Bungie Resetting Around 15,000 Halo: Reach Cheaters' Credits

Gaming Halo: Reach's "Challenge Reset" functionality is going to get you nowhere fast, if Bungie catches you. The studio has said via its message board that it is smacking about 15,000 of the "most egregious" abusers of the credit-producing exploit with a credit reset, in addition to a one-day credit ban, though the latter is being done as more of a "we see what you've been doing and you've been punished" tactic.

Cheaters who have evaded the wrist slap this time around shouldn't expect to be as lucky in the future, as an automated banning system will take over as soon as its mechanisms prove accurate enough to satisfy the studio's "high bar for burden of proof." In the words of Bungie staffer "ferrex" on the message board, "If you are thinking about getting an easy 50k credits by using this exploit, I would strongly advise you to reconsider." 
 

Gasp!

Its good to see developers laying the boom stick on these cheaters.

Cheater cheater.

Reading the bungie.net forums after this happened was hilarious. One guy threatened that he had influence over 400 people who were going to stop playing. Another 30 people insisted that since they were already high rank when they did it, Bungie should give their stuff back.

So these people will be reverted to the first level? Nice! I didn't even know about this exploit until now.

Womp Womp womp Wommmmmmp

Cheaters never win and Winners never cheat.

" So these people will be reverted to the first level? Nice! I didn't even know about this exploit until now. "

I find it soooooo fucking funny that people tried to justify there "cheating" and even to go as far to make a petition to get bungie to give them there rank back.  I swear people like that make me sick.  I'm so glad bungie reset there credits.  They could of just let them get away with it but nope bungie made the cheaters pay for it.     

Great to see so many game developers taking action against in-game cheating, makes the game a whole lot more enjoyable when you know cheaters will be punished big time.

" Reading the bungie.net forums after this happened was hilarious. One guy threatened that he had influence over 400 people who were going to stop playing. Another 30 people insisted that since they were already high rank when they did it, Bungie should give their stuff back. "

Video game points are serious business. 

Kotaku boards were pretty hilarious after the story broke. Something along the lines of "Bungie are being little bitches by taking away something valueless" to which I ask, aren't you kind of being a little bitch by bitching that something valueless was taken from you?

Sweet.

Bringing down the hammer of justice is always so sweet.

They actually first announced that they were going to start resetting credits and armour on Friday but to see the figures as high as 15,000, that's an amazing number of cheaters. I'm really glad to see Bungie is on top of this stuff and I'm glad to see them bringing in an automated banhammer for Reach like they had for Halo 3.

I'm not really bothered either way, the armour parts that you can buy DON'T DO ANYTHING AND ARE POINTLESS! 
 
Although I'm in favour of anything that improves the experience in a video for everyone and thoroughly hate cheaters.

Is it just me or is anyone else bored of this online already? It's only 3 weeks out and I don't have any inkling to play this again for quite awhile

NO!

Not my credits :(

What's most amusing is that although they're rank and cR has been reset, their commendations haven't been.  Which basically means it's going to be very hard for them to earn enough points to even get passed Warrant Officer.  Which is great, I think these people should have recieved a black mark or something against their name, just to really show what kind of players they are.
 
And yes, the Kotaku comments, etc, were rather amusing.  Especially the people badmouthing Bungie for banning people who are just using "tricks and exploits" to gain ranks quicker.  For the record, the only people who were punished were the ones using network manipulation to really screw with the game.  Those who are just farming the same game modes over and over are unaffected.

Bahahaha love this =] 

That's what happens to cheaters....BURN!
Serves you right. I hope they have automated cheat detection as a standard by the time Gears comes out next year cause Gears 2 to got filled up with cheaters.

Good! I wish this was done for MW2. Pisses my off when i spend like a  year playing and  they reward me with a cool rare badge , but it could take some stupid 12 years old a day of boosting to get the same thing.

While I agree that resetting cheaters is a great idea and I'm glad that Bungie has decided to take a proactive role, I really think that they should have done a better job of ensuring that these exploits were not able to be beneficial in the first place. I'm also not certain that they should consider the exploit in question a cheat without due warning.

" @MadThad0890: So how'd they cheat exactly? You earn cR to unlock purely cosmetic odds and ends from The Armoury. There is no benefit and no advantage there. So the question I pose to you is who exactly are these "cheaters" cheating? "

Personally I think cheating is a waste.  Does it really make you feel better?  I like accomplishing my achievements n such the good ol' fashioned way, by actually doing it.  I only have one S ranked game on giantbomb so far, I'm hoping that within a month or so Halo Reach will be my other S ranked game.

aw poor cheaters, better luck next time

Only 15,000 people reset? Only the most extreme cases reset?

How does such an easy exploit slip past Bungie?

" Only 15,000 people reset? Only the most extreme cases reset? How does such an easy exploit slip past Bungie? "

" While I agree that resetting cheaters is a great idea and I'm glad that Bungie has decided to take a proactive role, I really think that they should have done a better job of ensuring that these exploits were not able to be beneficial in the first place. I'm also not certain that they should consider the exploit in question a cheat without due warning. "

" @KingWilly said:

" @MadThad0890: So how'd they cheat exactly? You earn cR to unlock purely cosmetic odds and ends from The Armoury. There is no benefit and no advantage there. So the question I pose to you is who exactly are these "cheaters" cheating? "

Cosmetic or not, it still ruins the experience for everyone else.  For most players, it will take quite a long time to rank up to Lt.Col and it will be quite an accomplishment when you finally do.  That's been completely cheapened by people cheating, when the real players do make it that far..  it now means nothing. "

" @WinterSnowblind said:

" @KingWilly said:

" @MadThad0890: So how'd they cheat exactly? You earn cR to unlock purely cosmetic odds and ends from The Armoury. There is no benefit and no advantage there. So the question I pose to you is who exactly are these "cheaters" cheating? "

Cosmetic or not, it still ruins the experience for everyone else.  For most players, it will take quite a long time to rank up to Lt.Col and it will be quite an accomplishment when you finally do.  That's been completely cheapened by people cheating, when the real players do make it that far..  it now means nothing. "

How does it ruin your experience?   Unless you're the kind of person who scowls at someone for having a fancy car, I don't see how someone getting flashy shit faster than you or having a higher rank than you ruins your game. None of the bonuses you get in Reach do ANYTHING to the gameplay. This is not like MW2 where there were real cheaters exploiting heinous glitches. This is just people wanting to rank up quick and get cool stuff to customize their Spartan.  You can see why the vitriol is silly, surely. "

I know a couple of people who are now Recruits after being Lt. Colonels. When they found out about the Challenge Cheating, they boosted for a good 80,000 cR, and now they've got nothing. Nice to see Bungie isn't letting you get away with anything.

I love Bungie for doing this. All those "cheaters" complaining in the Bungie forums about how they are going to sell the game and wait for Black Ops can go fuck themselves. 
 
We don't need them right Bungie? =D 

Cheaters are for shitters. Put them back in the toilet.

This makes me want to buy Reach.  I don't get off on the whole 'ohhh my rank is this' thing, but I like the way rankings help sort out good players from bad and experienced from unexperienced.  And I HATE it when someone who sucks but just wants the ranking or whatever is playing with other serious players.  Tends to ruin my fun.

" @KingWilly: I don't scowl at anyone with fancy cars, but if I knew that they stole the car, I probably would at least give them a look... The various customization options in the game might not have any gameplay effects, but they obviously have value. They represent investment and dedication to people, and just because that might not matter to you or me one bit, there are way more people who can derive great pleasure from showing others their "accomplishments" than there are people who don't.  People who "cheat" in this case are devaluing other people's legitimate achievements and defrauding them of their dedication and their right to this type of  fun, not to mention destroy the system which Bungie has set in place.  I don't see how hard it is to understand that point. "

Are they going to fix this exploit after they reset the people that used it?

The forums were amazing on Friday on BNET. All the posts were hilarious!