Tips for Defeating Enemies in Halo

Defeating Covenants When Covenant dropship is getting ready to unload a group of Covenants, throw a grenade into the door as it opens. The blast will kill several of the enemies since they are all in one area. There are places where a group of Covenants are, waiting for you to barge in and start shooting. If you can, sneak to the aliens and throw a grenade into their midst. It is best when a plasma grenade sticks to a Grunt, because he will run behind the rest of his companions. One grenade can take out five Covenants. Defeating Flood Types Do not try to take out any Flood types with a sniper rifle. It will go through their bodies without killing them. The weapon of choice is the shotgun. You can take them down with one shot. On the small crawling Flood, use your assault rifle in short controlled bursts. Once one pops, it will also pop the ones nearby. Save shotgun and pistol ammunition for the working class Flood to drop them fast. It is also a good idea to hit them with your gun after they fall to make sure they are dead. On the fat Flood, use the shotgun to pop them, then clean up with a rifle. Defeating Flugs In the later levels of the game you will encounter new enemies called Flugs. These enemies will be small at first, but they will attack and control anything alive. Use a shotgun on these baby Flug as they tend to group in large numbers. By using the shotgun it will send a storm of bullets and kill most of them that are around. Use a shotgun on the possessed Flug, and it will kill most of them in one shot. This is made easier by the fact that most of them carry shotguns. Defeating Grunts When the Grunts are sleeping you can beat them to death with the butt of your gun without waking up any of the other Grunts. You can usually kill a four to seven of them before an alien spots you. They start sleeping in level 5, Assault on the Control Room. Just remember not to shoot or they will wake up. Defeating Hunters Normally Hunters are the hardest Covenant to kill, due to their powerful armor and shields. However, even the strongest armor has weak spots. If you look at their necks or backs, you can see an orange spot. Aim for it. One shot with any gun will kill them if you hit them there. The best way to kill a hunter is to use a sniper rifle to zoom in on the orange spot. If you are being chased by a Hunter or an alien with a sword, run backwards while facing the alien. Jump when they try to slash you. Throw a plasma grenade at the alien and it will stick to him. Turn around and run in a zig-zag pattern to make sure he does not catch you in the explosion. If you are playing cooperative mode, have player two run in front of the Hunter until his back is turned to player one. While the Hunter is trying to turn player two into mush, have player one run up to the Hunter's back and melee attack the orange spot. The Hunter should die with one hit. You can kill the Hunters in a head-on assault. Get in close and use the pistol or shotgun. Aim for the head holding down the trigger. Your first shot(s) will knock back the head, exposing the unarmored neck. One shot in the neck and they will die. Defeating Jackals Use a photon weapon to destroy a Jackal's shield quickly. When you encounter a Jackal, run up and hit it with your weapon or use a gun that uses bullets, not energy. When you are a far way away from Jackals and have a sniper, they will sit in the defense position and leave very little uncovered. You will notice that on the right or left is a small notch in the shield. Aim for it and the Jackal population will be severely decreased.

General Halo Hints

Teammate Respawn During the co-op game if one player dies, back the other player out of the conflict for a while. The first player will re-spawn. Alternate Ending Successfully complete the last level of the game in campaign mode under the legendary difficulty setting. The new ending features a human and alien fighting hand to hand. The human will say "Its over", and then they hug because they know the explosion will kill them both. Faster Reloading To reload most weapons faster, press X and shortly after that press B to melee. Note: For the shot gun this will cause you to stop reloading. Faster Warthog Weapon Use This trick works best in multiplayer mode. Drive the warthog in a straight line. When you see an enemy, jump out of the Warthog. Tap X repeatedly and sidestep to the right. If you are quick enough, you will exit the Warthog and jump on the LAAG gun without stopping while the Warthog slows down. This also works well on ice as you keep sliding.

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...

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.

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 a pistol or go back to find another heavy weapon.

General Multiplayer Srategy:

-Jumping around a lot makes it hard for you to get hit, never stand still, even when you are sniping, you never know if someone else is trying to shoot you.

-stand on a teleport, when someone tries to go through your screen will start turning white, back off it and melee them when they come through.

 

Rockets Strategy:

-Shoot at your opponents feet, the splash damage should kill them, if they are by a wall or rock shoot that.  Jump to avoid the splash damage when you are shot at.

 

CTF Strategy:

-Always leave at least one person gaurding the flag.

-When somone is getting the flag another person wait outside in a vehicle, then when the person with the flag gets out give them a ride or give the vehicle to them.

-Try to distract the enemy by having one person come from a certain angle and get in a firefight, then another person sneak over and grab the flag.

-If there are teleports leading to your base try to block them with vehicles.

-Bring vehicles into your base, and use them to gaurd your base

 

Snipers

-Shoot them in the forehead for a 1 shot kill.  If you're not good enough to get the forehead just the head will get you a 2 shot kill

-you have to lead a moving target at longer distances

-use the pistol if they are close, it is easier to aim, 2 shots with the pistol in the forehead will kill

-if there is no radar, or if your enemy has an idea where you are NEVER stop moving.  A moving target is a lot harder to hit, even when you are shooting keep moving, it may be harder to aim but it is easier for you to hit them then them to hit you if you are moving