Metroid Prime Hunters/Tips and Hints

Choosing the Right Hunter, and Weapons

 * Often times people will choose a hunter just for an alt, or their prime weapon. A ton of skilled hunters fight without having their hunters alt/prime be their favorite weapon. Sylux is a common example. People often love his alt, yet primarily use either the Volt Driver, Imperialist, Judicator and/or Magmaul. Notice the "or". Many people can use nearly every weapon in their strategy.

Battle Tips and Hints
This is where to go for tips and hints for making your online skill level boost.

Fighting Strategy

 * Think logically. If you're Sylux and you see on your radar someone coming out from a tunnel in Combat Hall, what do you do? You can charge him, not smart. You can blast him with Magmaul shots, okay of an idea. Or you can set two tripwires and wait for him to come out, then lay the third one, and hopefully kill the foe. You can use the Imperialist too, no matter how much you deny it, the Imperialist is a very powerful weapon you can rely on. And you can use it in a similar situation such as the Sylux one. If you're someone like Samus in this situation, attack with a charged Magmaul; and then chase in Alt.


 * Don't only go after newbies, they want to enjoy it too. Instead, rather noob hunt the noob hunter, in a sense is what you should do. For example, you're a Weavel (On Alinos Perch) and the noob hunter's a Noxus, noob's a Trace. Trace is standing still, trying to snipe old fashioned way, staying in one spot. The Noxus comes up behind him to freeze him and does. You can snipe the Noxus, who will now be infuriated. He comes up to get the Imperialist. You place your turret on the weapon respawn, and you hide out of radar sight. Then you charge him as he nears it. Scoring another kill possibly.


 * Surprise is your friend. Remember that. That means ambush, sniping, falling out of nowhere and whacking them on the head (Works with Weavel's alt turret amazingly well)... all of it. Master all forms of surprise, ambush, and sniping. Surprise could be as simple as launching a volley of attacks at once towards a hiding Trace, to tricky ambushing while waiting, as Weavel) for a foe to come out of a tunnel and executing deadly alt drop, double slash, BH three times, snipe as they flee in alt technique. (Don't feel bad if you don't understand what I just said.)

Defense and Conserving Health

 * When you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of playing a cheater, unless miraculously they are not invulnerable, there isn't much that you can do. Instead of giving in, give the cheater a hard time. If the arena is large enough, run around, run around Constantly! Often times, cheaters have enabled illegal use of the Omega Cannon (Which if in that situation in an arena like Combat Hall is hopeless), if the arena is large enough, you can just about avoid a terrible death at the hands of a cheater, by running and hiding often. If you are up against a Deathalt/Double Damage cheater, once again, run for your life. There is nothing to be gained from giving in and just standing immobile and letting the cheater rack up kills. If you encounter a cheater, you will often feel the urge to disconnect. While it is advised to d/c when up against a cheater, you will just lose the same amount of points (And your connection history percentage will drop), as if you just weathered through the battle. Although the odds may be seemingly low, most cheaters have no skill at fighting. Take advantage of that. On average, a cheater can't hit you with anything but the Omega Cannon and their Alt.


 * Another annoyance among players online are those who take advantage of glitches in the arenas. Most, if not all, glitches either have inside a wall, or in the arena's Shadow World (For definition, refer to the terms section) where they are invisible except for a small shadow on the ground.The only way to combat wall glitches is just to know the glitch and go in after them and give them what they deserve. You don't have to know the Shadow World glitches to combat them. To take a player down who's using a SW glitch all you need to do is track that pesky shadow.


 * A commonly unknown fact in that you do not receive damage from falling at great heights, if in alt. For places like Oubliette where you must jump off the edge often, remember this.

Sniping, and Using the Imperialist

 * Let's face it right now, the Imperialist is a must for high level play. If you do not agree, don't bother reading nor making any changes to the content below.


 * Now that that's out of the way, onward with tips!

Uses

 * The Imperialist is used for many things, mainly and obviously sniping, as one would think. You probably know sniping as sitting in a corner trying to headshot the others from afar? Unfortunately, that is far from reality in Metroid Prime Hunters. Experts use it much differently, and outlined below is how to properly utilize this deadly weapon to your advantage.


 * Use the Imperialist to get runaway Alts. It works better than it may seem. Depending on speed of alt, lag could be a huge issue. Unless you aim a whole alt size ahead of the direction the alt is moving. Make sense?


 * Before the much-wanted tips are explained. Things must be pointed out.
 * Lag is a major issue, but you can get around it. Always aim slightly too high than the chart below says, it seems to work better.

Where to aim for headshots without lag

 * Samus: About the middle of the obvious head.
 * Kanden: Pretty obvious, maybe a little lower than the middle of his face.
 * Spire: About right below his eyes.
 * Trace: Don't aim for his "floating head". Mainly aim for the top of his chest, or the tallest part of his main body
 * Noxus:A bit above the neck.
 * Sylux: About the middle of the obvious head.
 * Weavel: Aim for the gold visor on his face.

Dodging

 * Remember, if there's a sniper gun or Trace on the level. Chances are, there's a sniper. Stay in Alt Form to avoid the risk of headshot completely. Also, in biped, stay jumping. Jump unpredicably, yet staying to this pattern: Jump up right, zig-zagging, at last second land to left. Jump right, zig-zagging, at last second lad to left. (If you understand, could you please make a diagram?)


 * IMPORTANT It is possible to get a headshot planted on you even when going into alt, during the time between alt and biped, you can get shot to the head. So jump, then go into alt, for...


 * It is more likely that you'll get a headshot on you when you land, not in the air. So the technique of being unpredictable upon landing is important.


 * A Trace can be stationary, and be a good sniper. But try and blend in with your surroundings. So if you're the blue one, a stage like Ice Hive would work good. If you're gold, there's not many good stages for you.

Aiming

 * Be aware of lag at all times.


 * You may find it useful during close range combat to do this: Aim unscoped, and then at the last second zoom in and fire.


 * Learn to identify a head quickly. If you can, you can go into alt, speed forward, sniper, go back to alt, zoom forward, etc. While being chased by an alt. (Doesn't work on faster alts as well.)


 * A sniper who is stationary is a free kill for an experienced player. Even if they're Trace. But if you miss the first shot, then they'll probably run. See if they're looking at you, if not, stay still and fire. If they are, keep jumping/strafing unpredictably. (Remember about where to aim for the specific hunter.)