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First step: Before entering the vehicle, pray to God the other team doesn’t have Plasma Pistol/Plasma Grenade.
Use the left trigger for drifting.
never forget to plug in your seat belt, and more importantly install some cup holders
> First step: Before entering the vehicle, pray to God the other team doesn’t have Plasma Pistol/Plasma Grenade.
Correction
First Step: ExCPECT players to have Plasma Pistol and Plasma Nades, drive accordingly. Stay out of plasma range. Never go for splatters unless the enemy is obviously distracted.
2nd Step: Communicate properly. If you spot a particular threat, say so over the microphone. Use vehicles as distraction and scouting tools. Gather information that you can tell your team. (how many enemies are where, what weapons did you see them holding, any vehicles?)
3rd Step: If taking any damage at all, perform a fighting retreat towards your teammates. Your gunner should be firing at anything that chases you. Since you are driving towards your teammates, your gunner’s fire and teammates firing at the vehicle chasing you should counter most threats. When threat is eleminated, consider switching vehicles/ditching damaged vehicles and going on foot… or repeat from step 1
Using these steps you may get less kills as an individual but you will be keeping your team alive. If your enemies cant get kills, they are not getting medals or ordinance. Even if you are getting medals slowly, you will still get more ordinance for your team compared to your enemy. In the long run, your team wins. Getting assists and no deaths = you will win.
Don’t try to splatter if you have a gunner, keep the distance.
A target standing still is an easy target to hit, keep that vehicle in motion.
Tight places makes your gunner sad, avoid going indoors or very cramped areas with hog.
Communicate with the gunner, and watch his back, if his shields are down, don’t go into open fields, hide so his shields recharge.
Best tip for the Halo 4 Warthog? Avoid it all together. It is pretty much useless.
Slam the damn A button if your about to ram a teammate.
And use the Left Trigger to drift and hopefully evade PP/PG’s with style.
And use the right trigger to honk your horn and hopefully a teammate knows to get in or get out of the way.
And don’t just damage or EMP a vehicle until it blows up or you run out of charge if you don’t get the vehicle/spot you wanted, just find another or wait. -_-
And if you have a gunner, try not to splatter, your instantly a walking double/triple kill if you do that.
And if the gunner or you lost your shields, go into cover, don’t stay out in the open, you become a prime target for DMR spammers and snipers if anybody has their shields down.
There’s so many Plasma Pistols and Plasma Grenades. Why is their so many Plasma Pistol’s and Plasma Grenades out here!!! The brochure said that their were next to zero Plasma Pistols and Plasma Grenades…
Oh yeah, and buckle up and put some extremely hot coffee in the cupholders so that it can spill all over you when you turn the Warthog upside down or drive off a cliff for tricks, but doesn’t end up with you dieing because it’s not off the map.
> Slam the damn A button if your about to ram a teammate.
Sorry but this point in particular doesn’t help at all. People will be absolutely determined to no end to run in front of your escape or attack run. At this point in my own gaming fun, the ease of team killing while driving is doing my nut in the most. Hitting A just means you end up with a slightly more hilarious tickle-team kill where you barely touch them.
> Correction
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> First Step: EXPECT players to have Plasma Pistol and Plasma Nades, drive accordingly. Stay out of plasma range. Never go for splatters unless the enemy is obviously distracted.
The plasma nade is such a favorite that you are almost always in range. Sitting back and shuffling around with a warthog is highly ineffective unless your sole purpose is to protect, which it shouldn’t be and never has been.
> 2nd Step: Communicate properly. If you spot a particular threat, say so over the microphone. Use vehicles as distraction and scouting tools. Gather information that you can tell your team. (how many enemies are where, what weapons did you see them holding, any vehicles?)
Well, to start off, people don’t really use mics anymore 
Warthogs should not be the little kid getting bullied who calls in his mom to take care of things while he tells her what happened. The warthog is the support. It should be kicking -Yoink-. Without a counter? Of course not. With a counter more readily available than the Warthog itself? Of course not.
> 3rd Step: If taking any damage at all, perform a fighting retreat towards your teammates. Your gunner should be firing at anything that chases you. Since you are driving towards your teammates, your gunner’s fire and teammates firing at the vehicle chasing you should counter most threats. When threat is eleminated, consider switching vehicles/ditching damaged vehicles and going on foot… or repeat from step 1
when ‘taking any damage at all’, it is often in the form of EMPs along with DMRs. Plus, most teams are not anywhere near as cohesive as we may like it to be. In my case it rarely ever is unless I am with my own friends.
You have to realize that the odds are stacked against you, and the Hog will either be destroyed or become a mere nuisance to the other team. People move very quickly in Halo 4. What you called out may not be helpful well within ten seconds, which is fine, but then it makes the Hog even less appealing.
only use the gauss warthog
> > Slam the damn A button if your about to ram a teammate.
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> Sorry but this point in particular doesn’t help at all. People will be absolutely determined to no end to run in front of your escape or attack run. At this point in my own gaming fun, the ease of team killing while driving is doing my nut in the most. Hitting A just means you end up with a slightly more hilarious tickle-team kill where you barely touch them.
Helped me sometimes…
I never understood why people would just act like jerks and run in front of you and boot you intentionally…
> > > Slam the damn A button if your about to ram a teammate.
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> > Sorry but this point in particular doesn’t help at all. People will be absolutely determined to no end to run in front of your escape or attack run. At this point in my own gaming fun, the ease of team killing while driving is doing my nut in the most. Hitting A just means you end up with a slightly more hilarious tickle-team kill where you barely touch them.
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> Helped me sometimes…
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> I never understood why people would just act like jerks and run in front of you and boot you intentionally…
Yeah don’t take it personally. Just ranting. Get really annoyed for being booted for blatant accidental occurrences of someone jumping from a rock when a warthog drifts by etc. because it scars your service record so its easier to get booted in the future. No one will ever forgive just like they’ll never use mics.
My advice?
A fully loaded Warthog doesn’t give you the license, as the driver, to reenact the Thelma and Louise driving off the cliff scene, no matter how funny you think it is. AND it apparently really pisses off the passengers after the third or fourth time you do it to them in a row.
Hehe (just kidding of course).
My advice is to watch the accelerator, especially if you are not comfortable with powersliding. We don’t need to keep the trottle down all the time in a Warhog. In fact, it usually is one of the best ways to get it flipped.
And if you are trying to collect spatters counts, I’d recommend using a single pilot vehicle instead of the Warthog. Smash into your enemies if you have to (like when if you need to protect you and the passengers), but try to let the other teammates do their job with their guns. Otherwise, why even invite any passengers on? How many times have you gotten into a Warthog, only to find that that driver is recklessly spattering things and not letting his or her passengers get a good aim on the enemy? Often this will lead to the vehicle, and the whole team in it, defeated. Meanwhile that opponent is thanking the driver for giving them two or three easy points.
It also helps to communicate with your gunners (the big gun and the shotgun position) and make sure you are all on the same page when it comes to targets. If you see something big coming your way, let the passengers know that you are going to evade or that you are expecting them to attack it. If you are attacking, try give your teammates a good angle, but at the same time, try to give the targets at a bad one for hitting you back. It’s tough, but it makes a difference. Look at your surroundings and weave in and out if you can. A Warthog in the middle of an open field is often too tempting a target to miss.
Oh, and one of the things I’ve also learned about driving a Warthog is don’t be afraid to exit the vehicle. The Warthog is not a tank. It is a fast transport vehicle with a gun attached. It’s great for distracting the opponent, but pretending it is indestructable can get you (and your passengers) defeated on the battlefield.
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Tip: Warthogs don’t really fly; don’t drive the off of cliffs.
> Best tip for the Halo 4 Warthog? Avoid it all together. It is pretty much useless.
I second this.
Never stop.
> > First Step
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> The plasma nade is such a favorite that you are almost always in range. Sitting back and shuffling around with a warthog is highly ineffective unless your sole purpose is to protect, which it shouldn’t be and never has been.
true, but staying outside that range as best as possible and not driving directly at or away from some 1 that you know has a plasma pistol is still wise.
> > 2nd Step
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> Well, to start off, people don’t really use mics anymore Warthogs should not be the little kid getting bullied who calls in his mom to take care of things while he tells her what happened. The warthog is the support. It should be kicking -Yoink!-. Without a counter? Of course not. With a counter more readily available than the Warthog itself? Of course not.
even in Reach, wort hog was best used in this way… Mainly to avoid armor lock. Using the hog to lower shields while teammates took headshots with DMR was the most efficient tactic then… With halo 4 hog dealing less damage than reach this tactic becomes even more crucial. Even if your teammates aren’t using their mic, if you hove one enemy hog chasing you, both turrets dealing equal damage, retreating towards teammates that could put even just a few shots from a DMR will make the difference. You live, the enemy dies, ditch the hog and continue on your day. The very fact that you drove to your teams area increases your odds, regardless of your team communicating back to you.
> > 3rd Step
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> when ‘taking any damage at all’, it is often in the form of EMPs along with DMRs. Plus, most teams are not anywhere near as cohesive as we may like it to be. In my case it rarely ever is unless I am with my own friends.
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> You have to realize that the odds are stacked against you, and the Hog will either be destroyed or become a mere nuisance to the other team. People move very quickly in Halo 4. What you called out may not be helpful well within ten seconds, which is fine, but then it makes the Hog even less appealing.
It is smarter to run before your shields are completely gone. Otherwise you are retreating while shields are down… Easy headshot. Even if your team is not coordinated, you as a driver should know what general direction your team is at. Callouts don’t even need to be very accurate. A single teammate with a long range shot should make a huge diff. The point of this tactic is medals. More medals get earned for your team and less medals go to the enemy. Medals = ordinance.
More for your team and less for your enemies. Not dying and sharing assist is key.
i posted this in another thread, but here ya go
i think its fine, ive done well in pretty much all the vehicles in halo 4. just apply a survivalist mentality with the warthog, like mwah. i’m very conservative and i wont take any unnecessary risks. like on exile, i wont drive through the close straights unless we control that part of the map or i dont see anyone on radar, and on top of that, i still am very cautious because I KNOW THEY HAVE STICKIES AND PLASMA PISTOLS. there is no shame in running away or driving away to fight another day. it may take longer to get your gunner some sprees but he’ll thank you when he didn’t die the entire match, and neither did you. and even if you didnt get a bunch of kills/sprees, you helped your team keep map control and laid down some good cover fire.
and for the power weapon problem, uh…idk you’re on your own on that one. i just stay away from enemies. i always try to maintain a safe distance out of grenade range.
as for the gunner on the hog, play support. that’s what i do, i break shields and focus on crowd control. fire into some hallways to keep enemies at bay for your friendlies. i dont know how many lives i’ve saved just because i was just shooting rounds everywhere near them. it may not kill your enemy, and they know that, but you k ept them from getting a kill simply because you were there. and that’s what’s important.
also another thing that helps is COMMUNICATION because sometimes a gunner can see something a driver can’t. so make sure you are keeping your driver or gunner informed of where enemies are. PLUG IN YOUR MICS
hope this helps someone
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Don’t try to splatter. Ever.
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Use Wheelman at all times.
<mark>3. Don’t try to drive over tall jagged rocks. Go around them.</mark>
- Wait until the Warthog is buffed via patch before even attempting to drive it.