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Subject: The "X" button
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In the manual and in the game menu it says that the "X" button is used to exchange weapon. Can anyone tell me how that works. I've yet been able to use it.

  • 05.30.2006 2:16 PM PDT
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When you go over the gun on the floor, and press X, you qucikly exchange that weapon in your hand to the weapon your standing on top of. It's basically for if you want to pick up weapons faster, because using E to pick up weapons, you need to hold down E for a few more milliseconds.

  • 05.30.2006 2:18 PM PDT
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hooray thank you that has been bothering me for quite a while

  • 05.30.2006 2:19 PM PDT
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lol, no problem man. Any time.

  • 05.30.2006 2:23 PM PDT
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To change weapons from the floor faster, hit x, or hit e while running over the weapon. It's also faster if you hold down x or e while moving over it. Also, if a weapon is flying through the air (eg if someone naded a rocket launcher) and it flies towards you, you can catch it in midair if you move into the path of it while holding e or x.

I made a particularly sweet kill once when I caught a rocket launcher in mid-jump and fired directly into a banshee.


WARNING! If you hold x or e while meleeing someone or very close to someone who dies, you may lose your alternate weapon, and not be able to hold 2 weapons at the same time until you die again.

  • 05.30.2006 3:29 PM PDT
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WARNING! If you hold x or e while meleeing someone or very close to someone who dies, you may lose your alternate weapon, and not be able to hold 2 weapons at the same time until you die again.

Wait, really? Is this a glitch of some sort? it sounds unfair...lol.

  • 05.30.2006 3:33 PM PDT
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Interesting, I've never heard about a glitch like this before. Halo's physics, although quite well-done, are quite retarded. How is it that you can fire tank shells when you're not even in a Scorpion's cockpit?

I always move while picking up weapons, for experienced players like myself, it becomes a second nature.

  • 05.30.2006 3:48 PM PDT
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This usually happens in Ice Fields at the sniper teleports: I go to pick up a sniper, find an enemy standing still, hit melee and x at the same time and pick up a sniper rifle but lose the use of my pistol. O.o

Eh, the physics of moving the tank while not in the cockpit is fine, I'd rather that than NOT being able to move and fire shells. What bugs me is that you can be sniped in the head WHILE GETTING OUT of the cockpit. By shooting the canopy.

  • 05.30.2006 4:25 PM PDT