Advanced Lerk breakdown w/Bitey!
Bitey
Join Date: 2012-05-06 Member: 151622Members, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester
Hey guys, I made a short video on the more advanced aspects of being a good lerk. Even uncovered some of the secret advanced movement techniques to be utilized, so take a look and learn it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_rVOWBFwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_rVOWBFwc
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edit: also to add, I always tend after a bite to fly upward and then quickly in a downward circle, it gets me another bite and makes the rine lose tracking (as tracking above is the hardest) lerk is my fav
edit2: It's also good to learn all vent/window locations and etc to your advantage, you can use them as escapes (or fake escapes) to leave a fight / or come back to finish off the rine, really great when your team comes through.
on that note, good video you may want to edit these type of things in the future though to get to all the points
Lerk's base speed is 11. if you glide downwards, you will eventually reach 11 and stay there. if you glide upwards, you lose speed. it takes two flaps to get back to 11 speed at any time in mid-air. when you're on the floor as a Lerk, you get this same flap force in addition to a jump of some sorts that I think of as a "liftoff". this mini-jump adds 1.6 speed to your flight, bringing you to 12.6 as you lift off from the ground, and the same rules are applied. you still tick back down to 11, even if you're gliding downward. for a frame of reference: Celerity Lerk is 13 speed, and by extension, a Celerity Lerk using the liftoff mechanic would reach 14.6. so it's very useful to abuse this mid-combat to land and take off, around corners and such.
nice work Bitey, it's good to see players like you and Eissfeldt opening up their POV to shed some more light on competitive play.
Although it seems that the key difference between you and me as lerk is that you have near perfect aim, it literally would do you no good to have an aimbot lol. Your aim is so flawless it does look like an aimbot would. I realize you do not use an aimbot, so don't confuse what I am saying here - simply that learning techniques and lerk flight control is one thing - but I may never be able to achieve that kind of accuracy, no matter how much practice.