Pro Tips & Tactics - what's your best?

Mostly pertains to Rhino piloting.

When piloting a rhino look around before you charge, plan what you want to do and where you are going to end up. Don't run out passed unknown corners or otherwise open yourself up to being flanked by charging blindly, sure death. Don't be afraid to turn and run in any direction to avoid enemy fire, you can mitigate a lot of db griffin damage by running in almost any direction. Even if you run forwards turn left or right, pinata/orkan have to be a direct hit and have a high rate of fire so even a short time out of the line of fire saves you health(works for pins/tulus at range too) some pilots are crack shots and they will still land a lot of hits so you just have to land more. Wait for the moment before a griffin lands with missiles, do not waste firing at them in air unless you hit them at the top of their jump and are very good at leading, even then they are only vulnerable at the top of the arc.

Make sure you keep track of your legs position in relation to turret so you can pop out, fire while rotating your legs back the other way and then turn your turret and charge back to cover. Remember you can outrun even pins and tulus if you are a few hundred m away and can run in the opposite direction.

When facing bots like stalkers using dbs, please practice leading stalkers and gareths. You have to lead a good 2 boxes worth in front if running across your field of view. I see too many people miss and too many people waste missiles, burst fire and large lead.. it's worth it.

the snipers pissed me off while i'm in my orkan gareth,BAD MOVE. i just ran in range and kill the hell outta them!

Learn to kite enemy into your friendly fire that way it become 2 or 3 on 1. Um kiting means aggravating enemy into following you just in case you don't know the term. When using missles on energy shields like on carnage don't fire all at once if shield is low fire 1 after another to take out shield then to do damage.

Beacons:
1) You dont have to be the first one to a beacon to get credit for it. When the Beacon turns blue, everyone who is within range at that time will get credit for a beacon capture. Which means, dont bother blocking your teammates from getting there first, and dont give up just because someone gets a step on you.
2) Mentioned a little earlier... You dont have to run through the beacon to get it. As soon as the beacon starts changing, just turn around and wait to take off the other way, or run past it staying just in range. It will save you a little time and distance on heading to the next location.

Shields:
IF you have a Fuijin or Carnage/Trident and you see a Rhino, Raijin or another bot with hard shields. Stick to their backs when you can to give them protection from rockets.

Team Up:
If you see a teammate fighting a battle one on one, dont leave him to it if you are in range to help. This isnt a pride game here. The objective is not to be macho and beat pilots one on one. Two bots hitting one red from opposite sides will destroy it much quicker, which means you and your teammate will take less damage overall and move on to keep fighting. Likewise, if you see two of your teammates fighting one red, join them. The quicker you finish a red, the quicker you move on to the next.

Hangar:
Dont necessarily set up your entire hangar the same. A lot of pilots will set themselves up with all knife fighters or all snipers. If you are going to drop out of half the maps as soon as you see them, this will work. If you want to learn to adapt to any map and enjoy the game completely, vary your hangar to some degree. I like to have two bots for brawling and two bots for mid range support. My 5th bot will vary depending on what I want to do more. Some maps I start out with the Leo with Trident/Pins, and if the reds start to overrun us, I get into the Leo with Thunder/pinatas. On other maps, I will start out with the brawlers and adjust as the game goes.

Interesting, I've never checked it exactly; can anyone confirm?

Pix has confirmed this in a number of cases and in its official documentation.

I guess this might be more of an rant but:

Few things to consider:
1) If your fellow mates shoot at you and run around you yes, reason might be that you are awesome. But it MIGHT be becouse you have not made a singe movement during the game.

2) If you have let's say Griffin with medium range weapons yes. It is really good bot and setting. But if you NEVER jump, never move, only get around 100k damage done and we lose.. ..there might be something more you might have done during the game. Think about it. Game might become more fun for you allso. (Not only for Griffin users here, every bot. I have capped using my Natasha multiple times)

3) IF you have more bots then 1 please try to make some variety between them. Give them some roles. Have atleast one fast bot for capping (light bots, Galahad) and one with good speed for later game (rhino, boa or even griffin) that still leave enough room for slower bots like Leo or Natasha. It really IS important to cap. Not only when match start but during it. You have no idea how frustrating it is to see everyone go for nearest enemy while few enemies go and take 4 of 5 beacons. Specially if you personally have capped 2 to 3 of them and are onlyone trying and dying out there.

4) Consider what are good and what bad sides of the bot. You really are giving free points for enemy if your hangar is let's say Natasha with 2x Thunder & 2x punishers, Rajin with 2x Thunders and let's say Leo with similar weapons. IF your bot is fast you are more suited for capping and close range fighting. If your bot is really slow (Natasha, Rajin, Fury) they are great for medium to long range (and you should still move them and cap if need to, allso you need ONLY 1 of them in your hangar per battle!)

5) So many players keep telling how THEY are great but rest of the team is reason why they lost. In some time that might be true. But (considering you all have around same lvl bots and weapons) if YOU did not make it for top 3 damage dealing and capping.. ..try to think again. Maybe even small amount of reason why your team lost was in you? So in next game and game after.. ..try to make better.

Well, don't use artillery at all. Applies to 4 Nori Patton the same way. Natasha is not to blame, Zenith/Nori are.

Always be unpredictable. I know it should go without saying. But your foes will try to predict your movement. Ex. (Knife-fighter)You are staking a ? on the ofher side of wall or object.. you have to be aware that Pilot is hunting you too.. or maybe you know it's sizing you up. Don't be predictable to emerge in the opening by countinueing to walk.. juke em, head-fake em and let them discharge weapons). 8x out of 10 they will..

the point is on larger maps snipers can be effective with good close range support. and if you use cover right it is hard for nashorns to hit you.

i personally hate it when a whole team is somewhere and my team goes one by one and gets slaughtered, leaving me to get-you guessed it-slaughtered 

yeah, why da fudge not?

Watch the beacon bar!

If you're ahead on the beacon bar (keep an eye on that!) you don't have to rush in to recap; particularly if it's far away. Especially don't send three bots after one (i.e. get kited away) and leave your team fighting 3v5.

Don't race an ally to cap an undefended beacon. If your teammate has it handled, make yourself useful elsewhere on the battlefield.

Likewise don’t leave a red or white beacon uncapped if you can get to it.

If things go south, pay very close attention to the beacon bar and clock. Sometimes all you need to do to win is not die.

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Teamwork wins matches. Work together. I can’t stress this enough. Be a good teammate.

Read the battle. Check out where your team and the red team are, check the beacons, figure out where you’re needed and get there ASAP.

Don't waste time on selfish play.

Always be positioning yourself appropriately, being in the right place at the right time is key. This is the difference between being patient and being passive.

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When a blue dies try to take note of the scroll on the upper right. It’ll tell you the red’s name and what weapon they used. Now you know their effective range.

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Try not to get in each others' way.
*Blocking your teammate's retreat can get them killed.
*Your bot will block friendly fire if you’re in the way.
*Don’t stall a rushing Carnage or Lancelot.
*Avoid bunching up when rockets are flying. The splash damage will hit all of you.

Sometimes you need to buy your team some time to get into position. Don't be reckless, but make the sacrifice play if you need to.

Don't attack one by one into a fortified position. Wait for other blues if you're outnumbered. 3v3 is a fight. 1v3 followed by 1v3 followed by 1v3 is a way to make it easy for reds to focus you each down before you can even do damage.

Thunders will tear apart energy shields even at 500m, if an ally is attacking go ahead and fire a few rounds from afar to burn that shield for them.

Sometimes people will shoot you then shoot in a direction when you look at them; they’re telling you where to go. Sometimes people are just annoying, clueless, or it’s an accident. You can usually tell.

Flanking, harassing, and kiting are great uses for fast bots. They can do more than cap beacons.

If you drop a sniper/support bot and there are others, be ready to eject immediately. Better to burn a bot than have three campers cause a loss. Even two is pushing things, unless the pilots are both highly skilled.

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Be careful when jumping. You’re a target in the air, and you have a momentary freeze on landing.

If you get hung up on terrain, particularly ledges, you may need to rotate your legs AND torso to break free.

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Practice aiming. Different weapons require different amounts of lead. Strafing, elevation differences, jumping, etc all require different techniques. Even homing missiles require some skill to use them effectively.

Remember you can selectively fire. Against energy shields you need to alternate your shots (plasma excluded).

The thumb lift. After hitting a fire button, you have a moment to lift your right thumb and place it where you have more room to maneuver it around.

Enable target lock and practice using it.

Set sensitivity to your liking. I prefer maxing it on my phone, but when I played on a tablet I had to dial it way back.

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Don't tank games (intentionally lose to game matchmaker). Ever.

Lot of great info itt. I am relatively new but have a few points to offer.

Play for the team, not the gold. Assess the battle and fill the role thats needed at the time.

Dont bring a knife to a gun fight. If you go down vs lots of brit bots, dont make your next bot a plasma boat. Choose which bot you drop in based on battelfield conditions.