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General Halo 3 Strategy - When you’re in a bubble shield and your sheilds are down, you are only safe to an extent! Someone will come in and kill you. If you are lucky enough to have any type of sticky grenade stick it to them and jump out. BOOM! Most of the time, they’re dead and you’re not.
Grenades Pro Tip - Focus on grenade placement. Learn level geometry to be better with brute grenades.
Grenades - This isn’t an ordered “Top Ten” list, but Grenades would be #1 if it were. Simply, the man who uses grenades will defeat the man without in an overwhelming majority of scenarios, and it’s surprising how many players treat them as their last line of defense. As long as you’re not fighting on a narrow ledge, you should be throwing Frag and Plasma grenades before you shoot (and during shooting, of course). And you throw grenades at an enemy’s feet, not their head. If they’re backing towards a wall, throw it past them. The goal is to explode it near them, not on them (unless you’re trying to stick them with a Plasma or Spike grenade). The more you throw, the more accustomed you’ll get to leading them — throwing it where they’re going to be rather than where they are — but for now just focus on making grenades an immediate go-to part of your arsenal, and make sure you have a couple on you at all times (more important than, say, going out of your way for the rocket launcher).
Grenade Jumping - This is a skill that is going to take some time to master. The goal is to throw a frag grenade ahead of you so that you can be at the apex of your jump as it blows underneath you, launching you even higher into the air. A skilled player will be able to use this technique to get to places that would otherwise require a Grav Lift.
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Master Chief
Practice driving the vehicles on custom games. For the warthog, pay careful attention to how you can use the emergency brake to tighten your turn radius.
- When driving the warthog in combat situation, NEVER STOP.
- Think about driving from one area of cover to another area of cover, letting your gunner mow down whatever he can during the time you’re exposed between the two areas of cover.
- Once you get to the 2nd area of cover, pause by circling around for a bit to let shields recharge, then go back.
- Don’t go through the same path enough times that your opponent will get wise to you & lay down a mine or be ready to stick you.
- Think defensive. Spend more time worried about keeping yourself alive than killing other stuff. The killing will take care of itself.
- Beware the overcharged plasma pistol / power drainer.
- If you hear the missile lock-on noise, it’s time to get something between you and the missiles immediately. Don’t try to sweat it out, it won’t work.
- If you are punishing a simi-fixed target do figure 8’s or a tight dog track back and forth to keep the gunner at a good angle. The gun can pan just as fast as the hog can fishtail so keep the turning radius really tight by using the rear brake and never letting off the gas. If someone throws something in your path (grenade, trip mine, small child) it’s really easy to just abandon that leg of the figure 8 and drive away.
Vehicles Tip: When facing incoming Fuel Rod Gun missiles while driving vehicles, the obvious reaction is to move in reverse. Unless this enables you to move straight behind cover, or over the brow of a hill, it’s actually the worst thing you can do. The most efficient way to evade these deadly projectiles is to accelerate at full speed, veering to the left or right (whichever is appropriate) at an angle that their limited homing function can’t fully track.
Gravity Hammer Tip: If an enemy thinks they are safe behind the glass where the Gravity Hammer spawns on Guardian, teach them otherwise – if you swing the hammer in their direction, its effects will pass through such barriers with ease.
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