How do people keep killing me so fast?

Question

I keep getting killed within seconds of contact. Example:

x=wall m=me e=enemy

x m   x
x     x
x     xxxxxxxx
x            e
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     x
x m   x
x     xxxxxxxx
x            e
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     x
x     x
x m   xxxxxxxx
x            e
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     x
x     x
x     xxxxxxxx
x  m         e
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

And I'm dead nearly instantly. At first I blamed lag, but this is happening consistently in all kinds of situations. Contact is made, and BAM. I'm dead.

I've also considered camping, but the game has a minimap so I know where he is just as well as he knows where I am. In the above example, I had my cursor on where I expected him to be (and he was there) but he killed me faster than I could kill him. And neither of us were Exo's, so I didn't have to wait for my gun to spin up and he didn't get the advantage of extra firepower.

Is there something I'm missing here or am I just that bad?

Asked by John the Green

Answer

What class are you, what class is the opponent?

Support and - even more so - stealth die very quickly especially if the opponent has good aim and manages to hit the head. Support or stealth vs assault is usually very 1-sided unless you manage to suprise the assault by flanking him (though the engineer shotgun can do a ton of damage).

In case of assault vs assault, he might just have better aim and reaction than you.

In short: He was probably just better than you.

Answered by dbemerlin

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