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Fundamentals
Virus Eating
Self Virus + Virus Pass
Virusing is simple. FIrst, get the basics of the W key down. It shoots a piece of your mass, ejecting 16. The mass is worth 12. It fires where you are aiming. Press W 7 times into a virus and it will shoot out in the direction of your feeds. Meaning, away from you. This is good. Duh? So, a virus will split you. If you are below 500, you will have equally sized pieces. All of them around 20. So, if you are hit by a virus at that size,the vultures will get you. Which is why it's an amazing offense. If you virus a person who's around 1000, he will split with a bunch of tiny 20-ish pieces, a large piece of 400, and a small piece of 200. If you are way bigger than them, you can virus them, then split around the virus and engulf them whole. At the same time, a virus can be good. When you eat one, if gives you 100 mass. Which is a lot if you are small.
There are two types of virus eating. Singular, and constant. Singular is when you are 132-300, and you hit a virus for the 100 mass. At the same time, you gain a lot of mobility, and the opportunity to make a devastating mergekill. But, you are extremely weakened and almost anyone can split on you and get all of your mass. If you merge, you will be 100+ (pellets) more than before. Continuous is slightly less risky, and if you know how to maneouver you can have people literally run into you. You have to be 400+ to proceed, and it is recommended there are many viruses around. You split on a virus. The pieces that eat the virus will be 15 pieces. So you will be in 16 pieces. That is the maximum amount you can split. So when you hit a virus it will not split you, and you will still gain mass. You can eat as many viruses as you want with your big piece, gaining 100 each, until you merge. A great way to get on the leaderboard.
This might seem simple, but many people have no idea how to do this. See image above. This is an amazing position to be in. You can virus them with your small part, but all they can do is virus your small part, not your big part. Do not aim at the virus when firing. Rather, put your cursor on the player you shoot at, making sure your small masses are going to the virus and not somewhere else. When (not if, when!) you hit them, you can move the virus through your cells. Make a position where your cells will not touch the virus, then move so the virus goes BETWEEN your cells. BE CAREFUL. You may want to practice on a casual game or a not-as-full server. It's hard the first few times, but it will get easier. Just be stable. Don't be stressed. And, if you hit a virus, you can eat the viruses! This is what I do when I am in a situation where I am split. I go around and eat the viruses. It works. One time, it got me out of being cornered and allowed me to pursue the once-predator.
There isn't anything else, the advanced tactics won't be here since I have not mastered them myself.
Here is a compilation of good virus positions.