Backward Flying

ahho

is there any plan to let lerk fly backward

Daxx

To my knowledge, no. It wouldn't fit the current model, thats completely bad@ss once your used to it.

UGLAndrew

uhh, yeah it was put in, but when i check on the bugs for NS, it says that the lerk not being able to fly backwards is a bug. but i might be wrong.

ahho

i hope it has the current gliding system and fly backward just pushing the back button

Ollj

"Comm, I heared rumors about lerks fliing backwards"
"Thats True, im researching hand grenades"
"huh?"
"Thats what makes lerks fly backwards, but only once"

lagger

U can still fly backwards to an extent. Just let go of your jump button look backwards shoot and then look back to the front and keep gliding/flying.

Rue

Um I think that right now lerks are good enough, anyways you dont see a hawk diving at its prey and comming up backwards :/ it just acends forwards. Lerks are like hawks but with larger teeth

RaVe

It's a bug that arose sometime around the public beta release. I know this because I received an email from Flayra when I was concerned about some issues.(Most notably, the iability for lerks to take evasive action)

Sadly, it is in my mailbox, and so shall remain.....my preeeeecciooooouuuuusss.....

Just kidding.

<!--QuoteBegin-Small excerpt from my email from Flayra+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Small excerpt from my email from Flayra)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It's strange, but since the forums are down I've been thirsting for
feedback
(that hasn't happend for a LONG time), and I'm actually glad to hear about
what to change/fix for the next version.  We will probably release beta 2
tomorrow, and we'll try to address these issues for it (or for the next
version).  <b>Lerk flight used to support backwards flying, but broke
recently,
<i>so that will be fixed.</i></b>  All the other issues sound like good things to
change too.

Thanks again!<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

This was around the time beta 1 (one one!) was released <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Buggy

lerks flying backwards...now ive heard it all.

UKchaos

Lerk is resticted on purpose so that its balanced with jetpacks, i reckon.

XCan

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Except a jper is much more powerful than a lerk at most time. A jper with lmg might be balanced, but during a normal game a jper would at least carry a SG, and lerks are melee units.....

Ballisto

<!--QuoteBegin-Ollj+Apr 10 2004, 05:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ollj @ Apr 10 2004, 05:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> "Comm, I heared rumors about lerks fliing backwards"
"Thats True, im researching hand grenades"
"huh?"
"Thats what makes lerks fly backwards, but only once" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLYOURMYHERO!!!!12!!11!!!eleven!!11@

UKchaos

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Except a jper is much more powerful than a lerk at most time. A jper with lmg might be balanced, but during a normal game a jper would at least carry a SG, and lerks are melee units..... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

A celerity/regen lerk can easily take down a hmg/JPer before he gets to a hive. In combat lerks wipe the floor with level 10 jpers.

BOBDolol

Unless the lerk is really really really good with umbra or the jper sucks, a jp/hmg will beat a lerk anyday.

Thardin

The lerk sucks in NS early game, you can't bite and fly, and not flying when attacking a marine is suicidal due to your EXTREME fragility at hive 1 without MC first, you can spore them but they will take pot shots at you, so unless your in a vent your basically useless until hive 2. Lerk HP at hive 1: 185, 2 marines can easily slaughter you with LMG, and if they run out of ammo, pistol.

Lerks in combat fit their role perfectly, because they can upgrade 'abuse'. Trust me, NS and Combat need to be indivually handled for stats.

Zek

Fact: Lerks were given the ability to fly backwards late in the closed beta. The fact that it's gone now is, by all accounts, a bug.

That said, it wasn't very useful anyway. Very hard to stop forward motion and start moving backwards. I never found a good use for it; theoretically it's good to shoot gas as you retreat, but it was never easy enough to do to be helpful when you're actually in danger.

Shockeh

Incidentally, to clear this up.

'Lerk flying backwards not working' <b>is</b> in the buglist. Hence it's due to be replaced, once it's working correctly again.

Why the hell would you want to anyway? You're either :

A) Running away (should be facing away and looking where you're going)

or

B) Swooping in for a bite, in which case backwards is something that should happen to other people.

- Shockeh

Ballisto

If you know the map well, you can easily go backwards without hitting anything. Gorges do it all the time, retreating backwards and spitting at me. I'm sure lerks would fly backwards and give a parting shot of spores if they could.