help with aiming?
hey people, i'm new to this game.
I've been playing single player verse bots, and I've done sort of okay (!), so i decided to try multiplayer. bad idea lol, extremely fast paced and confusing to me. i can get basic jetting and skiing, but i have really bad accuracy. i can't hit anything that's moving/flying and i can't hit anything while i'm moving quickly or flying. if i stand still for a second to aim someone lands a mortar on my lap too. so are there any tricks to this? or just practice.
I've been playing single player verse bots, and I've done sort of okay (!), so i decided to try multiplayer. bad idea lol, extremely fast paced and confusing to me. i can get basic jetting and skiing, but i have really bad accuracy. i can't hit anything that's moving/flying and i can't hit anything while i'm moving quickly or flying. if i stand still for a second to aim someone lands a mortar on my lap too. so are there any tricks to this? or just practice.
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As you wrote, you try to stop and aim, wich is usually wrong. It's better to get in air and then shoot at enemy on ground. It's much easier to hit in the right place from air, than from ground. Try to avoid non-sure shoots, like trying to hit anything with disc/plasma in air. Ground shoots are more effective, besides snipe, shocklance, chaingun (non splash, fast projectile weapons). Force enemy to be on ground when projectile hits or be in air when enemy is on ground, and then you're suppose to have decent kill ratio.
Always remember that projectiles inherits your velocity at specific rate, eg. chaingun bullets inherit 100% of your velocity, grenade launcher 85%, disc 50%, plasma 20% (values form Classic mod) etc. You need to practice and find out how it affects your aim.
You'll die a lot - it's just part of learning Tribes. Top notch players die 20 times/hr in pubs and normal players are somewhere between 25 - 55 deaths/hr.
Try to think about angles - you can't really take the time to properly line-up shots when you first start playing - you need to get easy angles (shooting down on a player on the ground from above) until you get enough of a feel for the game that you can just swing and shoot.
If you're pubbing on Goon Haven, you can track your progress here:
http://t2stats.m-parsons.com
Also, I posted a compilation of the basics of online play:
http://goonhaven.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=157
Just explore the weapons and play around with all the different ways you can use them. The name of the game is mobility though, so being able to shoot while in any position is definitely something I'd get used to.
Most servers out there today run the classic mod instead of Base, which was the old Tribes 2 default, and is what you get if you start the game with the default shortcuts.
I'm saying this because the weapon physics and behavior are slightly different between the two.
Otherwise, just practice a lot - float in the air and shoot discs & spam the grenade launcher whenever people are on the ground (or about to touch the ground).
Conversely, use the chaingun against anything and everything airborne - don't try to hit people in the air with your disc launcher, you'll miss 99% of the time and do no damage. With the chaingun you'll always end up doing some damage (and when you get better you're eventually going to kill people really fast with it).
I hope this has an informative reply. Thank you for reading.
Don't use interpolate script if you haven't need for that, it would just make movement more shaky and not comfortable to aim. And try to practice on players instead on bots - it's totally different.