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Re: Look straight down weird jump bug.

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From: sittingduck
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:31
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Skybuck Flying wrote:

> 
> "sittingduck" <duck@spamherelots.com> wrote in message 
> news:Xns9CAFEFE92B90Fduckrulestheuniverse@nomail.afraid.org...
>> Skybuck Flying wrote:
>>
>>> Would you believe it if I said it was possible to jump over the wall
>>> on the beach in the Wolfenstein Demo ?!
>>
>> That's not a bounce bug, that's a strafe jump. :) Google it.
> 
> Link ?

www.google.com    (sorry, couldn't resist)

> Anyway I don't think strafing had anything to do with it...
> 
> The dude just ran down the hill to get some extra speed ;)

While strafe-jumping.... ;)

> Then he ran upto the wall on the right side of the beach, did a hop hop
> hop and through the hole at the top of the wall ! ;)
> 
> Maybe he had nice rounding errors because of high frame rates, could
> help as well ;)

Strafejumping in wolfenstein is a bit trickier than doing it in quake. Your 
framerate is a big factor.

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