Halo 2 - Flying a Pelican (REVISITED) 

General, the pelican is a flying vehicle in every Halo game. Only marine type characters can pilot them, and whenever you see pelicans flying in the campaign there is a marine flying them along a set path.

if you think about how Halo 2 endured many changes during development, it's not crazy to think Bungie had planned a flying pelican mission.

I remember doing this on the xbox haha, Bungie probably purposely added controls to the pelican expecting that their game would be modded because it's bungie, similarly to how they put the scarab gun at the very top of the map, not necessarily knowing how people would obtain it, They just assumed people would find a way.

Am i the only one who just realized General's intro music is the startup sound from windows 2000

Another fun fact: Halo: 2 originally had sprint, but was later cut; also, this Pelican model is way better than the new ones from: 343's. Hopefully, they bring back the Halo: 2- 3's character, weapon, and vehicle models.

this is actually kinda cool, it reminds me of the elite drop pods in h3 where only arbiter and random elite 1 and 2 can enter them

13 years later..... I knew this was possible some how.

Here's a bonus. If you get a trainer/put some insanely high damage values on weapons, you can explode pelicans in Halo: CE just by shooting it. Like, proper explode. In Halo 2 and 3 they'd just phase through the floor and the pilot would die

You can do this in every game either by making the driver seat accessible to player bipeds or changing the player biped. Every FPS halo game.

Its a banshee in disguise lol.

The Pelican has had the same flying controls from Halo: CE to Halo: Reach.

I don't know if you read the comments but in case you do, there's a way to do this without mods but only in coop (atleast on the MCC version for xbox one). Have you ever heard of the Dead/Alive glitch in Halo 2? I'll quickly break it down: you follow a certain amount of (mostly) complex steps which eventually enable your player to become a marine model. In Halo 2, the only players who can fly a pelican are marine types (hence why Miranda is able to fly it). If you can become a marine in halo 2, you can fly any pelican on any mission. It's easier if you mod it of course. But here's a example video on how someone did it without mods on the map Metropolis... It's insane, I'd like to see you try it out for a video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6A_UQJFI0wE.html So basically someone found out how to become a marine, which is really insane on it's own lol, and as a marine you can board the pelican. This can also be done on the original version as long as you get 25 objects in the game. It's only easier in MCC because of the pinata skull but in the original version you can just repeatetly kill your ally, as per the video authors reply -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6A_UQJFI0wE.html&lc=UgyyVxLeUVUViRSMlFF4AaABAg.92e_AebWTsT92f6m6MOBHS I'd like to hear ur thoughts

I have a theory. So there was a fully planned flying mission, but it had to be cut out. So as a shortcut to keep chief from flying the pelican and to save time they simply deleted the script for chief to enter the pelican. Because the pelican was a vehicle due to this planned mission, the AI treat it like one, and the enter script was kept for the AI. So when you have an AI biped the pelican thinks your an AI and allows you to enter the pelican

Generalkidd to fly it as Master Chief, change the pelican seat 0, to invisible set to off, and the seat name to warthog_d

you could do toturials, im not that much ineterested into modding halo 2 but there might be someone who would like to know how to :)

I find it impressive how big the maps in halo games actually are

When I was a wee little kid of 10 years or so playing halo 3 I dreamt of flying a pelican/ghost/spectre/and other vehicles, even a scarab. When reach came out I loved it. I was disappointed I couldn't fly anything but I eventually found the ring Easter egg to change the falcon skin but it wasn't what I had in mind. I spent hours trying to kill the plasma turrets on phantoms and then trying to jet pack up to them and mount them so I could get in the phantom but it never worked. I tried to stun a banshee at the start of the spire mission to fly. I tried to stun a banshee on the last mission so I could try and board the scarab. It brings back so many good memories. I wish 343 could make a halo game like that. It could be something like a mix of halo wars and traditional halo. Have all the weapons and vehicles and have scarabs and pelicans be like a special vehicle to get. It could be so badass but it'll never happen 😢

Could the pelican shooting missiles be like how the wraith in Halo 2 had two plasma cannons on the front; they only shoot if it's an AI piloting them?

A marine hops in the pelican around 7:50. You can see at 7:46 that there are no marines, then one runs up and magically hops into the turret. Interesting.

If you listen to Bungie's commentary series you learn that a large mass of character movements in cutscenes we not scripted to be that way. They set up a camera system that would record them controlling the other characters. For example the level 343 guilty spark in Halo: CE, The whole cutscene with the helmet. There was someone controlling each of those characters, including the one walking around. Which is why the camera movement look so sharp and like something someone would actually do in the game.

I wonder if the reason why is so that Bungie could script all the movements by playing the game as certain NPCs through certain points during the mission. That would explain why marine characters can pilot the pelican.

Halo Combat Evolved has flyable pelicans as well. Swapping the Pelican seat tag to a "warthog" seat tag allows you to fully fly pelicans.

On the map assault on the control room in *Halo CE anniversary for Xbox 360* , a friend of mine got into the pelican in the intro, you can't pilot it but on Co-op if you do, it will fly you down to the bottom of the map and crash, you are able to flip it over as well. Just not fly it, which my friend and I have tried many, many, many times. If you want to try it, you can. (we did it on normal difficulty and managed to survive. One player went in the pelican while the other fought the enemies, I spawned him down there as it saves the map.) [IT SAYS HOLD X TO FLIP PELICAN]

The flying mechanic for the pelicans in Halo 2 have a similar "Feel" like you get in Halo Reach, possibly a Halo 2 mechanic implemented into reach eh?

probably part of the cut content, i wish bungie or 343i (maybe even ex- bungie developers+343i) would go back and "re-make" halo 2 and 3 with all of their original planned content in a way that it wouldn't drastically affect the story. blur cinematics would be a must tho

That soccer ball has always been in Halo 2?

Some mod tutorials would be very welcomed commodities, and great ones at that. So much of the stuff there is to see on RU-vid about modding halo usually comes without ANY leads on what to do at all, and I'm sure a lot of us have been yearning for years to figure out how to do it.

It seems that the pelican has the same controls and feel of a banshee with a re ritten version of the cockpit closing for the banshee for the landing gear

You can actually fly the pelican with rocket pods using master chief. I can send you the metropolis map file for that

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Pelicans were counted as vehicles in CE as well. In fact, if you turned on an instant kill cheat both the pelicans and the spirit dropships had death animations!

actually even in halo combat evolved custom edition you could create maps and fly the longswords like the one in the final mission, and they are really cool. The custom map extinction has the pillar of autumn and you can go there with a vehicle and get in one.

On outskirts you can kill the pilot of the pelican Sgt. Johnson gets into with plasma grenades so see if you can fly that one as Miranda Keys

i love that this game is still getting coverage after all these years

In Halo 1 Bungie actually would actually fly pelicans, walk characters, and such, then record those actions to playback in the game. Sometimes they'd use AI paths as well but they used a lot of playback animations. You can fly the pelican in Halo 1 custom edition by changing the pelican to flyable. In Halo 2 they did mostly keyframe animation and stopped doing playbacks. The flyable nature could be a legacy thing.

could you fly a phantom if you play as an elite?

Yo, I love "flying Pelican" in Halo Games so I found out that if you combine Mr. mohavk for swapping pelican with frag grenade projectile and then you use Assembly (another Halo tool) for changing the seat animation from "pelican_d" to "warthog_d" you can pilot it as masterchief. I did it on original Xbox with DotHalo tool and now on Vista with this strange method. Btw if someone knows how to swap tags directly in Assembly please tell me

I wonder if you could fly a Phantom if you modded your character to an enemy Covenant?

On Assault on the control room in halo CE for PC, in the beginning if you had someone playing with you online you could flip the pelican in mid air while one person jumped out and and it would give you the option to flip it. Once flipped the other person inside would fall out and die but if done correctly when it hits the bottom of the map the other player would spawn and survive and flipped at the right position you would be able to drive it. On console you can only flip it around and like halo 2 it only allows Marine npcs the ability to drive it, in halo 3 the pelican or phantom are just full on AI's. In halo 2 the pelicans are driven by marines as you can find that the pilot falls out of the pelican if flipped. The marines dont appear in the drivers seats in halo 2 most likely cause of a bug or that the developers didnt want you to kill the drivers. Halo CE is the same and has a marine driver in the pelican but the driver cant be seen. In halo reach the same as halo 3 is implemented that the pelican itself is an AI scripted. I dont know why but developers leave drivable versions to PC most of the time like the APC in half life 2.

Looks like bungie may have been thinking about including a flyable pelican in the game but abandoned it, hence the odd controls. Being the messy programmers that they are, they left the code in the game

Bro WTF?!?! All my years trying to find glitches on RU-vid I missed this?!?!

The only reason you can fly it is because Keyes has the animations to fly it, without the animations the popup never appears to drive it

Halo 2 PC looks like so much fun to mod. Can you put bots into multiplayer? I don't have friends.

General idk if you know it but you can end sierra 117 early. You need the acrophobia skull and board Kilo 23 while shes destroying the phantoms

I downloaded a save on an action replay back in 2005 that started you out piloting Pelican on the level Delta Halo.

Very noice.

what if this was the intended way to get the Scarab gun?

Halo 2 on the PC is so underrated and awesome.

Makes sense it can't fire as this one is just a dropship and not a gunship.

I'm pretty sure you were able to fly a pelican without any game modifications in Halo 1. IIRC, it was in the level after the Silent Cartographer, the start where the pelican flies down the tunnel. Maybe that was done with modifications, and I don't remember how it was done exactly, but I remember a video about it. The pelican would fly through walls, and I think you could only go forward? At this point I'm really unsure, I just remember it happened close to the start of that level and you could fly it through walls.

I suggest you use assembly if you're not already to do all the modding.

Manny, look at that pelican fly!!

Can you enter the rear gunner position?

3:53 - 4:04 use your dirty mind

So simple, I remember going out there and trying to get in but of course you need mods

This is awesome! Thanks dude.

bruh in halo ce you can pilot the pelican easy peasy, so reach or halo 2 are not the first

a marine jumps on the gun at 7:55

flipping pelicans

It seems likely that the script which controlled who could fly the pelican didn't include Miranda Keys, so much as it purposefully excluded Master Chief (and possibly the Arbiter), as those were the only two intended, playable characters. Also, the pelican's animations may have been created for when you see it scripted in levels or when it acts in a cutscene, as both would remove the need to individually animate each scene, saving precious dev time.

IF I remember theres two seats ones the flyer ones the gunner

You can fly a pelican in Halo 4 aswell

Can you do a tutorial video from this MOD?

It's interesting to see this video. Bungie has a root for RTS games, which may explain their implementation of vehicle types to be usied by AI driven pilots.

Man I wish I had Halo CE and or 2 on PC.. I also sold my original xbox along with all my old xbox games so I only have the master chief collection to play the 2 first halo games so that sucks kinda but not too bad.

Oh what could have been... it's too bad they decided not to have a pelican mission

Miranda can fly it because Miranda is coded to be a marine model swap during gameplay. That and the pelican is always flyable in all games, they're just coded to only be flyable by Marines not Spartans / Elites. How else would they get them to fly to certain places?

I think Bungie was going to add this but took it out.

Still they haven't added it into any forges in any of the halos

You should try and see if you can do some modes in space I know Space combat is so rare

One of my obvious questions is what about co-op mode (Assuming both players have the marine // keys mod), can you fly and shoot?

Since Miranda can fly the pelican does that mean she can fly a Friget?

Disculpa actualmente modifico el motor de Halo 2 si quisiera hacer el pelican manejable para mas de un jugador cosa que se pudiera usar la torreta delantera y la vaina de misiles y luego cambiar la etiqueta de banshee y volverlo estable, ¿que herramientas o pasos necesito mi amigo?

I flew this pelican long time ago with mods on original Xbox (:

luv ur vid keep up the good work

Please do a tutorial this is awesome!

could you make a tutorial on how to swap said biped? every time i try to swap the Chief's biped to Miranda's it crashes my game.

Hey general I can teach you to Mod vehicles like phantoms and pelicans in halo 3 even add them to mp maps lol

this is interesting thanks, I would like to know how to use these for Xbox if you can dude, I doubt there usable for the master chef collection on the one though

Halo combat evolved on the pc I thought you could fly pelicans in mp, either that or halo custom edition

Can you make a tutorial on how to make the mouse not lag on Halo 2 PC

Yeah you would should show how to the mods

so you can't do it on console?

Can you please label Mod Revisits as Mod Revisits

Do a video of flying prophet chair it's fun to use lol just swap the seat :p

my friend told how to fly a pelican in Halo 2

Bro would it be possible to add the sprint to Halo 2 PC would you tell me how? and if it's possible to edit my multiplayer sangheili as one of campaign, thanks Bro me seria posible agregar el sprint a Halo 2 PC me dirias como? y si es posible editar mi sangheili multijugador como uno de campaña, gracias

In order to save time they created the pelican as a vehicle and have characters actually fly the ships so as to make it easier to work with because of the sh*t engine

Sorry now I modify the Halo 2 engine if I wanted to make the pelican manageable for more than one player thing that could be used the front turret and the missile pod and then change the banshee tag and make it stable, what tools or steps do I need? friend?

Hey General Heed cool Video, did you know that with mods you can do the same thing on Halo Combat Evolved. With Halo Map Tools v3.5

So can you tell us how to switched to Mirranda?

If it doesn't work with out a mod its not a secret its just a mod

I remember doing this with a friend

I would like to see tutorials for xbox.

do you think doing something similar to this would work to fly a phantom? I would love to see a video of you trying that.

That’s so cool

Hello Generalkidd how are you?

So how can I mod? lol I've never done it before. Anyone out there wanna help me?

do all pelicans fly the same?

How can you do this on xbox one