Step 1: making a more effective attack key pattern
In your consol type-
bind q “slot3;+attack;wait;-attack; bind mouse1 sp1”
alias sp1 “+attack;wait;wait;wait;-attack;wait;slot1;+attack;wait;-attack;bind mouse1 +attack”
Now your ‘q’ button has become the primer for your attack with: skulk, lerk, and fade ( once you get a second hive) hit it when you are just walking around getting ready for an attack, and during an attack at intervals.
What it does:
Skulk: your attack after hitting q is: leap, bite, bite, bite, etc…
Lerk: your attack after hitting q is: umbrella, bite, bite, bite, etc…
Fade: your attack after hitting q is: blink, slash, slash, slash, etc…
NOTE: If you want the Lerk to shoot after the umbrella, you will need a separate key.
Step 2: Upgrade:
So far the most effective upgrades have been for me:
1) Carapace: without it you are nothing!
2) Adv. Hivesight: in combat it really helps if your target glows
3) Adrenaline/Celerity: both are good, Lerk needs Adrenaline
Step 3: Kill
Skulk: Upgrade, and press “q” while you are looking for a target. Try and get behind your target without being noticed. Attack (remember that since you pressed our “q” key your first attack will be a leap), bit and circle, if there is any distance between you and your target immediately press “q” to prime another leap! Give them an inch and you are dead! Repeat process as necessary.
Lerk: Upgrade, and press “q” while you are looking for a target. Your best chance is to lend support to another alien. Once you find a suitable target close in and press attack to umbrella and bit for you life under the cloud and retreat if it fades. Or after you make the cloud switch to spikes and give them a mouth full of one-sided punishment… well, as long as your cloud lasts.
Fade: Upgrade, and press “q” while you are looking for a target. Once you find your target you have two options frontal or a faint. Frontal: click the attack button aiming directly at your target, you will blink over to them because you have primed the “q” and slash like crazy. Or a faint, strafe out to get there attention and am the blink past them a little to one side, this will cause them to focus on you and you will blink behind them and rip them a new one before they realize that they are just firing at air!