Gameplay Tips Megathread: Redux

Never!!!

 

28. Play engy. Don't bother with anything but the calculator.
29. Play engy again.
30. Repeat #29 until you earn Pacifist.

 

I earned "Pacifist" during a PUG

 

Always treat your commanders like shit, its teaching him how to manage stress and makes them less inclined to be shit.

Sometimes I just wake up at night hearing the echo screaming in my head.
"U wot m8?"

 

@hexi , your fifth one just be a little bit changed, when fighting a gren you want to bait him into firing but keep your eyes on him so you can see what direction he's shooting for, then just sprint out of the way and towards him

 

shoot nme
dont die

 

correct, but you should also be watching around yourself (mostly after he fired) so you dont get over run by APC or shot from back or etc.. (happens SO OFTEN in these situations) ... Big mistake fully focusing on one enemy.
(but, right you probably didnt meant it so literally)

Learn how players react/move and then use this to your advantage.
To be honest most empires players move/react/do almost the same way (no offense )
And also, always do/move in a way that nobody would expect you to.

 

Exactly.

 

If I'm reloading the mortar, and I see someone in my peripheral, I often reload looking away from him, to try to pretend as if I haven't seen him yet. It's amazing how many people fall for this trick, and crouch and open fire, whereupon I snap aim to their location and mortar them.

 

Protip: Squad target is wallhacks.

 

That's cute.

Also, tips:
On comm maps, always choose repair upgrade as initial Engineer skill.

If you don't have turret upgrade, don't drop turrets at frontline.

 

Also revive someone instead of repairing your own turret. Seriously I fucking saw that happen lots of times.

 

Youre getting teabagged next time i see you for promoting this shit.

 

Okay. Challenge Accepted.

Sadly, this is not situation-dependent at all.

By initial skill, I mean the one you pick as you first spawn.
I am not telling you to stick to it until the 2nd skill is unlocked.

 

you guys forgot protip #00 If you installed empires you are already a noob.

 

These are variables, they do affect the gameplay, but they don't fuck with your decision here, take some time to think about why.

I am NOT saying there's absolutely zero circumstance under which revive is better than repair upgrade as initial skill.

But the points are :
(1)Repair upgrade is better in MUCH more scenarios than revive, as initial skill.

(2)For the extremely rare scenarios in which revive is better than repair upgrade as initial skill, these scenarios are too specific that there's no way in hell you can predict their existence beforehand.

So, you should always pick repair upgrade as initial skill, because you will have much more chance to do much more things than revive.

No offense at all, but for all tips that I am giving, they are coming from my nearly 10k hours of life spent on Empires(90% of which are Engineer hours), and I actually contemplated before posting them.

 

I would say that there are factors that play into it. For example, if you have three engineers in an area in the start, then it's a very good idea to have two with repair and one with revive. If you're heading towards a part of a map that's unlikely to need or allow buildings, then it'd be better to have revive upgrade. Or say you're heading to dam on mvalley. I would find it best to have one revive and one repair engineer because there's not much use for repair upgrade until you get past the dam, but revive would be very useful.

Now if you're the only engineer in an area, repair should be your first skill. However, that rarely happens, and above all instead of making generalizations about what skill to get, the best thing to do is to coordinate with the people around you.