Sunday eSports: Advice From the Pros

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Professional gamers have been supplementing their income from sponsors and tournaments for years with coaching, but what need have you of a few paid sessions when games.on.net has the advice you need for free? Alex Walker managed to corner one professional eager to pass on his learned knowledge.

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[DarkMellie]

I love stuff like this nd would really like to read more of this particular guys opinions, nice to see your column this week is on fps!

Back when I really got stuck into BF2 I swallowed my pride and created a thread (on another forum) Asking for tips from the really good players. Their advice on things like 'positional power play' (camping)' aiming, running and map awareness (along witth that innate ability to understand what other players will do in any given situation) helped propel my game quickly upwards. And yeah, every match comes with its own debrief, as does getting smashed by another player.

Heck, even before that when I was madly into Enemy Territory I was watching vids that had me strafing and jumping madly while keeping my cursor on the same brick in a wall.

I think your articles are my favourite on the site Alex, nice work

[DarKnode]

When did COD switch from S&D with no respawn to CTF? They really noob that down..

[Jez]

When did COD switch from S&D with no respawn to CTF? They really noob that down..

I was wondering this too.

[Alex Walker]

CTF is more common in competitive COD on console. COD on consoles actually switches between CTF/S&D in leagues like MLG. It's a shame it's never been tried on PC.

[RSOblivion]

Competitive 5v5 CTF is actually a good challenge, but normally CTF should be renamed Camp the Flag.

Thing is even competitive S&D is just because people are still in the old mentality of CS. There needs to be a bit more variety/innovation in competitive FPS gaming IMO.

[diamondd]

Competitive 5v5 CTF is actually a good challenge, but normally CTF should be renamed Camp the Flag.

Thing is even competitive S&D is just because people are still in the old mentality of CS. There needs to be a bit more variety/innovation in competitive FPS gaming IMO.

yeah, personally I thought sabotage was the best game type on cod4.

back in the day me and one of my mates used to romp servers with the shortest team stack ever sab was great fun.

[Jez]

CTF is more common in competitive COD on console. COD on consoles actually switches between CTF/S&D in leagues like MLG. It's a shame it's never been tried on PC.

He's a competitive console gamer? ಠ_ಠ

[BuZeR]

WTB cross over mainsteam FPS for PC and console.

Really interested to see who comes out on top, has to be PC right..?

[DarkMellie]

WTB cross over mainsteam FPS for PC and console.

Really interested to see who comes out on top, has to be PC right..?

Can we not travel down that rabbit hole? Of course PC would win it, and it would be a really stupid idea to make (another) game that did it. But where everyone else is using a controller what does it matter that mouse and keys would dominate?

Console pro players are phenomenally talented.. Halo has some of the most amazing twiddle stick players ever, can be either really frustrating or jaw-dropping to watch... pulling off jumping headshots and all sorts of madness.

[Jez]

WTB cross over mainsteam FPS for PC and console.

Really interested to see who comes out on top, has to be PC right..?

I vaguely remember that this was tried during development of a cross-platform shooter some time in the past few years, and they found that PC players dominated console players using thumbsticks so much that it wasn't fun.

EDIT: Pretty sure this is the same story:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/xbox-3 ... 10924.html

[Joshua]

How to be a pro CoD player?

Camp.