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November 29, 2004 Link to this post
Halo stunts outside the community
Interesting. One of the very first vids I saw in Halo 2 was someone exploiting the 6 plasma shields on Delta Halo for Tank Launching - park your tank on the shields, and if it's well-placed, it flies nicely when the shields regenerate. There have been 2 or 3 vids circulating around the community, showing this trick - but a couple of guys found that submitting their vid to Slashdot drastically increases the audience. Two things happened; their bandwidth got toasted (no big deal, because some /. regular simply bittorrented the film, and you can grab it now thanks to hundreds of technophiles), and they got credit OUTSIDE the Halo community for this stunt. (There's a third thing, too, I guess - they decreased the chances that a truly innovative film will even be MENTIONED by Slashdot. Bummer.) The vid they put out is DivX 5 format, 31 mb, almost 4 minutes long. After the first 30 seconds, you've seen it all. (Louis Wu 10:01:10 UTC)
