How to Play Halo Well

Don't boast or brag. Starting racial or other fights or name-calling can lead to your opponents getting defensive.

Don't use the banshee rod gun in blood gulch. If you have to, you can get in a shee against orders, but don't kill them more than once in a shee, or you'll be a hypocrite, and well... you know the rest.

Don't use the rod gun as a sniper. In open combat, you could pull it off, as long as you make them feel like they have a chance by shooting you in the foot a couple times with a pistol before you spring a ball of green gooey goodness, but DON'T fire it from a vantage point at an unsuspecting 'pro'.

Rocket away. You can't really be called a noob for using a rocket, so fire away, and DO NOT RUN OUT OF AMMO!

Use grenades. One of the things almost as satisfying as rod gunning with a shee, is watching someone flail around screaming with a blue ball of flame on their back, yelling and cursing as you laugh with victory, but don't get carried away, run away from them immediately, a well placed head shot, or the blast of the grenade, could have you going up on the death count also.

Have fun.

Use Melee as much as possible, try jumping over the enemy and hitting them in the back downwards. This is a professional technique.

Practice first on campaign and then start on multiplayer.

Use the shotgun in short range and the sniper rifle in long range.

Only use Scorpions for taking down banshees. Otherwise people will call you a tank noob, tank whore, etc.

Travel on foot, it's the best way to keep your cover.

Use your motion sensor and crouch. They can save your life!

Find the right weapon.

• The pistol is great, because it takes only five shots to the body or three to the head to kill someone.
  

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• The sniper rifle is also one of the best, as it takes about two shots to the body to kill, or one shot to the head.
  

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• Explosive weapons like the rocket launcher and fuel gun are only good for vehicles and suicide kills.
  

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• All other weapons should only be used if you're really bored and don't care about dying, including vehicles.
  

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• Tanks may rally you a couple of spawn kills, but as soon as someone throws a grenade at you, which is easy, you're dead.
  

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When using the snipe or pistol on a moving target, keep the sight in front of the target (especially with sniper). The bullets in halo take a sec to reach their target. So if someone is moving to the right, shoot maybe an inch or so to the right. If you can't time it right after weeks of practice, play World of Warcraft.

Practice like there's no tomorrow. Live to win! On the weekends, play an all nighter once in a while if you'd like to have some real fun.

Experiment! Get a friend on Halo to do a one on one practice match to see what works for both of you, then kick some ass on another server.