Fading Tips?
Vengeance-RgB
Join Date: 2003-10-20 Member: 21798Members
Join Date: 2003-10-20 Member: 21798Members
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Tap the mouse button to blink. Don't hold it. If you hold it, you will use all your energy very quickly. Also, jump before blinking so that you'll maintain the momentum provided by the quick tap. To blink for extended periods of time, just repeat the jump blink every time you hit the ground.
To blink swipe, I'd suggest using lastinv (last weapon) to switch between the abilities, though if you use it you have to be careful to remain calm and not press it too many times.
When in combat, always try to keep an eye on your health. Don't hesitate to blink away to heal if it gets too low.
Be very wary of shotguns and HMGs. They can kill you very quickly.
The Fade's speed and strength make it an excellent resource node killer. Just blink to a resource node and attack it. If a few marines come to try to save the node, you should be able to kill them, and if a lot of marines come, you can simply blink away and attack another node.
Don't try to engage large groups of marines alone. If most of the marine team is in one location, they are likely leaving their distant assets vulnerable. In that situation, it can often be advantageous to blink to a far away marine outpost or resource node and destroy it.
An opinion shared by most skilled Fade players is that regeneration is the best upgrade for the Fade. It is very effective in combat, allowing you to heal constantly, even while blinking. It also greatly increases your effeciency in taking down electrified nodes. Personally, I rarely go Fade if we don't have defense chambers.
Be careful of ladders; you can't blink while on a ladder.
To get metabolize and regeneration to stack, you have to use metabolize just after each regeneration tick. Just a minor tip, but useful nonetheless.
That's all I can think of for now. Good luck.
If you have two hives and movements you may want to consider carapace if you get good with blinking. Metabolize heals pretty well and carapace makes you a tough nut to crack against those level 1/2 hmg's.
Also maybe its just me, but when I blink at a marine half the time It takes multiple swipes before I'll even connect with the marine .
Don't hold blink.
Know your upgrades.
Know your style.
Lastinv is your friend - bind it to Q (for WASD playing).
Blinkhopping is the win.
Absolutely do NOT fall into the trap of standing still to smack a marine. Hit and RUN. Remember that at 1 hive you have an OBLIGATION to kill all elec RTs.
Remember that at 1 hive if you're a bad fade you're better off BUILDING HIVE 2.
The absolute guiding principle - if you suck at fade, DO NOT GO FADE BEFORE ENDGAME. Your team will hate you, and that is not inspiring. Fade at endgame instead of onos. Find a quiet map corner and learn tapblink, and blinkswipe. Then find some lone rines. When you've mastered that, find their base, try and hit a turret or two. Bear in mind that unless you have carapace, chances are a new fade will get greased on a base rush. This is to be expected, and WILL teach you the lesson that you are NOT a big damage sucking tank.
Adren is good for frequent fliers (hold down blink and crouch; you can flyyyyyyyy wee! Even if you run out of energy you can continue to whizz around) and it also helps when taking out buildings or firing acid rockets. Silence is good for eliminating marines outside their base, confusion in combat and slipping into bases unnoticed though it's best kept to when you're good with your slashes and blinks so you don't run out of energy. Celerity helps you blink-jump faster and further and increases you footspeed meaning you can handle 'marine dancers' better sometimes, like silence though it requires you know how to conserve energy/blink-jump properly to really get away with it though.
Before that Fades usually use adreneline so they don't spend out too quickly. I use a 5 button mouse and have weapon slot 1 and 2 on my excess 2 buttons. This means I can parasite and change to bite as a skulk, spit and heal as a gorge, Gore and devour as onos, and especially for the fade Switch quickly back and forth between slash and blink. Its very handy.
Blink hopping is the best thing for a fade to know, doing it efficiently takes some time though.
- RD
Redeem means you learn not to get hit. Cara means you can take a bit more damage if you fluff a blinkswipe. TBH I'd start with redeem and move to cara when you're confident in their line of fire. Adren is standard beginner fare - lots of energy so you can blink, swipe, meta all day, whatever. When you get good with that you can move to timed strikes and celerity. But nublet fades thrive on redeem/adren.
Mostly because you'll die before you hit 50 res. At least with redeem you've a fighting chance of getting another 50 res even if you just redeem 20 times in a row and end up saving the res rather than getting RFK.
Lastinv switches to the weapon you had selected last before you switched to your current weapon. It can be bound from the controls menu, and is listed as "Last used weapon".
I have done it for 10 minutes.
my tips for fade are:
take down anything electrified
unless your really good, dont engage bigger marine groups. engage the small teams
if crucial points are under attack, get there. your team counts on you in early game
Know when to <b>STOP</b> being a fade.
About 5 out of 7 of the last games I've been in that have been alien losses have been because people would save for Fade, and then stay there obsessively. When we need lots of chambers and RTs put up, does a single one of them drop back to Gorge and save the team by putting up more RTs?
Heck no. 'But I'm 4 l33tz0r f4d3!'
You can't get locked into the mindset that you can stay as a single alien. If the team needs you in another role, you need to be willing to take it up.
And by regen you mean adrenaline.
If u don't know how to blink hop, find out.... It makes fade that much more enjoyable. And flying around hera <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->