Fall Update takes out Gamerscore cheaters

Well, that entire Fall Update being a bricker rumor’s been debunked by some research work, although it had caused quite a firestorm. There is something that the Fall Dashboard Update (or is it the updated update?) will deliberately take out, however, and it’s not hacked 360s. It’s hacked Gamerscores.

As reported by awfullygood in “Confessions of a Gamerscore Whore” and TANK in 2old2play, the Fall Dashboard update throws in a new “hybrid locking mechanism” that prevents players from trading game saves so they can inflate their Gamerscores. Currently, there are three ways to hax your G-score to appear likes u da Live man a**-kikkrz.

• Method 1: Saves from games dating from launch to March/April 2006 were “Unlocked” and could be given to or traded with any user.
• Method 2: Games after April/May 2006 have their saves locked to a specific console. Hackers were able to extract the specifics of the Console ID, however, and created “Bypass,” which tricks the 360 into matching this ID code to any game save a player would want to use.
• Method 3: Many Arcade titles, Perfect Dark, and Far Cry game saves are profile-locked. Only your Profile can play those games. Still, cheaters can simply trade accounts by exploiting the Account Recovery system.

With the Fall Update, the vast majority of game saves falling under Method 1 no longer works on the 360. And since the Update installs a new console-code locking mechanism in place, Method 2 game saves won’t work either. No word yet heard by awfullygood on Method 3 saves.

Speaking of which, as TANK asks, what’s with all this obsession into Gamerscore, that people would do this just to pump their numbers up? It’s gotten so bad, notes TANK and awfullygood, that former #1 ranked player ST TheKing retired from the scene in protest of all this inflating. Yeah, we know it has something to do with the competitive drive and all. Still, you look up these Scores and wonder, “Okay, who’s lying?”

Well, that entire Fall Update being a bricker rumor’s been debunked by some research work, although it had caused quite a firestorm. There is something that the Fall Dashboard Update (or is it the updated update?) will deliberately take out, however, and it’s not hacked 360s. It’s hacked Gamerscores.

As reported by awfullygood in “Confessions of a Gamerscore Whore” and TANK in 2old2play, the Fall Dashboard update throws in a new “hybrid locking mechanism” that prevents players from trading game saves so they can inflate their Gamerscores. Currently, there are three ways to hax your G-score to appear likes u da Live man a**-kikkrz.

• Method 1: Saves from games dating from launch to March/April 2006 were “Unlocked” and could be given to or traded with any user.
• Method 2: Games after April/May 2006 have their saves locked to a specific console. Hackers were able to extract the specifics of the Console ID, however, and created “Bypass,” which tricks the 360 into matching this ID code to any game save a player would want to use.
• Method 3: Many Arcade titles, Perfect Dark, and Far Cry game saves are profile-locked. Only your Profile can play those games. Still, cheaters can simply trade accounts by exploiting the Account Recovery system.

With the Fall Update, the vast majority of game saves falling under Method 1 no longer works on the 360. And since the Update installs a new console-code locking mechanism in place, Method 2 game saves won’t work either. No word yet heard by awfullygood on Method 3 saves.

Speaking of which, as TANK asks, what’s with all this obsession into Gamerscore, that people would do this just to pump their numbers up? It’s gotten so bad, notes TANK and awfullygood, that former #1 ranked player ST TheKing retired from the scene in protest of all this inflating. Yeah, we know it has something to do with the competitive drive and all. Still, you look up these Scores and wonder, “Okay, who’s lying?”