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Re: Brought it on!

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From: Big Bill
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:26
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:31:44 -0700, sittingduck
<you.love.sitting-duck@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

>Big Bill wrote:
>
>>>Do you have all your weapons bound to specific keys? Or are you still
>>>using the scroll wheel?
>> 
>> I haven't learned how to use things yet. I collect odd stuff and it
>> gets stored and I don't use it. I have no idea yet how to teleport -
>> is that bad? 
>
>If you have the personal teleporter, you activate it with your ENTER key. I 
>have ENTER bound to one of the thumb buttons on my mouse, making it very 
>easy. Here are some examples of weapon binds.
>//weapons
>bind t "weapon 4" //nades
>bind r "weapon 5" //Rocket
>bind g "weapon 1" //Gauntlet
>bind v "weapon 2" // Machine Gun
>bind w "weapon 7" //rail gun
>bind z "weapon 9" //BFG
>bind BACKSPACE "weapon 6" //LG  <---mousewheel click
>bind MOUSE3 "weapon 6" //LG
>bind MWHEELDOWN "weapon 3" //shotgun
>bind MWHEELUP ""weapon 8" //plasma
>bind MOUSE1 "+attack"
>You can manually change them in Quake III Arena\baseq3\q3config.cfg, open it 
>with notepad and find the settings there. Better is to create a text file 
>called autoexec.cfg and put it in \baseq3. Then put your custom binds and 
>settings in that file. that way you won't overwrite them, and you can exec it 
>when you play diff. mods.

It's like I'm just playing the game and you guys are all playing the
software, that's something you have to beat too.

>>>Have you learned to hog the good weapons and armor yet?
>> 
>> I have to say no, I haven't learned to hog anything. I am learning to
>> use distance in some circumstances, that works in a one on one. If you
>> know where he's gonna pop out of, and you stand just the right
>> distance away, you can pop him but he doesn't hurt you so much. Got to
>> get it just right though. 
>
>Don't get too used to sitting and waiting, you need to learn how to do things 
>at FULL SPEED, and keep moving. Otherwise, when there is a crowd, you will be 
>blasted to bits. But you already experience that, I'm sure. :)

I like to stand off to one side and blast the others when they're all
involved with each other. But I do have to go one on one sometimes
too. I don't much like it. I'm a third of the way through the hurt me
plentys now.

BB

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