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left mouse button down. Auto attacking will decrease

your movement speed slightly, but you’ll be able to get

more hits in and do more damage. Plus there’s less

pressure to line up every shot perfectly if you’re just

hitting, or shooting at, someone every few seconds.

-Sidenote, but if you’re like me and have

trouble with the whole aiming thing, do yourself a

favor and hold off on playing a hunter until you get

more comfortable moving the mouse around.

-Use auto leveling for your abilities until you think

you’ve figured out what each one does. At least for

the first few games. Also, when looking up abilities

don’t forget to read what your god’s passive is.

-I know the tutorial says that it’s turned on

auto buy, but just double check that that’s true

before you go into your first game. Items have

a nasty habit of being complicated and involve

quick mental math, so until you get the hang of

the game, they can and will make life harder

for you. Save memorizing what exactly the items

do for a different day and just play the game.

-In the event that you ignore the previous

piece of advice you should almost always get

boots, which the item store insists on calling

Shoes. There’s a reason they’re some of the

first items in the recommended section.

-In order to check if auto-buy and auto-

leveling is turned on, you have to go into a game.

Once you’ve selected your character there should

be two small boxes under the strip that shows

the different skins you can select for the god.

RANDOM “KEY” PIECES OF

INFORMATION-- I’M STILL NOT FUNNY

- Pressing k will bring up all of your characters

abilities; which is really useful if you decide to try

out Assault and get stuck with a character you’ve

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