Preface
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-This tutorial aims at showing all fundamental aspects of vanilla gameplay to enable new players to pick up the ropes quickly. It includes the information of all six blog posts of the [Newbie Corner](http://xonotic.org/tag/newbie) as well as some new things that have changed or that I didn’t think about back then.
+This tutorial aims at showing all fundamental aspects of vanilla gameplay to enable new players to pick up the ropes quickly. It includes the information of all six blog posts of the [Newbie Corner](http://xonotic.org/posts/2014/halogenes-newbie-corner-comprehensive-tutorial/) as well as some new things that have changed or that I didn’t think about back then.
-Note that all this applies to vanilla Xonotic. Whereas movement aspects should usually apply more or less unchanged to modified servers offering minstagib, vehicle ctf or overkill gameplay, I will not explain the specifics of these game modifications/mutators - I simply lack the expertise in non-vanilla game modes. So if you want to fully apply the knowledge gained from this tutorial, search for vanilla servers (Xonotic icon next to it in server browser) or use the official [HUB] ones.
+Note that all this applies to vanilla Xonotic. Whereas movement aspects should usually apply more or less unchanged to modified servers offering minstagib, vehicle ctf or [Overkill](Overkill-Tutorial) gameplay, I will not explain the specifics of these game modifications/mutators - I simply lack the expertise in non-vanilla game modes. So if you want to fully apply the knowledge gained from this tutorial, search for vanilla servers (Xonotic icon next to it in server browser) or use the official [HUB] ones.
Remember that the Xonotic player community is generally considered a very friendly and helpful one and for many people (including me) this is the key aspect that gets one hooked to this game. If you meet very strong players online and wonder how they do certain things, it usually pays off to simply ask them. Most of the experienced players will take their time to shortly explain gameplay techniques to newbies if asked nicely. Some of them might even offer to show you around by giving you a short live tutorial. That’s how I myself learned about blaster jumping and strafe turning for example.
Blaster Jumping
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-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/lj1.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/blaster-jumping.png;h=03aae64bfd8c93c878283346b73509b9784d9d55;hb=HEAD)
Let’s now have a look at two important aspects of a very useful movement tool in Xonotic, the blaster! While dealing somewhat low damage, the blaster is one of the most important weapons in Xonotic. It’s projectile creates a blast upon impact on any surface or object that deals little damage to players being nearby, but pushes such players away from the impact spot. That way, the push force of the blaster projectile impact can be used to move both other players and yourself around. You can test this easily by standing and shooting at the ground below you with the blaster. You’ll notice that you get pushed up into the air by the blast. Now if you jump at the same time, you can get pushed even higher. If you get the timing right, you can get very high, like from the upper platform to the roof or from the fan to crylink on the map Xoylent.
Wall Blastering
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-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/wall-lasering.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/wall-blastering.png;h=ee7399f540008cc55e47b787b1731dafd01c1379;hb=HEAD)
Now, when accelerating fast, you won’t always want to do that vertically. Some times the first few bunny hops are not fast enough to reach a place (or to get out of a place) in time. With the technique of wall blastering you can easily reach rather high horizontal speeds instantly, out of the stand.
### Xoylent
-- The ramp I showed as first example on Xoylent can also be used to get to the nex platform. It’s easier if you use the right corner of the ramp for this jump.
- [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/xoylent-ramp-1.png)
+- The ramp I showed as first example on Xoylent can also be used to get to the vortex platform. It’s easier if you use the right corner of the ramp for this jump.
+ [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/xoylent-ramp-1.png)
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- At mega health you can do a double ramp jump up to crylink, the pipes serve as second ramp. Note that you don’t have to approach these ramps frontally as you can compensate the lower upwards boost by using the second ramp.
[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/xoylent-ramp-2.png)
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-- One of the most tricky ramp jumps I’m going to show you here is the one from rocket launcher to mega health. Unless you do a [circle jump](http://www.xonotic.org/2013/02/a-strafe-jumping-lesson-from-hero), this one is not possible to my knowledge to do with walking speed, so you’ll have to do a bunny hop onto the ramp. I always start between the devastator’s spawn point and the wall behind it, start a bunny hop and usually hit the ramp at the right time then. You’ll have to experiment a bit and find the good starting point for you, then you can reproduce that jump and start to get a feeling how you can do it in-game on the fly, without stopping at your favorite starting point. When turning around after the ramp jump you can switch from the forward key to the appropriate strafe key in order to lose less speed, but it’s not required to perform that jump.
+- One of the most tricky ramp jumps I’m going to show you here is the one from devastator to mega health. Unless you do a [circle jump](http://www.xonotic.org/2013/02/a-strafe-jumping-lesson-from-hero), this one is not possible to my knowledge to do with walking speed, so you’ll have to do a bunny hop onto the ramp. I always start between the devastator’s spawn point and the wall behind it, start a bunny hop and usually hit the ramp at the right time then. You’ll have to experiment a bit and find the good starting point for you, then you can reproduce that jump and start to get a feeling how you can do it in-game on the fly, without stopping at your favorite starting point. When turning around after the ramp jump you can switch from the forward key to the appropriate strafe key in order to lose less speed, but it’s not required to perform that jump.
[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/xoylent-ramp-3-thumb.png)
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[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/afterslime-electro.png)
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-- The very same jump can be done from electro gangway up to the upper passageway near strength room. Using this jump enables you to avoid making suspicious noises by using the jump pad or the laser.
+- The very same jump can be done from electro gangway up to the upper passageway near strength room. Using this jump enables you to avoid making suspicious noises by using the jump pad or the blaster.
[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/afterslime-electro.png)
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[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/11/runningman-hagar-double.final_.png)
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-- This jump up to mortar works most reliably for me when I walk up to the ramp and jump just before I touch it. It’s the easiest way to get get up there without having to traverse the very open space or making a laser jump (which makes noise).
+- This jump up to mortar works most reliably for me when I walk up to the ramp and jump just before I touch it. It’s the easiest way to get get up there without having to traverse the very open space or making a blaster jump (which makes noise).
[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/11/runningman-mortar.final_.png)
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- From the vortex you can use these little lamps to get to the 50 health on the pipe.
- [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-nex.png)
+ [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-nex.png)
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- From bottom level outside you can get to the devastator using the broken pillar.
- [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-rocket.png)
+ [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-rocket.png)
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-- This is a very nice ramp jump that’s essentially a double ramp jump with a follow-up ramp jump on the small pipe. You’ll usually land on the flat level of the pipe before hitting the pipe ramp, so it doesn’t really count as a triple ramp jump but still it is very useful in order to get to the rocket launcher platform without using the slow vent shaft.
- [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-crates.png)
+- This is a very nice ramp jump that’s essentially a double ramp jump with a follow-up ramp jump on the small pipe. You’ll usually land on the flat level of the pipe before hitting the pipe ramp, so it doesn’t really count as a triple ramp jump but still it is very useful in order to get to the devastator platform without using the slow vent shaft.
+ [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-crates.png)
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-- Those handy little lamps everywhere… here you can use one to get to the nex level from rocket launcher.
- [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-upper-level.png)
+- Those handy little lamps everywhere… here you can use one to get to the vortex level from devastator.
+ [](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2014/04/glowplant-upper-level.png)
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These are just a few examples where to find ramps on Xonotic maps and how to use them. Keep your eyes open for ramps and interesting jumps to do with them, as most mappers put some ramps at strategic places. Ramp jumping is a lot of fun and mastering this technique can give you a real advantage over other players!
### Blaster
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/Laser2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Blaster.png;h=88f61ed55598d02bf66f81a6ba038488b9060db7;hb=HEAD)
I already explained the blaster as versatile movement tool in [the Blaster Jumping Section](Halogenes_Newbie_Corner#blaster-jumping). Apart from moving yourself around, you can also use it for juggling around *other* players, irritating annyoing campers or generally messing with other people’s movement. Pushing people around or forcing a prolonged bunny hop can be especially effective on space maps. Unless shooting at sitting ducks (such as campers), you might want to aim at your target’s feet to make use of its splash damage, as the blaster projectile needs some time to travel even though it is rather fast, thus aiming directly at moving targets can be rather tricky.
### Shotgun
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/Shotgun2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Shotgun.png;h=2bae9cd6cdd6f4edb7d775cee2a5eac416000e36;hb=HEAD)
The shotgun is your second spawn weapon. Primary fire is very powerful in close combat and, due to the bullets’ spread and being insta hit, a useful finishing weapon at medium range. Note that the push force of primary fire will slow down targets moving towards you, which can be very effective on space maps at spots where players are supposed to touch down from distant jump pads. If you shoot them with shotgun while they are still flying, they probably won’t make it to their usual landing spot.
### Machinegun
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/MG2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/MachineGun.png;h=a8c45d91d3cb86aa997ccbb974f7be71c0121f00;hb=HEAD)
The machine gun’s (or “uzi’s”) primary fire has a high spread, so it’s useful mostly in close to medium range. Secondary fire has lower spread and shoots small bursts, which is more useful at medium to longer ranges. As the machine gun projectiles have a little push force and are fired rapidly, it can be quite useful for slowing down players that come at you at high speeds. In fact, it’s hard to get into slapping range of someone that has a steady aim as long as such player is firing the machine gun.
### Mortar
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/Mortar2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Mortar.png;h=3ef33b913d38ea279e7d33769939e2d6a3fc0eea;hb=HEAD)
The mortar fires ballistic grenades which deal a lot of direct and splash damage in addition to pushing the player away from the impact. Whereas primary fire detonates upon impact, secondary fire detonates exactly 0.5 seconds after the first bounce of the grenade. With this knowledge you can time the detonation of secondary mortar. Mortar is a very effective weapon against any non-flying targets and to spam around corners.
### Electro
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/Electro2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Electro.png;h=286f91300764a32bbe0bf627e9bac48298e7d5ba;hb=HEAD)
-The electro primary behaves like an ordinary rocket launcher as you might know it from other games. However, it’s not really useful for doing high jumps. The secondary fire mode looks like some ordinary sluggish grenade like balls, but has a not so obvious special function: if you detonate the up to three blobs the secondary fire mode can release with primary fire, they will explode with a big WOOOSH that deals a lot of direct and splash damage (up to 130 dmg!). This makes the electro especially useful for blocking entries, releasing upon several opponents that are busy fighting each other or spamming where you predict someone to come.
+The electro primary behaves like an ordinary rocket launcher as you might know it from other games. However, it’s not really useful for doing high jumps. The secondary fire mode looks like some ordinary sluggish grenade like balls, but has a not so obvious special function: if you detonate the up to three blobs the secondary fire mode can release with primary fire, they will explode with a big WOOOSH that deals a lot of direct and splash damage (around 130 dmg!). This makes the electro especially useful for blocking entries, releasing upon several opponents that are busy fighting each other or spamming where you predict someone to come. Note that you don't really have to hit the balls, coming near with primary projectile is sufficient to set off the combo-explosion. This means that you can even set it off through walls (shooting blobs around a corner and hitting wall with primary) or even mid-air (just shoot through where your blobs fall).
### Crylink
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/Crylink2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Crylink.png;h=f2b8d273f2b2cf4289e6d649f21aae654caa997a;hb=HEAD)
The crylink has a couple of very non-obvious features, which makes this weapon rather interesting and unique. First of all, due to negative (!) push force, getting hit by crylink particles will effectively slow you down very much, no matter of the direction you’re moving in in relation to the firing player. Even if you move at insane speeds, getting hit by several crylink particles at once will make you perform a full stop. This makes the crylink very popular amongst defending CTF players, as you can really annoy fast flag runners with it provided you manage to hit them.
"When you release primary fire, the spread of crylink primary will inverse"
-Got it? This means that if you press the primary fire button, the particles will get fired with a certain spread. As long as you keep the primary fire button pressed, the spread will stay constant. Once you release it, the spread inverses, which means **all particles traverse a single spot**. Now the trick is to time the release so that all particles hit the opponent, or at least are **near** to the opponent. Why to be at least near the opponent? Because once **one** crylink particle of a shot detonates (i.e. hits a player), **all** of them detonate. And crylink does most of its damage per splash damage.
+Got it? This means that if you press the primary fire button, the particles will get fired with a certain spread. As long as you keep the primary fire button pressed, the spread will stay constant. Once you release it, the spread inverses, which means **all particles traverse a single spot**. Now the trick is to time the release so that as many as possible particles hit the opponent. The more particles you manage to land on the target, the more drastical the negative push effect will obviously be.
Crylink secondary does not have the spread inversion feature, the particles leave the gun at a very low and constant spread. The particles of secondary fire are faster than primary fire, and they don’t bounce. Their negative push force can be used on other players to break their movement (especially trick jumps) and even to pull them drastically if you manage to hit them in mid-air.
-The strong negative push force of crylink secondary can also be used for accelerating yourself if you start a bunny hop and, just when you started to go up from your first hop, hit the floor with crylink secondary at about an angle of 45 degrees in front of you (“crylink running”). You can also use it to climb walls if you face a wall, jump and shoot the wall above your head with crylink secondary.
+It wouldn't be Xonotic if you couldn't use the unique negative push force for movement as well. If you start a bunny hop and, just when you started to go up from your first hop, hit the floor with crylink secondary at about an angle of 45 degrees in front of you. The negative push of the implosion in front of you will catapult you forward (“crylink running”). This is probably the most efficient way to gain speed from stand. You can also use it to climb walls if you face a wall, jump and shoot the wall above your head with crylink secondary. Crylink climbing is also the most effective way to save you from falling off maps, provided there's a wall close by.
### Vortex
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/Nex2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Vortex.png;h=d79f4796453c1cb4fe52c043e56614e9c5528631;hb=HEAD)
-In the hands of a player with a good aim the vortex is probably the most powerful weapon in the entire game. It fires a single beam with zero spread that will instantly hit anything in its way and will even shoot through other players. You’ll notice a small ring around the crosshair when holding the vortex in your hands. If the ring is full, the vortex is charged (and also starts to glow red). Charging happens automatically once you hold the weapon, and it does not cost any ammo. Upon firing, the vortex obviously discharges and starts to recharge unless you switch to another weapon (what you should do, but more about weapon combos [later](Halogenes_Newbie_Corner#weapon-comboing)). If charged, the vortex deals 80 dmg, if you shoot with it immediately again, it deals 64 dmg, minimum damage you can deal with nex is 59 (if you switch to another weapon immediately after shooting and then shoot nex immediately after reswitching to vortex, so it doesn’t have the refire time for recharging).
+In the hands of a player with a good aim the vortex is probably the most powerful weapon in the entire game. It fires a single beam with zero spread that will instantly hit anything in its way and will even shoot through other players. You’ll notice a small ring around the crosshair when holding the vortex in your hands. If the ring is full, the vortex is charged (and also starts to glow red). Charging happens automatically once you hold the weapon, and it does not cost any ammo. Upon firing, the vortex obviously discharges and starts to recharge unless you switch to another weapon (what you should do, but more about weapon combos [later](Halogenes_Newbie_Corner#weapon-comboing)). If charged, the vortex deals 80 dmg, if you shoot with it immediately again, it deals 64 dmg, minimum damage you can deal with vortex is 59 (if you switch to another weapon immediately after shooting and then shoot vortex immediately after reswitching to vortex, so it doesn’t have the refire time for recharging).
Secondary fire only zooms in, as the weapon is strong enough as it is even without a secondary fire mode.
### Hagar
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/hagar2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Hagar.png;h=1fcb82965a53f1a3d5a6e0954c841a52564ae2e0;hb=HEAD)
The hagar rapidly fires small rockets with a high spread. By holding secondary you can load up to 4 rockets that you can fire simultaneously by releasing secondary fire. If you hold secondary fire too long, hagar will make a little beep and automatically release the loaded rockets so you can’t run around the map and just keeping hagar loaded all the time until you find someone. Unloading hagar secondary can deal a lot of damage at close range, however you’ll need to watch out not to get killed yourself by the splash damage it does. Otherwise the high spread makes this weapon most usefull against opponents standing next to a wall so the rockets that miss will at least do splash damage. On most competitive servers you’ll be able to discharge the hagar secondary without firing the rockets by pressing primary again while still holding secondary.
### Devastator
-[](http://www.xonotic.org/m/uploads/2012/12/Rocket2.png)
+[](http://de.git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/xonotic.wiki.git;a=blob_plain;f=assets/images/Devastator.png;h=d6d3cf66d3076e2ea830bfd5f884f2618f51e24d;hb=HEAD)
The devastator also has some very interesting features that are not very typical for this kind of weapon. First of all you can use the secondary fire to immediately detonate remotely any rocket you fired (provided of course it is still flying). No need to hit a flying target directly, just get the rocket near and, BAM, there you go. Apart from the high splash damage, the explosion also deals quite a lot of push force, so if you want to push some flying player off the map, devastator is your weapon of choice as you can not only push players away from you (push direction obviously depends on the explosion’s position in relation to the player).
-But not enough, you can of course also use the devastator to push **yourself** around. If you happen to be flying and need some extra acceleration but there is no wall near to laser yourself off, just shoot a rocket downwards and immediately detonate it. Yes, it hurts. A lot. But it might be worth it, be it to push you back onto the map if you are falling into the void or to prolong a laser jump so you manage to reach a distant location. This technique is called “rocket flying”.
+But not enough, you can of course also use the devastator to push **yourself** around. If you happen to be flying and need some extra acceleration but there is no wall near to blaster yourself off, just shoot a rocket downwards and immediately detonate it. Yes, it hurts. A lot. But it might be worth it, be it to push you back onto the map if you are falling into the void or to prolong a blaster jump so you manage to reach a distant location. This technique is called “rocket flying”.
You think I’m already done with the devastator? Not yet! In addition to this already very useful feature to remotely detonate your rockets you can also **guide** the rockets. Just keeping the primary fire button pressed and moving the mouse enables you to do some [interesting stuff](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqfqWtXwjic) which can come in very handy in all sorts of situations.
crosshair_dot_color 0.24 1 0.13 (this too is all about personal preference)
crosshair_per_weapon 0
crosshair_color_per_weapon 1 (if you like to know the weapon per crosshair color)
- crosshair_ring 0 (this removes the nex ring, keep it if you like to see it)
+ crosshair_ring 0 (this removes the vortex ring, keep it if you like to see it)
crosshair_ring_reload 1 (mg reload ring might be useful)
crosshair_ring_reload_size 1 (adjust to your liking, default is too big imho)
crosshair_size 0.28 (adjust to your liking)
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