This guide is gonna be a bit shorter than the rest. It's going to focus on the use of aliases to make your targetting faster. With the ability to use an alias within an alias you can make your task much easier. This is more of an update rather than a whole new guide, but I thought the information might help some of you.
These are two aliases I now use. I used to use the 5 step targetting alias which required me to hit "t <dir>" everytime I wanted to move my target 5 spaces. This new set of aliases will move your target 10 spaces at a time with only 3 key strokes. It will speed up your targetting like crazy. I know VT100 users hate it when they get splatted while they are trying to target, but if you use these aliases it will eliminiate typo's and make more safe for you. My experience leads me to believe that 10 spaces is the ideal targetting distance.
2. REVERSE DIRECTION ALIAS
THIS IS A MUST!!! How does this help you? Well I call it the reverse direction alias and that's exactly what it does. Let's say you are in a game and you are shooting people to the EAST, but you notice a few enemies are taking positions to your WEST. With old aliases, you would have to return the target to your home position and then target the right direction. If you use this alias however, it will do it for you. All you need to type is "rr <dir>". It will move the target 10 spaces in the direction you wish. So if in the above situation, you would quickly type "rr w" to make your target switch sides. This alias takes a little while to get used to, but trust me it helps out tremendously (especially in invaders when you are always surrounded)!
These aliases will help you out in big ways even though they may seem like small differences. You will notice your speed increase by using these aliases. It helps to eliminate mistakes which was probably my #1 cause of death. I recommend you search through you alias bank to see if you can make your aliases better with the new system Dug has implemented.
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