[Guide] How to play Seeker Pyro

Cookies4you · 26 Jan 2010

[Guide] How to play Seeker Pyro

Here's my guide on how to play Pyro on PropHunt. I will update it.

Chapter Guide
I - Basic Instructions
II - Techniques
III - Advance Techniques

Chapter I: Basic Instructions

When your a Pyro, you want to locate the props. But before that, you must check your loadout.

Flamethrower: This weapon will be your basic weapon for hiding props
Shotgun: The shotgun will be your primary weapon in most cases
Fire axe: This weapon is probably the most ignored weapon of all times. Most don't use it
Backburner: This weapon is like the flamethrower except with back crits
Flare gun: This weapon can effectively replace the shotgun in chasing props. Although it lacks spread, the flare gun is capable of setting props on fire and burning far-ranged props
Axtinguisher: Like the fire axe, this weapon is ignored by most players
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Locating Props

When attempting to find props, you must check for these vital things.

Location: Where the prop is
Convenience: How many of the same prop is there in that one area
Collision: The way the prop is aligned or the way it feels when touched
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If the prop is going through a wall, it is probably a scout. If the prop is floating, it is probably a scout. If you can walk through a pile of wood, it is probably a scout. Check for these signs and find yourself a scout.

Jumping?
By jumping on a prop, you can tell its collision. When you attempt to jump on a barrel and its landing space is small and awkward, it is most likely a scout. This also applies with touching and bumping props

Chapter II: Techniques

Techniques are things you can do as a pyro to help yourself in locating and finding props.

Conservative Flaming
By firing short shots of flame, you can save ammo and health. Using this technique allows you to locate props without continuous visits to the control point or health restoring items. This also applies with flying and can save you about 50% of your spent health

Bumping
By merely touching props, you can tell if their scouts or not. Bumping props give a smooth feel when moving along them while touching enemy scouts give a rougher feel or touching their uneven collision box

Acting
If you locate a scout and you know it, try to act like your not coming for him. Try finding alternative paths to reach the scout. Doing this can tempt the scout to remain in idle formation, allowing you to kill him without the chase. If in an inescapable area, don't to waste time to act and just kill him

Killing the final man
While most pyros think that chasing the last man is the way to kill him, most will only end up dead. Because he gains his health back every kill, have a group of pyros chase him and burn him only until their health is low and then retreat. Sometimes, a burning last man that will die survives only because that last pyro died to his gun, giving back his health

Chapter III: Advanced Techniques

This section contains techniques that only the best may be able to perform. You have been warned...

Strategic Taunt Killing
While most taunt kills fail, setting up a strategic taunt kill can succeed in the death of a scout. By having one team drive a prop out of its hiding place, a pyro can taunt kill a prop going towards his location, the exit

Fire Axe Combo
By setting fire to a prop and immediately changing to the Axtinguisher to attack, a prop will die instantly to the attack because of the melee weapon's unique critical on burning props. This technique also saves ammo and health, using only about 11 if initiated correctly. The main flaw with this technique is that after being set on fire, most props will run and in that case, the fire axe combo must be initiated quickly or the pyro will miss

Shotgun Pyro
This is more of a build than a technique. By using the shotgun, props can take full damage close range, leaving them dead after two shots. While using more health and ammo than the fire axe combo, shotgun pyros have a greater range and are more effective at chasing fleeing props

Mock Firing
This technique can be hard to perform. By approaching an oddly place prop with a axe or shotgun, a pyro can stand next to it and immediately change to this flamethrower. Doing this can alert a scout to move, allowing the pyro to fire upon it after seeing the moving object. This technique will not work on some players

Looking Up
This technique is the hardest of them all, be warned as most players will never master this technique fully. By looking up, pyros can locate many props. This technique is used by about 15% of the community and can be used to find every prop possible. While looking up, many props can be found by checking the outlines of them. Control points are identified by their circle but are invisible from underneath through the middle. Hay is identified by their uneven outline and can be found more easily than control points. This technique must be mastered by all good prop hunt players if they ever wish to reach rank 1-150 unless all the prop hunt games they play consists of props sitting on the control point all round. Note, this is the ultimate technique in prop hunt. Don't forget it
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Soul · 26 Jan 2010

I like it but am I the only one that thinks it is pretty basic?

Shinkz · 26 Jan 2010

Soul said: ↑

I like it but am I the only one that thinks it is pretty basic?
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Prop Hunt isn't really the most advanced or difficult thing to learn. Cookies pretty much covers most things. The only things he missed out on was knowing your props and game time. If you know what props will appear on the map it makes things a great deal easier, something I'm thinking about changing in the new few weeks. Also, the longer you play, the easier it becomes. I can solo a team of 15 on Sawmill/Oasis/Farm/etc with very few problems due to the amount I've played~

Cookies4you · 26 Jan 2010

but i killed you once... you were a tv on a sign...

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