Pleas help How do i frag!!!

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Grab HPR
Set up HPR somewhere
WAit for stupid xeno
Shoot through teammates to kill xeno (if it runs away just wait for next one)

With this one cool trick you can get top fragger on the scoreboard without killing a single xeno

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Blast Sabaton.

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Use AP ammo.

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fear nothing just shoot

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the Steelpoint strategy… :fire:

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Once you find a loadout you perform well with (and enjoy), and you have buddies who can PB (and whose company you enjoy) and you put DOOM music on in the background, then you truly are finally ready to run into caves to die, or get captured (which means you play xeno, which you might enjoy).

The point being, you can have the most overpowered loadout as marine, but if you put yourself in situations you’re at a disadvantage in, then horrible death likely awaits. Xenos have (usually) larger health pools than you, and the advantage of seeing in the dark, through walls - even if you learn all the abilities of all the castes it’s not gonna save you from 3 warriors ganking you in the dark.

This game is all about making calculated risks. In retrospect, most of my deaths when learning the game were about failing to realise this, and getting myself killed. Sometimes you have to accept you’ll probably die to accomplish something, whether that be killing a warrior, a queen, or just being brave enough to push past a choke at a key point in a fight.

Therein lies the beauty of the teamplaying aspect CM has for me, even when you get kills, your death is likely an inevitability, so you want people who are going to go through hell and back to protect you, because you’d do the same for them. People with motion detectors, and flares to stop you from making stupid decisions that get you killed. People that throw grenades to inch you closer, and PB xenos trying to drag your dumb ass to the hive after you stepped on a hugger trap. Overwatch that take notice of where dead marines are.

So really, the secret to fragging, all along, was really the friends we made along the way :sparkling_heart:

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Unironically soul and true

Teammates you know and trust are a 10x power multiplier, they massively decrease risk because shaking your buddy completely nullifies like 75% of xeno abilities while also doubling or tripling effective DPS.

Alas, battle buddies you’d go to hell and back for are far and few in between… Can’t trust any redheads, baldies or people who leave their disgusting corn cob pipes everywhere in prep…

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Amazing post. Hits at the heart of the game.

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only actually immediately actionable advice post in this thread :+1:

the rest can be summed up as “just get gooder”

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run M2C, u will get like 5 kills a game, now whether or not those are xeno kills is up for debate

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One of them will be an IO on his first mission.

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If they stand between a xeno and the lead then it’s a xenoagent, thus it belongs in the same pit

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I hook up my USB Logitech joystick to my computer, wringing my hands out in a cartoonishly villainous fashion. This is the day. It’s my time. I’ve been practicing in a localhost for three weeks back to back and my trigger finger is itching. I applied cream to it three times to try and get the fungal infection to go away but it doesn’t work for some reason. I ignore it, cracking my knuckles, and deftly maneuver my cursor over the “CONNECT” button in my BYOND client with a flick of my wrist.

Here we are, in the pregame. I push my throttle, swapping my stick inputs to directional movements so I can step out of Cryo. I waddle over with practiced ease to the food vendors, easing off the throttle to assume direct control of my cursor once again with my joystick. Blam! A pull of the trigger and I’ve vended a bar. Wham! Clicking my secondary trigger uses the bar in my hand, down the hatch. The bugs won’t even know what hit them when I’m on the ground.

The rest of prep only takes forty-five minutes as I go through the motions I’ve practiced day and night. I know it’ll all be worth it as soon as my cursor stops bugging out whenever I bump my mouse with my joystick and have to unplug the stupid fucking USB and plug it back in it’s just something I haven’t quite ironed out yet but it’s probably not going to get in my way so it’s okay.

Alright. Here we go. After arduously typing out my order to Req via the screen keyboard and my joystick, I’m awarded the grand prize— the real deal to make my ultimate motion shooter thrill a real deal, like the arcades of old. The last Mark 1 in stock. In my testing, this is the only rifle that has a magazine capacity large enough to let me play the game for more than thirty seconds before I have to walk back to safety and spend another full minute wiggling my stick to hit the goddamn webbing sprite because the sensitivity is just a little off. It’s not a big deal. This baby loads 95 rounds of pure action.

By the time I hit the ground, the round timer is 1:12. No big deal, this is right within my projections. FOB siege? Doesn’t matter— the XX-121 menace has no idea that a real gamer has just come down, with the hottest peripherals someone’s ever played the game with. I push up the throttle and click the side button on it to engage MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, which was supposed to open a YouTube tab with the Tokyo Drift song on it and start playing but instead it tabs me out and I bump my mouse again so I can’t quite click back in and I hear a Lurker pounce me and fuck man really that’s just great whatever fuck this game I’m gonna go back to elite dangerous this shit sucks man it’s literally whatever I don’t give a shit

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@doctoramazing Amazing post dude. I use a USB steering wheel to play.

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This was the original vision for the shitpost but I thought “how could I possibly do it worse” and an over complicated HOTAS setup sounded fucking hilarious to me

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Here’s my instructions to be a top fragger every game and become famous/infamous.

  • Roll SO or XO
  • Make sure to save FOB coordinates to a notepad
  • Wait for FOB siege
  • Spam command announcements asking for coordinates for an OB
  • Ignore said coordinates and input FOB coordinates
  • Fire
  • Profit?
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Next step. Refuse to apologize and sling racial slurs at people who criticize you.

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the cursor is your reticle so just point and click. successive clicks does a funny little thing to whatever you’re clicking.

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You forgot Dominic Powers, such slander…. oh wait I don’t think he return.

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