Ghost Merging a crate?

You can't merge objects like that into things, but you can merge objects into things like crates. Just set the crate to fixed and then merge your piece(s) into the crate. If you're trying to merge the crate into natural geometry, I think you're out of luck. Hope that helped.

 

You CAN in fact merge crates into the ground.

Step 1: Place a crate above the section of ground where you want it
Step 2: Set the crate to phased
Step 3: Merge a block through the top of the crate
Step 4: Grab the crate and put it on normal
-the crate will now be pushed into the ground by the block, much like geomerging in Halo 3
Step 5: Put the crate back on phased

 

I did not know that at all! I plan to use it in the future, I can see some cool things coming of it

 

Hmm I didn't know that either. Don't know how useful that sort of thing would be off the top of my head, but I'm sure some people could be able to create some cool stuff with it. Thanks for sharing that information.

 

Yeah im surprised people havent figured that out yet. I did a lot of Halo 3 forging and that led me to discover this. Thought the forgehub vets would have as well

 

You can also use this to merge scenery items together.

 

Epic find, I didn't know that.

This may come in useful...

 

fixed

 

My real forging career (actually using merging lol) started off with being the lucky asshole who found Ghost merging on accident, and from then on nobody really used old-style merging a whole ton

 

It was Death Yoyo who discovered Ghost Merging, Idiot

 

I'm going to get an LD tattoo.

 

I can force crates partway into the ground by setting them to Phased, lifting them several feet into the air, and using LB to SMASH! them into the ground, releasing them just as they hit. Double-tapping A several times afterword can decrease how far they've been embedded into the dirt.

It's not precise, though.

 

Presumably because of the differences in how the physics engine treats movables versus immovables.