5 Tips to Save Stamina
One of the most commn mistakes is wasting stamina as we stated in a previous article. By wasting stamina we mean jumping, sprinting and crouching when there’s absolutely no need to do so. We will cover some tips on how to optimize stamina to be ready to move quickly when necessary.
Principles of stamina
Stamina depends on your current health. Whenever it gets under the 50% of your current health your character will start to emit a breathing sound that will likely give away your position to nearby enemies. Jumping, sprinting and even crouching will lower your stamina and with a kevlar it will lower twice as fast. You recover stamina while you stand still or while you run but it will increase significantly more slowly.
Optimize stamina use
Depending on your role you will use a lot of stamina during a round. Optimize stamina use means adjusting movements and behaviors to spend the least amount of stamina possible and still be fast and effective. You should always have at least 50% or more of stamina. This value increases as your health lowers.
1. Movement principles
You must switch between super fast movements and pauses. This means, for example, circle jumping to destination and then stopping or walking for a while.
2. Circle jump correctly
You should always circle jump… unless there is no room to do so. By slightly turning your mouse you can circle jump without gaining too
much speed. You will cover longer distances with less stamina than by simply sprinting or jumping in straight line.
3. Walk to recover
To keep moving while you recover stamina: walk. By walking you will be more silent while saving stamina. This is extremely useful while
sniping as you can still aim with an acceptable movement penalty. Don’t crouch as crouching will drain a bit of stamina.
4. Stop to recover
When your stamina is under 30% you should stop to recover. Find a good, quiet corner and sit there for a while. If you are wearing a
kevlar vest, drop it. Don’t move while recovering as it kills the purpose. When it gets back over 80% you can pick up your vest and get
back to action.
5. Limit movements when low on health
If you’re left with 20% or so of health there’s no point in sprinting or jumping like an idiot when nobody is around. Just run or walk.
Giving away your positions by breathing means death in these situations.
Do you care about stamina as much as I do? Share your thoughts by commenting!
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Another way to help save stamina AND contribute to the game is to camp while you recover. In CTF, camp the flag, BOMB, camp bomb points/bomb, or just find a spot where you can cover a good area, but can’t be seen too easily. Another technique, if the situation merits it, is to med a teammate while regenerating your stamina. This has the added bonus of covering fire, so you shouldn’t have to watch your back quite so much (though it never hurts to make sure).
Makes sense. I used to pick kevlar alot, but I found the stamina use wasn’t worth it, especially after learning jumping. I found that staying crouched recovers stamina faster. Medding while low on stamina is a very good idea, it not only recovers stamina, but it also is very beneficial to the team.
Are you sure about crouching and recovering faster?
I found that crouching isn’t that helpful since it drains a bit of stamina.
The act of crouching down drains a little stamina, but I think you recover faster in the crouched position. Could someone verify?
Also, if u crouch, your aim is better then walking, but i prefer walking, because you have more speed and I think you will not catch by Spray and Pay (headshots inseatd of kevlar shots)
The one downside to crouching: yes, you present a smaller target, but the parts of your body that are visible are the ones that take most damage from one hit. So it’s basically a judgment call depending on your situation. And I haven’t seen anything about the crouching depleting stamina or increasing recovery speed. I know I’ve stayed crouch for forever (about 5 min in UrT =P ) and haven’t lost any noticeable stamina.
Well you don’t lose stamina while crouching. You actually lose stamina in the moment you crouch.
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Yeah, Engine, you’re right. I do not know if stamina recovery is faster in crouched though. You do expose less of yourself though.
If wearing kevlar – drop kevlar and hold the walk button.
It’ always helpful if you have your ‘drop kevlar’ binded with a key.
I’ve found this to work very well if your wearing kevlar.
Just don’t forget to pick it back up.
This trick is also very useful in bomb mode. Dropping your kevlar will make you defuse the bomb faster.
Really? Nice tip there!
Learned it by spectating very good players. I was wondering why people always dropped their kevlar… and if you look close enough, you will see the defusing status bar fill a bit faster.
nice post!
i have only one question, dropping your kevlar won’t help recovering stamina won’t it?
Yes, when you drop your kevlar u recover stamina twice as quick
ehm…No, it doesn’t. Tried it out myself, completely false.
You won’t recover stamina twice as quick, you’ll lose stamina twice as slow!
I agree on that
one more time : Good Job
Nice article Engine. Keep it up.
Good luck.
Stamina is very important.
Binding a “Kevlar-Drop”-Button can be useful.
What about the play of the week? i really liked it
Always looking for a new one…
I’ve been very busy lately and I can’t find the time to do it. Usually to do a POTW it takes me a whole afternoon since I have to watch 1 hour or so of demos, record it, cut it and edit it, record the comment, export the final video, upload it on youtube and then make the post
You should get people to send demos in avi format with their own commentary
excellent engine
nice article
I got one more question to the Kevlar:
Can I also medic myself faster, if I’m hurt and I drop it ?
Yes of course. It’s the main reason to bind a kevlar drop.
Breath doesn’t really matter against good players, because they can hear you from a mile away anyway because of footsteps. I found this out when [Tx2] played kp10.
You can move while making little to no sound… walk, crouch, jump, power slide, etc. It takes a little practice, but it’s something you absolutely have to master. Stealth is your best weapon in this game.
Walking and crouching make no sound. Jumping makes a sound when your feet touch the ground. Whether or not you will make a sound when powersliding will depend upon the height that you fell before going into the powerslide.
Keep in mind that even when walking or crouching, good players will be able to hear you, if you medic, reload, switch weapons, or drop a weapon or item.
That is why I have the unzoom on the scroll weel. Lots of players just change weapon to get rid of zoom. Wrong.
That makes noise.
pretty sweet weapon for quick headshots