Hawty McBloggy Invites You to Play

Did you know they added physics nodes to dead bodies in Halo 3? It makes for fun times in relaxed custom games with your friends. From a Bungie employee :

If you haven’t already, you should really go and try teabagging someone. I’m sure our physics engineer didn’t spend any time at all adding a physics node to the groin of the Master Chief so that it would wake up the corpse beneath you, causing it to respond to your teabagging. That would just be silly.

I am not a fan of teabagging. I refuse to do it to random players or to people I don’t know. I will admit though, on the rare occasion I will give CPR but only to close friends and I do it because I care. Does my CPR resemble teabagging? I suppose so but only because I am fervently trying to revive you by giving you chest compressions. Luckily for my friends, I have perfected it and I can typically revive someone within 10 seconds. Look, you respawned! I rock. Sometimes it takes 15+ seconds but that is only because you betrayed me earlier. Jerk.

For anybody that doesn’t know what teabagging is (I hope my mother isn’t reading this), here is a short definition from Wikipedia. I won’t post links anywhere as Urban Dictionary’s version is not so clean.

Teabagging has become a taunt in some multiplayer First-Person Shooter video games. Also known as “Corpse-Humping”, the ‘teabag’ is performed by repeatedly crouching over the face of a deceased player to simulate the inserting of the scrotum into the dead player’s mouth. Many games delay the re-spawning of a killed player for a few seconds after death, allowing ample time for the victor to use this aggravating technique to frustrate his or her opponent.

I accidentally discovered the new physics with the dead bodies one evening while playing the beta with some friends. Yes, accidentally. I meleed a dead friend’s body and to my delight, the body jumped! So I smacked it around for a while watching how it reacted to each hit. I discovered you could gather some momentum and even get the body to start rolling. We had a great time messing with it. We started joking that we needed to hide the dead bodies so we rolled them to the river. It was fabulous fun. You will notice after rolling the bodies into the river that after a while they become waterlogged and sink. Rock on!

Things to do to dead bodies in the Halo 3 Beta :

• Melee them in different parts of the body
• Give CPR (don’t teabag!)
• Learn how to roll dead bodies
• Hide the bodies in the water
• Watch the bodies sink in the water
• Push a dead body over a cliff

There must be other good things to do to your buddy’s dead Spartan. Any other suggestions?

*Do not teabag people you don’t know. It is rude, disrespectful, and creates a negative playing environment. Feel free to give your friends CPR with their permission though. Tell them you do it because you care.

The Halo 3 Beta Series
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10