Parkour is an athletic pursuit originating in France in the 20th century. Originally it began as a form of athletic training for soldiers called the “méthode naturelle” (natural method). These exercises were very effective at training balance, strength, and agility. The courses they would run were known as “parcours du combant”, from which the word “parkour” originates. This information has nothing to do with video games, however, and is therefore worthless.
Based on the Soldier class from Team Fortress 2, players shoot unidirectional, fixed-speed rockets and take advantage of the explosion they create to propel themselves throughout maps.
The origins of rocket jumping can be traced all the way back to the release of Doom in 1993. Players could sacrifice health to cross gaps not originally intended to be crossed by firing a rocket at a wall nearby and use the outward horizontal velocity emitted by the explosion of the rocket (sometimes called the “splash” or “splash damage”) to strafe across a gap. Other games, like Rise of the Triad (1994) and Marathon (1995), also had similar mechanics, leading to the rise of Rocket Jumping as a “Pro Strategy” for beating certain levels fast or showing off in deathmatch. This was refined in Quake, where the verticality offered by the Quake Engine allowed for players to be able to launch themselves upwards using the rocket launcher, skipping parts of levels, finding secrets, or gaining height advantages in classic Deathmatch gamemodes. Quake is arguably the true beginning of Rocket Jumping as we know it, as it was the most popular early example of rocket jumping, and the first to truly demonstrate how large the skill ceiling for rocket jumping could be due to it utilizing a full true 3D environment. This is also the beginning of players making maps specifically dedicated to practicing rocket jumping.
Based on the Demoman class from Team Fortress 2, players shoot explosives that stick to surfaces and must be detonated manually, which players can then use to propel themselves around the map. Up to 3 of these arcing bombs can be used at once to go at extremely high speeds, or used in alternation to “pogo” on the floor, walls, or even in the air.
In Source, a player can only stand on a angled surface if it is less than 45.573° from the horizontal. If the slope is greater than this, the player slides down it. However, if the player holds the direction key pointing into the slope, they can stall themselves from falling and remain “airborne” without actually moving downwards. This can be exploited by increasing the air acceleration value to allow the player to convert their downwards speed into horizontal speed, and their horizontal speed into upwards speed.
A spinoff mode formed from the Surf game mode, players can create and complete sequences of locations to surf to, known as tricks, for XP and bragging rights.
Unlike regular surf, tricksurf typically has loosely defined goals that are not intentionally placed by the author of the surf map. Sometimes the most fun part of tricksurf is developing new tricks that are flashy and difficult, and then challenging your friends.
Slick is a defrag mechanic that gives frictionless ground movement. Slick is distinct from the slide mechanic that func_slide provides. There are three ways to add slick to a map: the func_slick brush entity, the %compileSlick material paramater, and the SetSlick player input.
This guide covers all of the supported chat commands and potential inputs they have.
These commands can be entered in chat at any time regardless of being in a lobby or not.
All commands are activated by using / or ! or . and then the trigger keywords listed below.
Example: /spec or .spec or !spec all trigger the “Spectate Player” command.
Do not make say <chat_command> binds! Instead create binds tied directly to the console command equivalent!
There will never be any exclusive chat commands; they all directly tie to console commands/variables!
/s 3 will teleport the player to the third stage of the current track. /s with no parameter will teleport the player back to the current stage’s start zone acting like mom_restart_stage command.
/spec goc while Gocnak is in your lobby will begin spectating Gocnak, even if you are spectating, otherwise, will find the next best target to spectate. /spec with no target will place you in spectator mode.
Collectibles are any entity that the player must interact with to continue in the map. They can be thought of like pickups, but any entity can be a collectible, so long as the player can interact with it to “collect” it. The entity filter_momentum_collectibles is used to control entities based on how many collectibles the player has gathered.
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