Little things that people need to make habits of...

(puubert) #1

  1. When someone steals your uniform, tell your team!!! When I die and I see a covert in the area, I say enemy in disguise. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

  2. Crouch when healing/constructing/planting. The number of engineers who bend over at the waist to plant landmines and the number of medics who run around reviving grains of sand and snowflakes before they finally get you is insane. It makes you more accurate, and you’re a smaller target. I know all the good medics and engineers do it, everyone should.

  3. Use the vsays and teamsays. Most servers I play on people will listen to the vsays, but since teamsays don’t make any noise people pay less attention. Working as a team requires communication, so use it damnit.

  4. READ the little chat thingy. Not in the middle of a firefight granted, but scan it regularly. It’s not like you have anything better to do when running to the objective.

  5. Disinformation. Not so much a little thing people need to make a habit of, but something that I’ve never seen used outside the one time I used it.

On Battery, a Covert and I, I was Engy, were at the back door, I told him to hide and on global told every Ally to get on the beach, but told him on teamsay to hide at the back door. Predictably (or luckily) an Axis came running out the back door 20 seconds later. He managed to kill the Covert so the plan didn’t work perfectly, but it worked.

Do people think that disinformation is worth using? You could lie about sending troops to point X while the entire team storms point Y. Several enemies are bound to run off and defend against the phantoms. That gives you a tasty advantage. Disinformation was a real and influential part of WW2, and the global and team say allow you to do it. What do people think?

(Eyes of Texas) #2

You want misinformation? I saw a documentary on the History Channel about this.

“The Man Who Never Was”

(sniser) #3

Well, if you really only use plain global chat - go for it. This just means people will get more aware of the difference -> less saying “I’m at the dump” in global chat per accident. Those who fall for it deserve it… except when they’re noobs of course - but for me a little confusion often adds to the excitement of a new game, so hey why not.

But don’t EVER use colored text. I’ve seen this used a lot on rtcw mp test when playing that again lately - it basically means you have concentrate more on wether there’s a location identifier next to the message, because every 1 out of 30 is fake? That’s like people having to install spam filters because some fucks abuse the email system. No thanks.

Plus, isn’t it much more challenging to try and use sneaking and teamchat to stage a fake attack with soldiers and field ops, while the cov ops sneaks the engi and medics through? Something like that anyway… using chat to decept is boring and nearly as lame your the comparison to ww2 :smiley:

(M.I.L.F.Hunter) #4

cov ops:

1-spot some ****ing mines instead of running all over the map playing grab the uniform.

2-smoke nades make great cover for engineers, try using them some time.

Engineers:

1-rifle nades+narrow hallways+team mates = bad plan. Try supporting your team mate who is taking fire with bullets first.

Soldiers/panzer and flame thrower users:

1-refer to the above mentioned suggestion.

General suggestions:

1-The compass is your friend. Not sure about that guy your crosshair is on?

Look at the compass.
See another colored mark moving around next to you?
No?
Shoot him.
Yes?
Don’t shoot him.

2-The dash key is quite helpful, especially immediately after respawn.

It never fails to amaze me how many people won’t dash out of spawn. Even when the other team has planted dynamite while our entire team was in limbo. Nope, people just jog out at a casual pace for some reason…

(Cyber-Knight) #5

yes, god! freaking move the second you spawn. I dunno why it takes ppl 3 seconds to react after they spawn. by then, they’re whining about spawn killers about an incoming airstrike. Maybe they should focus on getting the hell outta the spawn with your spawn shield instead of whine about spawn killers.

(Kendle) #6

All good suggestions, with just one exception:-

Medics don’t need to crouch to revive (unlike they did in RTCW) so learn to revive on the run. Sprint in, look down at your patient as you pass over him/her, revive, sprint away. No need to stop let alone crouch. You’ll only make more of a target of yourself if you do.

(puubert) #7

I’d say that’s a pretty advanced tactic, though a good one. Some medics I’ve seen struggle to nail you when they stand still over you let alone hit you when running. At least if they crouch they can accurately jab you and if they die, one of us is still fighting. I think it’s most important to gurantee your needle goes in first time.

(Bongoboy) #8

Very interesting discussion, Sirs. Nice initiatin’, puub! : )

I can’t say enough good things about crouching, especially when there are narrow corridors/streets and corners. You hear approaching enemies before you see them. Ergo, unless you’re in a tearing hurry, crouch and shuffle in a silent way. I’m rarely in a position to refuse a knife kill, and will take all I can get. Most of 'em come this way.

And yes, the Compass is a lot more use than most players realise. It often helps to zoom it out a little (Default <). It so purdy.

Misdirection can be a very fine thing, although I’d feel a bit guilty using it against n00bs.

It’s become something of a tradition when playing Allies on Battery to head to the rear entrance and loudly announce “Pizza Delivery! You’re going to need to sign for this…” I’m not sure that counts though.

:moo:

(Wraith2k3) #9

Only problem with this is that it sometimes doesn’t work, especially is the ground is uneven. I always crouch if I absolutely need to revive that person in one shot, but I have crouch on mouse2 (mainly for throwing in random crouches while strafedodging, which I find difficult to do with the keyboard) so it only takes me a fraction of a second more to do so.

(puubert) #10

Thanks Bongo. I spose if you kept trying “Pizza Delivery” you’d sucker someone eventually. Be nice if you had pizza boxes in your inventory.

I also crouch a lot when I’m moving around, particulary when approaching corners. A habit I got into from RTCW single player.

  1. When you stop moving CROUCH. Do you wanna be shot?

I have crouch on left Ctrl and jump on left Shift so it’s a matter of dropping the pinky straight down cause I use WSAD, well WSQE. I try and keep everything in reach of both hands without moving them aruond the keyboard. One reason why I still mousewheel scroll, I don’t wanna be looking at the keyboard when I need to be looking at the screen.

(senator) #11

  • be aggressive: you don’t win by defending your spawn, you don’t clear a room by lobbing in grenades every now and than and if you see a teammate rushing into the room to do his duty: don’t wait outside to see whether he’ll drop all three enemies on his own!

  • don’t just blindly select your favorite class, look at the available classes of your team first. Having a CovOps on Battery is good to grab the uniform of an unlucky axis who was blown down to the beach… having 5 CovOps (sniper only, I might add) in a 8 player team on the other hand sucks big time.

  • if you are a FieldOps there is no better moment to supply your team than shortly after spawn, run forward and drop ammo so that your teammates can pick them up. Staying at the spawnpoint for the entire game just to drop ammo on the other hand only means that your team has one gun less to fight the enemy

  • don’t stop in a narrow hallway… ever! The only exception is to fight an enemy who’s blocking the way.

(Agrado) #12

Are you sure? I’m pretty sure crouching makes it harder to revive someone. I suspect the game thinks you are trying to revive under the hitbox or something.

(Demo) #13

One really usefull thing is leaning around corners. See some enemies running against you, youre invisible to them, when they are near, rush out with your aim at perfect hight.

Been accused for wall hack a couple of times doing this.

Oh, one more thing, LISTEN!!! USE YOUR SPEAKERS FFS!!!

(DG) #14

misinformation? prefix a global message with ^5 and tell other team to defend in the wrong place. :wink:

Crouching is smaller target but its also a stationary or very slow moving one, use sensibly. quickly tapping duck during 1v1 is surprisingly effective - only against those aiming for head. going prone is even smaller target (unless theyre significantly higher up than you) but even slower to move away from.

Make occasional but regular use the walk button, combined with good headphones (at a decent volume) and you too can be accused of wallhacking by those both deaf and newbie. Crouching also moves you quietly, but doesnt open doors quietly. Using mousewheel to scroll weapons is a good way to announce your presence to anyone around the next corner, whilst also telling them there’s a good chance you dont have a good weapon out.

leaning is the other way to get accused of wallhacking by those who are newbie. Telling anyone accusing you of wallhacking to press Q or E at corners usually results in sudden comical silence. Holding the use/activate button while pressing left or right is other way to lean, if you prefer.

You can cancel the panzer shot by leaning. p.s. if there is to be another patch can you make alt fire cancel it also, since its really hard to get out of the habit of dropping weapon to cancel :frowning:

timing, for everything.

(puubert) #15

Are you sure? I’m pretty sure crouching makes it harder to revive someone. I suspect the game thinks you are trying to revive under the hitbox or something.[/quote]

Well I never play Medic so I can’t comment, but I’ve seen Medics do it so I assume as long as you aren’t looking straight down and you have the “stab me” icon it should be a-ok.

(Rippin Kitten) #16

This is another simple little thing that everyone should do: press and hold forward before you spawn. You hit the ground running and cover much more ground with your spawn shield. If its at the start of the round or you expect the spawn area to be crowded, try adding a strafe direction into the mix. As allies on goldrush at the start of the round, you can easily get the jump on the axis (and the rest of your team) by pressing forward and strafe left.

My only other general suggestion is that if you are a medic, don’t lead a charge. Sure, you have more health than other classes. But if you go down your team has no way to replenish health or revive fallen players. Go in behind the field ops and the engies, so you can poke them after they take the brunt of enemy fire and keep the attack going.

RK

(amazinglarry) #17

Damn you! I wanted to say that! :bored:

That’s always fun.

I agree with Senator too, be aggressive… you will NOT win by defending your spawn (esp. if you’re the attacking team). Stop being such pussies and GO GO GO!

That’s my main pet peeve… players who are overly cautious… like they’re going to die in real life if they’re killed in game. All it ends up doing is getting everybody bunched up, nobody wants to be the first one to make the corner, then somebody comes with a panzer and nukes the whole team. I’ve seen it one too many times for me to be sane.

(schmeisser) #18

I have gone the Noob Kamikaze Engineer route, in an attempt to throw myself into the heart of the fight as soon as possible. I get killed constantly, because I still basically suck at 1 vs. 1 firefights, but usually brute persistence pays off. I single mindedly, doggedly pursue the objective, and my skills are very gradually improving. Assuming I’m an average player, it boggles the mind how many hours some of the really good players must have invested in this addictive GAME to become so unbeatable in a firefight. Don’t you freaks have a life/job/wife/kids/girlfriend?

(Cyber-Knight) #19

yes, that’s the worse. I saw it in some list a guy made about pet peeves. I play on the Happy Penguin server in RtCW, so I see this happen a lot.
“No matter how big a crowd gets, everyone just continues to hold the position, and no one will be willing to go out and rush that one medic shooting at the group with a pistol” (then a respawn occurs and the group gets nice giant panzer blast)

I think this might be due to some CS tactics being brought over to Wolf.

(Kerunch) #20

Little things that people need to make habits of…
Lifting tolet seat when taking a pee.
Not turning over and farting after "Doing the job"On the other half.
Not using the curtain to wipe your self clean.
Please feel free to add your own. :beer: