Gameplay

Heretic leader glitch

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The Heretic leader glitch is a Halo 2 glitch that allows players to kill the Heretic Leader on The Arbiter, one level before you are supposed to. The glitch should not be attempted by players who are trying to beat the game, as it will render the rest of the level unplayable.

Walkthrough[edit]

Play the level The Arbiter normally, keeping a charged Energy Sword with you at all times. Eventually, you will come to a room where you can see the Heretic Leader out on a Banshee Launchpad through a sheet of ornate glass. The reticule will turn red if you get close and move it over him. Get out your Energy Sword, and start attempting to lunge at the Heretic Leader through the glass. Crouch, jump, and crouch-jump, tapping the right trigger the whole time. It may take a few tries, but eventually, the Arbiter will lunge at the Heretic Leader, going straight through the glass.

Quickly grab his Banshee before he can pilot it, pick off his men, and the Heretic Leader will stop moving. He is completely invulnerable to all forms of damage, though you can kill him by knocking him off the ledge onto the pipeline below it. He screams the same way as when he is killed on the next level, The Oracle.

He will also die if you hijack his Heretic Banshee, but if you go anywhere down towards where he fell, you will die.

This glitch will also affect the Phantom that comes to support you. The Phantom will simply sit idly, firing at the Heretic Leader (or his dead body); it will not trigger any enemies to appear, and it will not trigger the door at the end of the level to open. In other words, you will not be able to proceed past this point after you do the glitch.

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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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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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"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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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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