Glitches

Crewman Glitch. The crewman seems to be using an invisible MA5B Assault Rifle.

Glitches are errors or bugs in any program that can cause undesired or interesting results. Glitches in video games can often be exploited to gain practical advantages. In the Halo games, glitches are often used in such a manner, and for that reason they are documented quite extensively on some websites. An expanding list of glitches in the Halo games can be found here.

Glitches in Halo: Combat Evolved[edit]

Glitches in Halo: Combat Evolved typically required the bypassing of invisible walls or the forcing of objects into areas they were not meant to be brought into. Some animation glitches also occur.

There is a Marine that copies himself when dead.
There is a glitch at the end of the level Halo in which the final structure has Marines and two technicians. If you kill the Marines, the techs will squat down in fear as normal. If you stick one with a Plasma Grenade while in this position, they will stand up, spread their arms, drop their weapon and start spinning, before being killed by the grenade - because they lack the animations necessary.
On the level The Silent Cartographer, it is possible to drive a Warthog through the door that leads to the Cartographer, skipping the need to fight two stealth Elites, four Hunters, and many other Covenant enemies. Doing so can allow you to kill the Zealot Elite that stands in the doorway, but doing so is useless because he will reappear at the end of the level, regardless.

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Halo: Combat Evolved glitches

50 Degree Banshee Fire • Air swimming • Assault on the Control Room shortcut • Banshee launch • Bullet hole glitch • Character stretch glitch • Clipping • Death by cryo tube • Easy Pyramid Structure • Fall damage reduction • Floating assault rifles • Floating plasma grenade • Frozen Elite • Grenade animation glitch • Grenade slide • Headless Master Chief • Immobile Banshee • Invincible Marines • Invisible Warthog ammo • Leak • No weapon glitch • Pelican death glitch • Perpendicular Banshee fire • Phantom Flood whip • Riding a Pelican • Shafted cinematic glitch • Shielded dead Elite • Speedy reload • Spelunking • Spinning gun • Stay in the Pelican • Stopping time • Suspended dropships • The Pillar of Autumn vacation • Treadmill trick • Three weapons glitch • Unarmed Marines • Unlimited enemies • Unresponsive enemies • Wall hacking • White weapons

Glitches in Halo 2[edit]

In Halo 2, players could do things such as super jumping or super bouncing (Xbox only), get past invisible walls to get out of maps, etc. "Button Combos" also existed, such as one that would allow you to kill a player instantly.

In the level, Delta Halo, there is an excessive amount of glitches. For example, there are many cracks and errors in the invisible barriers surrounding the playable areas of the level that enable the player to skip an amount of the level, explore the distant hills, and even get under the lake, on foot, in a Ghost, or in a Warthog.

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Halo 2 glitches

Arbitrary unit possession • Aqua Chief • Banshee launch • Blue Jackal • Body separation glitch • Bouncing items glitch • Brute Buddies • Sword Climbing • Sword hijacking • Button combo • Cairo Station vacation • Character stretch glitch • Charging Needler glitch • Clipping • Creepy Cortana glitch • Driverless Banshee • Drop Dead on The Great Journey • Dual Melee • Enemies in space glitch • Faking Brutes • Fall damage reduction • Fighting Tartarus without fighting Brutes • Flipping a Phantom • Flying Arbiter • Floating objects • Floating in Relic • Flyboy • Flying Half-Jaw • Freezing Jackal • Get Into Sea On Regret • Get a Ghost stuck on the Scarab • Ghosts of Halo • Giant player model •Gravity throne hologram • Grenade lunge • Heretic leader glitch • Hidden subtitle in Halo 2 • Hidden weapons on Regret • Reaching the High Charity conduit • Hitchhiking Flood • Honor Guard Councilor • Hovering Arbiter glitch • Kill Sergeant Johnson glitch • Infected Brute glitch • Infinite Shotgun • Invincibility glitch • Invincible Grunt • Invincible Marines • Invisible bridge glitch • Invisible grenade throw • Invisible Sentinel beam • Invisible turret • Jackals' unlimited Plasma Pistols • Johnson disappearing on the Cairo • Knock the Prophet of Regret out of his throne • Light Eye • MAC gun glitch • Meet Johnson early • Needler Sentinel • No weapon glitch • Oracle elevator glitch • Oracle Super Jump • Orbital Insertion Pod glitch • Overload glitch (Halo 2) • Overloaded Backwash • Permanent invisibility • Phantom glitch on The Arbiter • Phantom riding glitch • Plasma Pistol glitch • Plasma Rifle overheat glitch • Quarantine Zone floor glitch • Quarantine Zone vacation • Riding a Pelican • Ring of Rockets • Rtas 'Vadum's eyes glitch • Save Marines on Sacred Icon • Silhouette Sword • Sliding Flood • Slow-motion grenade • Solid Patch of Air • Spectre jumping • Speedy reload • Suicidal Jackal • Super bouncing • Suspended Pelican • SWAT Suicide • Swinging Arbiter glitch • Sword flying • Tank jumping • Telefragging • Teleporting Half-Jaw • Triple wielding • Turf va