Show-off / Cool Moves

II BABYDAVE II · **Date Posted:** 10-17-2006, 01:02 PM

Show-off / Cool Moves

There are about 10 moves in halo 2 which are cool to do. The moves I am talking about here are not moves for use in everyday playing around but are moves that can really come in useful in matchmaking or in tournaments. These moves are perfectly legal in matchmaking and in FFA or MLG tournaments.

· This is really common sense but is a good tip which you should use a lot. In halo 2, frag grenades blow up about half a second after hitting the floor. This makes it extremely hard to short-hop a grenade. So when using grenades at close range, try and hit them against close walls or objects. Also, when retreating look straight down and throw a grenade so it bounces on the floor. Usually the grenade will blow up right in front of the opponents face.

· Reload faster . Just simply press the reload button and as it is close to finishing press the melee button and then the reload button again. If executed properly you should be able to fire again much sooner.

· Vehicle suicides . This is really the best example of those show-off moves. Deaths caused by vehicles count as suicides and have the same re-spawn penalty as a suicide. Therefore, if you jump out of the vehicle you are driving, just as you are about to hit a person then it will count as a suicide for him and he will have to endure the long respawn time. This helps a lot if you can pull this off in slayer when your behind because it gives your team a bit more of a chance to catch up with the opponent.

· Here is another one of those tips you all probably already know but I’m going to say it anyway. When jacking a vehicle, you don’t have to tap x at the exact right time. You can just hold down X for as long as you want before.

· Here’s a cool one. When you are getting jacked out of a banshee, hold X. Most of the time you will just re-jack the jacked banshee ( tongue twister there).

· Hiding weapons . I recently came upon someone who had done this. Basically during the game he had managed to get a sniper and a shotgun in ascension. He then headed to rockets to see if I had got them. I hadn’t. However, he didn’t want the rockets seeing as he had two perfectly good weapons but he didn’t want me to get them either. SO he jumped down and held X over the rocket and walked forward. The effect of this was that every time he picked up and dropped a weapon the dropped weapon would be pushed forwards. After a matter of seconds he was able to hide the rockets just behind the teleporter. He did this many times over the game, every time they re-spawned, and I never did get those rockets.

· Fast melee then shoot - To shoot instantly from Melee's after Melee's. Great for instant kills but MUST have secondary weapon equipped. Executed by pressing Melee, YY, Shoot.

· Fast melees. By pressing B, X, B, X you will be able to melee much faster because the melee animation is cut short by the reload animation which is once again cut short for the melee animation.

· Quick way two throw two grenades is by overcharging a weapon and half a second later pressing the left trigger (grenade) twice. You should throw two grenades simultaneously.

The above are just a few of the many tricks/glitches in halo 2 but these are my favorite.

- Babydave

TriPPeN · **Date Posted:** 10-17-2006, 01:22 PM

I know all of them except the one where you jump out the vehicle and it makes the other person commit suicide lmmfao :P that sounds cool.

what about the double shot though :S R,R,X Y,Y R,R,X right timing

RAPE

EphruM · **Date Posted:** 10-17-2006, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by II BABYDAVE II

· This is really common sense but is a good tip which you should use a lot. In halo 2, frag grenades blow up about half a second after hitting the floor. This makes it extremely hard to short-hop a grenade. So when using grenades at close range, try and hit them against close walls or objects. Also, when retreating look straight down and throw a grenade so it bounces on the floor. Usually the grenade will blow up right in front of the opponents face.

· Reload faster . Just simply press the reload button and as it is close to finishing press the melee button and then the reload button again. If executed properly you should be able to fire again much sooner.

· Hiding weapons . I recently came upon someone who had done this. Basically during the game he had managed to get a sniper and a shotgun in ascension. He then headed to rockets to see if I had got them. I hadn’t. However, he didn’t want the rockets seeing as he had two perfectly good weapons but he didn’t want me to get them either. SO he jumped down and held X over the rocket and walked forward. The effect of this was that every time he picked up and dropped a weapon the dropped weapon would be pushed forwards. After a matter of seconds he was able to hide the rockets just behind the teleporter. He did this many times over the game, every time they re-spawned, and I never did get those rockets.

· Fast melee then shoot - To shoot instantly from Melee's after Melee's. Great for instant kills but MUST have secondary weapon equipped. Executed by pressing Melee, YY, Shoot.

· Fast melees. By pressing B, X, B, X you will be able to melee much faster because the melee animation is cut short by the reload animation which is once again cut short for the melee animation.

- Babydave

Those are all reeeallly old... but anyway... I'll update you...

1. Frag grenades in 'tight situations'... instead of looking straight down to toss one, if the guy is in range... just bounce a frag off a wall as you're spinning around to go face to face with him, but keep moving away from him as you're doing it, your frag should bounce off the wall, land under his feet, and then you should be able to put a few shots into him to end the kill... much better then just looking straight down and tossing one (cuz grenades willlll bounce off of your knees/feet)

2. Meleeing actually doesn't do a whole lot unless you're going to BxR after your reload... if you just straight melee once MC puts in the clip... the time it takes you to melee, and then retract your melee honestly isn't much faster then if you were just to let the reload animation finish... a lot of time you'll see pros in MLG hit B after a reload... in preperation that if they see someone and need to get the 'quick up' on that person... they can just hit X-R and it actually is faster (not to mention the off-host BxR Reload)

3. Hiding weapons...eehhh... what the one guy did was stupid, because like you said, the rockets kept reloading, not to mention that he was just putting himself in a position where anyone could have dropped a few grenades on him while he was paying attention to where he was moving the rockets, instead of to where people were around him... not to mention that who keeps a shotgun rather then rockets? I guess he just didn't pay any attention to his radar... aaat all...

But if you don't pick up a weapon, and you just grenade it 'into a wall' then it makes the weapon not able to be picked up (unless someone grenades it out of the wall...which in most cases just takes way too much time)... and since you didn't actually pick up the weapon... the 'reset timer' never gets activated... and it just voids the use of the weapon durring a game...

4. Melees... I actually don't even think I've seen many people do that, most people BxR... *shrug* I guess it could work, but it's not too common...

5. BxB... and I honestly don't know anyone who doesn't do it...

II BABYDAVE II · **Date Posted:** 10-17-2006, 11:19 PM

Thanks for the update. They are pretty old.

RED F0XX34 · **Date Posted:** 06-13-2007, 01:14 PM

WWOOWW Ephrum > BabyDave when it comes to giving out tips... these are old and I dont know why im posting but I got this when I searched "Tips"

Mindfreak LOL? · **Date Posted:** 06-13-2007, 02:21 PM

what a bump

PwN3rM4n · **Date Posted:** 06-21-2007, 09:21 AM

i know all of those also... its like, if u melee sumone, but u didnt BxR them, u can cancel the animation between yur spartan putting the BR (or any other wep) back into his hang by pressing 'YY' and then shoot in head for a 1 shot kill.