Halo 3 Flag Tricks
February 4, 2008 14 Comments
Perhaps you already knew these tips for running faster with the flag when playing CTF on Halo 3. I didn’t though. Unfortunately if I tried the simply running, dropping and catching trick I would miss the pick up, run backwards to pick it back up, not find it, have to turn completely around to locate it, and die somewhere in that process. Cause that’s how I roll. If you are more coordinated than me, maybe you can pull it off. I know I can do the second tip though. Maybe.
Flag taken.
Sadly, I play a lot of Halo and didn’t know that. Pretty sweet :)
I hate that trick, blahblahbah
SHUT UP
I play on split-screen so I deal with two of those at the same time
I wish I could view the YouTube stuff at work. Now I have to wait until the end of the day to see the video. ;0) The suspense is killing me. Work blocks YouTube. ;0(
flag dropped – that’s my middle name….
lol oh Angel, you make me giggle with your noobishness <3 (i hope you were aware of this back in Halo 2 at least) Oh well.
I don’t really like to refer to things like this as ‘tricks’, but ‘tactics’. A trick is something flashy, a little smoke-and-mirror-ish for fun purposes…forging a level and using just the right movements and physics to get into the underground of Snowbound is a trick. Knowing that your spartan runs faster without the flag than with it, and timing your pickups/drops to be just precisely right – letting you run 30, 40, or 50% faster is a tactic, and can mean the difference between a Win and a Loss in an intense game. If you choose to use this tactic and increase your run speed/flag capping in matchmaking, it comes with a price – forfeitting your ability to have the other team not-know the location of the flag…indicator shows up when you drop it (in matchmaking anyway), remember?…so like all other tactics, decide wisely.
I think that’s enough to make the other team go “WTF is going on?”
Someone did this on the opposing team over the weekend and that is exactly what I said Jordan.
You won’t be saying that when we are on the same team. ;)
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*cries*
oh, wtf (sorry for the trip post) but I signed on Friday night for Multiteam, but you weren’t on! whats the deal with that?
I was on. You weren’t. We played for almost three hours! You were probably still watching all those bug movies.
(I responded back in the forum.)
Heh, I used to do this all the time in Halo 2. Doesn’t seem to be as effective in Halo 3, but still doable. That’s cool.
The main problem with this, as Jordan notes, is that you are going to draw a lot of attention to yourself and your position on the map with this strategy because the glag waypoint is going to appear/disappear irregularly and stick out like a sore lip. It will tell the other team you’re trying to run faster. Your best bet is to walk slowly and keep the secrecy that comes with keeping your hands on the flag.
thats why you only do the speed run on small maps such as the pit. you need to stay stealthy on large maps such as avalanche. the speed run also helps with turning corners in a hot scenario