THE JUMPGATE DEFINITIVE GUIDE - Tripod

Duelling - Aim
Aim cannot be taught particularly easily. It is largely a skill that can only be learned through practise,
but there are a few things to bear in mind. Firstly, remember to always have your deadzone set to 0 -
Your ship's implementation of deadzones is poor at best. Make sure that your technicians have
installed a high quality stick to enable precise control.
Try to make sure that any buttons that will be pressed all/much of the time (excepting the trigger) are
not on the shaft of the stick. If you are constantly pressing a thumb button while aiming you may find
that it detracts from your aim. My button setup on my FF2 goes like this (NB the hat is 8 way, but I find
that I cannot use all 8 functions precisely enough to prevent errors):
Hat left: Nearest target
Hat right: Last aggressor
Hat up: Target cycle up
Hat down: Target cycle down
1: (Trigger) Fire main weapons.
2: (Big thumb button) Jump
3: (Left thumb button) Brakes
4: (Right thumb button) Teamspeak transmit
5: AB
6: Missile
7: Flashfire
8: Target under reticle
Capacitors: Cap choice can affect aim to a significant degree. Most pilots find it harder to get a nearperfect
aim using gatling fire. Volley fire, as well as enhancing aim, offers the benefit of increased
damage. This is due to the damage of the initial volley. At any point except the moment at which all
guns in the gatling have fired, gatling fire will have done less damage. Note that as the number of
shots taken in a single engagement increase, the significance of this advantage (percentage-wise)
decreases. If you are taking lots of break-shots, where contact time is very short, the advantage is
significant, however. As a further point, this advantage is enhanced by low RoF weapons such as
Vantages and Injustices.
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