Riding on the Elite Phantom
Posted June 28th 2015
After exiting the third tower, jump onto the Elite Phantom and you can get taken for a brief ride. However, then it cloaks and you fall to your death. Actually I bet quite a few gamers have followed Arby aboard that ship thinking that's what they were supposed to do. I mean, it is right there in front of you invitingly when you come down the ramp. But if they did, they probably won't have been very impressed at being killed shortly afterwards!
Staying alive
But wait! Here's a variation in which you stay alive. As you approach the ship, kill the Elite on the nearest plasma cannon. Position yourself underneath the gun platform then jump up and hit RB to man the cannon. When the ship flies off, you get cloaked along with it, and you stay aboard.
If you subsequently rip the cannon off, you start falling at an oddly slow rate. At a certain height though, you suddenly resume normal descent speed and die.
Spot of carnage anyone?
Here's one other thing you can do on the Phantom. Man the plasma cannon as quickly as possible, then see what damage you can wreak with it. One idea is to get busy destroying the UNSC vehicles. But another is to kill Arby's buddies as they head for the ship. If you do that, Arby will get off the ship, pronouncing you a traitor. You can potentially kill him too, but he gets back up of course - and can unfairly kill you with the merest jot of plasma.