Dancing rave crabs

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Across Halo: Campaign Evolved's multiple levels, there are secret "dancing crabs" that players may discover. These hidden Easter eggs are small animated raving crustaceans placed in unusual locations throughout the campaign. Unlike the out-of-bounds golden crabs, these visual gags are visible within standard map boundaries or via the Acrophobia skull during normal gameplay.

Walkthrough

Campaign

The Pillar of Autumn

• Location: Rally Point Alpha

The dancing crab is located in the very beginning of the level The Pillar of Autumn, at the back of the Cryo deck. The player can hop onto the canisters in the back to reach the upper catwalk. The dancing crab is inside one of the cryo pod chambers.

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Halo

• Location: Rally Point Charlie

After exiting the tunnel section of the level Halo, the dancing crab can be found further upstream by the river inside the cockpit of a crashed Bumblebee lifeboat.

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The Truth and Reconciliation

• Location: ?

The Silent Cartographer

• Location: Rally Point Alpha

After receiving the Warthog on the level The Silent Cartographer, the dancing crab can be found just further ahead left along the beach. After a light enemy encounter, the player can use the Acrophobia skull to find the dancing crab nestled up on a cliffside opening behind a rock.

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Assault on the Control Room

• Location: Rally Point Charlie

Immediately after exiting the tunnel, the player will see a large, towering structure and a Spirit dropping off troops and Karo'etba-pattern Ghosts. From here, the player must fly up to the platform where the Mythic Skull is obtained on Two Betrayals. Below this platform, the crab can be seen in-between the platform's support structure on the snow. To reach this location, the player must either board an enemy-controlled Oghal-pattern Banshee, fly with with Acrophobia Skull, or activate the game's built-in freecam mode.

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343 Guilty Spark

• Location: Rally Point Alpha

Upon exiting the Pelican dropship on the level 343 Guilty Spark, the player must turn around and head past a stone towards a lone broken tree in the starting swamp area. Near the splintered pole is a cluster of mangroves surrounding a large boulder hiding a dead UNSC marine and a dancing crab.

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The Library

• Location: Rally Point Charlie

The dancing crab is found on the fourth and final floor of the level The Library, right before defending the very last door. After exiting the floor's elevator, the player must proceed on the right-hand side of the floor and approach the semi-transparent wall of a room positioned in the center of the floor. The dancing crab can be spotted inside this sealed room. If the player uses Free Camera mode, they can clip into the room and view the dancing crab up close.

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Two Betrayals

• Location: Rally Point Charlie

After heading back down into the canyon section beneath the two bridges, the player must exit right of the Forerunner door. Between a boulder and Flood biomass is a cliffside ledge that leads up to small cave. With the Acrophobia skull enabled, the player can fly up and find the dancing crab inside with a campfire, MREs, and a tiny M6D magnum. The player will be killed by a death barrier if they approach this camping crab too close. If the player uses Free Camera mode, they can clip around the rock walls and view the crab up close.

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Keyes

• Location: Rally Point Alpha

After jumping from The Truth and Reconciliation down into the pool of coolant on the level Keyes, the player can use the Acrophobia skull to fly straight back up closely to the large hole of the ship's hull and then maneuver towards the summit of the nearby rising vertical cliff ahead. The dancing crab can be found perched on a tree on top of the high cliff.

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The Maw

• Location: Rally Point Charlie

The dancing crab is located in the end of the level The Maw, in the Longsword hangar bay. With the Acrophobia skull enabled, the player can fly over to the left side of the bay and find the dancing crab on top of another Longsword fighter with some nearby MREs

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Bonus Missions

Boarding Action

• Location: Rally Point Charlie

Once the player loads up the mission at Rally Point Charlie, immediately take note of the room the player is spawned in. Later on in this mission, another identical room must be fought through and the dancing crab can be found in its own test tube on one of the platforms above the intended playspace.

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The Most Dangerous Game

• Location: ?

Heavy Burden

• Location: Rally Point Charlie

After completing the section of the level with the gondola, the player will fight their way through one of the Triumph of Tolerance's hangar bays. From here, the player must use either the Acrophobia Skull or freecam mode to fly down to the Seraph on the below the side of the causeway the Wraith was on. On this Seraph is the dancing crab.

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