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In Halo 2, we probably all know of the scarab plasma rifle that has unlimited battery and destroys anything with ease, but did Bungie think anyone would even think to hijack a banshee in a tunnel at the exact moment you get a checkpoint?... And take it all the way up to a secluded bridge? If they didn't, well people found it pretty easily. If you ever have done this, you may know the glory that you feel when you first see the rifle on a small weapon holder with a high voltage sign. You then think, "Wait, it's just a plasma rifle?" Then you fire it. I don't need to say the rest. And how about the hidden soccer ball on the same level? It was clever, and if you find both, the game might glitch and you have to use your banshee to fly over the building with all the ordinance-crazy marines. So, how long did it take you to find out about it? Or to get it...

  • 03.02.2011 2:51 PM PDT

If they didn't expect it to be found, Bungie underestimated people with no lives.

OT: I've never gotten it. Tried, got pissed, got bored and quit.

  • 03.02.2011 2:59 PM PDT

Adepto In Meus Campester
Posted by: ParagonRenegade
You were totally and absolutely correct in every way, I don't know why we were arguing, you're so amazing I should never have doubted you.

I tried many times back in '04 and '05. Never got it. Fired up Halo 2 a couple of months ago and tried a different technique (meleeing the Banshee with Sputnik skull on instead of luring an AI Banshee through the tunnel.) I finally got it, saved the checkpoint. :3

  • 03.02.2011 3:42 PM PDT

Yes, I'm a girl, stop asking.

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Posted by: Lord Slade
I tried many times back in '04 and '05. Never got it. Fired up Halo 2 a couple of months ago and tried a different technique (meleeing the Banshee with Sputnik skull on instead of luring an AI Banshee through the tunnel.) I finally got it, saved the checkpoint. :3

If I could get my old xbox to work I actually think my checkpoint is saved with a scarab gun as well. XD Good times...

  • 03.02.2011 3:43 PM PDT

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Ahh good times. Took me and my friend like 3 hours to get it.

  • 03.02.2011 3:47 PM PDT

I am Godlike!

Very fun :3

  • 03.02.2011 3:50 PM PDT

''We ride together, we die together, bro's and bad boys for life''

I remember when I played Halo 2 co-op at my friends house. We were trying to get the Scarab gun and oh boy did it take long. We used the technique where you had to lure a banshee down the tunnel and then hijack it with perfect timing. Man how happy we got when we finally got the scarab gun.

I believe we tried the box technique as well and we did manage to get to the platform where the scarab gun was, but we couldn't find a way to get down from there without dying.

  • 03.02.2011 4:03 PM PDT

No new games, catching up with the world, and filling it with the name of SpazDragon, the dragon with a spas-12.

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Posted by: Lord Slade
I tried many times back in '04 and '05. Never got it. Fired up Halo 2 a couple of months ago and tried a different technique (meleeing the Banshee with Sputnik skull on instead of luring an AI Banshee through the tunnel.) I finally got it, saved the checkpoint. :3

If I could get my old xbox to work I actually think my checkpoint is saved with a scarab gun as well. XD Good times...

I also did the Technique when I found when I realized you could get the Sputnik skull very easily. I've gotten the Scarab Gun atleast 5 times.

Really, I felt like a god using that weapon. Do you realize how many times I've commented on it? I PRAY for it.

  • 03.02.2011 4:05 PM PDT

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i never got it... though i know an easy way to. the old rocket launcher and box glitch.

  • 03.02.2011 4:40 PM PDT

I got it on my second try, I found the wraith to be the best vehicle for luring the banshee in the tunnel.

  • 03.02.2011 5:17 PM PDT

I got the achievement for getting it

  • 03.02.2011 6:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: AirlessMICRO
In Halo 2, we probably all know of the scarab plasma rifle that has unlimited battery and destroys anything with ease, but did Bungie think anyone would even think to hijack a banshee in a tunnel at the exact moment you get a checkpoint?... And take it all the way up to a secluded bridge? If they didn't, well people found it pretty easily. If you ever have done this, you may know the glory that you feel when you first see the rifle on a small weapon holder with a high voltage sign. You then think, "Wait, it's just a plasma rifle?" Then you fire it. I don't need to say the rest. And how about the hidden soccer ball on the same level? It was clever, and if you find both, the game might glitch and you have to use your banshee to fly over the building with all the ordinance-crazy marines. So, how long did it take you to find out about it? Or to get it...

I didn't find out about it until 1 or 2 years after I got Halo 2, but as soon as I researched a little bit into Halo 2 and found that info out, I went to the level that it's always on and then lured the banshee through the tunnel and then uh... borrowed the banshee from the original driver so that I could fly there, and I did that on my 6th attempt at it.

I also learned that you can have two scarab guns at once. If you take the original scarab gun with the way that we all know by now, and then go to the part where the scarab climbs over the building that you're on and goes to the place where you disable it, if you're in 2-player mode, have one player go forwards as usual, but have one player stay where the origin of the blast was fired, which is very close to where the giant ball is located. Then when it is set to fire, have the player jump at the second scarab gun when it's firing and take it. You have to be quick though, but dual-weilded scarab guns would be awesome to use.

Not sure if any of you knew that already, but to those who don't, I hope it helps you.

  • 03.02.2011 6:28 PM PDT

I am Field Master Avu Med 'Telcam, Servant of the Abiding Truth, and I have many brothers.

A god who creates tools is still a god. It is not for us to impose qualifications upon the divine or presume to guess its intentions.

Ah the Scarab Gun. So many memories. Pure joy flowed through my veins the first time I ever fired the holy rifle.

  • 03.02.2011 6:29 PM PDT

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I remember getting it it was so awesome. My bro and I used a weird rocket laucher teqnique

  • 03.02.2011 11:59 PM PDT

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Posted by: AirlessMICRO
In Halo 2, we probably all know of the scarab plasma rifle that has unlimited battery and destroys anything with ease, but did Bungie think anyone would even think to hijack a banshee in a tunnel at the exact moment you get a checkpoint?... And take it all the way up to a secluded bridge? If they didn't, well people found it pretty easily. If you ever have done this, you may know the glory that you feel when you first see the rifle on a small weapon holder with a high voltage sign. You then think, "Wait, it's just a plasma rifle?" Then you fire it. I don't need to say the rest. And how about the hidden soccer ball on the same level? It was clever, and if you find both, the game might glitch and you have to use your banshee to fly over the building with all the ordinance-crazy marines. So, how long did it take you to find out about it? Or to get it...


i made a grenade a pelican and i flew up their in style with my scarab rocket auncher and my scarab smg's

  • 03.03.2011 12:06 AM PDT

Games I like:,
Half-Minute Hero
MBU
Portal
Halo 3 is the best Halo ever
Maps I like: Turf, Avalanche, Pylon, Sandbox, Breakpoint and many more.

If you look at the halo 2 page on this website (Go into games and click halo 2) youll see that put it in but didnt expect anyone to find it. A week later, videos were up, it was all of the forums, and bungie got surprised.

I got it twice, about a week apart from eachother. Spent an hour getting it, and upon my holy chariot banshee, I reinged supreme. One shot against a phantom, all guns fall off.

  • 03.03.2011 12:15 AM PDT

Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year.

What's a rocket launcher box trick, sputnik skull, and grenade pelican?

[Edited on 03.03.2011 5:10 PM PST]

  • 03.03.2011 5:09 PM PDT

Glorious times!

I actually did it with the Banshee and then I did it with a Warthog jump. It was so hard but so statisfying.

On my old Xbox I had a save for the Scarab Gun, every single skull and some other sweet easter eggs.

Me and a friend actually managed to get 3 (THREE!) Scarab Guns at once. One of us was dual wielding them and the other had a single one. We went apesh-t on the covenant and played an epic match of soccer with that ball.

  • 03.03.2011 5:57 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

It was put there to be found.

  • 03.03.2011 5:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
If they didn't expect it to be found, Bungie underestimated people with no lives.

OT: I've never gotten it. Tried, got pissed, got bored and quit.


Same

  • 03.03.2011 10:01 PM PDT