[GUIDE] How to pwn as ghost hunter (GR)
Ok seriously I am sick of being accused all time as hacker! (ok to be honest, I am not sick of it, its kind of funny, its the proove that I am really good :P)
So now I will write a guide which helps you to understand now why not everyone who has a godly KD in ghost mode is directly a hacker...
All you need are following things:
Eyes, ears (including good headset), hand, brain and a 6th sense.
1) Eyes:
- At first go to options, and set your Gamma to 100%. This makes your screen brighter and makes the ghost slightly better visible ingame.
- During playing focus your eyes in the middle, then you can see little movements and slightly shinings, also at the side of your screen better.
- Every ghost map has some water. When a ghost moves a little bit, even when you cannot see his body, you can still see the water moving...
- A pro player who knows how to bhop good are very hard to see. But still they also sometimes fail a little bit their hop, there is a little shine, just pay enough attention.
- Smoke, in far is a good thing to see a ghost, but near you sucks imo, cause you can see then the ghost too late. So only use the smoke for a far away spot and do not stand yourself in the smoke!
- Flash, please do not use flash in GM, helps the ghosts more than you! You only flash ur teammates, when a ghost was camping and sees that a person is flashed he has an advantage in that moment over the ghost hunter... so NEVER use flash in GM!
- The tectical map is a very useful item. When you see that a teammate was killed, then you can use the tectical map to see the current roughly location of that ghost.
Also when a bomb is planted, and all from your team are at moment not near A or B, that the announce was already given where the bomb is, very often the tectical map shows then where the bomb is planted, not always, but often.
- Change your options, so that you are able to see blood. Sometimes a teammate sprays around and hits a ghost and doesnt recognize that, cause he doesnt see blood... this is your chance then to kill the ghost, cause you saw the blood.
- When you walk around the ways, look often behind you...
2) Ears:
- Headset (HS) is a MUST! A ghost hunter without a good headset misses half of the possible kills or gets fast killed. With a headset you can hear many details that you are not able to hear over speakers!
- Breath: With a good HS you can hear the ghost around you breathing. The closer they are, the louder the breath ofcourse. With a good HS you can also hear from which direction this breath comes from. Bad is when a ghost has the item to make breath more silent, but that doesnt mean there is 0 breath.
- Steps: With the good HS you can hear the steps, and can locate where the steps come from. Use also the map to see if that step is from your teammate or a ghost. When you are a really pro and you know the map already good, then you can hear on what kind of floor the ghost runs, normal floor, water, iron, wood... this helps a lot in locating a ghost. And ofcourse the louder the steps get, the closer the person is...
- When a ghost plants a bomb, it gives ofcourse a sound. When you are near for example A, and you hear the planting sound, move fast there and you can be able to kill him during his planting or short after.
- When you are near the spawn area of the ghost, and a new player just enters as a ghost, at the beginning of the round, you can hear a sound which means, oh someone is spawning near you. This signal means also: KILL HIM when he enters.
- When a ghost tries to kill you or someone else, you can hear the swing of the knife.
- I personally prefer a weapon with silencer, for example M4A1 Costume or alternative M4A1 Silver or Advance. Ofcourse thats your decission, but with a silencer you are not that loud yourself and you can listen to the ghosts better. I hate it when someone uses M60 or Thompson in Ghost Mode, makes it nearly impossible to hear the ghosts. Totally annoying...
- When you walk yourself, use often the key to walk, so that you do not hear your own steps. Better to hear the ghosts.
- BOMB SPOTTET! When you hear or read that a player says bomb spottet, move to that spot (look tactical map where that is) or at least be near, the ghosts come to you anyways.
3) Hand:
- With hand I mean mainly, have a fast reaction in your hands... and also know blind where your necessary keys are to change weapons or to walk and so on...
4) Brain:
- One of the most important things actually in ghost mode is to have a brain. When you dont use it, your fail will come fast...
- Know your map! Thats very important, know it! Know where the hidden spots are, know where to get to which spot. Know which way the most ghost take! That comes mainly with practise, but knowing perfectly your map can increase your kills incredible! Especially when it comes to locating steps...
- Know how ghost think! With that I mean, about 90% of all players go the same way over and over again... they do the same failures, try to camp in the same spots... after a while you will get to know which ways they are taking, in which spots they mostly camp...
- Very often the same player plants more than once the bomb, and they nearly always camp then in the same spot every time. In the first round he might be able to kill someone from this spot, but in the second round you should already know then that this person is standing there... easy kill!
- When you know your map and you heard a ghost running along way or a path whatever, or you see him from far already, then get fast to the spot where this ghost will come out and wait for him and surprise him!
- Dont throw bombs or anything directly in the first sec when the round starts. STUPID! You will only increase the HP of your teammates without hitting 1 ghost. Some ppl think that this is funny or something, but often that can be the death for the other, cause every little hp is useful, especially cause often the right click with knife only makes 80 or 90 dmg, and when you already took over 10 hp from ur own teammate, cause of a stupid granade which was useless, you kill him!
5) 6th Sense:
- Sometimes you have just a feeling that someone is somewhere, even when you did not even heard anything... listen to this feeling, it can help you often and makes surprise kills. I had that often already, and I was surprised myself that really someone was camping there.
Yes luck is also a part of it...
Ok I just wrote this here very fast, so maybe I forgot some things. If it is so feel free to add here your notes.
When you do basically what is mentioned here, then you are going to be called as hacker, chammer, waller, aimbotter, faster than you wish :P
Its it not necessary to use a hack to be good, absolutely not. And about 99% of the persons who are called a hacker are just pros who know how to play :-)
Cheers,
-exy* from the clan ex*
PS: sry for bad english
So now I will write a guide which helps you to understand now why not everyone who has a godly KD in ghost mode is directly a hacker...
All you need are following things:
Eyes, ears (including good headset), hand, brain and a 6th sense.
1) Eyes:
- At first go to options, and set your Gamma to 100%. This makes your screen brighter and makes the ghost slightly better visible ingame.
- During playing focus your eyes in the middle, then you can see little movements and slightly shinings, also at the side of your screen better.
- Every ghost map has some water. When a ghost moves a little bit, even when you cannot see his body, you can still see the water moving...
- A pro player who knows how to bhop good are very hard to see. But still they also sometimes fail a little bit their hop, there is a little shine, just pay enough attention.
- Smoke, in far is a good thing to see a ghost, but near you sucks imo, cause you can see then the ghost too late. So only use the smoke for a far away spot and do not stand yourself in the smoke!
- Flash, please do not use flash in GM, helps the ghosts more than you! You only flash ur teammates, when a ghost was camping and sees that a person is flashed he has an advantage in that moment over the ghost hunter... so NEVER use flash in GM!
- The tectical map is a very useful item. When you see that a teammate was killed, then you can use the tectical map to see the current roughly location of that ghost.
Also when a bomb is planted, and all from your team are at moment not near A or B, that the announce was already given where the bomb is, very often the tectical map shows then where the bomb is planted, not always, but often.
- Change your options, so that you are able to see blood. Sometimes a teammate sprays around and hits a ghost and doesnt recognize that, cause he doesnt see blood... this is your chance then to kill the ghost, cause you saw the blood.
- When you walk around the ways, look often behind you...
2) Ears:
- Headset (HS) is a MUST! A ghost hunter without a good headset misses half of the possible kills or gets fast killed. With a headset you can hear many details that you are not able to hear over speakers!
- Breath: With a good HS you can hear the ghost around you breathing. The closer they are, the louder the breath ofcourse. With a good HS you can also hear from which direction this breath comes from. Bad is when a ghost has the item to make breath more silent, but that doesnt mean there is 0 breath.
- Steps: With the good HS you can hear the steps, and can locate where the steps come from. Use also the map to see if that step is from your teammate or a ghost. When you are a really pro and you know the map already good, then you can hear on what kind of floor the ghost runs, normal floor, water, iron, wood... this helps a lot in locating a ghost. And ofcourse the louder the steps get, the closer the person is...
- When a ghost plants a bomb, it gives ofcourse a sound. When you are near for example A, and you hear the planting sound, move fast there and you can be able to kill him during his planting or short after.
- When you are near the spawn area of the ghost, and a new player just enters as a ghost, at the beginning of the round, you can hear a sound which means, oh someone is spawning near you. This signal means also: KILL HIM when he enters.
- When a ghost tries to kill you or someone else, you can hear the swing of the knife.
- I personally prefer a weapon with silencer, for example M4A1 Costume or alternative M4A1 Silver or Advance. Ofcourse thats your decission, but with a silencer you are not that loud yourself and you can listen to the ghosts better. I hate it when someone uses M60 or Thompson in Ghost Mode, makes it nearly impossible to hear the ghosts. Totally annoying...
- When you walk yourself, use often the key to walk, so that you do not hear your own steps. Better to hear the ghosts.
- BOMB SPOTTET! When you hear or read that a player says bomb spottet, move to that spot (look tactical map where that is) or at least be near, the ghosts come to you anyways.
3) Hand:
- With hand I mean mainly, have a fast reaction in your hands... and also know blind where your necessary keys are to change weapons or to walk and so on...
4) Brain:
- One of the most important things actually in ghost mode is to have a brain. When you dont use it, your fail will come fast...
- Know your map! Thats very important, know it! Know where the hidden spots are, know where to get to which spot. Know which way the most ghost take! That comes mainly with practise, but knowing perfectly your map can increase your kills incredible! Especially when it comes to locating steps...
- Know how ghost think! With that I mean, about 90% of all players go the same way over and over again... they do the same failures, try to camp in the same spots... after a while you will get to know which ways they are taking, in which spots they mostly camp...
- Very often the same player plants more than once the bomb, and they nearly always camp then in the same spot every time. In the first round he might be able to kill someone from this spot, but in the second round you should already know then that this person is standing there... easy kill!
- When you know your map and you heard a ghost running along way or a path whatever, or you see him from far already, then get fast to the spot where this ghost will come out and wait for him and surprise him!
- Dont throw bombs or anything directly in the first sec when the round starts. STUPID! You will only increase the HP of your teammates without hitting 1 ghost. Some ppl think that this is funny or something, but often that can be the death for the other, cause every little hp is useful, especially cause often the right click with knife only makes 80 or 90 dmg, and when you already took over 10 hp from ur own teammate, cause of a stupid granade which was useless, you kill him!
5) 6th Sense:
- Sometimes you have just a feeling that someone is somewhere, even when you did not even heard anything... listen to this feeling, it can help you often and makes surprise kills. I had that often already, and I was surprised myself that really someone was camping there.
Yes luck is also a part of it...
Ok I just wrote this here very fast, so maybe I forgot some things. If it is so feel free to add here your notes.
When you do basically what is mentioned here, then you are going to be called as hacker, chammer, waller, aimbotter, faster than you wish :P
Its it not necessary to use a hack to be good, absolutely not. And about 99% of the persons who are called a hacker are just pros who know how to play :-)
Cheers,
-exy* from the clan ex*
PS: sry for bad english
Comments
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About the only thing I don't do is the Gamma thing. Decent HS is a must, many times I have to take off to get away from the un-silenced folks spraying all over so I can use them properly. Been more than one kill where I saw nothing but was able to locate the likely 'spot' from the sound of the breath...pop a round from the M4 - see blood - dump half a mag into the ghost sitting there. Then get yelled at for hacking LOL
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Strykewolf67 wrote: »Been more than one kill where I saw nothing but was able to locate the likely 'spot' from the sound of the breath...pop a round from the M4 - see blood - dump half a mag into the ghost sitting there. Then get yelled at for hacking LOL
Loool I know EXACTLY how you feel. I literally get kicked from 95% of my pub GM matches, due to those types of kills. -
- At first go to options, and set your Gamma to 100%. This makes your screen brighter and makes the ghost slightly better visible ingame.
NO!
A GR shouldn't have to be able to see a ghost, they should be listening for them. If I could play on a wide open map (no terrain or anything), I could close my eyes and play. They should only have to see ghosts for far movements and to get someone failhopping, which isn't hard to begin with at the default gamma. -
They're still perfectly invisible with gamma 100 if they're standing still, and gamma 100 is mostly for catching people who failed their bhop, seeing as you'll only get a short glimpse at him.
Some things I can add to the guide:
- Low quality gives ghosts more jagged edges, which makes them a bit more noticeable.
- If you hear footsteps but can't see a ghost, TURN AROUND. If you don't see them running at you then then they're probably above/below you.
- You make a dystinctive sound when you run in water, if you heard someone running in water but don't see any GR in the tactical map, it's a ghost! -
Ok seriously I am sick of being accused all time as hacker! (ok to be honest, I am not sick of it, its kind of funny, its the proove that I am really good :P)
So now I will write a guide which helps you to understand now why not everyone who has a godly KD in ghost mode is directly a hacker...
All you need are following things:
Eyes, ears (including good headset), hand, brain and a 6th sense.
1) Eyes:
- At first go to options, and set your Gamma to 100%. This makes your screen brighter and makes the ghost slightly better visible ingame.
- During playing focus your eyes in the middle, then you can see little movements and slightly shinings, also at the side of your screen better.
- Every ghost map has some water. When a ghost moves a little bit, even when you cannot see his body, you can still see the water moving...
- A pro player who knows how to bhop good are very hard to see. But still they also sometimes fail a little bit their hop, there is a little shine, just pay enough attention.
- Smoke, in far is a good thing to see a ghost, but near you sucks imo, cause you can see then the ghost too late. So only use the smoke for a far away spot and do not stand yourself in the smoke!
- Flash, please do not use flash in GM, helps the ghosts more than you! You only flash ur teammates, when a ghost was camping and sees that a person is flashed he has an advantage in that moment over the ghost hunter... so NEVER use flash in GM!
- The tectical map is a very useful item. When you see that a teammate was killed, then you can use the tectical map to see the current roughly location of that ghost.
Also when a bomb is planted, and all from your team are at moment not near A or B, that the announce was already given where the bomb is, very often the tectical map shows then where the bomb is planted, not always, but often.
- Change your options, so that you are able to see blood. Sometimes a teammate sprays around and hits a ghost and doesnt recognize that, cause he doesnt see blood... this is your chance then to kill the ghost, cause you saw the blood.
- When you walk around the ways, look often behind you...
2) Ears:
- Headset (HS) is a MUST! A ghost hunter without a good headset misses half of the possible kills or gets fast killed. With a headset you can hear many details that you are not able to hear over speakers!
- Breath: With a good HS you can hear the ghost around you breathing. The closer they are, the louder the breath ofcourse. With a good HS you can also hear from which direction this breath comes from. Bad is when a ghost has the item to make breath more silent, but that doesnt mean there is 0 breath.
- Steps: With the good HS you can hear the steps, and can locate where the steps come from. Use also the map to see if that step is from your teammate or a ghost. When you are a really pro and you know the map already good, then you can hear on what kind of floor the ghost runs, normal floor, water, iron, wood... this helps a lot in locating a ghost. And ofcourse the louder the steps get, the closer the person is...
- When a ghost plants a bomb, it gives ofcourse a sound. When you are near for example A, and you hear the planting sound, move fast there and you can be able to kill him during his planting or short after.
- When you are near the spawn area of the ghost, and a new player just enters as a ghost, at the beginning of the round, you can hear a sound which means, oh someone is spawning near you. This signal means also: KILL HIM when he enters.
- When a ghost tries to kill you or someone else, you can hear the swing of the knife.
- I personally prefer a weapon with silencer, for example M4A1 Costume or alternative M4A1 Silver or Advance. Ofcourse thats your decission, but with a silencer you are not that loud yourself and you can listen to the ghosts better. I hate it when someone uses M60 or Thompson in Ghost Mode, makes it nearly impossible to hear the ghosts. Totally annoying...
- When you walk yourself, use often the key to walk, so that you do not hear your own steps. Better to hear the ghosts.
- BOMB SPOTTET! When you hear or read that a player says bomb spottet, move to that spot (look tactical map where that is) or at least be near, the ghosts come to you anyways.
3) Hand:
- With hand I mean mainly, have a fast reaction in your hands... and also know blind where your necessary keys are to change weapons or to walk and so on...
4) Brain:
- One of the most important things actually in ghost mode is to have a brain. When you dont use it, your fail will come fast...
- Know your map! Thats very important, know it! Know where the hidden spots are, know where to get to which spot. Know which way the most ghost take! That comes mainly with practise, but knowing perfectly your map can increase your kills incredible! Especially when it comes to locating steps...
- Know how ghost think! With that I mean, about 90% of all players go the same way over and over again... they do the same failures, try to camp in the same spots... after a while you will get to know which ways they are taking, in which spots they mostly camp...
- Very often the same player plants more than once the bomb, and they nearly always camp then in the same spot every time. In the first round he might be able to kill someone from this spot, but in the second round you should already know then that this person is standing there... easy kill!
- When you know your map and you heard a ghost running along way or a path whatever, or you see him from far already, then get fast to the spot where this ghost will come out and wait for him and surprise him!
- Dont throw bombs or anything directly in the first sec when the round starts. STUPID! You will only increase the HP of your teammates without hitting 1 ghost. Some ppl think that this is funny or something, but often that can be the death for the other, cause every little hp is useful, especially cause often the right click with knife only makes 80 or 90 dmg, and when you already took over 10 hp from ur own teammate, cause of a stupid granade which was useless, you kill him!
5) 6th Sense:
- Sometimes you have just a feeling that someone is somewhere, even when you did not even heard anything... listen to this feeling, it can help you often and makes surprise kills. I had that often already, and I was surprised myself that really someone was camping there.
Yes luck is also a part of it...
Ok I just wrote this here very fast, so maybe I forgot some things. If it is so feel free to add here your notes.
When you do basically what is mentioned here, then you are going to be called as hacker, chammer, waller, aimbotter, faster than you wish :P
Its it not necessary to use a hack to be good, absolutely not. And about 99% of the persons who are called a hacker are just pros who know how to play :-)
Cheers,
-exy* from the clan ex*
PS: sry for bad english
thats a looooooooooooooooooooooooong story you got there XD -
tomtom12121 wrote: »If there are lots of ghosts near and bomb has to be defused, flash the bomb the ghosts will probably be looking at it, if you go in to defuse sometimes you can defuse, before there vision is restored, so don't put down never use flash.
i repeat again, never use flash!
its great as ghost, i have focused already the defuser, so i dont care if i get flashed as ghost or not, cause i dont need to see to be able to kill the defuser.
but u have flashed then also ur teammates, and they are not that able anymore to cover as good :P
seriously, DONT USE FLASH -
i repeat again, never use flash!
its great as ghost, i have focused already the defuser, so i dont care if i get flashed as ghost or not, cause i dont need to see to be able to kill the defuser.
but u have flashed then also ur teammates, and they are not that able anymore to cover as good :P
seriously, DONT USE FLASH
I was going to say the same thing as tomtom12121, when there is little time left and my only option is to defuse the bomb, I sometimes flash (if I know it will get the ghost) and then go to defuse. Surprisingly this works for me well and I end up defusing successfully, however with more experienced players I doubt it will work as well.
Not recommended, but if you're going to lose anyway give it a shot, it might work. (I had speed defuse, so flash still affects while I defuse) -
Beeing a permanent GR in ghost mode on crossfire from 2-3 years, ghost mode is a brilliant idea from crossfire staff.
Even with my experience, i learn some things thx to ur guide. Let me add some tips for this topic now like i did for another one (was a guide in the 3rd page of topic also for ghost mode)
- Flashbangs : I think u have underestimate this grenade. It is a perfect grenade in order to prevent stabing while defusing in a wide area, u can gain about 5 sec protection with it. Of course, GRs guys will have to turn the head around when they hear "FLASHBOMB" so they wont be blind by it BUT the ghost who are camping near it wont see a thing: very nice to buy some time for the defuser.
Tell ur comrades on the radio chat that you use flash when defuse:
when u turn the head from the flash u have about 1-2 sec blinds while, when youre looking right into the defuser/bomb/flashbang, ure blind for about 5-6 sec.
- Always look behind you : thats something Grs always have to do. The favorite way of the ghost to kill Grs is to let them pass away and then RUN BEHIND THEM in order to stab GRs. So when ure running from A to B site (rushing with a knife to join ur teamates who are defusing a bomb) for example, don't forget to look behind you, u may have many surprises
- Take care of your teamates !! : ghosts only appears when they want to kill someone, so dont quit ur teamates and keep an eye on them.
- Use ur friends as bait ! : From my last rule, u can let ur friend go ahead so he can scout the area. Not very friendly with him, but u can use him like a ghost bait like some cheese for mouse xD.
- Dont turn around bomb and spray ! : thats exactly ghost want u to do. They wont reveal themselves until a defuser will come. so go defuse or KEEP AN EYE on the defuser !
- Alone while defusing: ohhhh sh***, im the only GRs alive vs 2 ghost who planted their bomb. after clearing the area with pimpoints, go defuse and WATCH IN FRONT OF YOU.
When u hear footsteps coming towards you or better, see the ghost, Jump backwards and kill him !! be rdy for that and hold ur breath still, u'll be able to kill the ghost who protects the bomb and maybe u will have enough time to defuse it ^^
- Trick ur ghost ennemy : Play with him, invite him to dance with you by holding a knife, jumping and slashing. ghosts will see a noob in front of them and will attack you, try to play with him for 5 sec then jump backwards and TAKE UR RIFLE OR PISTOL OUT! our ghost will be the most displeased and is revealed, u'll only have to kill him easily
- Play the idle GR: Trick ur ghost by standing still on our spawn site !! dont move, chat on the radio so ur friends wont kick you coz of idling and tell them that ure STILL HERE.
Ghost will see you on the spawn site and will attack you without bunny hop in order to have some kills with some "idling noob GR". when u see or hear footsteps coming toward you, JUMP BACKWARD and say hello to your ghost by headshoting him ^^.
- Be mindful of your vote: before kicking a GR that seems to wall hack, when ure dead, GO WATCH THE PLAYER who seems to hack and see how he plays. Maybe hes a real pro who can see a ghost NEARLY invisible and is really mindful (like me ! ^^). If its the case, DEFEND HIM AND PROTECT HIM with the radio chat. Dont kik an innocent player.
- Water is ur friend : ghost are very easy to see when they are in water, u can see their movements by circles of water or hear watersplash, use it without moderation
I hope those tips will be shared with others GRs ghost killers on the 1st page of this topic and that you'll be pleased by using them. of course, some tips may seems a little tricky but theres absolutely no hack, only strategy on the way of hunting ghost. -
I like your guide. LOL. Well, I already knew these things but it's nice to see someone post it. If only more people in crossfire would read the forums.
there would be less false accusations.
But then, if everybody's good thenn where's the people to kill for the high k/d?
anyways, nice post
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