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Subject: Your favorite shortcut
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[color=white]I'm assuming most of you guys know this trick. On Assault on the Control Room, there's a part where you come out of the building onto a bridge, there's a bunch of enemies and a banshee sitting up on the ledge with an elite nearby. If you wait, he'll get in the banshee. the first time i saw him get in the banshee i figured i ought to throw a grenade onto the ledge by the banshee and knock it off the edge b4 he could board.

An unexpected surprise was that when i got down to the bottom of the level, the banshee was waiting for me, so i didn't need to walk all the way up those zigzag stairs up to the tower, i just flew up. So i decided to take it a step further. instead of blowing the grenade off the edge, i just ran up to it and flew up to the tower. this is an immense shortcut and is my favorite in the game. my second favorite is to run backwards at the beginning of silent cartographer, running straight over to that crack in the wall, and skipping the unnecessary first section of the level where you run into the facility and find out it's locked.

Anyway, I don't know if bungie intended these tricks, but i enjoy them nonetheless. i like them more if bungie didn't intend it. That said, I hope similar tricks are present in the H2 campaign.[/color]

[color=yellow]Do you know of some other shortcuts i didn't mention? i'd love to hear about them![/color]

[color=yellow]Do you know of some other shortcuts i didn't mention? i'd love to hear about them![/color]

  • 09.20.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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you forgot at the same spot in aotcr u can jump off the ledge near the wall and stick near the wall and then just crouch and ull only get some sheild damge. how about that?
and for a plus u can throw the grenade and do mine so that its an even bigger shortcut and when u do mine their are no enemies in the pyrimid. haha!

  • 09.20.2004 3:04 PM PDT
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hey here,
The same starting point you mentioned, 'assault on the control room ' short cut as soon as you come out on the ledge go to the left and slide down the cliff!! (It can be tricky) There will be the wraith waiting so be carefull! FROM: Wickedwondor

  • 09.20.2004 3:18 PM PDT
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hey! i just said that cant u read???

  • 09.20.2004 3:35 PM PDT
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i like mine better, but it's hard. i just did it today for the first time on single player legendary. it's hard cuz you have to not get killed and at the same time race up to the banshee b4 the elite can get it.

[Edited on 9/20/2004 3:36:58 PM]

  • 09.20.2004 3:36 PM PDT
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In the level 343 guilty spark you chuck away ur plasma grenades as soon as u can at the beggining and then ull stay in the dropship as it flies away, u then hop out when it stops and follow a ridge to the little building where the flood are

  • 09.21.2004 7:49 PM PDT
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I got best 1 rite here on too beytrays on heroric on the party were u go out side were u continusly see covos fighting flood on the first part go to the left instead of th right ull see a small lege and some rocks and trees jump on the rocks and watch as more flood run out of a cave in front of u after there all gone (U need 2 ppl for this part) go in the cave and crawl through acrack in the rocks(if u cant ceep reverting to saved until rocks change) keep 1 guy on 1 side a let the other run to the part were the bashees are on the way there will be no enemys. once ur there let the other guy kill all the units on the way there once u get to the last part the units will suddenly apper u can get into a banshee with no problem

  • 09.21.2004 8:48 PM PDT
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Also u guys no top of the world on silent catagrapher well get to the fisr place were oversheild is set very this up right but dont use warthog throw the gernade and run at the right angle faceing to the left of the arch way thing if done right ull fly up on thetop of the island and can scip all the fighting in the forest

  • 09.21.2004 8:53 PM PDT
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And you also know about the intended shortcut tunnels during "warning: hitchhikers may be escaping convicts". Right? You can save sooo much time using those. It makes legendary much, much easier. It's also my favorite part of the level because it was so expertly designed.

  • 09.21.2004 9:57 PM PDT
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I like shooting the banshee down on AotCR.

  • 09.21.2004 10:19 PM PDT
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[color=white] There are two shortcuts I discovered myself a long time ago

AotCR- on the bridge with the sleeping grunts on it, (the two parallel bridges) there is unbreakable glass that prevents you from jumping to the bridge accross from you. But if you jump on the concrete slab the glass sits on, then on the glass, (while bending your knees) you can easily climb up on the glass and jump to the other side and enter the door (which will have an invisible elite to scare the crap out of you) this trick lets you skip the sleeping grunt bridge, the rooms after that, and the bridge with hunters that bombard you as you run. (about 2 min)

To Silent Cartographer in 20 seconds- Once you get to the Shafted video where you kick the rock off the edge of that platform, make sure you have an overshield, (you can get one outside on the beach) go to the edge of the platform so you're looking at the differnt floors of S.C., you'll see a ramp down below you, WALK off the edge and onto the ramp, you'll have no damage but your overshield will be history, then walk to the edge of the floor you landed on and you'll see a purple covenant barrel thing with an overshield next to it down below you, carefully walk off and land on the overshield. [/color]

[Edited on 9/21/2004 10:33:54 PM]

  • 09.21.2004 10:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: Magzy T
I like shooting the banshee down on AotCR.

best short cut there is

  • 09.21.2004 10:49 PM PDT