How rocket boots work?

[LovelyRainbow]

So they fixed them, but I dont see any difference in jetpack fuel usage when holding space after melee boost or just constantly spamming it.

[2ugly]

In other words. The banana is still dangling out of reach.

[Tenor Sounds]

The rocket boots give you a rocket jump, they don't give you better fuel efficiency. If you double-tap and hold space w/out melee boosting you'll do a rocket jump, and if you hold space as you hit the ground you can chain it into another rocket jump.

Think of it like a melee boost that isn't based around a bug/exploit.

[LovelyRainbow]

Originally posted by Tenor Sounds:

The rocket boots give you a rocket jump, they don't give you better fuel efficiency. If you hold space w/out melee boosting you'll do a rocket jump, and if you hold space as you hit the ground you can chain it into another rocket jump.

Think of it like a melee boost that isn't based around a bug/exploit.

So rocket boots are basically useless? Also wasn't the melee boost intended by devs?

[OGPG]

From what I can tell Hold Space engages the Jetpack for an upward thrust, Tap & Hold Space engages the Rocket Boots for a forward thrust

[Tenor Sounds]

Originally posted by TASTE THE RAINBOW:

Originally posted by Tenor Sounds:

The rocket boots give you a rocket jump, they don't give you better fuel efficiency. If you hold space w/out melee boosting you'll do a rocket jump, and if you hold space as you hit the ground you can chain it into another rocket jump.

Think of it like a melee boost that isn't based around a bug/exploit.

So rocket boots are basically useless? Also wasn't the melee boost intended by devs?

Whether it's useless or not depends on your perspective; I play in 3rd-person, and the player character's animations when melee-boosting look really funky and wonky and it busts up my immersion something fierce. I much prefer the rocket jump since it has a dedicated animation and has a sense of heft and momentum that melee-boosting lacks.

Melee boosting wasn't an intended feature, but everyone liked it so much Hello Games decided to leave it.

(Just to clarify since I made this mistake in my first post, a rocket jump is initiated by double-tapping space, not just holding it)

[LovelyRainbow]

Originally posted by Tenor Sounds:

Originally posted by TASTE THE RAINBOW:

So rocket boots are basically useless? Also wasn't the melee boost intended by devs?

Whether it's useless it depends on your perspective; I play in 3rd-person, and character's animations when melee-boosting look really funky and wonky and it busts up my immersion something fierce. I much prefer the rocket jump since it has a dedicated animation and has a sense of heft and momentum that melee-boosting lacks.

Melee boosting wasn't an intended feature, but everyone liked it so much Hello Games decided to leave it.

(Just to clarify since I made this mistake in my first post, a rocket jump is initiated by double-tapping space, not just holding it)

Yes, I double tap it, my character like jumps a few meters and this is it? Or Im supposed to hold space after double tapping it? I only can see it usefull in building where u can not use ur melee boost but can use rocket boots.

[Tenor Sounds]

Originally posted by TASTE THE RAINBOW:

Yes, I double tap it, my character like jumps a few meters and this is it? Or Im supposed to hold space after double tapping it? I only can see it usefull in building where u can not use ur melee boost but can use rocket boots.

If you hold it you'll keep jet-packing with the horizontal velocity, yeah. Again, if you are already melee-boosting around all the time you probably won't see much use for it, but for peeps like me it's pretty dang nifty.