Halo: The Master Chief Collection – Tips and Tricks
Tips in addition to Tricks For Not Sucking (Multiplayer)
Strats For Every Game
1. When a somebody has no shields, they are vulnerable to headshots which volition kill them inwards 1 hitting yesteryear whatsoever precision weapon, AKA, weapons that AREN’T fully automatic. So things similar pistols, battle rifles, DMR’s, snipers in addition to anything similar. Assault rifles, plasma rifles etc. volition non kill inwards 1 headshot in addition to do
no noticeably to a greater extent than damage. Whether they receive got shields or non though, precision weapons DO do to a greater extent than impairment amongst headshots, simply non plenty to kill inwards 1 hitting similar equally if they receive got no shields. So maintaining perfect aim on a target’s caput is ideal for winning firefights when y'all receive got a precision weapon.
2. Plasma pistol’s overburst burn volition receive got downwards enemies shields inwards 1 hit.
3. Back whacks are 1 hitting kills.
4. One grenade volition receive got out a target’s shields leaving them vulnerable to a headshot or to some other grenade which volition kill instantly if detonated closed to them when they receive got no shields.
5. Plasma grenades stick to targets, killing instantly fifty-fifty at total shields (though non necessarily if they picked upwardly an overshield powerup). They don’t bounce off walls rattling good though in addition to tend to simply driblet to the flooring at touching on point.
6. Frag grenades volition non stick to targets nor are they always 1 hitting kills at total shields but they are much amend at bouncing closed to corners in addition to they detonate noticeably faster.
7. One shot to the caput or torso if unshielded yesteryear a sniper rifle is a 1 hitting kill. Two to the torso if shielded.
8. One hitting yesteryear the rocket launcher straight at your feet or on y'all is a 1 hitting kill fifty-fifty shielded.
9. Halo’s all virtually headshots in addition to non-headshots. When I tell ‘body’, I’m simply maxim ‘not inwards the head’, because whether y'all teach shot inwards the pinky toe, the pinky finger, your or inwards the breast doesn’t matter, it all does the same amount of damage.
10. Plasma weapons do to a greater extent than impairment to shields than other weapons. They’re non all that rigid against blood in addition to os AKA no shields though. The touching on of this on gameplay differs on the game.
11. Bullet based weapons are the exact opposite, in addition to also depend on game whether it’s all that noticeable or not.
12. You tin only handle 2 weapons.
13. You unscope if y'all teach shot.
14. There’s no aim downwards sights on none scoped weapons.
15. Plasma weapons overheat if fired too much too quickly.
16. Plasma weapons run on batteries, non ammo. This agency they don’t require reloading in addition to if y'all walk over some other plasma weapon of the same type equally the 1 you’re currently belongings in addition to it allows y'all to pick it upwardly so it agency it has to a greater extent than battery percentage. If it doesn’t, so it agency it has less battery percentage
so the game doesn’t allow y'all to pick upwardly whatsoever amongst less battery.
17. The ‘noob combo’ is a practiced way of taking out enemies thank y'all to the plasma pistol overcharge’s tracking ability. It exists inwards all of the games but you’ll most probable reckon it inwards Halo 2 because of its incredibly rigid accuracy inwards tracking that was nerfed subsequently on. This when y'all work a plasma overcharge to receive got downwards someone’s
shields in addition to so instantly swap to a battle rifle or work a pistol, or a sniper rifle to shoot them 1 time inwards the caput killing them instantly. It’s a valid tactic. Don’t whinge.
18. Overshields double a persons shields.
19. Active camouflage makes y'all translucent for thirty seconds in addition to disables auto aim on y'all for enemies until y'all burn which makes y'all slightly visible in addition to re-enables it.
20. Some weapons similar the needler in addition to the plasma pistol overcharge runway targets.
21. In all games except Halo Reach, your shots volition conk where your crosshair is. Halo Reach has bloom, which agency if y'all burn too chop-chop your shots teach less accurate. The others do not.
22. There is no bullet driblet off inwards whatsoever Halo game. Explosives may differ.
23. All first-person animations tin live interrupted inwards all Halo games amongst melee attacks, grenade throwing etc. How easily y'all tin do so in addition to how helpful that is depends on the game.
24. Deep H2O volition kill you. So don’t saltation inwards it.
25. The turret on the dorsum of the warthog cannot live fired yesteryear the driver. Also, it never overheats amongst continued burn in addition to has unlimited ammo.
26. Picking upwardly an overshield piece invisible volition brand y'all visible equally the overshield armour termination nevertheless kicks in.
Halo Reach
1. There’s at nowadays autumn impairment again.
2. There’s wellness in addition to wellness packs again. It regenerates a trivial flake at nowadays though to certainly bars given how much impairment y'all take.
3. Armour abilities supervene upon equipment.
4. There are at nowadays loadouts, which allow y'all to pick your armour powerfulness in addition to weapon. These aren’t custom loadouts similar CoD (unless y'all made the map), they’re picked yesteryear the game fashion (or map I think), so everyone’s course of written report of nevertheless on the same playing field. There’s no gun customisation either.
5. The jetpack armour powerfulness has a brusk timer on how long y'all tin work it to fly.
6. The sprint armour powerfulness is the same except amongst extra speed amongst your gun lowered.
7. Armour lock allows y'all to live invulnerable for a brusk fourth dimension in addition to slows downwards players who melee you, takes their shield downwards if they’re closed in addition to blows upwardly vehicles if they hitting y'all at speed. It’s over-powered in addition to annoying equally in addition to yes that’s a fact struggle me irl on Sanctuary.
8. Evade allows y'all to roll/dodge inwards whatsoever direction instantly.
9. The DMR essentially replaces the battle rifle except it’s a 1 shot weapon non iii burst.
10. The pistol is slap-up again, non Halo CE OP levels of greatness but at nowadays a feasible weapon in addition to it has a zoom in addition to fires faster.
11. There’s at nowadays redicule bloom. This agency if y'all burn too chop-chop so the gun becomes much less accurate. Most noticeable amongst DMR’s in addition to pistols. This has been severely diminished or removed alone (not sure) inwards most game modes at nowadays equally far equally I know coz people suck.
12. You tin at nowadays assassinate enemies if you’re behind them. It’s a dorsum whack kill except it takes longer in addition to leaves y'all vulnerable for a brusk time, but human being does it facial expression cool in addition to experience rewarding equally hell to do. You tin nevertheless do normal instakill dorsum whacks yesteryear pressing the melee push instead of belongings it downwards to assassinate.
13. You tin assassinate at whatsoever time, including inwards mid air or yesteryear landing on them. Experiment for different badass animations.
14. No to a greater extent than dual wield.
15. Elites at nowadays receive got to a greater extent than shield but less wellness than spartans. Their loadouts are different too for the Invasion in addition to firefight game modes.
16. You can’t play equally an elite inwards matchmaking multiplayer likewise Invasion in addition to firefight, but y'all tin inwards customs.
17. Elites don’t receive got fully customisable armour similar Halo 3 or the spartans. Just presets y'all tin unlock.
18. You tin work the banshee bomb again.
19. Despite taking house almost directly prior to Halo CE, plasma pistols nevertheless drain powerfulness when belongings the overcharge down.
20. The needler is an absolute creature of a weapon.
21. The plasma repeater is similar the plasma rifle except… different? Somehow? Idk. They’re both inwards the game.
22. You can’t assassinate hunters.
Halo Combat Evolved
1. Melee attacks are nevertheless powerful but non equally powerful equally inwards subsequently games. They volition non kill inwards 1 hitting to someone unshielded for example.
2. You mightiness non hold back the pistol y'all probable start amongst equally your secondary is helpful but oh boy, it certainly is. It has a zoom business office in addition to kills inwards iii shots to the head. It’s OP yesteryear every Definition except y'all start amongst it so everyone’s on equal actor fields. Getting practiced amongst hitting headshots amongst this thing
is the telephone substitution to success. You tin kill in addition to volition teach killed yesteryear this thing incredibly quickly. The only weapons that genuinely compare are the rocket launcher in addition to the sniper rifle.
3. You tin handle upwardly to iv frag grenades in addition to iv plasma grenades at once.
4. The shotgun has longer overall attain than the other games inwards the series, but y'all receive got to live fifty-fifty closer than subsequently games for it to live a 1 shot kill at total shields.
5. There’s no zooming downwards binoculors inwards this game if y'all elbow grease to zoom inwards amongst a gun that doesn’t receive got a scope.
6. You can’t crouch at total speed if y'all receive got toggle crouch on. For some argue it makes y'all stand upwardly up. So if y'all desire to displace whilst crouched y'all receive got to displace slightly upwardly on the stick, non fully. Not certainly how it’ll piece of work amongst PC controls.
7. Plasma grenades human activity equally EMP’s equally good dissimilar inwards subsequently games. In gameplay terms, this agency if you’re inwards the boom radius, fifty-fifty if you’re a trivial far from the grenade, your shields volition live drained completely. In subsequently games, shield in addition to wellness drainage depends on how closed y'all are to the grenade, simply similar normal grenades.
8. There’s a healthbar dissimilar inwards all games likewise Reach. This agency wellness is to a greater extent than of import in addition to you’ll hold upwardly longer without shields when non shot inwards the caput yesteryear headshot capable weapons or are shot anywhere yesteryear the other types of weapons. You tin pick upwardly wellness packs to find health.
9. Spawning is ing awful inwards this game. Similar to the novel Modern Warfare. Expect to spawn on firefights or adjacent to enemies who mightiness kill y'all instantly amongst a grenade or iii shots to head.
10. Weapons spawn on strict fourth dimension limits. Unlike subsequently games, they don’t spawn amongst actor location inwards heed or whether someone already has the weapon, so hold back people to easily campsite weapon spawns.
11. If y'all autumn from a certainly height, y'all volition live stuck inwards spot walking for a dyad seconds. This is meant to copy your spartan recovering from a heavy fall, I guess. Otherwise y'all tin simply maintain walking similar commons after a fall.
12. There’s autumn impairment inwards this game. Not all high falls = expiry though. Depends how high y'all autumn how much impairment y'all take, equally you’d in all likelihood expect.
13. The needler is absolutely awful.
14. Swapping guns is instant, fifty-fifty if there’s a cocking animation of sorts after swapping guns dissimilar subsequently games.
15. Unlike subsequently games, the plasma pistol overcharge does NOT disable vehicles momentarily.
16. You cannot hijack vehicles dissimilar all subsequently Halo games.
17. For some argue vehicles volition kill y'all fifty-fifty if y'all teach gently nudged yesteryear them. Including friendly vehicles.
18. The rocket launcher’s rocket moves much slower than subsequently games.
19. You tin easily live shot out of a scorpion since your head’s visible.
20. Human vehicles can’t live destroyed. Covenant ones tin (although I’m non certainly if this is nevertheless a thing inwards multiplayer. I know it is the instance inwards campaign.).
Halo 2
1. The battle rifle or carbine is your best friend. It’s the weapon/s you’ll probable work most. It’s non a iii hitting kill similar Halo CE. It takes to a greater extent than so people to a greater extent than oftentimes nevertheless stand upwardly a endangerment if they shoot second. Maintaining headshots fifty-fifty shielded is telephone substitution to victorys equally it nevertheless does to a greater extent than damage. As commons though,
one shot to the caput is a 1 hitting kill, fifty-fifty if 1 shot from your flare-up burn hits them (not all iii shots from your unmarried trigger press require to brand contact inwards monastic enjoin to kill an unshielded opponent, simply one).
2. The plasma pistols over accuse flare-up which y'all tin do yesteryear belongings the push downwards volition receive got downwards shields inwards 1 hitting in addition to has extremely practiced tracking inwards this game.
3. You tin at nowadays dual-wield weapons. Good combos include dual needlers, a plasma pistol in addition to pistol combo in addition to that’s virtually it. Using others volition simply teach y'all killed to a greater extent than oftentimes than not.
4. One of the most unique things virtually this game which makes it much faster than the other Halo’s (arguably) is that animations are rattling lenient inwards how much y'all tin interrupt them in addition to teach away amongst having reloaded. What this agency is that, if you’re reloading, y'all tin swap guns or throw a grenade or melee onrush at whatsoever time. You don’t receive got to wait
for the animation to destination showtime which is the same for all Halo games. More importantly, reload animations terminal longer than when y'all genuinely find that ammo. Learning when to interrupt the animation or shoot is important. Often, if y'all reckon the magazine hitting the gun so you’re practiced to go, y'all don’t require to hold back the extra 2nd for your grapheme to put
the gun dorsum inwards his palm or whatever. Sometimes y'all tin teach away amongst having regained your ammo fifty-fifty earlier y'all seat your magazine inwards the gun, so it depends a trivial on each weapon. It’s a flake glitchy in addition to y'all teach the thought it wasn’t intended to live so easily manipulable but you’ll teach the hang of when it’s the correct time
to interrupt the animation so you’re non vulnerable whilst reloading. Swapping guns is also instant dissimilar some other Halo games.
5. You tin crouch at total speed amongst toggle crouch on.
6. The wellness organisation is gone. You nevertheless receive got wellness when your shields are gone, but in that location are no to a greater extent than wellness packs in addition to wellness regenerates when your shield does. Health is at nowadays less of import for surviving firefights overall.
7. You tin at nowadays play equally an elite. Elites receive got bigger hitboxes. There are no other differences inwards shield, wellness or abilities (from what I tin tell, so it’s non obvious either way). I personally don’t notice the hitboxes are that large or a departure that I seem to kill elites to a greater extent than easily than spartans. Some may disagree.
8. Shotguns receive got distressing range, but are 1 hitting kills close.
9. The unloosen energy sword has been introduced in addition to has a fairly long lunge ability. If your crosshair turns ruby-red when looking at an enemy, y'all tin essentially ‘fly’ towards them amongst a devestating onrush which volition kill them inwards 1 hitting fifty-fifty at total shields. If you’re looking at an enemy in addition to your crosshair doesn’t plough ruby-red so y'all can’t lunge towards them. Get closer.
10. You tin also melee amongst the sword which doesn’t lunge but does less impairment in addition to isn’t a 1 hitting kill.
11. The unloosen energy sword doesn’t run out of ammo dissimilar the campaign… for some dumb reason.
12. The SMG replaces the assail rifle inwards practicality but tin live dual wielded.
13. Spawning isn’t equally anymore but it nevertheless isn’t perfect.
14. Weapon spawns aren’t simply on timers now, they receive got actor locations in addition to whether someone’s belongings it already into trouble organisation human relationship (and peradventure to a greater extent than things idk?)
15. There’s no autumn damage. Hitting a wall or the flooring at a rattling fast speed tin nevertheless wound or kill y'all though for some reason. You’ll in all likelihood only always notice this if y'all receive got the sputnick in addition to plume skull on.
16. Deep H2O volition kill you. So don’t saltation inwards it.
17. This game has a autumn timer, pregnant if y'all autumn for a certainly fourth dimension the game volition kill you. There are also kill boundaries inwards long pits that aren’t deep plenty to kill y'all amongst the autumn timer.
18. Pre-Halo 3 plasma pistols don’t drain powerfulness when y'all handle downwards the plasma charge.
19. This is the only game inwards which y'all tin work skulls inwards multiplayer.
20. SWAT is a game fashion where y'all spawn amongst pistols or battle rifles in addition to no 1 has shields. It’s all virtually shooting showtime in addition to most accurately to marking insta-killing headshots.
21. Overshields double your shield capacity.
22. The needler is absolutely awful unless dual wielded.
23. The brute shot does slightly to a greater extent than melee damage.
24. The ruby-red plasma rifle does slightly to a greater extent than damage, fires slightly faster in addition to overheats slightly faster.
25. Swapping guns is instant in addition to in that location are rattling few cocking animations for weapons.
26. Unlike subsequently games, the plasma pistol overcharge does NOT disable vehicles momentarily.
27. You cannot work the banshee bomb inwards this game’s multiplayer. Only the primary plasma attack.
28. You tin at nowadays hijack vehicles if y'all teach closed to them.
29. Unlike nearly all subsequently Halo games, the rocket launcher has a vehicle homing powerfulness if y'all handle it down.
30. All vehicles tin at nowadays live destroyed but vehicle wellness is at nowadays (mostly?) tied to actor wellness in addition to non the vehicle itself. Any impairment earlier explosion is only cosmetic.
31. The pistol sucks in addition to no longer has a zoom function.
32. The pisol in addition to plasma pistol receive got no bound on how fast y'all tin unmarried burn shoot them.
33. The unmarried burn fashion on the plasma pistol is the most useless onrush inwards whatsoever video game always now.
Halo 2 Anniversary
1. Unlike the campaign’s remade graphics, this isn’t running on the same gameplay engine (or graphics for that matter). It’s using an updated Halo iv engine in addition to thence gameplay is quite different. It’s similar a mix betwixt Halo iv in addition to 2.
2. There’s a silenced SMG for some reason.
3. There’s a mongoose amongst guns on it for some reason.
4. The assail rifle was reintroduced for some reason.
5. Plasma pistols receive got a bound on how long y'all tin handle the accuse now.
6. Weapon swapping takes longer than Halo 2.
7. There’s a hornet for some reason.
8. You tin work EMP’s inwards the Coagulation remake to disable aircraft.
9. Shooting the stalactytes on the Lockout remake volition brand them autumn in addition to blow up.
10. Shooting the ruby-red thing higher upwardly each side of the map inwards the Sanctuary remake volition activate a waterfall that obscures vision of anyone behind it.
11. The needle is nevertheless awful.
12. Dual wielding’s a thing still.
13. There are iii elite models in addition to iii spartan models to pick from.
14. You tin pick your loadouts for some argue (picking from iii basic weapons).
15. You tin nevertheless abode inwards amongst the rocket launcher.
16. I believe the unloosen energy sword at nowadays depeletes
Halo 3
1. The needler is an absolute creature of a weapon.
2. There is nevertheless no autumn damage.
3. You tin at nowadays customise armour for both spartans in addition to elites.
4. Animations tin nevertheless live interrupted but oftentimes amongst delay. Interrupting reloading animations isn’t nearly equally lenient equally inwards Halo 2. Even if y'all reckon your grapheme throw inwards the mag, y'all volition nevertheless non receive got finished reloading in addition to thereby regained ammo if y'all interrupt the animation too early on or at all depending on the gun.
5. The unloosen energy sword’s lunge onrush has been decreased from hither on.
6. Weapon swapping takes longer.
7. Dual wielding was re-introduced for the terminal time.
8. The battle rifle, sniper rifle in addition to carbine at nowadays work projectiles instead of instant hitting bullets. This agency y'all receive got to at nowadays slightly Pb your shots when aiming at targets, dramatically changing firefights amongst these weapons.
9. You tin at nowadays no longer BXR or do whatsoever other glitch combo, nor inwards whatsoever other Halo game except Halo 2.
10. Halo 3 introduced ‘equipment’. By pressing a push y'all tin driblet a slice of equipment y'all picked upwardly from the battlefield to do goodness you.
11. The flare blinds everyone.
12. The radar jammer adds ruby-red dots to everyone’s radar.
13. The powerfulness drain disables vehicles in addition to takes downwards everyone’s shields.
14. All equipment stuffs upwardly friendlies too.
15. The bubble shield is a stationary shield that can’t live penetrated amongst bullets, only physically amongst vehicles or yesteryear walking inside. It blows upwardly yesteryear itself after a piece or 1 time within the bubble y'all tin whack the root of power.
16. Your mum gay lol.
17. Vehicle wellness is no longer tied to actor wellness for at nowadays on.
18. The mine volition blow upwardly if someone gets closed it. It’s rattling practiced against vehicles too.
19. The spartan Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation was introduced in addition to after existence charged upwardly it tin blow upwardly vehicles rattling nicely in addition to volition 1 hitting kill enemies on human foot amongst a direct hit. Sometimes if only component of the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation hits someone it’ll simply do impairment though, in addition to non kill them.
20. The pistol has 1 time again been changed in addition to fires rattling slow but is stronger than inwards Halo 2 in addition to nevertheless has no zoom business office dissimilar Halo CE.
21. There’s no homing inwards powerfulness on the rocket launcher anymore.
22. I believe y'all tin work the banshee bomb inwards multiplayer again, don’t remember.
23. The golf game enterprise is essentially some other gravity hammer.
24. You tin at nowadays sword clash. If 2 players receive got a sword in addition to lunge at each other at a similar time, they volition clash swords instead of whoever lunged terminal dying similar equally inwards Halo 2. You volition lose shields for each clash. Pressing the melee push volition non clash.
Halo 4
1. You tin assassinate again.
2. Still no to a greater extent than dual wield.
3. There are loadouts 1 time again except at nowadays y'all tin pick out brand custom loadouts inwards the primary menu. And there’s similar 2 options of skins for some argue idk.
4. No to a greater extent than bloom.
5. No to a greater extent than playable elites.
6. Armour abilities rest but armour lock’s gone. Yay. Now everyone tin sprint too, it’s no longer an armour ability, simply a displace characteristic similar equally amongst inwards other games.
7. The needler isn’t simply a creature of a weapon, it’s a bloody powerfulness weapon similar the rocket launcher in addition to SAW.
8. The assail rifle’s back, the SMG’s gone, in addition to at nowadays there’s the SAW which is a faster firing assail rifle which massacres enemies amongst its large magazine capacity in addition to fast burn rate.
9. This game plays to a greater extent than similar Call of Duty so Halo. I similar Call of Duty. But I similar Halo a lot more, so teach stuffed. Hang on, isn’t this meant to live factual in addition to non opinionated?
