Railgun Tips

Enrico · Registered User Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 137

I dont know if anyone will call this a "tip", mostly because of a strong dislike for the railgun, but its not that bad. The slugs themselves are pretty powerful per shot so it will only take 10 or 15 good hits to take down a medium class. The big problems with it are that the slugs have a travel time and carry your momentum (if you are shooting while sidestepping, they will move slightly in your direction), but if you can lead the shots its not that bad. Also, the ever vigalant spy checkers will knock you around a lot too. Now i know that the Super Shotgun surpasses the rail in most catagories but its spread is a problem. Its great for taking pot shots at snipers and sgs at long range, but because they have travel time, they dont work so well against long range moving targets.

PondScum007 · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 6:27 pm Post subject:

yeh you aniled me a few times with the railgun today; it cure can be put to good use...ive even gibbed foxbots with it, dunno how though but its hillaiour wathing bot after bot explode from being hit with the green splet ;>

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MagicVissil · Registered User Joined: 03 Mar 2002 Posts: 34

Pondscum, how do you get that signature, its cool.

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Bada Bing · Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 11:22 am Post subject:

The railgun is intended to kill sgs and does so very quickly

It also works well to point out the enemy to teamates if you are low on shotgun shells or you are reloading

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BitterBeerFace · Posted: Thu May 02, 2002 11:48 am Post subject:

The RailGun can also be useful as "suppressing fire"... basically long distance spam. Since people can see it coming, you never hit anything with it, but it makes them move/duck... which can let you or a teammate advance freely. It's also nice since it has a HUGE ammo clip... no reloading needed.

I think it's safe to say that "good engies" don't run around with it, since an engie with a railgun should basically have a big red arrow over his head that says "I'm a nOOb or a Spy, just shoot me!" If you do run around with the RailGun out, please please please just shoot it once when you see teammates... then if they start shooting at you, they're the nOObs, not you!

three_gunn · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 11:19 am Post subject:

i used to use the railgun a lot, i saw it as a panic weapon...someone mentioned earlier how it can surpress-thats a perfect explanation of it...i saw it as a panic weapon because of its amount of repetative fire...i would spray my "star wars" type laser into someones direction for awhile(hopefully being accurate hehe)...they then would start losing their concentration and panic...looking for resupply bags for the armor im constantly stripping off(then as soon as he/she finds a resupply bag, i get punished beyond belief)

SoDum · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 2:47 am Post subject:

South-American Fire Ant · Registered User Joined: 25 Feb 2002 Posts: 26

i gotta tip...

don't use the railgun.

XEPT maybe for sgs! but thats it!

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