Hints & Tips
Melee Attacks
1. Straight Foward Melee (Health 1/4)
2. Head Melee (Health half way)
3. In the Back (One Hit Kill)
The most accurate melee attack is with the assault rifle, and I recommend that you use it with a plasma pistol. What I usually do when I have a combination of the 2 is take down a shield with the plasma pistol fully charged, come running at whoever with an assualt rifle shooting, and then melee to finish the job.
When you are in a tight situation and someone is coming after you getting ready to melee, the best thing to do is to jump up and melee that person's head.
Plasma Grenades
1. Running Away from someone
2. Spliting Grenades
3. Stick
When running away from someone go to a place with bumps, and corners. Always lay grenades at corners when trying to get away from someone
Most people can easily get away from plasma grenades so I recommend that you throw one near a person and then throw one one top of the other. When one blows up it will cause the other to fly to somewhere else causing it to explode unexpectedly.
Plasma grenades are best when sticking them on a car or a person.
Fragmentation Grenades
1 Running Away from someone (see above tips)
2. Near Death
3. Teleportation
4. Double/Triple/etc. Kills
5. Surprising
When you are near Death and someone is running after you, either use the running away tips above or run at them with full charge and throw a grenade off of them (head on collision).
When someone is looking on your screen and trying to escape you by teleporting, throw a grenade at the teleporter and go through. They should go through at the same time and be in for a treat. After that occurs go through the teleporter (they will either be off track or blown away from the teleporter) and charge at them.
When there is a group of people trying to kill each other in the same spot throw 2 grenades to where the majority of them are and charge at them (This gets many Double/Triple/etc. Kills).
Whenever someone isn't paying attention throw a fragmentation grenade at a good distance and charge at them (They will be damaged and not know what is going). The process of throwing a grenade and killing could last about 3 sec.
Tank Dodging
Using any plasma source (not including needlers) at a fast rate can cause a tank to not be able to aim correctly. Using a Ghost, Plasma Rifle, and Plasma Pistol works best with it. Another way to do it is if you have alot of grenades and their is a rock near by. All you have to do is go behind the rock and keep jumping up and throwing grenades that will explode where the tank will be. The rock has to be big enough to where the tank can't damage you except by shooting with a machine gun.
Ghost Dodging
The best way to get rid of Ghosts is to throw a plasma grenade on them, and the best way to avoid them from running you over is to duck.
Jumping Higher
To jump higher press the crouching button at the vertex of your jump. Try to see your self jump this way and also test it out.
Landing
The best accurate landing is to jump off instead of fall of. Doing a 180 degrees turn will definitely decrease your damage by 1/4. Try jumping on Shields and Jumping onto ladders and you will be able to jump.
Cheap Kills
Alot of cheap kills are mentioned above, but another is to shoot someone once when they are falling to die. All it takes is one shot for the game to give you the kill when someone is falling.
The best way to kill a Jackal
1. If you are in possession of a Plasma Pistol (alien gun) then hold the
fire button till the gun is fully charged, aim at the shield of the
Jackal and release the fire button.
2. When you get the shield down either smack the Jackal with a different gun (pistols are relatively weak with smacks) or shoot him with a gun that you don't have to waste ammo with.
The best way to kill an Elite
1. Go close to the Elite and it will try to hit you. Dodge the swing and it him from behind really quickly and it should be a one hit kill.
2. With the shotgun (2/3 shots) or Shoot him with a plasma pistol to get down his shield and charge at the Elite with a gun that you can waste ammo with and smack the Elite.
3. When using Plasma grenades try to throw it on the Elite.
4. Fragmentation grenades on both sides of him (most be in opposite directions and away from each other). 2 Fragmentation grenades is least recommended unless you are a true pro.
The best way to kill a Hunter
If you can get a Hunter so far that he is going to swing his armored shield at you, you need to step sideways, then turn around and put one shot on the orange spot in his back. With this trick you can kill a Hunter with only one shot.
Kill the Flood
1. Best weapons to kill the flood are the Shotgun, Rocket Launcher and
Fragmentation Grenades. Do not use Plasma Grenades because if sticked
to one he will run towards you to kill you too.
2. Sniper rifles don't do any damages to the Flood
3. If they fall down hit them once more with your gun to make sure that
they are dead.
4. Only use the melee attack against those small wall crawling Flood because
it doesn't work so good on the large ones if they are standing.
Kill that sleepy bastard
When playing Halo you will often see Grunts (small alien) sleeping. Melee
attack them so you won't wake up the others and you just saved yourself
some ammo, time and trouble.
Destroy the Wraith
1. Accuracy is one of the most critical things in the game. When you get close to a Wraith you've noticed it is quite dangerous, if their is a sniper rifle around, you can shoot the driver in the head looking at it from the front side.
2. Do not empty your guns on the Wraith if you
have Plasma Grenades.
Just stick some Plasma Grenades to the Wraith and it will be destroyed
in no time. (Great ammo saver, if you have the grenades)
3. Use the Rocket Launcher but you will need to get close enough so that he doesn't have the time to evade the shot.
Pistol Whip
If you can, melee attack the enemy to save yourself some ammo. (this works really good with the shield carrying Jackal and also with the Grunt)
Sentinels will do the job
Let the sentinels kill the Flood and Covenant.
Do not interfere those fights and save yourself some ammo.
Sitting duck
If you have a Sniper Rifle, zoom in on the doors of the Covenant Dropship
and if your reticle turns red, shoot. This way you can kill 1 or more
enemies who didn't had the chance to get out and fight back.
Good Pincushions:
When in possession of the alien Needler, you can do some devastating damage.
To maximize its effectiveness you should be a stone's throw away from
your target. Make sure as many needles hit your assailant as possible.
Since they explode shortly after impact, you can cause an awesome chain
reaction that is quite explosive to the now charred enemy and anything
else in close proximity to your victim.
Pistol-Whip It Good:
Never underestimate the power of a well-placed melee attack. Smacking someone
or something with the butt of your gun is great fun and immensely effective.
Best Anti-Flood Weapon:
The combat shotgun is the best weapon when you fight the flood. It'll take
them dow nin 1 or 2 shots.Forget the assault rifle or the plasma weapons
shotgun is the way to go.