Lerk dive

1dominator1

<div class="IPBDescription">dive to increase speed</div>What the title says, let lerks dive to reach speeds higher than achievable by flapping alone.

Benson

I could be wrong, but i think this is how it works now? If not, then it should, what with gravity and all that, also with flap costing energy, a way to get and maintain speed needs to exist

PsiWarp

I think this used to be the case with the Lerk. I recall vaguely about Saba reaching ridiculous speeds by divebombing in crevice :P

measles

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Yuuki

I'm not sure if it's the case anymore but in some builds you could use ctrl key to increase gravity and gain speed, so you could flap up and glide down, maintaining max speed. It was also useful to make sharp turns.

A soft speed cap is also necessary for this kind of stuff to be useful.

TimMc

Pretty sure you can glide almost forever by gliding up, then down to regain momentum, repeat.

Typhon

Yeah, theres almost no air friction for the lerk. I made 3 or 4 laps around summit without flapping once, kinda silly.

You can gain speed by diving currently, but I think what the op meant was that while diving your speed cap would be removed or increased.

1dominator1

I recall being able to pick up major speed as lerk in the early builds by diving but I think it was removed or capped.

twiliteblue

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FYI, you can use the crouch/dive key (Ctrl by default) to accelerate downward, after you release the glide/jump (Space) key.

Also, vertical speed is not capped. So if you glide downward, you can gain very high speeds (if you have enough room).