The1Qwerty

Everyday for next two weeks I will be bringing you ways to enhance you Tremulous skills, skills that I have learned/picked up from other ‘pro’ Trem players and worked out all on my own. Some of the articles may be influenced by the knowledge of other top Australian Tremulous players, in which case I will let you know and give credit where it is needed.

Trem Skills #1 will cover the art that is Dretching.

Dretching is just a term used when you are using the most basic of the alien units, the Dretch.

The Dretch are very weak life forms only having 25 hit points, but if used effectively, they can really set aliens up for a good game.

A common problem I see is that people are just running in and looking at the humans (opponents) legs. Dealing out only 24 damage on a non-armoured human. However if the Dretch looks upwards about 2/3 of the screen (approx head height) they can land in an attack dealing out 96 hp,(non-armoured human) that leaves the human with only 4 hp left another quick nip and hes down.

Download the demo of the Dretch foot attack to see how long it takes to kill the human.
To use the demo you must copy it into /tremulous/base/demos folder (if demos does not exist create it). Then to run the demo type the following code into the Tremulous console. (` will bring up the console.)

/demo dretchfoot.dm_69

The dretch foot attack demo will begin to play. See how ineffective it is.

Now download the demo of the Dretch Head attack to see how much faster it is to destroy the human.
Again copy into the base/demo folder, then run the following code.

/demo dretchhead.dm_69

I hope that from the two demos and you practicing the technique of looking up whilst dretching, you will see how effective the Dretch unit actually is.

Got any questions about Dretching be sure to leave a comment below.

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