Tips by Noobs from Noobs

[Ivan]

Hamma, would you mind sticky'ing this thread?

Guys, keep the tips coming! It's good to see the newbies helping each other out, and thanks for the vets for helping out too.

[mattew kane]

one things if you are patroling an area with a mosqutio fly in pairs or packs i have seen many times people be shot down by that 1 max because they did not have back up

[Mhute]

From my experience it wasn't neccessary. Infact I thought it was more important for infantry to move in packs to counter mosquitos since I've seen more mosquito pilots camp players with solid kill streaks.

[GeneralRazor]

Originally Posted by Mhute

10) Ancient tech is great except for the Flail. Don't even think of investing cert points into it.

I disagree wholeheartedly. But I agree wholeheartedly if you don't know how to aim through your minds eye

[GeneralRazor]

Here's my real noob tips:

Don't place CE, Vehicles in the ams bubble. It gives it away.

Standing in the doorway to a guarded tower only gets you and all your buddies killed, to be a true hero go upstairs and get blown up by AC, tanks and bailures.

When your taking a long-fought base, and your down to 10***37; NTU, and an enemy ant decides to come in with a minute left on the hack, don't blow it up. It will save your ass from being bored with hacking it again, and gain you BEP.

Don't blow the gen if the tubes are down.

Don't blow the tubes if the gen is down.

[remember, this is for noobs, so I'll spare the details]

If a max just saved your ass, repair him.

If a max didn't just save your ass, repair him anyway.

If your driving an AMS, don't park it in the middle of nowhere, it cuts people off from spawing in a base from far away. Its useless!

If your an advanced medic, don't revive LD players. They won't help your stats, or the empire. And don't revive players in the doorway that will just get mowed again.

Many more, just a few obvious ones.....

[Hamma]

What about LD players who are spinning around on the ground as if they are still online?

I love when I see that, a classic bug.

[GeneralRazor]

I've tried to follow a few to see where their "souls" go, but they are pretty damn fast when their dead.

[Phaden]

Im pretty sure it was covered, but always carry a REK and Jammers.

The gold ammo is great in MA for dealing with MAX's at range

If you spot someone, and they dont see you, asses wether to engage before just spamming wildly, knowing you cannot kill them

[GeneralRazor]

What? If someone doesn't see me and I'm on them, their getting owned. Period. No 2 ways about it. Attack! (unless I'm cloaking of course)

But yea, always carry a rek.

[Phaden]

well i mean if you feel you can take them, but say if you arent reloaded, weak on health and armour, or just plain outgunned, then just move away and save youself the death. But if you think you have a shot, then go balls deep on em

[xMars]

Originally Posted by mattew kane

one things if you are patroling an area with a mosqutio fly in pairs or packs i have seen many times people be shot down by that 1 max because they did not have back up

what different does it make if there are 1or2 mossies with a max shooting? i just dont see it

[xMars]

Originally Posted by GeneralRazor

Don't blow the tubes if the gen is down.

[remember, this is for noobs, so I'll spare the details]

i see no reason why not to blow tubes. the other way around it is obv, but there is no reason to keep tubes up

[Peacemaker]

Less EXP.

[xMars]

Originally Posted by Peacemaker

Less EXP.

are you saying that you get less exp if you kill the tubes AFTER the gen went down?

[GeneralRazor]

Originally Posted by xMars

i see no reason why not to blow tubes. the other way around it is obv, but there is no reason to keep tubes up

I guess I should have reversed that. But unless your being fodder, there's no reason you can't hold what you've destroyed. Tubes/gen whatever order, if you can't defend it your wasting your time killing something other than the enemy when you should be.

[remember, this is for noobs, so I'll spare the details]