TG has good scouting and response time compared to most pubs, but I think we can still impove.

This mostly applies to the alien team because they play more defensively (hives) than the marines.

How many times has your hive been shotty rushed by wyz and you never saw it coming? Its probably the most painful thing to happen on the alien side.

Now skulks should be doing 2 things
A) Scouting
B) Killing marine res nodes
If you are not doing B you should be doing A.

Now this might be kind of hard to explain and you just learn it by thinking a cretin way. In a perfect game, the aliens will always know where the marines at located on the map, now we know we can never have a perfect game so lets find ways of “guessing” where the marines are on the map, here are some key points of guessing where the marines are:

Use your minimap (default C), I press my minimap key constantly to see what we control, where my teammates are, and where I think the marines are going to go next. If you hit C and see no one in one of your hives that you control it would be a good idea to go there and check it out. If you have 3 skulks in one area and haven’t heard any marines or don’t know where any are, you need to move to another area and find the marines, skulks should only be ambushing a location if they know marines are going to pass by soon.

Parasite, Parasite, Parasite. This ability can never be use enough, when you are skulking, take it slow, parasite marines and call for back up. You are doing no good if you just rush in at 3 marines and die with out parasiting any of them( I see this all the time). If you have 3 sensorys then use sent of fear! And alert your team of where the marines are and how many there are. Say to your team what weapons the marines have, this is VERY important, 3 shottys can down a fade in less than 1 second, shottys and hmgs are very deadly to a fade who is not expecting them.

Remember prevention is the key to the alien game, if you know the marines are coming to your hive you can set up a defense to stop them rather than every one just bum rushing into the hive when the marines already have 5 shottys in there. After you stop a rush on your hive because of good scouting hit the marines res towers or base it’s the perfect time because the comm. is pissed off because his 100 res rush just failed.

If you are out of res don’t stay on gorge, a gorge can not scout, the only time you should be gorge with no res is if you were already gorge when the marines are attacking the hive so you can heal it. If you have spare res, the next best thing to scouting as skulk is OCs DON’T put OCs in the hive room, that is a waste, put them in the siege spots by the hives so you get some warning, but remember don’t rely on OCs to do the scouting for you, its more of a back up plan.

Also one last thing get the minimaps with the names on it, there is no reason not the have them and they help you learn maps better.

Ill add to this if I think of anything later, or add something in your replys, I typed this up really fast.

LazyEye