Introduction
Alright everybody, everyone, and everything.. whatever you might be! Gather your wits and don your caps of thinking, for today we tap the well of game-changing knowledge!
Share with me some of your best tips, tricks, tactics, and strategies. But wait! I'm not looking for your everyday run-of-the-mill tips; e.g. organize your inventory, pay attention to the bus route, prioritize floor loot over chests on initial landing.
We've all seen the general blanket tips. Let's talk about things that have not only bettered your game, but have also flown under the radar. I'll share with you a few of my personal favorites. These will be as in depth and descriptive as I feel is necessary for your spectrum of variably adherable minds to comprehend. Let's see what you gods among men have to share!
My Tyrannical Tips of Terror
Tip #1
This one regards the small 1x1 huts that are across the map, the ones that have one floor loot spawn and boards across the door. You leave the loot and the boards intact. Then, through the window, you place a floorboard on the ceiling. This allows you to place the sneakiest of spike traps up there. Since the hut looks untouched and unlooted, next to no one will be expecting a spikyboi lurking unseen, like a wook in a bush.
Tip #2
When you build and damage a wall (brick preferably), it's opaque state incrementally becomes transparent as it's health lowers. We all know this. What many don't know however, is that through the transparent parts of a build the thermal rifle can still measure heat signals.
It's very useful for scouting without having to worry about your hindquarters becoming a bolt action's snack. From hundreds of meters off, you can easily spot those wonderful, mobile loot llamas that we call players. Usually, they're even kind enough to loot the neighboring area for you.
You're the over-aggressive kid, staring down that loot llama. You laugh inhumanly, stick in hand, as you wind up for your biggest swing yet. Except, this time it's different. The llama is the one wearing the blindfold.
Noteworthy mention: Thermal rifles also work well for seeing players that are running in the storm toward the safe zone.
Tip #3
If you're throwing clingers or C4 at a structure housing an enemy, it is often better to throw two or more at a time, rather than one. The first explosion will destroy whichever build you're targeting, freeing the open air between your opponent and the next explosion. This is mostly useful if you know where your opponent is located, and there's only one or two builds in between you. Following up with a "wall-breaking" weapon such as the LMG, drum gun, or an SMG is my favorite way to put those last few nails in the coffin.
Tip #4
Placing a spike trap on the wall behind a ramp (standard build: ramp with a protecting wall) will allow it to be triggered and hit enemies through the ramp. In other words, place a wall, followed by a trap, then a ramp. Concealing the trap further with walls on the sides of the ramp makes it hard to detect at a glance.
There's a lot of room for creativity here. Build this quick trap set up in high traffic areas (ramps scaling up mountains, build fight structures, anywhere you can channel foot traffic into your den of inhumanity). Baiting with loot can be fun as well. Spike traps are very underutilized, inflicting a big 150 damage and not occupying an inventory slot!
Tip #5
Once I became more proficient at building, I started wearing my building blinders at all times. What I'm referring to is the incessant, tugging need to claim and retain the high ground.
I've been involved in more careless build fights than I'd like to admit. You know the type.. the ebb and flow, as you and your new rival race to be up above one another, while missing many opportunities to go in for the kill. The builds amass into one giant, vertical eyesore (or perhaps trophy of marvel), precariously supported by two ramps. You can almost see it teetering in the wind.
Risky move, Cotton. Not only are you down 500 materials, but you also wasted time, allowed more people to see you, and put yourself at risk of a lovely death by steep plummet. Even if you do kill your architectural doppelganger and gain his power, what happens during the next fight? Who would've guessed that the materials you were to receive as payment have already been spent?
Now that my point has been driven home, almost as passionately as you driving all those double Durr Burgers into your gut, I offer you my unwarranted advice. Expand your awareness and utilize everything visually and audibly perceptible to you when taking decisive action. Outbuilding someone doesn't do you much good if you lose track of them in the chaos of masked sounds and the stacked labyrinth of hiding spots you helped create.
Knowing exactly where someone is and what they're doing gives you an insurmountable advantage when it's time to make pivotal decisions. Use headphones, or at least two-piece earphones. Precise directional hearing clearly has its merits. Also, constantly scout your surroundings for either builds or for those elusive snakes in the grass who always seem to get close enough to bite your heel before you can react.
Although slightly cumbersome at first, once it's deeply ingrained into your play style, you'll finally be able to be the one who runs up on unwary prey, while simultaneously becoming that which you once despised.. the predator.
Tip #6
You know a lot of what to do and how to do it. Certain techniques seem daunting when attempts are failed. Yet, you know they're possible. As the player base becomes more seasoned, a growing number of players will begin to shift towards more advanced techniques.
Those who decide to stay ahead of the curve capitalize by streamlining their time management habits within each match. By taking a portion of their time to translate these ideas into natural reactions, they gain not only the obvious advantage of being able to cleanly implement what they've learned, but also the advantage of having more opportunities available to them through the extra time saved utilizing these tactics.
Even little things like reloading one shotgun shell during a jump, or jump-harvesting materials as you're running by, add up. You could get a couple kills in the extra time per match that you would've spend reloading and gathering that 100-200 wood. Both of these techniques cost literally no time. Time. What a fickle thing.. always being of the essence. How will you use yours?
Conclusion
A whole is a sum of it's variables. Each minor integration of efficiency rounds out your gameplay. Every manipulated variable and tactical consideration progresses you towards the (wo)man, the myth, and the legend that we know you will be.
Posts where many knowledgeable people in this community share their strategic knowledge and what has worked for them have always been my favorite. You've all taught me a lot. However, another cookie cutter script of utile, but already known beginner tips no longer feeds the hunger. If you have any qualms or improvements to any of the tips above, let me know in the comments. Mutual progression in humanity, through both camaraderie and competition, is what has made this game and community even possible. Let's honor that by progressing even further.. through the jolly art of cooperation!
If you've learned one or two new things during your stay at this post, then share the love. Let me know if you'd like to hear more of what I've got. We are barely scratching the surface here. IF you didn't learn anything, or wish to protect your strictly confidential methods, I'll see you on the battlefield!
Help me help others through the compounded insight of we who know more. Happy gaming :)
All praise our Lord and Savior, Father Tomato Head!
TL;DR:
With a wall of text as my medium, I have compiled a list of moderate to advanced tips that have helped step my game up to 11th gear, focusing on lesser known content across all platforms. Objective: prevent you from looking and acting like an absolute jebroni out on the battlefield, one step at a time.
Submitted July 22, 2018 at 04:46AM by MetaphysicalEnigma https://ift.tt/2JJENoU
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