Strafing is one of the most important tips for you to learn when you encounter a battle with the enemy in Halo 3.

Their are different types of strafing that you can use for Halo 3.

Important: When attempting to strafe during a fire fight, BE SURE to not turn your back to the opponent and run away! If you are in a fire fight and you feel like you are about to lose because your enemy has one more shot on you, jumping for the last shot works fine if you are good at it. Because this makes you opponent disrupt his rhythm and possibly miss you for the last kill shot.

Types of Strafes

• SHORT STRAFE: A short side to side movement that allows you more time to get in more shots on your enemy.
• LONG STRAFE: A  long side to side movement, typically left to right or right to left depending on if you are right or left handed.

Make sure you practice BR battles in close and far confrontations…

Important Tip: Lead your target when engaging in a Battle Rifle fight.. This will almost guarantee a 4 shot BR kill.

Halo 3 Hiding Spots on Guardian

Learn how to jump from the Blue room to the sniper floor. This trick will get you the sniper rifle everytime before anyone else can get it.

Bad Habit #1: I die at some point you are faced with your own mortality. Luckily in halo it is one 3 to 15 seconds. What I do next I think has the most profound affect on the outcome of the match.

Things to think about: 1. Get some firepower, a single smg is not going to get you anywhere except back to the “your own mortality” question. So gather a decent weapon combo before you go looking for a fight. Such as a BR

2. Do not let fights just happen; you must pick your fight. I think on most maps 90% of fights are avoidable until you choose to engage. Toss some grenades and move away, and if a player follows you will have the advantage of splash damage from the grenades. More likely he will go for cover get distracted and you can move on.

3. Plan your attacks. The more I play the more I realize that people all act remarkably similar in similar situations. This is part of what playing like a spider is all about. I think that a spider does not always have to play the waiting game though. Overswarm touched on this when he talked about dropping the bomb into the opposing base in beaver creek and watching the entire other team run towards it as he destroys them with a rocket aimed at the bomb. Events happen and everyone is wired to react the same way like lab rats. Be aware of when you are acting like this it usually happens to be 2 seconds before I am “forced to face my own mortality” but by identifying this behavior it can be overcome. Use this to your advantage; think about how you would react to yourself in a situation. That is probably how an enemy is going to react counter that and recounter, what is the next move? Where do I go? Where are they going to go? What are my outs? What is their salvation? Where do I want to engage? Where do they want to engage?

Halo 3 Tips and Tricks

4. You do not have to die. If you are in the middle of a fire fight and your shields drop, drop some grenades and back off (At the very least you get a smoke screen or you may get lucky with a kill). First of all you were most likely going to die 1st anyways, and you are back to start with no weapons. Second fire fights tend to attract people and more often than not a teammate will come in to finish the job. When your shields recharge you are back into it, to help your team. Think of it like this you’re a bear then a wolf comes in while you recharge and switch to vulture. The seamless switching of roles is important because once I know what your playing style is I know how to kill you.