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Author: esteel
Date: 2008-12-29 23:41:56 -0500 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008)
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added campingrifle to basics and corrected shared ammo for all the new guns and some small typos


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 Among the items you can pick up are the weapons.  Some of them are very unique to Nexuiz, and to get the most out of them you need to be familiar with every aspect of how they work - including the rate of fire, the damage per hit, the spread and speed of the payload, and so on.
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-Almost all weapons in Nexuiz have two firing modes, so make sure you know both.  You normally (depending on game-mode) start equipped with two weapons: the laser and the shotgun, so we'll start with these.  You can bind these weapons to a key at the <em>settings/input</em> menu or in the console using the command <em>bind key &quot;impulse <strong>n</strong>&quot;</em>, where n is the number of the weapon, below.
+Almost all weapons in Nexuiz have two firing modes, so make sure you know both.  You normally (depending on game-mode) start equipped with two weapons: the laser and the shotgun.  You can bind these weapons to a key at the <em>settings/input</em> menu or in the console using the command <em>bind key &quot;impulse <strong>n</strong>&quot;</em>, where n is the number of the weapon, below.
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 <li>The laser is not often used as a weapon, as it does not do much damage - but it's a useful tool to move around the map, because it has a significant push.  The 'explosion' from its projectile will push you and other players around a lot.  The trick to using it to move around is to use this push to gain speed or to do huge jumps.  For an easy start, take the laser, look down at the floor, and press fire.  It will push you high into the air.  If you press jump and fire at the same time, you will get even higher - but it depends on the timing, and, for more advanced jumps, also on the angle you fire at the floor, as well as how fast and in which direction you move.  Play around with it, and watch others, and you will learn a very useful skill in Nexuiz.  The secondary fire mode of the laser switches back to the last used weapon.  The laser does not use up any ammo.</li>
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-<li>The grappling hook is an other movement tool.  The primary mode attaches itself to all sorts of solid objects will pull you there to move through the map like spider man.  You can get very fast that way or reach spots you would not get to by other means.  The secondary firemode drops a small gravity bomb that will affect enemy players and also releases a lot of smoke which will make you harder to see and hit.  The gravity bomb uses cell ammo.</li>
+<li>The grappling hook is an other movement tool.  The primary mode attaches itself to all sorts of solid objects and will pull you there to move through the map like spider man.  You can get very fast that way or reach spots you would not get to by other means.  The secondary firemode drops a small gravity bomb that will affect enemy players and also releases a lot of smoke which will make you harder to see and hit.  The gravity bomb uses cell ammo.</li>
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 <li>The port-o-launch is the perfection of movement.  The grenade it launches creates two portals.  On first impact it creates the entrace portal, on secondary impact the exit portal.  If you enter the first one you (or others and also projectiles!!) will be teleported to the secondary portal.  As the first portal will teleport everything it can't be hit but the second portal is quite fragile and thanks to the used wormhole technology will take the other poral along if it lost too much energy.  The wormhole is also the reason why the portals energy decays after some time.  You can replentish the energy by simply teleporting something thru it.</li>
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 <li>The shotgun is very similar to that of other games.  It shoots several hitscan pellets with a high spread, so it does very high damage at close range, but becomes very inaccurate at distance.  It is also very useful to knock opponents out after you already hit them hard with a rocket or other projectile, and subsequently closed to a distance where these are no longer as useful, because it's hard to miss with at close range.  The primary fire mode fires once with a short reload, while the secondary fire mode shoots three very quick shots, but with a long reload afterwards.  Starting with Nexuiz 2.3 the secondary firemode will also have a higher spread so the primary is useful for a longer distance then the secondary firemode.  The shotgun uses pellet ammo which is not shared with any other weapons.</li>
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-<li>The machinegun is also quite self-explanatory.  It shoots hitscan bullets (do not get fooled by the eyecandy from the tracers, the mg IS HITSCAN it hits the moment you press fire were you aim) at a high rate of fire, and can do significant damage.  The primary fire mode has a high spread and is thus quite inaccurate - but it fires very fast and deals more damage per second than any other weapon.  It is therefore devastating when used at close quarters.  One of the machinegun's unique features is that the first bullet after pressing fire does more damage than the rest - keep this in mind when using it.  The secondary fire mode is much slower, but more accurate, and does even more damage per bullet, the same as the primary modes <em>first</em> bullets.  It is therefore very useful as an improvised sniper weapon for long range kills.  Like the shotgun, it is an excellent finishing weapon, but its effective use relies heavily on a good, steady aim.  The machinegun uses bullet ammo which is not shared with any other weapons.</li>
+<li>The machinegun is also quite self-explanatory.  It shoots hitscan bullets (do not get fooled by the eyecandy from the tracers, the mg IS HITSCAN it hits the moment you press fire were you aim) at a high rate of fire, and can do significant damage.  The primary fire mode has a high spread and is thus quite inaccurate - but it fires very fast and deals more damage per second than any other weapon.  It is therefore devastating when used at close quarters.  One of the machinegun's unique features is that the first bullet after pressing fire does more damage than the rest - keep this in mind when using it.  The secondary fire mode is much slower, but more accurate, and does even more damage per bullet, the same as the primary modes <em>first</em> bullets.  It is therefore very useful as an improvised sniper weapon for long range kills.  Like the shotgun, it is an excellent finishing weapon, but its effective use relies heavily on a good, steady aim.  The machinegun uses bullet ammo just as the camping rifle.</li>
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-<li>The HLAC (heavy laser assault cannon) is a similar gun but fires highly accelerated laser bolts at an insane refire rate.  The bolds explode on impact and for some extra damage the secondary firemode files several of them at once.  This is only gun that has reduced spread when crouching!  Beware of your cell ammo, this baby eats it like crazy.</li>
+<li>The HLAC (heavy laser assault cannon) is a similar gun but fires highly accelerated laser bolts at an insane refire rate.  The bolds explode on impact and for some extra damage the secondary mode fires several of them at once.  This is only gun that has reduced spread when crouching!  Beware of your cell ammo (shared with electro, crylink and (minsta)nex), this baby eats it like crazy.</li>
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-<li>The mortar is a grenade-launcher on steroids.  Both firing modes shoot a fast-moving projectile grenade which is influenced by gravity, and thus moves in a trajectory.  The primary fire mode shoots grenades that explode on impact while the secondary fire mode shoots grenades which will bounce off objects, and either explode on contact with an other player, or after a few seconds if they are not triggered.  The grenades' arc makes them harder to aim, but also hard to dodge.  Since they deal quite high damage, with an excellent rate of fire, the mortar is a solid all-round weapon once you've got the hang of aiming it.  The mortar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the rocket launcher and the hagar.</li>
+<li>The mortar is a grenade-launcher on steroids.  Both firing modes shoot a fast-moving projectile grenade which is influenced by gravity, and thus moves in a trajectory.  The primary fire mode shoots grenades that explode on impact while the secondary fire mode shoots grenades which will bounce off objects, and either explode on contact with an other player, or after a few seconds if they are not triggered.  The grenades' arc makes them harder to aim, but also hard to dodge.  Since they deal quite high damage, with an excellent rate of fire, the mortar is a solid all-round weapon once you've got the hang of aiming it.  The mortar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the rocket launcher, TAG and the hagar.</li>
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-<li>The electro is a rather underestimated gun.  Contrary to its name, it does not deal electricity damage, but rather fires plasma - understanding this will help you to use it well.  The primary fire mode shoots a plasma projectile which does quite high damage on impact.  It also explodes rather like a rocket or grenade, and is quite comparable in use to the Quake 2 rocket launcher.  The secondary fire mode spits out balls of contained plasma that will bounce like grenades, and deal similarly high damage.  Those blobs have a short trajectory and so do not get very far - but they're useful for blocking a way, or for spamming around your opponent so that he is hedged in by them.  If you use the primary fire mode to hit these contained plasma blobs, they will explode more violently then without, causing a lot of damage.  This combo is very effective in corridors and small rooms.  The electro uses cell ammo which is shared with the crylink and the nex.</li>
+<li>The electro is a rather underestimated gun.  Contrary to its name, it does not deal electricity damage, but rather fires plasma - understanding this will help you to use it well.  The primary fire mode shoots a plasma projectile which does quite high damage on impact.  It also explodes rather like a rocket or grenade, and is quite comparable in use to the Quake 2 rocket launcher.  The secondary fire mode spits out balls of contained plasma that will bounce like grenades, and deal similarly high damage.  Those blobs have a short trajectory and so do not get very far - but they're useful for blocking a way, or for spamming around your opponent so that he is hedged in by them.  If you use the primary fire mode to hit these contained plasma blobs, they will explode more violently then without, causing a lot of damage.  This combo is very effective in corridors and small rooms.  The electro uses cell ammo which is shared with the crylink, hlac and the (minsta)nex.</li>
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-<li>The crylink is comparable to the shotgun, except that it is not hitscan but shoots plasma projectiles; so it's harder to aim but also does more damage.  The primary fire mode shoots several projectiles at a high rate of fire and narrow spread, while the secondary fire mode has a wider, horizontal spread and lower rate of fire.  The crylink uses cell ammo which is shared with the electro and the nex.</li>
+<li>The crylink is comparable to the shotgun, except that it is not hitscan but shoots plasma projectiles; so it's harder to aim but also does more damage.  The primary fire mode shoots several projectiles at a high rate of fire and narrow spread, while the secondary fire mode has a wider, horizontal spread and lower rate of fire.  The crylink uses cell ammo which is shared with the electro, HLAC and the (minsta)nex.</li>
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-<li>The nex is a powerful sniper weapon.  Its primary fire mode fires a hitscan antimatter lance for significant damage, but requires a very precise aim, and has a relatively long reload time.  The secondary fire mode activates zoom.  The nex uses cell ammo which is shared with the crylink and the electro.</li>
+<li>The nex is a powerful sniper weapon.  Its primary fire mode fires a hitscan antimatter lance for significant damage, but requires a very precise aim, and has a relatively long reload time.  The secondary fire mode activates zoom.  The nex uses cell ammo which is shared with the hlac, crylink, minstanex and the electro.</li>
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-<li>The minsta nex is the snipers wet dream.  Simiar to the nex but MUCH more powerful.  One hit, one kill, no kidding!  The secondary firemode is identical to the lasers primary shot.  Back in the glory days this gun was used to train steady aim and fast movement.</li>
+<li>The minsta nex is the snipers wet dream.  Simiar to the nex but MUCH more powerful.  One hit, one kill, no kidding!  The secondary firemode is identical to the lasers primary shot.  Back in the glory days this gun was used soley in Minstagib to train steady aim and fast movement, now this gun can spread fear in every gamemode.  Cell ammo is also used by nex, crylink, hlac and electro.</li>
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-<li>The hagar can be compared to the plasma gun from Quake3.  It has a very high rate of fire, with moderate damage, and some splash damage.  The primary fire mode shoots small projectile missiles at high speed and an extraordinary rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode shoots the same missiles, but at a slower speed and rate of fire, and without the instant trigger.  This means that they will bounce once when hitting a floor or wall, giving you the opportunity to fire around corners, or double your chances to hit someone by spamming an area.  The hagar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar and the rocket launcher.</li>
+<li>The Campingrifle is a kind of mixture of a sniper rifle and an assault gun.  It fires fast, medium-to-high damage, wall piercing projectiles and is feed with cell ammo.  The primary mode feels very much like a standard sniper rifle and is harder to use then the nex due to the projectile.  The secondary mode can be used to empty the whole magazine of bullets in an quick burst.  This firemode is less wallpiercing and has some spread to it but is deadly at mid-to-close range.  The magazine is reloaded automaticaly if you equip the rifle.  The machinegun uses the same bullet ammo as the camping rifle.</li>
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-<li>The rocket launcher is a little different from that of other games, in that the rockets move relatively slowly.  The primary fire mode shoots a slow-moving, high-damage rocket projectile at a medium rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode will explode all your rockets at once.  This means that you don't need to hit your opponent directly - just get the rocket <em>near</em> him, and use the secondary fire to cause splash damage which will badly hurt him.  The rocket launcher uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar and the hagar.</li>
+<li>The hagar can be compared to the plasma gun from Quake3.  It has a very high rate of fire, with moderate damage, and some splash damage.  The primary fire mode shoots small projectile missiles at high speed and an extraordinary rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode shoots the same missiles, but at a slower speed and rate of fire, and without the instant trigger.  This means that they will bounce once when hitting a floor or wall, giving you the opportunity to fire around corners, or double your chances to hit someone by spamming an area.  The hagar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar, TAG and the rocket launcher.</li>
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-<li>The t.a.g. seeker is a unique weapon system.  The primary fire mode launcher a small tagging device.  If it hits someone it will automatically release several target seeking rockets that will follow the tagged one for quite a while.  Its fun watching them run!  The secondary firemode launches small rockets that explode after a few meters and thus create a sort of explosion shield that will severly damage everyone in its radius and also stops in comming tag-rockets.</li>
+<li>The rocket launcher is a little different from that of other games, in that the rockets move relatively slowly.  The primary fire mode shoots a slow-moving, high-damage rocket projectile at a medium rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode will explode all your rockets at once.  This means that you don't need to hit your opponent directly - just get the rocket <em>near</em> him, and use the secondary fire to cause splash damage which will badly hurt him.  The rocket launcher uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar, TAG and the hagar.</li>
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+<li>The T.A.G. seeker is a unique weapon system.  The primary fire mode launcher a small tagging device.  If it hits someone it will automatically release several target seeking rockets that will follow the tagged target for quite a while.  Its fun watching them run!  The secondary firemode launches small rockets that explode after a few meters and thus create a sort of explosion shield that will severly damage everyone in its radius and also stops in comming tag-rockets.  Rocket ammo is shared with the mortar, hagar and rocketlauncher.</li>
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-Now that you know all the guns you also have to understand that in Nexuiz each projectile can be set off by explostions.  So its possible to blow up the rocket an opponent is shooting at you.  So a good strategy against someone with a rocketlauncher is to spam him with the hagar.  Chances are high you make his own rocket explode and hurt him!  This is also the primary way to make sure the t.a.g. seekers rockets do not hit you!
-Also not that some objects are affected / pushed by explosion like the keys in Keyhunt or the flags in Capture the Flag.
+Now that you know all the guns you also have to understand that in Nexuiz each projectile can be set off by explostions.  So its possible to blow up the rocket an opponent is shooting at you.  A good strategy against someone with a rocketlauncher is to spam him with the hagar.  Chances are high you make his own rocket explode shortly after he launched it and hurt him!  This is also the primary way to make sure the T.A.G. seekers rockets do not hit you!  Make them explode by setting them off.
+Also note that some objects are affected / pushed by explosion like the keys in Keyhunt or the flags in Capture the Flag.
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 <h3><a name="''Using Jumping Effectively''"id="''Using Jumping Effectively''"><em>Using Jumping Effectively</em></a></h3>
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-You will need to be able to get around the map quickly and efficiently if you are to hunt down your opponents, and collect items well.  As already mentioned, the laser is useful for jumping and gaining speed - but you can use all explosive weapons for a similar effect.  Other weapons, however, will cause more damage to your health, and not all offer the same strong push as the laser.  The rocket launcher will push you twice as far, but you will also take <em>lots</em> more damage.  The mortar has the same push as the laser, but its explosion is bigger so the timing and the right angle are less of an issue.  For this reason, the mortar is better for a beginner to learn these sorts of jumps.
+You will need to be able to get around the map quickly and efficiently if you are to hunt down your opponents, and collect items well.  As already mentioned, the laser is useful for jumping and gaining speed - but you can use all explosive weapons for a similar effect.  Other weapons, however, will cause (much) more damage to your health, and not all offer the same strong push as the laser.  The rocket launcher will push you twice as far, but you will also take <em>lots</em> more damage.  The mortar has the same push as the laser, but its explosion is bigger so the timing and the right angle are less of an issue.  For this reason, the mortar is better for a beginner to learn these sorts of jumps.
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 You should also know that you gain a bit extra speed moving forward simply by jumping.  When you walk, there is friction from the floor which keeps you at a constant speed.  If you jump as you walk, the amount you touch the floor is considerably less, and so the friction does not slow you down as much.  The longer you jump, the faster you go.  The most simple way to do this is to run forward, jump, and then while you are in the air release and repress/hold the jump button.  Your character will jump again the moment you land, without you having to worry about timing hitting the jump key.  Just repeat it a few times and you will notice you get faster and faster.  Unlike other games, Nexuiz does not need you to do this with strange key combinations or even with circular movements of the mouse - trying to do these will generally make you slower.  The only time that strafe-jumping (holding one of the strafe-keys while jumping) is useful is for the very first jump you make.  This can increase your jump speed a little - although not by much.

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 **''Using Weapons Effectively''
 Among the items you can pick up are the weapons.  Some of them are very unique to Nexuiz, and to get the most out of them you need to be familiar with every aspect of how they work - including the rate of fire, the damage per hit, the spread and speed of the payload, and so on.
 
-Almost all weapons in Nexuiz have two firing modes, so make sure you know both.  You normally (depending on game-mode) start equipped with two weapons: the laser and the shotgun, so we'll start with these.  You can bind these weapons to a key at the ''settings/input'' menu or in the console using the command ''bind key "impulse _n_"'', where n is the number of the weapon, below.
+Almost all weapons in Nexuiz have two firing modes, so make sure you know both.  You normally (depending on game-mode) start equipped with two weapons: the laser and the shotgun.  You can bind these weapons to a key at the ''settings/input'' menu or in the console using the command ''bind key "impulse _n_"'', where n is the number of the weapon, below.
 
 	*The laser is not often used as a weapon, as it does not do much damage - but it's a useful tool to move around the map, because it has a significant push.  The 'explosion' from its projectile will push you and other players around a lot.  The trick to using it to move around is to use this push to gain speed or to do huge jumps.  For an easy start, take the laser, look down at the floor, and press fire.  It will push you high into the air.  If you press jump and fire at the same time, you will get even higher - but it depends on the timing, and, for more advanced jumps, also on the angle you fire at the floor, as well as how fast and in which direction you move.  Play around with it, and watch others, and you will learn a very useful skill in Nexuiz.  The secondary fire mode of the laser switches back to the last used weapon.  The laser does not use up any ammo.
 
-	*The grappling hook is an other movement tool.  The primary mode attaches itself to all sorts of solid objects will pull you there to move through the map like spider man.  You can get very fast that way or reach spots you would not get to by other means.  The secondary firemode drops a small gravity bomb that will affect enemy players and also releases a lot of smoke which will make you harder to see and hit.  The gravity bomb uses cell ammo.
+	*The grappling hook is an other movement tool.  The primary mode attaches itself to all sorts of solid objects and will pull you there to move through the map like spider man.  You can get very fast that way or reach spots you would not get to by other means.  The secondary firemode drops a small gravity bomb that will affect enemy players and also releases a lot of smoke which will make you harder to see and hit.  The gravity bomb uses cell ammo.
 
 	*The port-o-launch is the perfection of movement.  The grenade it launches creates two portals.  On first impact it creates the entrace portal, on secondary impact the exit portal.  If you enter the first one you (or others and also projectiles!!) will be teleported to the secondary portal.  As the first portal will teleport everything it can't be hit but the second portal is quite fragile and thanks to the used wormhole technology will take the other poral along if it lost too much energy.  The wormhole is also the reason why the portals energy decays after some time.  You can replentish the energy by simply teleporting something thru it.
 
 	*The shotgun is very similar to that of other games.  It shoots several hitscan pellets with a high spread, so it does very high damage at close range, but becomes very inaccurate at distance.  It is also very useful to knock opponents out after you already hit them hard with a rocket or other projectile, and subsequently closed to a distance where these are no longer as useful, because it's hard to miss with at close range.  The primary fire mode fires once with a short reload, while the secondary fire mode shoots three very quick shots, but with a long reload afterwards.  Starting with Nexuiz 2.3 the secondary firemode will also have a higher spread so the primary is useful for a longer distance then the secondary firemode.  The shotgun uses pellet ammo which is not shared with any other weapons.
 
-	*The machinegun is also quite self-explanatory.  It shoots hitscan bullets (do not get fooled by the eyecandy from the tracers, the mg IS HITSCAN it hits the moment you press fire were you aim) at a high rate of fire, and can do significant damage.  The primary fire mode has a high spread and is thus quite inaccurate - but it fires very fast and deals more damage per second than any other weapon.  It is therefore devastating when used at close quarters.  One of the machinegun's unique features is that the first bullet after pressing fire does more damage than the rest - keep this in mind when using it.  The secondary fire mode is much slower, but more accurate, and does even more damage per bullet, the same as the primary modes ''first'' bullets.  It is therefore very useful as an improvised sniper weapon for long range kills.  Like the shotgun, it is an excellent finishing weapon, but its effective use relies heavily on a good, steady aim.  The machinegun uses bullet ammo which is not shared with any other weapons.
+	*The machinegun is also quite self-explanatory.  It shoots hitscan bullets (do not get fooled by the eyecandy from the tracers, the mg IS HITSCAN it hits the moment you press fire were you aim) at a high rate of fire, and can do significant damage.  The primary fire mode has a high spread and is thus quite inaccurate - but it fires very fast and deals more damage per second than any other weapon.  It is therefore devastating when used at close quarters.  One of the machinegun's unique features is that the first bullet after pressing fire does more damage than the rest - keep this in mind when using it.  The secondary fire mode is much slower, but more accurate, and does even more damage per bullet, the same as the primary modes ''first'' bullets.  It is therefore very useful as an improvised sniper weapon for long range kills.  Like the shotgun, it is an excellent finishing weapon, but its effective use relies heavily on a good, steady aim.  The machinegun uses bullet ammo just as the camping rifle.
 
-	*The HLAC (heavy laser assault cannon) is a similar gun but fires highly accelerated laser bolts at an insane refire rate.  The bolds explode on impact and for some extra damage the secondary firemode files several of them at once.  This is only gun that has reduced spread when crouching!  Beware of your cell ammo, this baby eats it like crazy.
+	*The HLAC (heavy laser assault cannon) is a similar gun but fires highly accelerated laser bolts at an insane refire rate.  The bolds explode on impact and for some extra damage the secondary mode fires several of them at once.  This is only gun that has reduced spread when crouching!  Beware of your cell ammo (shared with electro, crylink and (minsta)nex), this baby eats it like crazy.
 
-	*The mortar is a grenade-launcher on steroids.  Both firing modes shoot a fast-moving projectile grenade which is influenced by gravity, and thus moves in a trajectory.  The primary fire mode shoots grenades that explode on impact while the secondary fire mode shoots grenades which will bounce off objects, and either explode on contact with an other player, or after a few seconds if they are not triggered.  The grenades' arc makes them harder to aim, but also hard to dodge.  Since they deal quite high damage, with an excellent rate of fire, the mortar is a solid all-round weapon once you've got the hang of aiming it.  The mortar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the rocket launcher and the hagar.
+	*The mortar is a grenade-launcher on steroids.  Both firing modes shoot a fast-moving projectile grenade which is influenced by gravity, and thus moves in a trajectory.  The primary fire mode shoots grenades that explode on impact while the secondary fire mode shoots grenades which will bounce off objects, and either explode on contact with an other player, or after a few seconds if they are not triggered.  The grenades' arc makes them harder to aim, but also hard to dodge.  Since they deal quite high damage, with an excellent rate of fire, the mortar is a solid all-round weapon once you've got the hang of aiming it.  The mortar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the rocket launcher, TAG and the hagar.
 
-	*The electro is a rather underestimated gun.  Contrary to its name, it does not deal electricity damage, but rather fires plasma - understanding this will help you to use it well.  The primary fire mode shoots a plasma projectile which does quite high damage on impact.  It also explodes rather like a rocket or grenade, and is quite comparable in use to the Quake 2 rocket launcher.  The secondary fire mode spits out balls of contained plasma that will bounce like grenades, and deal similarly high damage.  Those blobs have a short trajectory and so do not get very far - but they're useful for blocking a way, or for spamming around your opponent so that he is hedged in by them.  If you use the primary fire mode to hit these contained plasma blobs, they will explode more violently then without, causing a lot of damage.  This combo is very effective in corridors and small rooms.  The electro uses cell ammo which is shared with the crylink and the nex.
+	*The electro is a rather underestimated gun.  Contrary to its name, it does not deal electricity damage, but rather fires plasma - understanding this will help you to use it well.  The primary fire mode shoots a plasma projectile which does quite high damage on impact.  It also explodes rather like a rocket or grenade, and is quite comparable in use to the Quake 2 rocket launcher.  The secondary fire mode spits out balls of contained plasma that will bounce like grenades, and deal similarly high damage.  Those blobs have a short trajectory and so do not get very far - but they're useful for blocking a way, or for spamming around your opponent so that he is hedged in by them.  If you use the primary fire mode to hit these contained plasma blobs, they will explode more violently then without, causing a lot of damage.  This combo is very effective in corridors and small rooms.  The electro uses cell ammo which is shared with the crylink, hlac and the (minsta)nex.
 
-	*The crylink is comparable to the shotgun, except that it is not hitscan but shoots plasma projectiles; so it's harder to aim but also does more damage.  The primary fire mode shoots several projectiles at a high rate of fire and narrow spread, while the secondary fire mode has a wider, horizontal spread and lower rate of fire.  The crylink uses cell ammo which is shared with the electro and the nex.
+	*The crylink is comparable to the shotgun, except that it is not hitscan but shoots plasma projectiles; so it's harder to aim but also does more damage.  The primary fire mode shoots several projectiles at a high rate of fire and narrow spread, while the secondary fire mode has a wider, horizontal spread and lower rate of fire.  The crylink uses cell ammo which is shared with the electro, HLAC and the (minsta)nex.
 
-	*The nex is a powerful sniper weapon.  Its primary fire mode fires a hitscan antimatter lance for significant damage, but requires a very precise aim, and has a relatively long reload time.  The secondary fire mode activates zoom.  The nex uses cell ammo which is shared with the crylink and the electro.
+	*The nex is a powerful sniper weapon.  Its primary fire mode fires a hitscan antimatter lance for significant damage, but requires a very precise aim, and has a relatively long reload time.  The secondary fire mode activates zoom.  The nex uses cell ammo which is shared with the hlac, crylink, minstanex and the electro.
 
-	*The minsta nex is the snipers wet dream.  Simiar to the nex but MUCH more powerful.  One hit, one kill, no kidding!  The secondary firemode is identical to the lasers primary shot.  Back in the glory days this gun was used to train steady aim and fast movement.
+	*The minsta nex is the snipers wet dream.  Simiar to the nex but MUCH more powerful.  One hit, one kill, no kidding!  The secondary firemode is identical to the lasers primary shot.  Back in the glory days this gun was used soley in Minstagib to train steady aim and fast movement, now this gun can spread fear in every gamemode.  Cell ammo is also used by nex, crylink, hlac and electro.
 
-	*The hagar can be compared to the plasma gun from Quake3.  It has a very high rate of fire, with moderate damage, and some splash damage.  The primary fire mode shoots small projectile missiles at high speed and an extraordinary rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode shoots the same missiles, but at a slower speed and rate of fire, and without the instant trigger.  This means that they will bounce once when hitting a floor or wall, giving you the opportunity to fire around corners, or double your chances to hit someone by spamming an area.  The hagar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar and the rocket launcher.
+	*The Campingrifle is a kind of mixture of a sniper rifle and an assault gun.  It fires fast, medium-to-high damage, wall piercing projectiles and is feed with cell ammo.  The primary mode feels very much like a standard sniper rifle and is harder to use then the nex due to the projectile.  The secondary mode can be used to empty the whole magazine of bullets in an quick burst.  This firemode is less wallpiercing and has some spread to it but is deadly at mid-to-close range.  The magazine is reloaded automaticaly if you equip the rifle.  The machinegun uses the same bullet ammo as the camping rifle.
 
-	*The rocket launcher is a little different from that of other games, in that the rockets move relatively slowly.  The primary fire mode shoots a slow-moving, high-damage rocket projectile at a medium rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode will explode all your rockets at once.  This means that you don't need to hit your opponent directly - just get the rocket ''near'' him, and use the secondary fire to cause splash damage which will badly hurt him.  The rocket launcher uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar and the hagar.
+	*The hagar can be compared to the plasma gun from Quake3.  It has a very high rate of fire, with moderate damage, and some splash damage.  The primary fire mode shoots small projectile missiles at high speed and an extraordinary rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode shoots the same missiles, but at a slower speed and rate of fire, and without the instant trigger.  This means that they will bounce once when hitting a floor or wall, giving you the opportunity to fire around corners, or double your chances to hit someone by spamming an area.  The hagar uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar, TAG and the rocket launcher.
 
-	*The t.a.g. seeker is a unique weapon system.  The primary fire mode launcher a small tagging device.  If it hits someone it will automatically release several target seeking rockets that will follow the tagged one for quite a while.  Its fun watching them run!  The secondary firemode launches small rockets that explode after a few meters and thus create a sort of explosion shield that will severly damage everyone in its radius and also stops in comming tag-rockets.
+	*The rocket launcher is a little different from that of other games, in that the rockets move relatively slowly.  The primary fire mode shoots a slow-moving, high-damage rocket projectile at a medium rate of fire.  The secondary fire mode will explode all your rockets at once.  This means that you don't need to hit your opponent directly - just get the rocket ''near'' him, and use the secondary fire to cause splash damage which will badly hurt him.  The rocket launcher uses rocket ammo which is shared with the mortar, TAG and the hagar.
 
-Now that you know all the guns you also have to understand that in Nexuiz each projectile can be set off by explostions.  So its possible to blow up the rocket an opponent is shooting at you.  So a good strategy against someone with a rocketlauncher is to spam him with the hagar.  Chances are high you make his own rocket explode and hurt him!  This is also the primary way to make sure the t.a.g. seekers rockets do not hit you!
-Also not that some objects are affected / pushed by explosion like the keys in Keyhunt or the flags in Capture the Flag.
+	*The T.A.G. seeker is a unique weapon system.  The primary fire mode launcher a small tagging device.  If it hits someone it will automatically release several target seeking rockets that will follow the tagged target for quite a while.  Its fun watching them run!  The secondary firemode launches small rockets that explode after a few meters and thus create a sort of explosion shield that will severly damage everyone in its radius and also stops in comming tag-rockets.  Rocket ammo is shared with the mortar, hagar and rocketlauncher.
 
+Now that you know all the guns you also have to understand that in Nexuiz each projectile can be set off by explostions.  So its possible to blow up the rocket an opponent is shooting at you.  A good strategy against someone with a rocketlauncher is to spam him with the hagar.  Chances are high you make his own rocket explode shortly after he launched it and hurt him!  This is also the primary way to make sure the T.A.G. seekers rockets do not hit you!  Make them explode by setting them off.
+Also note that some objects are affected / pushed by explosion like the keys in Keyhunt or the flags in Capture the Flag.
+
 **''Using Jumping Effectively''
-You will need to be able to get around the map quickly and efficiently if you are to hunt down your opponents, and collect items well.  As already mentioned, the laser is useful for jumping and gaining speed - but you can use all explosive weapons for a similar effect.  Other weapons, however, will cause more damage to your health, and not all offer the same strong push as the laser.  The rocket launcher will push you twice as far, but you will also take ''lots'' more damage.  The mortar has the same push as the laser, but its explosion is bigger so the timing and the right angle are less of an issue.  For this reason, the mortar is better for a beginner to learn these sorts of jumps.
+You will need to be able to get around the map quickly and efficiently if you are to hunt down your opponents, and collect items well.  As already mentioned, the laser is useful for jumping and gaining speed - but you can use all explosive weapons for a similar effect.  Other weapons, however, will cause (much) more damage to your health, and not all offer the same strong push as the laser.  The rocket launcher will push you twice as far, but you will also take ''lots'' more damage.  The mortar has the same push as the laser, but its explosion is bigger so the timing and the right angle are less of an issue.  For this reason, the mortar is better for a beginner to learn these sorts of jumps.
 
 You should also know that you gain a bit extra speed moving forward simply by jumping.  When you walk, there is friction from the floor which keeps you at a constant speed.  If you jump as you walk, the amount you touch the floor is considerably less, and so the friction does not slow you down as much.  The longer you jump, the faster you go.  The most simple way to do this is to run forward, jump, and then while you are in the air release and repress/hold the jump button.  Your character will jump again the moment you land, without you having to worry about timing hitting the jump key.  Just repeat it a few times and you will notice you get faster and faster.  Unlike other games, Nexuiz does not need you to do this with strange key combinations or even with circular movements of the mouse - trying to do these will generally make you slower.  The only time that strafe-jumping (holding one of the strafe-keys while jumping) is useful is for the very first jump you make.  This can increase your jump speed a little - although not by much.
 




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