Halo 2 - Revision history

Paradoxxic at 21:14, 7 June 2018

2018-06-07T21:14:20Z

Paradoxxic: grammar

2018-06-07T21:13:48Z

grammar

Paradoxxic: ghosting

2018-06-07T21:09:56Z

ghosting

Paradoxxic: butterflying edit

2018-06-07T21:04:54Z

butterflying edit

MrDustinEchoes at 17:17, 7 June 2018

2018-06-07T17:17:19Z

Paradoxxic: grammar

2018-06-07T17:13:10Z

grammar

MrDustinEchoes at 17:06, 7 June 2018

2018-06-07T17:06:42Z

MrDustinEchoes: Changed order of sword fly hand videos and listed scurty's video as old method

2018-06-07T17:01:25Z

Changed order of sword fly hand videos and listed scurty's video as old method

MrDustinEchoes: Major/minor edits to movement and combat tech. Added butterflying and ghosting. Please review Butterflying as I feel it was poorly written.

2018-06-07T16:57:51Z

Major/minor edits to movement and combat tech. Added butterflying and ghosting. Please review Butterflying as I feel it was poorly written.

MrDustinEchoes at 22:01, 6 June 2018

2018-06-06T22:01:21Z

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 ===Melee Boost===
-Melee Boosting is similar to sword cancelling but is accomplished without a sword. The goal is to melee at an enemy, cancel the melee damage just like you would during a sword cancel and then keep your momentum and fly past the enemy. If you combine the melee and cancel with a well timed jump, you can some significant distance. Elites are the easiest to melee boost off of because of their height.
+Melee Boosting is similar to sword cancelling but is accomplished without a sword. The goal is to melee at an enemy, cancel the melee damage just like you would during a sword cancel and then keep your momentum and fly past the enemy. If you combine the melee and cancel with a well timed jump, you can get some significant distance. Elites are the easiest to melee boost off of because of their height.
 Button Combo: B-X and B-Y

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 ===Melee Boost===
-Melee Boosting is similar to sword cancelling, however you can do it without a sword. The goal is to melee at an enemy, cancel the melee damage just like you would during a sword cancel and then keep your momentum and fly past the enemy. If you combine the melee and cancel with a jump timed well, you can get varying results. Elites are the easiest to melee boost off of because of their height.
+Melee Boosting is similar to sword cancelling but is accomplished without a sword. The goal is to melee at an enemy, cancel the melee damage just like you would during a sword cancel and then keep your momentum and fly past the enemy. If you combine the melee and cancel with a well timed jump, you can some significant distance. Elites are the easiest to melee boost off of because of their height.
 Button Combo: B-X and B-Y
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 ===Ghost Wheelie/Quickturn===
-While boosting in a Ghost, hold A to lean back and raise the nose of the Ghost. This allows you to turn more sharply while boosting, though it will slightly slow down your Ghost. It also makes you prone to flipping, so be careful.
+While boosting in a Ghost, hold A to lean back and raise the nose of the Ghost. This allows you to turn more sharply while boosting but slows you down significantly. It also makes you prone to flipping, so be careful.
 Holding A can also be useful for getting enough air on certain jumps and grenade launches.

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 ===Ghosting===
-Ghosting (also referred to as box humping) is relatively new to the speedrun, and is used several times throughout the speedrun. It works by walking back and forth into an object in order to displace your hit box and walk through walls. This is similar to superbounces, just a different dance. The main visual cue you have in order to tell you are displacing properly is when you see a slight screenshake after hitting the object or wall your are displacing off of. It isn't the end of the world if you miss a couple screenshakes here and there, but it is definitely something you should practice.
+Ghosting (also referred to as box humping) is a relatively new trick to the speedrun and is used several times throughout. By walking back and forth into an object you can displace your hitbox and walk through walls. This is similar to the hitbox displacement utilized for superbouncing. The main visual cue for judging your hitbox displacement is a slight screenshake after hitting the object or wall your are displacing off of. It isn't the end of the world if you miss a couple screenshakes here and there, but it is definitely something you should practice.
-One major issue with ghosting is that if you do not get enough screenshakes, you risk dying when in solid space as the game is programmed to kill the player if they find themselves out of bounds. To avoid dying, it is recommended you attempt to get at least 10-14 or more screenshakes for any given ghost apart from Hangar 2 skip. The first ghost in the game on Cairo station is a major skip and is also one of the easiest ghosts in the game, it has no enemies and is a perfect place to start learning.
+One major issue with ghosting is that if you do not get enough hitbox displacement, you risk dying when in solid space as the game is programmed to kill the player if they find themselves out of bounds. To avoid dying, it is recommended you attempt to get at least 10-14 or more screenshakes for any given ghost apart from Hangar 2 skip. The first ghost in the game on Cairo station is a major skip and is also one of the easiest ghosts in the game, it has no enemies and is the perfect place to start learning.
 ===Superbouncing===

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 ===Butterflying===
-Butterflying is currently used in two levels in the speedrun and has different methods for either one. In it's simplest form it allows you to gain momentum upwards while underneath an enemy by using button combos. You're going to want to know the basic button combo method, as it is used in prison skip.
+Butterflying is currently used in two levels in the speedrun and has a slightly different method for each. In it's purest form butterflying allows you to gain momentum upwards while underneath an enemy by melee-ing an enemy but canceling your melee before it connects (repeat ad-nauseam). You're going to want to start by learning the basic button combo method used for prison skip on Gravemind.
 To execute this trick, you simply switch between pressing A+B with your right hand and X with your left hand at a somewhat fast pace while looking upwards at the enemy above you. This allows you to jump and melee upwards at the same time without killing the enemy on top of your head.

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 Halo 2 has multiple versions including the original Halo 2 (2004, Xbox), Halo 2 vista (2004, PC), and Halo 2 re-released as part of the Master Chief Collection (MCC) (2014, Xbox One). Given the number of changes made in MCC and how different it is from the other two releases, it is considered a different game by the community and thus has its own separate leaderboard.
-The differences between original and Vista are noteworthy, but not significant enough for them to be classified as different games for the purposes of speedrunning. The faster version of the two is the original 2004 release for the Xbox. It is suggested you run this on version 1.0 on the Xbox 360 console, as this will allow swordflying and give you better overall performance compared to the Original Xbox console (if you are running patched, simply clear your consoles cache and it should revert to 1.0). Halo 2 Vista (the PC version) is slower due to sword flying being patched out, the addition of loading screens between levels, and a slightly modified physics engine.
+The differences between original and Vista are noteworthy, but not significant enough for them to be classified as different games for the purposes of speedrunning. The faster version of the two is the original 2004 release for the Xbox. It is suggested you run this on version 1.0 on the Xbox 360 console, as this will allow swordflying and give you better overall performance compared to the Original Xbox console (if you are running patched, simply clear your consoles cache and it should revert to 1.0). Halo 2 Vista (the PC version) is slower due to sword flying being patched out, the addition of loading screens between levels, and a change in tickrate that affects the physics engine.
 It's also worth noting that there are some slight differences across languages. Since certain events in-game are scripted to happen at the end of character dialogue, faster dialogue completion allow dialogue dependent events to save time over the English version. The Japanese version is currently considered the fastest, though the timesave compared to English is only around five to ten seconds across the whole run, with the potential to be completely nullified as more skips are found.

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-'''Halo 2''' is one of the more technical speedruns in the series. With the discovery of glitches such as sword flying and sword canceling, movement in Halo 2 is much faster compared to other Halo titles. However, glitches can also work against you, as there are several run-killing glitches that can occur.
+'''Halo 2''' is one of the more technical speedruns in the series. With the discovery of glitches such as sword flying and sword canceling, movement in Halo 2 is much faster compared to other Halo titles. Glitches can also work against you however, as there are several run-killing glitches that can occur.
-Legendary is an absolutely brutal category. It is highly recommended that you be familiar with both the speedrunning tricks and the main route, as well as having a general knowledge of the game, before attempting to run it.
+Legendary is an absolutely brutal category. It is highly recommended that you become familiar with both the speedrunning tricks and the main route, as well as having a general knowledge of the game, before attempting to run Legendary.
-Halo 2 has multiple versions, which include original, vista, and MCC. Given the amount of changes made in MCC and how different it is from the two, it is considered a different game by the community and thus has its own separate leaderboard.
+Halo 2 has multiple versions including the original Halo 2 (2004, Xbox), Halo 2 vista (2004, PC), and Halo 2 re-released as part of the Master Chief Collection (MCC) (2014, Xbox One). Given the number of changes made in MCC and how different it is from the other two releases, it is considered a different game by the community and thus has its own separate leaderboard.
-The differences between original and Vista are noteworthy, but not enough to call them different games. The faster version is the original. It is suggested you run this on version 1.0 on the Xbox 360 console, as this will allow swordflying and give you better overall performance compared to the Original Xbox console (if you are running patched, simply clear your consoles cache and it should revert to 1.0). Halo 2 Vista (the PC version) is slower due to sword flying being patched, the addition of loading screens between levels, and a slightly modified physics engine.
+The differences between original and Vista are noteworthy, but not significant enough for them to be classified as different games for the purposes of speedrunning. The faster version of the two is the original 2004 release for the Xbox. It is suggested you run this on version 1.0 on the Xbox 360 console, as this will allow swordflying and give you better overall performance compared to the Original Xbox console (if you are running patched, simply clear your consoles cache and it should revert to 1.0). Halo 2 Vista (the PC version) is slower due to sword flying being patched out, the addition of loading screens between levels, and a slightly modified physics engine.
 Halo Runs record page: http://www.haloruns.com/records?lb=200 (click the timestamps for video links)
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 ===Ghosting===
-Ghosting (also referred to as box humping) is relatively new to the speedgame, and is used several times throughout the run. It works by walking back and forth into an object in order to displace your hit box and walk through walls. This is similar to superbounces, just a different dance. The main visual cue you have in order to tell you are displacing properly is when you see a slight screenshake after hitting the object or wall your are displacing off of. It isn't the end of the world if you miss a couple screenshakes here and there, but it is definitely something you should practice.
+Ghosting (also referred to as box humping) is relatively new to the speedrun, and is used several times throughout the speedrun. It works by walking back and forth into an object in order to displace your hit box and walk through walls. This is similar to superbounces, just a different dance. The main visual cue you have in order to tell you are displacing properly is when you see a slight screenshake after hitting the object or wall your are displacing off of. It isn't the end of the world if you miss a couple screenshakes here and there, but it is definitely something you should practice.
 One major issue with ghosting is that if you do not get enough screenshakes, you risk dying when in solid space as the game is programmed to kill the player if they find themselves out of bounds. To avoid dying, it is recommended you attempt to get at least 10-14 or more screenshakes for any given ghost apart from Hangar 2 skip. The first ghost in the game on Cairo station is a major skip and is also one of the easiest ghosts in the game, it has no enemies and is a perfect place to start learning.

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 ===Sword Flying===
 {{#Widget:YouTube|id=tj3Ls7-P2UM|right|caption=One handed sword flying demo, by MisterMonopoli.}}
 Sword flying lets you lunge towards enemies across long distances. Unlike the normal limit on the sword's lunge distance, sword flying allows you to cover vast distances at high speed.

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 : Sword flying is a simple three button combination that is quick to master because it has a rhythm to it. '''The button combination goes in this order: (Y) (X) (Right Trigger)''' The first two are hit in rapid succession (usually by the sliding of your thumb) while the third button is hit slower than the first two are spaced apart. Watch the video to hear how it sounds.
 : '''Your reticule must be red''' for this to work on your gun when you switch to your sword (by pressing Y). You also don't have to be zoomed if if you don't want to, although in most cases you will be zoomed in.
-Most people find it easier to sword fly with an Xbox 360 controller than with an Xbox controller. To sword fly with one hand, slide your thumb from Y to X, then press R. Alternatively, you can sword fly while clawing by rolling your index finger from Y to X, then pressing R with your middle finger. This allows you to aim while preparing to sword fly. It is highly recommended that you learn to sword fly one-handed. This will allow you to continue moving while preparing to do your sword fly.
+Most people find it easier to sword fly with an Xbox 360 controller than with an Original Xbox controller. To sword fly with one hand, slide your thumb from Y to X, then press R. Alternatively, you can sword fly while clawing by rolling your index finger from Y to X, then pressing R with your middle finger. This allows you to aim while preparing to sword fly, but it can be very awkward or even uncomfortable to claw for a sword fly. It is highly recommended that you learn to sword fly one-handed. This will allow you to continue moving while preparing to do your sword fly.
-The Rocket Launcher is one of the most useful weapons to sword fly with, because it has a large reticule and 2x scope, and turns red at fairly long distances without much aiming.
+'''If an enemy is standing still, you will be able to swordfly over its head and past it.''' If the enemy moves horizontally by a substantial amount away from it's initial position, or if you are aiming too far to the left or right after executing the fly, the swordfly will abruptly stop at or above the enemy's original position.
 ===Sword Canceling===
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 To swordcancel over an enemy's head, press A, then R+X+A simultaneously. The first jump gives you height to get over the enemy.
-===Ghost Wheelie/Quickturn===
+===Butterflying===
-While boosting in a Ghost, hold A to lean back and raise the nose of the Ghost. This lets you turn more sharply while maintaining your boost. It also makes you prone to flipping, so be careful.
-Holding A can also be useful for getting enough air on certain jumps.
+One major issue with ghosting is that if you do not get enough screenshakes, you risk dying when in solid space as the game is programmed to kill the player if they find themselves out of bounds. To avoid dying, it is recommended you attempt to get at least 10-14 or more screenshakes for any given ghost apart from Hangar 2 skip. The first ghost in the game on Cairo station is a major skip and is also one of the easiest ghosts in the game, it has no enemies and is a perfect place to start learning.
 ===Superbouncing===
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 ===Melee Boost===
-Melee Boosting is similar to sword cancelling, however you can do it without a sword. The goal is to melee at an enemy, cancel the melee damage just like you would during a sword cancel and then keep your momentum and fly past the enemy. If you combine the melee and cancel with a jump timed well, you can get varying results.
+Melee Boosting is similar to sword cancelling, however you can do it without a sword. The goal is to melee at an enemy, cancel the melee damage just like you would during a sword cancel and then keep your momentum and fly past the enemy. If you combine the melee and cancel with a jump timed well, you can get varying results. Elites are the easiest to melee boost off of because of their height.
-Button Combo: B-X, X-B, Y-B, B-Y
+Button Combo: B-X and B-Y
 Keep your crosshair over the enemy so you fly past him (crouching helps a lot). It can be timed perfectly but it may be easier to spam the required buttons.
 ==Combat Techniques==

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 ===Elites===
 '''Jetpack Elites''' are usually dual-wielding Plasma Rifles. Generally, you want to home in on them with a plasma pistol overcharge or snipe them with a ranged weapon. Their shields are weaker than normal Elites, a sword lunge will do them in if you can close the distance and one body shot from a snipe followed by a couple battle rifle shots will also do the trick.
 '''Stealth Elites''' have the weakest shields of any Elite but this is compensated for by their fast shield recharge rate, which makes them extremely durable. Like all cloaked enemies, they do not turn the reticule red. In all instances upon spawning, they will be briefly uncloaked so you can get a sword fly off of them. You can force them to uncloak by shooting them. A sniper weapon has enough stunning power to keep them immobilized. Melee attacks are also a good way of de-camoing enemies, as well as stunning them. A sword lunge will either kill them or remove their shield completely. Getting them caught in a grenade explosion can expose them. It should also be noted that the stealth elites in the camo room on Regret have an absurd amount of health. The sword elite in that area does not share this trait.
 '''Zealots''' are rare in Halo 2, and only appear in a few locations, such as Hangar B in [[Cairo Station]], the tunnels on [[Metropolis]], and the last enemy on [[Gravemind]]. They always spawn with swords but their shield isn't different from a blue Elite.