1) The "New" Sniper Rifle
Much to fans' delight, Epic brought back the Sniper Rifle in 2004. Unfortunately, they made it completely suck. The rifle emits a large cloud of smoke with every shot, not only obscuring your view, but pointing out to enemies exactly where you are. Thanks for the useless paperweight, Epic, maybe if I used it as a club, it would deal out a little more damage.
Luckily, when playing Onslaught, you have an alternative. The Hellbender truck has a turret on the back. This turret has a zoom lens and does ridiculous amounts of damage, vaporizing enemies in one single shot. No smoke trails, no obscured view like the Lightning Gun, nothing. And while you're sitting in the truck, you've got 600 points of armor protecting you. Say hello to sniper heaven. Park outside your enemies' base and blow away anybody who dares step out.
2) Spawn Camping, The Modern Way
Spawn Camping has been an annoyance of 3D shooters since Doom. Since players restart with no shield and no guns, they make easy pickings for fully armed foes.
Onslaught is even worse. Now with the Manta, you can instantly decapitate any respawning players before they can take 2 steps. And depending on which nodes are controlled, the entire team might automatically respawn at one specific node, leaving them all to be run over mercilessly, time after time. That's just sick, but if it gives your team an advantage, you better do it.
Don't forget to hover your Manta over teleporter pads. Easiest kill you've had all week. Constantly shelling your enemies' base with the tank works great too, usually causing half the opposing team to quit the game in disgust.
3) Punish the Innocent with Grenades
This technique isn't going to win you any matches, but it's the most fun you can have without drugs and alcohol being involved. Sneak into the enemies base, and plant a bunch of grenades on their vehicles. Hide under a ledge. When somebody gets in the vehicle, right-click to blow them to smithereens! I laugh my ass off every time I do this, especially when the guy I just snuffed yells out "WTF was that!?!?". Some evil taunting is not considered out of line at this point.
For added fun, try this alternative: load up your own ride with grenades, and fly it over to your enemies. Eject, and run away. Hopefully, one of the fools will try to steal your wheels. You know what to do at this point.
4) Watch out for Talkers
Unreal characters have a special gesture when they're typing a message, as seen above. To an honorable player, this gesture means "I am typing, please give me a second." To you, this gesture translates as "I am competely helpless. Blow me away at your earliest convienence."
After killing your innocent opponent, he might start yelling at you, something along the the lines of "Hey! I was talking, you fucker!" If you can manage to fly over to his base and run him over again while he's chastising you, congratulations, you're King of the Assholes!
5) When to use Spider-Mines
Spider Mines are a powerful new weapon which heat-seek your enemy and explode for big damage. Even better, you can drop a small army of them, then switch to another weapon and attack while your mines chase them down.
With this in mind, you should know that the correct time to use Spider Mines is ALL THE TIME. Shoot them off left and right. Use mines on offense, defense, and whenever the hell you feel like it. Your opponent has to divert his attention to avoiding the Spiders, leaving you free to casually fire rockets towards them at your leisure.
6) When in doubt, Shoot Avrils.
Much like Spider Mines, Avrils automatically home in on their target, making them a favorite of talentless fucks everywhere. Say you're playing Torlan, your best bet is to camp up on the hill with a few teammates. If any vehicles drive by looking for trouble, a shower of Avrils will send them back to hell where they belong. What makes this especially aggrivating is that if your opponents manage to kill you somehow, you can respawn right back on the hill with more Avrils, faster then they can respawn their vehicle. Three players on a hill with Avrils can effectively shut down an entire team's game, and even any fool with a 56K can pull it off.
