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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #30 on: February 18, 2008, 04:33:43 pm »
well, the text is here, someone should make it shorter and inculde maybe 1.2 rules, and we would need some demos maybe.
i could do design issues, that's how i could help, or with some minimalist animation.

i guess a youtube video would make the game easy to understand.
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #31 on: February 20, 2008, 01:10:14 pm »
Its really making me pissed of, special in ATCS. Get a gun jump into mouth of nearby tyrs, repeat 10 times. And guess who must kill those tyrs you feed? 2-3 players who TEAM.

If you are human and go out alone, no matter what weapon you have or what aliens you may see, you are dead and aliens surive and got stronger.

If you are human then use best possible armor you can buy and after that buy rifle, shotgun or chaingun. All other weapons are used in special cases.

Lucyfer cannon has 2 uses, get some time to build/repair something or destroy alien structures. None of them is "killing big ones". So if you kill aliens with it, you kill mostly your teammates or stuctures.

If you still dont get previous one, camping with lucy ends killing your teammates.

If you are in team, better die trying then die without trying to kill. That means, you go to back to base only if your team is safe. 

if you are not a builder, no matter what armor or weapon you have, if you stay on turret and see backside of a outrunning tyrant, run and kill it.

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #32 on: February 20, 2008, 06:24:46 pm »
Mets, I agree with some of your points and disagree with others.

Firstly: Yes, you shouldn't jump into a Tyrant's mouth. You should try to weaken and kill them as a team.

Secondly: No, death is not certain if you go out alone. Depending on your playstyle, you could pick off smaller aliens with accurate weapons and rip them to shreds with a chaingun or flamethrower (*shudder*). The same is true for bigger ones, but with reduced chances unless the opposing player's have little skill.

Thirdly: Actually, this is another playstyle thing. Some people prefer to have a warning from the radar than the defence afforded by the Battlesuit, and a light armour + Helmet combination is much cheaper (160c VS 400c). Do not use the rifle if you have enough credits for other weapons, as this is a waste of armour and credits if you die.

Fourthly: Although I agree with the 2 uses, your third point is false. You can actually kill "big ones" if you put enough timing and aim into your shots and unless you're camping, you likely won't have a big chance of killing teammates or destroying structures.

Fithly: Again, killing teammates and structures is only possible if you are aiming at them, they run into the shot or if the alien you were shooting at had moved out of the way of the shot, which incidently heads for your base. Also, you may also do that if your Lucifer Cannon Overcharges or your shot hits an alien and the splash damage spreads to your base and team.

Sixthly: Unless the enemy is already at stage 3, this is a bad idea. To "die trying" adds to their stage counter, giving them a big advantage in the game. This method should only be used if your death saves the lives of your teammates and stops them from adding to the stage counter. Also, you can't go back to base if you have "died trying" but your team is safe there.

Finally: The same as with the sixth point, because if the Tyrant is running away and did not emit a scream of pain, then chances are that when you chase it, it will most certainly attack you or charge back to base faster than you can take it down.

Thats all justmy opinion though, so don't trust everything I just said.

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #33 on: February 21, 2008, 10:24:14 am »
Mets, I agree with some of your points and disagree with others.


You are completely right about it, but you miss one thing, those tips are not for newbies. Let me explain.

If you go alone, you will die and give strength to alien. At beginning, you give evos to make goons, goons make slaughter. At s2, better equipment, more evos, more goons. s3 vs s3, probably you are dead at next corner. Basicly, Dont go alone!!!

Mostly, you know that behind that corner is a tyrant or goon, radar wont help much to kill it. Battlesuit is important, because you can survive 3 hits from it. If you team, thats should give enough time to your teammates to kill that tyrant. Probably you die, but tyr dies too.  Helm and armor give 2 hits. Thats something, but its 33%  protection less then battlesuit.

Again, lucyguy near base is only useful if base needs repairs, it gives time but rarely kills some bigger ones. Newbie cant kill a tyr or even goon with it, exept he has a lucky hit what happens sometimes too. A lucyguy in team can be effective, but often he spams half-charged lucyballs in middle of team damaging everything in it. It means 3 humans and 1 alien. You should release full charged lucy ball when your nose meets tyrs nose and let the teammates do the rest. Newbies cant do that with lucy.

If you camp with lucy, you accidently kill teammates/structures. Take a chaingun, you do more damage to aliens and less to your team.

Well, its really make me mad, when 4 rifleguned unarmed humans run to base to heal and equip, while i must fight with my chaingun and battlesuit a tyrant. just empty your damn rifle and we all safe.

And last option, I tried that strategy today. And it works extrem well. Mostly, if alien shows backside, then he retreats and is more or less damaged. You probably make 100-150 damage to them what can be enough to kill it. If 2 people do the same, its certain death. Either way, its mostly worth to try, even if you die after that.

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #34 on: February 21, 2008, 05:14:26 pm »
Actually, I did know that those tips were for newbies. In your post, you talked first about feeding tyrants and now, you talk about dragoons. Since Tyrants mean that Stage 3 has already been reached, feeding will just usher in the inevitable to either team. I do agree about not going alone though, even if halfway to the enemy's base your team may decide to go back to your base instead.

For your second sentence, as well as the aforementioned caution/warning, looking at this scoring mechanics thread thread reinforces my view, as 160c counts as 1 evo point while 400c is 2 evos. This could mean the difference between an Advanced Dragoon and a Tyrant, which if you have a decent camper team that can aim, is a godsend as the Dragoon could be shot to death if it tried to snipe or pounce the base, whereas the Tyrant could take much more damage before succumbing to your team and base.

I retract my statement for the "lucyguy" in light of the newbie factor, but if the newbie had the sense to read the manual, he might have known to try and predict where the enemy would be  to overcome the "slow moving projectile" problem.

Again, if the newbie were to have read the manual and predicted where the aliens would go, they could deal great damage to them faster with the Lucifer Cannon than the inaccurate Chaingun.

Actually, if you get killed with a ChainSuit combo, you give out 3 evos according to the Scoring mechanics, although I'm not sure if the Tyrant gets less (2 maybe?), it would have been the same as 2 or 3 of your naked team dying, which is worthless.

For the last one, could you clarify for me what strategy you tried? Are you referring to your own
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #35 on: February 22, 2008, 09:51:06 pm »
For recording videos:

To make a demo, in game open your console by hitting the tilde key (`) and then typing /record [name] (For example /record [^ITC]Master) After you have finished recording, do /stoprecord. This will end your demo. To "convert" this into an actual (but crappy) video, you load up the demo using /demo [name] (/demo [^ITC]Master) and then do in the console /video [name].

The output is a badly encoded .avi
To view your badly encoded .avi, download a progrm called VLC media player (free) as Windows Media Player will believe your video to be corrupt.
You an also just do a direct video movie by bypassing the /demo and skipping to /video (You'll get extremely bad frame rates, essentially unplayable)


I'd suggest using something like FRAPs.
However if you are to poor/cheap/not able to, see above.
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Also don't forget to set g_synchronousClients 1 before recording to get a smoother record.
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2008, 06:42:15 am »


Learning how to build makes you a better attacker. If you understand what makes a good base, you can spot the weak points of a bad base and exploit them.



This is also true in reverse, because if you learn how to attack a base, hopefully you realize why you are able to successfully attack it (only 1 turret shooting at time etc.), then when building, you remember what happened when you where attacking and try to prevent it from happening.

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #37 on: February 23, 2008, 11:56:28 am »
i have to say to all noobs that BEFORE you play look up the CONTROLS and also spectate the bext player (on both team) to GET THE HANG of the game... ( it is how i learned to play) and i became a clan leader in a little amount of time (compared to some other players)... so noobs BEFORE YOU PLAY, LEARN HOW TO PLAY!!!!!! and i can't stress this enough also specating/following a good players is THE most (or somewhere the the MOST) efficent way to learn how to play and to be good ( if you a good copycat then you good at that) also doing mistakes is also a good way... but don't do it to often or you will  build a pretty bad reputation on yourself.
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #38 on: February 25, 2008, 02:46:16 pm »
Thanks for everyone who is contributing. I really appreciate the time you're taking for a (mostly) thankless cause. I'm glad to say that I've finally got all my graphics issues sorted out, and am now able to play again, so I should be more active in the community. When I have a little spare time to dedicate to the thread I'll try to summarize what people have been saying, and add it to the main post.

That being said, I'm starting to feel the limits of using the forum for this. It doesn't allow a huge range of formatting, and the length of the post might get to be a problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really love to hear them. Especially if you have anything to say about my content, whether to add, discuss, or amend. By no means is this set in stone, so if you disagree with something I'm saying, please post and tell me why!
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #39 on: February 25, 2008, 05:42:25 pm »
If anyone is willing to help us with the video, PM me or + OPTIMUS + on the forums or find me on MSN (in my sig).
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #40 on: February 27, 2008, 02:16:17 am »
How would you guys feel about TiddlyWiki for this guide? It seems really nice. An example at http://tiddlywiki.com
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #41 on: February 27, 2008, 04:12:23 am »
Go ahead, but the name ruined it.  :-\  :)
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #42 on: February 27, 2008, 04:20:49 am »
@Daenyth: That's a really cool resource, and a darn good idea.

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #43 on: February 29, 2008, 03:13:23 am »
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #44 on: February 29, 2008, 04:23:40 am »
"Improving as a player

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Listen to players who are better than you! I can't stress this enough.

Another point I've thought of is that you can learn from spectating good players. By doing so, you can learn their habits, movement patterns, etc.

Learning how to build makes you a better attacker. If you understand what makes a good base, you can spot the weak points of a bad base and exploit them.

Teamwork is very important in tremulous. Some might even say it's the most important."

ok now this works sometimes but other times your style is completely different and can fuck you up.....  the only time i would change ur strategy was if theres was similar 2 urs otherwise general tips lyk wall walk dont stnad still etc are advisable 2 listen to.....

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #45 on: April 13, 2008, 11:23:38 pm »
I personally recommend a slower FPS, such as Battlefront/Battlefield or a strategy FPS such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, for first training. Reason?  :dretch: :dretch: :dretch: :dretch: :dretch: Dretches on roof. This is killer. It takes forever to learn to twitch snipe, but playing another game first helps. Why? Tremulous is MP almost exclusively. As in, it's hard to train. So learn somewhere else first. I hate the noob who lets a single :dretch: feed into a :tyrant: because he can't aim. I recommend Mass Drivers for accuracy and laser weapons for assault. Shotguns are good against  :dretch: but not against  :dragoon:, :basilisk:, or :marauder: because they have more armor and kill quicker (usually). Wear a helmet.  :helmet: is harder to kill than :human:, but  :battlesuit: can be too expensive. As humans, defend the  :armoury:. I play almost exclusively as humans, and most of my losses are because there is no  :armoury: and a  :dragoon: or  :tyrant::turret: are good, but  :tesla: can be more effective.  :turret: in blocks is just annoying. I've lost upwind of 750 cr because some noob builder puts  :turret: across the entire doorway. Which is a pain. Humans should never be without at least one  :medstat:, but don't neglect the  :reactor: or  :repeater:. Also, alien defenses die when the  :overmind: does, so BE CAREFUL!
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #46 on: April 14, 2008, 12:50:02 pm »
It's hard to count how many things are wrong in that post... You can't train aliens tactics in other games, nor building... use MD if you have trained a lot with it, you can train with it easily in bot servers. Shotguns are very good against dragoons. Turrets are stronger then tesla, and if you place them well, they never lose track of target. And teslas block even more. Also aliens defenses dont 'die', they simply don't work with no OM.

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #47 on: April 14, 2008, 03:04:31 pm »
Some things i did not know when i was a newbie and it took a lot of time for me to know it... (Don't judge me  ;D)


You need to look at what you wanna kill first... For dretch, even if you stand on a human head, you need to look at it to hit him. If you aim for the Head, you will hit the Head. If you aim for the legs, you will hit the legs... Same for the turret, a dretch can hit a ret even if the rets cant hit him, but you need to aim the nearest part of it tough.

I'll add more next time...
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #48 on: April 14, 2008, 07:53:56 pm »
It's hard to count how many things are wrong in that post... You can't train aliens tactics in other games, nor building... use MD if you have trained a lot with it, you can train with it easily in bot servers. Shotguns are very good against dragoons. Turrets are stronger then tesla, and if you place them well, they never lose track of target. And teslas block even more. Also aliens defenses dont 'die', they simply don't work with no OM.

True, true. Alien tactics are hard to learn, so learn human tactics and observe aliens.
What is MD? And most bots are retarded, so it's not hard.
Shotguns work against dragoons, but they just chomp your head anyways.
Tesla actually does more damage if it's attack zone covers all approaches and is behind sufficient cover, not to mention that turrets have to turn, which has let many dretches/lisks past.
Also, I was wrong about the alien defenses. I was thinking of only barricades, since the rest depend on high stages or idiot humans.
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #49 on: April 14, 2008, 08:25:22 pm »
Next tips is one i learned really late...

As human, you can run (Boost) by pressing the button you have assigned it too. Dont remember wich one was by deafault. It use stamina and you can run faster than usual. But the thing i didn't know ; You can run (boost) even if you are going Backward... Pretty usefull and i lacked that when i was noob...

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #50 on: April 15, 2008, 12:33:37 am »
i have some other tips for some newbies to learn a bit fatser/better.

- try to get yourself a good friend and which is willing to train with you

- Getting yourself in a clan probly doesn't mean much to some people but it helps getting friends and there will show you how to do stuff and how to build, so on

-before you do anything on trem try doing some practise at killing bases and an empty server

-also build a base and kill it by yourself on an empty server, it might be boring but i have to say it trains you to build and make your building better and it also makes you a better attacker because you are attacking your own base which then you can see what are the weak and strong points in a base knowing that you can be able to make your building betterand doing so, it is making things much much easier to play on any server.

-when a player has some really good kills or is a very good build don't miss the occasion and spectate him, it might be slighty boring but it is very helpful.

PS: if you want you can even record it by typing /record in  the consol and /stoprecord. to stop it i am not sure about the /stoprecord but i think it is that. also keep in mind that everything comes at a price in this case being a good  player, comes at boringness of training. it might not be clear that sentnce but you will understand it when you get better
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #51 on: April 15, 2008, 02:38:35 am »
As human, you can run (Boost) by pressing the button you have assigned it too. Dont remember wich one was by deafault. It use stamina and you can run faster than usual. But the thing i didn't know ; You can run (boost) even if you are going Backward... Pretty usefull and i lacked that when i was noob...



I'll have to implement that. Thanks for the advice.
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #52 on: April 15, 2008, 03:06:17 pm »
Yeah it's helpfull and nobody ever told me, i only learned it because when i was humans, dretch was getting me if i was going backward to shoot at them, but as a dretch, the human i was following was much faster than i was as human (Backward run/Boost).

Usefull tips for everyone  ;D

One more :

To kill Aliens (Like a Dragoon), you must run around them in circle unpredicably, dont run on a straight line foward, it's pretty useless if you are agaisnt average players.
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #53 on: April 15, 2008, 07:55:17 pm »
To kill Aliens (Like a Dragoon), you must run around them in circle unpredicably, dont run on a straight line foward, it's pretty useless if you are agaisnt average players.

Actually, try not to be able to circle them. The aliens can hit extremely well in melee. I played as aliens for a while yesterday, and most of my kills *WERE NOT* direct hits. While this helps when you can maneuver, it is not a cure all. Stay back a good distance and hit hard a quick. S3 humans use lucis, but S2 aliens can survive/dodge. If you really need to defend a base/kill an alien, luci overloads can kill S1/weak S2 aliens.
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #54 on: April 15, 2008, 08:56:48 pm »
Of course Luci spam can kill everything, but its easily avoidable.

Move unpredicaply, and it'll be hard for other to kill ya
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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #55 on: April 17, 2008, 11:39:12 am »
Boost is bound to the X key by default. A useful trick is to also bind it onto s in addition to moving, so that whenever you go backwards you sprint. It's a lifesaver. Also have medkit bound somewhere you can reach FAST. Mouse is ideal for this. My bind setup is pretty highly customized, but I like mwheeldown for medkit, mwheelup for grenade, and mbutton for blaster. I'll post my entire set of binds too. I use the keypad to buy/evolve, and arrow keys to buy some common setups (eg, helm, shotgun; prifle, battpack, gren, helmet; bsuit + chain; naked with rifle)

To use these binds, put them in ~/.tremulous/base

autoexec.cfg
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exec name_daenyth.cfg // Set my main name
exec commbinds.cfg // Various chat binds
exec menu_binds.cfg // Set things up for me to use [, ], and enter for menus (such as building), where others might use mwheel
exec menu_names.cfg // Use those menu binds for selecting a name

bind home "team humans;exec humanbinds.cfg"
bind end "team aliens;exec alienbinds.cfg"

cg_hudfiles ui/phreak.cfg //use phreak's HUD. remove this line if you want default.

menu_binds.cfg
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set menu_left echo Left
set menu_right echo Right
set menu_select echo Selected

bind [ vstr menu_left
bind ] vstr menu_right
bind enter vstr menu_select
// use [, ], and enter to navigate menus. Some people like to use mwheel for this, but I have that set to other things.
// Examples would be for builder scripts, etc.

menu_names.cfg
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set name0 "set menu_left vstr name3 ; set menu_select exec name_daenyth.cfg ; set menu_right vstr name1 ; echo ^1Change name ^7to ^1[^2Daenyth^1]"
set name1 "set menu_left vstr name0 ; set menu_select exec name_blackmamba.cfg ; set menu_right vstr name2 ; echo ^1Change name ^7to ^1[^2BlackMamba^1]"
set name2 "set menu_left vstr name1 ; set menu_select exec name_todesengel.cfg ; set menu_right vstr name3 ; echo ^1Change name ^7to ^1[^2TodesEngel^1]"
set name3 "set menu_left vstr name2 ; set menu_select exec name_wdaenyth.cfg ; set menu_right vstr name0 ; echo ^1Change name ^7to ^1[^2[W]Daenyth^1]"
vstr name0

name_daenyth.cfg
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name ^5NT^4|^5D^7aenyth

The other name_*.cfg are similar

alienbinds.cfg
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bind KP_INS "class level0"            //numpad 0 | dretch
bind KP_DEL "class builderupg;class builderupg;class builder"           //numpad . | granger
bind KP_END "class level1"            //numpad 1 | basi
bind KP_DOWNARROW "class level1upg"          //numpad 2 | adv basi
bind KP_PGDN "class level1upg;class level1"      //numpad 3 | best basi available
bind KP_LEFTARROW "class level2"          //numpad 4 | mara
bind KP_5 "class level2upg"            //numpad 5 | adv mara
bind KP_RIGHTARROW "class level2upg;class level2"    //numpad 6 | best mara
bind KP_HOME "class level3"            //numpad 7 | goon
bind KP_UPARROW "class level3upg"          //numpad 8 | adv goon
bind KP_PGUP "class level4"            //numpad 9 | rant

bind KP_PLUS "class level3upg;class level3"    //numpad + | best goon
bind KP_ENTER "class level4"            //numpad = | rant

bind KP_SLASH ""
bind * "class level4;class level3upg;class level3;class level2;class level1;class level0" //evo to most expensive class. prefers goon over adv mara, mara over adv basi.
bind KP_MINUS ""

sensitivity 35
bind mouse2 "+button5"
bind mouse3 "+button2"

echo "^1Alien hacks enabled!"

humanbinds.cfg
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set fixz "bind z +zoom"
set fixreload "bind mouse2 reload"
set fixalt "bind mouse2 +button5;vstr fixz"

set classrifle "class rifle;vstr fixreload"
set classckit "class ackit;class ckit;vstr fixalt"

set buyrifle "sell weapons;sell battpack;buy rifle;vstr fixreload"
set buyckit "sell weapons;buy ackit;buy ckit;vstr fixalt"
set buypsaw "sell weapons;sell battpack;buy psaw"
set buyshotgun "sell weapons;sell battpack;buy shotgun;vstr fixreload"
set buylasgun "sell weapons;buy lgun"
set buymdriver "sell weapons;buy mdriver;exec mdriver.cfg"
set buychaingun "sell weapons;sell battpack;buy chaingun"
set buyprifle "sell weapons;buy prifle;vstr fixreload"
set buyflamer "sell weapons;sell battpack;buy flamer"
set buyluci "sell weapons;buy lcannon;vstr fixalt"

set buygren "buy gren"
set buyarmor "sell bsuit;buy helmet;buy larmour"
set buybsuit "sell upgrades;buy bsuit"
set buyjetpack "sell battpack; buy jetpack"
set buybattpack "sell jetpack; buy battpack"

bind KP_INS "vstr classckit;wait;vstr buyckit" //spawn ckit or buy ckit
bind KP_DEL "buy gren"

bind KP_END "vstr classrifle;wait;vstr buyrifle" //spawn rifle or buy rifle
bind KP_DOWNARROW "vstr buypsaw"
bind KP_PGDN "vstr buyshotgun"
bind KP_LEFTARROW "vstr buylasgun"
bind KP_5 "vstr buymdriver"
bind KP_RIGHTARROW "vstr buychaingun"
bind KP_HOME "vstr buyprifle"
bind KP_UPARROW "vstr buyflamer"
bind KP_PGUP "vstr buyluci"

bind KP_MINUS "sell gren;sell upgrades"
bind KP_PLUS "vstr buyarmor"
bind KP_ENTER "vstr buybsuit"

bind KP_SLASH "vstr buyjetpack"
bind * "vstr buybattpack"


bind leftarrow "sell upgrades;sell weapons;vstr buyarmor;vstr fixreload;buy shotgun;buy rifle"
bind downarrow "sell upgrades;sell weapons;vstr buyrifle"
bind rightarrow "sell upgrades;sell weapons;buy bsuit;buy helmet;buy larmour;buy chaingun"
bind uparrow "sell upgrades;sell weapons;vstr buyarmor;vstr fixz;buy lcannon;exec altreload.cfg;buy prifle;buy battpack;buy gren"
// these ones are my preferred configurations
// season to taste.

sensitivity 27

bind mouse3 "itemtoggle blaster"
bind MWHEELUP "sell gren;itemact gren;buy gren"
bind MWHEELDOWN "itemact medkit"
bind v "itemtoggle jetpack"

echo "^4Human hacks enabled!"

mdriver.cfg
Code: [Select]
bind mouse2 reload
bind z "+zoom;+button5"
//This lets me use right click to reload
//And use z for zoom
//Even on newer servers which make right click = zoom

altreload.cfg
Code: [Select]
bind mouse2 "+button5;reload"
« Last Edit: April 17, 2008, 11:42:20 am by daenyth »
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ChaosSquirrel

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #56 on: April 18, 2008, 07:57:25 pm »
I've been using boost recently, and a quick tip. Don't waste all your stamina jumping. You can survive a dretch headshot if you run and gun. I did once. When your HP hits 4, run and gun. Slap on a medkit or hide. Don't just stand there and say "I'm dead."

On another note: Don't call people noobs. That is both offensive and uncalled for.
My in-game name is )CGC( ChaosSquirrel.
Hint: The Basilisk is the most powerful Alien.
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MDRIVER

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #57 on: May 18, 2008, 06:41:52 am »
NOOOBNNOOOBBNOOOOBBNOOBB!!!!
ok i'm done  ;D
other tips, for dodging, it is helpful using the mouse to control the direction, like if you move left and you tilt your mouse left, you can cover more ground this way, especially running in circles, you must balance your movements, of kiling,
specific notices, try to move out of range from the goon/ any alien, you are more likely to survive a pounce than trying to dodge, when i fight people like apple.zubs, he continuly moves out of my range and at the same time shoots, just inheriting a single digit percentage of that will improve your dodging skills by percents.
WHen you are low on health and dretches are chasing you, use your energy and sprint away, when your clip is reloaded, look back and blast, away, or jsut simply run like a horse.
Another, use crouches, they reduce the damage that one usually recieves Especially in the beginning, always crouch, shoot, move when they miss, crouch again, and by that time the enemy should be ded. especially in matches with goons, goons can headbite you but with crouching, they have to spend twice that time to kill you as a croucher, so do yourself a favor and crouch.
Aliens, use the walls, always use the walls if youcan, and use zigzag movements, this will reduce your chances of being hit. Even when you fight helmeted people, always the highest damage is to the head, practice moving around rooms avoiding the floors.
When you use goon, i find it helpful to use the double pounce, meaning once you pounce, you can press jump and the momentum from the first pounce will continue, extremely useful for taking down lines of people.
Tyrant, i find that most people are incapable of hitting tyrants despite their size, practice moving in and out when attack and moving to the left and right, you will be surprised even more experienced people will miss you.
ok well i gtg, but I am glad i could contribute on a case that is completley unneccessary

Revan

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #58 on: May 19, 2008, 04:03:39 pm »
Shotguns are good against  :dretch: but not against  :dragoon:, :basilisk:, or :marauder: because they have more armor and kill quicker (usually).

If you are any good at dodging a lisk will die by your shot gun, and if you are not good at dodging it doesn't really matter what weapon you have

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ChaosSquirrel

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Re: Tips for newbies
« Reply #59 on: May 19, 2008, 06:02:25 pm »
Shotguns are good against  :dretch: but not against  :dragoon:, :basilisk:, or :marauder: because they have more armor and kill quicker (usually).

If you are any good at dodging a lisk will die by your shot gun, and if you are not good at dodging it doesn't really matter what weapon you have


I've improved quite a bit, and would like to change that statement. Only mara's are good against shotguns, because they're relatively small, fast, and tough.

One exception to the Human's Range Advantage Rule, the luci. It's actually easier to just wait for the hummie to waste his ammo and then headbite.
My in-game name is )CGC( ChaosSquirrel.
Hint: The Basilisk is the most powerful Alien.
Yay! Finally someone agrees! Or was that sarcasm...