Just like there's a golden banshee hidden in Halo 1, and a Recon helmet sitting up on a ledge in The Covenant, before the 2 scarabs, waiting for you to pick it up like a skull. One explanation above, about when it explodes, sounds plausible. Bungie never was able to polish the game, so if there's some sort of trick to making it "glow" from the explosion involving a quick texture swap, the lack of polish makes it feasible that it could occasionally glitch.
"The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie! The Warthog was a lie!" was writen all over the walls in blood, by the previous testie in GLaDOS's "experiment". (portal reference)
i remember when there was a rumor to get the golden warthog. apparently you need 16 people in a party with rockets and they all have to shoot the sign with the civ warthog on it at the same time and then you get the warthog... I sounds really dumb, and even if it did work it would be impossible to get 16 people to shoot at once. I was in a party that was trying it and everyone kept on screwing around lol it was really stupid.
my friend was once thought that shooting the huge door by the water with rockets over and over again opened it and the golden warthog was behind it. i just laughed at him while he tried to convince me.
Golden Warthog was fake. TUE was never found. I was really disappointed. I did get dual scarab guns though. And the scarab gun on outskirts. That reminds me.. Big Needler; so fake. Hammer; fake. Prophet cannon; fake. There's always that possibility of something on Regret.. I've been all over that level but I still havn't found anything..
yeah the golden warthog was definately a lie unless you modded. i have been on every building possible in that map trying to prove that there wasnt a golden warthog and i never found one, but it is fun getting on all the buildings. never heard of the armor thing though.
The golden warthog is on terminal, my friend got to it, you have to knock down one of the doors, He doesnt understand how he opened it but him and his friends spent a long time shooting it with everything on the map. I havent seen it myself so I dont know if its true.
I dnt no if it is real or not. But I have found the next closest thing to it in Halo 3. A turretless warthog.
the golden warthog is a rumor. only done by modding halo 2 and Halo ce, many players used to believe it to be on a building in the halo 2 map of Headlong. Unfortunately many have already scaled these beasts only to find nothing. breaking the myth that the golden warthog exists. now the only evidence of a warthog is modding, halo ce, and the huge advertisement on Headlong of the Warthog. but some have claimed to find it by certain luck and hacking through the game codes of Halo 2.