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Communicate
This goes beyond the obvious in-game communication. Let your teammates know when you have real life obligations, or anything that may conflict with practice. Having a flexible schedule is almost necessary to obtain Pro / Semi-Pro status.

Use the same callouts
Not similar callouts, the SAME ones. This increases teamshooting and puts your team on the same page. Get specific, but don’t add too many at once.

Get 3-4 days of solid practice each week
Be prepared to put the time in if you’re serious. Always have the latest MLG gametypes. Start a custom by yourself when your team isn’t on and look for ways to improve your strategies and individual skill. I would highly suggest using some practice time to review gameplays. Avoid over-practicing! It usually causes heavy frustration and arguments between teammates.

Use the Theatre
This is huge for competitive gaming! Each teammate should analyze and takes notes on the chosen gameplay by themselves. Watching from different perspectives is a crucial part of this process. Pay attention to where teams spawn according to your strategy, look at their setups, etc. Join up after and collaborate ideas. Download gameplays from top players / teams when available. A coach would be very helpful in this area for organizing and managing films.

Scrim better and better teams
Losing is a good thing ocassionally - it brings focus to the weak area(s) of your strategies. List your team in a scrim thread somewhere on the forums. Remove and update your Friends List with other GT’s on a team.

Have a positive attitude
One bad attitude can make a team play poor and bring down the morale. Random BS happens, you can’t control it. Keep a good attitude if you are part of a new team. Optimism can help your team win down the stretch. Take a break for at least a few hours if your team is in a slump, maybe even 1-2 days (Assuming the team has been getting solid practice).

Trust your teammates
I cannot stress how important this is. Part of it stems from the responsibility of being online when necessary. Trust is the core of great teams, but usually requires playing together for months.

Experience
It’s also good to have an experienced teammate who knows how to handle intense games. Just make sure the team has someone to keep everyone calm and reiterate strategy in tight situations. Participate in LANs, local tournaments, and MLG Online / Season events as much as possible.

Consider parting ways with your team if you meet ALL of the criteria below:

-Not satisfied with your team
-Consistently lose scrims
-Talked to your teammates and could not come up with a solution
-Exhausted all possible options (Tried using the suggested tips)

Conclusion:

It doesn’t matter if everyone on the team has ridiculous individual talent. A team is like a relationship: You can’t force it to work, there has to be some natural chemistry. Just don’t give up on it too soon.

Always try to leave a team with respect. Nothing is worse than a teammate who anonymously disbands, or doesn’t give an explanation why. There is no sense getting on someone’s bad side because the team didn’t work well together. Networking with good players is key, so don’t talk trash - you never know who the person may be friends with.

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Sniping is a lot of fun (at least that is my opinion). It is even more fun if you are one of the best in sniping! That is why we share these halo 3 sniping tips with you.

On Construct, in the area where the default sword is, you have a small area with thin edges where you’re able to look out into the ‘forbidden’ area’ where when you jump off you’ll fall to your death.

If you look, you can see these small like “robot-things” flying around into their repetitive destination. Anyways, if you were to have a custom game, with default sniper and unlimited ammo, you could sit on the edge and try and kill as many of the flying robots as you can [Yes, when you hit them they blow up, and they MUST be enemies since your reticule turns red once you get your cross hairs on them].

It’s pretty good, and I’ve been doing it for a bit now and have seen a pretty good outcome in better sniping. It’s good and lets you practice learning to follow your enemy better [since they fly up] and somewhat helps you have a better sense at aiming for the head [since the robots are relatively small that they could have the same hitbox, or a bit more, as a spartan helmet].

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The bubble shield is basically just a shield that stops fast moving objects such as grenades and bullets, but it doesn’t stop vehicles! It is mostly used to just get cover when being attacked.

Here are some halo 3 tips on how to effectively use the bubble shield:

1. If you’re not sure that you can handle the attacker just go stand behind the bubble shield (now you basically have two barriers between you and the attackers)

2. Remember that you can’t deploy the bubble shield while holding a machine gun turret, missile put etc.

3. If you have an opponent walking towards your bubble shield, just throw a grenade and then quickly walk out of the bubble shield and hopefully watch him get blown to pieces.

4. If you have a shotgun, mauler etc then just lure people into your shield and then shoot them (Smart players probably won’t go in as they see the sword or shotgun so don’t make it seem to obvious)

5. If you for some reason wanted to destroy the shield then just destroy the shield emitter (the thing in the middle
of the shield)

6. Remember that the shield gives you cover from all directions, so even from above and therefore also from air attacks.

7. Don’t forget that a vehicle can easily still splatter you if you forget that they can get trough the shield!

8. The shield is very handy for controlling a territory as its fairly easy to defend a covered area (also handy for capture the flag!).

9. You can drop a bubble shield while holding a flag!

10. If you get yourself in a situation where you’re running for your life, just throw your shield and keep on running (the attackers can’t hit you as the shield is between you and them)

Be social, throw a bubble shield at team members as you think that they need it! Also, if you have a sniper then just aim for somebody and then walk just outside the shield and shoot him (you can do this with a laser too (just charge it inside!). But this still isn’t all, you can even use a bubble shield in the air! All you have to do is throw it in some kind of gravity lift and go in right after it for cover while in the air! This I think is about it, so good luck and I hope these halo 3 tips were helpful to you!

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More Halo 3 live tips for you addicts! If you have any additions on these halo 3 tips please leave them in a comment so we can discuss them further!

Construct Map Tip:

Basically near the ramp by orange lift you can often spawn with only an AR and someone will beat down on you with a BR from the top of the ramp but if you turn and run and then hide under the ramp the person will usually think you have jumped off and try to follow you to the lower levels, except at this moment you can follow him and rain down automatic fire from above.

Strafing Tip:

Strafe a few times crouch - then jump. It’s not a routine but I throw off a lot of people with something that simple. Since some players try and play on a higher sensitivity, when they try and aim up and catch you in your jump it completely throws off their reticle. Be unpredictable for the most part.

Bubble Shield Tip:

To get some quick laser kills…while in the bubble shield start charging your laser with the sight on the enemy.. right before it goes off poke your laser out from behind the shield and torch the enemy. This keeps you safe while charging the laser and the enemy can’t see your laser while youre doing it.

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Common Courtesy on Halo, something that shouldn’t be unheard of. Many times I’ve started a game and accidentally hit one of my team-mates in the back and heard on the headset how much of an idiot I am, now, it’s a complete accident, the game has just started and there won’t be an enemy encounter until your health has been regenerated and yet they continue to call you a moron, I would like to encourage you to not be one of those people, it can possibly bring the team down and people may not play as well, unlikely but a possibility and it’s not worth it, it may also be dangerous to yourself and the same person might just come up and kill you for being a jerk to them at the start.

My second point is kill-stealing, when you and someone else on your team both are going for a guy and both start shooting him at around the same time, whoever gets the kill deserves it (more they were just lucky to get the final shot, but still) and there is no need to call them a kill-stealer, there’s a chance that person could have just turned around and killed you if they had not helped you which isn’t something you want to happen. Now, with that statement I am by no means saying when you see someone on your team shooting a guy in the back for a couple seconds it is ok for you to just go up and punch/shoot that guy, THAT is what kill-stealing is, when you KNOW they have that kill for sure (excluding lag-outs) and you just take it, even if it doesn’t really matter who gets kills as long as your team wins, it’s still something people aren’t going to be happy about and are going to chew you out about it. Going back to the double-teaming, when you and your team mate are closing in on someone from both sides and the guy you are going for is shooting your team mate, make sure you pull out of the firing before the guy dies because you may end up killing your own team mate and giving the other team a kill, even if you get the kill for yourself, it doesn’t help and just trades kills whereas if your team mate gets a kill your up one.

My third point is grenades, say you’re playing snowbound and your team mates and the other team are battling it out underground, don’t just start chucking grenades in the wormhole unless you see red x’s in there, you will end up killing your team mates and the other team, the only time I see an exception for this is when you are up 40-20 and just trying to finish out the game, and another thing that goes back to kill-stealing is when you see your team mate shooting someone close range, do NOT try to stick them, most of the time he’ll know and just run into your team mate and kill him or he’ll just be close enough to kill him anyway.

My 4th and final point is accidents, i recall one time where I threw a stick into the lift room on gaurdian and stuck one of my own guys and ended up killing him, another team mate, and myself. I really didn’t try to, he just kind of got in the way, now, if you were on the betrayed side you would probably be pretty mad, but in the end it was an accident and accidents happen and there is no need to get mad about it, but sometimes it’s pretty hard to hold it in.

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