[Mayul]

The Good, The Bad, The Gauss.
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• Table of Contents.
• Introduction
• Gauss'N
• Control Your Weapon
• Hey Cousins
• You Got A Friend In Me
• Skill Setup

The Gauss Rifle.
The gauss has always, until recently but still, has been the underachiever weapon of S4. It really got its use back on fail patch-Scene 2, Gauss Gets Autoaim Take-4. The gauss is a powerfull weapon and shouldn't be taken lightly. It doesn't need autoaim to hit targets, just decent aim. One clip(25shots) could easily take out 4-5 enemies. I'm just here to shed some light about our overlooked friend.

-Note- This guide is more than likely baised on my playstyle and decisions. This guide isn't here telling you how to play just a suggestive thought you might want to consider.


Gauss'Nhttp://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7946/gaussdamagechart.png
Running Speed - 83% Shooting Movement Speed - 58% Reload Time - 2secondsThis table was taken from S4Project Wiki of the Gauss.
Control Your Weapon The gauss shots a 5 bullet spray pattern. It fires single shots per click. It has some spraying capabilities, but isn't recommended by this guide. Aiming the gauss is probaly the strangest thing, because of its vertical spread. This gun will never shoot left to right no matter how much you hope and pray/spray. The first shot of the gauss is deadeye accurateto the crosshair. The next shot moves veritcal a little up until the 4th shot. The 5th shot, RetardShot, shoots an inch above the crosshair making it widely inaccurate shot.
Normal SMG spraying won't provide you with the best of the gauss's ability here. This gun, though rapid firing, best relies on 2-3 click shooting. The 1st and 2nd shot are closly deadon. The 3rd being a little off from the second along with the 4th. There isn't a need to shoot a gauss past the 3rd shot, unless your garenteed a hit. It's just wasted ammo that won't do you any good.

Hey Cousins! The heavy weapon cousin of the hmg. Gauss is a potential crowd killer, or a sniping hero!The gauss's damage is higher than the smgs but lower than the hmgs. Its like a semi and an hmg. Power and Distance, who could go wrong with that!?
HMG's Sidekick

The gauss has the "potential" to crowd control. The "POTENTIAL!" I can't stress that enough. The gauss doesn't shoot bullets as fast as the other automatic weapons. This lowers the "mobbing" rate, but allows for precision in your aim to deal more crits and chest shots.Let's take station 2 for example; Teammate has the ball, your coming up from the ramp. There's a spam of cs and ps stuns. Chances are your going to want to take out as many as you can and try to score. Remember your not using it to rush at this point. Knowing people are in their melee delay stance, heres your chance to strike. -This is the only time I recommened L-Click Hold- Spam your L-Click and try to get close as possible without leaving yourself to wide open. This ensures that all 4 of your attacks hits and the varies of the 5th one, because that gets hard to determine under "Fumbi Pressure." Aim for the chest and head areas. Hitting the legs is a really handicap in situations like those seem to do the least amount of damage. And ensures someone surviving a full clip if they have near to full health.

Gauss Sniper!

Unlike its counter cousin the Semi-Rifle, the gauss isn't equipped with a zoom function. This makes sniping a bit more difficult to do, but possible none the less.It's best to aim for the chest area since your oppenents will look small and unclear. Gauss sniping spots are basically the same as all other sniping spots. Here are a few examples of some in game.

Station-1 Pic 1
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Station-2 Pic 1
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Neden-3
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OldSchool Pic 1Pic 2
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Side-3 Pic 1
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Temple-M Pic 1
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Tunnel
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Colosseum Pic 1
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Highway
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You've Got A Friend In Me Bind

Bind is a very unique skill in S4. It requires pin point accuracy and deadlock timing. Bind also is the only skill in S4 that complements gauss more than any other weapon I've seen thus far. Bind has the unique ablity to hold an enemy player in one spot for 3 seconds. The enemy does have the ability to shoot and run in place still making them a threat to you. Bind doesn't go through shields. If an anchor or flyer is bound they are forced to move directly up. Learn more about bind visit Unraveling's guide to bind here.

Skill Setup
There's a variation of skill setups you could use with gauss. As stated, it's a mid-long range weapon. I'm just going to put out some I recommend.
-Note- These setups assume you have decent aim with gauss unless stated otherwise.

Gauss/Hg/Semi+Bind

My personal favorite set. Gauss doing massive damage upclose and afar and semi-rifle to finish'em off. Handgun to keep up to speed if I have to go on the offensive side of the team. It's a well rounded set, good defence, but requires alot of aim. Not recommened if your aim with gauss and/or bind isn't up to speed.

Gauss/Hg/Rev/BSG+30Hp/SpMastery

This set, not one I truely care for, but has proven useful at the beginning stages of gauss. It's mainly to get your accuracy down pack. Gauss doesn't have scatter fire as mentioned before and your focused on 2-3 click shots. So yea, hand in hand.

Gauss/Sentry/Railgun/Cannon+Shield

This build as the one above focus on pin point aim. What weapon could better help you with that? Well railgun of course. More or less cannon depending on how you use it. Sentry is there if your aim with gauss and sniper just isn't up to par. Shield, comes in handy when you need to get out of that nasty delay between switching weps with sniper and gauss, also providing decent cover and longivity in life.

Gauss/CS/HMG+Shield/+30Hp

The Overpowered, delayed, crowd control set. This has to be one set, I would call a "monster." This set is good at defending, back up, offence, and purely nicely rounded if your aim with gauss is up to par. Shields there to stop the gun delays. I'm not very fond of melee of any sort, but we have cs in this for the speed and its crowd control, it just works ok? A true build to master.

CompletionThis guide is no way complete. There's much more I've probably missed. There are many more builds and strategies out there for gauss. This is just one way to look at it. Gauss isn't a "Toygun," now show them your s4, but not to much now. Keep some secrets to yourself. :D

This post has been edited by Mayul: 17 May 2010 - 01:53 AM

[MisakaMikoto]

I've been waiting forever for a guide to use gauss.

Thanks for the post (even though I already know everything save damage tables)

I'm pretty sure gauss to the front of the head deals say, 60 damage?

Since I've taken out more than half of someone's health in a single head shot with my +6 gauss shirt and +2 black gauss.

[Ezreal]

A guide well done, is a well done guide indeed. You've done a guass guide, now throw one up about bind. It's be helpful, and go hand-and-hand with this guide.

Referring to the "Bind and Guass" section.

[Mayul]

WelcomeToKexis, on 15 May 2010 - 06:44 AM, said:

A guide well done, is a well done guide indeed. You've done a guass guide, now throw one up about bind. It's be helpful, and go hand-and-hand with this guide.

Referring to the "Bind and Guass" section.

http://forums.chs5.n...518-bind-guide/

[MisakaMikoto]

you missed one spot on side-3. Will take a screenie later.

[Aures]

Nice guide May^^
You forgot one thing though.
Tell me how to fix the lag **** HP with gauss whenever I use it and it'll be a 5 star guide. Get to it bro:D

[Mayul]

Aures, on 15 May 2010 - 01:54 PM, said:

Nice guide May^^
You forgot one thing though.
Tell me how to fix the lag **** HP with gauss whenever I use it and it'll be a 5 star guide. Get to it bro:D

If only I was a gauss dev.
Though I have seen this in game.
It is when your killing with gauss and you assume the person would be dead but they have that one piece of lag that puts them at "1hp" cause thats just annoying.

[Aures]

It's beyond annoying. Seems to happen more the bigger the match. Usually a 3 vs 3 doesn't do it to me a lot. A 4 vs 4 does it a little more, and a 5 vs 5 and 6 vs 6 is impossible. That really needs to be fixed-_-

Just curious, maybe someone can confirm it for me, is gauss like that in KrS4? I can't remember.

[Mayul]

Aures, on 15 May 2010 - 05:20 PM, said:

It's beyond annoying. Seems to happen more the bigger the match. Usually a 3 vs 3 doesn't do it to me a lot. A 4 vs 4 does it a little more, and a 5 vs 5 and 6 vs 6 is impossible. That really needs to be fixed-_-

Just curious, maybe someone can confirm it for me, is gauss like that in KrS4? I can't remember.

I'll see about it later. But the odds of me getting into a room smaller than 6v6 is doubtable.
Yea, you don't notice that type of lag with the smgs and other semi automatic weapons, because of they shoot 4 bullets at a time. More or less with with smash because it shoots amazingly fast.

[MoId]

I see that bad FPS.
Nice work my black brother.

[Sad Bridget]

You might wanna just put the url of the pics in the guide instead of showing them, since they're taking quite a lot of space in the guide.

This post has been edited by Sad Bridget: 16 May 2010 - 11:06 PM

[V-Breezy]

I hope you lower your graphics when actually playing a game. Dat fps mang.

[Mayul]

MakoBEAST, on 17 May 2010 - 12:30 AM, said:

I hope you lower your graphics when actually playing a game. Dat fps mang.

Its only on top setting so pictures come out best.
Other than that...low graphics all the way son..

[Vizard]

Needs update for new spread

[Hamlet Piglet]

Guide is so old and not even complete and you necro post for the new spread which is barely noticeable and still fits the guide, god dam you're irritating...

[TheKyoKito]

fun fact; airhug and guass= awesome