FearItself Shows You How to Scare Guardian Team Slayer Opponents
By jokr | Published: April 23, 2008 12:40pm EST
 2:58 – Respawning into Roy’s fire at an awkward angle, Fear’s first goal is to get some breathing room. Notice how the first thing he checks when he moves into Explosive Hallway is that the Fusion Cores have been blown away. A good player is always aware of his surroundings. After cleaning up Roy at Camo, pay attention to the Wall Extension Fear uses as cover when he engages his Blue Door opponent. 3:40 – After some excellent teamwork clears out Sniper Tower, there is a lone opponent left on Elbow who is unaware of Fear. Often players try to wait for the Elbow rush while sitting in Snipe 2, Fear chooses to get a good angle on Elbow Door from the top of Snipe Ramp. This leaves him less exposed from grenades being thrown into Snipe 2. It also allows him to look under glass faster. 5:00 – In his previous two respawns Fear only manages to go one-for-one but on his third he gets a safe spawn in Sniper Tower. After trading some cross map shots with Mackeo, he moves to Bottom Green to fortify TD’s set up at Sniper Tower. Notice the grenade throw from Elbow to Camo. Choosing to learn from his previous mistakes, he decides to venture out and grab the Mauler during a lull in the fight to prevent his opponents from using it against him. 6:42 – After half of his team goes down at Sniper Tower, Fear switches his position and rushes with a Mauler. When he is grenaded to no shield, he chooses to hide behind another Wall Extension in Snipe 1 and recharge his shields. Once regrouped, TD charges the other side of the map and picks off a few kills. 8:16 – After spawning in Green again, Fear grenades Blue Door and picks up an easy kill on Lunchbox. When he picks up the Active Camouflage, notice how he chooses to sit still at Camo near a part of the wall with a complex texture (bushes, wall pattern, wall ledge.) This gives him some natural camouflage and helps him blend in when he is only semi-transparent. To get the most out of his Active Camouflage, Fear chooses to only shoot when there is a guaranteed kill. Once it runs out and, since the enemy team is largely unaware of him, Fear does a long loop around his opponent’s side of the map to attack from a different angle than the rest of his team. |
