Vertigo CT->T Spawn Jump

[Djehuti]

I was just on a casual server with a guy who, at the start of several of the rounds, jumped from near CT spawn onto the T Spawn floor, coming up behind all of the Ts.

Fortunately he did this in the warmup and I nailed him immediately with my Negev as I was filling my teammates with lead :), and we were thus alerted to this tactic.

But naturally I wanted to see how this could be done. I did a couple of "offline with bots" (but with no bots) and I can't figure out how to jump down there without falling off the building. You can't jump down directly onto the lift because there is orange fencing right there. I tried jumping from the side onto the lift but couldn't make the jump now matter how many times I tried.

Can someone show me how to do this (maybe post a video), or confirm that this shouldn't be possible?

[Slay___]

3 steps forward, 180 degree turn, another 3 steps forward, all that in air.

[Fleuri]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvBck9FARs

[Djehuti]

Funny; for me, once I'm in the air, taking steps forward does nothing.

[Djehuti]

IMHO it's a bug and Valve should fix it.

[Fleuri]

It's not easy. I managed to pull off the drop from site B once, but my airstrafing skills aren't good enough for the T spawn drop.

[Djehuti]

Just tried this like 20 times in a row, just as shown on the video. For me, once I'm out far enough to fall, no input I can provide directs me back in toward the building enough not to fall fifty floors to my death.

The video makes it look easy. The dude I was playing with it did it every single round without fail, differing only in whether he did it immediately or whether he waited until after his buddy jumped down into the ladder room.

[Djehuti]

I was just on a server on which the entire CT team, every round, either did this jump or all rushed down the ladder room.

Screw that. I'll never play Vertigo again as T until this is fixed.

[Djehuti]

FWIW, I filed a support request ticket asking them to add fencing to prevent this jump.

[-FwG- ^ speed]

spawn shooting your team mates even if it doesnt "hurt" them make you a richard

[Djehuti]

Originally posted by -FwG- ^ speed:

spawn shooting your team mates even if it doesnt "hurt" them make you a richard

I mentioned that this was in warmup, did I not? Have you actually played casual?

[JellyPuff]

and while valve are at it, the ladder near T spawn needs to leave.
tho, seing a bunch of T's jumping on each other is a funny sight.

[Strik3r]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTcCAExMTFc
1:39 - 2:00

[ithie]

You have always been able to move in mid air.But just a little bit. It's take a lot of finess to do it right though.

I remember in the good old days when i first saw the incredible cbbl trick jump defuse :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7sg6TFem3I

I practised it for so damn long

The easiest way to do it on vertigo is just to walk of off the ledge and then turn ~180 and aim for the rebar. Made it on my third try.

[DuckieMcduck]

Originally posted by Fleuri:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvBck9FARs

This video is outdated. There are PlayerClips (map data blocks that pushes players) in pretty much every immediate air-strafe enabled jump in the current official vertigo.

[zeek3r]

Don't hold W, just press D and move your mouse to the right and you'll be able to do it.