Learning to Play Better

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Learning to Play Better

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Buttface asked last night "how do I learn to get better?" There were some suggestions from several players including "spec the good players" and "read the forums," along with a tongue in cheek comment from me that "it requires a brain." :) A better way to say that is use critical thinking skills and don't blindly kamikaze toward enemies and nodes.

With many new players joining recently it seems we should put a post up here with some tips and suggestions for the noobs. The longtime stains are probably hopeless (thus the brain comment), but some of the noobs seem willing to learn, so let's help them out. Here's a few to get started, feel free to add more tips, but let's keep this thread clean with only suggestions for better play. Posts that aren't helpful to this end will get deleted.

Let's start with the basics and then start adding more advanced and nuanced tips as this thread develops.

1. The primary objective of Onslaught (ONS) is an attack using overwhelming numbers to capture nodes and ultimately destroy the enemy core. ONS is a TEAM game.
2. Watching the top level players is the best way to learn solid strategy and see what the vehicles can do.
3. Listen to the experienced players' comms and try to follow their suggestions, particularly which nodes to head toward.
4. Train yourself to glance at the HUD constantly to understand the node paths and which nodes need attention.
5. If you're a noob (or a stain), DO NOT constantly jump into the fastest vehicles (flyers/mantas) and kamikaze suicide them toward strong enemy players and nodes. Leave the flyers for those skilled with them and learn the ground vehicles first.
6. RE #5: "But how do I learn flyers if I don't use them?" Try them out when the server isn't super busy (20+ players) and ask experienced pilots for advice.
7. Don't camp in tanks near your team's own locked nodes or far corners of a map nowhere near the action. You'll better serve your team by moving toward the objective of capturing unlocked nodes.
8. Fly or drive in formation with your teammates, and if you're new, follow instead of trying to lead. Try not to go it alone and don't get caught up in continual dogfighting.

It's worth repeating: the definition of onslaught is an attack using overwhelming numbers. ONS is a TEAM game.
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Re: Learning to Play Better

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1. Keep your head on a swivel. Be aware of your surroundings.
2. When engaging an enemy, Zig-zag. Straight line paths, and you're dead. This works on advancement and egress (running away). And jump like the monkey you are.
3. Never get out of the Mega/Mino, period. Go down with the ship. It's too valuable an asset to fall into the enemy's hands.
4. Keep moving. If you sit still, you're dead.
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Go to node. Touch it. Link it.

Just doing that will put you in the top half of players.
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Get a powerful computer with a fast video card and a gaming mouse.
Get an internet connection with low latency.
Get a monitor with low lag times.
Play the maps incessantly until you've memorized where every special item is located.
And build yer goddamn nodes!
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Go to node. Touch it. Link it.

Just doing that will put you in the top half of players.
This ^. You can have crappy aim, crappy movement and still get decent points and help your team.
5. If you're a noob (or a stain), DO NOT constantly jump into the fastest vehicles (flyers/mantas) and kamikaze suicide them toward strong enemy players and nodes. Leave the flyers for those skilled with them and learn the ground vehicles first.
This ^ x2. This will hurt your team big time. And I'd add the power vehicles to that as well, like Mino.
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captainsnarf wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:53 pm Go to node. Touch it. Link it.

Just doing that will put you in the top half of players.
This is how I got by for the first few years of playing this game. I would always get dominated trying to do any kind of fighting, so I'd just go to nodes and link them until I got killed. Or I'd go around and top off locked nodes that weren't full.
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Die well
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BTW starting and linking a node up is usually worth about 8 pts. You can get a decent score without any kills just by playing with nodes. Killing a node is worth 5. So even if you're not a badass DMer, just being a solid linker really helps your team -- much more than Hectoring the mino.
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At nearly every moment and position on Masterbath you can be either linking or shooting a node with your link gun. You should be constantly getting points on this map.
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Re: Learning to Play Better

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Sorry Sanka, but your comment was not contributing to the discussion, thus the deletion. While he may have been trolling there are a lot of new players that might find this thread helpful.
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