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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 - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 04:51
Volomon
Well at least it's actually embedded on the front page. Still nice vid.
TheGamerThug's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 04:53
TheGamerThug
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
slapme7times's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 05:08
slapme7times
I always wanted a flying garbage can...
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 05:43
Dexter345
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.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 06:15
Cheeburga
Awesome. :D
Bryan-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 06:35
Bryan-
Funniest thing I've seen in a while. A flying steerable dumpster with room for two.
Blue Collar Heresy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 06:35
Blue Collar Heresy
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.
ShadowXOR's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 06:54
ShadowXOR
Honestly I hate Halo 3 but this video is fucking hilarious.
Fana7ic's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 07:50
Fana7ic
Awesome. Whats the name of the song?
jiker's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 07:56
jiker
Fana7ic --> Focus - Hocus Pocus. Great progressive rock band from Holland.
Churchhills Dog's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 08:34
Churchhills Dog
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 - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 08:42
DOOM
Cool, gotta try that!
maxio098ui's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 09:02
maxio098ui
that game just earned a playthrough just for that dumpster.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 09:23
Holyetheline
hahaha Flying Dumpster... that's amazing.
psybunny's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 09:46
psybunny
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
nademagnet's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 10:11
nademagnet
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.
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 10:42
brad drac
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.
mackisawesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 10:44
mackisawesome
Go DUMPSTER GO!
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 11:11
s0lesurviv0r
Garbage riding has come a long way.
Stormwalker's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 11:26
Stormwalker
I want a magic flying dumpster!
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 11:41
vexed alex
<3 Halo.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 11:44
Sharpless
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.
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 12:20
brainderailment
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.
vp360's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 12:27
vp360
hahaha!
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 12:27
s0lesurviv0r
Sharpless, look up videodownloader, a plugin for Firefox
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 12:41
Sharpless
VideoDownloader doesn't work with the MLG site.
CoffeeMan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 12:59
CoffeeMan
Does this only work on that level? Has anyone tried on others?
Upgrayedd's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 13:08
Upgrayedd
lol bug
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 13:21
Clockwork
Very awesome
SenorCalavera's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 14:41
SenorCalavera
@ 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
R0xx1t's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 14:46
R0xx1t
tardis mk II
Grocerspride's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 15:14
Grocerspride
Haha, excellent!

I need to try that out.

And I need to look up that band--that was a cool song.
brad drac's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 16:07
brad drac
->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.
verkon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 16:56
verkon
Love it when that big ugly one knocks the dumpster away and send them flying out of it
Commodore624's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 17:39
Commodore624
i can only imagine how the conversation during this discovery was
but over best glitch so far
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 18:05
Fading Star
Hahahahahaha. That's awesome. That song worked well in this video.
godkow's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 18:11
godkow
Awww, I was hoping they'd be able to fly to safety via dumpster once they destroyed the scarab. Still, epic!!
DGX Goggles's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 19:39
DGX Goggles
win.
nademagnet's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 20:07
nademagnet
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 - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 20:35
BADInc
im trying that right now!
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 22:09
Jetsetlemming
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.
Fleet3000's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 23:11
Fleet3000
lol ridiculous glitches FTW!!
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 23:40
Necros
Wow, so great. Wish they credited what song that was, though.
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 23:58
bleep
yeah the song was as cool as the glitch!
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2007 23:59
bleep
Ah here

Song = Focus - Hocus Pocus
wtfblakegtfo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/29/2007 08:31
wtfblakegtfo
wootz, gonna try this
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/29/2007 10:12
Batthink
Bungie shouldn't think this a disadvantage. They should try putting guns on the dumpster, et voila, a cult, fan-favourite vehicle. :oD
gc33's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/29/2007 21:22
gc33
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.
The Real Slyguy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/20/2008 06:41
The Real Slyguy
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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