A Blink Stragety For You Fades Out There

Wormtail · February 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Also how to use blink PROPERLY!</div> USE BLINK!!!!

BLINK TELEPORTS YOU, so you move around faster

you can use it to your combat and others advantage.

REMEMBER:

you can either just blink normally and miss (miss meaning failing)60% of the time (dumbhead way, unles the place your're teleporting to is HUGE AND CLEAR)

crouching and blink while your crouch helps you teleport so you wont miss.

whereever you point the crosshair with blink, that's where you head will be.

SO DON't aim so close to the ground and waste energy.

jumping and blinking might help.

jumping, crouching in mid-air, and blinking while crouched in mid-air makes it 90% no failure!!!! WOOT

Using to combat advantages:

you can use this to escape fairy fast from enemies

you can use blink to do the old 'he's there, no he's there!' stragety

"he's there, no he's there!" stragety...

step 1: near a marine base, as a fade, shoot at their base

step 2: it gets a marine to come over and shoot ya down.

Step 3: when he comes, hide behind the wall

Step 4: blink to the other side of the wall

Step 5: he looks at your old spot, and sees nothing

step 6: you shoot the marine from behind with acid rocket

step 6 (alternative): you go up to the marine and claw him down from behind.

step 7: now do whatever you want.

here's a diagram of the stragety:

l
l
l
l
l
( fade)
(acid rocket) >>>>>>>>> (Marine)

l
l
l
l

Step 2 of diagram..

l
l
l
(fade hides) l

<<<<<<<< (Marine comes over)

l
l
l
l

Step three of diagram:

l
l
^ l
< poof > l
^
^
^ ? ? ?
(Marine looks this way) (marine gets confused)

(fade has blinked here) l
l
l
l

Step 4.....

l
l
l
(marine) l
^
^
^
(acid rocket)

l
(Fade shoots at him) l
l
l

WEll, that's the stragety.
Hope it helps you fade lovers out there.

DID this stragety help you?

Any flaws to this stragety?

got new ideas for strageties?

Post em up here.

Wormtail · February 2003

sry my diagram messed up, i hope you still can see what i mean!

ainfect · February 2003

wow

iwilleatyou · February 2003

or people can utilize common sense and read the manual. or even just hit "3" during a game and try it a few times... really, its not hard. just curious though, does it really do one slash damage if you hit someone? ive never seen a blink kill, but im pretty sure it says so in the manual

ZERG · February 2003

Here's my strategy:

Go into a big room. Face straight upward, ninty degrees. Hit blink. And keep doing so. Keep hitting blink until out of energy and ultimately gaining so much speed from falling you kill yourself. Good job, you've used blink.

furyk · February 2003

if u are a "conscious" marine you would see the blue trail from the blink and would immeaditely turn to the area where it goes....

Shockeh · February 2003

furyk - I can blink behind marines, above marines, damn well anywhere I please in the right areas. And they don't get to me fast enough to not get chopped up. =)

DoADrunkMonkey · February 2003

yes blink is good, i used to use it.

but i just can`t stand having to spend time waiting to gesetate, getting the traits. the blinking and get stuck in things. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'>

so i only use slash, acid and bile from now on so i can be sure that i don`t have to kill myself.
man, it jus pisses me off that i coudl`nt do bugger all for the team cos i was in the floor.

p4Samwise · February 2003

Redemption helps a bit. It lets you blink into the marine base without having to worry about an escape plan, AND, if you get stuck, as long as a marine shoots you, you've got a good chance of getting out of it.

I just recently tried using blink with Carapace instead of Redem for the first time, though, and I liked it. The extra armor gave me all the time I needed to get out of the base the hard way. And it was downright demoralizing for the marines.

(This was on ns_eclipse)

*door opens*
Marines: AAA! FADE! (hmg and grens fired at me)
Me: BLINK! *poof*
Marines: Hunh? (grens miss)
Me: Surprise! *claw claw claw*
Marines: AAAAA MY SPLEEN! (two of them die while I run around the room like a blender)
Surviving marine: DIE! *bammity bam bam bam*
Me: Okay I love you bye bye! BLINK! *poof*

And I'm gone, leaving little pieces of marine all over their base in my wake.

Trevelyan_006 · February 2003

ah the DEVASTATION...

man i wish i knew how to work blink well... but many fades do not yet (considering how i never really have been killed by a blink using fade yet) so i guess i am normal...

IMHO, i feel skulk owns fades, i sit with 66 res... letting my team build and build theirs <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

kaxman · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (iwilleatyou @ Feb 28 2003, 12:08 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> or people can utilize common sense and read the manual. or even just hit "3" during a game and try it a few times... really, its not hard. just curious though, does it really do one slash damage if you hit someone? ive never seen a blink kill, but im pretty sure it says so in the manual  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Yeah...you should probably take your own advice and read the manual...

I do declare, any strategic contribution, any viewpoint, should be welcomed. You aren't <i>welcoming</i>!

A fade that uses more blink is a happier fade that kills lots of rines.

TheHornet · February 2003

Blink is the best fade weapon, but too many people under estimate it and dont use it at all. I dont think it does any damage. I remember one time i was flying around as a jetpacking marine and there was a fade chasing me who kept blinking near me to keep up, and in a small hallway he ended up blinking inside of me. that was alot of fun, floating in mid air inside of each other.

p4Samwise · February 2003

How romantic.

Was he able to claw you to pieces from inside, or did one of you have to /kill?

Windelkron · February 2003

blink is absolutely wonderful, especially on eclipse. Me, a lerk, and a skulk had just taken down a phase+turretfarm at Eclipse command and we had to hold down the fort until a gorge arrived to put up the hive. I killed 6 heavily equipped marines like butter. I would stay in the pit, and when a fool came around the corner to shoot at us, I'd blink over to the wall. That wall (with computers on it, in front of resnode) is good for bilnking against. I took down HMGers, LMGers, jetpackers, you name it. (Jetpackers are a little harder, but you have acid rocket for a reason <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>) Then they sent down a GL marine. He fires nades where you're standing? Blink away. I ended up clawing that fool out of midair.

Lead · March 2003

Just so you don't fill a post with it in the future, its <b>strategy</b>

Rion · March 2003

Blink is great.. when it works..

Church · March 2003

blink=ridiculously good on ns_eclipse's marine start. As a cara/celrity fade I think I managed to kill 17 marines over 3 minutes on my own by just blinkng in, slashing, then running/blinking back out to my d chambers. I never died once.

Pod · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lead @ Mar 1 2003, 06:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Just so you don't fill a post with it in the future, its <b>strategy</b>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
actually what he posted is more of a tactic <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

LeetVegeTa · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([p4]Samwise @ Feb 28 2003, 02:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
*door opens*
Marines: AAA! FADE! (hmg and grens fired at me)
Me: BLINK! *poof*
Marines: Hunh? (grens miss)
Me: Surprise! *claw claw claw*
Marines: AAAAA MY SPLEEN! (two of them die while I run around the room like a blender)
Surviving marine: DIE! *bammity bam bam bam*
Me: Okay I love you bye bye! BLINK! *poof*

And I'm gone, leaving little pieces of marine all over their base in my wake.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
rofl fade blender

3ncrypted_zer0 · March 2003

Why can't I even blink? I'm standing there and blinking but I don't move I'm wasting energy but I don't move lol!

Plus: How do you blink through wall?

11alex · March 2003

I've played on a server once in a while where typing /stuck gets you unstuck... blinking is so much better there. Anyone know which one in particular? I forget.

If you still don't know how to blink -- crouch, aim up a little above where you want to go, and make sure the wall is flat or else you have a decent chance of getting stuck.

[11]alex

That_Annoying_Kid · March 2003

Blink is a very very good "attack" I use it all the time as a Fade now, you can cause so much havoc with just one Fade.
<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Mustard · March 2003

Hmmm...I use the ns_eclipse marine start one myself too. Either with carapace, which means I blink out when I get low on health and blink my way back to the D chambers, or with redemption, in which case I just slap away with the claws until I redeem. Its amazing how long it take some marines to realise that you have just 'wooshed' straight past them, and they are about to cop some claws in the back. Anytime I encounter a marine in an open corridoor, I like to mix it up with some blinking, especially the initial attack.

I've got the blink onto the refinery hive in ns_bast down to a fine art too. If any jetpacker comes in, I can blink straight up on top of the hive and either swipe him directly or acid spam him, as he flies around.

I've worked out most of the dangerous areas to use blink on different maps, so I rarely get stuck. We have the /stuck plugin now on the server, anyway, so its all good. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Fennec_Fox · March 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([11]alex @ Mar 4 2003, 04:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I've played on a server once in a while where typing /stuck gets you unstuck... blinking is so much better there. Anyone know which one in particular? I forget.

If you still don't know how to blink -- crouch, aim up a little above where you want to go, and make sure the wall is flat or else you have a decent chance of getting stuck.

[11]alex  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
A lot more servers are starting to incorporate this, due to the major stuck issues on both teams (commanders pinning marines down like butterflies with turrets, gorges getting too close to RNs...) I know that Donce actually has /stuck and /unstuck (which works better).

As far as blinking goes, it's my primary method of transportation when it comes to being a fade. It can get you into vents very easily (especially on Hera, the one vent from Holo that leads to the marine start), it can get you out of a sticky situation with three marines, and it's just all around demoralizing to be unable to shoot your enemy.

To the fellow who posted the 'blue trail' comment, actually, that 'blue trail' only exists at the point you blink from and the point you blink to. It's not like the jetpack which lets out a nice continuous stream of blueness.

Blinking -through- walls is an iffy endeavour. There seems to be no sure method for doing it, and the few times I've done it seems to have been pure luck. As far as I can tell, you need to be roughly 10 - 20 meters away from the wall you want to blink through, facing it perpendicular to the surface you're going to go through, and the wall cannot be much thicker than the blastdoors on Hera. I shall not forget the time I blinked out of the marine base after they attempted to seal me inside on Hera, however. IMO, Fade combat is one of the most exciting parts of NS, especially when done right. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Oh, and my fade combo? Cara/Adren/Scent of Fear or Enhanced Hivesight (SoF because it acts like parasite for wounded marines and hivesight because it lets you see those ridiculously tiny grenades.)

Wormtail · March 2003

OH joy, when you blink and a marine appears in front of me:

"marine # 1 : "HAHAAH DIE YOU ALIENS!!! " (fires 3 grenades)

"marine # 2: " Yup gotta love fire and dead aliens!" (fires 50 hmg bullets)

alien peeps: "AHHHHH WERE DYING!!!! *BAM BZOOM BBBBZZZZ BROSH!!*

fade (me): " DIEYOU DASTARDLY *BEEP* *poof*

marine #1 : huh? where is he?

fade (me): "DIE SUCKER!!" *poof* (appears in front of marine # 2)

marine # 2 : "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

fade (me) *claw claw claw *

marine # 2 dies....

marine # 1 : HOLY SH** DIE YOU!!"

fade (me) *poof* (reappears beside marine #1)

Fade: " why hello there!" *CLAW CLAW CLAW

Forfeit · March 2003

Blink is also great way to move faster in the map. Instead of running around, just blink. Blink is great in elevators, where instead of waiting for the damw elevator to rise, you just blink to the top of it. Also if you are using carapace instead or regen, you can blink into action, do your damage, blink out of it, and blink until you reach a dc to heal yourself.

Something great is to go to the marines base and blink from one side of the base to the other. That way you can kill marines that were hiding behind doors/wall/buildings from behind.

I always jump and crouch while using blink. It works all the times, but you have to known how to do it.

Gimpy_Doodly_Doo · March 2003

I want to be able to use blink to get around on ns_missilecomand_final3 so I can get from the middle thingy to the top where the hives are without dieing all the time when I do not hit above the platform. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

Pfhreak · March 2003

You can blink through many entities... Doors, elevators, things of that nature (I think that's one reason people often get stuck. They blink halfway through the entity before hitting the floor wall or ceiling.)

A Blink Stragety For You Fades Out There

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