05.16.2007 HALO 3 TRICKS AND GLITCHES GAMEPLAY VIDEO
Halo 3 is still months away from coming out on Xbox 360, and fans are already having fun finding all the tricks and glitches in the multiplayer. Players goatrope and DevinOlsensBack have recorded their exploration of the three beta maps as they find the strategic hidden limits Bungie tucked into each level. The first half of the footage is all focused on Highground's several perches around the perimeter of the environment, and how you can leapfrog your way to the top of the surrounding cliffs.
Valhalla has a few spots where collision clipping allows you to perch yourself up in a corner on thin air. They've also used grenades on each other and vehicles to catapult over huge distances and glitching the death code. And in Snowbound they show how far you an push the height limits of each map. The buildings reach far into the sky, yet they've already found a way to get more than half way up each structure. My main reason for liking Halo 2 more than the first Halo was because of the maps, and so far I'm loving Halo 3's maps.
The beta has been out for less than 24 hours and we already have people trying to glitch it? Sigh... The only benefit I can see to this is it's a beta: If Bungie gets ahold of the youtube videos of people glitching or gets reports of it, maybe they'll find time to fix it before the game is acutally released.
Getting an advantage from a glitch or a superjump just means you're smarter than your opponents. Only a fool would eschew some of these tricks because it didn't fit with his idea of a 'pure gameplay'.
And I should note, I couldnt see the video when I first posted. Goddamn filters at work block everything youtube. I watched it when I got home. That stuff doesnt bother me at all. Finding high points and strategic locations is good stuff.