Which method is best to get better?

[Juno]

pretty self explanatory really

[Moofed]

Both, plus spectating good players on good servers.   :wink:

[Thorn]

WAIT there are hard servers? u mean players with pros ? WHERE?

[Norfenstein]

If you only play with people that don't know what they're doing (or worse, think they know what they're doing because they have experience, but only with other newbs) you'll learn bad tactics that you'll just have to unlearn later. You can still practice basic things like aiming and dodging, but even then you'll get better faster playing with good players. So if your goal is to just get better there's really no reason not to play on "hard" servers.

Note, however, that jumping into a 50 player game might be pretty hard but it's definitely not the way to start out. Find small games with people who have been playing for a long time (or just look for someone like that and join the game they're in if the player load isn't huge).

[Lava Croft]

WAIT there are hard servers? u mean players with pros ? WHERE?

You would not recognize a so-called pro if it was sitting on your lap, licking your cheecks.

[stahlsau]

Note, however, that jumping into a 50 player game might be pretty hard but it's definitely not the way to start out. Find small games with people who have been playing for a long time (or just look for someone like that and join the game they're in if the player load isn't huge).

Fully ACK. Servers with about 50 players are worth nothing...they're only good for a fragfeast when you're really drunk. I've never seen a really good game on those big servers. The good games with good players i've seen or i've got  the joy to take part at have taken place on small servers with about 12-20 players. That's where one can learn something, and where one can earn skills. And it is EARN skills, since it's hard work sometimes

[Glunnator]

WAIT there are hard servers? u mean players with pros ? WHERE?

You would not recognize a so-called pro if it was sitting on your lap, licking your cheecks.

Lava, can it! If anyone would be doing that, he'd either be a dog or a complete wacko-asswipe like yourself. No offence

[dafunk]

damn oober servers if only the top 100 trem players could be forced To Auto team assign and be denied their right to choose ..sigh .. that'll never happen

annoying when one of them l33ter's Drill you in the head with the Goon Ownage OVer and OVer and OVer again EVery game choosing aliens to go goon and Cause havoc in the early humies base in which mosttimes just ends up giving mr.L33t more kills to put him higher on that goddamn top 100 meanwhile making the game Shat and little to no fun for experienced noobs like me.

im down with the noob servers. and the aspect of Fun in a game hell iv had painsaw/Dretch Jousts in noob servers just to let a newer player Fermilliarise them selvs with the kinda damage dretches can do,

Find my self not too often but when it happens its fun . in a server 4 on 4 newer players insted of just playing MR. Ownage and going battle suit or goon/tyrant and Laying waste to them in under 8 miniutes just going builder and maintaining the base while the newer players duke it out on a level playing feild with out some l33t nut bag runining their fun/experience

but eh im a noob i suppose

[Rippy]

I'd say you should play on newbie servers at first until you know the basics of the game (what each class/weapon is like, the maps, base moving, etc). Then move to servers that don't have support too many players and that are frequented by good players (such as the Killaz server). That way you see good bases, base moves, strategies, and generally good players at work. And then to practice or try out what you learn, go back to the newbie servers.

[PIE]

WAIT there are hard servers? u mean players with pros ? WHERE?

Pro = professional... how the hell is someone a professional tremulous player?... seriously.. sign me up.. sounds nice..

The best way to get good at tremulous is to play tremulous...

[tjw]

WAIT there are hard servers? u mean players with pros ? WHERE?

Pro = professional... how the hell is someone a professional tremulous player?... seriously.. sign me up.. sounds nice..

The best way to get good at tremulous is to play tremulous...

I think "professional tremulous player" is just a polite way of saying "unemployed".

[[db@]Megabite]

Professional basically means you earn money for something... hell, why did nobody pay me for playing trem, yet?

Danny