Patch 1.03 is almost out. It's looking like the patch will be released on Monday the 8th (Dec???). There are a lot of features and fixes in this patch. Here's a breakdown of the ones that you will likely find most important. A complete breakdown of what's in the patch will be in the release notes.

Patch 1.03 features/fixes

Features:

•Anti team killing – Implemented server-configurable team-killing banning solution. Removed respawn penalty from person who gets team killed. Increased respawn time multiplier for team killing.
•Assault mode role indicator – “Offense” or “Defense” will appear on the HUD indicating which role your team is on
•Assault mode timer – A permanent countdown timer is displayed on the HUD showing the time left for that “round”
•Assault mode flag hard reset option – The flag will reset automatically at the end of each “round”, even if it is being carried by someone.
•Networking performance – Enhancement to player prediction
•Persistent teams across mapcycle – Players will remain on the same team when a new map is started
•Map quick restart – restarts any MP game – good for having all players start at the same time.
•New in-game scoreboard – Displays players, kills, deaths, assists and ping
•Increased chat text length – Chat length has been increased from 40 characters to 64 characters
•Improved banned player detection - Banned players no longer appear in game for brief second before getting kicked out

Fixes:

•Plasma grenades can no longer teleport on vehicles
•Players standing on rock no longer experience “warping”
•Teleporters no longer cause occasional camera out of sync
•Cinematic speech bug with Audigy cards fixed
•Game not starting with unsupported refresh rates fixed
•“Telefraged” message is now displayed when a player is telefraged
•Flashlight toggle bug in MP games fixed
•Interrupting reload animation bug fixed

Dedicated Server:

•Increased server name length – Server names can now be up to 63 characters in length
•Expanded character set for server names – Server names can now contain extended punctuation and characters
•RCON can now pass quotation marks to server – useful for turning on and off passwords
•Fixed “-ip” for assigning which network card is used by the game
•Fixed ability to restart a single instance of the server without restarting all instances


Great News for server admins and players!

The DedServer 1.03 Patch is out now:-

DedServer 1.03 Patch:-
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... aloded.exe

DedServer 1.03 Readne:-
http://halo.bungie.net/images/site/halo ... e_1_03.rtf

The 1.03 Client Patch will be released this afternoon. That is what Bungie are saying atm.

Looks like we may have SOME remote access to halo.

And thank god for the anti tk

Well, i have my tk set!

sv_tk_ban 4
sv_tk_penalty 10m 2h 12h 36h
sv_tk_cooldown 30s

all well and good!

Is that on the GA servers?

Na, on my servers Im not sure if you can join tem yet, as 1.03 Client isnt out yet (maybe now though) have a little look see

Dunno if i will :\
Those non GA server chew up your megabytes like mad.
Oh whell, unlimited next month

hehe, true

Yeah u can get the new patch by using the Haloupdate (e.g C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo) tool within ur Halo folder. Or u can d/l the actual file itself. Atm i have found only 1 place so far (Probably more out there but found this site first):-

Click the link to d/l:-

3D Gamers
http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/planetmi ... 3.exe.html

Or you could just download it off GA.

lol, good point :

It wasn't up when i posted (Don't think )

I was the 1st to DL it
Off GA anyway..

really?, special