The 'From downtown!' Halo 3 grenade stick

by Justin McElroy { Oct 11th 2007 at 1:26PM }

Will it get old seeing footage of incredible Halo 3 kills? Probably. Are we at that point yet though? No. Oh, no, no, we're not even close. That's like, a tiny little fleck on the horizon. For now, they're an awesome way to get your Halo 3 fix when you can't play because somebody chained you to your blogging desk -- again.

This new entry is from the "Plasma Grenade stick" family, and shows a no look lob hurdle across a level, attach to recently-spawned, soon-to-be-furious Spartan just trying to get his man cannon on. He is then, in the parlance of the street, pwned. Watch and enjoy.

Tags: halo3

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Warlord @ Oct 11th 2007 1:29PM

Grenade spammers *facepalm*

Hello @ Oct 11th 2007 1:29PM

lame, looks like hes practiced hitting the grav lift from that spot

NukeAssault @ Oct 11th 2007 1:41PM

He did actually.

jamma @ Oct 11th 2007 2:32PM

he probably did that loads of times in the game cos he new it was a spawn point, and since he killed the guy, he knew the guy would respawn and so he threw two grenades to be sure. one of them hit.

so not really a set-up, but definitely not a fluke.

dan stabbingworth @ Oct 11th 2007 5:04PM

And now that everybody knows to do it, say goodbye to this map. You can reload on plasmas easily.

ReverendGadgetBoy @ Oct 11th 2007 5:53PM

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/10/04/teh-most-amazing-plasma-grenade-stick-evar/

that guy looks a lot more believable. and, his stick is better.

BananaBoat @ Oct 11th 2007 1:32PM

I'm going to say that he both practiced it, and had a friend help by taking the nade.

Why do I say it's a setup? He specifically has a part of the video that says "To prove it's not a setup..." of the guy spawning. That's all well and good, but it's alot more likely that the guy's friend said "Ok, do it, do it, I'm on the lift!".

And yes, we are sick of seeing these. The one where it went across the map, hit a grav lift, and then flew onto the guy was a true non-setup, but this video is bogus.

Jacob P. @ Oct 11th 2007 1:36PM

The guy couldn't have said that he was on the lift, and to throw it...You get to watch him spawn, and the guy throws the grenades well before he spawns...

lessbiasedthanmost @ Oct 11th 2007 1:38PM

I'm afraid you're correct BananaBoat, otherwise he wouldn't have backtracked the way he did.

boulderhorn @ Oct 11th 2007 1:33PM

is it me or did the guy he stick with the glowing blue spider have a sword on his back? some peeps really blew through the game knocking out all those achievements and skulls in short order... I only wish i had that much free time on my hands.

Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 11th 2007 1:33PM

Wow that movie saving utility is more badass than I thought. What a cheap (and awesome) bastard though. It reminds me of when I memorized the respawn spot order for GoldenEye and exactly how close I could get without it forcing them to skip that respawn. I could win a match 20 - 0. But then I didn't have friends until I learned to play nice.

lessbiasedthanmost @ Oct 11th 2007 1:34PM

Of course you'll get a vid like that the way he's tossing grenades. He probably does that in every single match he plays and gets killed dozens of times while he's trying to set up a shot like that.

Anyone else feel like there was a massive lack of players in that vid?

lessbiasedthanmost @ Oct 11th 2007 1:36PM

upon second review, disregard the last statement of my first post

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Oct 11th 2007 1:35PM

"Will it get old seeing footage of incredible Halo 3 kills?"

Outside of 360 fanboy? Yes.

Sean @ Oct 11th 2007 1:35PM

Love it.

Jake @ Oct 11th 2007 1:38PM

The kid practiced hitting that lift. They probably restricted the spawn points so he knew the guy would spawn right there and then timed it.

That, or he practiced hitting the lift just so it would send the nades onto the center platform. He went to launch a nade off the man cannon and got lucky.

The other one was way cooler, though.

AstroZombie @ Oct 11th 2007 1:43PM

He just sticky-spammed the man-cannon.

Zach @ Oct 11th 2007 1:54PM

How are people saving these videos from Bungie.net? The only option it ever gives me is to download it to my 360.

Kryptinite @ Oct 11th 2007 1:59PM

You have to have a way to stream the signal from your xbox to your computer and save it on your computer. Video converters and some digital camcorders give you this ability.

Kristof @ Oct 11th 2007 1:57PM

Yeah, that was lame. That wasn't a blind toss "no way!" type of thing ... it was a "odds are eventually this will pwn someone, I'm so clever ... chuckle" lame attempt to pass off a "leet" kill.

RenStrike @ Oct 11th 2007 1:59PM

Nice

Kryptinite @ Oct 11th 2007 1:59PM

I think it's staged because you can set the spawn points in Forge.

exit stencil @ Oct 11th 2007 2:10PM

I hope I get an outrageous sticky kill soon so I can have my 15 seconds of youtube/MLG ph4m3.

arleigh.sandoc @ Oct 11th 2007 2:17PM

Even with Forge allowing someone to set spawn points where they want it still doesn't guarantee that he'll be able to toss the plasma grenades in the proper angle to have it land right on the lift. Then have it get lifted up at the proper moment to have someone using the lift to get stuck to it.

Jake @ Oct 11th 2007 2:27PM

I had a sweet kill once on the Narrows. I was shooting it out with someone and backed into the man cannon while tossing one last grenade. As I flew to the other side, the grenade killed the dude and knocked him into the man cannon. I didn't realize he was DOA and I started popping sniper rounds at his dead body flying through the air at me. I landed and he landed on top of me along with all his gear.

I dunno, it seemed cool at the time.

That Fuzzy Bastard @ Oct 11th 2007 2:31PM

Awesome, just awesome. I don't have H3 yet, but I'm really impressed with how quickly movie saves are becoming a killer feature for it. Very smart way to integrate YouTube into your game's shelf life (though it sounds like the integration is a little harder than it should be). I'll be curious to see how Sony's Singstar movies meet the challenge.

Spiza @ Oct 11th 2007 2:32PM

Oh wow, gaming vids of Halo3, so neato. Wait, haven't this vids been around forever for PC games like Quake?

robert @ Oct 11th 2007 2:47PM

yes, but H3 is as culturally important as the second coming of Christ... get with it.

Dylan @ Oct 11th 2007 3:02PM

"He just sticky-spammed the man-cannon."

Hi-larious!
That has to be one of the best lines which can be mis-interpreted ever!

Astrozombie is my new hero. I can't wait to use that line in public, tomorrow at Starbucks "I'm really tired, I was up all night perfecting sticky spamming the man cannon."

lessbiasedthanmost @ Oct 11th 2007 3:15PM

I wish I could give you a million hearts for pointing out the innuendo that I missed, alas this +1 shall have to do.

HineyWipe @ Oct 11th 2007 2:48PM

"Oh look! A blue-glowy thingee in front of me! I guess I should just keep running toward it!"

Yawn. You see one tossed-off, you've seen them all!

WiseGuy @ Oct 11th 2007 3:03PM

Since the Forge gives you the ability to redesign where items are placed on a map (including spawn points)... bungie should make an effort to move them around periodically so people can't memorize them. Not to say they are, but i remember some pretty questionable crap happening in Halo 2 that made it appear possible to memorize spawn points. It's cheapass and all it says is that you have way too much time on your hands and no life outside of Halo. Fun game and cool vid though.

michael @ Oct 11th 2007 3:24PM

It definately wasn't blind luck. Did nobody notice how he aimed up to the wall then went straight up. Sure he proabbly did want to just throw some plasmas into the man-cannon and got lucky. But definately wasnt just a lucky thow that it went into the cannon.