Saturday, April 16, 2005

Next Monday, Halo 2 developer Bungie will release a brand new update for the super-popular FPS title via Xbox Live - as well as addressing the ongoing battle with bugs and glitches, the update will also continue the gameplay balancing and tweaking Bungie have deemed appropriate. In the biggest of the three Halo 2 updates to-date, this patch is said to overhaul the multiplayer weapons balancing in a bid to make play more entertaining.

"The scale of the auto-update gave us a unique opportunity - a chance to implement balance changes on certain weapons to smooth out the Xbox Live and System Link experience, and in a couple of cases, we feel, subtly improving the overall feel of the game," Bungie's Frank O'Connor stated.

"Now if someone charges too closely with dual SMGs, you can melee them and actually kill them faster than they can kill you," added designer Jaime Griesemer. "You have viable options again."