Speedrunners will position themselves slightly off-center beneath the flood form the flood will face whichever direction the runner is offset to and the pair will move in that direction as they fly. This version of the trick is much more advanced, as it requires players to fly horizontally and to steer as they do so. Its use here is even more mindboggling, as speedrunners fly from the very start of the level to the very end in less than a minute. This trick would later be extended onto the level High Charity, the second last level in the game. This tricks the game into thinking they completed the section and allows them to progress, skipping it entirely. done," the prison area will be loaded (the hardest room in the game) and they can butterfly upward until the prison de-loads. In its first use on Gravemind, players trick a brute into following them into a downward gravity lift. Rapidly repeating this button combo will push the enemy up higher and higher while you rest beneath them, repeatedly lunging upwards as they ascend. This will push the enemy slightly upwards and you will fall slightly as they move up. The kicker here is that when you lunge into them, you give them a slight nudge and push them.īy getting an enemy to stand on your head, you can initiate a jumping melee and immediately reload to cancel it. By canceling your melee before you hit the opponent, you will no longer deal damage to them, but your momentum will be conserved and you will still lunge toward them as you would normally. This technique plays a key role in butterflying. This is possible even while midair, performing a physics-defying lunge as a sort of double-jump to strike an opponent.
When you melee an enemy who is within range (a few feet), you will lunge towards them before making contact. Butterflying uses this exact same trick of cancelling a melee animation by reloading.
Many Halo 2 players from back in the day likely remember the infamous "BXR" button combination, in which a player would melee an opponent, quickly press the reload button to force the melee animation to end early, then press the right trigger to fire off a quick battle rifle burst into their enemy's head for an easy kill. RELATED: Bullet Bill Glitch: How The Coolest Super Mario Bros Speedrun Trick Worksīutterflying is a trick that plays off of Halo 2's melee-canceling function.