Halo 2 Glitches

[ViperSRT3g 224]

This thread will be for all those little glitches and bugs that Bungie didn't find. It is comprised only of things you can do without any hacks or mods.

 

Glitch #1 Fly Like A Bird [pg.86-88]

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Dark Helmet's "Learning to Fly" video (http://files.mythica.org/halo/darkhelmet/learningtofly.wmv) is one of the most popular Halo 2 tutorial videos ever produced. This video shows a tutorial of single-player sword flying. If you want to see a video before you try this "glitch", I suggest you watch it online.

 

To try out this glitch for yourself start a campaign game on outskirts level. First grab a Plasma Sword. The easiest way to get a sword is to retrieve the hidden sword on outskirts. Once you have a blade, play through the game untill you reach the beach and find a warthog. Park the warthog where the Phantom lands to drop Ghosts or Wraiths. Get in the passenger seat and point your reticle at the Phantom's gun. Remember that when your in the passenger's seat, you won't be able to look in all directions; you'll have to plan your position carefully. When the reticle turns red, pull the trigger and then exit the vehicle.

 

Since you were locked onto the Phantom, you will be hurled into the air. Once your in the air, you'll be able to fly. You can control your direction by looking the way you want to go-just don't look too high or you will fall.

 

Note that you have to be careful at how close you fly to the Phantom. If your too close, it will shoot at you.

 

if you over shoot the Phantom when exiting the 'hog, try to exit sooner. For best results, exit the 'hog while looking across the driver's seat and as high as possible.

 

 

Glitch #2 Create a Giant Phantom Master Chief[pg.88-90]

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This is an amazing glitch. By forcing a player through the Burial Mounds fiery pillar, you are able to create a monstrous incarnation of Master Chief (MC) Corpse.

 

To reproduce this behavior, you will need to set up a multiplayer game on Burial Mounds and add the Covenant Wraith tank as the Heavy vehicle.(You may want to make a custom game variant.) Enter the game with at least two players, one of whom must be a Spartan.

 

Position the Spartan player near where the Plasma Pistol spawns. This puts him right up against the big burning pillar. Bring the Wraith to the pillar and have the Spartan crouch. Finally, boost into the Spartan so that you ram him into the pillar-this will force the Spartan player out of the map. Generally, the most successful method is for the person with the Wraith to tap forward then hold forward while boosting.

 

When the player falls through the map, there are two indications that you have reproduced this glitch correctly. The first indiciation is that after a second of falling, it appears as though the player has come to a rest and then falls again. This may sound confusing, but is easily noticeable. The other indication is that the physics game engine goes crazy and the corpse looks like it's break dancing.

 

If one of these two things happens, when the Spartan re-spawns there should be a giant corpse looming over some parts of the level. Normally, the phantom appears in the sky above the pillar.

 

The Orientation of the crouching player will determine the orientation of the giant phantom. If the player faces the pillar, you will be able to see less of the corpse.

 

Your probably wondering how such a glitch is possible. Under the pillar, there is a sphere. No one in the community seems to know why it is located there instead of some other place, but it's there. The purpose of this sphere is to project the sky textures. When you get an MC corpse near the sphere, it projects the body into the sky.

 

 

Glitch #3 Give Yourself Infinite Camouflage[pg.90-92]

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This is probably one of th emost useful glitches that has been deiscovered for the Halo 2 campaign. The irony is that this glitch is enabled by an Easter Egg. Hopefully, the Program Managers at Bungie recognize that the skulls are really cool and won't get down on Easter Eggs because of this glitch.

 

This glitch allows you to play any Master Chief level with unlimited Active Camouflage (AC). Not only does this allow you to simply walk through much of the campaign, but it is also extremely useful when doing things like collectiong skulls, exploring maps, or making moves of allies and enemies fighting (without winding up in the middle of the fight). However, infinite AC is probably most useful for players trying to get the IWHBYD skull, as the activation fight for this skull is daunting.

 

To reproduce this glitch, collect the Envy Skull and go through any checkpoint in AC mode.

 

This means that you must turn on your AC (using the white button) before you reach the checkpoint. When the checkpoint notification appears, you must already be invisible.

 

To be safe, use the "Revert to Last Checkpoint" option and make sure that did it correctly. If you have the AC activated when you revert, then you know that you have done it right. Next, you should save your game and quit. Turning off your Xbox will remove the Envy Mode. However, when you reload the same profile, you will find yourself with unlimited AC.

 

Regardless of whether you turn off your Xbox again, you will have infinite AC for that profile. However there are some limitations. The glitch is limited to the current level-when the next map loads, you lose the unlimited AC. This means that you'll have to repeat these steps for each level that you want to play with infinite AC. In addition, the Envy skull only works for the Master Chief, so the Arbiter cannot use the unlimited AC.

 

Note that enemies will not be able to see you, but if you get too close, (especially on Legendary) they will shoot towards your general location.

 

To remove the infinite AC, you can start a new map, beat the map your on, or select the "Restart level" option.

 

 

Glitch #4 Overload the Game Engine[pg.92-94]

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This isn't a difficult glitch to reproduce, but it does take some time. When too many objects crowd into a small space, strange things can happen to the Halo 2 engine. For example, objects that would normally spawn may simply not appear.

 

In addition, you can use this glitch to create dazzling effect that encompasses multiple explosions. A gamer named ZombiePt2 accidentally reproduced the glitch while attempting to amass a large pile of grenades. He was actually trying to reproduce the effects shown in Randall Glass' famous Warthog Jump video(http://www.oz.net/`rglass/warthog/).

 

To try out the glitch yourself, start any level (with grenades) in co-op mode. In this example, I used the Metropolis level. Reproducing this glitch involves fragging close to 70 players in the same location.

 

Probably the quickest way to do this with one person is to create a slpit screen campaign game with two players. Put both players in a Warthog and drive to the soccer ball building. Next, put one player in the Warthog gun by putting an elastic band around your controller. To create the gory pile of bodies, repeatedly walk into the other player into the path of fire. When I tried this glitch, it took 68 bodies to reproduce the object overload behavior. You will know when you have reached the limit when the second plauer fails to spawn.

 

At this point, you should slowly turn the Warthog gunner until some object goes out of view. When the object is no longer visible, the engine will clean it up and the player will spawn.

 

Next leave the gunner in the Warthog (i.e., with all the dead Chiefs in view), and go for a short walk to get a checkpoint. During this strol, you will notice all sorts of odd behavior.

 

By geting a checkpoint, you will guarantee that you can try the grenade toss many times. It's important that the gunner does not move during this time. If the pile of bodies and objects goes out of view of both players, it will immediately disappear.

 

Once you reach a checkpoint, you can step back, toss a grenade into the pile and enjou the fireworks.

 

Theoretically, the reason you are able to create multiple explosions is that Halo 2 begins to layer objects when there are too many in the same lkocation. This would explain why it is possible to produce multiple explosions from a single pile of objects. The first layer blows up, followed by the second layer and so forth until the entire pile is gone. For greater effect, you could try reproducing this glitch with the Sputnik skull active.

 

 

Glitch #5 Finding the Mysterious Super Jump[pg.94-96]

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This glitch is strange but impressive. There are mysterious spots on Halo 2 maps that hurl you into the air. To reproduce this behavior on the Coagulation map, simply walk up to a base and follow these instructions. This glitch works on both the Red and Blue bases.

 

At either base, find the Plasma Pistol spawn spot-it's behind the base. Now, while on the ramp, look to your left, you will see a cubbyhole of sorts. In order to reach this cubbyhole,-this is the tricky part-you must run off the edge of the ramp while still facing the cubby, and crouch in midair.

 

Now, once you are in the cubby, locate the corner of the base directly in front of you. get this corner in the middle of your weapon reticle.

 

Start walking forward and after approximately five seconds, tap the A button. This will cause you to fall. While falling, continue to hold your joystick foward. if done correctly, you will go soaring intot he air.

 

if you want to attempt something a little more complex, you can try performing a double bounce. Before attempting this variation, you should have already mastered the single bounce technique.

 

To bounce a second time, you must land in the teleporter on top of the base. This is not as easy as it sounds:you have to land exactly in the middle of the teleporter. if you are able to stick the landing you will teleport as usual, but you will find that upon exiting the transit you will go flying into the air. This second bouce sends you even higher and at a greater speed than the single bounce. If you experiment with the jump at Red base, you will find that upon exiting the teleporter, you can have a chance to land on some trees. This can prove to be an effective sniper perch.

 

Viper's Note: You can also achieve a double, even triple, or more jumps, by crouching before you hit the ground, and pressing A and uncrouching just as you hit the ground. You will bounce up almost as high or as before, and if you master this technique, it is possible to bounce across the ENTIRE MAP.

 

More glitches to come later...

Upcoming Glitches:

Get Unlimited Sword Energy

Drop Your Weapons

Teach a Scorpion to Fly

Create a Ring of Rockets

Slow Down Rockets

Sword Flying

The preceeding glitches were taken from the book Halo 2 Hacks by Stephen Cawood.

[Master Flakes 0]

Dude is it true that there is a map in Halo 2 to where if u do a certain button combination in a certain area, then you can jump all the way to the top of the map and be floating over it?

[Poply 178]

it sounds very unlikely, so i doubt it. you're referring to a multiplayer map?

[Lost Prodigy 158]

run up to a human baracade/sheild thing. stand on the T part of it and shoot a rocket at the top of the shield, its a kickass catapult