Motion tracker

Template:Ratings Spartans and Elites have a Motion Tracking Sensor built into the HUD of their helmets and armor. The sensor shows individual allies as yellow dots and allied vehicles as larger yellow dots. Enemies are shown as red dots, with Hunters and enemy vehicles represented by larger red dots. Flood Infection Forms are shown as small red dots, the only exception being in the level The Covenant, when they are allies. They are then shown as small yellow dots. The motion tracker shows how close the other characters are in relation to your current position, up to 25 meters. When someone on the other team in multiplayer speaks, their red blip is surrounded by a white glow and it becomes bigger. Nav points will also show up, shown only as a small white triangle at the end of the sensor.

The motion tracker is not a radar, however, and can be countered by crouching, which makes you undetectable on other player's sensors, at least until you shoot while crouching.

Trivia

• In Halo 3 custom games or Forge, the motion sensor can increase its range by 15 meters, 25 meters, 50 meters or even 150 meters with blips becoming increasingly smaller the larger the range gets.
• In the novel Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, the motion tracker sensor is shown to be vulnerable to sea water, when Fred's motion tracker froze due to a crusting of sea salt.
• In Halo 2, if your shields are critical, your motion sensor will flicker on and off.
• Even if the player isn't crouching, if he/she is moving slowly enough, they will be invisible to the Motion Sensor.
• The yellow dot which appears at the center of the Motion Sensor's display is the player themselves. If the player isn't moving, this dot will disappear, but reappear once the player is moving with enough speed to register.
• Vehicles that are moving, but are not currently manned (i.e. If someone jumps out of a Warthog that keeps moving), these vehicles will appear as manned by a friendly.
• In Halo: Reach, the motion sensor will to tell you in what place of the map you are currently in, as seen in the Multiplayer Trailer. The motion sensor will also be 3D. Players below will show up as dark dots and players above will have a shadow below the dot.
• In Prototype from Halo Legends, the HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark I Prototype Exoskeleton was equipped with an 1400m+ sensor (with map mode).
• The rats in Crow's Nest and the fish in the levels [[The

Covenant (Level)|The Covenant]] and Sierra 117, show up as small Infection Form-like yellow blips on your motion sensor.