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Everyone loves the replay feature in Halo 3. Everyone, except probably Bungie -- especially in cases like this video. This "new vehicle" can be found on the level with the first boss battle with the Scarab. Get two people into the dumpster, tip it over, then both players need to jump at the same time and watch as the dumpster becomes airborne. You can even steer the dumpster!
 
Awesome glitch, now my only question: How does someone stumble upon such a crazy glitch? This does gives a whole new meaning to dumpster diving! Am I right?!  
 

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Volomon's Avatar
Volomon at 10/28/2007 04:51
Well at least it's actually embedded on the front page. Still nice vid.
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TheGamerThug at 10/28/2007 04:53
damn that shit is crazy son. I wuz thinking forge mode but then I realized u said boss battle and looked at the video. crazy glitch. at least its not glitchin like GoW
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slapme7times at 10/28/2007 05:08
I always wanted a flying garbage can...
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Dexter345 at 10/28/2007 05:43
Oh man. Tell me we can add those dumpsters into our maps as decorations in Forge. Think of the tactical implications of a two-person flying vehicle that doesn't catch a lock from the missile pod! Better yet, stick a territory in the dumpster, do two person teams, and vie for control of the floating garbage can. Awesome.
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Cheeburga at 10/28/2007 06:15
Awesome. :D
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Bryan- at 10/28/2007 06:35
Funniest thing I've seen in a while. A flying steerable dumpster with room for two.
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Blue Collar Heresy at 10/28/2007 06:35
What I want to know is how the hell does a glitch like that even happen? I mean really, who the hell coded the physics of the dumpster in such a way that jumping enables controlled flight?

Still funny as hell though, even if it is sloppy programming.
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ShadowXOR at 10/28/2007 06:54
Honestly I hate Halo 3 but this video is fucking hilarious.
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Fana7ic at 10/28/2007 07:50
Awesome. Whats the name of the song?
jiker's Avatar
jiker at 10/28/2007 07:56
Fana7ic --> Focus - Hocus Pocus. Great progressive rock band from Holland.
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Churchhills Dog at 10/28/2007 08:34
Just to be clear the band is focus. The song name is Hocus Pocus. I think they had one other minor hit but never matched this song in popularity
DOOM's Avatar
DOOM at 10/28/2007 08:42
Cool, gotta try that!
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maxio098ui at 10/28/2007 09:02
that game just earned a playthrough just for that dumpster.
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Holyetheline at 10/28/2007 09:23
hahaha Flying Dumpster... that's amazing.
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psybunny at 10/28/2007 09:46
wow what an amazing piece of shit.good job bungie,keep the quality flowing.



another pc gamer who didnt fall for the mass consumerist mind virus faggery.



whew
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nademagnet at 10/28/2007 10:11
HAHAHA! I love it. Capitalizing on the physics of a game like this is epic. I mean really, can we call that a glitch or would it be better to call it an exploit. Bungie keeps the "gravity" in their games pretty low. That's why the player and other objects in the game seem to float for just a little bit. These guys are a genius for thinking of this, if they are the ones that found it.
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brad drac at 10/28/2007 10:42
My guess is that this works because bungie didn't code the player models to exert downwards force when they jump in their physics engine. This would mean most of the (virtual) energy would be transferred into the dumpster. Without the equal downward force caused by the upward propulsion, more energy would go into the roof than the floor. Hence, floatiness and japery. If that postulation is correct, you'd steer it like a rowing boat, by altering the rate at which one of the sides jump. Funky glitch though, hopefully bungie won't fix it.
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mackisawesome at 10/28/2007 10:44
Go DUMPSTER GO!
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar
s0lesurviv0r at 10/28/2007 11:11
Garbage riding has come a long way.
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Stormwalker at 10/28/2007 11:26
I want a magic flying dumpster!
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vexed alex at 10/28/2007 11:41
<3 Halo.
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Sharpless at 10/28/2007 11:44
I think it just clinched Game Of The Year. That is seriously the most hilarious, brilliant thing that I have seen in a game in recent memory, especially when combined with that music.

Does anyone know how to rip the FLV file from the page, as in saving it to my computer? I need this.
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brainderailment at 10/28/2007 12:20
What's with that retarded spider thing? is it on your side or not? I can't tell because all it does is move around.
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vp360 at 10/28/2007 12:27
hahaha!
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar
s0lesurviv0r at 10/28/2007 12:27
Sharpless, look up videodownloader, a plugin for Firefox
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 10/28/2007 12:41
VideoDownloader doesn't work with the MLG site.
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CoffeeMan at 10/28/2007 12:59
Does this only work on that level? Has anyone tried on others?
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Upgrayedd at 10/28/2007 13:08
lol bug
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Clockwork at 10/28/2007 13:21
Very awesome
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SenorCalavera at 10/28/2007 14:41
@ brad drac
That does sound good, but that doesn't quite account for why it only works with two people. Haven't tried it but I'd imagine that with one person it just does enough to tilt the thing over, but with two I guess there's enough energy to push it up. What I don't get is how it coninues forward if your only jumping up, unless part of the art of dumpster flying is jumping up and what little forward you can in the confined space. Otherwise, awesome glitch find, I'm trying it out as soon as I can
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R0xx1t at 10/28/2007 14:46
tardis mk II
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Grocerspride at 10/28/2007 15:14
Haha, excellent!

I need to try that out.

And I need to look up that band--that was a cool song.
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brad drac at 10/28/2007 16:07
->Calavera: I imagine one person just can't jump fast enough to counteract gravity with their mighty headbutts. As for movement, seeing as halo allows for mid air direction change, the player colliding with the wall of the dumpster while holding forward would change the its momentum, the same way as would jumping into any other moveable object.
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verkon at 10/28/2007 16:56
Love it when that big ugly one knocks the dumpster away and send them flying out of it
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Commodore624 at 10/28/2007 17:39
i can only imagine how the conversation during this discovery was
but over best glitch so far
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Fading Star at 10/28/2007 18:05
Hahahahahaha. That's awesome. That song worked well in this video.
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godkow at 10/28/2007 18:11
Awww, I was hoping they'd be able to fly to safety via dumpster once they destroyed the scarab. Still, epic!!
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DGX Goggles at 10/28/2007 19:39
win.
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nademagnet at 10/28/2007 20:07
So a friend and I tried this today... we must have been at it for about an hour. We couldn't get it to work. We need the manual for that thing :p
BADInc's Avatar
BADInc at 10/28/2007 20:35
im trying that right now!
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Jetsetlemming at 10/28/2007 22:09
Reminds me of prop flying in Source, except this looks easier to pull off. In source, if something's small enough that you can grab it and pick it up, you can put it on the ground, jump on top, and continiously jump and pick it up and land on it and jump off and pick it up to fly with it. I've never been able to really fly very far or high with it, but some people have managed to get it to do amazing things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KP0836S8k
The end of that video. They speed it up, because it takes quite a while to get real height with it.
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Fleet3000 at 10/28/2007 23:11
lol ridiculous glitches FTW!!
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 10/28/2007 23:40
Wow, so great. Wish they credited what song that was, though.
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bleep at 10/28/2007 23:58
yeah the song was as cool as the glitch!
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bleep at 10/28/2007 23:59
Ah here

Song = Focus - Hocus Pocus
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wtfblakegtfo at 10/29/2007 08:31
wootz, gonna try this
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Batthink at 10/29/2007 10:12
Bungie shouldn't think this a disadvantage. They should try putting guns on the dumpster, et voila, a cult, fan-favourite vehicle. :oD
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gc33 at 10/29/2007 21:22
Debugged in 2 seconds:

Colliding with the dumpster gives an impulse to the dumpster. Normally when you collide with things this happens.

However, JUMPING from the dumpster does NOT give an impulse to the dumpster, in violation of physics. This is because halo characters normally don't jump off of diving boards where jumping could cause some physical reaction.

Hence the bug.
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The Real Slyguy at 07/20/2008 06:41
All people who think its an actual vehicle are retarded or worse theyre modding u dumb asses its not very hard to to in campaign mode :~I
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