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Explosion rings are good for close range attacks, as well as taking out your opponent when you can't get a clear shot. My advice, aim near; not at your opponent with the explosion ring, unless at close range.
Aim : OK, even me, I used it, it is unquestionably the best way: the mouse. I still find it difficult to aim with rail against people who steal or those who are at 3-4 feet away from me. I'm going to train, it will pass.
I don't care how godlike your reflexes and aim are, there is absolutely no way you can make a perfectly horizontal shot on demand 100% of the time, but the computer can do it easily. It's extemely helpful to have the mouselook key set to something so you can look straight forward perfectly.Ya know, what's the point of Centerview if you can make perfectly horizontal shots yourself? :P
EDIT: Oh yeah, it's for people who still have problems with aiming with a mouse. My bad.
Actually, considering his/her keyboard is french (or in other words, a AZERTY keyboard), to move forward would be "Z", to move backwards "S", to strafe left "Q" and to strafe right "D".
Holy goodness, this. Not only do most players think on the ground, a lot of people spend half their time holding a special button designed to keep aim flat. (While this doesn't stop them aiming upward, it speaks wonders of their mentality - although there are surely exceptions... and I would mount my forth and fifth mouse buttons to this if I could, tbh)As for techniques, use monitor bouncing and shoot the opponent from above. A lot of players only think on the horizontal plane.
Use OpenGL. Unless you're playing the single player mode (In third-person, I use first all the time - and believe the view advantage outweighs the render issues), or any poorly-designed wad levels where you can't see what's up *cough hyperduels - although it really just needs polish and some OGL testing goddammit* there's no excuse, as all official match/CTF/race levels render perfectly well with it.The only annoying thing about m-look is that because Software mode is funky, when you look up or down the textures get all skewed and stuff.
Oh, and IE? I'm not sure if you mentioned - but what character(s) do you use?