Modding

Modding is another way of changing game play. This can vary from changing colors of a character, to re-making a map or weapon, such as in Halo 2. Using the mods can change gameplay.

Modding for Cheating
If this is brought to Xbox Live, the account will be banned by Bungie after 6 hours of gameplay. Modding can add weapons, turn weapons that are single-wielded into dual-wielded weapons, such as the Covenant Energy Sword or even Sniper Rifles. Also, mods can make a player jump incredible distances, and in some cases, break the game or map barrier.

Other mods include:


 * Auto-headshots
 * Infinite ammunition
 * super-speed
 * "spawn raping"
 * the creation of new weapons
 * the modification of weapons in Halo 2, such as vehicles and various weapons
 * the modification of maps

Most of these maps are hard drive maps such as Containment (Level) or Terminal (Level). Only DLC maps can be modded on xbox live because its loaded from the game's HardDrive. The game disk can not be re-written, but the files may be copied to the HardDrive. However they cant be loaded on xbox live.

All of these mods are used in Halo 2 to give the "modder" a slight edge in gameplay. However, he/she can only use a lot of the mods if he/she has host of the game. Often, modders are in a party with a "bridger" or a "stand-byer." Bridgers use a program on the computer which interacts with your router and xbox to send a modder or anyone host of the game. This is effective in the process of "leveling-up." This is when gamers join a modders game to get their level boosted up because the modder is almost unstoppable. Stand-byers use many techinques to freeze other gamers games. This includes: Pressing the "stand-by" button on a modem, and slightly unplugging the ethernet cable from their Xbox. When a stand byer is sucessful, other gamers either get the dreaded "blue screen" or they get a similar black screen. Everyone but the stand-byer gets this. This allows the stand-byer to run around the map and kill all opponents. This is effectful, but illegal, as well as all mods.

Any use of these mods is in violation of Xbox and BUNGIE code and will get their account banned from all matchmaking games.

Modding for Everyone's Enjoyment
Sometimes, though, people mod for fun by making the mods on the maps able to be used by everybody in the game. This is what modding was originally intended for: fun and messing around. Often modders make a map with a theme, such as a snowy version of a normal map, a night time version of a normal map, a SWAT type map, or anything you can imagine. Some mods add player models from a Campaign map to a Multiplayer Map, including Heretic Elites, ODSTs ect.. Sometimes people make mods just to see what kind of new and innovative things they can do such as "Active Scenery" which allows objects, like Pelican Dropships, to move around the map without AI or anyone controlling it. An example of Bungie made active scenery is the Train on Terminal or the Monitor on Backwash.

Some also mod to make nice screenshots like those seen at Halouvre.