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how do i get the scarab gun, can someone tell me?

  • 02.28.2008 3:58 PM PDT
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go to youtube and they show you
or i could sit here trying to tell you which is very difficult
i couldn't understand it when i got told i had to see it
Trust me though its worth putting up with the elites bad driving to get the most awesome noob pwning gun ever

  • 02.28.2008 4:18 PM PDT
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Be sure to pack some patience. I've heard of this being done with black eye and sputnik too, though I never managed to come close to the height required to get it.

  • 02.28.2008 8:10 PM PDT
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Yer, i've gotten it around 3 times, quite easy to get if you know what to do.

1st make sure you didnt kill all the banshees.
Next get in a ghost (easiest way to do it)
Go into the tunnel just as you see banshees making there move to go in and attack you.
Keep going in backwards on ur ghost as fast as you can, hopefully one will follow you past the big blown-up truck.
Once the banshee is past here it wont fly out of the tunnel as soon as it stops tyring to attack you.
If this fails, try again until it works.
Now when you see the warthog come down the right side of the tunnel, destroy it and everyone inside
Go through the 1st area with banshee following you
Go through 2nd area doing same thing
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If banshee gets stuck between something, dont just give up and revert to last save, this happens a lot and the easiest way to fix is by walking back towards entrance of tunnel until your about 15m away from banshee, it should reverse then fly at you again, now the banshee is free, continue with geting it thourgh the tunnel.

Now you need to shoot the banshees wings off, do so without damaging any other part of the banshee
Lure it into the red room, then thoruhg the gray tube-like tunnel , make sure you dont go completly thourhg the tunnel, and make sure u get the banshee in be4 ur in. Also u have to be right behind banshee or it'll just fly off to safety
Next jump in banshee just before level updates and you should launch through the tube with the level updating while your stealing the banshee.
Now you have the banshee, fly up so your out of danger from the wraith
Fly towards the place where Sparky the Tank gets Blown up by scarab
Fly up to the tallest buildings in that area.
There should be 2 massive bridge like columns connecting the tallest buildings, on the one closest to where the tank was fly towards and look around for a cone, it will be quite small because your so high up in the air but once you spotted it fly right near it, jump off and you'll see a plasma riffle floating above it.
Oh but thats not any ordinary plasma riffle, it's the Scarab Gun, why it is called it is simple, the gun shoots out the green plasma blast the scarab shoots, and i've tested with my friend, it actually look like scarab shot, even though on ur screen it'll seem like your shooting a heap of green plasma shots.

Only bad thing, you can only use in that level :( all that time wasted.

  • 02.29.2008 2:50 AM PDT
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I have to say something on this topic. This goal of getting the scarab gun is the biggest waste of time I have ever attempted on H2. For all the effort, to be able to use it for so little time was a real big disappointment to me. I have gotten it both ways, the banshee and the exploding box on the pier, and for me, the pier way is the better one. Even though you do not get to use it against any enemys, at least you get to fire it off till you grow bored with it. The effort required to do the banshee method is so outrageously long and tedious that it just is not worth the payoff of being able to move the soccer ball around and kill a few covenant with it.

The IWHBYD skull however is worth effort, even though it is of equal difficulty and tedium. At least that effort and tedium is broken up by being able to wipe out those 27 silver elites. The effect of the skull lasts the entire game and leaves you needing new pants cause you have been laughing so darn hard.

The one thing about getting the SG is that you can then say you have done it and cross it off your list of H2 things to do. That I can now say, but it is much more gratifying to me to be able to be among the IWHBYD skull club.

  • 02.29.2008 10:48 AM PDT