5 newbie tips 5 advanced tips

[jackass77780]

Just what the title says

Newbie:
1. make it a habit to check your back every 5 to 10 seconds or so. When you enter a new area. make sure to check your back. You don't have to count just make it a habit. Practice swinging your mouse back and forth without getting disoriented.

2. When you pick up a gun or ammo do it fast! I can't tell you how many people i seen with rifles get killed because they take a hell of a long time to pick up ammo. Aim your crosshair at the ammo/gun. Get on top of it. Then press e. It should only take you one press of E and a split second. If you press E more than once your doing it wrong

3. Turn off your flashlight when you dont need it. The flashlight send a long beacon and if a zombies are hiding in a room they will know for miles away when your going to enter that room.

4. If your serious about surviving, alway point your gun at the most predictable location where a zombie is going to pop out of. When camping always point your gun at an entrance

5. Use panic. change the hotkey from P to something more closer like ALT or the third mouse button.

ADVANCED

1. when zombies are hitting you from the front in your face, DON'T RUN BACKWARDS. Zombies are faster so they will instantly chase you down. Instead sidestep or circle strafe. and When you have the zombies back, headshot it.
Same goes with melee, don' t run backwards when your getting hit, juke out the zombie and hit em from the back.

2. When trying to headshot zombies with magnum you will face 3 kinds of zombies.
A. the strafer
B. the jumper
C. the ducker

You have the element of surprise with the magnum. take your best aim and get a headshot as fast as you can. If you miss your first shot the zombies will know you have a magum so they will start to do one of the above three. IF YOU HAVE DISTANCE don't shoot right away. back pedal and see what that zombie does first.

A. the strafer is the easiest to kill. he will go side to side trying to avoid your shots. Just put your crosshair at head level and when it steps into it fire.

B. The jumper is hard to kill. He will jump up and down side to side and back. You have one advantage however. The zombie can not change its trajectory in midair, so you know when and where he will land. Put your cross hair at headlevel on the zomibe . THEN WAIT TILL HE jumps. start to move it left or right in the predicted jumping pattern. When he lands shoot.

C. the croucher is the same as the jumper except he crouches. Your advantage here is that when the zombie crouches he loses speed. So back pedal all you want. keep the cross hair at headlevel. WAIT till he crouches. When he comes back up shoot. OR you can keep the cross hair at waist level and shoot when he crouches. either way is fine.

3. Spawn kill as much as you can in the early part of the round. You will only have a couple of zombies to handle and you will keep the carrier occupied to let your teammate snag weapons and barricade.
Some good places to spawn camp:
-the basement stairs in asylum
-the long corridor leading outside in the basement of cinema
-the cafe baltic in subway.
- the fence in the first floor of police station


4. Always use panic when you melee. Two rifles are better than one on two newbies. always follow newbies if they have a good weapon. They will eventually die and you can snag it.

5. Barricade: 2 shelves make the best barricades. However they are very unstable and hard to get up once they fall down. If you find yourself with a shelve that is flat on its back. Than you can follow these steps to stand it back up.
1. get the fallen shelve out into an open space. it doesn't have to be two big of a space.
2. get on top of the middle of the long end of the shelf
3. crouch and hold crouch
4. look down
5. now crawl away from the shelf. It should start to stand back up.
6. crawl slowly until it is up.
7. you will be stuck in the middle opening of the shelf. holster weapon and push out of it being careful not to knock down the shelf again.
8. now that the shelf is up you can use it for your barricade.

[Neliel]

4. Always use panic when you melee. Two rifles are better than one on two newbies. always follow newbies if they have a good weapon. They will eventually die and you can snag it.


So, letting teammates is ok as long as you get a good weapon? It's better to have another gunman with you than have to run with one more zombie after you.

[!n$4n!tY]

3. Spawn kill as much as you can in the early part of the round. You will only have a couple of zombies to handle and you will keep the carrier occupied to let your teammate snag weapons and barricade.
Some good places to spawn camp:
-the basement stairs in asylum
-the long corridor leading outside in the basement of cinema
-the cafe baltic in subway.
- the fence in the first floor of police station

Spawn killing is one of the worse things you can do in my mind. I tend to slay people who do that, cause it isn't exactly fun to spawn with 5 humans with rifles blowing your zombie brains all over the floor.

Multiple spawn points? Then sure camp the hell out of one of the spots. But when it is one spawn point, its just not fun for zombies.

[jackass77780]

Spawn killing is one of the worse things you can do in my mind. I tend to slay people who do that, cause it isn't exactly fun to spawn with 5 humans with rifles blowing your zombie brains all over the floor.

Multiple spawn points? Then sure camp the hell out of one of the spots. But when it is one spawn point, its just not fun for zombies.

but im doing a favor to the team by helping new players figure out where all the weapons are and giving them a chance to play into the later parts of the round.. therefore giving them more experience making them better players.... cus its not fun to die in the first 5 seconds of the game as a survivor right?

[Neliel]

It's less fun to die every 5 seconds as a zombie.

[v3rtigo]

I wouldn't recommend spawn killing, but I would recommend eliminating as much zombies during the beginning of the round. A good survivor can take out 2 or 3 on his own, provided he has enough ammunition. People with the big guns shouldn't go too close near the spawns (if they die, good luck getting it back), but should guard popular passages to ensure that the zombies cannot ambush players.

Get as much ammo as you can and share it. Stay put for a while (zombies have no other place to go, so they will most likely 'be around' and kill as many as you can. Once you're running low on ammo, leave the place (in groups) to search for respawned/leftover ammo. If you can find enough, go hunting, if you don't, go back to where you came from and try hold the fort. The zombies will be dividing amongst the other groups, so it shouldn't be impossible to kill most of them.

In short, keep as much survivors alive as possible, this keeps zombie count low and should make killing zombies easier, even if it is with just melee weapons.

[jackass77780]

I wouldn't recommend spawn killing, but I would recommend eliminating as much zombies during the beginning of the round. A good survivor can take out 2 or 3 on his own, provided he has enough ammunition. People with the big guns shouldn't go too close near the spawns (if they die, good luck getting it back), but should guard popular passages to ensure that the zombies cannot ambush players.

Get as much ammo as you can and share it. Stay put for a while (zombies have no other place to go, so they will most likely 'be around' and kill as many as you can. Once you're running low on ammo, leave the place (in groups) to search for respawned/leftover ammo. If you can find enough, go hunting, if you don't, go back to where you came from and try hold the fort. The zombies will be dividing amongst the other groups, so it shouldn't be impossible to kill most of them.

In short, keep as much survivors alive as possible, this keeps zombie count low and should make killing zombies easier, even if it is with just melee weapons.

I agree with you, It's really hard to "spawn kill" in a text book definition because there is more than 1 spawn and if u concentrate too much on killing 1 spawn another zombie will backstab you. Instead i just rush the general area at the begining and grab the guns and ammo there that no one ever does and is afraid to go to. Zombie spawns are often rich with guns because not many have the skill to get there.

[JackTheRipper]

you are deranged

[jackass77780]

you are deranged

nope im just a winner and I will do anything except glitching/hacking to do so.

[Stabbing Hobo]

but im doing a favor to the team by helping new players figure out where all the weapons are and giving them a chance to play into the later parts of the round.. therefore giving them more experience making them better players.... cus its not fun to die in the first 5 seconds of the game as a survivor right?

And taking lots of weapons meanwhile? You're contradicting your own statements.

nope im just a winner and I will do anything except glitching/hacking to do so.

To me it seems you're not trying to survive, you're trying to max out your frags.

[jackass77780]

And taking lots of weapons meanwhile? You're contradicting your own statements.

To me it seems you're not trying to survive, you're trying to max out your frags.

It's not like im taking ALL the guns on the map. Just 2 or 3 at max

yes in fact i did say to take a lot of weapons, do you realize that giving all the guns to noob=instant lose for your team? Because they wander out, get lost and die most of the time. Instead try getting 2 good guns and once you meet up with other survivors hand out your other gun to a good player who doesn't have one.

maybe you need to take a step back and evaluate whats good for the team.... and not label everyone "gun hoarders".

What is wrong with maxing out frags? In zps maps the more frags you have the more you are taking away from zombie respawns, therefore helping your team by having less zombies to deal with.

Even in ZPO maps fragging zombies ensures that they will be dead before they can hunt down your teammates that are doing objectives. Don't you realize if you can make a big noise that zombies will attack YOU instead of protect objectives.

There is nothing wrong with fragging... what's wrong is noobs who think they can frag but get killed with rifle, magnum, shotgun and a 100 ammo in the middle of a room where no human can recover it. THAT IS WHY I LABELED my gun/spawnkilling tips as ADVANCED.

[Werewolf]

If you run off with the big guns, the newbies will never get used to using them. You're prolonging their newbiedom.

If you think they're a newb, tell them to stick with the group and advise them on how to not die, don't yank the gun out of their hands (figuratively speaking) and claim it's because "They'd just lose it anyways". It's generally perceived by any new player as a dickish thing to do.

Helping out newbies helps turn them into good players more than going "Hurr, newbies" and hunkering down in a hiding spot with two rifles.

[Stabbing Hobo]

When you say "noob", I assume you mean "newbie" There's a difference:
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20060823.jpg

If there are newbies on the server, they pretty much do as you tell them, not to mention teaching them to rely on you by constantly telling them what to do and giving weapons. As the experienced player you'll easily get enough confidence to effectively lead a group of newbies. And, since they have weapons, they can defend themselves from incoming zombos, even if you're busy doing something else.
Besides, this way they'll learn to play much faster.


I my opinion, "Noobs" are the ones who grab at least three weapons, (Proper weapons) all the ammunition they find and hole up in some vent waiting for everyone else to die.

[jackass77780]

When you say "noob", I assume you mean "newbie" There's a difference:
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20060823.jpg

If there are newbies on the server, they pretty much do as you tell them, not to mention teaching them to rely on you by constantly telling them what to do and giving weapons. As the experienced player you'll easily get enough confidence to effectively lead a group of newbies. And, since they have weapons, they can defend themselves from incoming zombos, even if you're busy doing something else.
Besides, this way they'll learn to play much faster.


I my opinion, "Noobs" are the ones who grab at least three weapons, (Proper weapons) all the ammunition they find and hole up in some vent waiting for everyone else to die.

i disagree i never learned the game this way. I learned it by myself actually, when i was a "newb" i stuck around with the vets all i did was rely on them to cover my butt and follow them around. In this way I never learned the maps because i was always busy following around some guy rather than pay attention to the landmarks and which way i should go. It's only when i learned I had to pull my own weight and cover my own ??? that i started to get better and better.

Until you can learn to cover your own ???, you will have a hard time covering your teamates ???. if your dead your useless to your team.

[Neliel]

Here's a hint. It's better to have covering fire from a noob rather than you being as slow as an elephant and an easy target for zombies.

[The Pyro]

Spawn killing is one of the worse things you can do in my mind. I tend to slay people who do that, cause it isn't exactly fun to spawn with 5 humans with rifles blowing your zombie brains all over the floor.

Multiple spawn points? Then sure camp the hell out of one of the spots. But when it is one spawn point, its just not fun for zombies.

Admin Abuse much? You have to use a lot of ammo up for it anyways.

[Oblivion]

Admin Abuse much? You have to use a lot of ammo up for it anyways.

Yeah if the humans do that, they tend to burn alot more ammo required to kill the zombie.

[Fenrix]

Spawn camping gets you warned and kicked from scramble pit if you do it again.

It's cheap, its mean and it gives the zombies no chance to even play the game, 2 seconds of life then headshot by 3 mags and a rifle.

I find that newbies are best cared for, if they are treated well and given backup, they learn much faster and are much more likely to continue playing zombie panic, those who get stiffed, cant find a gun and get repeatedly killed by zombies usually rage quit.

and for your info.

if a skilled human decides to spawncamp and he has a full AK and a full mag, he can potentially kill upwards of 20 zombies...
sure a poor player will get killed quite fast in an attempted spawn camp, usually wasting a clip per zombie.
or 3 mag rounds per zombie.

its the skilled players who get punished on scramble pit, newbies who try it rarely last long enough for anyone to bother complaining.

[Cpt_Rhodes]

What does the panic botton do (i never use it)

[Dutch]

Spawn killing is one of the most heartless taboos of ZPS, which while brutal ...works! Now, you usually wind up pissing everyone off, making the whole server go wild with ban requests wasting everyone's time, and fun.

Griefing to win is pretty selfish if you ask me. I don't think it's a good addition to the other info you included.

[riDDi]

Seriously. Don't give rifles to inexperienced players. Where do they know weapons from? CS, HL, Battlefield, etc. Basically games where you can waste all the ammo you want and find/buy more easily. So what happens when such a player sees a zombie in his proximity? He pumps the whole mag into that single zombo. Well, most of it into the wall behind it.
For starters, pistols are good weapons. Let them gain experience with pistols. That will show them how valuable ammo is. Once they've learned that they can have all the weapons they want - one at a time.

Of course, a noob with a rifle is better than no company at all ;) To scare off the zombos at least.

[Jarhchief]

A few maps have Spawn protection anyway, But the maps that don't especially small maps, neither team shouldnt get spawn killed.