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Cowardice: the height of Weeniedom
Bottleneck
Fear wisely
The Great Camping Debate
Hide
Mind Games
Scavenge
Sizzlefry
Sucker play

Cowardice: the height of Weeniedom | Being a successful coward doesn't always mean finding a quiet place to hide. It means skulking around. Taking advantage of the weak. Pulling out every low-down trick you know. And sometimes finding a quiet place to hide. An important part of being a Quake Weenie is learning the fine art of the cheap kill. Every kill is a fair kill when you're a Weenie.

Bottleneck

There's nothing more corwardly than kicking your opponents when they're down. Victimize people who fall into slime pits. There are two basic approaches:

First and simplest -- just pick on people who fall in. People in slime pits have just one thing on their minds: "get me out of this frigging slime pit". Only the most level-headed Frag God can run for the exit to a slime pit while cooly returning your fire. So if you're near slime, listen for someone to fall in, and then move in for a cheap kill.

The second is even cheaper. Most slime pits have a small number of exits, and many have just one. When someone falls into the slime, head for the exit. You can either block it with your body and fire at your opponents until they sink into the slime, or "virtually" block the exit by barraging it with rocket and/or grenade fire.

Mark (PeeblE) Sawyer (who said he felt bad about sending it)

Fear wisely

This tip from a self-confessed Menacing Veteran Quake God: watch the score list. See that name at the top? See the color? That's the person who's fragged the most other people. You would be wise to assume that every time you come in contact with that player, his/her frag count will jump by one.

When you see that color coming at you in the game, get the hell out of the way. If you don't think you can ditch the Frag God, run in the direction of other Weenies and get lost in the fray. Sure, the Frag God will get another frag anyway, but better someone else than you.

CB5-Section8

The Great Camping Debate | To camp or not to camp? In the Quake Community, opinions on camping vary... uh... slightly. Some consider it to be cheap beyond forgiveness; others feel it's a tool to be used on occasion; still others admit that it's just one hell of a lot of fun. You'll need to draw your own conclusion, but most people camp from time to time, whether they admit it or not.

Hide

Nothing better than hiding when you're feeling cowardly. If you don't plan to shoot at anyone, head for the shadows.

If you want to shoot at people, being in the dark doesn't help you much, since firing from the shadows is a questionable proposition at best. All weapons except for the axe give off a muzzle flash, illuminating the area for several feet around you. Even beyond the muzzle flash, though, some weapons will give you away better (or worse) than others:

- Thunderbolt - may as well paint a big fluorescent "I'm Here" sign on your butt.
- Rocket Launcher - rockets leave a trail that's easy to trace back to you.
- Grenade Launcher - a little harder to trace than the rocket launcher. But only a little. If someone sees one of these before the first bounce it's very easy to trace back to you. If it's after the first bounce they'll have a little more trouble. But only a little.
- Nailguns - better. The nails can be pretty hard to trace for the first few seconds.
- Shotguns - completely stealthy except for the muzzle flash.

Mind Games

If you've got a choice weapon -- say the rocket launcher or the thunderbolt -- and are playing on a level where players are spread out, switch to your shotgun. Now run around taking potshots at people (or at the walls for that matter) until someone takes your bait. "Fresh meat" thinks the other player. "New-spawn. Nekkid city. Nuthin but shells. Easy pikkuns. Heh." Once someone shows up for an easy kill, switch to your "real" weapon and rip 'em a new one.

This is about the only Cowardice tactic with a sliver of nobility. After all, you're victimizing people who are, well, trying to victimize people. Sorta like Deathwish. Heh. Yeah, like that. Heh.

"the same guy"

Scavenge

If you see two other players going at it, you can take advantage. The idea: let the other two bozos duke it out, then take out the winner. It's cheap, but it's fair. There are two basic approaches:

1. Wait until the fight's over, sitting well back so as not to get noticed or drawn in. When you see Bozo A expire, waste Bozo B, who will be worn down after the fight.
2. If you can figure out who's winning the little skirmish, or if you know who the better player is (you can recognize people by the color of their clothes), start shooting at that character. It'll be you and some other Weenie collaborating to snuff a Quake God. Once the Quake God's gone, that leaves a weakened Weenie for you. This approach is slightly less cowardly since it means you'll get, like, shot at and stuff.
Do not shoot at the poorer of the two players. That will leave you to face the Quake God all by yourself once you've help to waste the other Weenie. Dumb.

Sizzlefry

Got the thunderbolt? Camp out in a large body of water and wait until two or more people are in there with you. Firing your thunderbolt while you stand in the water discharges the whole battery pack and crisps everyone in the water with you.

Including you of course. That's why you want two other poor suckers in there to barbecue along side you. You'll lose one frag for char broiling yourself, but you'll gain two for char broiling the others.

If you're still deep in Weeniedom, and just want to know what it feels like to actually frag another player for once, you can wait until there's just one other person in the water with you. You'll end up with a net frag change of zero, but will get to annoy someone in the bargain.

If you're an irredeemable Weenie, you'll no doubt rip one off with the thunderbolt while you're skinny-dipping there all by yourself. Very sad. Very sad indeed.

Keven "Sandking" Kronenberg
jEnS "STARK" Wessling

Sucker play

#### Pathetic Tactic Alert

I'm reluctant to include this one. Very reluctant. This is really, really cheap. I didn't think of this, and I've never done this. You shouldn't do this either, if you have a shred of human decency. But as I noted on the first page, the Quake Weenie reveals all.

If you have an idea of where your opponent is, send them a message that requires an involved response. I don't know, something like "Wow, you're great. How did you learn Quake?" Then, while they're replying, sneak up and nail them.

Oh, man, it hurt to even type that.

Wow is that low.

I'll be back in a minute. Gotta go wash my hands. Ugh.

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