Advanced Controls

Okay, now to the advanced controls. You can go as fast as using the afterburners using this simple technique.

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Now, simply slide up, right, and forward. If you pointed your ship right, you should go as fast as if you were using the afterburners.

Now, onto avoiding shots..
Okay, he's why I put this in the advanced controls. Avoiding some shots are tough. Like 10 smarts heading at you. Okay, here we go.

Cannons:
Laser, Vulcan And Gauss, Spreadfire and Helix, Plasma and Phoenix, Fusion and Omega.

Missiles:
Concussion and Flash, Homing and Guided, Proximity and Smart Mines, Smart and Mercury, Mega and Shaker.

Laser Cannons

Easy to avoid, just slide out of its way.

Vulcan And Gauss Cannon

A little tougher, since there's little to no flight time. My advice is to move all over the place when you know someone's shooting one of these babies at you.

Spreadfire and Helix Cannon

Since their shots are covered over a wider area, you have to slide out of it's way a run away for the attacker.

Plasma and Phoenix Cannon

These cannons abilities lie in it's fast firing rate. Slide out of it's way, and keep your eye on incomming fire.

Fusion and Omega Cannon

For Fusion, slide well away from it. For Omega, keep your distance from the attacker!

Concussion and Flash Missiles

Simple, dumbfire missiles (They have no guidance). Just slide out of their way, they have an explosion radius too, so make sure you're ahead far enough from a wall.

Homing and Guided Missiles

These missiles LOCK onto your targets. The LOCK warning comes on when you fire a homing at a target. Just slide out of it's way, while heading towards it's comming from, not directly though. The Guided missile do NOT lock onto your target unless you press the Fire Missile again. In which case, they become slow moving Homing Missiles.

Proximity Bombs and Smart Mines

Stay clear of the Proximity Bombs when you blow them up. Smart Mines are like Smart Missile Blobs.

Smart and Mercury Missiles

Smart Missile track onto you, just keep sliding, and maybe circle strafe. For Mercury Missiles, since of their short flight path, you have to make it hard for your enemy to get an accurate shot.

Mega and Earthshaker Missiles

Mega Missiles and Earthshaker Blobs (what track onto you) are more or less supercharged Homing Missiles. If you don't know where they come from, head around corners like crazy and pray they don't hit you.

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