Fight Tartarus with a Banshee

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It is possible to fight Tartarus with a Banshee, in the Halo 2 level, The Great Journey. This may take a few tries to get on approach and takes a great deal of patience, but is well worth it to certain players.

Walkthrough[]

In the second to last part of the level where Sergeant Avery Johnson destroys the door with a Scarab, wait for him to shoot the door then fly into it. Though not required, it is advisable that you destroy the two wings of the Banshee before you enter the door. You can still make it with the wings, but you'll just damage them, and it will take a longer time. After you get inside the door, start flying upward and then forward. You will fly over one wall and then get stuck in between two walls. When this happens, fly downward. Your Banshee will end up in front of the door.

At this point, get out of your Banshee, so the door will open. Get back in the Banshee and boost through the door but be wary of plasma grenades. A few Brutes will engage you, use the Fuel Rod Cannon to grind them into powder and fly in the room and through the doors the Brutes came in. When you do this, a cutscene will show Tartarus activating Delta Halo. After the scene finishes, you can either kill the Brutes and then run backwards past Johnson, or just get the Banshee right then when the scene ends. Your Banshee will be sitting in the hallway, and you can use it to fly through the pillars and fight Tartarus.

Tartarus will try to attack you, but a few Fuel Rod Cannon shots should finish him. This can be an excellent method to use on Heroic and Legendary difficulty settings for new and inexperienced players. Also, do not simply run him over and push him off the edge of the structure, as he will vanish into thin air (well below where you could see him without the Banshee) and reappear in the grav-lift.

After killing Tartarus, the cutscene will play as usual, meaning this trick has no effect on the scene.

Trivia[]

It is possible to get two Banshees into the Control Room, if done correctly.

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50 Degree Banshee Fire • Air Swimming • Aqua Chief • Banshee launch • Bullet Hole Glitch • Character stretch glitch • Clipping • Dead Shielded Elite • Death by Cryo Tube • Fall damage reduction • Floating Assault rifles glitch • Floating Plasma Grenade • Frozen Elite • Grenade Slide • Headless Master Chief • Infinite Ammo Glitch • Immobile Banshee • Invincible Marines • Invisible Warthog Ammo • Leak • Multiple Invincible Grunts• Mysterious Massacre • No Weapon Glitch • Odd Flood Glitch • Perpendicular Banshee fire • Phantom Flood Whip • Riding a Pelican • Shafted Cinematic Glitch • Spelunking • Spinning Gun • Stopping Time • Suspended Dropships • The Pillar of Autumn Vacation • Three Weapons Glitch • Unarmed Marines • Unlimited Enemies • Unresponsive enemies • Wall Hacking • White Weapons

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Aqua Chief • Banshee launch • Blinking Corpses • Blue Jackal • Body Separation Glitch • Bouncing Items Glitch • Brute Buddies • Butterfly • 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 • Fall damage reduction • Fighting Tartarus Without Fighting Brutes • Flipping Warthog • Flipping a Phantom • Flying Arbiter • Floating Objects • Floating in Relic • Flyboy • Flying Half-Jaw • Freezing Kig-Yar • Frozen 2401 Penitent Tangent • Get Into Sea On Regret • Get a Ghost Stuck on the Scarab • Ghosts of Halo • Gravity Throne Hologram • Heretic Leader Glitch • Hidden Subtitle in Halo 2 • Hidden Weapons on Regret • High Charity Conduit • Hitchhiking Flood • Hole in the Highway • 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 Sentinel Beam • Invisible Turret • Jackals' Unlimited Plasma Pistols • Johnson disappearing on Cairo Station • Knock the Prophet of Regret out of his throne • MAC Gun Glitch • Meet Johnson Early • Needler Sentinel • No Weapon 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 • Silhouette Sword • Sliding Flood • Slow-motion Grenade • Solid Patch of Air • Spectre Jumping • Suicidal Jackal • Super bouncing • Suspended Pelican • Swinging Arbiter Glitch • Sword flying • Tank jumping • Telefragging • Teleporting Half-Jaw • Terminal Train • Three Weapons Glitch • Turf Vacation • Unarmed Marines • Unlimited Enemies • Unresponsive enemies • Uprising Vacation • Vehicles in Control Room • Wall Climbing with Vehicles • Wall Hacking • Weaponless elite (dual wielding) • Weaponless Elite Glitch • Save Marines on Sacred Icon

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4-Player Co-op Glitch • 3 Player Local Co-op • Aqua Chief • Arbiter Eye Glitch • Artificial Lag Glitch • Arm Glitch • Banshee Hovering Glitch • Banshee launch • Battle Rifle Ammo Glitch • Blanks in SMG • Butterfly • 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 • Forge Turret Glitch • Forward Unto Dawn Glitch • Frag Tag • Friendly Brutes •Frozen Elite • Ghost Forging • Ghosts of Halo • Glitches • Half Infected Character Glitch • Hall of Mirrors •Halo 3's Invincibility Glitch • High Ground Vacation • Hold a Sword like an SMG Glitch • Infinite Marines Glitch • Invincible Marines • Ledge Jump • Life After Death • Load Glitch • Narrows Man Cannon glitch • Mongoose Glitch • Monitor 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 • The Bump • The Covenant Vacation • Theater Tricks • Three Johnsons Glitch • Time Travel Glitch • Transparent Scenery Glitch • Three Weapons Glitch • Turn Black on Crow's Nest • 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 • Infinite Weapons on Crow's Nest • The Ark Vacation

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