How to Play good in Snake?

[kaPPLcD]

Anyone have any tips on playing good in snake?..I know playing snake can be a key part of winning the game.. I am sloppy and would like a few pointers if you have any

[Cobra]

use your middy because lets face it your blind to all you other sides, you pretty much have to play a traight forward game from the sanke...

when you get in there start crawling and then pop up so they wont know where your at...

if you wanna play a guessing game you can crawl back and fourth in the snake and pop up and surprise a few people...

communication is key when your in the snake, make sure your middys and backs know your playin the snake so they can be your eyes...

and far as actually playin it, learn to snap shoot left handed, and by kinda rolling back and forth that will help...

Hope i helped


Mike

[JTp8ntballer12]

snake is fun

i like using a taller gun (like a imp) in the snake because it is acually smaller when u aim over the snake and easier to shoot fast IMO

crawl down to the end of the snake without ever poping up (if no ones in it) hen get outta snake and then burst down the remainin few feet or so of the field and youll get lots of ppl (worked against my team neumorous times n vise verssa), it will catch ppl of guard whilethey are looking at other ppl and if u run they will have a hard time hitting you, when u run its a good idea if the opposite front player rund too, that way you will be getting them at 2x the bunker angles

lots of people seem to like to snap shoot in the snake but i like to stay out and be posted on ppl so front players can push harder and it opens the field up more

make sure no one gets in the snake from the opposing teams, its a death sentence

just a few lil things, im not a big snake player but its a fun time there and its always cool to slide over the top of them. this is probably not the advice u were lookin for but what the hell

[kaPPLcD]

Yeah, I am not really a great baller but im learning... I can kind of snapshot.. but its not perfected yet.. thanks for the help.. any other tips?

[dark2k2LCD]

don't try to pull a superman, without practising it before, and having really good midplayer support. i've seen guys snap off their tanks cuase they didnt land it right, and i've seen guys literaly dive into the other teams bunker and get lit up

this is just a general supair tip: alot people always hassle me cause i dont shoot out of the side of laydown cans, instead i stand out and shoot strait out. in reality, the other team wont suspect it, and i've done it so much that i dont even get goggle/hopper hits any more. go against the rules and it surprises people. one time i ran strait across horizontally, exposing my whole body. every body was so focused on one bunker i was able to get 2 players out with getting hit.

[JTp8ntballer12]

yep going against rules is good, but supermans are easy to do and effective, if u know what ur doing, a lot of times though i break paint with my ricochet when i dived.

[C.Carles-AOG]

Good advice thus far. These are all tactics I use and am quite successful doing.
Sometimes even if the snake itself is in a bad location and I can't really get sideways on a team to shoot them out I use myself as bait. Then my mids and opposing front can cause havoc when I get the "attention" of 3 or 4 guns.

[JTp8ntballer12]

yep yep yep, games are won n lost from the snake, beause if u think about it the snake is like th 30..and the 40...and the 50 n the 60 n the 70 on most fields, so u get all those angles

[captncrunch]

I find using a longer barrel helps, like 14-16 inchers, so you can get to the tip and and press the barrel out, you can get a lot of unsuspectin poeple out, also walk the field before hand and look for points of reference that you can use whil ein the snake. For example, at my local field, there are 2 columns things between the 30 and 40 bunkersm and they are wrapped in hyperball tubing on the sup air field. WHen I"m in the snake, I know from walking the field, that if I'm in the middle of the snake and I push down on the top of the snake a lil bit with my 16 incher and shoot to the right and left of that tube from the right side of the field, I will have a killer angle on a number of beercans, wedges, laydowns ect. So basically Shoot blind, remember, if you can see a person that your shooting at, they can see you and shoot back, so walk the field, find points of reference and learn the fields angles, learn that when you shoot over bunker X, from the mid of the snake your stream of paint will be hitting directly into bunker Y.
ANother lil tip, since you can't see a lot and if your mids and backs aren't talking alot, look behind you and watch the streams of paint and where they are hitting, reverse the angle to find where people are. Try to find out and shoot people without seeing them that is not only one of the keys to playing the snake but to playing front in general. Also, learn to snapshoot, just play a lot of recball and practice or just run drill in your backyard or with friends/teamates. Hope I helped.

[MooShoo1717]

Another thing you can do is when your a front player cramed in a little bunker or in part of a snake have your back player draw one of there players out. The when he gives you the word pop up and place a couple shots right on him. It does require a lot of communication though.

[Kriptic]

one big thing in 7-10 man games... have your team double up the snake if you really want it and it gets killer angles... one person from either team will go there at least and one side will end up trading off bodies... the second player is there further back to either leap frog and take the snake man or to kill the opposition tryng to get your front snake player... it is done like that in the prod... every field is different and some dont even have snakes but like zippers or like pryamids.. so its all about angles.. some have killer angles in the snake, others, its no biggie... just lay low and move around low and crawl

[Talon]

Just some obvious things, probably mentioned above as well...keep your head down, keep moving, a lot of communication with your mids and backs. Even if you can't get a good angle on someone don't be afraid to pop your head out every now and then as a distraction and let your opposite side front guys push and take out the guys focused on you instead of looking at the rest of the field. I usually play 5-man, but one of the things that I find is that when I am in the snake my opponents get so focused on trying to make sure they get me that they sometimes forget that I have four other teammates just waiting for them to make a mistake.

Captncrunch has some good ideas as far as finding landmarks and points of reference to help you realize who may be exposed to you and how to get them out without exposing too much of yourself.

Also, be patient and calm. If you feel too rushed you may make a mistake and expose too much of yourself to someone who you didn't know was there.

Just my 2 cents...

[Kris1187]

Pretty much everything i kno has been said so ditto for everythign up top but i didnt see any thing about this, take EMPTY pods and put them between any open spots in the snake, so its easier ony ou to move around and harder for the other team to get angels on you.

[padrinot]

i find that if i just sit back in the snkae for awhile and then let the rest of the game unfold a litte , then once people have stoppped focusing on the snake then i snap shot alot , i dont usually go right to the front of the snake either i usually post on the back side for a while
i am however allways aware that the other team may try to take the snake and send someone in the other side
in a ten man or seven man field the snake makes or breaks the game alot of the times , but othertimes if the back guys keep the sanke pinned he is not a factor at all .

[MooShoo1717]

Originally posted by Talon
Even if you can't get a good angle on someone don't be afraid to pop your head out every now and then as a distraction and let your opposite side front guys push and take out the guys focused on you instead of looking at the rest of the field.

Like he said sometimes i will slide into the snake and they will be all worried because they have to reposition. Sometimes They will have multiple guns posted on you and your team across field can easily move up and get the angel on them rather than you having to get the angel.

[JTp8ntballer12]

Originally posted by Kris1187
.....take EMPTY pods and put them between any open spots in the snake, so its easier ony ou to move around and harder for the other team to get angels on you.

genius

[MooShoo1717]

That is smart.

[paintballguy990]

dont touch em or u will be called out when they get hit i believe

[MooShoo1717]

Yeah thats true. I watched a game once where off the break a guys hopper fell off. Just before he reached out of his bunker to grab it it got hit. When he grabbed it the ref called him out.

[Kris1187]

It works great i sometimes use that technique in a lot of different ways. Snake or a regular lay down and such, just putting the empty pod a little infrton of my feets so if my feet are stickign out im all good but we are talking about snakes here and the empty pod thing works great.

[JTp8ntballer12]

well then shoot 600+ balls off the break at no where then when u throw the empty pods u wont be called out, i think its only non disposable items u get called out for or items on your body, if that guy didnt touch the pod he wouldnt be called out.

[Kriptic]

thistopic reminds me of my first encounter with the pro team lockout on their home field called GRC paintball... they have 2 cars on that field that are positioned on the same side as the snake... well i took that spot and just chilled out for a while... now with them being a pro team, they obviously moved up very fast and began picking off my team one by one... i got a good spot and saw like the sides of 3 lockout players, i took my shots and dropped them all, another one of their guys tried t bunker me but where i was located made it impossible and i got him too... nice huh? that has to do with more or less the WAITING THING and less on the SNAKE TOPIC... just enforcing that waiting and posting up is a good thing for some front players... i had a guy post up on my secondary spot that i was about to take and he got me good when i made my move for it... waiting is nice

[dark2k2LCD]

i guess thats true because if you wait, whoever is shooting you will think you're out or have moved and might forget you. just this past weekend, i was playing a five man, and everybody but me on my team got out. so thinking there was also only one person an their team, i rushed his bunker, in an atempt to bunker him, as i ran forward, i pasted this guy who had just been completey silent for the whole game. luckly he was looking the wrong way and i shot him in the back, but like i'm saying, if you wait, the other team wont know where you are, and will forget about you.

[JTp8ntballer12]

and if u wait the same goes for you, you wont know where they are

[Kriptic]

thats why it is important to communicate and al lthat stuff, if a buddy yells at whoever, the other team doesn't know who he is gabbing to... if you answer back then you're screwed hehe.. i did that to give key spots for my team when i was at the snake in the 5 and got bunkered in like a second after.. good thing my friggen' back player covering me didn't keep his eyes on me... he got hurt for that one

[JTp8ntballer12]

yea, but at a assasin / ?effect? game in vegas there were 2 players who were playing in hiddin" bunkers when all other players got out and they just stayed their untill the ?effect? guy ran to get the flag and got hit. so if your hidden good enough, the rest of your team could be out and your left without eyes and ears

[Kriptic]

just stay tight, ears open and listen to the game develop as wel las the other team, where they talk and where their guns are making shooting noises... and wait...communicate wit hhand signals or something only

[JTp8ntballer12]

why arent communication systems legal in tourneys?

[MooShoo1717]

cause communicating is something that t akes skill and is part of the game. If a team sucks at communicating then they will get ripped apart. Giving them those skill s woudl make one less thing people would have to work on. I think its bullshi** that coaches can coach in x ball. I hope it doesnt turn into like american football where the have radios and tell the players everything.

[JTp8ntballer12]

i hate side coaching but i dont think theres a problem with communication devices, it makes the game less work/yelling and more fun/shootig-just my 2c

[wdp child]

Sounds like being lazy to me. How hard is it to yell to somone the others position. If you cant just yell out a position to your team mate maby you shouldnt play the game you might colaps from all that physical exertion.

[JTp8ntballer12]

its just not fun to turn your head every 30 seconds to yell and have to listen so much, id much rather be playing the game and just talking into a micro in my mask

[captncrunch]

I think one of the main reasons communication systems aren't used is because if it's a radio type, outsiders could tap in and tell the team where the opponents are located, ect. But I find that sometimes by yelling to your teamates, it makes it harder on you because the opposing team can hear you yelling their positions out and will know how much you know. If a backman yells to me that the right can is hot and shooting out of the right side, that person will be ready for me, where with a communication system my backman could of told me to run up the left and bunker him and he wo uld of never known what was going, you guys get the point.

[MooShoo1717]

I understand you fully captncruch. But, I think that radios mite take away part of the game though. Comunication is something that makes teams win and lose and that would take the edge away from some teams that are good at comunicating. Its not easy to organize moves and things on the field with paint flying around and people yelling there heads off. you have to develop the skill and radios would take that away. Just my 2 cents.

[captncrunch]

I agree totally, never said I'm for them, just said why peeps would want them, communicating w/o them is a key part of tourney play...

[JTp8ntballer12]

i think it would give the game more action and less of those slow moments though, but then i couldnt watch DVDs at home the same way.