Board Thread:Respawnables Discussion/@comment-26814398-20151210033153

Before this starts, would like to tell everyone I know that a guide on the wiki already exists for this weapon. But this guide is gonna be different, instead of being a dictatorship and telling you strategies to use, it's going to go over the mechanics of this gun and effective strategies in certain situations.

Ok, now let's go over one of my favorite toys, the flare gun.

This is a very good weapon, it is a one shot kill and has a pretty quick reload (1.5 seconds) and shoots a flare which one shots everyone except people who have purchased both health perks and wear black hero or ASP armor. Now black hero and ASP armor is rare in mutliplayer due to them being only available from purchases and you move so dang slow with them, but someone might switch to it if you really piss them off, which means you're doing your job :).

Tips: Before you try this gun out I highly recommend learning how to hit enemies well without relying on autoaim and learning how to time projectiles. A very good weapon for training is the shockwave launcher. Now a few more mechanics, every gun has quicker reload and fire rate if you hit the reload button instead of waiting for it to reload and hold down the fire button before the animation fully plays. Due to the flare gun only having one round, you can nearly double the fire rate if you do this.

Question about auto aim vs no auto aim: Auto aim is a very good tool for this weapon because it allows you to aim on your enemy quickly, and this is great assistance. However, at long ranges this really handicaps the weapon and can be your downfall vs a player who knows exactly what they are doing and can easily strafe to avoid it. At long ranges it's a good idea to snap out of auto aim and aim ahead of somebody. The easiest way to break out of it is to strafe out of it.

Vs most players: Most players don't have the most creative strafing and run straight at you or to a predictable pattern. Vs these players, it's a good idea to aim right in front of where they're going to be in a second, learning the projectile speed will help with your timing.

Vs good players: Now you can't help it, not all players out there are the everyday noob you run into, some know exactly what they're doing and are no pushovers. Versus these players who know how to strafe well, you have a few options to deal with them. One, get point blank with them and fire close enough so it's impossible to miss is one option. Another option that works well is to rely on auto aim, but time it perfectly so you don't fire when the crosshair is right on them but instead when it's a little to their side. They will expect it to go to where they're when you fire but it will instead go a little to their side and they will strafe into it by accident. Note: Timing this perfectly will take a lot of practice. Another option is to fire it perfectly aiming the flare and timing it so it will hit them right as they reveal themselves from the wall. Another great option is strafe, to aim for you to get the flare at the perfect angle to make them not be able to avoid it. This is great as whether or not the flare hits them depends on the angle not just aim.

The camping wall issue: Ok this is very common, this is an exploit people use because every gun in the game doesn't shoot from the center of your screen. Instead it's on the right side and shoots a little to the left, this allows you to stick your gun around the corner and fire without exposing yourself. Now, there is a myth that you cannot hit people who are around this corner. But this is false, you expose just a tiny tiny part of your hand, you can hit this, you you aim with your flare gun, you can practice it and eventually you can perfect shooting them behind the wall. This is very useful, because people are always still when using the wall tactic and this gives you a garunteed kill.

Now let's go over the most effective way to counter players who use op weapons. There are only two op weapons that you should run into and have difficultly with, but you can beat them with practice.

Let's start with the easier one.

Aristocrat shotgun: This gun is pretty annoying because it one shot kills, reloads quicker than you, and they have a huge advantage of a hitscan weapon instead of a projectile. But you can easily beat these guys, they have to get into a close range to take you out and this easily allows you to get an easy shot on them since they're close and you have far more range than they do.

Battle ram: Ok, I can understand everyone's frustration about this gun, they always engage you from a far away range, and can easily strafe and avoid your gun and kill you quicker than you reload, but you can kill them. Here are some effective things that work. A lot of times they do the wall camp strategy I talked about earlier, so you know how to counter them like that. As for the strafing part, you just gotta think one step ahead of them, get creative, use the map and their strategy to your advantage. A lot of people will break line of sight behind the wall, take advantage of this, shoot when they do that so they will get shot as soon as they pop their head out again. If they wanna strafe, fine entertain them, and change your angle of fire. If they're using the cyber ninja hood they will probably stay still and this gives you a really easy shot. Another great thing is, on every snow map, the snow covers you from accross the map, so just just shoot them from there, and they won't see the flare coming :).

ASP and Black Hero Armor: Ok these are rare but it's still a good idea to know how to counter them. The most effective way is to avoid them unless they're hurt a little bit, since they can be really annoying with regeneration, but sometimes you're forced into them where it's always a good idea to know how to deal with them. An easy cheap way is to stun them, then shoot them twice easily. Another way is to shoot them once, break line of sight for a second while reloading, then shoot them again. This allows you to take as little damage as possible and kills them, your reload is quicker than their regeneration cooldown and they move slow as sludge with no agility gear, so should be easy to land both shots on them. If they use a single shot weapon, just strafe around them while reloading, if they use an automatic weapon like battle ram or minigun then you definately wanna do the break line of sight strategy.

Gear:

Ok these aren't required but it is highly highly recommended. I highly recommend at least 7% agility because this allows you to move really really quickly. I also highly recommend at least 10% hp with 15-20% explosive resist to survive thumper and dragon breath cannon. I also recommend cyber ninja helmet or spotter. This allows you to know where your opponent is and this is very important for predicting around corners and getting someone accross the map in a snowy environment. Again: These aren't requirements to do well, but they are suggestions and they should definately tremendously help.

Ok hope you guys enjoyed this, if it helped you, great now you can wreck everyone. If you thought flare gun was op and required no skill, hope I changed your mind with this guide. For those of you who don't like this guide, screw you, you don't deserve me XD.

Peace out! 