What Do You Do While Sniping?
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I hold my breath, an old habit from shooting scoped large-bore rifles.
If there is someone in cover, popping out randomly I think in my head "One Two Three Pop" and on "Pop" i pull the trigger. I get lucky quite often using this method.
If there is someone in cover, popping out randomly I think in my head "One Two Three Pop" and on "Pop" i pull the trigger. I get lucky quite often using this method.
I hold my breath when I'm either a) holding my breath in game, or b)manually trying to counteract sway.
The funny thing is I didn't even use the terms "mix up" "keepaway" "zoning" "chicken blocking" "cross up/under" and several thousand more.Elamdri said:
Trust me, fighting game terminology is hard to understand even if you do play them... The solution? Go watch several UMVC3 events on Team Spooky/iplaywinner's channel and try to connect what the commentators are saying against what's happening on screen. That's how I did it anyway... XD
Daystar Clarion said:
Damn right BAYBEE! XD
Spot enemies, relay intelligence, use strategic stuff like motion sensors or mortar strikes if the game allows me, and finally I try to shoot strategically important enemies.
Because yes, sniping done well requires you to do more than just camp. Fuck camping. If anything, in TF2 sniping is the most fun if you stand right behind the frontline Heavy.
Because yes, sniping done well requires you to do more than just camp. Fuck camping. If anything, in TF2 sniping is the most fun if you stand right behind the frontline Heavy.
I whistle or predict outloud what the person I'm looking at is going to do.
I also move my mouse around in a small U shape, and that actually helps me hit a lot more people, since the majority of the time its a moving target and if i'm already moving my mouse around I've got a good rhythm and can flick really well.
I also move my mouse around in a small U shape, and that actually helps me hit a lot more people, since the majority of the time its a moving target and if i'm already moving my mouse around I've got a good rhythm and can flick really well.
Oh man, you should see it when I get the launcher on X-23, go into magic series, finish with heavy Crescent Scythe and straight into light Talon Attack, use Ankle Slice for the OTG while calling in Vergil's Rapid Slash assist, into launcher, heavy Crescent Scythe, light Talon attack, OTG again and into Rage Trigger.Elamdri said:
And that's just one combo
It's like another language for the uninitiated.
If the game I'm playing has rifle sway (like CoD), I'll practice compensating for it to see how small of a target I can keep the crosshairs on without holding my breath (in-game). For games without sway, I talk to my opponents, try to coax them out of cover or something similar, even though they can't hear me.
Sniping? People actually, y'know, snipe?
I... um... I panic-fire into anybody who gets too close before I make it to a decent blind, and usually say things like "Whew, topped 'im" when I somehow get a headshot after the panic-fire.
And then I die one twenty-seventh of a second later, because there is so little skill involved in MW3.
So very, very little.
I... um... I panic-fire into anybody who gets too close before I make it to a decent blind, and usually say things like "Whew, topped 'im" when I somehow get a headshot after the panic-fire.
And then I die one twenty-seventh of a second later, because there is so little skill involved in MW3.
So very, very little.
I always exhale before taking a shot (unless it's aimed in a hurry), sometimes I hum some tune while looking for targets. Oh and I often find myself giggling after a succcessful headshot. I love headshots.
You should have seen this crazy ZvT I watched. The Zerg opened fast expand to the Terran's natural and began to spinecrawler/Queen rush the wall. Terran however was turtling and going fast BC, which zerg didn't scout, so just as he bust the wall, the first BC was up and it was destroying the Queens while an SCV repaired it. At that point the creep had spread into the terran base and the Zerg was building Anti-air in the base, but the BCs where carving up his defenses, then the Terran suddenly GG'd.Daystar Clarion said:Oh man, you should see it when I get the launcher on X-23, go into magic series, finish with heavy Crescent Scythe and straight into light Talon Attack, use Ankle Slice for the OTG while calling in Vergil's Rapid Slash assist, into launcher, heavy Crescent Scythe, light Talon attack, OTG again and into Rage Trigger.Elamdri said:
And that's just one combo
It's like another language for the uninitiated.