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Getting the most from your client can give considerable advantages over other players without cheating.
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Getting the most from your client can give considerable advantages without cheating and any skills.
  
 
==Tune the graphics==
 
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Set Track Marks setting as high as possible --- that will help you to track cloacked and st tanks.
 
Set Track Marks setting as high as possible --- that will help you to track cloacked and st tanks.
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==Smart use of ==
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Use you radar against campers. Imagine there is a laser camper higher then you. Get laser flag, hide some where he cant see you and turn to him. Then use 4 and 5 keys (or shift plus wheel) to make him coincide with a special tick on the radar. So now you are aiming at him. Then jump and when you'll see camper, shoot. If you are lucky he won't be able to react fast enough or shoot you.
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Use look button (the same you lock with GM) to find what flag someone carries. This button is a great help on maps without radar --- use it to figure where other tanks are, especially cloacked.
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Hear attentively the sounds to figure weather there is a stealth jumping. It works well if you are somewhere high and so the enemy needs to jump to you.

Revision as of 19:05, 6 February 2010

Getting the most from your client can give considerable advantages without cheating and any skills.

Tune the graphics

First of all, disable rain and fog, so you will be able to see further. This is especially handy whith laser flag. But remember, some maps (e.g. Desert War) have very slight fog, that doesn't affect gameplay, but makes the map much more nicer.

Then decide about lightning and shadows. Do you really need them? This settings affects the image contrast. Lightning may distort the view of objects, enemy is less visible when he is in a shadow. The only use of shadow is that stealth tanks have one, so it might help to indicate them.

Now lets turn to textures. You need them, except of one case. If the game is about a dark (black) labyrinth, where you cant tell wall from the ceiling, turn off textures and turn on lightning --- that will help you greatly.

There is another setting that affects the image, but you can't set it once and for all --- daytime. When you spawn on the server you will see the map at the server daytime. You have to use - and = keys to adjust daytime and to make it actually day.

Tune the radar

You will find soon, that the radar is actually the most important part of the screen. So make it as big as possible and transparent. Also set it into Enhanced style. However, on some maps big radar will if the map author has left some huge unimportant objects visible on a radar, but such maps usually aren't very playable and unpopular.

Shots must be clearly visible on the radar, so look at the settings "Radar Shot Size" and "Radar Shot Length"

Other settings

Set Display Threads to off to have larger visible area.

Set Track Marks setting as high as possible --- that will help you to track cloacked and st tanks.

Smart use of

Use you radar against campers. Imagine there is a laser camper higher then you. Get laser flag, hide some where he cant see you and turn to him. Then use 4 and 5 keys (or shift plus wheel) to make him coincide with a special tick on the radar. So now you are aiming at him. Then jump and when you'll see camper, shoot. If you are lucky he won't be able to react fast enough or shoot you.

Use look button (the same you lock with GM) to find what flag someone carries. This button is a great help on maps without radar --- use it to figure where other tanks are, especially cloacked.

Hear attentively the sounds to figure weather there is a stealth jumping. It works well if you are somewhere high and so the enemy needs to jump to you.