| best tactic ever..... [message #-971695] |
Thu, 02 May 2002 11:45   |
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There are no stupid questions, only arrogant jerks that mock newcomers... Would you talk that way to someone face to face (Griever89)? It took me some time to even notice the flashing dots - targeting points for your flames, and yes it will toast infantry pretty quickly. But, there are better things to do with flame tanks. They are pretty fast and great in numbers. Just don't run off solo with your flame tank. I have seen a lot of potentially devastating flame rushes absolutely ruined by someone losing patience and rambling off on their own. The flamer doesn't last long with half a dozen gdi hosing it down. Plus, you leave your team hanging by reducing the effectiveness of the rush effect. Practice your driving a bit too - it's pretty funny to see a flame rush from the GDI side (hourglass) when 1 or 2 flamers get hung up on rocks or roll over on their side as they catch the edge of the tunnel entrance.  [ May 02, 2002: Message edited by: SgtZim ]
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| best tactic ever..... [message #-971694] |
Thu, 02 May 2002 12:03 |
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Hey Griever, wind your neck in pal. GameJet has a valid point and it works. It's similar to the aim of circling the structure you're attacking, and flaming away. It prevents infantry from targetting easily, and you also get the odd squish. To follow on, I have noticed that infantry are much harder to kill when they stand on buildings. E.g. on the barracks in city_flying.
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| best tactic ever..... [message #-971693] |
Fri, 03 May 2002 00:02 |
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I prefer the suicidal soldier approach to destroying flame tanks. Jump at it and throw timed C4. Get run over.. respawn and repeat as necessary. Sure it takes time to exploded, but so does chasing flame tanks around and around buildings. Obviously a tank is better, but we're talking about infantry anyway. I just hate those people that put mines down everywhere trying to stop flame rushes, only in effect leaving our building MCTs vulnerable. [ May 03, 2002: Message edited by: kubi0461 ]
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| best tactic ever..... [message #-971689] |
Mon, 06 May 2002 04:22 |
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quote:
Originally posted by StuntCorpse:
Infantry cant stop flame tanks ... at least when I'm in it it takes a little while (45 seconds YEA!) Get close and run'em over, or put the dot on'em and burn'em. Infantry burn fast. You cant blind anybody with flames - it only makes their FPS go down (if they have a crappy video card). They can still target you with that giant red box.
That's the whole point, if the enemy's game lags like hell they'll be running at a wall and you can take the easy squish. Btw, even if you do small damage on a person with the flame, they might run for cover giving you a chance to get away. Only some people.
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| best tactic ever..... [message #-971688] |
Mon, 06 May 2002 06:17 |
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if you want to kill him, just run over him! he won't expect that because he think you will run away and just wait for him to come close and when he is out of range just press the reverse button and hear the boink sound and if he threw the c4 just disarm it.
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| best tactic ever..... [message #-971687] |
Tue, 07 May 2002 11:18 |
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I agree with him. Especially when your out of range. After a little the target box disapears and i find it really hard to get it back on. At close range that doesn't work though its to easy to tell where the flames are originating from.
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