+left/right&back+jump

+esdf

\bind x "toggle cl_autoTimenudge"

done.

It won't help you dodge though.

Dodge yes, but I assume that I am more easily hit, and TN affects my movement visible to the enemy. I remember someone said that if you want to do something with TN, do it a little earlier. And I am using -20 TN. Not auto.

seta tn_on "cl_timenudge -20; set tn_tog vstr tn_off"

seta tn_off "cl_timenudge 0; set tn_tog vstr tn_on"

vstr tn_on

bind key "vstr tn_tog"

My nigga. :)

I heard it dodges for you.

yes but only if your opponent has shit aim

So evertim vs you then?

why is some 1300 elo trash player giving me lip

I do it out of love, palatakalata.

do not dodge the plasma balls, watch where the enemy model is aiming and "predodge"

That's quite difficult to do with all the shit going on namean?

if it is, that's why you eat tons of it

even i have to say ouch gg.

but pls do elaborate on ur 1st comment

Tells me you dodge without looking at the actual shots. This works with lg, where it is more important to understand opponent sensitivity and do unexpected strafes. With plasma you have to look at the balls and move accordingly!

Which balls? :D All jokes aside, you mean that it's only reactionary play? :) I mean, there are certain things you can do I think, such as just hugging walls, or not dodging at all. Sometimes it sets off opponents, but I feel like once they have a lock on my with the pg, it's impossible to shake it.

In long range you must dodge the first few balls and then strafe with where they shoot. You should be able to dodge pretty easily with experience.

In short range just strafe one direction and they'll do the same. Use rockets and make them count.

I know this might sound silly but, try being unpredictable. Some of the best moves you can make is one they never imagined you'd do. Just strafing in one direction for a long time can be useful as long as it's unexpected. Use rythym and polyrhythm. Never favor one dodging method over the other.

And more importantly, hit your shots. You must show people you are not someone to mess around with. Intimidation is a huge factor in quake. Don't let others intimidate you. Make them eat rockets and land your rails when they run.

Plasma is most useful in bottleneck situations. But it's a great gun for controlling and limiting an opponents movements from various distances. Close range can be deadly but rocket launcher ftw in those situations.

I think the worst mistake people make is pulling railgun in close range combat. Cool down is suicide.

Good post, especially agree with not letting opponents bully you.

Wow, thank you. Good input. I understand your point esp about the intimidation. But it is hard to intimidate others with bad aim / high ping. But I understand what you are saying. I find that the biggest unpredictable thing is just standing in the same place.

Lol. Standing in place while using LG or rg and beating the opponent is the best way to insult them.

Probably. :D But thinking about it . What basic techniques are there? Hugging the wall, standing still, strafes, long strafes and jumping?

Aggressive rocket jumps into a group of enemies when your team seems ready to fight them. I love aggro rocket launcher baiting with high ping. Rule thumb is to surprise them. Never try it if they are all focused on you.

Edit:
If I were you I would work on rockets and rails with your ping. Don't bother with LG on 1v1 situations. You should be able to improve your rocket acc tenfold practicing with bad ping.

A quake legend once said.. dont fear the enemy they have to fear you.

cl_timenudge is client side

it doesn't make you easier to hit. It has no effect for the opponents, only for you.

with high timenudge you might see the opponent "micro-warp", that's all ;)

Plasma dodging long range is mainly just reaction dodging long range. Just look at where all the balls go and try and dodge them and if you find yourself in a difficult position you can even jump over the balls. As for dodging plasma mid/close range this is a lot more difficult because it reaches a threshold where reaction dodging doesn't work anymore and prediction dodging is necessary as plasma becomes more like a hitscan weapon close range. Basically you just predict where the enemy will shoot and move away each time before he shoots at that direction. If you watch some very specific cooller demos you will even see cooller takes this to the next level and do noob dodges (short left short right short right and so on) and because the opponent hits a large burst of pg at the beginning he predicts that cooller will try and move away from that position but instead cooller continues to do the noob dodge while the opponent is no longer hitting him and by the time the enemy realizes this and readjusts his aim, cooller has already moved away from that spot. Hitscan dodging is pretty much all dependent on feeling so even watching pros it can be difficult to figure out how they dodge so well against hitscan. The only way you can really learn how to dodge against hitscan is through experience. You can still watch the pros for tips on dodging hitscan but at best you will only get a "feeling" of how they do it. I have a few more stuff i could go on about but im too lazy.

Funny, this is by far the best advice and no one seems to care.

I care. It is the best elaboration on plasma dodging so far.

Thank you :) I only now read this and I have to thank you cause this is the best advice as stated by others.

The idea of PG becoming hitscan up close helped me a lot.

You gotta shock the muscle. Shock the muscle.

Instead of doing 10 sets of bench press, do 2 sets of bench press.

Shock the muscle

Bullshit

23 sets of plasmaclimbing onto the top of your enemy's head

Shock your enemy

Plasmafuck them

So intense, bro. SO intense.

plasma is a projectile, if there's anything to it you should set cg_projectilenudge to something different.

as someone wrote above, long range plasma dodging is just reacting to whereever the shot came from and getting out of the way, on close range treat it like hitscan on steroids.

Do long strafes, if you're in a corridor where there isn't much space to dodge there isn't much that you can do

Yeah you are right. better to rocket spam and try to run I guess. Unless the stack is 2x smaller. Even then I get rekt sometimes...