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Still haven't read the manual.

Make sure you have a headset, join a squad and listen. Gradually you'll practice and train everything else.

i am back in noobdays currently. i missed 8 months during this time .9 started. so my neural system took long time to recover the PR handling informations. i lost lots of firefights, maps were new to me. gameplaychanges were new to me.

what i tried to: play defensive and structured

what i avoid: requesting special kits and accidently climbing into A10 cockpits.

Hm, I remember my first few rounds, Most notably is my first Kashan round, I was asking questions like no tomorrow, It was quite an experience.

It was kind of weird transferring from Vanilla tank combat to Project Reality tank combat, Of course, being the driver was no fun for me.

Having joined in 0.5...
And having been expecting a tactical, mic-based experience...
Reading the manual...
And joining a 24/7 Muttrah...

I have to say I did pretty well. I don't think I ever flipped a littlebird (at least, doing the "FULL THROTTLE INSTANTLY" thing, I'm sure I made a mistake at one point; but then I learned how to unflip them, so it was cool), and usually managed to at least keep a 1:1 KD, usually playing as medic since I wasn't quite confident in fighting skills in PR just then.

I pretty much played medic exclusively. I dabbled with Specops a bit later on, but usually not.
And then, late in the 0.5 era, I started playing SL. Go me.






Though, really, I think your thread title is a more interesting topic than your thread topic.
If I were a newb starting out today, the only thing I could think of to say is "hang on to your belt-buckle, rough out the ride as infantry for a while, play medic a lot, stay with the squad."

When PR was just a few fixes here and there, I still went back and forth from BF2, but when this music was included to PR, I think I got hooked. Just because the music tells me so much about PR. By all the music there has ever been in PR this reminds me of everything about it. Even from the first days it was introduced.



Every soundtrack by D|sciple kicks ***. I even played with him once a long time ago and got a chance to tell him

I've only been playing a few weeks O_o but when I first started I told my squad I was new, and my SL(british guy) said alright then, your medic.

Not to mention we were mech INF, so really, IMO if you have a mic, a basic understanding of the game, just jump in. That round did alot for me, built my confidence, I understood the rally system, and how to work with vehicals, hell now that I look at it that was the best damn thing that could have happened to me.

So ya, get an understanding and jump-in, mic is a much needed peice of equiptment.

Step1 get a mic
step2 join a squad
step3 press voip button
step4 talk

The rest is just part of the experience. Learning the 4 step process is where alot of newbs fail. HARD!

The map is Ejod Desert. I select a ironsight G3 and head off, taking the last Logistics truck available (Whole team starts to whine at me), the rest of the team if defending a stronghold right outside of the gardens, a Stryker pulls up and I get out, looking for the Mines in my kit. There are none. After a while of idioting, joining squads then immediately being kicked out, I left. "PR sucks balls!"

Dev1200 wrote:Also, understanding the deviation system.

this is very important. I honestly didnt know why i SUCKed at shooting in .7 but until.75 came out i had on idea

but for newbies i would say that when you join a sq just arange yourself in the back of the formation and just kind of follow your sq and observe to see what things they do so you can do them later.

Oh, and also shoot when they shoot

Probably something like
"Don't download 0.7 when it comes out. It will be like a sore tooth that you can't stop poking. Deviation will stop you from ever actually enjoying PR again, but you'll keep poking that damned sore tooth."

"The shovel is used for building not attacking".

. :d reamsequencer^ wrote:Quoted for truth.

Seriously, read the manual, join a squad, communicate with them, follow your SL's orders. That's basically everything a newbie needs to do.

Agreed. That's what I did. I read the manual three times before I finally started playing. Played my first game in .856 on Kashan. Almost a two hour long round on US side. I fired only one magazine before I learned the basic's of PR: use your mic, be nice to your squad, try to be realistic, and listen to your SL. I've been hooked since I played that first round approaching a year ago. I still do good on Kashan to fire a single magazine from an M4/M16 on Kashan. That map is so big...

[R-CON]Outlawz wrote:When I started, it was completely different, I learned flying by flying a Blackhawk into a cablepole four times before I figured out the acceleration, this happened on a modded server (before server licenses) where the BH respawned before you did so no one gave a damn.

My advice to myself back then would be 'play other maps' since for most of v0.5 I played only Basrah.

Same could go today, play some other maps rather than the same worn out popular maps like insurgency ones, Muttrah and Kashan that everyone knows inside out so there's nothing new to learn.
It seems most leave when a forest map loads because they get scared of all the trees and the dark.

Basrah made the game fun though X_X now no one plays it.

'[R-CON wrote:Outlawz;1311586']when a forest map loads because they get scared of all the trees and the dark.

Bi ming night.
Good ol' times.


Say? ''Get mumb-...''
O wai', it didn't exist back then.

Ahem.

...

''Stop tardrushing them. Wait for them to tardrush YOU.''
''Be patient. Engage only if necessary. Shoot only if there are no options left but to.''
''If you can see them they might see you. It's who kills who first that matters.''
''Put your tank on a hill and your gun alone will kill a few below. But the more there are below, the higher the risks of being destroyed are for your tank. A too exposed tank, is a dead tank.''
''Don't just lead your squad to success... Lead the whole team, to victory.''
"Lone armor, is dead armor.''
''Don't use something you don't know how to use. Don't attack something you can't kill.''
''Communicate.''
''Adapt.''
''??????''
''Enjoy!''

As SL, you should attack the orange flags instead of purple