WARNING : This is completely self-written guide. All what is stated is not perfectly true, or can be wrong, all based on personal experience. Its only up to you to judge whether to use this or not! All is unlagged-on oriented. All tested on R Unlimited CZ. Please do not start flame wars, if you dont agree, state exactly what you do not agree with, why and give your alternative. I am perfectly fine with correcting this and reconsidering. This is not yet 100% complete.
Also I am sorry for a lot of typos.
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Small but long Guie for the human weapons and tactics. Completely (C) ==Troy==
C/A kit : Are you going to slap a dretch with it? dont even try. As for the rest its quite usefull to produce those small annoyingly obstructive shooting thingies and rest of not so useless stuff.
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RifleShoots fast, accurate and deals quite a lot of the damage. Main drawback for this weapon is its reload time.
Characteristics:Damage per shot: 5
Damage per second: 55.5
Damage in 1 clip: 150
Damage in full load: 1050
Reload time: 2 s
Time to empty 1 clip: 2.7 s
Time to empty full load: 30.9 s
Damage per second vs. reload time: 31.9
Effective distance: close to mid range. Slight spread. Only effective against large aliens on long ranges.
Doe’s: *Use burst fire. 3-5 shots in a burst. Delay between bursts should be from 2 to 4 “miss-out shots”.
*Consider your skill. Reload if you have 1.5 times more bullets than you spend on a dretch on average. (say usually you spend 9 shots per dretch, reload if you have less than 13).
*Consider the stage and evolution points of the opposing team. If you are likely to face a goon or marauder, reload immediately after you finish the fight.
*Consider the amount of clips left. And make sure that you have about 1 clip per every 20 seconds of fallback time. (if it takes 40 seconds to get back to base, start doing this when you are down to 60 rounds in rifle in total).
*Consider the skill level of dretches you are facing (or other alien classes). Hence adjust the med kit utilisation.
Don’ts:*Do not reload if you spent just 2 bullets and are left with 28. Unless you are close to the base, or defending.
*Do NOT Panic. Never do that. It is way better to kill dretch, spending 3 seconds and about 10-15 rounds, rather than waste your whole clip and die.
*Do not engage those alien classes; you know you have no chance to deal with.
Side notes:*If you are going against goon, take a mate with you. Goon Health Points are high (200), so a single clip will not kill it. At least one of you will have to do 50 damage (10 shots) and second one empty the whole clip into it. It is not that hard, but one of you will most likely fall.
*Bursts are important due to your brain adjusting the aim during the pause. You cant do that effectivly while shooting. (loud noise, attention is taken by the bullet splashes).
* Dretches jumping for headshot are easy, just move sideways. On contrary, dretches capable of making headshot from floor, closely following you will require a lot of effort from you to stay alive.
* Adv. Goon will require 3 riflemen to kill. Since they are faster and health points are higher (250).
* Tyrant is very unlikely to be killed by a rifle, due to its huge health capacity (400), agility and slash range. The chances are getting higher if a group of 5-6 riflemen will try to engage a single tyrant.
* Rifle is not the best weapon to engage buildings. If you do so, spend about 2/3 of a clip onto the building, pause for few seconds, if you are not attacked, empty the clip and immediately fallback for reload.
* Before you engage a granger, look out for the dretches. If yes, first eliminate the dretch, and only then continue to pursue the granger. Since they are quite healthy and can empty your clip fast.
Helmet case:* Instead of 96 damage, dretch deals 28 damage per headshot
* The Radar gives you a much better knowledge about surroundings
* A further info about Radar techniques will be given separately.
Additional infoSpreads :
Close Range (256 GameUnits)
Mid Range (704 GU)
Far Range (1344 GU)
Layout that was used for these measurements :
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Pain Saw.
A melee weapon. Can be very effective in a hands of a skilled player.
Characteristics:[/u]
Damage per shot: 15
Damage per second: 200
Damage in 1 clip: N/A
Damage in full load: N/A
Reload time: N/A
Time to empty 1 clip: N/A
Time to empty full load: N/A
Damage per second vs. reload time: N/A
Effective distance: short range.
Doe’s:* It is the best case if you engage an alien from the back.
* Make sure you have some fire support. You can’t do much alone.
* If defending, allow aliens to engage the defences and then try to flank them, moving to their backs.
* If defending, try to block escaping aliens as much as possible, forcing them to stay in the defences range for as long as possible.
* If attacking closely follow your target, but try to dodge attacks
* Cut the angles, this will allow you to shorten the distance between you and the alien.
* You are safer if there are a lot of aliens – it is most likely for them to teambleed each other, rather than kill you.
* Use your med kit as soon as you are hit, there is not much chance for you to survive in any case
* Ride your target. Jump onto it, crouch, and saw it.
* Always sprint when engaging. X key.
Don’ts:* DO NOT engage dretches. Their reach is twice as high as yours. You are an easy target for them.
* Do not mind friendly fire from your team-mates, when you are engaging a target. It is better for you to die tiny bit earlier, but for the alien to receive more damage.
* Do not attack if you do not have a med kit.
* Do not use psaw without helmet and light armour. Do not use psaw with bsuit, it is a waste of money and a great feed for aliens.
* Do not engage marauders, your chances are very low.
* Do not saw an alien from front. Goon or tyrant will kill your earlier than you will be able to kill them.
* Do not use psaw without helmet. Its a waste of money and great feed for aliens. Since you are a very easy target.
Side notes:* Psaw Is the best weapon to engage enemy buildings such as Eggs, or OverMind. It is recommended for you to have a grenade if you are going to try to bring OverMind down.
* If you ride an alien, such as goon, It will not be able to slash or pounce you. They are just born In that way.
* Bsuit drains your stamina faster than helmet + armour combo. Helmet also provides you a much better scope of the objects around you.
* You have got very low chances to engage anyone on an open space. Human with psaw is more like an alien. Try to fight in tight spaces, but make sure the alien will not just block you and finish you off.
* Chaunsuit and psaw pair is very effective. Try to form a line : suit –> TARGET <- you. Make sure that if the target is decided to engage the suit instead of you, saw it constantly. If you are under attack, dodge and try to get a few hits with saw. Let the suit to do the majority of the damage.
* Dretches are your main enemy. Psaw is ineffective against them. It is better to use blaster in such case, If you are good at it.
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Shotgun.[/size]
A universal weapon. Capable of handling with any alien class in ranger from short to close-mid. Main drawback for this weapon is its reload time and random pellet spread.
Characteristics:[/i]
Damage per shot: 56 (8 pellets 7 damage per each)
Damage per second: 56
Damage in 1 clip: 448
Damage in full load: 1792
Reload time: 2 s
Time to empty 1 clip: 7 s
Time to empty full load: 38 s
Damage per second vs. reload time: 44.8
Effective distance: short to close-mid range. At far-mid ranges only effective against large aliens.
Doe’s:* Consider this weapon as a hammer. Aim your shot carefully and press trigger in the time when you feel that you are likely to hit.
* Consider the position of your target and the spread of your shot (a cone going from your shotgun). If it is not likely for you to hit the target with more than 1 pellet, do not waste ammo, unless the target is very low on health.
* In the case of basilisk, wait for it to come closer, and make 2 point-blank shots. This will finish it off, just don’t let it grab you.
* Reload if you are going against anything larger than a goon. It takes 4 shots to kill a goon, and 5 adv. goon. 3 more shots are your “insurance”.
* 1 shot per second allows you to not aim at the target constantly while dodging. Use this advantage.
Don’ts:* Do not shoot dretches who are far away from you.
* Do not spend more than point-blank shots on an egg.
* Do not waste your stamina. Alien has a good chance of escaping from you, don’t increase his chances even more.
* Do not engage healthy tyrant if they are above or equal to your skill level.
* Do not engage skilled marauders, since it is hard to hit a marauder in flight, and they usually do that a lot.
* Do not buy a jetpack if you do not have a need in getting somewhere. It gives a faulty feeling of safety.
Side notes:* Pellets are spread randomly with quiet big angle of cone of spread. Hence be ready for occasions when you aimed perfectly at dretch, but still didn’t kill it.
* If fighting marauders, crouch when they are in flight, it is less likely for them to hit you, and you have a good chance of landing all 8 pellets in its belly.
* If fighting goons, shoot, then pay all your attention to dodging it, you can loose your aim, when next shot comes, aim again.
* Shotty is very similar to psaw, so use tactics which are used by a psaw. I will leave it up to you to decide which ones to use.
* If fighting tyrant, DODGE it, spend all your effort dodging it, your chances are low, and chances of escaping the tyrant are even lower, hence don’t try to run away from it.
Approximate times to kill an alien class with 100% accuracy:* Dretch – 0 s
* Granger – 0 s
* Adv. Granger – 1 s
* Basilisk – 1 s
* Adv. Basilisk – 1 s
* Marauder – 2 s
* Adv. Marauder – 3 s
* Goon – 3 s
* Adv. Goon – 4 s
* Tyrant – 7 s
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Will be continued...
(From my experience : 28 dretches for 6 clips, 78 hp left no mkit, sucsesfull return to base with following 4 blaster kills | 3 Tyrants TKed - psawed in a row, 4th finally got me)
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Okie, a bit more about Rifle : Remember the burst shooting? Another advantage of this technique is that you are able to control the target position and predict its movement. It is easy to kill a dretch, who is heading at you in a straight line, and way harder to kill a strafing dretch on a ceiling, so why waste bullets? If you see that you cant kill that crazy dretch, then dont, just wait for him to change his movement from "dodgin" to "will that noob finally empty the rifle into me? Or I have to do everything by myself??!" Once it start to move in a more coordinated direction, or simply in a straight line, aiming at you, thats the time when you start shooting.
Another good fact to know, is if you are sprinting backwards, it is very hard for the dretch to follow you, they will have to either pursue in a straight line, or give up, which means an easy kill, or safe return to base. If they will decide to follow you, it will be easy to even kill them with blaster.
Now lets go into the "level" of how hard the dretch movement is, starting from easiest :
1) Straight line, heading at you
2) Straight line, heading somewhere else
3) Jumping, heading at you
4) Strafing, heading somewhere else
5) Strafing, heading at you
6) Jumping, heading somewhere else
7) Strafing on ceiling
Strafing on a vertical wall in front of you in a distance.
9) Dancing all around you.
Now, from here you can predict the skill level of the dretch and also plan your actions and choose the place where you will engage him, or wait for him to engage you.
Shotgun : That is the MOST universal weapon ever created for tremulous. Its an aliens slayer at a close to mid range fights. the advantages are numerous : Big clip, Acceptable reload time, Huge damage, Low cost, ease of aim and handling. The only drawback is that the bullets are spread randomly, so even in a close fight it can happen that you will miss a shot. Shotgun deals 56 damage per second, and 56 damage per shot (1 shot per second), it shoots 8 pellets of 7 damage each, so for the dretch you need to get at least 4 of them into it. Your total damage per clip is 448, which means you can kill a tyrant in a single clip if you are lucky, and a goon is just 4-6 shots.
Okie, now getting closer to HOW actually you use it. Have you ever used a hammer in your life? Its very similar, you aim, press trigger and "close" your ears and eyes, because of the loud noise produced. The only problem that if you do this while being engaged by more than one dretch - you are an afternoon meal for aliens. But the aiming have to be similar. you do not have a continuous rain of bullets here, but a single "shoot or loose" situation. So prepare your shot well, and dont try to get that dretch kilometer away. Its very close for psaw, but you have a chance to stand dretchstorm with it.
The bigger aliens are a bit easier, basilisks are simple, 1-2 point-blank shots, and just dont let them grab you from behind. Maradeurs are a bit tougher, you will have to crouch when they jump and shoot their belly. But again, you will waste a plenty of clip here. Goons are the main target for the shotgun. Make sure you have a full clip, and follow the psaw tactics, 4 point-blank shots are enough to kill a goon, and nearly kill adv goon. 4 more shots are your "insurance". Tyrants are harder in this case, you will have to get all 8 shots, point blank, with loosing rare pellet. It will take you 7 seconds to kill a tyrant if you are lucky, if not, more than 10. So you have to consider the skill level of the tyrant you are engaging. If it is a bit higher than "no mouse, half-dead keyboard" then you have no chance.
Psaw Damage per second - 200, 4! times higher than shotgun.
Rifle DPS : 55.5 without reload.
Shotgun DPS : 56 without reload.
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Grenade : now, this is a pocket nuke, which you can carry with you. The damage is 310 and radius is about 2 goon lengths, the damage decreases linialy from the epicentre of the explosion. timer on the grenade is 5 seconds.
You have to use grenades wisely, remember, they do not stick to alien structures, they are quite bouncy and hard to aim, if you are going to nade OM, do not throw nade INTO it, throw it on the floor in front of it, it will make 3-4 bounces and land near the OM. taking the OM health (750) you will be left with 440 HP OM, which is close to an AFK tyrant.
But personally I prefer not to waste grenade on the overmind, unless it is my main target and I know, that I will not survive long enough in alien base to kill it completely without nading. On the other hand, this little nukie can clear about 8-10 acid tubes on the floor, and also can be used as a strategy against tyrants. If you have a lot of credits, buy a nade, rush tyrant with psaw, throw nade in the escape way of the tyrant and try to draw his hp down to 300-250. also try to make so that he will finish you off exaclty on the nade.
Other than that this piece of crap is pretty much useless.
Las Gun : Now, this is a dretch slayer weapon... The advantages are : No Reload!, 45 dps, which is lower than rifle, but higher if rifle&reload. It is perfectly accurate, where you shoot, there you get it. The rate of fire is lower than rifle, which leaves you time to adjust your aim in the time for the next shot to come. and it is also effective against basilisks, maradeurs, goons, adv goons, and not that effective against tyrants. (9 damage per shot)
There are a few "styles" of fire from lasgun:
Md type : Las gun is pretty much Md, with higher rate of fire, lower damage and no zoom. But you can still get a decent aim with it. If you see dretch running far from you, dont waste a lot of shots on it, land 3-4 good aimed shots, and you get 175$ more.
Burst : This style is rarely used by me, but it is still useful in some situations, if you are fighting a dretch in a short-range, then the good idea is not to panic and use burst fire, while adjusting you aim and keeping up with him.
Continuous : Press the trigger, and prey to god that the goon you are fighting with will not kill you earlier than you kill him. Again, if you fight something larger than a dretch, there is NO point in using something else than just continuous fire. Its 45 dps, landed directly where you put it, no need for a ridiculous aiming abilities (large aliens) and 2.3 seconds to kill basilisk, 3.9 maradeur, 4.5 goon, 5.6 adv goon, 9 tyrant. Just keep aim straight onto a target, and doge its attacks. The monotonous "las-las-las-las" sound can actually make them panic, seeing that they constantly loose health at a high rate, and there is no "break" time for them to attack you.
Again, this weapon is perfect tool for killing dretches, because they rely on you reloading your gun, where their main attack starts. you dont have that with lasgun, good aim means that you can stand up to 5 dretches at a time. If you are a good dodger, that is a weapon of choise for you for most of the times.
Personal experience : 96 kills with no reload and no medi station. with >100 shots left when I was killed.
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MD, or Mass driver : This weapon is quite similar to shotgun, with a few advantages and following disadvantages. It is 38 damage per shot per second. 5 or 7 shots clip if with batpack. Advantages : no spread. high damage. zoom ability. Disadvantages : Long reload. Not sufficient clip capacity for larger aliens. Tricky handling.
There are 2 ways of shooting from MD, actually 3, but they are similar.
shotgun : MD is a shotgun. 1 shot per second, having a hammer strength in the shot, the only difference is that now you will have to aim carefully, its just 1 pellet, which will hit where you land it. so make sure your crosshair is on the dretch when you press the trigger. Otherwise it is very-very similar to shotgun.
lasgun : in this mode your target is sufficiently far, so that you are not required to dodge its attack yet, but it is not that insanely far that you can see only a single pixel of it. Just land a careful shot and the dretch is hammered into the dirt.
MD aim/zoom mode : this technique requires a LOT of coordination of your movement and aim. If you are not skilled enough for all other methods, do not try to use it!. If the target is far from you, but you want to save a few shots, you can make a "short zoom", which means that you tap Z just a little, zoom in, make a shot while the MD is zooming out. this allows you to see more "pixels" of the target and do fine tuning in the time the MD is in the zoom process. but again, this is hard to get used to, so try it when its safe to do so.
MD camp mode : Press and hold Z, get to know places where aliens come out, and kill whore as much as you can. dont forget to donate.
MD is mostly effective against dretches. So-so effective against basis and maras. You will have hard time trying to kill goon with it (but it is still possible). And completely ineffective against tyrants.
Pulse rifle : I do not have any tactics for this weapon, mostly due to its uselessness. Its only usage is when you are attacking alien base and do not have enough money for lucyfier cannon. As for the rest its pretty simple to kill a following dretch, but a tiny but skilled goon will easily kill you. Always have batpack when you use it.
Flamer : This is the most useful weapon....... In killing yourself. Man, get rid of this. Its a base killer, TKer and self-frier, with 0 damage dealt to anything bigger than dretch. Pretty impossible to attack or defend with it. Only when you are falling back. Waste on money.
Lucy cannon : Will make a separate post about it. Its a very long story, but this is the legendary weapon you could find.
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==Lucifyer cannon==
Now... This is the most multi-functional weapon you could ever get.
Advantages :
Insanly high damage
Ability to replace a grenade
Ability to replace jetpack
Ability to accelerate yur movement
Ability to deal with any alien class and buildings
Disadvantages :
Base TK in non-skilled hands
Self kill in non-skilled hands
Low capacity without batpack.
There are a few modes for lucy cannon tactics. I will start with simple one:
1) Alt-fire : Fires a single slow-moving shot with 125 radius (3-4 dretch lengths). 37 damage (not sure, will look up later). Linialy decreasing damage from epicentre. 1 shot per second.
This is not really needed to lucy cannon, but if you are in vents, or you are 100% sure that you will hit that dretch without wasting 15 charges, then go for it. It is slow, so you will hvae to predict a lot further into the future unlike with other weapons. But experience is the answer here. You do not need a perfect aim.
2) Charge&shoot : This is the main use for lucy cannon. The beeeeep sounds starts when it is chrged to 2/3 of the max. The damage is calculated by 255*(1-x), where x is the percentage the lucy is chraged. It takes 2.55 seconds to charge it fully. Once it reaches 2.55, it "explodes" into your face, so be carefull. Fully charged shot can kill anything except tyrant. The radius of the explosition varies from 50 to 255, depending on the charge of it. Minimum charge is 30%. "Reload" time before the next charge is 1 second. You can make 9 fully charged shots.
You can kill anything except tyrant. If you hit tyrant with full-charge, he will be down to 150 hp, which means that the next shot will finish him off, and you do not need to charge it fully, just wait for beep, and release it. Operate with lucy in this mode as with shotgun, but bware of 1) selfdamage (you are right in front of goon, you will receive about 25 dmg from FC (fully charged)). 2) the charge is slow, so make predictions, dretches can be annoying if you will try to hit them directly, use splashdamage, its better to waste 10 ammo on FC, rather than 12 on 4 just-charged shots. 3) do not shoot in the direction of your base. The charge is slow, and you have a pretty damn high chance that it wont hit alien on its way to armory (FC will kill armory in 1 shot).
Sometimes its a good idea to shoot charge into the "escaping" path for aliens, rather than trying to predict that goons action. While retreating they can "overtake" the charge, or, if they are unlucky, and for most of the cases they are, they will swallow it.
Use Radar, if you know that there is a tyrant around that corner, pre-charge cannon. Its better to waste a bit of ammo, than give 3 evos to aliens and loose earned 600 cred + helarm.
B-suit are less effective with lucy than helarm + batpack (and even without it). As the lucy requires a lot of coordination and pre-knwoledge about your surroundings. You are also ?faster? and dont loose your stamina that much.
3) Lucy spam : This is a subject of flame wars on the servers, but its a useful tactics as well. this does not mean that you spam the entrance of your base repeatedly, but on contrary, you spam the alien base, trying to kill enemy buildings using splash damage rather than direct hits. Lucy has a huge radius of explosion, and using sound you can determine whether you hit the target or not. Sometimes lucy can also hit "around the corner", for example on atcs.
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>>>>>>>>X<<<<<<< Shoot here (X mark)
<-You
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If you shoot the X mark with full charged shots, you will be able to destroy 90%, if not all, defenses on the wall above the exit without even seeing them. There are a few such places on different maps, so learn and search for those.
4) Lucy jumps : This is a tricky technique, which will drain your health and ammo, but if not much jumps needed, it can replace jetpack and even be faster than in. Due to the splash damage of the lucy charge and its knockback, you can be launched quite far, if you hit the ground under your feet. But usually its uncontrolled and not used to its ax potential.
how to lucy jump properly :
1) Consider your health, lucy will do about 40 damage to helarm.
2) Always use full charged shot, otherwise you will not be launched far enough, but the damage dealt will be still high
3) jump JUST before the charge hits the ground, so you have your jump momentum + lucy kick.
4) you dont nessesary need to aim directly downwards, think of it as a jet engine, if you want to go sideways, you aim a bit further from you (angle up to 60 deg to vertical) in opposite direction to the one you want to go.
This will allow you to pursue goons quite effectively in certain cases. or access areas, where you usually dont have enough time to use your jet to get there. You can also escape tyrant with it, if you have a high ground near by, but do it before the first tyrant slash, otherwise you will not have enough time to 1) charge up 2) receive second slash 3) survive lucy damage. (and it usually ends up on 2nd rather than on 3d).
The heigh of the jump can vary, but usually its enough to get : Onto the top of the bunker on atcs. Onto the mid base from ground on rotcannon, also in that "hide the egg" spot, or the higher ground on rotcannon from mid, then on the glass cannon and even on the yellow rotating thingy. On arachnid you can jump up the pipes from ground. (that is useful isnt it?) And many more, again, look, think and learn.
In the extreme cases you can launch yourself in a low trajectory above the ground, reaching distant places fast, like a goon pounce. But that takes a lot of practise.
Okie, this is all about weapons, a general tips and tricks will follow + few more lucy tricks.
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Okie, this time we will do a bit of talking on general tactics and alien classes.
As human for most of the times it is better to have helarm, and not bsuit, since you have an advantage of a radar, which is essential for offense and overall observability. Get used to keep an eye on it. Its refresh rate is quite slow (2-3 times a second), so make sure you updated the info for yourself in about every 3-4 refreshes if you are moving. If you are searching, or predict the danger, do not miss a single refresh. It is sufficient to whatch 2 refreshes to find movement and hence distinguish whether there are buildings, or aliens. Just experiment with the radar and try to "guess" where the target it. The large blob on the radar is the actal target projected in the volume of the radar. the line, leading from it onto the radar plane will give you both information about how high/low the target is relative to you and how far from you it is. The length of the line from the blob indicates the relative height of the target. and the place where that line hits the radar plane (not the blob itself!!) is the relative position in horizontal plane from you. Knowing the map you can quite accurately tell the position of the target on the radar without seeing it.
For most of the shooting situations, where you have to be accurate : ALWAYS MOVE!. Do not just stand still (unless its an MD camp)! You are not able to judge the distance if you stand still (well you are, but it is much harder to do so). there are 3 mechanisms to calculate the distance for the brain - first is the size of the target. But on such small distances it does not change much, and not very accurate. Second is relative to the constants - buildings, map entities. This one is more accurate, but it requires you to know the map perfectly. And the last one, and the most accurate one is stereo imaging. Try it yourself, place a few different objects on the table, look in the plane with them (from front side, so the table is parallel to your vision), close both eyes and ask friend to place them randomly in the line of your vision (but so that you can see each of them and they do not intercept with each other), then open ONE eye and do NOT move your head! Try to judge then on the placement of the objects. Most probably you wont be able to do that perfectly well. Now open your other eye, you will see the big difference in the image you see. Now repeat that, but do not open your other eye, on contrary, just move your head sideways, and back, you will see that now you can judge the relative position better. Same happens in the game. It is 2D screen, even if you are looking at it with both your eyes, the brain cannot build a 3D image of the world. To adapt to this you will have to move yourself, so that you have 2 images from different positions. Since the enviroment is dynamic you will have to repeat the movement. This allows you to always have a 3D image of the situation in your head, and judge/predict your shots much more accurately.
Again, try to predict how the situation will turn out at the end. Consider your credits, consider their evos, consider your health, positioning, their health, placement, their moves and your reaction to them. If you are a helarmed lucy bitch and see a pro tyrant near the bunker, and having 100 hp, it will be a good idea to lucy jump up, then you have a pretty much damn good chance of hitting him, while he is running up the ladder, since there is no way to strafe. and you can always jump down, if you see him going up the ladder, which gives you time to run back to base. Always consider if it is just better to run to base with 1 hp, not trying to dodge that dretch, or is it better to try to blaster him while dodging, but still retreating. This is not just a blind run and shoot. you have to think, you have to predict and know your capabilities.
All of the information above is given for freelancers. this is not teamwork oriented. Teamwork guide will take twice as much to write about whivh I am not going to do just yet. And trust me, I am not a loner when I fight. I just do not often have a teammate who knows how to teamwork. And that requires a lot of practise and precision + prediction. The overall efficiency of 2 teamworking players can be 3 times as high as efficiency of them 2, fighting alone.
Ok, I think thats it, lets get onto the aliens.
Granger : hey, cutie, get back to base, you have 50 hp, you feed 200$ and you cant even scratch their skin. You are also slow as hell and very loud. If you need to get somewhere and know that there will be humans, press Shift to slowwalk - at least it does not produce sounds. Also use bunnyhops incase of an emergency, I will get back on those pretty soon.
Dretch : now we are talking. This class is universal, it can kill EVERY damn human with any equipment he has. Just have to try quite hard. Its bite range allows you to make a headshot from ground, so do not jump that much, unless you need to gain extreme speeds. Wallwalk! again, Wallwalk!!!! this is your only chance to survive the bullets. The reach is enough for you to HS a bsuit from ceiling in the corridor on atcs, its hard, but it is possible!
Okie, now lets structure this.
Dretch vs rifle :
1) consider your skill
2) his skill
3) his health (you are not crazy to attack him having less than 25 hp are you?)
4) his ammo
5) his style (bursts, contineous fire, dodger, stand-shoot etc)
6) if its bursts its not your lucky day, try to dodge them, drain his ammo, once he is close to reload (always keep in mind his clip size and how many more bullets he has) start moving closer to him, always aim for the head, its 96 damage. Once you made a hs, you just need to hit him second time and the deal is dealt with. dont run madly for the second hit, it takes about 4 seconds for his mkit to regen him to 52 hp (body hit damage). If he is falling back, consider whether it is worth trying to keep up, or is it better to wait. if you made 96 damage its a defenite evo, even if someone else will kill him from 100 hp.
7) contineous is way easier, count it, once it is close to be empty, start the attack, try to kill him while he is reloading, then dodge another clip and continue. similar to 6.
if he has friends. Its very unlikely for them to be able to teamwork properly, so expect them to teambleed each other, which means that 4 damage to finish someone off will be dealt already and a simple single hs is not that big problem. In this case, as in the most, try to keep close to the human and always move around him.
9) if it is S2, always have poison charged. this means that making 1 hs, second later poison will make 4 more damage = 1 kill.
10) if there are bigger aliens around, use wallwalk and change your paths from ground to ceiling. Usually you are to be expected to use walls or ceiling, this confuses humans a bit more. Try to not to jump, it reduces your agility.
11) incase if you need to get somwhere fast, use bunnyhop. this is a common techinque used by aliens, since they dont have stamina. strafe in one direction moving forward (so your final vector movement is still forward), jump, change the strafe to the other side while in flight and press jump just before the landing, keep pressed till you jump again, then repeat. you will accelerate greatly and will accumulate the speed. You are prone to attacks at this moment but you move way faster than usual. so always consider the usage of this.
12) If you are waiting for the humans to come, always consider your placement - it has to be stealthy, but on the other hand easy to jump in and get HS. (HS = headshot). Also expect this place to be known and humans to be able to predict your movement. Again, consider their skill and your chances.
Dretch with helmed rifle :
1) do realise that this is hell harder than before. It is now 4 headshots to kill, so you are unlikely to get him in a single try. But do try to get as much headshots as possible. You dont stand a chance here against a skilled player and the only solution to this is to teamwork with others. you will loose a few lives, but you will get him down and hopefully get enough evos for the goon.
2) always try to keep yourself above him if it is applicable, and look for his target, if its you, dodge it and let others to deal with him, once he switch, attack.
3) reload time is the time when you attack. Just pray to god that you will get at least 2 HSs in this time.
4) If you are waiting, wait near the ceiling on the wall, dretch size lower from the ceiling. Just trust me. If you get this right you will not be visible on the radar.
Dretch with helmed lasgun :
1) RUUUUUN. If you are not forced to attack. try to get 1-2 Hses, and escape. Always escape out of his vision. This is your slayer, you dont stand a chance against a skilled lasgun 1 on 1. either dretchstorm, or bite&hide. 3 hits and you are dead.
2) Good idea to wait for him to attack buildings / bigger aliens and start attacking him till he switches back to you, then you run again.
3) always move, always dodge, always try to make him feel as least comfortable as you can. Its hard to aim above yourself, since you have a "stopper" point, so keep above him.
Dretch with helmed MD :
Skilled MD - you are a toast
Noob MD - he is an easy food.
This is it, you dont have a chance to run away, if it hits, you are dead. So make sure that if you attack you just must do it, if not then try not to.
will be continued...
Dretch with helmed shotgun :
This is quite like MD situation, but here have a high chance of escaping from the fire, in the case when human misses the first shot. It is also easy to confuse the human for long enough to drain his health down to 50%. But beware that shotguns are more teamwork friendly, since the player pays attension to where he shots, and dont just shoot hoping for a few rounds to hit. Again, this is not only dodge-hit skill, you have to be able to see where he is least expected to shoot, or will not feel comfortable aiming. If you feel that you wont stand the next shot, just run into the direction, opposite to the human, this will increase the distance, and hence will drop shotgun efficiency greatly.
Dretch with lucy cannon :
No human will buy lucy to go against dretches. So if you see a lucy running around, it has a bigger targets to engage. Your main reaction on this has to be an immediate attack. It is a good idea to sometimes show the intension of the attack, but then fallback. This will force the human to shoot, since he was charging the shot for you, and now has to get rid of it. You dont stand a good chance to kill him, but you have to drain his health and ammo as much as possible, preventing him from dealing damage to your base. Treat lucy as a shotgun, but this time you have to fear the splashdamage, which cannot miss, if the shot hits near by. It is hard to predict your movement on the wall/ceiling for the human, so if you can and should, use them.
