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First tentative DeFrag steps.

Postby RandomQuester » Apr 24th, '16, 4:51 pm

Hi!

I was there when Quake 3 was released, and was following the game for a very long time. Yeah, I guess you can call me an old school gamer.

For many years I've been admiring wild skills of DeFrag players, but for some reason I couldn't find any time to try it out myself, and then, after watching some legendary DeFrag videos, several (2 heh) days ago I decided to try out what DeFrag is on my own skin.

So far I've been practising on tr1ckhouse-beta3, on jump-pads.

Well, I can reasonably well start with speed ranging from 460u to 500u. and I managed to finish first (blue) line of pads twice. He-he... Well...

Here comes the trouble. The only way I know of how to accelerate is double-beat jumps. No matter how I tried I can't really grasp the art of single-beat and half-beat jumps.

Could you guys help me with those? I would really appreciate if someone wrote down a simple sequence of actions one should perform to master those ways of moving around.


Like for example with my double beats I go sequence of actions that looks like this:
hold UP the whole time

after left take off: STRAFE LEFT - mouse turns left

loop start:

right before jumping: STRAFE RIGHT - mouse turns right - jump
another jump - mouse still turns right

right before jumping: STRAFE LEFT - mouse turns left - jump
another jump - mouse still turns left

repeat the loop...



And even with this sequence I lose a lot of speed while changing sides from left to right.

I saw a bunch of demos and videos but I guess I'm just missing something.

Thanks!
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Re: First tentative DeFrag steps.

Postby -av1spa- » Apr 24th, '16, 5:23 pm

welcome to da jungle

just type /df_chs0_draw 1 in the console so you'll see the keypresses and watch a demo in /timescale .5 or something
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Re: First tentative DeFrag steps.

Postby Timothy » Apr 25th, '16, 7:02 am

Not sure what double beat is but I'm guessing it's the same as fullbeat?

I would gladly help you out with some of the basics on one of the servers
Also spectating others and watching demos with timescale helps.
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Re: First tentative DeFrag steps.

Postby DF/// ifoo » Apr 25th, '16, 7:18 pm

doublebeat is when you don't change direction on each pad, but on every second pad.
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Re: First tentative DeFrag steps.

Postby skyhighguy » Apr 27th, '16, 6:04 am

i hadn't heard of double beat b4 either damn foo knows his shit =p
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