[Playerhata27]

Lulz I know its been like a guidegasm lately but I thought this could help people

How To Level Up In Halo 3.A Guide.
by Playerhata27 =)

Well most gamers who play Halo 3 really want to have a High level in the ranked playlist of matchmaking.Now this can get tricky at most times and probally all out frustrating so here goes my best.

Color Cordinations

• Requirements~Blue
• Tutorial~Green
• My Way Of Playing Halo 3~Orange
• Matchmaking~Red

Requirements:

1.Patience:Trust me if you have none leave now.
2.A good team or partner:Have at least decent players that most likeley go positive and get at least more than 6 kills per game.Or go to websites and request a team or partner.A nice example to find a serious partner/team would log on to www.mlgpro.comand try to find nice teammates or asf for them.
3.Being good at Halo yourself:I will explain further down the road.

Now onto the tut =)

Well first of decide what playlist your going to be playing (This tut will not include head to head seeing that you need a partner or team).Find your team's weaknes's and strength.If you have a skill at defending a flag or bomb then play Team Objective.If you have a great BR skill then switch over to MLG and play Team Swat or MLG.But say your just good at straight out killing then stick to Team Slayer.

Now its your turn to get good at halo.These are my suggestions then I'll link to some helpful tutorials.

My way of playing Halo 3

Look sensitivity:Now when I saw this I know some of your jaws are going to drop and you going to scream "OMG" ,but my look sensitivty is on 1.Some of you probally think that is soooo slow but its actually not.You can turn at a nice pace and your aim is extremelysteady.If in the begginig you don't like 1 then try 2 or 3 (default).And I also know some of you have heard pros play on 10 or around there and some of you probally play on that too but its not true.Some pros actually do play on 1 and thats how their aim is so steady.So just try it out ,and trust me I've been doing this since Halo 2 and have gotten far.


Weapon Choice:Now I know the starting weapon is an Assault Rifle (AR) but theres so many spawn points on the map that have you spawning close to better weapons.Now for exaple you see a Battle Rifle (BR) on the wall and a needler nearby and your current weapon is an AR.What I recommend you doing is checking if theres some one nearby,if there is pick up that needler and blast the shit out of him/her.But if theres no one close by just pick up the BR.I say this because.In sticky situations the needler can't save you.When you have half shields and have a needler your most likely going to die and haven't injured the other player.But if you had the BR you could have had a chance by getting cover,throwing a grenade then shooting,or just shoot the guy in the head till he dies.Now keep this in mind when you have a choice of weapons.Think of their shooting range,auto-lock on,firing rate,and the other neccesities.


Aim:Now assuming your look senstivity is on 1 you should have a good aim.I will list the weapons that don't really need much aim and ones that do.

Weapons that don't need a good aim are rockets (if you shoot close enough it will most likely kill or injure the person),needler (It has auto aim but when people are strafing[Starfing is when people are dodging your bullets by moving or whatever] you don't have a good chnce,Gravity Hammer (If your at close range then all you need is that little reticule to light red and wah-lah their most likely dead),energy sowrd (same thing as gravity hammer), Mauler + shotgun (they are both close range weapons so when you close to someone just shoot ,and if you have a mauler shoot and beatdown for automatic kill),AR (It has an auto-aim so basically your good but from long range your screwed),SMG (as the AR it has auto-aim but try to duel weild these seeing how much more effective they are when),Spiker (same thing as SMG ,DUEL WEILD IF POSSIBLE!!!),and the Plasma Pistol (Has a semi-auto aim when charged,but if you just charged at someone and hit them use another weapon to kill them seeing that they have no shields!!).

Now for weapons that need aim BR ( neeeeed to shoot them in the head,get better at being able to shoot people in the head while in the air ,no shields,pressured.Basically all the possible scenarios),Carbine (basically the same as the BR except it shoots one burst so be extra careful of aim,Sniper Rifle and Beam Rifle (Well they have extremly small reticules when un-zoomed but when zoomed in its pretty decent,and remember when you have the chance to zoom in DO IT,dont try to be cool an no scope when you can easily get the kill,save the no scoping for un-ranked),Brute Shot (I reccomend when firing at someone shooting at their chest or legs seeing how its kinda hard to shoot them in their head),and the Spartan Laser (If you have the chance to zoom in DO IT!Because as I said with the sniper if you miss the noscope you might die).


Grenades:I will be linking to a tutorial someone made about Grenade placement but heres mine.

First off decided what grenade your going to use.Say a mongoose is coming at you and you have frags+plasmas switch to your plasmas and try to stick the goose (same with spikes).But if you have frags then when the mongoose is fairly close (you must time the distance and speed) throw a grenade on the floor where the mongoose will dirve on and make sure it will explode as the vehicle goes over it (as i said you must time it).But say you see someone on your radar behind a wall,door,etc.Throw a greande where it looks like the radar dot will walk on so you can get an easy kill.I say do this with frags seeing the bounce around more so if the perosn tries to run it might still get them.Speaking of frags bouncing ,learn frag placements.Say someone is in another room and you see them on radar throw a frag (If you don't have frags then do it with plasmas but frags work better) on the wall opposite the other player so it will bounce near or under them lowering their shelids down for the kill.


Vehicles:Now only some multiplayer maps include vehicles but if they do try to take advantage of it.If its warthog then definately take it.But with any vehicle remember if you see the slightest strand of a red ray aiming at your vehicle (Spartan Laser) then GTFO (Get The Fudge Out) of there.

Also ,vehicles provide a quicker way of transportaion.So most likely take a mongoose (seeing that it has no turret and its extremely stupid to try to kill with a full mongoose) to a camo ,power weapon,etc.

Back to Matchmaking
Lulz I know that took a while

Map: Say more than half of the players on your team don't like the map or gametype then veto.But if the odds are against him or them then you might as well make ends meet and try your hardest.

Teamwork:This is probally the thing that gets me fed up the most.IF your teamate is in trouble,or about to die then help him!Don't just stand there thinking its going to be k ,well it might not be.And say you are set with nice wapons and are going to stay there then talk to your teamates.Tell them to also play back so then you can all help eachother.Don't just walk away from eachother because thats probally automatic lose.

Originally Posted by JAYclash

There is no such thing as kill stealing in team games. I hate it when people think you took there kill when you really just saved there life.

Originally Posted by dckilla96

Also you and your teammates ( if this is ranked team whatever) should allow yourselves to get familiar with all spawns on the map, like opposite team spawns, weapon spawns, weapon spawn times, this will overall greatly effect your win accurately. The learning-opposite-team-spawns makes it easy to get higher than a killtacualar against the opposing team.

Communication: Say you need help or your teamate does then say something!Say that your about to die or need help killing them.Call them out too!IF you see an opponet going by your teamate then tell him,don't just watch him get assainated.And if they have no shields call "One shot!" or "No shields over at....".When you die and theres alot of them over by your dead body then say "At my X".

Originally Posted by JohnBrodish

If you have a team that you're consistently using (from partying up or a clan or whatever) change your service tag (letter, number, number) to O0 (o and zero) and a number between 1-4, with each team member being a different number. Then take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with your own number and your teammates numbers. This makes it easier to communicate during gameplay and even more in tight situations by calling out numbers. Example: '4 you got a guy coming up behind you' or '2 i got your back'. Calling out numbers is quicker than shouting whole gametags, which sometimes can be hard to pronounce or very similar if someone has a guest. There's been tons of times when i've been like "jonee...jon33... whatever j-something theres a - oh wait nevermind you died

Originally Posted by JohnBrodish

I realize some of you might be thinking to yourself 'that's unnecessary'. But in a game where timing is everything, spending 1 second less to say someones name can make a world of a difference in your communication and gameplay.

People that were helped by this guide

• The Human Highlight Reel

  Originally Posted by The Human Highlight Reel

  This guide is extremely helpful. I turned my sensitivity down to 1 today and my BR skillz has increased 10 fold

• JohnBrodish

  Originally Posted by JohnBrodish

  holy effin shiznatz, this guide helped lol. i was just doing team swat with sensitivity 1, i did alright but got pwned by more experienced players (first time on swat remember). but then i go to team slayer, pick up a br and I instantly notice worlds of freakin improvement when I still had my sensitivity on 1. I went on a 13 kill streak with the BR before I ran out of ammo, had to switch to my secondary weapon (sword) and then died. Total kills for the game was 25, i pulled half of the 4 man teams weight. I love the br now thanks to the sensitivity tip (though I'm still not sure if it's enough to make it starting weapon lol). But yeah this is awesome! lol :D

Adelyss's tips for Matchmaking preparation

Originally Posted by Adelyss

Okay I got some actually VERY helpful information that you should add.

1st...The easiest way to to get good with the BR is to use this method..now I don't use as I learned about it after I got good with my BR...basically what you do is shoot 3* Body shots then the fourth as the head shot...now you may be like wtf but if you think about it you have a better chance of killing this way because you can land the first three shots fairly easy, defiantly easier that trying to go for four straight up head shots on your opponents head. If you do not want to switch...then when you shoot for their head...don't instead aim at their chin...once again your thinking wtf? but again its easier to shoot their chin consistently than it is it hit their head...By the way theses ways STILL only take four shots to kill.

2. About your little partner thing..I disagree with part of it. You DO NOT want a Team of decent players to all rank up from like 10 to 40 in a playlist? Why because you will get Player locked...(Not the official name) What this is, is that when you play with the same people over and over it thinks your cheating...(The cheating way to get to 50) So to prevent this they did this on purpose. After playing a lot of games and winning winning and winning you will start to slow down on your skill advancement....It just happens making it soon Really hard to level up because you will need to win roughly 10-15 games in a row without losing to go up... Now to prevent this you ask? Well here is my suggestion have everyone your planning on making a team together with play that play list by THEM selves up until around 40-45ish (If your on a winning streak then you may even jump up +2 levels every game because you always play with different people)...unless your not that good then get to around - 7 6 or 5 levels lower than your level your looking for. See now you will have a good team but then you will still be able to rank up and get those last levels you want easy if you can consistently win with your team.

3. A tip when you are ranking up by yourself...in a team based list. If you are really good and you are on a 11-15 game win streak.. PURPOSELY throw a game...trust me each play list has this little tracker for you it counts how many games you've won in a row how many you have lost etc...Now every time you win a game it goes up...and for every game after you win in a row it keeps going up right...Now as this thing gets higher it levels you up faster..yay thats great but then again its bad...because when you start winning a ton in a row the game KEEPs putting in harder and harder guys to fight you because the game wants to see what your rank should be...So I'll give an example.

You start out as rank 25 in Team Slayer..Game 1 you play 25-27's you win..next game same ranks...next game same ranks (Now you go up..to 27) You play 27-30's now for a few games... (You haven't lost a game yet) Now your on win number 12 your level 35 you play some 38-40's keep winning keep winning (Have around 20 game win streak) now your level 40...You're playing now 48's 49's..because the game thinks that because you keep beating those levels and ranking up you should be higher rank...BUT when you start playing those higher ranks you lose...

Now back to this, this tracker sees you lost a game...now it keeps putting you against those 49's you lose lose lose and lose....Drops you levels and if you keep losing then it will drop down the opponent levels again...but now if you win win win win play 49's again... lose lose lose lose...Win win win win...LEVEL LOCKED....(You see when you keep going up and down up and down in ranks..the game thinks you should be at that level..then the game basically says okay your as high as you can go and makes it almost impossible for you to rank up anymore.

Now back about the throwing a game...so basically when you keep winning your tracker keeps giving you harder guys...so to stop this from happening throw a game or two..yes you will go down 2-4 levels because you were on a big win streak but you can get them back. So when you lose a game after you win so much the tracker gets dropped back way back..and restarts...so puts you back at people around your level maybe a little higher still..then you repeat.


With this in mind I can tell you this.. I'm a 45 Brig and stopped at 45 only because It was begining of summer and I had to go live at my cabin with laggy internet the summer..so I didn't play Team Slayer anymore (Over three months I lost my BR..sadly).. but anyways I recently started a new account..Playing Team Slayer right...I have roughly 45 Team Slayer Games played and Rank 43 with about 8 losses. Now you think woah? No its actually really easy I've been playing Halo 3 since last Christmas (Also at times I was going up 2 levels EACH game I won and I actually went up 3 in one game)..I've read all the bungie.net updates and have been taught this information by self playing and other people. My main account all have good Win lose ratios in the play lists and high level will low amount of games played how by doing what I have mentioned above.

So lesson about leveling up..Practice your BR and shoot how I told you (With Playas sensitivity if you prefer) and rank up as high as you can go by YOURSELF without getting level locked or losings to many games and you will become a high rank in no time)


Okay I'm done with my wall of text now =D Also sorry Playa if I kind of made my own tutorial in yours...I thought you should know this information though..

Well I actually had fun making this and I hope this helped all of you.If you guys want me to make more then I will but thanks anyways and Good Luck!

[Eyeless Sid]

This is sure to help players rank up easier if they are having trouble understanding the gameplay. If all else fails and they are still having trouble they can just find some better players to play with and eventualy they will get the hand of it thats what I did. Now I have little troublew figureing out how to give hell to my enemies. Good write up though. : ]

[J A Y]

Yeah thats a great guide Playa. Just one thing I think you should add in the teamwork section is there is no such thing as kill stealing in team games. I hate it when people think you took there kill when you really just saved there life.

[cgamer2021]

TY Alot!

[DocMan]

It's sooooo true that good teamwork and communication will win you your matches. Seriously.

[Hazza]

wow, this is an amazing guide. must have taken you ages. Its very detailed and just about covers everything.

[Mortarion]

Here's a less detailed guide for every playlist.
Lone Wolves - Grab a Power weapon and start mowing down enemies
Team Slayer - Work well with your team and control spawns
Team Objective - Pretty Obvious
Team Doubles - Be very tactical and patient at things
Ranked Big Team - Slay as much as you can
MLG - Communicate as much as you can, using callouts and weapon spawns
Swat - Think fast
Head to Head - Kill the other guy before he kills you.

My prefered way of getting my level is Team Doubles, currently my skill is 49 in that and that's what I play best at.


EDIT: Playerhata whats your highest skill and in what?

[The God of Grunge]

Thanks for the guide. My highest is 39 in Lonewolves, followed by a 25 in team doubles

[Jake Pajamas]

Here's another bit of advice that I've found helpful:

If you have a team that you're consistently using (from partying up or a clan or whatever) change your service tag (letter, number, number) to O0 (o and zero) and a number between 1-4, with each team member being a different number. Then take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with your own number and your teammates numbers. This makes it easier to communicate during gameplay and even more in tight situations by calling out numbers. Example: '4 you got a guy coming up behind you' or '2 i got your back'. Calling out numbers is quicker than shouting whole gametags, which sometimes can be hard to pronounce or very similar if someone has a guest. There's been tons of times when i've been like "jonee...jon33... whatever j-something theres a - oh wait nevermind you died."

I realize some of you might be thinking to yourself 'that's unnecessary'. But in a game where timing is everything, spending 1 second less to say someones name can make a world of a difference in your communication and gameplay.

Hope that helps!

[Playerhata27]

Originally Posted by Eyeless Sid

This is sure to help players rank up easier if they are having trouble understanding the gameplay. If all else fails and they are still having trouble they can just find some better players to play with and eventualy they will get the hand of it thats what I did. Now I have little troublew figureing out how to give hell to my enemies. Good write up though. : ]

Thanks man I aprreciate it.

Originally Posted by JAYclash

Yeah thats a great guide Playa. Just one thing I think you should add in the teamwork section is there is no such thing as kill stealing in team games. I hate it when people think you took there kill when you really just saved there life.

Yeah very true.I'lll quote you and add it

Originally Posted by cgamer2021

TY Alot!

No problem but don't spam!

Originally Posted by DocMan

It's sooooo true that good teamwork and communication will win you your matches. Seriously.

Yeah it really frustrates me when I get people that don't talk of help me.

Originally Posted by Hazza252

wow, this is an amazing guide. must have taken you ages. Its very detailed and just about covers everything.

Yeah it took me an hour =/ but thanks for the feedback man!

Originally Posted by The Human Highlight Reel

Thanks for the guide. My highest is 39 in Lonewolves, followed by a 25 in team doubles

Yeah if all esle for me trying to get a 50 in other ranked I'll just play Lone Wolves.

Originally Posted by JohnBrodish

Here's another bit of advice that I've found helpful:

If you have a team that you're consistently using (from partying up or a clan or whatever) change your service tag (letter, number, number) to O0 (o and zero) and a number between 1-4, with each team member being a different number. Then take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with your own number and your teammates numbers. This makes it easier to communicate during gameplay and even more in tight situations by calling out numbers. Example: '4 you got a guy coming up behind you' or '2 i got your back'. Calling out numbers is quicker than shouting whole gametags, which sometimes can be hard to pronounce or very similar if someone has a guest. There's been tons of times when i've been like "jonee...jon33... whatever j-something theres a - oh wait nevermind you died."

I realize some of you might be thinking to yourself 'that's unnecessary'. But in a game where timing is everything, spending 1 second less to say someones name can make a world of a difference in your communication and gameplay.

Hope that helps!

Wow I never thought of that!Thats realllly hewlpful and I'll quote you and add that too.

I sound pretty stupid to ask but + rep is aprreacitaed.

Also if this helped you tell me I will add your name to a list off people that it helped!!

Thanks everyone.