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Subject: Game Trick Help... apologies if already posted years ago
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(Posted at Halo Babies earlier today...)

I have a lot of Halo vids displaying some good use of the jump trick (getting a higher jump from exiting vehicles). I've tried to figure it out and very rarely have I even come close.

To better explain the trick, you basically get in a warthog or ghost and go at a high speed toward a wal of some sort (the outside base walls of blood gulth for example). As you approach these walls you turn your vehicle to the side you would normally exit MC off of (left side for warthog, right side for ghost). And after that, you do some type of button and or analog sequence to jump extremely high in the air.

Can anyone help better detail this trick?

I have difficulty even trying to get to the tower and NONE of the guides I have read helped even after trying it... noone is detailed in how to do things


Thanks for reading...

  • 07.12.2004 8:46 AM PDT
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you pretty much explained it. i dont know why its not working for you. Any way this trick don't really help much as when you do it, you usually have to turn while in the air to hit your enemy. when you do this your bullets dont go were your sight is. then you hit the ground and freeze for a second and if you didnt kill your opponent with the vehicle, your dead.

  • 07.12.2004 8:52 AM PDT
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Well, my difficulty is in the button sequence afterward...

Do you have to time it right so that when you turn at a high speed your vehicle whips you at the very bottom? or way before you reach the wall?

Also, do you press X, then B to jump, or both at the same time?


That's my quarrel with the trick... it's not very detailed anywhere.... the vids just illustrate. but noone details their explanation (so it can be thought of without gameplay).

  • 07.12.2004 10:48 AM PDT
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it's all in the timing. try doing it with the ghost first as that is the easiest. get the ghost straffing sideways and exit a little before you get to the wall or whatever you want it to push you up. keep holding that joystick sideways as you exit the ghost and it should push you right up the wall. you shouldn't have to press jump or anything.

[Edited on 7/12/2004 10:59:43 AM]

  • 07.12.2004 10:58 AM PDT
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So you're saying that as I exit, I should hold down on my analog stick(s) the direction i'm turning and just press x at the right time?

Should I hold down X or B for jump at all? or will the physics of my turn & exit just throw me up there?

[Edited on 7/12/2004 12:05:28 PM]

  • 07.12.2004 12:05 PM PDT
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On a ghost.

1) You exit on the right so you want to strafe right.
2) When you get close to the wall press x to exit.(continue to hold your analog stick right)
3) The physics should push you up the wall.

this isn't the turn and exit method. here you are straffing to your right in the ghost the whole time.

[Edited on 7/12/2004 12:17:46 PM]

  • 07.12.2004 12:16 PM PDT
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Thanks for the help, i'll try it out tonite when I get home...

Now for the Blood Gultch tower trick.

Have you been able to sucessfully do it?

I can't get the timing and/or speed and/or positioning right... I do press the A button, but I firstly can't even elevate from the apex of the hil... (the first hill that is).

  • 07.12.2004 12:26 PM PDT
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you talking about sniper rock???

  • 07.12.2004 12:29 PM PDT
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ahh never mind you mean climbing the wall with the ghost. all i can say is practice. after you get the hang of it you can do it pretty fast. Check this link for a map that works pretty good.

http://halosm.bungie.org/tipsntricks/display.html?collection= cal.tower&image=tower

  • 07.12.2004 12:31 PM PDT
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Yup, Sniper ROck.

I always refer to it as "The Tower" because of the rock being so tall...

then again, it's arguable that it's a column to begin with, but it doesn't support any architectural structure...

(Been taking art history classes this summer :-\)

  • 07.12.2004 12:32 PM PDT
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for sniper rock i just use the push trick that we went over earlier. turn so sniper rock is on your right. there should be two rocks on your right also. right between the rocks on the wall is a nice slope. this is where i usually push myself up at.

  • 07.12.2004 12:37 PM PDT
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Thanks again for your help...

I'll give u and update when I get both tricks accomplished.

  • 07.12.2004 12:45 PM PDT
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Well, I've done it all... well almost.

It's so funny because the first time I heard of the Tower trick on BG i tried and tried and NEVER made it. Then after making this post and recieving your replies, I made it on my VERY FIRST attempt... lol :-)

Anyway, I didn't make it to the tower because I think I strafed to the right wrong or something. I'm about to email Cal about the strafing aspect of it...

And for the jump trick, it does seem okay to use... I just wanted to be able to do it, but I guess it's a one in a million type thing when it's very useful./

  • 07.13.2004 9:26 AM PDT
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I've finally successfully done the tower trick on BG and also the jump trick... yeah, it doesn't seem so hard once you've done it right.

But now I have THE upper hand in BG battles... none of my friends I frag [with] even know about Halo Tricks... only strategy and methods for killing...

  • 07.15.2004 9:20 AM PDT
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you've just started to tap into the evils of the darkside my friend. come further down the hole with us and exploit more glitches.

  • 07.15.2004 9:24 AM PDT
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LOL.

"Dwell in the Halo darkness I must!"

  • 07.15.2004 12:58 PM PDT
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Couldn't quite pull it off tonite when i played... plus we had limited time. I had to drop off some friends who are "non-Halo receptive" if you know what I mean...

  • 07.16.2004 9:04 PM PDT
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hmm ill look into this i never use cliches too much lol

  • 08.09.2004 8:10 PM PDT