Halo 4 Armor Abilities, Tactical Packages and Support Upgrades

This guide contains all the armor abilities and packages for your Spartan in Halo 4 multiplayer to help you withstand any type of situation


Halo 4 gives you a lot of options to customize your load-out. You can choose your favorite weapon, select from different available Halo 4 armor abilities, tactical packages and upgrades to create a unique load out for multiplayer that synchronizes with your game-style.

Using these different options, you can tweak your load out to fight in any situation, any game mode in competitive multiplayer of Halo 4. Let’s take a look at these options and see what can they do for you during the battle.

Halo 4 Armor Abilities

The Thruster pack
The thurster pack will render player with acceleration boost through which they can charge towards the target quickly than the normal. It’s just like the sprint ability we have in most games.

Hardlight Shield
It’s a forerunner design which uses a shield of photons rather than a physical material to reduce the bullet and other explosive damage. I will call it the “lightened armor.”

Promethean Vision
This vision enhancement will let players to detect different shapes and movement through the solid barriers. It is similar to the x-ray vision that enables you to see through walls.

Hologram
A perfect tool to flank the enemies. You can create a dummy that will look like a human player, and as the enemies engage it, you can flank them and take them out by surprise.

Tactical Package

Halo 4’s multiplayer has been diversified, to some extent, in an effort to provide a better experience. Tactical decisions and strategies in multiplayer can prove to be the difference between the two sides.

“Tactical Package” is actually the equipment players can use to get some unique abilities rendered to the players through some armor upgrade.

Shield Tactical Package
Shield Tactical Package will improve the shield regenerating capacity of the players using it. It can come in quite handy, especially in the situations when you are being outran by the enemies.

Firepower Package
Overriding the limit, the package will let players carry two primary weapons at a time. It will allow you to be more aggressive and damaging.

Mobility Package
Providing you with unlimited energy for sprinting, it allows you to get more reliable rush tactics and escape opportunities, when needed.

Grenadier Package
The provision of this package is simple and straight. It provides you with one extra grenade every time you spawn of whatever type of grenade you have selected in your Loadout.

Resupply Package
Simple and sound, this package allows you to retrieve Grenades from the dead bodies – if they had any. You will be able to retrieve one grenade of each type, depending on how many types of grenades were they carrying.

AA Efficiency Package
AA Efficiency is one of the better packages as it provides a buff to the Armor abilities. The Armor abilities recharge twice as fast as normal.

Requisition Package
Unlocked by completing The Tracker’s Specialization, Requisition Tactical Package allows you to re-roll ordnance drops and get new choices

Support Upgrades

Support upgrades act as augments that enhance the basic functionality of the armor in different ways. The upgrades are:

Ammo Upgrade
It overrides the ammo limit and allows players to carry some extra firepower than allotted by default. So, with more bullets, you can be more aggressive specially in close quarter combat.

Dexterity Upgrade
Weapons after Dexterity are quicker that the rest in terms of reloading time as it doubles the reloading speed and hence gives a very unique fast combat allowance.

It also enables quick swapping between weapons so that changing them doesn’t stay a hurdle anymore.

Sensor Upgrade
The range and sensitivity of the default sensor is increased which can be useful in stealthy infiltrations.

Awareness Upgrade
Through Awareness upgrade, the motion sensor attribute is provided to all the scoped weapons. Snipers can get a lot of benefit from it by spotting enemies in a more effective manner.

Explosives Upgrade
Providing an altered Grenade performance by increasing blast radius and damage, explosives upgrade is a good great package to make sure you don’t lose much health from grenades too. Yes! It also decreases the Grenades damage you receive.

Ordnance Priority Upgrade
It is a good upgrade but only if you are playing in modes with Ordnance Drops as this upgrade makes it easier for you to get them. It decreases score threshold for Ordnance Drops.

You may even pair it with Requisition Package to get an ultimate Ordnance benefit.

Stability Upgrade
Who can say a No to stable aiming? This stability upgrade provides stable aiming while being struck by incoming fire.

So even if your enemy is firing right in your face, you are still able to aim without getting any unstable factor and you can then aim right at your enemy perfectly fine. Precision weapons are great to check the advantage of this upgrade.

Stealth Upgrade
As clear by the name, this upgrade provides you with quieter footsteps and quicker assassinations. It also even blocks Promethean Vision.

Since the foes with Promethean Vision are really annoying, you can easily counter those Promethean vision folks out there.

Gunner Upgrade
Unlocked by completing the Pathfinder Specializations, this Gunner upgrades gives you an increased movement speed with detached turrets and less overheating.

Nemesis Upgrade
It is unlocked by completing The Stalker Specialization, this ability works well if you are continuously being knocked down by the same enemy. It allows to you track down and get a drop on the enemy who last killed you and hence ending the trouble right from the root for you.

Drop Recon Upgrade
Unlocked by completing the Engineering Specialization, this upgrade provides you with the time and place of Ordnance Drops even to the time they occur

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