Damage Incorporated Strategies 

Here are some strategies from the Paranoid Production Labs that 
will, if implemented properly, help you boost your Confirmed Kill 
counts. For more strategy stuff, be sure to check out Mac 3D Total 
Action's page, in particular their Complete Strategy Guide. Or 
download the Strategy Guide from our Files page. 

Crouch Jumping for Fun and Profit - The Crouch-Jump is one of the 
key moves in Damage Incorporated and you simply won't be able to 
finish the game without it (for instance, Level 5, in which one 
must go assassinate Mimi Grendel, you'll need to use the Crouch-
Jump to get to her). This involves holding down the crouch key, 
moving forward, and jumping, in that order. This will allow you to 
jump through small windows, up into air-vents, and the like. 

Crouching, It's a Good Thing to Do - Imagine this: firing a SMAW 
rocket launcher while standing up. It's not pretty, is it? In real 
life you'd go flying, as you do (to a lesser extent) in Damage 
Incorporated. But what if you were down on one knee, like when 
you're crouching. Then you wouldn't fly back nearly as much, your 
aim might even be better. Hm, maybe the same would go for 
shotguns, or whatever weapon. If you were down on one knee, your 
aim would probably increase two-fold, at least, don't you think? 
And hey, if that guy's getting ready to lob a grenade at you, 
crouching would probably save your ass, wouldn't you say? Hm, 
curiouser and curiouser. 

Friendly Fire and How to Minimalize It - Your teammates sure do 
love to fire off their automatic weapons; some even get off on 
tossing grenades. It's good planning to be out of their way when 
they do this. To this end, don't run in front of them when they're 
firing. As in real life, if you run in front of a stream of 
bullets, you will be hurt by them. Your teammates try their best 
to not frag their captain, but there's only so much they can do, 
yes? If you like to move around a lot while you're in the shit, 
especially when you're close up to the enemy, I'd advise you to do 
it away from your teammates: if you're ducking and dodging all 
over the place and your teammates are trying to get a shot off at 
hostile forces, it's not going to pretty what they do to your 
tender flesh, by accident. Even worse is if your teammates are 
following you about in the midst of a heavy fire fight. Imagine 
this order: "Hey guys, stay in a V behind me. And, oh yeah, we're 
going to be running through a nest of White Paladins, please do 
try to kill them quickly. And don't hit me, neither." It just 
ain't gonna happen. Now, if you said "Hey guys, hold ground up on 
that ridge and let death rain down on these racist motherfuckers, 
I'll stay out of the way" I think they would do a much better job, 
yes? 

Follow Me Not so Constantly, Brother Mine - Indeed, one may have 
much better luck if one instructs your teammates to go to specific 
locations instead of having them follow you like so many sheep. 
For those of you who have played WarCraft or Command & Conquer 
(and I imagine one or two of you have) you should remember sending 
your Orcs or Hand of Nod Men to specific locations where they'd be 
the most strategically useful. Think of sending your men in D.I. 
around in similar ways, instead of simply having them holding a 
formation behind you; don't just play a 3D shooter game with guys 
following you everywhere. Instead, position them optimally for a 
coming combat: an easy two mouse- clicks can get your team-member 
to any point on the Overhead Map or in your First Person view. Try 
setting up ambushes with your guys, using your own sorry keister 
as the bait to lure hapless Paladins into your teammates' line of 
fire. Position them carefully in corners where they can't get shot 
from behind (unless the enemy's using missiles on you, in which 
case you should keep them away from walls so they can dodge the 
missiles effectively). 

Remember Tintin - This has more to do with hidden areas than 
strategies, but indulge me. Everybody remember in that fantastic 
Tintin book Prisoners of the Sun? Remember what he does when he 
comes to a waterfall? Well, we here at Paranoid Productions happen 
to love Tintin very much, and think it a good thing to do similar 
things when we find waterfalls in Damage Incorporated. You may 
need to use the aforementioned Crouch-Jump to execute it properly. 
Have a good time!