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Zyphercap

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Hi there,
I started playing survival games yesterday. I have been hopelessly unsuccessful so far. I have a few questions, would greatly appreciate it to get some help :)

1. I never seem to be able to win a 1v1 fight. No matter how much better my armor/weapons are. I always try jumping while hitting and turning to the left or right of my enemy when I hit them, but me killing someone before they kill me is a truly rare phenomenon. I currently have 10 kills and 24 deaths. Any tips?

2. I always seem to run into people who (when they notice they have better gear then me) are prepared to chase me to the far corners of the map and beyond to kill me. Last game I've literally been running around for 8 minutes with someone chasing me, not being able to loot any crates or do anything at all. I always jump while sprinting to go faster and I often do risky jumps over rivers and stuff to lose them but it just never works. Tips?

3. When looting items at the beginning of the game, I ofcourse always hold down shift to get all items in quickly, but sometimes they appear in my inventory and disappear again a splitsecond after, like someone else grabbed it. Is this related to my connection, is this a bug, or is it normal?

4. I get ambushed very often. Sometimes I just need to open my inventory for a few seconds to organize some items. I always look around if I see somebody. No-one around. I then open my inventory and start moving items, when all of a sudden someone kills me. This has been the cause of death for about 1/4th of my deaths so far. So umm....Just bad luck, should I never reorganize items, or am I doing something wrong?

Those are my main questions so far....Would be great if I could get some help with this!

Thank you for your time,
- Zyphercap
 

RC_4777

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1. You have the right idea with strafing and jumping. Practice will definitely help with that. Also, you can try using your bow, Flint and Steel, or block hitting (pressing right and left click- beware, it makes you slower!)

2. Besides jumping under trees while sprinting to boost, there's not much you can do about those people but go to less crowded areas. If they are chasing you, you can try to run past others and make the guy chasing you forget you.

3. It's normal, happens to everyone.

4. It's good to organize stuff, you just might have gotten unlucky. Do double check around you though.

Hope that helped :)
 

HalfSquirrel

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I have nothing really to add to what RC said, but you can check out the tips and such section for more help with PvP and chest routes.
 

Zyphercap

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Thanks for the replies. I guess it's mostly just a matter of practice. And a bit of luck as well, I just played a game where I got a gold sword right in the beginning and managed to kill 5 poor armorless people, to a total of 8 kills that game. More than I got in almost 20 games before that.
 

HalfSquirrel

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Thanks for the replies. I guess it's mostly just a matter of practice. And a bit of luck as well, I just played a game where I got a gold sword right in the beginning and managed to kill 5 poor armorless people, to a total of 8 kills that game.

There are no gold swords in chests in MCSG...
 

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If you want add me on Skype, we can talk and maybe play (or record) Skype: benkeeper0
 

Zyphercap

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These are the MCSG forums, not the hive forums. MCSG is a separate network of Survival Games servers.

Apologies, I didn't know. Still the same game tho, so it doesn't really matter for the questions I asked, just the golden sword thingy :)
 

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