Useful tips and tactics?

</SKRATH\> · 02-07-2004

On sandstorm if your team is losing the round badly you can just sit up in the tower near the front gate with an RPG and when it says bomb planted, fire an RPG through the window at the top floor of the bomb house and you might get a few dudes, one for sure...

johnnyknox · 02-07-2004

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Originally Posted by ghockeyfreak

ya thanx "major" this helped me out a lot. another thing abt grenades is, if u r in a hostage mission and u accendtially drop the "nade" and u cant get away in time to save the hostages just dive on it. even tho u commit suicide u save ur teammates lifes and the hostages. this has worked 4 me on several accounts

This is probably good advice to some for a FYI sort of thing but if this has helped u on several occasions then you dont need to handle anymore nades. Not even your own. LOL

ghockeyfreak · 02-10-2004

lol yeah I guess, but it only happens to my when I'm camping with the hostages in Desert Glory. And the reason it does this is because even if you aim between the bars, the "nade" hits them and bounces back. It really sux. lol but I always forget that it does that so maybe you are right ...I shouldn't handle any more "nades"......... or mabye i should

*ACE* · 02-18-2004

Go respawn rooms to figure out what guns u like i did that with all different guns once and i realized my SEAL gun is the RA-14 and terrorist 552 SD or STG 77 and use ur pistol too.

=Optimus= · 03-07-2004

ONe of the best tips is to know the maps, also, before you turn the corner get your gun pointing that way so you are ready for shooting

Jalil · 03-08-2004

godlike doesnt know what he's talking about. auto aim is for 1 player only. and frags are waaaaaaay better then he's. theres no point in bringing he's, just use double frags.

Scuba Steve · 03-13-2004

I will pick HE's for close quarters maps. They are perfect for clearing small buildings, but nothing beats a frag.

Tiotiotio · 03-15-2004

I'm unloading all my tips right here:

1. Take of friggin vibration. It's alot easier to get a good shot at someone when your controller isn't vibrating. If you really want to feel your gameplay, buy a good audio system and turn up the woofer.

2. When trying to throw grenades far away, get into stand stance. Your grenades will now fly alot further. And go into crouch stance when trying to throw them nearby.

3. For heaven's sake THROW GRENADES! If you know someone is on a rooftop or soemthing, but you can't see them, unload all your friggin grenades at them! If you managed to miss you at least succeeded in knocking them over or something, or maybe even just managed to get them scared.

4. Stay calm. Going insane in Socom is a bad idea. When your angry you think with the emotional side of your head.

5. Think before everything you do. If you're a man less then the other team, rushing may not be a good idea. Or if the team is sniping running into the field guns a'blazing is also a bad idea. Just think of everything that can go wrong.

6. Always watch your back. When camping or sniping try to go somewhere with a wall to your back.

7. Turn up your volume! In certain maps audio is key. In frostfire it isuselful for telling if someone is on the water towers, or on sujo its usefull to here if someone is approaching the base, also if u suspect ur being followed, dive down and listen. If you here footsteps turn around and fire. Your enemy will probably be surprised, and will get over confident... so chances are you'll kill him.

8. As everyone has said, learn the maps. It's usefull to know where popular camping spots are when your playing one on one, its also usefull to go to places people always forget about. For instance, the tower in the corner of frostfire, the building near the extraction on foxhunt and so on.

9. Vary your strategy, never ever do anything under any circumstance more then 2 rounds in a row. People figure out your strategy and will get you after that. A good strategy is to do the same thing for two rounds, then the 3rd round do something to watch over where u were the last to rounds. It's funny to imagine the persons reaction when you're not there and he just got sniped in the back. People will probably be like "O he's there again"... and run there to.

10. The best tip for getting better would be to learn how to properly evaluate what you did wrong, and then take the nessecary measures to correct it. Learn your weak-points and work at fixing them. For instance, if you find that you're bad at close combat, it's probably because you're bad at getting your crosshairs over your oppenent and shooting under pressure. So to fix this problem do what I did, take a gun, and limit it to single fire. Then rush the enemy. It may sound like suicide, but it was the only way for me to figure out how to aim and all that. If your a bad sniper, grab a sniper rifle and try sniping on a map like fish hook, or frostfire. Bringing things to the extreme will help you when it's easier.

11. Remember those maps you hate, you probably hate them because you can't do one of the maps attributes, heres a list I worked out, and I dont care if u agree with it. It states why you probably hate a map. I'm just listing a few so you get an idea.

Fox Hunt: Bad Accuracy abilities, Bad sniping abilities, Bad Hiding abilities, Bad protecting abilities

Desert Glory: Bad close combat abilities, Bad sniping abilities, Bad finding cover abilities, Bad grenade skills

FrostFire: Bad close combat abilities, Bad grenade skills

Crossroads: Bad close combat abilities, bad breach abilities, bad finding cover abilities,

Blizard: Bad close combat abbilites, Bad finding cover abilities, bad breach abilities, Bad sniping abilites...

And so on.

My last tip is that practice makes perfect, and you can read all the tutorials you want, but you won't get any better until you truly practice it.

veilsidepunk53 · 03-15-2004

good tips ^^^

veil's tip: communication is key to your team being sucessful. If you know where a sniper is...dont be a ninny, tell your team mates so they can frag his ***. If you know where your opponet's are camping and where, report it. And finally, before you plant mines, tell your friggin team where you plant them..the last thing you want to do is be walking around worrying if you are about to step on a mine.

aocfork · 03-17-2004

Tiotiotio, i like the tip about sniping on frostfire, thats how i got to like sniping. i did it as a terrorist with a .50 cal, seals arent expecting to get a bullet to the chest on that map, they are like rush rush rush, and you kill them before they see you. i snipe down the right ramp down the middle, easy kills, and out of the spawn room window down the middle hall. i had teammates say over there now and bang. i now love it and rarely miss, unless they are squirming like a worm on a hook.