🚀 go-pugleaf

Cy Edmunds wrote:
> "LoTekGuru" <lotekguru@NOSPAMinsightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:P3X6e.13597$8Z6.9728@attbi_s21...
>> Not sure if any of you noticed, but I was checking out the CTF maps
>> that came with RoE and just out of habit I tried a strafe-jump when
>> I jumped from the upper to the lower level of the first map, and it
>> launched me about 3x as far as a normal running jump would have... After 
>> messing around with it some, it seems I still need a lot of
>> practice at it.  It's going to take some getting used to because the
>> "feel" for SJ'ing isn't the same as it is in Q3, but it can be done.
>> I seem to get the best acceleration on a normal SJ by landing on a
>> downward slope and jumping at the same time, kind of like the way
>> ramp jumping worked in Q2 but with the slope going in the other
>> direction.
>
> Oh, great. I never was much of a jumper. I could get to the
> megahealth on q2dm1 but that was pretty much my only accomplishment.
> I guess that's why I played a lot of games with hooks.

That's OK Cy, I never even learned about sj'ing until after Q3 came out.  I 
used to wonder why all the guys that could whoop up on me were jumping 
around the Edge like a madman.  I thought they were just taunting me like 
"I'm even going to jump so you can hear where I am at all times, and STILL 
kick your ass!" LOL