Words of wisdom for Unreal Tournament players from doug2@uplink.net
Fragology 101
Play to your strengths. As you start your career, try low
grav/normalgrav, ESR/Zark/etc, CTF and DM. Which do you prefer? Play that and
ignore the others. Learning is accelerated when you are having fun. Prerequisite
for Practice 201.
Fragology 102
Play on servers that give you the lowest ping time. Learn how
much you
must lead for various pings.
Fragology 103
Buy the highest frames-per-second machine with the biggest,
sharpest
monitor you can. 30 frames/sec works out to 0-33 ms lag between your vid card
and your eyeball, depending on when the scan occurs. 60 frames/sec cuts that in
half.
Manners 104
Be nice. Say gg, n1,ty, etc.
Practice 201
If you practice 2 hours a day you are handing the advantage
to the
person practicing 3 hours a day. Find a place you love to play and play there.
Prereq for reflex training 501
Practice 202
Get UTCacheCleaner. Fly around maps offline until you can see
them in
your sleep. Prereq for Whoring.
Practice 203
Spectate other people, even those not as good as you, to learn their tricks. If
you spot a fancy move, immediately spectate and (optionally) demorec it.
Practice it until you are better than the person you learned it from.
Armor Whoring 301
He simple act of grabbing armor means you have to be killed
twice.
Prereq for Advanced Whoring 401
Key Binding 302
Student will practice selecting desired weapon and activating
correct
primary/secondary trigger until it becomes reflex. Lots of translocator
practice.
Advanced Whoring 401
Student will learn if he picks up the armor and health they are not there for
the other guy. Student will learn 150 armor and 199 health is a 3.5x advantage
over the unfortunate respawned who can find no armor.
Translocator 402
Student learns to apply leanings of lag compensation to the
translocator, letting it sail X milliseconds (where X=lag) beyond the target.
Student practices landing on boxes from a run without stopping.
Translocator 403
Train on the running double jump and proper boot usage.
Line Running 403
Learn the fastest and safest route from any respawn point to
the armor
and health.
Deemer flying 404
Learn how to get those guys who try to translocate away from
the
deemer... go for the translocator.
Reflex training 501
Ditch the ball mouse and get an optical. Lock in the mouse
acceleration
settings and never change them. In time, your hand will learn how far to flip to
bring the crosshairs where you wanted them, shaving the time you'd normally
spend making medium-to-fine adjustments.
Sniper Target acquisition 502
Student will learn to exploit human eye's ability to sense
movement.
Teaches proper peripheral vision technique to spot tiny distant target. Don't
touch the mouse, stare are center of screen giving peripheral vision a second to
check for movement. Zip to new section of map and repeat.
Manners 503
Don't take aimbot accusations personally. They don't know
you. They
haven't trained this far or have dropped out of the curriculum altogether. They
don't know what is possible. Respond by writing information on how people can be
more competitive and posting it on usenet.