TIPS & TRICKS

Welcome to Clan KRT's Q3 PKARENA Tips And Tricks page . Here we have links to some good newbie sites and hopefully will be able to provide some tips and tricks for learning and/or for fun.

TIP OF THE MONTH
If you see this guy:

RUN!!!! Don't walk.

PKARENA TIPS:
There are many things that can help you survive in the pkarena world, these following tips are aimed mainly to newbies who have probably seen some of us hardcore players do these things and can't figure out how is done:

Autosentry tricks- The autosentry is an invaluable little helper, not only as an offensive weapon to guard an area while you camp :-) or to just slowly drain life out of your opponents, but as a great defensive shield. You should bind autosentry to an easily accessible key. It partially repel the chainlightning gun beam and railgun shots. It is not 100% protection, but it significantly decreases the rate at which you lose life points as well as draining life out of your opponents from the reflected beams. A quaded player will die very quickly if fires a chainlightning gun at a person shielded by the autosentry. To use this technique just hold the autosentry facing the direction of your opponent. If your opponent sees you're holding an autosentry then most likely he'll switch to another weapon, so be ready to counteract or strike.

Airfist Tricks- The airfist has many standard uses such as blowing people into lava pools :-) or airfist jumping to high places, or of course one of its main uses, blowing back (repelling) rockets or grenades shot at you by opponents. One of the less known tricks of the airfist is to greatly increase your travelling speed. YESSIR! have airfist- will travel, a lil' airfist travellin' music please! All you need to do is airjump once and turn opposite the direction you wanna go and blow horizontally. With practice you can probably blow a couple times in different directions to accomodate a winding corridor for example, and is one of the most effective methods of escaping when your health is low or someone is quaded or thrwing a gravity well.
Another airfist trick is for grenade or gravity well push- If you have a grenade launcher, try this next time, go to a significantly large open area or large corridor, blow the airfist once and quickly launch a grenade, see how fast and far that sucker goes!
It works the same with the gravity well, make sure you blow FIRST, then VERY QUICKLY throw the gravity well, otherwise yer arse gets buried in the carcass fields, unless you remember to use that sirfist speed travelling trick! With the implementation of gravity well deploy with the tongue (grappling hook), most people do not use the airfist-well push, but I do, cause it gets to the other side a lot faster and it does not make that alerting grappling hook sound as well as the highly visible pink tongue of the hook that lets everyone know you're deploying a well.

Chainlight jumping- YUP!, bet you didn't know that one you hardcore gamer- Of course it has VERY limited use, but done at the right time it will get you some kills and a nice high jump. So far I do not understand why or how it happens, but it does , and I use it. It works in rather shallow pools of liquids and of course you need to have the enviro protection or you'd fry yer butt, you also need to have a good reason to do it because that maneuver will deplete all your cells and you'd be left with a useless chainlightgun till you find more ammo. So far I have been able to do it in PQarena-pk and my favorite pksphinx for PKARENA3. I get the chainlightgun, then get the enviro, skinnydipp into the hot lava pool and fire that sucker, the blast usually fries some unsuspecting player in the field of view and makes me jump way high, sometimes if aimed correctly I can even get to the red armor in the upper deck, which conveniently also has ammo to replenish my chainlight gun.

Boomstick jump- Boomstick is a fritendly term used to describe the shotgun with the exploding shells, and it can be used to jump just
like a rocketjump, although not that high, probably half that heigth, but it is a very good trick to know.

Chainlightning gun boogie!- Hehhh, the chainlightning gun differs from the lightning gun in vanill quake III Arena in that it has the ability to seek and hook to adjacent players, so you may hook several players at once and fry them.
A very neat trick though is that you can fire at dead players parts scattered in the floor and still be able to hook adjacent players.
It is extremely funny to keep firing at dead players when you hear someone approaching cause they'll get hooked as soon as they step in and even funnier if someone also happens to respawn nearby cause they'll fry too. In quake 1 You could even fire at a sentry and it would hook players, but I haven't been succesful in doing that in PKARENA, I don't think it can be done.

Well I hope these tricks have some use for you, if I think of anymore, I'll be posting them here.

Sites for newbies and general information:

	Hifever's newbie page . It's Quake 1 PK, but everything applies to Q3PKarena.
	Hifever's Airfist page- Good tips on using the good'ol airfist
	Blakjack's Feel The Pain site - The most complete PKarena sites in webland.

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