I had knew it was coming since I could smell the metal smoldering earlier that day. T0 BE CONTINUED: On Apat 2:24 am, my 360 decided that it could not continue any longer and froze. I clicked the guide button to abort, but it had already booted me off Halo 2. I was carrying my gamertag on a USB stick, took it to a friend's house to show him the Reach Beta and instinctively logged into my account. XxMAKDADYxx: Ethernet turned off due to home remodeling. XxBooker Dxx: I was kicked due to a power failure. GamesRadar: How were you finally kicked off? HiredN00bs: An interesting thing to note: the Halo 2 matchmaking system continued to work, even after Bungie's statistic-collecting servers were unplugged. Occasionally we'd play custom games like Zombies, MLG, Hide and Seek, Tower of Power, Tremors, Troy and glitch our way out of the maps. If we had more (12-16), we always wanted to play Big Team Battles. T0 BE CONTINUED: If we had 6-8 players, we'd play Team Training and/or Rumble Pit. GamesRadar: What did you guys do in Halo 2 for all of those extra weeks?Īgent Windex: For the first week, we mainly played Big Team Battle, but when the numbers got too small to play that, we did customs mainly.
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Weather was really cool in my area so I'd have the windows open and my ceiling fan going, keeping my room at a constant 70 degrees. T0 BE CONTINUED: Since I hadn't planned onthis at all, I had shutdown enabled, so every night I'd have to rubber band my controller to keep it from going idle while I slept. I have no idea how the electricity didn't go out.
GamesRadar: How difficult was it to keep your consoles on and connected for all that time?Īgent Windex: It was really difficult to stay online. It gave me an even stronger appreciation of the game and the community. It also helped a lot since I'm deaf and wasn't privy to the in-game voice chat, sothat some of the final few players started coming into my stream and talking to me. Eventually it transitioned into, "Okay, I'm going to keep playing and keeping this alive for however as long as I can." The first few days, I stayed on because I had logged in with two of my friends, and each night we talked and always decided, "Let's play again one more time tomorrow." I also had decided to start streaming so I could share the experience.Įvery day in my stream, I was asked if I'd keep going, and when it came to calling it a night, I couldn't bring it to an end. T0 BE CONTINUED: I had not planned on it whatsoever.