Timing Powerups

You might have noticed some players are almost impossible to kill, even when you land 3 rockets in thier face they still survive and kill you.

That's because they have taken powerups such as shieldbelt, armor pads, armor west and armor helmet and loaded up thier health by picking up health vials.

The secret to always getting the powerups is to time them. It's quite easy to do, all you got to know is how many seconds in between each spawn.

Powerup Times for UT3:

Shieldbelt 55 seconds.
Keg of health 55 seconds.
Damage Amplifier 80 seconds.
Everything else, thigh pads, west, helmet, health, health vials + weapons and ammo, 27 seconds.

A good technique for standard FFA deathmatch, is to time the 55 spawning items and run a route between the rest. Don't time all the 27 items as you will be spending to much time concentrating on that and get less frags.

To do this, load a map offline with no bots, start at the main powerup you want to get, in most cases the shieldbelt or keg of health, then figure out the shortest possible route that you can run between the rest of the powerups while running over any health vials near that route while also picking up weapons and ammo along this route of course

This has 2 advantages.

1st, you get all the powerups of course, and you are constantly stacking up on health vials so you will soon be maxed out with 199 health and lots of armor.

2nd, it keeps you constantly on the move. While running the route, don't get hung up in extended fights, you see someone in your immidiate path take them down, but if you don't get them with the first 2-3 shots move on, because taking the extended fight someone else will come along and take you both down while you are distracted fighting eachother and it will be easy because you probably drained all your health and armor, meaning you just gave someone else 2 frags for free. Rockets and flak are your friends here, predict by using sound, if you hear someone around the corner fighting load up 3 rockets and hurl them at them when you come around the corner, you will be surprised how often you get 1 or 2 kills like this. Also shoot a couple rockets at any doorways further away from you, you never know when someone gets a rocket in the face when you spam random doorways like this, and you are far away from them so you won't risk getting hit.