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Tankjumping in Halo 2

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-that-first-step dept.

The original Warthog Jump video from Halo is a hilarious and informative way to learn about game physics. An Anonymous reader wrote in to mention a Spare Time production in which they try to recreate the essence of the experiment. "A tank on top of a shield in Halo2 proves to be quite an experience! We got it on tape. Enjoy!"

53 comments

  1. 30.8 megs by name773 · · Score: 1, Funny

    get the bittorrents and fire extinguishers ready :)

    1. Re:30.8 megs by inio · · Score: 0

      It isn't on the front page, so it should be safe. It was able to flood my downlink with ease, so they're doing just fine so far.

    2. Re:30.8 megs by name773 · · Score: 0

      yeah, they must have a big pipe, it went fast. kind of cool too

    3. Re:30.8 megs by gl4ss · · Score: 1, Funny

      or it's not intresting enough..

      now that I was d/loading it was at
      *There have now been 703 downloads of Spare Time: Shield Jump.* and came at some 83kbyte/s.

      now.. that is already over 21 gigs though... hopefully they don't pay per gig or might be in for a surprise by the time the day is out..

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    4. Re:30.8 megs by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Interesting

      though.. having now watched the video i gotta wonder if they're going to get screwed for using a popular song for the soundtrack(or perhaps they paid royalties? nah i don't think so, but then again it would be majorly stupid to not do so and distribute it from your own website with your own name)...

      with that said, the video really IS boring, you could have made more exciting stuff in 4d sports driving(most of you know this game as 'stunts') for gods sake. the tanks just fly out of control spinning unrealistically and then proceed to explode. not to mention what fun stuff you could have whipped up with some carmageddon(tanks in this vid don't even get smashed before exploding).

      such 'physics' would be considered bugs in other games...

      so I guess they really have just too much money, bandwith and time. well, i'm making a wild guess that they're actually on jaguarpc's 5.95/mo deal with 45gb of transfers included monthly(extra gb is a dollar per month, but that's if you pay in advance, their site doesn't seem too clear on prices what you would pay afterwards you went over your limit ).

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  2. Wow by Anti_zeitgeist · · Score: 0

    These guys have a lot of time on their hands....

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    1. Re:Wow by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "These guys have a lot of time on their hands...." ... said the guy posting on Slashdot.

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    2. Re:Wow by swat_r2 · · Score: 2, Funny

      So do you apparently by reading Slashdot eh? ;)

    3. Re:Wow by Anti_zeitgeist · · Score: 0

      Hahaha, it was a joke...

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    4. Re:Wow by darken9999 · · Score: 1

      "These guys have a lot of time on their hands...." ... said the guy who sat around watching the stupid video.

    5. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "These guys have a lot of time on their hands...." ...said... oh nevermind.

    6. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And yet nanogator got the +5 Funny.

      Guess the mods don't get "subtle".

    7. Re:Wow by swat_r2 · · Score: 1

      Haha.. yeah we're all geeks. I'm a perpetual time waster, I could you know, be out saving the world or something.

  3. Bit Torrent Server? by Syrcam · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How would someone go about setting up a Bit Torrent server to seed this movie?

    1. Re:Bit Torrent Server? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why wait for somebody to respond and then read their response when you can simply read the manual in the meantime?

    2. Re:Bit Torrent Server? by Kalak · · Score: 3, Informative

      http://bittorrent.com/guide.html

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    3. Re:Bit Torrent Server? by Hes+Nikke · · Score: 1

      no need, i'm getting over 200 KiB/s over this HTTP/FTP connection... something i only see on the most popular of the popular of torrents.

      (correction, it finished downloading before i clicked "Submit")

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    4. Re:Bit Torrent Server? by eviljolly · · Score: 1

      You can use Azureus (azureus.sourceforge.net), which has a tracker built into the client. I think this is the best torrent client available for people who downloads torrents often.

  4. BT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    st03_shieldjump_divx.avi.torrent

    1. Re:BT by Thing+1 · · Score: 1

      Domo arigato. Although it's coming down at basically the same speed as the download I had started, I feel better about providing some upload bandwidth to the other suckers trying to get it. ;-)

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    2. Re:BT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Domo arigato

      Oh shutup!

    3. Re:BT by samael · · Score: 1

      I'm getting a "torrent unauthorised" off of that...

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    4. Re:BT by dn15 · · Score: 1

      Great! It finished already and I'll leave it open over night to share the bandwidth. :)

    5. Re:BT by penguin_asylum · · Score: 1

      try saving to your computer first then opening in your client (as opposed to opening it from a temporary folder)

  5. So THAT's it, eh? by skyman8081 · · Score: 1

    I was playing Delta Halo this weekend, when I found my tank suddenly flying through the air, as I was going over an elevated section with lots of those sheilds. I knew that sheild jumping was a time-honored practice in Halo, for getting out of Maps like "Truth and Reconciliation", I didn't realize that they made it work for vehicles as well.

    I guess the use of Havok made the work of such heroes as Frogblast, Dark Helmet, Randall Glass somewhat different for Halo 2.

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    1. Re:So THAT's it, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, the shield thing is "impressive" that is if you haven't seen what a charging Wraith can do to a Scorpion. Now THAT is just something.

      A friend and I were playing co-op near the end of the 100,000 Years War area. We'd killed everything, I had stolen a Wraith, he had a Scorpion. I just wanted to see what would happen, in the interests of science and the footsteps of Newton. Well, the scorpion launched so far you couldn't see it on my screen anywhere, on his the tanked flipped twenty or thirty times he flew out and the tank continued on to orbit flipping all the way.

  6. An Anonymous Reader Wrote In... by sbszine · · Score: 4, Funny

    The anonymous guy's email address is aidansteele@gmail.com -- could his name be Aidan Steele perhaps? Maybe he rot13-ed twice for added anonymity.

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    1. Re:An Anonymous Reader Wrote In... by rpresser · · Score: 5, Funny

      Naah, he's actually an AI programmed by somebody named "Dan Steele"

    2. Re:An Anonymous Reader Wrote In... by MrLint · · Score: 1

      I suspect hes totally fictional. like Remington Steele

    3. Re:An Anonymous Reader Wrote In... by Schreckgestalt · · Score: 1

      ...in Korea, only old people steal!

  7. warthog jumping by TheKarateMaster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was playing a game in Zanzibar with warthogs when I noticed the explosive crates... When I drove into them, I did at LEAST 8 flips in the air (barrel rolls) It would be interesting to see what would happen if you rounded all of them up and drove into them... or better yet, attack them with an energy blade... interesting...

  8. wewt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Fastest BT ever. I got it in like, 45 seconds.

    1. Re:wewt by forged · · Score: 1
      Same here, got something like 500 KB/s. I'm now seeding 10+

      I had no idea that SO MANY people were interested in tank jumping ;)

  9. Three words: Wow by Dizzle · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is truly groundbreaking stuff. Pixar's got their work cut out for them when they release Cars with stuff floating around like this. And these guys rendered the whole thing on a 700MHz PC!

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  10. "This Account Has Been Suspended" by complete+loony · · Score: 1

    Thar she blows...

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    1. Re:"This Account Has Been Suspended" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Moral of the story: find out what the consequences are before posting a video link to slashdot. This guy was asking for it from the beginning.

  11. I've done that by TechniMyoko · · Score: 3, Funny

    And wondered how the bloody hell I ended up airborn, thanks to the guys who made it for explaining it.

    1. Re:I've done that by TechniMyoko · · Score: 1

      Holy crap, you should see how high these guys get. It looks like you can literally see forever in the game.

  12. Halo 1? by dshaw858 · · Score: 1

    Has anyone tried this stunt in Halo (1)? Maybe it works there too... I'll have to pull out my XBox and give it a try.

    - dshaw

    1. Re:Halo 1? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Out of where... No, I don't want to know.

    2. Re:Halo 1? by Sv-Manowar · · Score: 1

      You mean you dont have your Xbox out for Halo 2 ?

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  13. Joy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "This Account Has Been Suspended
    Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."

    And people wonder why some don't RTFA.

  14. Why is someone's plaintext email address... by EnglishTim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is someone's plaintext email address on the frontpage of Slashdot?

    Bit irresponsible, don't you think?

    Perhaps the submission really was anonymous and the /. editors have some beef with this Aidran Steele fellow so they decided to abuse their power to get him sent a bunch of crap to his account?

    1. Re:Why is someone's plaintext email address... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe he's testing out gmail's spam filters.

    2. Re:Why is someone's plaintext email address... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      they want to test the gmail spam filter

  15. ed2k link by GingTheMerciless · · Score: 2, Informative

    ed2k://|file|St03%20Shieldjump%20Divx.avi|32339590 |9F241FECF9929BF9582D7B68D236FD0E|/

  16. Oops by bairy · · Score: 1
    It's 11:42 GMT on the morning after and this is the result of the "we got it on tape" link:

    This Account Has Been Suspended
    Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

    You know if someone on /. linked to your space and no one bothered to tell you and then you got charged for excessive bandwidth, dya think you could sue them for it back/

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    1. Re:Oops by dreamquick · · Score: 1

      Only if they don't put your email address on the front page, thus filling your mailbox with so much crap that you can't ever use it again, or see the little "love notes" from your host demanding you pay them extortionate rates for extra bandwidth for that matter.

      Do I smell conspiracy? :)

  17. Tape? by Mooga · · Score: 0

    Any Mirrors? Posibly not bit?

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  18. Direct download from NGI by zr-rifle · · Score: 2, Informative

    Over here: http://www.ngi.it/filebrowser3.php?f=3253

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  19. Mysterious associations... by WWWWolf · · Score: 1

    For some reason, every time someone talks of "jumping" techniques in Halo, I'm somehow, somehow reminded of the phrase "crash-jumping", even though that has little to do with Halo as such...

  20. did this already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I did this ages ago. Never got any attention.
    http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/ha lo.forum.pl? read=506339

  21. Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The website is now back up again, who knew that it'd go down so quickly! A big thankyou to the webmaster of edwardk.info for that speedy BT tracker, it really saved us.

    Thanks all for the support. ;-)

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