Need Help Turret Strafing
tleng
Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9503Members
Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9503Members
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Have you heard of "circle strafing"? It's an INCREDIBLY common tactic used to evade gunfire in combat while still hitting your target. Simply point at your target with the mouse, and use your sidestep keys to slide to the side. If you keep the mouse pointing at your target, you will find that you circle the target. You are therefore always travelling 90 degrees to your opponent's weaponry, and so stand a better chance of dodging.
This is such a basic and fundamental skill (it's practically intrinsic. I mean come on, how hard is it to point at something and strafe at the same time). I'm really surprised you're having difficulty going "too far left or right".
I've noticed that the turret won't seem to know you're even there until the gun is actually facing you. If you stay 'behind' the turret the whole time, will it ever attack?
Here's an example situation to show what I'm asking:
Let's say there's one active turret somewhere, and a skulk is close enough to see what way the turret is facing during its rotation. If the skulk runs up 'behind' the turret and starts attacking and slowly circle-strafing so that he'd always be behind the gun barrels, will the turret ever shoot?
I figured it'll start shooting as soon as the skulk snaps at it, but it doesn't hurt to ask. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
It's kind of hard to test this in-game since most commanders make fields of turrets (and I'm too impatient to test it myself locally). <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Hope that helps
You need to be going as fast as possible at all times. When you're dodging six turrets and three marines, the more speed the better. <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> + celerity = way more dead <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo-->.
At the very least, circle once, bite a few times, widen your circle and come in again. Like you're orbiting it.
Just how high IS your sensitivity, anyway?
My friend plays with a 40-50 sensitivity. those people are crazy.
damn funny when he takes off +mlook and jiggles crazy with a machine gun. human nail grenade.
The best thing to do knowing that, is to check whether the turrets have been positioned in a room with a high ceiling. In some of these tall rooms they have ledges.
You then have too options, you could as a skulk quickly climb the walls onto the ledge where it is safe, or at least stay above the turret firing line to have a quick scan around the room (tagging structures with parasite). Then if you are on a safe ledge, evolve into a lerk.
From that ledge you can safely take out their turret factory with your spikes. Your teammates would be thankful.
Most skulks enter a room of turrets as if they were marines. If theres no marines in the room, its safe to go up the walls and onto the ceiling where the turrets can't hit you. It gives you time to scan the whole room, and work out where theres an undefended spot then drop down and begin nibbling. Use marine structures to protect you.
am I many times the only one in my team taking out turrfactories?