when you encounter a cheater? Do you just exit the game and leave it at that? Do you take any other action?

Lastly, is there anything MS can do better to address this issue?

Gears of War alot of glitchers halo2 also

I have seen 2 on xbox 360.

reported them both.

Havent seen them sence.

i find alot of people that use glitches in games like gears and splinter cell.

people that tamper with the game to give them inviciblity, i dont really see too much

Never encountered cheaters. People that claim they do probably just suck as playing.Radiozo

I was going to say this but decided I'd let someone else have a go.

you get the occasional people in Rainbow Six who will glitch in grenades. how do i deal with it? i kick them from my matches, give them negative feedback, and report them to MS (even though we all know they dont do anything about it)ctfvyrsgurbnorn

Unfortunately glitching is allowed on Live. The best thing you can do is give them negative feedback. I guess you could try to tell Ubisoft about the exploit but they seem content on not fixing it.

Okay, so I have had this happen about 3 times in Halo 3 mp: I bash a guy after shooting him with the AR, we are both running out of ammo, he reloads and I bash him again, he still doesn't die and then he shoots me or bashes me and kills me. And he has NO OVERSHIELD. So how does that happen?! 2 bashes plus half a clip of AR ammo should down anyone. Maybe it's lag, but there seems to be very little lag in 4 vs. 4 Team Slayer. Hmmmmm...
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[QUOTE="ctfvyrsgurbnorn"]you get the occasional people in Rainbow Six who will glitch in grenades. how do i deal with it? i kick them from my matches, give them negative feedback, and report them to MS (even though we all know they dont do anything about it)Cowmanik

Unfortunately glitching is allowed on Live. The best thing you can do is give them negative feedback. I guess you could try to tell Ubisoft about the exploit but they seem content on not fixing it.

no its not. Forza is a good example of this. They have banned many xbox live users for offensive content and glitching.

So far i haven't encountered any on the 360... I do remeber the Halo 2 days though and that was quite a few cheaters, but so far none.

Oh and people when the person you're playing kills you that means they are better than you and you most likely suck (or they are extremely lucky) and doesn't mean they are cheating.

Truth be known the closest thing to cheating i have seen is the Gears of War host advantage, but that isn't a cheat.

Anyone who beats me in halo is a cheater; therefore, I run into cheaters all the time.pjhtiger44

Your logic is flawless.

Since I never played Halo 2 online, the only cheaters I ran into were on Gears of War. I ran into a couple a match.

I haven't had any problems with Halo 3, though. I'm going to quit playing it when Call of Duty 4 comes out so I'll never have to play with cheaters.

I've never encountered cheaters on live. Microsoft bans them.Cowmanik

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go on rainbow six....and then come back here... and say that again with a straight face.......... u find cheaters all the time.... u find lamerz all the time... it happens...

[QUOTE="ctfvyrsgurbnorn"]you get the occasional people in Rainbow Six who will glitch in grenades. how do i deal with it? i kick them from my matches, give them negative feedback, and report them to MS (even though we all know they dont do anything about it)Cowmanik

Unfortunately glitching is allowed on Live. The best thing you can do is give them negative feedback. I guess you could try to tell Ubisoft about the exploit but they seem content on not fixing it.

They've added a new glitch report funtion, under bad player reviews, that's how I reported an azn hater to MS, wrote his name down, says there is no such user when I try to add to friends just to see if he's there. So some things happen when u report to ms, dont know how frequently though

Generally I dont run into cheaters.. but on Saints Row's multiplayer there are so many TKers!

I just give them bad feedback.. don't really know exactly what else you can do about them.

Anyway I think cheaters get penalised by MS on XBL, dont they?

I played like 4 guys (and reported them) that were doing impossible stuff like no receiving damage and killing my mates with only couple of shots with the Assault Riffle.

good news Bungie is bringing the banhammer! :D

Bungie has such a sophisticated tracking system that they are aware were every player has walked, shot, jump, crouch, nade, etc. so hopefully cheaters/modders will be punish.

I have some other questions:

What kind of gamer cheats? When you have conversed with a cheater over voicechat or type, what kind of person were they?

XBL has a reputation of being filled with foul-mouthed twelve year olds. How accurate is this statement? Is it mostly younger (teenagers) gamers who are cheating? I personally don't understand why older gamers would cheat; it just seems so sad, immature, and pathetic to me. Why ruin a game for everybody else? Do cheaters enjoy getting on people's nerves?

For more skilled players, is there an option to play with a handicap when playing against your friends or other less skilled players online? I used to play with a handicap back in the Goldeneye and Perfect Dark days to make matches more balanced for my friends. I know with Halo 2 there was a skill level system where you are encouraged (was this forced?) to play with players ranked of relatively equal skill. Was this a good system? Can and how do you play with lesser skilled friends in Halo?

I don't think I really have run into any. Sure there are times where you think perhaps are they? But I think for the Vast Majority of it, people just complain about cheaters to cover up the fact that they just are not very good online.

You can be a master at playing a shooter in Single Player and be total crap online.