Get a better weapon than the default (if you haven't already) would be my advice. I suggest rolling with the shotgun if you don't have the DLC or CP for the Tamsen and the attachments it needs.

Yeah, I've got the Vipera already, and I've got my increased health, resuscitation skills, and some personal defense.

I need to get the DLC though

Static-Star1 wrote:

Played my first few matches yesterday....

Best. Game. Ever.

Sure, I get first shot off and the dude turns around and kills me, but I don't care. I'm not the kill dude, I run around, heal, plant, repair, and disarm stuff.
Even though I do need that K/D to go over 1, any tips for 1 v 1's?

I can remember that when I first started, getting the first shot off then being completely owned, stick with it though it gets better. Although I don't remember thinking it was a great game initially not that that's a bad thing. I will send you a friends request if you like and I can help you in game and explain the game to you as there's literally no tutorials or explanations provided to you. Trust me when you have someone who does that it makes the game SO much better, I had a friend who had played all of the betas and was top of the leaderboards for them, thus had played heaps, he explained it all to me and it made the game for me without him I would not have got 500 hours out of it.

I'm not sure what online shooter games you have played previously or your experience with them but some things are quite different in this game compared to others.

It takes a reasonable amount of bullets to kill someone so if you are used to the COD franchise this will be a big change from that.

Shooting from the hip I find is very accurate and whenever I am close to medium range I tend to hip fire depending on the gun.

Headshots are obviously a given and you should try to aim for them as it takes less bullets to kill someone if you are getting headshots.

Seeing as though you are on SVER I would recommend you start using a gun with a big clip to start off with, either the Vipera or a LMG as they both have quite large clips which gives you room for missing whereas the assault rifles have quite small clip size so if you miss too many times you might be stuck reloading.

Jumping helps a lot to evade fire, you will see the best players jump all around the field as it makes you a harder target. So if you get hit from an unknown direction if you can try to jump at a right angle to the where it's coming from, this often gives you an bit of an extra chance in surviving.

That's about all that I can think of currently, keep an eye on my thread [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I plan to put up some videos soon showing how I play and where I go.

Alright, Flight, I'll send a friend request next time I'm on

EDIT: I really hate the knife, one lunge isn't insta kill to the chest. Only to the back....

Man, yesterday was a terrible day on MAG, every time I would parachute down, someone would snipe me, I was playing domination and I was attempting to arm a station, and I couldn't for the two matches because I had to respawn at the end of the map. The one thing that was good yesterday though was that finally bought the shotgun, and DAMN, it's good.

The shotgun is absolutely bat-guano-crazy in MAG. Not only does it do massive damage at close ranges, it can actually pick guys off from a distance fairly reliably. Uncharted's shotguns can't do that...

I rarely ever see the shotgun being used, but that might be cause I'm only a level 16 right now.

Also, why does the knife take more than one swipe to kill at the front?

Because the knife is one of the worst things in the game.

You probably don't have all of the power knife upgrades, so do that then the knife might work some of the time.

The knife is weird. Difficult to get used to, but it will save your life and possibly the game in certain situations. Just keep working on it, and try your best to get the timing and spacing down. It will help.

Does it really take two knifes from the front? That's ridiculous! I haven't even noticed it.

yeah, unless they're already injured, so kinda use the steel-fist technique from U2 here as well

Static-Star1 wrote:

yeah, unless they're already injured, so kinda use the steel-fist technique from U2 here as well

It's because people can have up to 120 (by using skill points) and they can also have the triple reinforced battle armour. I don't know the exact amount of much extra damage the knife upgrades do, but when you have it upgraded it is definitely more consistent in one hit knifing, I have around 64 combat melee ribbons myself. There are people who play MAG purely using the knife and still hold 2.0kd. In my opinion the knife is one of the most under rated and under used weapons in the game, until you learn how to use it properly.

But I would use my skill points first and foremost on the medical tree, then on the weapon tree you are using, then the resistances to get 120 health and finally the knife or whatever you think will be useful for what you are trying to do.

My main loadout is this
Vipera, with silencer and optical sight. Hangun, Repair and medical kit, with the standard Ballistic vest.

Anything I should change or add?

The rocket launcher a very good thing to have if you ever need to take down a turret or tank.

I hate the rocket launcher with a passion. It's useless IMO.

1. It takes more than 3 rockets (from what I'vve seen) to destroy a tank.
2. Splash damage is the size of a babies fist
3. Takes forever to reload
4. You move way too slow for my taste

If you have DLC, I recommend saving up for the Tamsen. Probably the best long-range weapon in the game.

Yeah, the Tamsen was my go to gun when I was playing MAG. Really an all-purpose weapon for many situations.

Since my class is defined as Direct Action, should I switch out the Vipera for the LMG?

I'ma take off my repair kit for the RPG and get the Steel Vest hopefully if the c's don't go over.
And then I'll put the repair kit on loadout 2 with the Vipera. My next goal to get is the shotgun and the foregrip.

I wouldn't bother with the RPG. Repair Kits are much more useful.

Can you buy other secondary guns? I've been looking to see whether I can, and I can't seem to find any secondary guns to buy? If that's true I'm going to be pissed because I frigin HATE that hand gun.

There is - I believe - one other handgun you can buy. I haven't bothered with it for two reasons:

-I want to spend my CP on things that I'm actually going to use.
-It probably weighs something, which means I'll have to factor that into my loadouts.

Saw some SVER shotgun gameplay today, and honestly, I don't like it. The kill radius seems to be so unreliable. 2 minutes in he goes and shoots someone point blank in the back and it doesn't kill him. Later, he kills someone from 45m away with one shot.

I found out today how much I hate the regeneration health system. I hate how sometimes a person can be at full, other times he can be at half health.

I didn't think there was a regeneration system. Whenever I've been hurt, I've either had to use my med kit or stay at less than full health.

Oh sorry, meant NON-regeneration health system.