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Mangley:
Explosions are very different to other games. There's no splash damage and explosions deal damage over time rather than all at once. If you're in or near the fireball you will be damaged. Explosions cause damage in waves, if you linger in an explosion you will be damaged more than if you quickly get away from it. Most explosions don't kill instantaneously unless you are right at the center of it and have no armor, so direct hits from rocket launchers and mines or grenades detonating right in your face will usually kill you very quickly.

Ping is in laymen's terms a measure of how good your connection to the server is and how 'delayed' your actions are on the server as well as how delayed events on the server are recieved by you. The lower your ping, the better your connection to the server is, generally speaking you want to play on servers with less than 100 ping for a good experience. Higher than 160 and the game becomes considerably less playable. It's the same in all internet games.

coolDisguise:

--- Quote from: Mangley on November 11, 2010, 04:03:03 pm ---Use your radar. All the best players spend most of the game watching their radar, with it you can quickly form a strategy, see where your opponents are and where to expect them. Players who are oblivious to their radar will often find themselves running into ambushes or being chased down from behind.

Try to keep moving, new players often forget this and just stand still whilst trying to aim at people, it makes them a sitting duck to headshots from powerful weapons.

Keep these things in mind and you should do alright.

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QFT.
If you have a Phantom and it's about the best weapon in the loadout, you might stay still and shoot, but most of the times you're better of moving and dodging bullets. While your accuracy decreases, your chances of survival increase as well.

About the radar: it's mostly about knowing the map and simple mathematics. So basically while you're moving you're looking for a position where you can be seen by as few players as possible, which maximizes your chances of survival.
E.g.: there's a T-shaped hall (-> like in Caverns) and your standing at the bottom of the T, while you know there's a firefight going on from left and right. Just don't move out in the open, or you'll be fired at by both players. Wait until one is dead or comes to you - then he'll be the one sandwiched between two players.


--- Quote from: TLoV on November 11, 2010, 04:22:26 pm ---I do use the cross hair to aim. I'm not really good at aiming without one.

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Try to use your crosshair less often - it's good for long distance shots or shots with the golden gun, if you really need it because you can only hit a pixel or something. Instead try using the bullet tracers as a guideline (pick up an RCP 90 and you'll know what I mean). Play some rounds of LTK and you'll be improving, at first hitting "at least something" until you're good enough to give headshots with the golden gun while running around.

major:
Ping = Latency, guess I should of said that instead. So on the server browser, look for a low latency.

Or just look at the server name and it sometimes says where the server is ran. Like Chicago, Dallas, UK, and so on.

Emilia:
In terms of ping, it means nothing. I am from Australia and the lack of Australian servers means I have to play on American servers. I get a ping of 300+ when I play and this does not stop me at all.


I have been playing for a while now and as everyone has said before me, GE:S is a very different style of FPS. Just keep playing and you will get there. If I can kick ass with 300 ping, you can do anything ;)

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