Official - Halo 2: Glitches

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Glitches aren’t neccessarily a bad thing, at all. Anybody who’s ever played Tribes(Starsiege, 2, T:AA, T:V, whatever), can testify to it. Tribes had a flaw in the momentum engine. If you kept jumping, while going down hill, you picked up speed. It’s called ‘skiiing’. This, combined with Tribes trademark Jetpacks and hilly terrain, made for a ridiculously complex method of movement in all Tribes games, which ‘seriously’ deepened the gameplay, as to how well one could move. When people started doing it, in Starsiege Tribes, the first one, tons of people cried wolf and yelled at them and got pissed off, etc, for no good reason. It deepened the gameplay.

Standby in H2 definitely doesn’t deepen the gameplay. If you’re host, and you Standby, it’s an automatic win. Period. The other team can’t do anything about it, at all. Secondary Standby can’t be countered, it can only be predicted. In order to stop secondary standby, you have to waste your time searching for the person doing it. Also, both forms of standby violate the X-Box Live Terms of Service, by manipulating their network connection to gain an advantage in online play.

Sword cancelling doesn’t matter in XBL, at ‘all’. It’s next to useless. Ninja Grabbing(Picking things up through walls) deepens the game too. Along with expert weapon grabs(Grabbing the SR through the floor in Ivory, the BR through the floor perch in Collossus, The rockets through the bridge in Burial, the Plasma Pistol through the wall in Creek, etc etc etc), it just deepens the game in general, by providing multiple, known methods of attack, which can all be stopped without dramatically changing the rules of the game.

Dummying is the only questionable glitch. And, Bungie says it’s cheating. So, that ends that story.

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since the FAQ said that wall grabbing would be kept does anybody mind talling me how to do it please?

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Actually, the weekly whats update said that wall grabbing was being addressed. AKA, fixed. Exactly what they’re going to do with it, who knows. But there’s no secret to it. You can pick up weapons/objectives if you’re next to them. Even if there’s an obstable in the way. Not too complicated, heh. But, some of the grabs are ‘difficult’. For example, grabbing the rockets from under the bridge on burial mounds. However, it’s very useful.

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Secondary Standbying and Dummying are exactly the same thing…Dummying would just indicate that it’s a CTF playlist.

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They’re not the same thing… dummying is the ‘Elite in warthog - ghost-player’ glitch. Though not sure about secondary standby… Dummying is used in CTF as i think there’s not other playlist that it’s useful for - the ‘ghost’ player takes the flag then somehow returns to its normal self where the player got into the warthog originally. (Usually right next to the score point.

Never realised until last night - if you’re on defense on Zanzibar and the game is about to end, go up to the door switch and hold X - when the round is over, the gate will open up at the beginning of their round. Not sure if this is going to be fixed in the update - Dummying definitly will be and they reckon Standby will be as well.

Jim

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oh. I didn’t read the weekly update, just the FAQ that was posted i here. Thanks for the info. One more thing if you don’t mind, how is it difficult to get the rockets?

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Hey! Could you please be more spacific on how to do the secondary standby? :confused:

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Could you please not ask how to exploit something that violates XBL Terms of Service, and pisses off everyone you play?

Secondary Standby and Dummying both do the same thing. To put it simply, They confuse the other 1/7/15 players X-Box’s into thinking you’re somewhere that you’re not. Secondary Standby does it by intefering with your network connection, while Dummying does it by making others think you got out of a warthog, when you didn’t. One is against XBL TOS, ‘and’ Bungie’s rules. One is just against Bungie’s rules. Dummying is less common, because it requires more than one person to cooperate, and it requires a warthog, and, it’s easier to stop. Both are effective for more than ‘capturing the flag’ though.

There are other ways to confuse other players X-Box’s as to your location, but, I’m not going to share those. Play fair, or don’t play at all.