Halo 4: Guide for the Spartan Laser:

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Alright let me clear a few things up first,

1 This thread is design to help you, to help players to use the Spartan Laser the way it was meant to be used, not only that but to help you be a better team player, i cant even count how many times someone on my team or the enemy team get the laser and waste it, they don’t miss, but they still waste it,

which i will explain more of later on.

2 I know that this wont help out much, but i did this same thing for reach on the bungie.net forums before it came out.

3 As i said, this is designed to help, designed to help you and possibly your future teammates to better use the laser and use it correctly, to be able to help your team in ways that could turn the tide of a match.

either way i hope this helps, and if you want you can contribute as well, i would definitely appreciate it.

Now lets begin.

The Basics
first things first, you need to know what to use it on,

Vehicles:

the Spartan Laser is designed to be an Anti Vehicle/Air Weapon, and that’s what it should be used for, majority of times people will ignore this fact and use the laser for easy infantry kills, waste every valuable shot,

how are they wasting it? picture this,

you have an invitation, its separated into 4 pieces, every time you shoot a vehicle with the laser, you get to keep a piece, every time you use it on infantry, you give them a piece.

Now ask yourself, what exactly is this invitation? that invitation you just gave them (assuming you used every shot on infantry) is free reign to decimate you with vehicles and now you cant do anything about it, yet if you use those shots on vehicles, you are not letting have that invite, helping your team,

That is what i see people do every time they get it, they waste it on infantry, when they should be waiting to use it on vehicles.

Its clear why most people do this, the laser can give you very easy kills, but this is a big mistake, especially when things like banshees and tanks come into play.

here is my point, the laser is designed to take out vehicles, choosing to take out infantry instead is a huge mistake, one that could cost you the victory, the laser fires instantly, it may give you easy infantry kills, but this is a fatal mistake, you have DMRs, BRs, ARs, Shotguns, Snipers, and much more, you already have what you need to take down infantry, use that instead,

there are several other reasons to do this, you will find a lot more success if you control the map, and that also means having complete control over the enemy’s vehicles, this is Halo, and vehicles are not to be underestimated, never assume they have no vehicles, chances are your wrong,

that’s basically it, i did this same thing on the halo reach forum on bnet before reach launch, and while i know this will be about as successful as that was which was not successful i still felt the need,
the Spartan Laser is still the Spartan Laser, i think its safe to assume that it works the same way as it did in Halo 3 or Reach in Halo 4,

Secondly, as a quick note in regards to using it, you must make every shot count, just as i said before, use it on vehicles, not infantry, take your time, take note of where the vehicle is going, its surroundings, your surroundings, cover, and where it will be, take note of all of these things before firing to insure a direct hit, ive messed up quite a few times by not taking note of where it was going, i was about to shoot it and it went behind a structure, it was to late and i fired and waisted a shot, so do take not of that, that applies to air and ground vehicles.

Feel free to contribute if you have any other useful advice in regards to using the spartan laser, i may edit this and add more later on.

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Hey man, honestly, sometimes you have to use the weapon against infantry. And what makes you qualified to lecture the community on this weapon? have you played halo 4 like I have??

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> Hey man, honestly, sometimes you have to use the weapon against infantry. And what makes you qualified to lecture the community on this weapon? have you played halo 4 like I have??

you misunderstand

1 no i didn’t, i didn’t get that privilege, i was basing my post on the assumption that halo 4s Spartan Laser works like it did in previous titles, which is highly probable.

2 i never said i was qualified i said i wanted to help, which i do.

3 yes, but thats not often, at least from my own experiences its not, again im trying to help.

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Sorry, I understand what your saying now. I used the laser at Comic Con. want me to add my input?

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> Sorry, I understand what your saying now. I used the laser at Comic Con. want me to add my input?

by all means go right ahead, help in any way you can. =)

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> > Sorry, I understand what your saying now. I used the laser at Comic Con. want me to add my input?
>
> by all means go right ahead, help in any way you can. =)

Sorry that the thread kinda died. If you ever want to make one of these threads again, let me know via message and I will help add perspective :slight_smile:

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Vehicles are so easy to destroy in Reach anyway with the amount of anti-vehicle weapons and boarding techniques. [Off topic] If it were down to me I wouldn’t have the laser in Halo4 at all - it ruins the fun in all vehicles. Instead bring back a faster and more deadly rocket lock on for some vehicles like the banshee and tank.

[on topic] But it is so only use it on infinity if you have to as sometimes there is no other choice.

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From what I can tell, those who post on this site are usually experienced Halo players.
Atleast, more so than most.

This message should go out to those with lesser experience.
And those people usually get less than 25 posts on this site.
So, it’s unlikely any non-experienced players will ever read this.
And if any do read it, it won’t be many.
And even if a few read it, it’s unlikely they’ll actually take the advice.

Most people on this site either know what they’re doing when playing Halo,
or think they’re good for getting a Splaser no-scope.

Either way, your advice is doing little to nothing to help anyone at all.
It’s good advice, for sure.
But not for these people.

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I actually find many areas where it is best to use it on infantry. In halo 3 valhalla u can go up pick up the splazer and if for some strange reason no one on ur team picked up the missle launcher to take out the enemy banshee. So you have ur splazer u kill the banshee and then the warthog. U now have 2 shots and everyone knows atleast one person will pick up the sniper and snipe from base. The solution is simple hide behind rock, charge, move out just before it goes off on the sniper. This gains 1 kill as well as one less power weapon for the enemy team if someone can grab it. Now it should be my redponsabilty to use this last shot so there is no chance for the enemy to use it against my own teams vehicles so ill just get some random dude. This happens many times where once u kill all the enemys vehicles u have extra shots it and now that weapon can really only be a problem gor your own team so it wouldnt be a bad idea to just shoot randomly.

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In Halo 3 I used the lazer on both infantry and vehicles. In Halo: Reach I used it mostly on vehicles. In Halo 4 I think I will use it primarily on vehicles and sometimes on infantry.

The Halo 3 lazer was beast. 5 shots so you could use it on both without much consequence. Killed almost always if it hit, may have take 2 to kill a tank. There was magnetism, so you could hit infantry most of the time.

Halo: Reach lazer was god awful. 4 shots so you had to use it sparingly, if you wanted a lazer spree you had to go for vehicles. No magnetism which made it next to impossible to hit infantry. It was weak as hell though. I’ve hit warthogs straight on and they haven’t died from the Reach lazer. I’ve even hit infantry and they didn’t die.

In Halo 4, from the footage I’ve seen, it has 4 shots. It’s somewhere between Halo 3 and Reach’s power. So you can’t hit the wing of a banshee and expect it to die, or the toenail of an opponent. But if you reasonably hit the infantry or vehicle, it will die. There also seems to be a tiny bit of magnetism, a step up from Halo: Reach.

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Anyone with half a lick of sense knows that Spartan Laser rounds are valuable and should only be used against vehicles unless absolutely necessary. To be honest the Reach Laser was much harder to use against infantry and the reduced number of rounds means that most of us use it exclusively for vehicles.

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if i didn’t already know all this stuff about the splaser id definitely be using the knowledge i already know :stuck_out_tongue: but you HAVE to admit op, using splaser on infantry is just fun! i have built non vehicle maps with the splaser on them just for the fun of having it.

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I agree. A way to help this would be to bring back Reach’s splaser.