You all know that guns give you the kills, but you probably don't know that moving is what keeps you alive. That is why this page is going to teach you the most important movement of all, STRAFING!!! Strafing means side-stepping. To do this properly you must set you keyboard keys right. You must set your movement keys on 'left' and 'right' to become 'sidestep left' and 'sidestep right', and then set you turn left and right movement or 'looking' to your mouse or other keys you feel comfortable.
One of the main advantage on strafing is for turning around the corners. This particulary technique is called 'slicing the pie'. This technique enable you to turn corners with maximum efficiency and eliminates most of the blind spots so that you are ready for anything once you are around the coner. To make you understand this better, I've created short flash movie showing you the correct and the incorrect way of turning a corner.
First, the incorrect way of turning a corner.
Press the play button on the top-right hand corner to start.
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You see, the white player turn to face the corner too slow and by the time he turned to face the corner, his opponent has already got a good aim on him and killed him.
Now, let's see the correct way to execute 'slicing the pie':
The correct way of turning a corner.
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You see, the white player is now turning his body and side-stepping into the corner at the same time, so that when he reaches the corner, his aim will be pointing right into the hallway giving him the advantage instead of the opponent.
In order to excel in this type of game, you MUST master this strafing technique first before learing how to aim or shoot. Because if you can't stay alive, how could you kill anyone?