Hack 41. Create a Giant Phantom MC

Use this glitch to create an enormous Master Chief corpse.

This is an amazing glitch. By forcing a player through the Burial Mounds fiery pillar, you are able to create a monstrous incarnation of a Master Chief (MC) corpse.

To reproduce this behavior, you will need to set up a multiplayer game on Burial Mounds and add the Covenant Wraith tank as the heavy vehicle. (You may want to make a custom game variant.) Enter the game with at least two players, one of whom must be a Spartan.

Position the Spartan player near where the Plasma Pistol spawns. This puts him right up against the big burning pillar (see Figure 5-6). Bring the Wraith to the pillar and have the Spartan crouch. Finally, boost into the Spartan so that you ram him into the pillar this will force the Spartan player out of the map (see Figure 5-7). Generally, the most successful method is for the person in the Wraith to tap forward and then hold forward while boosting.

When the player falls through the map, there are two indications that you have reproduced the glitch correctly. The first indication is that after a second of falling it appears as though the player comes to rest and then falls again. This may sound confusing, but it is easily noticeable. The other indication is that the physics engine goes crazy and the corpse looks like it's break dancing.

If one of these two things happens, when the Spartan re-spawns there should be a giant corpse looming over some part of the level. Normally, the phantom appears in the sky above the pillar (see Figure 5-8).

Figure 5-6. Setting up the trick

Figure 5-7. The Wraith ready to boost

Figure 5-8. The giant MC

The orientation of the crouching player will determine the orientation of the giant phantom. If the player faces the pillar, you will be able to see less of the corpse (see Figure 5-9).

Figure 5-9. Another look at the phantom

You're probably wondering how such a strange glitch is possible. Under the fire pillar, there is a sphere. No one in the community seems to know why it is located there instead of some other place, but it's there. The purpose of this sphere is to project the sky textures. When you get an MC corpse near the sphere, it projects the body into the sky.