Lockdown random play balls?!?

[The_Arch]

I have recently been playing many customs on Lockdown to get a better feel for the map and the spawns. However in a few games i have noticed sometimes when the ball carrier gets beat down with the ball it will randomly be played for no reason at all. There is a clip of it happening in a 4v4 online custom game below of this happening to me.(sorry no gameroom link i don't have a capture card). I am guessing it is just lag however the game was green bar the whole time. Ne one care to explain?Also if some 1 could upload to gameroom it would be nice. Thanks :grin: Also this happend 2 times in the same game however i only recorded one so you could see what happend from my first person.


Link: http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=75604501

[Excede]

The ball resets after, I believe, 30 seconds if it has been uncontested

Hope I helped

[Niccccck16]

^it's 20 seconds, and to the OP, that is actually kinda funny, never happened to me before though

[Nervez]

Yea I've had it happen in my games a few times but never knew what caused it.

[b0b43]

It happens during Grifball a lot as well. I don't think it has happened to me much during Oddball, but it is definately a glitch that occurs far too often for no explanation. I have no idea what it is, but hopefully someone can shed some light on it.

[Excede]

^it's 20 seconds, and to the OP, that is actually kinda funny, never happened to me before though

Thanks for the correction.

[AceNod137]

Never happened to me.

[xXsidewind3r]

Ball resets after 20 seconds of not being touched but i dont think this is what your talking about. Ill take a look at the video........brb

[II7_HUNTER_II7]

to the people answering the ball resetys aftyer 20 seconds you are right however this is not what the OP is talking about.

after 20 seconds of the ball being remained untouched the announcer says "ball reset"

if a ball is thrown off of the edge of the map the announcer says "play ball"

as the ball cannot be thrown off of lockdown you theoretically cannot play ball conventionally however sometimes when the ball is dropped the announcer will call out "play ball" after a certain period of time this is what the OP is talking about

i have experienced this aswell a few times we havent come up with a concrete explanation for it yet though the theory is that there are areas where the map has been glitched (interlocking and geomerging etc) these areas have been known to cause grenades which land there to cause no damage etc and we believe that when the ball lands there it eventually plays maybe because when some objects are mergeed they "flicker" i have been told that this is because the merged object is still moving and perhaps when the ball lands there it gives it the impression it is still moving or in freefall this may in turn cause it to play ball

just a theory that has been thrown around not confirmed :) would be useful to know though as it could be utilised effectively ingame :)

[Kadmidge]

It happens during Grifball a lot as well. I don't think it has happened to me much during Oddball, but it is definately a glitch that occurs far too often for no explanation. I have no idea what it is, but hopefully someone can shed some light on it.

yep happens during griffball all the time, i think its just xbl

[Mintograde]

Reminds me of when the ball would get stuck under the map in H2, but only the host could see it above the map/pick it up. This *might* be something similar, where the ball is technically "falling" under the level, but everyone still sees it up top, and it just returns when it passes the "return zone" under the level.

[Xobecide]

you know how after some certain deaths your body glitches into the walls or out of them? Probably whats happening here, except with the ball. When the game senses it's no longer in the boundaries of the map it resets it.