Bunny Hopping

[Jynn]

I just cannot get the hang of it =/ any tips?

If i get the jumping pattern down, i normally end up in the lava from swinging too far left and right to maintain it. If i go straight, i end up losing the jumping pattern due to not moving enough side to side

or i'll do both perfectly, i'll get all my speed, but when i reach the jump i miss the edge and land in the lava, or land too soon and have to run and jump, losing all the speed i built up

this is one of those mechanics that I just cannot grasp, even after playing the beta and spending hours trying to practice it

this and sticky walls....god i hate sticky walls

[bamboozled]

Yeah, I'm also struggling with keeping momentum. I wish there was a tutorial level that focused on that and went into more detail about how to gain and keep momentum.

[Jynn]

Originally posted by greg:

Yeah, I'm also struggling with keeping momentum. I wish there was a tutorial level that focused on that and went into more detail about how to gain and keep momentum.

the master courses are supposed to help, but they're too difficult to actually learn on. They give you narrow paths to try and bunny hop on, so i spend all my time on the master course falling into lava as i veer an inch too far over

[AlphaGodith]

i'm struggling too. there's stars that you literally can't get without bunny hopping, before you even get to the level that supposedly teaches it, and it's really frustrating.

[linkfire12]

From what I have played thus far, the biggest thing seems to be using your mouse effectively. Small, smooth horizontal turns create the most boost, and you get an immense amount of air control via simply aiming the camera.

If you want to keep your speed and avoid overshooting platforms, always hold down W, and aim at a downwards or sideways angle to slow down your momentum slightly without losing all of your boost, keeping airbourne and holding W are the most important things for keeping a boost going.

Another thing I found is that you can keep looping back in one direction and maintain boost along a narrow or walled path, simply leap out in one direction and curve back to the same platform with your mouse. This allows you to keep your speed if you are using a platform next to a wall, you don't have to constantly switch directions either, as long as you get a smooth curve of the mouse in to build up boost, it doesn't matter what direction you go in.

You get less boost from rapid fast long movements and more from gradual, perfectly horizontal turns, and with the speed, you should be able to leap outwards and back to the same platform constantly. You also lose more speed if you make sharp turns, so you want to avoid doing that anyway.

The boost of speed carries over to any surfs you do, and if you time swings perfectly, you can keep the momentum (you can also sometimes leap around or above certain swings if you have enough speed).

Keep in mind I'm still learning myself.

[Roach]

Considering it's been like 3 years since I learnt to airstrafe it's hard for me to really give tips as at this point it's mostly natural.

My best advice would be when you're moving your mouse, move it at a consistent speed. For example, don't begin moving it fast then slow down as that isn't consistent you won't get speed from it.

Ideally, you should be getting a full strafe bar mid-way through your jump, this means that for the second half of your jump you no longer have to worry about a consistent mouse movement as you can no longer gain much speed. Use this to land your jumps.

At the start of this video you can see that I get full boost around the middle of the jumps, meaning I can then move my mouse left to prepare for the next jump. Near the end, you can see that I'm going so fast it's hard to airstrafe without messing up so I just use airstrafing to position myself rather than gain speed, meaning I can do big flicks to quickly land on and jump off ledges.
https://youtu.be/XI42-NEiopY

In reality, the biggest factor that determines if you're going to get good at airstrafing or not is persistence. Just keep trying and over time your brain will figure out what works and what doesn't.