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[VisualShock_TSGK]

[edit] Special Techniques
In addition to the basic gameplay elements, there are several important advanced techniques often used by skilled players.

Gravity Jumping: By standing on top of a physic object and firing straight down at it with the Gravity Gun's primary fire, a player can boost into the air several feet or more. This can be used to move to areas that are otherwise difficult or impossible to reach quickly.
Fast Balls: By shooting an orb from the ar2 rifle and immediately switching to the Gravity Gun whilst hitting primary fire, the orb can be given an extra boost of speed.
Note: A fast ball, once caught, cannot be returned at high speed.
Grenade Cooking: After using secondary fire to drop a grenade, the player quickly switches to the gravity gun and picks it up. The timer on the grenade resets, giving the player additional time to aim and fire it. This technique is often more effective than simply tossing a grenade because it allows the player to have greater control over where exactly it will explode.
Bunny Hopping: A type of movement used to move silently, jump over large gaps, and travel even more quickly than sprinting. It is performed by sprinting into a circle jump and then remaining in the crouch position while bunny hopping.
Note: In HL2DM bunny hopping is also commonly called strafe-jumping, speed skating, and overbouncing.
Fast Physics: A removed exploit that enabled players to shoot physics objects much faster and more forcefully than with a normal Gravity Gun shot. To do this, primary fire was held down while very quickly switching between the Gravity Gun and another weapon using the "last weapon used" key. This caused the Gravity Gun to shoot repeated bursts of energy at the object, giving it the ability to travel farther and kill opponents much more easily.
Fast Shotgun: Another removed exploit that allowed players to fire a shotgun at a higher rate of speed than the default. This could be accomplished by repeatedly pressing reload after firing each round; with good timing, this would unload a clip of ammo about twice as fast as normal.
Rabbit Punch:Causes similar actions as Fast Physics this technique can fire a single object 3-5 times but only in a point blank capacity and doesnt leave your gravity gun, it can be used to renew a orb or grenade timer but with a higher possibility of hitting your opponent with a physical object or orb.
Note: This is a hardly used much less known technique



How many of these can people do?
Which ones?
Could they be included in clan training sessions?
and could someone who can do them write an article about how to do them so us noobs (just me) can learn how to

Thanks
VisualShock

[Shimmy_TSGK]

grav juming is ok,we use it alot to get to hard places here and there...
fast balls are my looooooooove..... they are just crazy and it's.... *droool*
grenade cooking is a very vital skill and if you don't know it by now... well i think you know it by now... it's quite normal and takes a bit of practice and time to get the timings right...

bunny hopping is very useful...lets you catch up people really fast and give them a nice stick...

yeah a training session would be awesome... am up for practicing just let us know when you want it... I am free on the 22nd exams till then [/b]

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

In answer..

Gravity Jumping. This is easy but not always effective.
I think there is a better way involving the 'use' button which I'm going to have a chat with someone about.

Fast Balls - I can do these. As well as catching straight from AR2 (secondary fire on ar2, gg, secondary fire). This can be handy.

[Wonderbanana]

Fast shotgun was a 'glitch' and was removed in an update I think.

edit: didn't read it properly - it does say 'removed'! Doh!

[Plasmo_TSGK]

Grav jump: I can do it, but never in battle. Good for high places or if you want to kill yourself in an amusing fashion.

Nade cooking: My specialty (I like to think ). I've started using grenades to maim and then I rush in with the stunstick to finish the job .

Fast balls: I can do these as well...but my accuracy with them is absolutely horrendous.

Bunny hopping: I'm working on this as well. I suggest practicing it on 600 gravity as well as 400. Your rhythm in game will be off for successive jumps, but the speed boost is more evident, and you actually need a good jump to do the lockdown jump (a sprint jump with a crouch at the end will get you over the gap on 400 grav).

Rabbit punch: Take the fast physics explanation, but use secondary fire rather than alternate fire after the weapon switch to bring the orb or phys object back to you. I can't do this, but I think Tron! can.

I'm up for any kind of training. Gets lonely all by meself in lockdown .

[Spike]

[Shimmy_TSGK]

yeah i agree with spike on the E key functional to grab stuff only in single player

[VisualShock_TSGK]

I can do the grenade cooking, fastball and grav gun jumping

i've worked out a way to improve aiming the fastball.

see, if there's someone running away, that you can't quite catch with a fastball, crouch down, and aim half way between you and them on the floor, the bouce gives it a chance to re-align with them, and it almost aimts itself...you'll know what i mean when you see it.

[Lawitz]

If you masterize fastorbs its a very strong weapon. at fastest speed you see the enemy, then next moment you are dead. but to make it hard to catch you have to let it touch the floor and get back up to the player.

[Xmeagol]

those are old techniques!

[Milton]

Guys can someone give me some tips on grenade cooking timing. I can cook the grenade and all but when I shoot it it always gets past the player. I saw some guys just shooting it in the ground and it exploded. Must I wait more time before I launch it?

[krazimu]

[Milton]

[Fyckfaco]

Yeah just give it some time man, try going in an empty server and setting up some barrels to practise your timing on. I find tho you can hold it a little longer than you expect. Unfortuantly there is a delay in the character animations that makes it appear other players timers are shorter. Dont go by other players you see in game, coz by the time the animation has finished that nade is often already on its way to your face .

Orbs have an auto aim function after their first bouce, this is why it appears orbs fired at the floor in front of appear to come str8 for you. Its not by any means accurate but it does seek out players for sure. Hense why you can shoot around v8 in a perfect square even when you hit the corner at a weird angle

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

BTW - what is 'fast weapon switch'? !!

[Cynyx]

The fast switch weapon remove the HUD that shows you your weapon, try in console :

[Freelancer]

[Cynyx]

and u are a crazy "quoter" Freelancer

[Fyckfaco]

na i just type fast, and i know some people on this site have trouble with some english so i tryed to make it as descriptive and easy to read as posible without using long words to shorten it down. Plus i go on a bit when i get carried away