Beginner Tips for an Experienced Player

[ClockworkAlex]

I have been playing FAF since the beginning SINGLE PLAYER only. I am wanting to start playing online competetively and was looking for any beginner tips or strats I need to be aware of when playing online compared to offline.

[biass]

It's kinda... Completely different
AI has probably taught you some bad habits you might need to unlearn while you play

A libary's worth of beginner help can be found here, i suggest you have a read of some: http://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?tit ... ing_SupCom

[Uveso]

I was looking some FAF Cast from Gyle, and this one could be a nice example, how humans play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXH57GHV34

Its 40 minutes long, but Gyle comments are very entertaining and the game is thrilling

[ClockworkAlex]

I def. picked up some bad habits that I need to unlearn. I will check out the library and the video. Thank you kindly.

[Lieutenant Lich]

If you were playing vs. FA AIs, then you already know that they raid you. Players will do the same so you will have to raid back.
If you were playing vs. Vanilla AIs... then it will be harder... those AIs simply turtle and let you take up the whole map. Few players do that because turtling is a bad strategy. So you will have to unlearn turtling, if you got used to doing it.

Then there is this ( http://wiki.faforever.com/index.php?tit ... s#Trainers ) group of people who can help you learn by teaching you.

[PhilipJFry]

I highly recommend this tutorial series from Heaven as well as this slightly older tutorial series from various people.

[Voodoo]

You can also upload a replay here. Then it's easier for us to see where you can improve.

[ClockworkAlex]

Wow! This has to be the most supportive community in gaming. You guys rule. I started readig this stuff already. I was playing against FAF AiX so i already know not to turtle. There is still a lot of changes I have to make to my strat. For instance I have read so far that reclaim is critical which I have not been doing much of. I will upload a replay or too soon.

I probably will find this somewhere but I was also curious what key binds do the pros use often? Like the top 10 key binds because im doing most stuff the long way.

[Voodoo]

I probably will find this somewhere but I was also curious what key binds do the pros use often? Like the top 10 key binds because im doing most stuff the long way.

mostly only t1 buildings:

w - all 3 factories
s - mexxis
d - t1 energy
g - t1 pd with walls
e - radar
o - overcharge

and some more but I can't say the keys without playing ^^

[Lieutenant Lich]

Hotbuilding and hotkey setup is something you do to fit you specifically. Press F1 ingame and scroll down until you see hotbuilding and hotkeys. Then set them up the way you feel comfortable and beware that if you use Ctrl-L to select all land units, you might want to 1) rebind it to some otehr key; 2) install suicide confirmation (UI mod) otherwise you will see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMm4-g6aciU if you misclick (self-destruct is by default set to Ctrl-K, L is right next to it)