I Need General Jumping Help

[Ripper]

I finished the original game last fall and am now playing the expansion. I know in the original I missed many of the secrets as well as some of the souls and gold and ammo because of my poor jumping. And already I have missed souls and gold and secrets in BooH because I couldn't get to them due to my lousy jumping.

What is the best way to use the jump? For example in the courtyard at the start of the lab there are rewards on the roof. When I come up out of the hole in the ceiling of the metal middle passage and move to the end of it to try to jump to the little rail along the left wall, I can jump down the rail (after several tries due to poor jump technique) but I can't move along the rail because of the intervening post. I can't figure out how to jump around it.

So if you are a good jumper please share your jumping technique and any tips.

Thanks.

Ripper

[SYS]

...a voice from the darkness.....

Huh, I just can give You some initial tips for jumpings... :)

- Bunnyhopping and "preheating". While You are walking and pressing SPACE like a mad, Daniel will start bunnyhopping. That's good for running away from enemies and it's also good for a "preheating". You can gain speed with this. Speed is required for a successful long jump. When You're running fast enough, You can jump so far, just like in real life... :) Some Secrets need long jumps, and long jumps need preheating. You can preheat Daniel even without bunnyhopping. If You start jumping in one place, that also gives You speed, and You can jump farer...

- Trajectory... You can change Daniel's trajectory while He's in the air, so You can actually move Him, while He's falling down... Some Secrets need this trick, especially the one You mentioned, what is at outside the "Lab", on the roof (a MegaHealth)...

You can reach that from the left wall, if You're going back outside on that "corridor-bridge" and turn towards the Secret. There's a gap, and You can reach the wall through that. Then You have to preheat Daniel a bit for each jump, and You must modify His trajectory, during the jump to reach the next place, and so on...

You can find many nice trick-videos on Varus' Hall Of Pain Site (http://www.hall-of-pain-666.de.vu/), and You can also find Secret-videos and videos about a jumping-method in Kalme's BOOH-Site (http://www.kalme.de/booh/) (check the videos under "Misc"). Kalme also posted a thread about preheating and jumping from edges (also a trick) recently, but that's temorarily lost... You can also check my video, what contains some very easy tricks and jumps too, what can be helpful sometimes..it's in my signature...

[Frag Maniac]

...mode to push the big metal crate over by the roof that the secret is on. The blades also help to jump onto and roll it, to get up there. The trick is all in positioning the crate well, so it's the right distance, and angle, as well as up on the raised floor under the roof.

I angle it so you're lined up with the lower part of the roof's slant, and at a distance where the corner of the crate is at a high point right in front of the roof as you roll it.

Don't forget to be spinning the PK blades as you're doing this.

[ougabooga]

Cool,THX for the links guy:)

[Ripper]

Thanks for the good tips guys. My jumping has improved slightly but I still suck. But I am practicing the bunny hop technique whenever I am not being pursued by heinous creatures.

Ripper