- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
A sniper is the most deadly enemy you will face in Halo multiplayer: They tend to be specialised players that can turn the tide of a battle with a handful of rounds, and work equally well in a team or as lone wolves.
Against snipers, use a pistol: scope up, and aim in their direction: one shot will unscope their vision, meaning they waste valuable seconds.
Secondly, never, ever, ever, run parallel to the direct LOS of a sniper: this is when you will be the easiest target. Try to move at a direct diagonal: that way, you are moving not just along a hypothetical X or Y axis, but both, making just that little bit harder to kill.
Try to have some sort of elevation, negative or positive, from the sniper: this, again, makes you marginally harder to hit.
If the sniper you are facing is any good at all, being in a vehicle, of any type, will make you a big, fat, easy to see target: a Ghost or Hoggie may be quick, but they are worth more trouble then you can possibly imagine.
Hide behind vehicles (ideally the Hoggie or the Scorpion), rocks, buildings, and other cover: fairly obviously, anything that soaks up rounds (apart from your own, frail human flesh) is good news.
If you see a sniper rifle at its spawn point (not your own teams, should you be playing CTF or similar, obviously) take it: you dont have to use it, just move it so that when you make you daring/fatal escape, the sniper will likely be without ammo or even an actual rifle.
Organise your equipment so that regardless of your role, unless you can guarantee you wont be caught out in the open, you always have a pistol: as mentioned earlier, it descopes snipers, and is a deadly weapon once you learn to use it.
Alert your team members (if playing team-based gametypes) to a snipers location as accurately as possible. This will mean (unless they suck, are particularly selfish, are dead, or all three) that your comrades will help to remove the threat.