Tankjumping in Halo 2

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!"

30.8 megs

[name773]

get the bittorrents and fire extinguishers ready :)

Re:30.8 megs

[inio]

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.

Re:30.8 megs

[gl4ss]

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..

Re:30.8 megs

[gl4ss]

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 unrealis

"This Account Has Been Suspended"

[complete loony]

Thar she blows...

Re:Wow

[NanoGator]

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

Re:Wow

[darken9999]

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

Re:Wow

[swat_r2]

So do you apparently by reading Slashdot eh? ;)

Re:Wow

[swat_r2]

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

Bit Torrent Server?

[Syrcam]

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

Re:Bit Torrent Server?

[Kalak]

http://bittorrent.com/guide.html

Re:Bit Torrent Server?

[Hes Nikke]

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")

Re:Bit Torrent Server?

[eviljolly]

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.

BT

[Anonymous Coward]

st03_shieldjump_divx.avi.torrent [edwardk.info]

Re:BT

[Thing 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. ;-)

Re:wewt

[forged]

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 ;)

Re:BT

[samael]

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

Re:BT

[penguin_asylum]

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

Re:BT

[dn15]

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

So THAT's it, eh?

[skyman8081]

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.

An Anonymous Reader Wrote In...

[sbszine]

The anonymous guy's email address is [e-mail] -- could his name be Aidan Steele perhaps? Maybe he rot13-ed twice for added anonymity.

Re:An Anonymous Reader Wrote In...

[rpresser]

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

Re:An Anonymous Reader Wrote In...

[MrLint]

I suspect hes totally fictional. like Remington Steele

Re:An Anonymous Reader Wrote In...

[Schreckgestalt]

...in Korea, only old people steal!

warthog jumping

[TheKarateMaster]

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...

Three words: Wow

[Dizzle]

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!

I've done that

[TechniMyoko]

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

Re:I've done that

[TechniMyoko]

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

Halo 1?

[dshaw858]

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

Re:Halo 1?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Halo 1?

[Sv-Manowar]

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

Why is someone's plaintext email address...

[EnglishTim]

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?

ed2k link

[GingTheMerciless]

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

Oops

[bairy]

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/

Re:Oops

[dreamquick]

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? :)

Direct download from NGI

[zr-rifle]

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

Mysterious associations...

[WWWWolf]

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