LUFTRAUSERS – Ultimate Guide for New Players

This guide is here to help you learn how to make the most of your Rauser. Whether you’re finding the game tough or want to stay alive longer and get better scores, this guide is for you. Let’s celebrate the Rauser!

Introduction

You’ve probably faced a ton of battleships and want to know how to take them down without much trouble, right? Or maybe you’ve been attacked by countless aces and wonder why they’re not as tough as they seem. Don’t worry, we all go through that as pilots. What’s crucial is that you use your mistakes to become an even bigger threat. In this briefing, you’ll discover how to fly like a pro and make the most of your equipment.

How To Effectively Pilot Your Rauser

A Rauser is a unique flying machine, quite different from any regular airplane you’ve used before. It comes with special features that every skilled pilot should be aware of.

Tap Turning

• Do you love the incredible speed of the superboost engine but hate its poor maneuverability? No worries. While you’re speeding up and trying to turn, just tap the boost key repeatedly. This trick cancels out the tricky handling, allowing you to take turns as smoothly as with the default engine while maintaining the superboost speed. It’s perfect for tricking your enemies into shooting where you won’t be.

Advanced Gungine

• The gungine gives you extra firepower, but it can make flying a hassle. Here’s the solution: get the spread gun and shoot it behind you while flying with a real engine. This will not only boost your speed but also increase your damage output. No one can follow a Rauser that leaves its own trail.

Bomb Buffering

• Your bomb hull is a vital tool for taking down aces and battleships. However, you might miss your target sometimes. It happens to the best of us. To avoid wasting bombs, stop firing and only shoot when you’re sure it’ll hit. This technique works great against aces, allowing you to take one down as soon as it approaches if your timing is right.

Precision Lasers

• Your Rauser has four turning speeds. When you’re not accelerating and not shooting, you turn quickly. But when you accelerate and shoot, your turning slows down significantly. To improve accuracy, launch your lasers while turning and start accelerating as soon as you hit your target. This way, you’ll have much better precision.

Plasma Buffering

• Similar to bomb buffering, but you use the plasma cannon. This technique pairs well with the Staff Pick build (plasma cannon, melee hull, superboost engine). You can fly right into your foes and detonate where they can’t possibly dodge. It’s a powerful strategy for close encounters.

Priority Targets

Knowing which enemies to focus on and how to eliminate them is crucial in your Rauser battles. The list below shows high-priority targets at the top and low-priority ones at the bottom. Keep in mind that more enemies will keep spawning, so you don’t have to strictly follow this list. However, when things get tough, remember your priority targets.

Aces

Aces are your top priority. They move like hunters, pack a punch, and shoot aggressively. But they can be taken out quickly if you know what you’re doing. Their movements are predictable, so track them with your gun, dive bomb them and use a plasma cannon shot, or drop a close-distance bomb to eliminate them.

Battleships

Battleships are tough to destroy due to their high health and wide bullet range. They fire flak in two columns, predicting your movements. To deal with them, fly close to the water next to the battleship to bait them into shooting at their sides. Then, attack from above. As you both fire, move to the other side of the ship and repeat the process. If you have a bomb hull, you can fly over them and time your bombs to land on top for reliable damage.

Acemarines

These submarine variants are relatively easy to evade. Stay directly above them, where their flak cannons can’t reach you, and unleash your firepower. After a few seconds of firing, they’ll submerge back into the ocean, so don’t let that happen. Sinking an acemarine grants you more points than anything else in the game. It’s worth it for high-score seekers. If not, you can ignore them once they go under.

Blimps

Blimps are the toughest common enemies in the sky and are low-priority targets. They fire missiles, unleash flak waves, and require significant effort to destroy. You can deal with them by using the melee hull to slice through them while firing your gun. Alternatively, use a plasma cannon to shoot them and kamikaze with the nuke hull, but this is mainly for in-game challenges. The most consistent strategy is to get as close to the blimp as possible and fire at it, only moving away when the bullets get too close. Once it starts descending, you can fly over it and drop bombs on top with the bomb hull, but timing is crucial. You need precision to take down a blimp this way. When it crashes into the ocean, remember that you caused it.

Other Targets

These targets vary in importance and don’t have a set priority, but it’s essential to know when to deal with them. They are listed in no particular order, and I’ll describe what they do and when to destroy them.

Fighters

Fighters are your standard enemies. They don’t pose much of a threat, usually going down in just two hits from your weakest weapons. Their purpose is to help maintain your combo. You only need to deal with them when your combo isn’t at its maximum or is about to vanish.

Jets

Jets are like fighters but with a bit more character and a penchant for kamikaze dives. They’ll go to great lengths to keep your combo going by diving into the ocean, stray bullets, or even colliding with you. They don’t have a primary attack other than diving, which isn’t very damaging. The only time they can be bothersome is when you’re using the missile cannon because they might intercept some of your missiles. They’re generally the easiest enemies in the sky.

Ships

Ships are relatively easy to handle due to their limited mobility, health, and firepower. However, they can become problematic if they accumulate. If a few are next to a battleship you’re trying to sink, it’s a good idea to eliminate them. Otherwise, keep them around to maintain your combo or take them out when needed.

Submarines

Unlike acemarines, regular submarines aren’t a significant threat and don’t reward you much when defeated. They function similarly to acemarines, surfacing from the ocean, firing for a few seconds, and then submerging again. The difference is that they have less health, fire missiles instead of flak, and grant only a fraction of the points. Still worth destroying if your combo is active or if you have a surplus of missiles, but they’re not a top priority.

Missiles

Missiles are as dangerous as they sound. If left unchecked, they can cause substantial damage. While they move slowly, they spawn continuously. Evading them for too long will create a wall of missiles that you can’t pass without taking damage. They eventually fizzle out, but they stick around long enough to be a nuisance. They have four times the health of normal fighters, which makes them challenging to eliminate. It’s best to focus on what’s producing them if they become a major threat.

Laser Ace

The Laser Ace is a rare and formidable enemy. It tracks you with a laser and has near-perfect accuracy. If it appears, it can be a major threat. Even if you manage to defeat it, it explodes into a wide laser that’s difficult to dodge. Moreover, they often spawn in pairs, making your survival unlikely. If you see a warning message on your screen that says “HEADS UP, SOMETHING WEIRD COMING YOUR WAY,” brace yourself, as your run might be in jeopardy. Defeating these enemies is a considerable challenge, and if anyone discovers a reliable method, please share it because they’re tough to conquer.

Conclusion

Our briefing has come to an end, and you’re well on your path to becoming an expert pilot. Keep in mind what you’ve learned today, as this knowledge might save you in a life-or-death situation. Whether it’s about priority targets, movement techniques, or battle strategies, it might seem like a lot, but the more you practice these concepts, the better you’ll become at making quick decisions. Now, go ahead, pilot! Show your complete aerial dominance!