The Guide to using Firebird

[skitee 555]

This guide is about using firebird. A lot of the points here could be relevant to Freeze as well, but this guide is mainly based on Firebird. I hope it helps you. It is actually mainly about the hulls to use with firebird, but there is a bit about skills as well.

 

Firebird at m0 and m1

 

Let's start at the beginning, at corporal and master corporal. If you are already an absolutely pro at smoky, don't get firebird. This is because it is unlikely to suit you. After that, forget this thread. If you are not a pro at smoky, try getting firebird and see if it suits you. If it does, and you get lots of success with it, use it until you are starting to get rubbish with it, then switch weapons. Whatever the case, the most important thing is that you have to use a weapon that suits your gameplay at all times. Using a weapon you are useless at wielding is always a fail.

 

Now, when you get firebird, don't use wasp with it. This might seem a slightly strange thing to say, as the speed of wasp enables you to get close enough to an enemy to shoot whilst hunter could be outpaced, but my reason is this: firebird's main strength is it's amount of damage and ability to beat anyone around you in rank in one-to-one close-range duels. But yet a firebird-wasp loses to a titan-twins in a one-to-one close-range duel. So, thus, firebird-wasp has a serious disadvantage in this aspect.

 

So instead, I would recommend playing with firebird-hunter and then play in smaller maps, such as farm, island, ping-pong, or play in death matches so you don't need to move very far when you respawn to find an enemy.

 

There is no absolute need to m1 your firebird as soon as possible, due to the fact it is barely better than m0 firebird: maybe spending that cash on an m1 hunter would be a better option, in my opinion, and then m1 your firebird a bit later.

 

Firebird at m2

 

When you m2 your firebird, keep using hunter or switch to dictator. Never consider getting titan for your firebird. You will just be way too slow. M2 Firebird is good enough to be respectable against higher ranks, so do not fear playing against the lower warrant officers that much. They will get more kills than you, but you will get decent points per kill, so in team matches you could win. However, when doing this, make sure you work out who you can kill in a whole bar of your firebird, and then wait for those people (vikings, m3 titans, mammoths) to lose some health before going in and attacking them. It is extremely annoying to run out of consumption and your enemy is still alive.

 

At this point (staff sergeant-master sergeant) I would say that it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a secondary weapon to use in other maps from maps that suit firebird. Twins would be a popular choice, due to the fact that it is also best used on hunter, but if you are not good at using twins (like me) then do not use them, use railgun or smoky (preferably railgun as you could switch to m2/m3 railgun later on as your first choice weapon) instead. Both of those weapons are easily wielded on a hunter without fear, even though their gameplay is rather different to firebird.

 

And also, unless you are rolling in cash as a sergeant, m2 your firebird before you m2 your hunter or buy dictator. A weapon is more important than a tank, and although I know I said to m1 your hunter before m1 firebird above, that was due to the fact that m1 firebird is barely better than m0 firebird.

 

So... Dictator or m2 hunter? M2 Hunter is slightly more expensive, but has more health. Dictator is faster, but is a lot bigger, meaning it can be easily sniped off by railguns and smokys. I would recommend hunter, because I used that and it worked very well for me. But dictator would not be a foolish option.

 

Firebird at m3

 

Firebird m3 should be got immediately when becoming a first sergeant if you are planning to get it sometime. Try to get enough cash as a master sergeant to be able to afford it, and only after that spend on other things, such as paints. Certainly do not consider getting m0 isida ahead of m3 firebird, because isida is a far weaker weapon despite the healing features added on top.

 

At Firebird m3, you can easily play against higher ranks without fear if you have a good enough tank, but again, make sure you know who you cannot kill in your whole consumption (namely, mammoths, m2, and m3 vikings) and then on those people make sure they are weakened before attacking them.

 

When you get firebird m3, there a numerous options for what tank you will use. You can use your present m0 dictator or m2 hunter until sergeant-major where you will get hornet, you can m3 your hunter, you can m1 your dictator, or you could wait until Warrant Officer 1 until you get Viking. All of these are good options, but I would say that the m0 hornet option is the best, but only if you can use a tank with that amount of speed. M3 Hunter is a bit pricey, m0 viking is a long time to wait, and all m1s including dictator m1 are never worth it anyway as they are so similar in specs to their respective m0s.

 

After choosing your option, as long as you do not play in the huge maps or against extremely high ranks, you will be fine to play against almost anyone. I would recommend to play in CTFs and TDMs in small maps, and to play in DMs in medium-size maps.

 

Use Firebird until you are starting to get owned when you use it, in that case, switch to another weapon.

 

And most importantly, Happy Firebirding!

[cablaz 32]

ya i didn't feel like reading all that but Good job on the guide (that-i-didn't-read)

[applecome 1]

I'm with cab.ya i didn't feel like reading all that but Good job on the guide (that-i-didn't-read)

[r_SgtJ0 2]

Wow, good guide! (I-did-read-it)

[Raaish 26]

Good guide,dude.(I-did-read-it)

[hogree 4,179]

Good guide bro, but titan does work with firebird in quite a few maps in my opinion...

Stilil a decent guide. Nice work :)

[r_Fiasco0 7]

I read the first paragraph, then realized this had no relevance to me. I will say, however, this is a good guide for our newer players.

[r_AdvocatusDiaboli0 861]

Would be much easier to read and understand if you can arrange it and add some headings. overall, Good guide.

[kingeoin14 30]

I find my M3 titan good with a freeze so it would be good with a firebird because the M3 titan has the same speed as an M0 hunter.

[hogree 4,179]

I find my M3 titan good with a freeze so it would be good with a firebird because the M3 titan has the same speed as an M0 hunter.

 

yes but with freeze, you can freeze someone, so that they won't get further away from someone which means with fire-titan, twins-hunters/vikings back off and pwn you while you freeze them with freeze so they won't back off.

[groudon2224 0]

Nice skitee

[nevets 0]

good guide :)

 

i am sergeant-major and i play always with firebird m3 and dictator m0

i can kill warrant officers 2 with m0 hornet and m0 freeze easy

so firebird m3 is a good weapon voor medium ranks

[hogree 4,179]

good guide :)

 

i am sergeant-major and i play always with firebird m3 and dictator m0

i can kill warrant officers 2 with m0 hornet and m0 freeze easy

so firebird m3 is a good weapon voor medium ranks

 

Yep. M3 Fire and M3 hunter is PWNAGE even at WO1.

[oGxMexican17 0]

good guide man (that-i-didn't-read) also

[r_Fiasco0 7]

I would go with m0 isida. Attach it to a titan(m2 or m3) and heal snipers on your team. If your team wins, you will get 100+ crystals a game.(I'm talking about HIGH ranking games) From their you get m1, same thing, m2, you start attacking(and get viking), m3 You attack and heal, after that you upgrade viking , upgrade viking, upgrade viking, then you can start using your heal points to work on a gun such as Thunder, Freeze, or Ricochet.

[P3DRo0o 75]

i used it on my websited site, tankiguide.weebly.com, but dont worry, you got all the credits

[skitee 555]

This guide is mainly a "What to buy".... I might write a proper one sometime....

 

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no problem.

[r_ericzliu8990 0]

Dude, the m3 part of firebird helped me A LOT. Now I know what hull to get, and what i was happy about was that i was thinking of getting m0 hornet too :D