Halo Fans
1.ABOUT HALO
2.THE STORY
3.STRAGIES
4.WEAPONS
1.ABOUT HALO
Bent on Humankind's extermination, a powerful fellowship of alien races known as the Covenant is wiping out the Earth's fledgling interstellar empire. You and the other surviving defenders of a devastated colony-world make a desperate attempt to lure the alien fleet away from Earth. Shot down and marooned on the ancient ring-world Halo, you begin a guerilla-war against the Covenant. Fight for humanity against an alien onslaught as you race to uncover the mysteries of Halo.
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THE story
The year is 2552. Planet Earth still exists, but overpopulation has forced many of her former residents to colonize other worlds. Faster-than-light travel is now a reality, and Earth's unified government, through the United Nations Space Command, has put its full weight behind the colonization effort; millions of humans now live on habitable planets in other solar systems. A keystone of humanity's colonization efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard that builds colony ships for civilians and warships for the UNSC's armed forces. Conveniently close to Earth, Reach is also a hub of scientific and military activity.
Thirty-two years ago, contact with the outer colony Harvest was lost. A battlegroup sent to investigate was almost completely destroyed; only one badly damaged ship returned to Reach. Its crew told of a seemingly unstoppable alien warship that had effortlessly annihilated their forces.
This was humankind's first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence.
After a series of crushing defeats and obliterated colonies, UNSC Admiral Preston Cole established the Cole Protocol: no vessel may inadvertently lead the Covenant to Earth. When forced to withdraw, ships must avoid Earth-bound vectors -- even if that means jumping without proper navigational calculations. Vessels in danger of capture must self-destruct.
On Reach, a secret military project to create cyborg super-soldiers takes on newfound importance. The soldiers of the SPARTAN-II project rack up an impressive record against the Covenant in test deployments, but there are too few of them to turn the tide of the war.
Existing SPARTAN-II soldiers are recalled to Reach for further augmentation. The plan: board a Covenant vessel with the improved SPARTAN-IIs and learn the location of the Covenant home world. Two days before the mission begins, Covenant forces strike Reach and annihilate the colony. The Covenant are now on Eath's doorstep. One ship, the Pillar of Autumn, escapes with the last SPARTAN-II and makes a blind jump into deep space, hoping to lead the Covenant away from Earth.
STRATGIES
[5.1]--|The Pillar of Autumn}
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[Mission Overview]
Escape intact as Covenant forces board your ship.
[Introduction]
This level is fairly linear, however, this section covers every detail of the
entire level in the event that you need help. So read on.
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>>Complete Training Diagnostic
After the cinematic introduction to the first level, the order is given to
unfreeze the Master Chief(that would be you!). The technicians must ensure you
are in working order before you are on your way. The first thing they ask is
that you look around the room(use the Right Thumbstick) to get. Then they bring
your health monitors online and ask you to climb out of the cryo-tube. Hit the
X button to climb out. Take a few steps to get used to the controls, then stand
on the red square as requested so that the technician can check your targeting
sensors. Use the Right Thumbstick to aim at the orange lights and turn them
green. If you have not played HALO yet, the controls will not be inverted.
After targeting all 5 lights, you will be given the chance to test out the
inverted controls(up goes down and vice versa). I prefer the inverted, but test
it out to see if you like it. Just tell the technician if you do and he will
keep it inverted. After you target all 5 lights, you will be asked to follow
the technician to the yellow square to test your shield. While on the shield
the technicians will charge and test your shields to ensure they are working
properly. Press the A button to initiate the shield testing while on the yellow
square. After the technicians are through with that stage of the diagnostic
tests, an order will be given to send you to the Captain's Bridge. It sounds
urgent. Immediately after that, you hear a few of the crew members die from
something.
>>Find Captain Keyes on the Bridge
Follow the technician through the door, but not too closely, as he's about to
meet up with a nasty surprise. Turn around and look for the pipes on the right
and hit the A button to jump over them and into the next area. Take a right and
continue down the corridor and through the door with a green light. Keep going
down the hall and take a left. You will see a huge door that is halfway closed.
Press in on the Left Thumbstick to crouch and crawl under the door. Some fellow
crew members are fighting off the Covenant that has boarded the ship. Take a
right, and wait for your pals to seal the doors. On the left there is a door
that leads to the bridge(look at the floor for the blue arrow). Go through
that, and watch out for what's ahead. The Marines, after killing the baddie,
will tell you to get to the Bridge. Take a left, and make your way down the
hall. You will run into more crew members and Marines fighting the Covenant
forces. Just watch for now, and after the doors close, make your way across to
the Marine standing in the doorway marked with a blue arrow on the floor.
Follow the Marine, allowing him to do all the gun work(not that you have a
weapon yet). Follow him closely until he stops. He should tell you that Captain
Keyes is waiting for you. Take a right, and you are now on the Bridge! Follow
the hallway around to find Captain Keyes. He gives you the bad news, and a new
set of orders. He is abandoning ship, as the invading Covenant forces are too
great. Now you need to get Cortana off of the ship to keep the valuable secrets
safe.
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Captain Keyes also gives you a pistol, but with no ammo.
>>Get off the Pillar of Autumn
Exit the Bridge the way you came. You will pick up some ammo for your gun near
the main entrance to the Bridge, and then confront your first set of enemies!
Take out the (3)Grunts and take the first right. You will find an MA5B Assault
Rifle. Help out the Marines in that room. After the Covenants are destroyed,
take either of the paths to the right, as they are part of the same hall.
Finish off the Grunts in that hall, and take the only open door, which also has
a First Aid kit next to it. There is also a red arrow marked "Airlock". Go
through that door, and continue down the corridor. You will see a few Marines
fighting an Elite, be generous and help them out! Proceed and the Marines will
freak out at the rumble. Take a right and follow them. Soon you will come to
another small area and a Marine will say, "It's about time you showed up!".
Back up, as a group of Covenants will burst through! Stand next to the Marines
and take out all of the Grunts and Elites. Take a right where the Covenant
forces broke through to find an extra shield. Backtrack, turn to the right, and
continue following the Marines. Take a right at the door that has a green arrow
on the floor labeled "Stairs". Go through that hallway. From here you can
either:
(A)Take the next right and eliminate the Covenant forces alone.
(B)Go straight and find the Marines, if you need help with the forces.
The fight will go quicker if you choose to go alone, but you will be better
protected if you stay with the Marines. After the Covenant are eliminated, make
your way straight across from where the Marines were firing. There is a First
Aid kit next to the door on the right that you will need to enter. Below the
door, on the floor, is a red arrow labeled "Airlock". Make your way through and
help the Marines fight off the Covenants. Follow the Marines(if they are still
alive) straight through the door in front of you. Take a right and continue to
battle it out with the Covenant forces. Keep making your way around the hallway
until you see the flaming barrels. On the right you will need to duck through
the halfway opened door. In the next area, eliminate every enemy, then find the
door on the left containing a First Aid kit. There is also a green arrow on the
floor labeled "Stairs". Make your way through the halls until you see the
stairs. The lower area is a dead end, so climb the stairs and destroy the
Coventant forces that wait above. After they are destroyed, exit the only open
door at the top of the steps. Use the barricade to take safely take out the
enemies. Make your way down the hall, taking out the other enemies. You can
also use their plasma shield to take cover from fire. Continue around to the
left, taking out even more of those pesky Grunts and Elites. Just try not to
let the Elites get too close, as their melee attack can be deadly. Continue
around the corridor and you will hear a message telling everyone to abandon
ship. As you continue down the hall, you will notice out the left window, some
life pods already launching. Boy, I bet you wish you were on one already!
Unfortunately, the Covenant forces are already destroying some of the life
pods, so hurry up! To the right of the window is a First Aid kit, in case you
need one. Make your way to the left. As you can see, those life pods have
already been used. You need to make your way through the maintenance area to
reach more pods. Follow the Navigation Point until you see a green arrow on the
ground labeled "maintenance". Go in, and turn on your flashlight. Using your
flashlight, take the hidden left passage. Follow the path until Cortana
activates your motion tracker. There are three exits, but only one of them
seems to be safe: the right path. Exit the maintenance area, and you will be in
a dead end, or so it seems. Use the butt of your weapon to open the jammed
door(hit the B button). Take a left, and prepare for a battle. Down the hall,
there are two doors on the left. Both lead to the same hallway, so take either
one. The main thing you need to do is destroy every enemy. Be especially
careful when fighting the Elites, and take cover if your primary shields are
depleted. After the battle, take a right through the door with a First Aid kit
next to it. As you make your way through the next area, you will see the
operating room where the technicians unfroze you. Keep going straight. Up ahead
you will notice some charred hallways. Be very cautious as there are several
preprogrammed explosions coming your way. You need to find another maintenance
tunnel. This one is to the right of the area where the explosion occurred. Turn
on your flashlight, and kill the Grunt to the right. There is another Grunt on
at the next right turn, but after killing him, go left. Take your next right.
From here, there are four doors that you can take, which all lead to the same
hallway. I suggest taking the one on the far right. You will emerge next to
your Marine buddies, so help them. Ignore the door with a First Aid kit next to
it, as it leads in a circle. Instead, go forward towards the area that the
Covenant forces were coming from. Up ahead you can take either the left or
right path, as they both lead to the same area. The next area is actually on
the left side, so it is quick to take the left path. Continue through the new
area, killing the many Covenants. Advance and take a left, and you will see
more Airlocks. There will also be a barricade to hide behind, and you will find
some Fragmentation grenades. Take out the enemies. To the left of the
barricades, you will see another maintenance tunnel. One of the paths leads in
front of the barricades, the others lead in circles. You can take the tunnel
and keep right, or simply jump over the barricades. You need to get in a life
pod! Just in time, you escape the Pillar of Autumn.
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[5.2]--|Halo}
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[Mission Overview]
Seek out surviving Marines and help them fight the Covenant.
[Introduction]
You have escaped the Pillar of Autumn. The pilot notices a strange looking,
ring shaped surface(Halo), so he attempts to land. You crash land, killing the
other Marines aboard. As you leave the ship, pick up the weapons at the exit.
Covenant dropships approach and you need to hide.
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For now, your objectives are:
>>Evade the Covenant patrols searching for you
>>Head for higher ground
>>Search for other lifeboats
As soon as you leave your lifeboat, take a left and make your way over to the
canyon. Cross the bridge and turn right. Travel along the wall, using the rocks
as cover from the Covenant forces. Continue up the slope, staying as close to
the left wall as possible. You will soon meet up with a small group of Covenant
forces. Go ahead and take them out, and continue forward up the slope. Near the
top, the path narrows and the slope will begin to drop. Use the rocks to jump
down and continue around the path that winds to the left. You should see a
Covenant dropship unloading more enemies. Dodge the fire from the ship as it
leaves, then head down. You will see a st
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