Heavy weapons are the key to getting a ton of kills in Halo. They can be hard to find, but are very effective at killing groups of enemies.
Also, try sniping, not only is it very gratifying, its very safe, snipers often have 3:1 or 4:1 kill death ratios.
If you can't one of those, use your trusty pistol.
Or tr to close and blow them away with a shotgun or assault rifle (AR)
Step 1
Find your heavy weapon. They are usually placed in the tunnels and other hard-to-reach areas. Kill anyone along the way. Try to get more ammo along the way. Get to the enemy base. Do not let up. If you run out of ammo, switch to pistol or go back to find another heavy weapon.
Step 2
If you are not the heavy weapons type, try finding a nice hole and hiding out there with the sniper rifle. This works very well in large level with open spawn points like Blood Gulch, Sidewinder and Timberland. Try to always strafe (use "a" and "d" keys) while sniping if you can, this prevents giving the enemy sniper an easy shot at you (your contrails make you a sitting duck). Also watch your motion tracker in between shots, make sure noone is sneakign up on you with a shotgun! Finally, remeber to lead your shots. The lead you need on each server is different. The best way to gifure out what it is to shoot at someone going in a straight line with a pistol, when you consistenly hit them is the server's "lead". Remember the distance and use it while sniping.
Step 3
Remember the pistol is very overpowered in Halo. When you spawn in front of a guy with a rocket lucher, you can actually kill them with a pistol sometimes. The key is to get off a shot, jump and strafe to dodge the rocket or feul rod shot, and get off 2 more. At this point their shield should be down and you can either randomly shoot with the pistol (you will eventually hit them) or take out your AR and blast away. The pistol is great only at midrange. If they have a close range weapon, like AR, shotgun or flamethrower, run backward and shoot. If they ahve a sniper, strafe and run toward them until you are in range.
Step 4
Use grenades. You start with 2 frag grenades. I usually throw one at me opponents feet when i come in firing. If I hit him twice int he next three second (Not uncommon in a pistol fight) he is dead (or had no shield and no health and is an easy kill). Throw nades at people feet, and remember the delay. So if they are running toward you, throw it in front and back away. If they are backing away, aim a little behind them. Also use them to take out hogs and ghosts. If you have plasma grenades, if you can get close to a person, try and stick the grenade on the person, then run, as the blast will take out your victim as well as you if you are too close.
Step 5
Vehicles. Get in a ghost and run people over. Use cannons to freeze them in place and drive over them. when driving a warthog, help out your gunner by running enemy's over. It even works in a banshee, just fly down and splat. Watch out from sticky plasma grenades though. Also, the guns on vehicles all have unllimited ammo and renger from powerful rapidfire AR (warthog) to plasma cannons (ghost/banshee) heavy guns (rocket hog/banshee cannon) and tank turrets (tank). Have fun...
Tips
- The fuel rod gun has a lot of battery, can kill in two hits, and the blasts travel fairly quickly.
- The rocket launcher has little ammo, kills in one hit and travels slowly. Before you fire a rocket, you should first jump up to give yourself a better angle.
- The flame thrower has a lot of ammo, and is only effective short range.
- Carry a pistol and grenades along with you in case you run out of ammo.
- You can also travel to the enemy base in a vehicle and then kill them with your heavy weapon.
- fragmentation grenades explode faster and do more damage but plasma grenades are better for taking out vehicles.plasma grenades are ineffective against foot peoples because the detonation is too long and avoidable.
Warnings
- Do not travel in wide open areas where the pistol and sniper rifle dominate, but rather in the tunnels.
- Be careful- if using grenades or if you use certain weapons too close to yourself, it can rebound and kill you.
