How to prepare for a flagrun

Running the flag home is one of the hardest jobs in Unreal Tournament, so you need to prepare yourself before you go for it.

First of all, you need to stack up. Learn the maps and know where the shieldbelt, shieldwest, keg of health and health vials are and learn the fastest route to grab them so when you are ready for the flagrun you are maxed out on shield and health.

When going for the flag DO NOT fight people around the flag of and then try and grab the flag this will not work. On most maps, players you kill will spawn in the base again with full health ready to take you down. You need to learn how to be sneaky and stealthy, sneak in, throw your translocator at the flag and get the hell out, DO NOT fight, just haul ass and spam like hell behind you, in order to do that, you need to learn how to run backwards, or just quickly flip 180 degress to fling a loaded cluster of rockets behind you and then turn and run, never stopping.

If you get hurt on the way and are low on health, don't spend time stacking up, just suicide (type suicide in the console or rocket yourself to death) and then stack up, no point in using health vials to get to 100 health when you get that just by respawning, THEN you can pick up vials and shield, remember, in CTF all that matters are capping the flag, kills won't gain you anything, there's no point in being the high scorer when your team lost the match. Also remember that capping flags earns you many more points than killing players, if you cap all the flags you will probably have the highest score anyway.