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some of my secrets, just this once ;) - qweqqweq - 2009-04-11 As a way of making amends for venting my rage yesterday and being a jerk-off i'm going to post a 1 time only secret tips post now. most of this knowledge and tricks I usually only share with my clanmates and friends. to be honest most my clan mates don't get better very fast or even read this advice because they aren't as serious about winning like i am so it's kind of wasted on them. Today i feel like, "what the hell, why not let eveyone know if they're curious?" i'm really a nice guy, not a bad guy. ![]() i play with sound effects over any other noise in my room cause there are lots and lots and lots of useful sounds in the game so even if i got ventrilo on or music playing i always have sound effects volume to where i can hear it. i always hide terrain so i can see all units, tanks, creeps, and building. you don't need team color if you do that and seeing grey is no problem. i always leave hp bars on, it's clicked out to permanently on in my gameplay options menu. i pick yellow if i can on dark force so i will look like a gold mine on the mini map and i pick grey on light force so anyone not hiding terrain will have a tough time seeing me on the min-map. i use an autohotkey editor program,. If you want to try it then first go to http://www.autohotkey.com and download and install the software. Next copy the following text to your clipboard and then paste it to to a blank notepad document. Code: ; Battle Tanks !! v.1 Once you've pasted this to a blank notepad document save it as any name you want on yoiur desktop. End the file name with .ahk though. For example, I saved mine as "btanks.ahk" Once you've saved it, the file should look like a peice of paper with a capital "H" on it. Double click it to activate it. after you double click it the running script will make an icon on your toolbar, bottom right of your desktop, that looks like a white capital "H" on a green background. hit page up and page down to suspend and un-suspend the script while it's running. In the bottom right icon on your desktop The H will turn into an S when it's suspended and you should hear some beeps when u turn it off and on. I recomend suspending it unless you're in game. If you ever need to make more changes to this then right click either the the icon on the bottom right or the actual file itself on the desktop and select "edit script" make sure to read my notes. put in your league password where i have the 7 x's and also use the 6 key action to find your mouse coordinates. Then just don't forget to re-save and reload. Hope you like this and have fun with it! here's some illustrations i drew that try to help explain how i use the script i wrote for btanks. if anyone's interested in a ladder script that doesn't use any macros let me know i'm still working on that though. [attachment=0] my theories on tank build principles are sort of numerous and dissorganized so i'll just say this: some tanks are better for base and cp battles like hunter tanks, earth tanks, flying tanks etc. tanks with stuns are better for team ganking like antigravs, thunder tanks, demon tanks, etc. usually with gank tanks you try to kill the enemy first then go take cps or destroy their base. but with cp battle type tanks you should try to push to the cp or base and then kill the enemy there all at once at the end of the push. I think it's sometimes ok to get all gank tanks but getting all cp battle type tanks is sometimes not as effective. earth tank and sky fortress are (at the time i'm posting this) in my opinion by far the best tanks you can get for a 1vs1. i hope this is helpful to some one. sorry if it's not usefull to you. keep in mind that i'm not the best player around so some of what i know and do may not be the best. **edit: oh ya, one other important peice of advice i'd like to give anyone who gives a shit is to never play under stressed conditions. when you play without stress you can concentrate more and have fun. but if you play a game that you "have to win" or "need to win" and you think you might loose or you do loose than your body will make you sick or get a head-ache or just zone out. it's like the difference when playing when you're well rested and healthy vs when you try to play when you're hungry and/or sick or somthing. Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - Princess_Bob - 2009-04-11 I voted 2 because you either do things similar to me, or in a fashion I have tried and jsut simply did not prefer. It is always nice to see similarities though ![]() Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - Morkardar - 2009-04-12 Not useful Third party tools are most commonly not accepted in professional gaming :=P Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - BENNIE.FM - 2009-04-12 Ignore morkardar hes always negative^^ nice job ahah so much effort i gues. Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - Princess_Bob - 2009-04-12 I did find the drawing amusing ![]() Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - Dr.McNinja - 2009-04-12 lol i wonder who voted 10. Edit for mr. Q: /s Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - qweqqweq - 2009-04-12 it was me ![]() I'm glad some one appreciated that finger position illustration. i comishioned a little-known microsoft paint artist to do that illustration for me. perhaps you've noticed and admired some of his earlier works, my current avatar for instance? (it's me also) i watched a couple youtube videos of top ladder players playing where the videos focused on their keyboards before deciding to go ahead and post my autohotkey information. while they were getting 400 to 500 apm or whatever i noticed that they were using a lot of hotkeys and i never saw them touching the number pad keys once. i saw one guy was using binding with a special keyboard so that he could keep his left hand anchored like i do. with the exception of the 2 macros that i have for fast pinging and dropping hulls i don't think i'm doing anything out of the ordinary. i'm just not putting any macros in the ladder scripts i'm working on. i wonder what one of those special apm counter programs would say i got. the btanks apm counter said i got as high as 250 a couple times but i don't think that even counts half my actions. I noticed when i'm lagging and have a big delay my apm doesn't register as high. maybe i'm wrong though, i know i saw one guy who was just going crazy with his left hand and clicking all over the keyboard. it looked like he wasn't using any custom hotkeys, but even he never used the number pads so i'm asuming he had at least something binded for his item slots. what made you think that hotkeys are looked down upon? Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - Bhangbhangduc - 2009-04-13 And I thought I was clever for using AHK to type in {enter}-zoom 4000{enter}{enter}-w{enter}{enter}-notips{enter} with a single keypress I never tried actually using it for anything in game Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - qweqqweq - 2009-04-13 now -w is not needed unless u want to turn it on i think. same for -e now i think. i used to have them in the 9 macro but i took them out. Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - ChronicStoned - 2009-04-13 i voted 6 because i don't know anything about scripts and such stuff->just confused me Oo i have logitech g11 where i can do my own macros aswell and it is helpfull indeed->own macros are best ones ![]() i like the picture a lot ![]() Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - Althend - 2009-04-13 Easier useful tups: When you have an azerty keyboard, just push ctrl and alt to switch to qwerty... :p Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - qweqqweq - 2009-04-15 oh man, i can't believe i forgot my most secret and bestest tip! if you type "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, a, b, a, a, b, b, select, start" you can get 99 free lives! Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - Dr.McNinja - 2009-04-15 If you press up, down, left, alt q, a, a, a, b, right, b, right, left, q, a, up you can get a hidden tank. But it must be in that order and you cannot press anything else or click the mouse. Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - qweqqweq - 2009-04-15 oh ya, i forgot that one too, that's a good one, thank you for reminding me. and i just learned this new secret tip from the pros too: if you shoot a hooker and stuff her dead carcass in your compuer for 12 months the magic hooker fairy will replace her corpse with a voucher that can be redeemed for a 4 day all access pass at tank land!!! ![]() Re: some of my secrets, just this once ;) - benben10 - 2009-04-19 im just glad to see someone using autohotkey. im going to have to make a script again when i send my mouse off to be fixed. |