Hello There! I am VertX

Hello! Nice to be part of the community. I am most likely going to be a very active person on the forums. So, A little bit about me.. I am 19, Born, raised, and currently live in the Minnesota area, and I work with computers as a hobby.

Little about my history with gaming. The first game I ever played was Tomb Raider for the PlayStation. That game was the game that got me into all of this. Growing up, my parents would get the Call of Duty series on the PS2, and I would play it all the time (Was about 10 at the time) But getting my first computer at age 14 changed me forever. I was playing FPS games all the time on my PC, and loved every minute of it while my PS2 was collecting dust. I also was learning about computers during that time. I knew about hard drives, processors, and all the other goodies that make up a PC. Now, just two months ago, finding Xonotic while browsing through the web, I got hooked. Downloaded it, extracted it, and ran it. 15 Minutes in, I was hooked. Ended up staying up two nights playing Xonotic with bots. No game has got me this addicted before. The fast action and community are AMAZING! I have played shooters like Quake 3 Arena and Doom, but this tops them in my opinion.

I am looking foward to seeing you guys in the arena.

Welcome. Join IRC QuakeNet #xonotic.pickup
There is also #xonotic.na for your location.

Hi and welcome! Nice to see some more NA players here. You might want to check out the Newbie Corner (link in my sig). The pace of this game when playing bots is nothing compared to playing online opponents :oD

Remember that whenever you find someone doing stuff in the game that you cannot figure out how to do, just ask. Most experienced players will take their time to explain game mechanics to newcomers. The player community is overall very open and friendly.

Hey and welcome new NA player, we need more of us to overtake the European types. Lots of NA servers but not as many players.

Welcome VertX.

Nice to see you on the forums

Thanks for the welcome messages guys! Ill be sure to take your guys's suggestions!

Welcome VertX.

As it is mentioned above don't hesitate to ask other players for advices. I can recommend to do a lot of 1v1 vs skilled players in the beginning so the learning-curve goes faster. As far as I've seen they don't mind wrecking you! Hopefully because they know what a player need to face in the beginning and not because they don't have other stuff do to

anyhow.. see you on #xonotic #xonotic.duel and #xonotic.pickup :-)

hello! nice to see another minnesotan

Welcome, VertX.

Halogene's guides are definitely a must read. At some point I think we should somehow include those into the game.

Here I also want to share with all an inspiring teaching session by SPLAT (that I stole from #xonotic.na). Thanks to SPLAT and many like him for making this community a great one!

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23:08:32 <SPLAT❇> im gonna break down the weapons and what they do
23:08:40 <SPLAT❇> and little tricks that arent readily apparent
23:09:03 <VertX> I do know the certain weapons and what they do, but the other things I am kind of bad at :P
23:09:14 <SPLAT❇> first helpful tip, (if you have your weapons bound already) press the certain weapon you dont already have
23:09:18 <SPLAT❇> and itll show you where it is on the map
23:09:30 <SPLAT❇> it'll help you in maps youre unfimilar with
23:09:49 <VertX> I see! That'll come in handy.
23:09:52 <VertX> Thanks
23:09:55 <VertX> :D
23:09:57 <SPLAT❇> ok ill start with the 2 weapons you spawn with
23:09:59 <SPLAT❇> blaster and shotgun
23:10:05 <SPLAT❇> blaster is mostly a movement tool
23:10:11 <SPLAT❇> it replaces rocket jumping
23:10:16 <SPLAT❇> and does 25 dmg on a direct hit
23:10:26 <SPLAT❇> dont underestimate a fresh spawn if youre low hp
23:10:31 <SPLAT❇> they can kill you quite quickly
23:10:50 <SPLAT❇> its fun to play around with
23:10:57 <VertX> Oh yeah lel
23:10:59 <SPLAT❇> youll get a feel on what limits you can push
23:11:02 <SPLAT❇> next, shotgun
23:11:12 <SPLAT❇> close to medium range weapon (obviously)
23:11:16 <SPLAT❇> has a secondary melee attack
23:11:23 <SPLAT❇> does 70 dmg
23:11:38 <VertX> I remember hearing somthing that it use to do a triple-shot
23:11:43 <SPLAT❇> yeah in nexuiz
23:11:48 <VertX> I see!
23:11:51 <SPLAT❇> its a little more balanced now :p
23:11:52 <SPLAT❇> next weapon, mortar
23:11:58 <SPLAT❇> pretty simple
23:12:04 <SPLAT❇> secondary is a grenade
23:12:11 <SPLAT❇> once it hits something it'll explode in 0.5 seconds
23:12:16 <VertX> I have been pretty kickass at this wepon.
23:12:30 <SPLAT❇> now your bread and butter
23:12:34 <SPLAT❇> devestator
23:12:40 <SPLAT❇> you can hold mouse 1
23:12:42 <SPLAT❇> and guide the rockets
23:12:50 <VertX> Amazing!
23:12:51 <SPLAT❇> it starts off slow then gets faster
23:13:00 <SPLAT❇> with a cap of course
23:13:07 <SPLAT❇> press mouse 2 and youll explode your rockets early
23:13:21 <VertX> Didnt know that! Thanks! :D
23:13:23 <SPLAT❇> :-) / nice one
23:13:27 <SPLAT❇> now the vortex
23:13:34 <SPLAT❇> aka nex, rail gun etc.
23:13:43 <SPLAT❇> you see that circle around your crosshair
23:13:47 <VertX> That guy :D
23:13:51 <SPLAT❇> youll do full damage if its fully charged
23:14:02 <SPLAT❇> but if its not, you can still fire but at the cost of less damage
23:14:19 <SPLAT❇> ok next weapon, crylink
23:14:32 <SPLAT❇> once u let go of mouse 1 the balls inverse
23:14:43 <SPLAT❇> youll want to try and get them centered on your enemy for max  damage
23:14:55 <SPLAT❇> really strong medium range weapon
23:14:57 <VertX> Man, this is amazing for a game!
23:15:07 <SPLAT❇> the secondary is really fun too
23:15:19 <SPLAT❇> tyhe crylink has a snare effect so itll slow down the enemy
23:15:32 <SPLAT❇> the secondary will pull the enemy in the direction you shoot them
23:15:42 <VertX> I see!
23:15:50 <SPLAT❇> for instance, you can use it to pull ppl into lava, off weapons and powerups
23:16:00 <SPLAT❇> give it a shot on me
23:16:05 <SPLAT❇> :-) / nice one
23:16:07 <VertX> Oh wow!
23:16:16 <SPLAT❇> it also has another feature
23:16:21 <SPLAT❇> the secondary*
23:16:31 <SPLAT❇> it can give you a speed boost
23:16:44 <SPLAT❇> hold it at a 45 degree angle and press forward and space
23:17:02 <SPLAT❇> it takes some practice
23:17:19 <VertX> It will, I will get the hang of it.
23:17:32 <SPLAT❇> you can use it in different directions
23:17:55 <SPLAT❇> :-) / nice one
23:18:01 <VertX> Sweet!
23:18:06 <SPLAT❇> ok next weapon is electro
23:18:18 <SPLAT❇> hold mouse 2 enough to fire 3b alls
23:18:24 <SPLAT❇> then mouse 1 to blow them up
23:18:34 <SPLAT❇> you can also use it against your enemy
23:18:39 <SPLAT❇> and blow up their own electro balls in their face
23:18:57 <SPLAT❇> lastly, the hagar
23:19:11 <VertX> OH WOW!
23:19:11 <SPLAT❇> hold mouse 2 to charge it up
23:19:22 <SPLAT❇> you can disable the charge if you press mouse 1 again
23:19:26 <SPLAT❇> so you dont have to waste rockets
23:19:39 <SPLAT❇> nice
23:19:43 <SPLAT❇> a couple other things
23:19:56 <SPLAT❇> you can hold space to continue to bunny hop
23:20:18 <SPLAT❇> and one other thing
23:20:24 <SPLAT❇> come to me
23:20:26 <VertX> Ok!
23:20:43 <SPLAT❇> see these white bubbles
23:20:47 <SPLAT❇> thats a spawn point
23:20:53 <VertX> I see!
23:20:56 <SPLAT❇> so someone can spawn there and you can get spawn frag if you know the map well enough
23:21:10 <SPLAT❇> ok enough talk lets go back to kansas
23:21:17 <VertX> Thank you man!
23:21:23 <SPLAT❇> np. dont forget to mess around in the options
23:21:29 <VertX> Needed a little bit of a tutor.
23:21:30 <SPLAT❇> you can open our ingame HUD editor
23:21:35 <SPLAT❇> and configure your hud just how u like it
23:21:56 <VertX> I see! This game is amazing!
23:21:57 <SPLAT❇> :-) / nice one
23:22:05 <SPLAT❇> one last thing
23:22:09 <SPLAT❇> you can switch weapons very quickly
23:22:13 <SPLAT❇> so you can combo people
23:22:21 <VertX> :3
23:22:31 <SPLAT❇> lets go back to kansas SMB public :D

Nice job, SPLAT! Good intro.

The NA player base is slowly growing!

Hello VertX, welcome! Nice to see you here