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File:378183-Medium.jpg|An Elephant bombarded by Fusion Coils, making it fly.
File:378183-Medium.jpg|An Elephant bombarded by Fusion Coils, making it fly. Notice the mongoose flying out of it on the left.
File:WaitWhat-ElephantFlip.jpg|A player flips the Elephant, initiating the Easter Egg.
File:WaitWhat-ElephantFlip.jpg|A player flips the Elephant, initiating the Easter Egg.
File:ElephantFlying.jpg|An Elephant in the air.
File:ElephantFlying.jpg|An Elephant in the air.

Revision as of 20:38, August 28, 2010

Template:Ratings Although the Elephant is the only indestructible human land vehicle in Halo 3, it is possible to flip an Elephant over, unlocking an interesting and somewhat funny Easter Egg. The Easter Egg will say, "Hold RB to flip... wait, what? How did you do that?", as the Elephant weighs much more than a Spartan or Elite can flip, and that the vehicle isn't intended to achieve the speed or maneuverability necessary to flip it over in the first place.

Methods of Elephant Flipping

File:ElephantFlipPrepared.jpg
The Fusion Coil Method set up

Gravity Lift Method

The easiest way to flip an Elephant is to spawn a closed Drop Pod in the cockpit and throw down a Gravity Lift right near it.

Fusion Coil Method

First of all, go into Forge mode and put all the Fusion Coils and Plasma Batteries on the back of the Elephant. Set the Plasma Batteries and Fusion Coils settings so every number is the highest possible. Then stand back and shoot one of the Fusion Coils and wait until the Elephant lands. An alternative method is to go into Forge mode and drive the Elephant, parking it in such a way that there is a lot of room to one side. Place about ten Fusion Coils or Plasma Batteries at the opposite side in the gap between the treads. Set the run time minimum of the explosives to the same number as placed on map. Shoot the explosives, and the Elephant will flip to one side.

Run Over Method

Another way of flipping an Elephant is to drive one towards and partially over the other, then get out and drive the other one forward until it flips it over,

or take one up the building with a shallow wall near the blue base and drive it up the wall making sure the treads on the left side are on the ground at all times and you can see the wrecked phantom near the banshee, then drive forward until you are sent off the controls.

Forge and Drop Pod

Go into Forge and place a drop pod. Take the drop pod and put it inside the cockpit and fly up. The Elephant will either fly up in the air, or the drop pod will slip out and you will have to do this again.

Elephant Glitching in Matchmaking [No Forge/Modification]

Sometimes, in matchmaking or large custom games, the Elephant will begin to sink into the ground because of the bump, a glitch in the Halo 3 graphics engine. When objects begin to sink in the ground, they will be forced back out. The reason why they sink is most likely caused by lag.

In the case of the Elephant, when it sinks too much, it will be shot out of the ground and the Elephant will be sent flying. Usually, it will not be sent too high, but in cases of extreme lag, it can be shot all the way across the map. At times this can cause absolute havoc, causing the Elephant to crush players and vehicles, or send them flying.

Trivia

  • If the Elephant is flipped, then made a static object by using teleporters, vehicles such as warthogs can be put underneath, then have the elephant flipped by using RB, the vehicle will be launched out of the bottom at high speed. This is known as the "Elephant Cannon".

Gallery

  • 378183-Medium.jpg

    An Elephant bombarded by Fusion Coils, making it fly. Notice the mongoose flying out of it on the left.

  • WaitWhat-ElephantFlip.jpg

    A player flips the Elephant, initiating the Easter Egg.

  • ElephantFlying.jpg

    An Elephant in the air.

See also

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List of glitches in the Halo series

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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
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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 vacation • Unarmed Marines • Unlimited enemies • Unlimited Energy Sword • Unresponsive enemies • Uprising vacation • Wall Climbing with Vehicles • Wall hacking • Weaponless Elite (dual wielding) • Weaponless Elite glitch
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Halo 3 glitches
"Friendly" Brutes • 3 Player Local Co op • Aqua Chief • Arbiter eye glitch • Artificial lag glitch • Arm glitch • Avalanche vacation • Banshee hovering glitch • Banshee launch • Battle Rifle ammo glitch • Blanks in SMG • Butterflying • CTF weapons glitch • Character stretch glitch • Clipping • Corpse Respawn • Crow's Nest entrance • Dancing Elite glitch • Destroyed vehicles glitch • Disappearing grenade glitch • Disappearing Truth • Drive an AA Wraith • Drop pod glitch • Elephant flipping • Elite helmet glitch • Equipment jumping • Flipping a Phantom • Floating vehicles/player glitch • Floodgate vacation • Flying dumpster glitch • Flying Elephant • Flying turret glitch • Forge turret glitch • Forward Unto Dawn glitch • Frozen Elite • Fused armor glitch • Ghost Forging • Ghosts of Halo • Hall of Mirrors •Invincibility glitch • High Ground vacation • Hold an Energy Sword like an SMG glitch • Infected Brute Chieftain • Infinite Marines glitch • Infinite weapons on Crow's Nest • Invincible Marines • Ledge Jump • Life After Death • Load glitch • Mongoose glitch • Monitor glitch • Narrows man cannon glitch • No weapon glitch • Nuclear bomb glitch • Out of Sky Bubble glitch • Overload glitch (Halo 3) • Phantom Flood whip • Phantom riding glitch • Riding a Pelican • Ring of Rockets • Roaming spectator• Rtas 'Vadum in crashed Flood ship • Sangheili neck glitch • Scarab boarding glitch • Secret room on The Covenant • Secret Room under Snowbound • Semi-fake area glitch • Silhouette Sword • Skipping the light bridge scene • Stasis field glitch • Stopping time • Sword deflection glitch • Teleporter glitch • The Ark vacation • The Bump • The Covenant vacation • Theater tricks • Three Johnsons glitch • Time travel glitch • Transparent scenery glitch • Triple wielding • Turret detach glitch • Turretless vehicle glitch • Two Arbiters glitch • Two Spartan Lasers on Halo • Unlimited ammo • Unlimited enemies • Walking in the Dawn • Weaponless Elite glitch • Zero-gravity glitch
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Halo: Reach glitches
AI Super Jump • Armor permutation glitch • Charging Needler glitch • Corvette vacation • Dancing Hunter glitch • Dead shielded Emile • Floating shot glitch • Forge physics glitch • Forge turret glitch • Forge World vacation • Fused armor glitch • Giant Spartan glitch • Infinite armor lock glitch • Jetpack glitch • Lone Wolf Spartan statue glitch • Miniature Spartan glitch • Monitor glitch • Nightfall forklift glitch • Nightfall vacation • No weapon glitch • ONI: Sword Base vacation •Pilotable Seraph • Rapid firing Fuel Rod Shade • Spartan in Autumn • Square-Gates • Tip of the Spear vacation • Teleporter launching glitch • Three invincible Grunts glitch • Trapped in drop pod glitch • Turretless vehicle glitch • Unintended firing glitch • Using Onager early • Weaponless Elite glitch
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