What do you do to improve yourself competitively?

[tehsnipah]

You.... Just play for fun.

There are many ways to get better, but here's one thing: do NOT get stressed out!
This will only frustrate you more and want to quit just because you think you're not great at it.

Also, it's recommended to join an active clan, building and improving yourself with various styles of plays. Try varieties of weapons even though you won't be that great in the first place, because you'll never know your exact favorable weapon.

Now just because we mean play active, doesn't mean you need to have no-life at it. Just play for about one to two hours, which is around twelve matches in pubs, and two to three matches in Gather. It will definitely give you an improved result.

If you play publics alot, your playing style will be inefficient for competitive scene(clanwars, gathers to some extent). I've witnessed this myself, on myself. When you're good, you play VERY arrogantly in publics, VERY offensively because you can beat juts about anyone in 1v1 situations. In competitive games this is NOT the case. If you rush, you die. In competitive games you MUST be careful, and MUST opt to play carefully in all situations, and get used to play carefully. IF you play on pubs, you CAN NOT learn to play carefully. Hence publics are good to some extent, after certain point they will just DEGRADE your ability to play efficiently in competitive games. They can improve your aiming skills for example, but overall publics do more harm than good for competitive players.

Oh boy..... I'm in trouble.... -_- Looks like back to Gathers for me.

[jrgp]

I've noticed something recently. Playing only public CTF servers will severely degrade your Soldat playing skills. I've switched to public DM's as much as I can. I feel they let you remember what Soldat was really intended to be, from it's beginning.

[Illuminatus]

I feel they let you remember what Soldat was really intended to be, from it's beginning.

Oh yeah, so true. There's nothing better than some classic public deathmatches - no bonuses, no scripting stuff, no weaponmod, just simple dm with max of 8 players. After ~30min almost always there are at least one/two enemy/ies who can compete with u.
Finding the good servers is the problem...

[jrgp]

I feel they let you remember what Soldat was really intended to be, from it's beginning.

Oh yeah, so true. There's nothing better than some classic public deathmatches - no bonuses, no scripting stuff, no weaponmod, just simple dm with max of 8 players. After ~30min almost always there are at least one/two enemy/ies who can compete with u.
Finding the good servers is the problem...

Actually there has been a really cool one around recently. It's 24/7 DM on ctf_Ash, which turns out to be a surprisingly good DM match. It seems to be funner for DM than for CTF.

[ElGato]

Just play, doesn't matter where. I've pretty much only played in public CTFs for the past few years with a gather here and there and I can still hold my own in a competitive 3v3 against almost anyone just fine.

[Furai]

You should definitely try RamboMatch. ;p

[-Major-]

watch known players play, and immitate, monkey see monkey do (known players of the IRC soldat community).

first you wanna learn how to kill, try to get 1.5 K/D (pretty much by being useless for your team) ratio on gathers, after that you start picking bad weapons to imporve your ctf thinking. and then get a clan and watch better players than yourself

[Furai]

(...)after that you start picking bad weapons to imporve your ctf thinking(...)

Start with minigun. (; (you'll get bp for screwing around ^^) Then take your least favourite weapon.

[-Major-]

(...)after that you start picking bad weapons to imporve your ctf thinking(...)

Start with minigun. (; (you'll get bp for screwing around ^^) Then take your least favourite weapon.

ya... pick yout worst weapon I mean.

after you're really good you can start playing without crosshair, so that you no longer need to aim to hit.

[Furai]

(...)playing without crosshair, so that you no longer need to aim to hit.(...)

...then you can call yourself a hardcore player! (If I knew how to turn off crosshair I would have tried that.)

[-Major-]

(...)playing without crosshair, so that you no longer need to aim to hit.(...)

...then you can call yourself a hardcore player! (If I knew how to turn off crosshair I would have tried that.)

make the cursor all green in the interface. this isn't very suggested tho, because it can screw you up a bit.

[unholychicken]

Play, play, play and play.

The most important aspect of practicing anytihng is to do it, A LOT.
The second important aspect of practicing anything is to do it against right people(Gathers, clans).
The third important aspect of practicing anything is to do it with right people(Clan mates).
The fourth important aspect of practicing anything is to do it MORE.
The fifth important aspect of practicing anything is to do it AGAIN.

Play, play, play and play!

I used to do 10-15 gathers a day for a few weeks some 6 months ago, and definitely saw notable improvement after many months of break from Soldat. The key is to PLAY ACTIVELY. The MOST IMPORTANT THING is to PLAY ACTIVELY. If you don't PLAY ACTIVELY, you WILL NOT become GOOD.

If you play publics alot, your playing style will be inefficient for competitive scene(clanwars, gathers to some extent). I've witnessed this myself, on myself. When you're good, you play VERY arrogantly in publics, VERY offensively because you can beat juts about anyone in 1v1 situations. In competitive games this is NOT the case. If you rush, you die. In competitive games you MUST be careful, and MUST opt to play carefully in all situations, and get used to play carefully. IF you play on pubs, you CAN NOT learn to play carefully. Hence publics are good to some extent, after certain point they will just DEGRADE your ability to play efficiently in competitive games. They can improve your aiming skills for example, but overall publics do more harm than good for competitive players.

Over and out.

thanks, maybe that helps improving, because i didn't think about that

[Crimson Goth]

If you over do it, you're almost guaranteed a carpet tunnel o.O

Not if you use proper ergonomics techniques. (have a gellpad right in front of your keyboard and mouse which your wrists lay on)

True. I was talking about fapping though lol

[xurich]

why would you turn off crosshair