Oh, it’s happened to anyone who’s ever played Halo online. You’re rocking High Ground in a Ghost, you’ve just got your third Splatter Spree award off some dweeb caught in a reload, and – BLAM! – you’re dumped out the game with one of those “Connection to host lost” messages. Apparently Mr Reload wasn’t into it anymore.<\/p>\n
Well, Mr Reload won’t be doing that for much longer, because Halo: Reach is packing some serious penalties for early quitters. Or, in proper scientific terms, “sore ****ing losers”. <\/p>\n
“I think one of the new things people will be excited about too, is how we’re going to be able to penalise people who are habitually quitting out of games, which isn’t exactly cheating, but it creates a really negative experience for everybody else in the game,” says Bungie’s community guy, Brian Jarrad, in a recent interview over on Xbox360achievements.org<\/a>. “We actually have new tools now to detect that and eventually, people who do this habitually will actually be penalised. We want to be able to remove them from the population so they can’t make everyone else keep having a bad time.”<\/p>\n He neglected to mention exactly what those penalties entailed, but I’m guessing it’s a short time-out at the very least. Or maybe they should start flagging gamertags, and putting all the ragequitters into their own special rage lobbies in matchmaking. Let them keep ragequitting on each other until they realise how stupid it is. <\/p>\n