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Q2 Training Camp / Re: Volunteers needed!!!
« on: June 24, 2011, 03:45:58 AM »
Good tips Foc. One thing I notice a LOT of novice-level players do that is a really bad habit is constantly jumping while firing ANY weapon. This is an especially bad habit when someone is trying to hit you with the rail gun. You have little to no control over your character after you hit that jump button and before you hit the ground. Your trajectory is defined soon as you leave the ground. For myself, if someone jumps and I'm trying to rail them, I feel like I should hit them 9 times out of 10, if not more, because they jumped. However, if you're using the rocket launcher, it can occasionally be beneficial to jump before you fire, if you're going to be firing the rocket close to the ground near you. In this case, jumping can actually lessen the splash damage you do to yourself from your own rocket.
I'm not saying to NEVER jump, but keep the jumps to a minimum, as many players will easily pick up the pattern that you're jumping with every shot, and intentionally wait for you to do this again to take their shot on you. I think it's possible that many players are doing this in an attempt to imitate other players they see that are strafe jumping/running around the map, when they perhaps don't realize WHY those players are doing that.
I'm not saying to NEVER jump, but keep the jumps to a minimum, as many players will easily pick up the pattern that you're jumping with every shot, and intentionally wait for you to do this again to take their shot on you. I think it's possible that many players are doing this in an attempt to imitate other players they see that are strafe jumping/running around the map, when they perhaps don't realize WHY those players are doing that.