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Halo 3 Glitch and My "Dear John" Video to Bungie
HarassmentPanda \| 12:21 PM on 02.16.2008	18 comments

I made a brief video to showcase an extremely odd glitch that happened to me in matchmaking one day. Because I didn't have any real way to logically join the clips together, I turned it into a "Dear John"-style letter. Honestly, I just wanted to play with iMovie HD and I hope someone enjoys this movie.

Also, awarding points to the wrong team is a pretty serious glitch--Bungie should probably look into fixing this.

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18 comments | showing # 1 to 18

wardrox says:
(# 0) on 02/16/2008 12:42

How very odd, looks like it was armed as he died... so didn't arm properly. Bugs ftl.

007 says:
(# 1) on 02/16/2008 12:57

This is why I play Gears of War. There are no glitches in that game. Yup... no glitches at all.

None whatsoever.

DisablingEagle says:
(# 2) on 02/16/2008 12:58

HarassmentPanda. Ha.

bunnyrabbit2 says:
(# 3) on 02/16/2008 13:03

I don't know if you noticed but the bomb never got onto the bomb pad. It was armed, but did not sit on the pad like it was supposed to. This is probably because of P22 dieing during the process of arming the bomb

HarassmentPanda says:
(# 4) on 02/16/2008 13:11

@bunnyrabbit2

That's what I thought too, but that shouldn't be the case. If you die while arming the bomb it certainly shouldn't arm anyway and give the point to the other team after you successfully defend it. None of us (besides P22) had any idea that the bomb wasn't on the pad, we just defended it from afar.

MechaMonkey says:
(# 5) on 02/16/2008 13:23

Wonderfully made video. I assume you tossed this conundrum Bungie's way in a more official manner?

Sam Spectre says:
(# 6) on 02/16/2008 13:27

That's a really weird glitch, I've never seen it before. Try sending it to Bungie or posting it on the forums but it will take luck for them to actually see it.

HarassmentPanda says:
(# 7) on 02/16/2008 13:43

I actually haven't forwarded it to Bungie in any capacity. I'm not really sure what the best way of going about that would be.

vexed alex says:
(# 8) on 02/16/2008 14:08

Public awareness will get them to notice it. This video is a start. This bug seems really rare, though. I've never seen that happen. If it was more well-known it'd be fixed really fast.

HarassmentPanda says:
(# 9) on 02/16/2008 14:11

Okay, posted it over at b.net: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=17507078&viewreplies=true

Eschatos says:
(# 10) on 02/16/2008 14:45

Everyone should quit playing this game ever again.

Dexter345 says:
(# 11) on 02/16/2008 17:18

Interesting glitch. I don't know that it's a huge deal, but certainly, it ought to be fixed.

Aziel13 says:
(# 12) on 02/16/2008 17:39

shat

Sharpless says:
(# 13) on 02/16/2008 18:17

Actually, I'm going to say that the real glitch isn't the incorrect giving of points, here. There's something even more messed up with the bomb arming.

In Halo 3, a person need only walk over the arming circle and the bomb will attach itself to the center of the circle and begin counting down. Here, the bomb never touched the center of the circle and only armed as it was being hurled OVER the circle -- and it didn't stay, it kept rolling. It shouldn't have been an arm, period.

But the scoring glitch IS weird. Incidentally, that's the first time I've seen either of those glitches, myself. If you really want to, you should get on Bungie.net and message Frankie or Sketch. If it really is a problem, they'll probably look into it. Especially if you link to this.

Triphoppin says:
(# 14) on 02/16/2008 18:30

GREAT VIDEO! i'm glad you did it this well instead of just randomly e-mailing them & complaining about a random point lost. This is serious business. Hope it works out for all of our sakes

kawitchate says:
(# 15) on 02/16/2008 18:57

awesome video - to watch, not experience. credits brought lulz. sux to be you. Bungie, apparently, is not God.

pizzaface says:
(# 16) on 02/16/2008 19:11

4482 games of H2. Damn son.

HarassmentPanda says:
(# 17) on 02/16/2008 19:59

@pizzaface

And that was only on one of my accounts. I've had 8 different live accounts, although HarassmentPanda has always been my primary. I only have 3 active accounts now.

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