Tips and Tricks
by Thanatos
- The Strogg Hog is great for crashing into other vehicles. You can easily take out a tank by ramming into it.
- To use a spawn host, walk up to it and press 'use' (default f). You can only use one with ribs sticking out, and they go down when someone claims the spawn host. The next time you die, you will spawn where the spawn host was. Only techinicians can make spawn hosts from dead GDF.
- The Cyclops can go into siege mode by pressing crouch (default 'c'). You shoot at least twice as fast when in siege mode, but you are lower to the ground and can't move. Press jump (default 'space bar') to get out of siege mode.
- Strogg players get grenades when they pick up health packs. Max of 2 grenades can be carried at a time.
- Strogg players can convert health to ammo, and vise versa using '+' and '-'.
- It is really easy to change to a more useful class if you are Strogg and have a spawn host nearby. Just use the spawn host (default 'f'), kill yourself, then come back as the class you want.
- The Tormentor is a paper air plane that shoots rockets. Even if you don't have a rocket launcher, shoot at it anyway. 1 rocket takes it down to less than 10% health, where an assault rifle will easily finish it off.
- If you see a flying drone coming at you, shoot it down. It blows up harmlessly and hurts the person who sent it.
- Deployables are disabled when they get below around 2/3 health, so don't be afraid to toss a nade or 2 at one to take it out.
- Having your knife out makes you run faster. Larger weapons like rocket launchers make you move slower.
- The Strogg Icarus and GDF Husky both have anti missile decoy flares. The default is 1 to toss one out.
- Press 'm' to try and find missions before you do them, like capturing a spawn point, destroying a deployable, or taking out radar. You'll get a few extra experience for this.
- Right clicking when throwing grenades makes them sticky for Strogg, and tosses them underhand if you're GDF.
- Use your nades to set off mines. You'll be surprised how often someone overmines an area, and your nade sets them all off, which kills a few of his teammates.
- Don't automatically click "complain" when you get team killed. Most of the time it is an accident, where you crossed paths while shooting at the same guy. Not to mention the guy you complained against might be a medic, who suddenly decides he doesn't want to rez you.
- When tossing a grenade, hold down left click until it is about to explode before throwing. This makes it much harder for the enemies to dodge it.