Wingsuit

[TheLuckyAce]

Hello All, maybe someone can help me out a bit.
Today I've tried the Wingsuit for the first time, failed hardly and checked some guides and videos.

All say "press sprint all the time" buuuut if I press sprint, it sometimes works fine but mostly I directly crash flat down and boosting the speed... which might be okay if you start out pretty high, put for the maintime I start from my Paracer and as soon as I can "catch" the fall... I'm around Raptor hight at the floor... so I might be fast but still cannot go far.

Is there any trick to the damn suit? I have seen guides where they start on "ground" level and still are able to fly around the whole "starting" lake in the easy area... I dont even get it to get further than 3steps into the water before I crash when I try to use the sprint stuff...

[DrathDragoon33]

You don't hold sprint. Sprint activates your wing tilt. Either edging you up or down. It can be used to pull up slightly lengthening your time in the air when done correctly in moderation. To much and you'll stall out and drop.

If you're looking down. Then you will just straight nose dive.

[TheLuckyAce]

So what all the guides I checked told me is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥? Because they always say "see I hold down shift (sprint) all the time" ...

If I just "hit" it short to catch up some hight I crash as well... so there is no way to glide longer than a few seconds if you dont start on a high place? How do the youtuber this in their videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQZbWLQ_2ac

for example... "holding shift all the time" if I do this... no matter how I controle the movement/mouse I crash DIRECTLY into the ground if shift is pressed longer than half a second (feels like that)

[DrathDragoon33]

It'll take some getting used to. And yes, you can't stay in the air for very long unless you start in a high place. You are gliding not flying.

And don't hold shift. That won't help. Just light taps.

[TheLuckyAce]

Another Video example...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5X0qxjCy4s

Again - holding down shift all the time.

So you telling me "dont do that" but I see many many videos and guides where they tell the exact opposit of it AND they glide around for a long time on a pretty flat range. Sometimes even out of a normal jump.

If I just "tap" sprint I still randomly crash at the second or latest third time... I try this "jiggle up and down" stuff to catch speed etc. no chance... the furthers was one time across the lake, because I started on a high cliff... even a Parachut could have carried me that distance...

[DrathDragoon33]

Donu know what to tell you dude. I've used the gliders a lot. And when I held shift I crashed. When I didn't use it I glided. After some more experience with it I found some control can be gained over flight time using shift.

I don't care what they say. I'm telling how I glide cause you asked. Its my fault they have issues.

You asked here how to glide. There's your f'n answer man. Glide.

[TheLuckyAce]

But you glide permanently downwards... thats not what I asked for.
If I simply would want to "glide" I can use parachuts as well... they do the same thing just slower.

I ask for Tips how to Glide for LONGER times, like from one side of the map to the other side in ONE turn without stopping all the time and climb up another wall to get a new Glide.

Also I present example videos of people doing the exact thing I ask for tips on. If you dont care for this... why even bother answering? I can Glide straight without much movement. But thats the simply thing... I ask for Tips on the more advanced stuff...

I never ask "how to Glide"... I asked "How to use the damn Shift key to prolong the glide for an extended amount of time without crashing into the ground"... thats two pair of shoes.

[Elliebird]

They recently nerfed the wingsuit to be 40% slower, so that might be having an effect on your uptime. That's the only thing I can think of, anyways.

[badlad]

as Elenwei said, due to the ability to glide across maps, the devs in their infinite quest to take fun stuff away, have nerfed it in the last patch

[TheLuckyAce]

So basically its not simply just me beeing stupid but also a nerf of the suit itself and combinded I have my problem.
Thanks!

[badlad]

and if you play unofficial, or sp, there is a mod to reverse the nerf.....think its called classic wingsuit or something similar

[Digital Sniff]

You are not listening to the video. They sleekly state that "not holding shift keeps you straight but for not very long." What they see demonstrating is how to glide "for longer periods." They are doing the advanced glider flying. I don't know why you are asking since the first video I thought was very clear

[TheLuckyAce]

Originally posted by Vox-Lee:

You are not listening to the video. They sleekly state that "not holding shift keeps you straight but for not very long." What they see demonstrating is how to glide "for longer periods." They are doing the advanced glider flying. I don't know why you are asking since the first video I thought was very clear

Because that simply does not work for me.
When I dont press Shift, I Glide straight. Clear. Works.

When I HOLD Shift and try to do ANYTHING to prolong the glide with speeding up and do the down/up jiggly, I crash right into the ground after around 1sec of holding Shift.

I have no chance to do what they tell me in the videos, I press shift for longer than a split second (tap it) than I will crush straigt in a line downwards for around 6-7 seconds and cannot do anything (only release shift to stop this).
While they are all state "hold shift down the whole time and glide down and up and down and up to have an ongoing long glide" - this simply does NOT work as I crash every single time I keep shift pressed, even when I remove my hand from the mouse.
I Glide without pressing anything from a high place for 5-6seconds, straigt. Fine. I press Shift without touching my Mouse - crash down for no reason. Every time.

[=Sarsante=]

I didnt manage to understand how it works, sometimes I glide and sometimes it goes face to the ground mode doing the exactly same thing.

It could be like the rock drake where some stuff works properly only with first person view, idk.

[TheLuckyAce]

I never tried first person gliding so far... I might try that out when I'm back to the game in ~30min

[TheLuckyAce]

I've now tried first person as well - I glide straight, fine. I press shift - crash straight downwards.
After that I put the "classic glider" mod on and checked them out. And it works quite fine.
Still I cannot glide as perfect as the guys in the videos, seems that I mess it up, BUT it works for a much longer periode with holding shift down the whole time. I no longer crash down right as soon as I press shift.
Seems that either I have a bug with the patched wings, or it simply works different after the patch and I cannot get it to work... with the unpatched wings it works quite fine.

As I play only Singleplayer or on a private hosted Server with friends... its fine for me now. Thanks for the Help.