Jetpack Advice?
Guardian
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2335Members
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2335Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Look Ma, I'm flying! *splat*</div> I need some tips on how to use the jetpack correctly. I always see people fying around for like 20 seconds without having to recharge/touch down. Whenever I try, the only time I can stay airborn is when I hold down the jump key. If I let go, even for a second, I go plummeting to the earth and make a huge mess of myself. I try to engage the jetpack again (still have at least half my juice left) but it does not stop my descent.
Sometimes, even when I hold down the jump button the whole time, my ascent will halt about halfway through my juice, and I will simply fall back down. I look like an idiot when I am trying to get into a vent a mere ten feet above me, and it takes me 3 or 4 tries.
Do I have to hold a direction key while jetting? Or the opposite? Any help would be appreciated. I want to fly like an eagle, to the sea...
Sometimes, even when I hold down the jump button the whole time, my ascent will halt about halfway through my juice, and I will simply fall back down. I look like an idiot when I am trying to get into a vent a mere ten feet above me, and it takes me 3 or 4 tries.
Do I have to hold a direction key while jetting? Or the opposite? Any help would be appreciated. I want to fly like an eagle, to the sea...
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Also, make sure to never come in contact with the ground while jetting, as you will get "glued" to it. The jets shoot you up very quickly with the initial hit of energy, then not so much after that. So, when burst firing, make sure to not wait too long in between bursts. When using the jetpack to move quickly through low ceiling areas, it is sometimes better to just hold down jump than to try to burst fire.
When trying to access a vent right above you, especially vents in the ceiling, you may want to hold down the jump key so that you have enough time to squeeze into the vent.
Always crouch when in midair. It makes you smaller, and therefore it is more difficult to whack your head into something and come crashing down.
Just takes a lot of practice.
Now jetting and shooting a moving target is another story entirely...
The great viaduct is an amazing place to have a jet pack. If you give me a jetpack and an HMG I can stay in the air and defend that hive inevitably. All the skulks try and climb up walls to jump at you... doesn't work <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Once you get good at bursting the jet pack you can stay in the air for a very very long time... And at one point you can kinda get a "float" effect where you stay in generally the same position.
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My two suggestions are:
1) The hitbox is messed up and I wasn't actually damaging the hive. Both of the hives are extremely close to the ceiling, and it was a tight squeeze getting up there.
2) The hive was healing faster than I could damage it. I don't think this is likely because there weren't any obvious D chambers nearby, and the welder does LOTS of damage. It also seemed to die quickly once I gave up and started welding at the side of the hive rather than the top.
Any help would be appreciated.
And about jetpacks, ALWAYS leave a tiny fuel for landing, keep an eye on that fuel meter.
I've heard the hive scream in pain as I welded it, but after about 3-5 min it still was alive. Any idea as to what prevented my success (and no I wasn't dead).
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I know the feeling,
Once I was at viaduct hive, as a hmg/ha marine
I emtied my entire(!) hmg in the hive, and it didn't die.
There where no df's or anything, we cleared them all out.
Any suggestions??
After I emptied my hmg, a couple of skulks came in and bit my head off <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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The heavy guns make the jets more sluggish, and take longer/more energy to lift you. The shotgun has a slight effect, but not much. I usually prefer the shotty when I jetpack, as staying in the air longer is always a good thing... <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Also, if you pay enough attention to the way that the hive jerks around, you can tell when it starts it's death animation (it starts to limp, and hangs down closer to the floor).
The good news is that even if you spent too much time welding, and got killed before you could go hide somewhere, the hive will still die as soon as you do.
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As long as you damage it, it will restart its death animation over and over.
Stop welding and it will die in peace.