[osuperduke]

Here are some tips:

1. Pick a map you want to get good at and practice it on your own till you have the whole place memorized.

2. If you did a thorough job of number one you not only learned how to move around the map but your analytical brain should have been planning where you can hide behind cover (also where your opponent may or may not hide), know where powerups, secrets, weapons and roids are and the sounds made in every nook and cranny.

3. Practice number one with Roids until you master that speed in that level. When I say master the level with Roids, I mean you can run it not just forwards but backwards. Why backwards, so you can shoot while running away with very low health (hehe-I killed many top players this way. They can get real greedy and smell the blood that they become easy straight line targets if you know what I mean..ex..your being chased and your opponent knows he has hurt you and he decides to send an RPG your way and if you are good enough you use your shottie while running backwards and blast it in his face)

4. Speed is great but learn to use each weapon no matter if you have a favorite. Some weapons used in the right place become very-very powerful and the same weapon used in a diffrent way works in places where most say it would not work. Here is a tip on the RPG, simple but effective, aim at your opponents feet so the blast always damages your opponets health when using it outside in what I call medium spaces, example: Hollywood outside. If you just aimed straight on you will miss and the grenade flys past your opponent and the walls may be too far for the blast to damage health. What I am saying if you read into this is not to fall victim to the idea that a weapon is useless in this or that situation, be creative in how you can use a weapon in every situation in every place. After doing this you will have favorites but what do you do when you don't have your favorite weapon...you learn to use what you have effectively and efficiently (dukesters that thought this way were at the top and remain at the top today). Jerms, Holly, Hafiz, Adren, Kat, Cobra, Memphis and others may remember b4 they became who they were got owned simply by a pipebomb expert who could run backwards while unloading hehehd, muahahaha.

5. Now that you have the level mastered and memorized, you will find that you can beat a lot of wannabe dukegods. The question now is: How do I beat duksters that have done their homework? You beat them by practicing dukematch. Learn all the respawn spots on the level you mastered. It is funny that after you mastered your movement on a level that it feels like your time practicing the level was wasted time but it was not. You have got to get use to thinkin while being shot at hehe. Keep notes on your matches and ask yourself what you could have done different. Remember that loss is the first ingredient to success in anything you do, if you don't believe me ask the top players (they lost many a match to me back then, muahahaha) how many matches they lost to get to the top.

6. Pay attention, I can't help but laugh that many duksters get into a pattern on how they play. All the practice you did can backfire if you made it a pattern, think out of the box when you practice. Example: Practice with Roids on while running backwards and shooting your RPG (and I mean holding down the fire button until your out of ammo) and not hurting yourself while doing so, sounds great but add figure eights to your run while jumping and getting up on ledges and going through doors/warps while using duck every now and then, while switching weapons and then do it in dukematch and mastering this with sounds (This is why duke is so great, gives me chills while thinkin of it).

Alright enough said for now, others can add but this is okay for starters.

---------- Post added at 11:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 PM ----------

Just wanted to add, you have not mastered a level unless you can move with ROIDS and can fly with the jet pack into every air space. I did not mention the jet pack but mastering flight (in the air is a good reason to learn how to mouse aim) is part of mastering the movement in a level.

Now you know what I mean by mastering movement in a level.

Duke is a very powerful game in that you have the added dimensions of flight. This is why the game is so cool today. I have not played much after 1996 because I had reached a high level of competency ( I use to beat Cremator if you knew him he won the TEN championship ) that it was no fun playing with fellow duksters anymore. When I tried coming back, many had surpassed my level and wiped the floor with my entrails. Muahahaha. It was then that I realized the other wonderful aspect of the game to bring people together to collaborate on strategy. I got beat so bad when I tried playing on TEN (I played on TEN while it was still free, I never had bought the Duke game and was an expert in my time in Hollywood Holocoust) and Kali (someone out there dukematched me for my kali account and won it, I assume a young person, I hope you still use it hehe) I was destroyed mentally and no longer had the time to spend to increase my knowledge of the game. Hope this tid bit helps some new duksters enjoy the game.