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Subject: Whats your firefight strategy?
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Michael A Gallegos

Mine is rush to the Warthog 1 person gets laser and get sniper and snipes while the rest of us get on the warthog on lost platoon

  • 02.26.2010 11:51 AM PDT

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

mine is to not die.

  • 02.26.2010 12:14 PM PDT

I am he who walks above the abyss
upon a mountain of sky
I am he who descends to the blackest nights
to the ever-slumbering restless
I am he who releases his star
which will shine and burn
I am the abyss / I am the storm / I am the sky

My strategy:
Kick major ass.

Naw just kidding.

Seriously though, in any map I play, I either start off by getting crap loads of headshots with the Pistol, or if I plan on grabbing a sniper, I kill solely with my SMG so I can make the bullets worth something (I save my bullets for the M6 and don't make a waste of the SMG I'm going to drop for the Sniper).

As it moves on, brutes will either be taken down by sniper fire, SMG fire, and then a headshot, or a plasma weapon and then a headshot.

Squads of Brutes with grunt squadmates are taken out like this:
A. I stick the brute and make the grunts either run or try to do a suicide run on me.
B. I take out the grunts first which makes less guns in the squad able to fire at me (can't fire if you're dead), plus, it also means that if the Catch skull is on I won't get stuck. This leaves me to focus solely on the Brute.

For Brute Chieftains I always try to grab a plasma pistol. If not, I will shoot my SMG or another weapon a little bit at a time until their shields drop. When they do, I try and do as little body damage as possible. The pistol does hardly any damage, so it will not set off their invincibility unless I've shot way too many bullets. As soon as the shields are down, I headshot them with the pistol until their helmet pops off, giving me an easy headshot kill.

Buggers suck, because I usually do not carry my SMG, and that is the most effective weapon to kill them with. Hopefully I am by a turret so I can rip it off and use that third weapon to mow them down as quickly as possible.

Before each third round, when Black Eye turns on, I make sure to grab a gravity hammer to use in the fifth wave of the second round. If I'm sure to use it sparingly, it will last most of the round and save me when my stamina is low, allowing me to survive for much longer (even if you hit with the shockwave, it still counts as a melee hit, therefore your stamina regenerates.)

When tilt turns on, the shielded buggers get really hard, but under sustained fire they drop easily enough. Swarms of buggers will still be something to worry about though, as they always are. Plasma Pistol or Carbine is my preferred secondary weapon, next to the Pistol. The pistol is great for killing the small infantry and for finishing off brutes. It's just not good for killing buggers, especially the shielded ones, or Hunters. I try to keep one on my person at all times.

Good strategy for facing a Brute Chieftain with a weapon that is no good: if you come face to face with him and can't find a weapon that will kill him fast enough, get into an open area and make him lunge at you. He will lunge straight at you, allowing you to walk sideways and forward. This places you behind and to the side of him, making his attack hit air or a wall.

That's all I can think of right now, that pertains to my general battle tactics in Firefight. There's more to it, but that's how I approach most engagements.

  • 02.26.2010 1:48 PM PDT

Mine:

Stay in a group or two pair of two.

Always have a plasma rifle/pistol on you for the use of disabling shields.

Have some weapon that is capable of head shots.

Keep the rockets/laser for power enemies. Ex- Chiefftan, wraith, hunters.

And always have a plan for every map like where to camp, what to do in ___ scenario, etc.

Or, me and my friends just go in guns a blazing.

  • 02.26.2010 1:53 PM PDT

"The measure of a man is what he does with power"-Plato

I hide in the darkness crying waiting for the inevitable pimp slap off a Brute

  • 02.26.2010 4:43 PM PDT
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Michael A Gallegos

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I hide in the darkness crying waiting for the inevitable pimp slap off a Brute
lol

  • 02.26.2010 6:02 PM PDT

We got Jackals in the courtyard!

crouch in the elvator on Oni interior with my shotty and wait for the unsuspecting to walk by. as i creep up to them, they hear a rustle. the turn around and meet a facefull of lead, followed by a pool of blood to drown in. then i laugh giddily and wait some more.

not to be confused with my halo3 strat of hiding around corners with a shotty waiting for the unsuspecting. LOL.

  • 02.26.2010 6:24 PM PDT
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Kill more, die less.

  • 02.27.2010 3:45 AM PDT
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Hit me up on Live, we can play some Halo
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I just usually go insane.
You should hear the things i say when i die.

  • 02.27.2010 5:05 AM PDT

Haven't cheated. Haven't been banned. There might be a connection there...

-Horde the power weapons (actually, any weapons at all).
-Have a Plasma Pistol at the ready for tougher brutes.
-Have a single-shot weapon (for headshots)
-Do not stray from a defensive position unless absolutely forced to
-... don't die

  • 02.27.2010 6:20 AM PDT
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  • 02.27.2010 10:27 AM PDT
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If I'm solo, Pistol + Plasma Pistol the entire time, until the Drones where I rush back and swap PP for SMG, or rush and switch PP for Sniper when there's hunters.

  • 02.27.2010 10:36 AM PDT
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"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. " ~Gil Stern

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Stay in a building with a pistol and just head shot things

  • 02.27.2010 10:53 AM PDT


Ooh, I love those people, the ones who decide to throw everything and the kitchen sink at you, as if an M16 does anything to a T-90. Oh, MLG player with noobtube instead? Congrats! You blew off one of my ablative plates!

Gun, meet Bad Guy.
Bad Guy, this is Gun.

not to die and have fun

  • 02.27.2010 11:41 AM PDT