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[Siquo]

The flamer does that, too.
Really, I often use it in the dark as a "alien detector", as it clearly marks them for your teammates to shoot at.
Once you got the flame+gun one-two going, it's really fast.

[Sowelu]

What DOES auto-aim do?  If I get really lucky with my mouse placement, I see a little red box over an enemy, and it seems to last until I move my mouse very far away.  It certainly doesn't lock on from much of a range.

Though it did kind of seem to help me aim down at critters on a lower level.

[Ivefan]

your character will aim at the targeted creature. simple as that. Good for shooting down flyers when there isn't a flamer or Tesla around but dont really matter otherwise.

[Sowelu]

And how can I keep it locked on?  The lock seems to disappear really fast...


Also, you know what I'd really like to see from the server modding community?

Automated random level generation with no user intervention, and the ability to manually level up your character based on server-specific XP--or even better yet, multiple servers can talk to the same community stat tracker.

[Ivefan]

And how can I keep it locked on?  The lock seems to disappear really fast...

Keep the mouse in that direction? its a good thing that it does not 'stick' to a target as there might be higher priority targets closing in.

[Ozyton]

Flares are underused IMO.. I like to use flares sometimes.

Flares are especially good against those little flying enemies, and for situations where there's high chances you'll accidentally shoot a teammate...

[forsaken1111]

situations where there's high chances you'll accidentally shoot a teammate...

Judging by the games I have played so far, this is ALWAYS.

Nothing says "Thanks for healing me" like a shotgun blast to the face and a "whoops thot u wer alien"!

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Hm.  I haven't ever had anyone actually say something that retarded to me when they shoot me.  I did just recently have a team mate in the reactor level who suddenly decided to start shooting me repeatedly with an autogun while we were supposed to be defending that first ridiculously slow opening door.  After I lost about a fourth of my health to him I started firing back, assuming he'd turned TKing fucktard... and of course I'm the one who gets yelled at because I have the more obvious weapon.  Thankfully he stopped trying to kill me after that for whatever reason.

[Rilder]

This game fails simply cause you can't see the pings of games... >.>

[Zai]

This game fails simply cause you can't see the pings of games... >.>

You can, but only in the lobbies, which you go back to before each new nap. You have to click the thumbs up button.

[Cerej]

Actually, you can open up the "Call a Vote" menu at any moment to check your ping.  Certainly not elegant, but it's doable.

[Thexor]

Your personal ping can be constantly checked via "net_graph 1", while everybody else's ping can be checked through the roundabout method of "Call a vote".



There's no way to check lobby pings, but I've never had a serious issue with that - it seems like the game has some kind of built-in cutoff for ultra-high-ping games, at the very least. It's a pity they don't have a server browser, but I'll forgive Valve for wanting a test bed to refine their matchmaking system. (Goodness knows, they need it!)

[umiman]

Press F8 to check your pings in game.

[Rilder]

Press F8 to check your pings in game.

Thank you though that doesn't help if your trying to get into a game that won't lag to hell...

[umiman]

Press F8 to check your pings in game.

Thank you though that doesn't help if your trying to get into a game that won't lag to hell...

Type in openserverbrowser to the console, mate.