Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · October 12, 2012, 5:08 am

I recently stumbled accidentily on this technique while making a map, so I made a map out of it:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =102137636

I haven't seen it before, it allows you to gain more momentum over a speed gel runway.

If you don't feel like playing the map, here's how it works:

Spoiler

in order to do a 'gazelle leap', start running over speed gel while crouched. About a one tile of gel or so away, let go of crouch, to keep running and quickly jump. This will give you a seeming burst of momentum that allows you to cross a gap of 4 tiles with only 2 tiles of speed gel.

I am fairly sure this also gives you more momentum on a ramp, instead of jumping at the end.

Does anyone have a clue on how exactly this works? Is it a bug? A loophole in the physics engine?

#2 · October 12, 2012, 10:14 am

I found something similar. If you have a gel streak, and at the very end of the run you make a wide turn, and as soon as you leave the gel you jump, and you go flying halfway across the map. It's what I call slide hopping.

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#3 · October 12, 2012, 10:46 am

It's called Gel Strafing. You can see a demonstration of it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDUfMRFUAI
It's nothing new.

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#4 · October 15, 2012, 11:42 pm

is there some special care childrens foot wear require since I have noticed my child's shoes harden after a wash them. The child also complains that the shoes are tight but loosen aster a day or so. Is there some special softener required instead of detergent?

#5 · October 16, 2012, 12:39 am

patricial32 wrote:

is there some special care childrens foot wear require since I have noticed my child's shoes harden after a wash them. The child also complains that the shoes are tight but loosen aster a day or so. Is there some special softener required instead of detergent?

What the hell...

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#6 · October 16, 2012, 5:16 am

UsCobra11 wrote:

What the hell...

It's a spambot Cobra. If you ever see completely unrelated messages like this from a poster with 1 post. Delete it and ban them.

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#7 · October 17, 2012, 3:13 pm

I believe this was found by two people about a year ago. Bananasaurus Rex was the first to see this and give credit for it. I'm not quite sure why it happens, but its very fun.

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'Gazelle leap', new technique?