Level 3 flying?
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Join Date: 2002-06-08 Member: 738Members
Join Date: 2002-06-08 Member: 738Members
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If you have ever played the arcade game Joust (which I haven't) it's supposed to be like that. The only way I can attempt to explain it is like this. If you push your jump key, you will jump into the air and drift down slowly. Push the jump key again while in mid air and you will hear a swoop sound and lift up as if jumping in air, at which point you will drift down a bit. It is a bobbing up and down motion that feels like how flying would feel. It is one of the things in NS that is hard to describe and best left experienced, however I will tell you that it feels Right. It is convincing, not cheap feeling.
As for how easy it is to fly, it is pretty easy once you get the hang of it, and it only takes a game or two to get the hang of it. Its about as intuitive as crouch on an "intuitiveness scale". The room for skill developement comes in compelx maneuvers, like swooping down, spikign some marines, whirling straight up and than gliding to a perch. Eventually though, when in game, it becomes like second nature. Do you have to stop and think before you crouch jump? I hope not . ..
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Really smart, asking the same question in 2 forms! <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
Anyways, you tap space to fly around, and flying takes SOME skill, to prevent any idiot for flying circles around marines, but it is esy enough to do that anyone can fly around. It just takes a little skill to control it expertly. Activat fly mode? No, you tap space to flap yer wings. Basic zooming down a hall is easy, zooming around corners and hovering around marine heads takes a little skill.
Tap the space bar.
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No.
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Very easy. Is it easy to fly -well-? Depends. How good of a player are you?
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Depends. How good are you?
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Thanks all for answering my question
Allow me to explain how I think jumping works. GTs and anyone Official can feel free to correct me at any time.
When you launch yourself off a ledge you will experience a slower fall, a <b>Drift</b> in the direction which you left the ledge. Everytime you press <JUMP> your LVL-3 will <FLAP> his wings.
Now put yourself into the body of a bird in flight, imagine how it would feel as you flap your wings. Your body position would move up and down in the air, a bob in vision may occur through the motion of your flap and you will experience a slight gain in altitude and forward momentum (How much will depend on Design), thus sustaining your flight.
That is about the most concise way I can put it.
This is,
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Over and Out.
How do the jetpacks work?
Wallclimbing: only the level1.
Jetpacks: a cross between Force Jump in Jedi Knight 2 and jetpacks in Giants: Citizen Kabuto - your jump key turns into your jetpack key, once researched. The longer you hold it down, the higher you go, and you can use it to brake a fall as well. Jetpack energy is limited and recharges fairly quickly.
Hey, WTF - belated welcome to the forums... I won't tell you to read the FAQs, since you seem pretty well versed in NS "lore"... however, gonna have to correct you on one thing: it's "PT," not "GT." Playtester. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
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Only the level 1 can do the wall climbin thing, it's the only thing that can really keep the level 1 alive long enough to wreek (is that even a word?) havoc.
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If you've ever played tribes, you can get a pretty good feeling of how the NS jetpac will work. If you havent (shame on you! go pick up a copy NOW) I'll try to explain:
a button is bound to the "jetpack" function. wehenever you hold down the button your jetpack is on, and lifts you upwards. so to fly forward, you would start walking forward the jump and hold the jetpack button down, or just hold donw the jetpack button and press forward. So the rule of thumb is: whenever your jetpack button is held down you have air control of your marine. Im not sure if theres a limit on Jetpack fuel or you need to recharge between flights but thats the basic structure on how flight will work.
QUAD: I've never played Tribes 2 (shame on me right?).
Oh, and what does STC mean? I am very curious today.
And the jetpack is prolly something that will do just that. Change.
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What I meant to say is generally do you have to stop flapping and glide for a second while you shoot then flap back up.
AFAIK (I heard it from one of the PT, as I asked about the aliens) the lvl 3 _can_ stick to a wall/ceiling, so flap up and hang yourself to the ceiling, like a bat and let fall once a marine runs through.
But that is now a few month ago, and might have changed.
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