Posts Tagged ‘Plasma Climbing’

In response to the dozens of comments and requests I got from TQL about plasma climbing, I decided to put together a brief tutorial that explains plasma climbing and climbing basics. The video itself is narrated but some people prefer to read so below I will go over the tutorial verbally.

Plasma climbing is simple. The knockback from the plasma gun as its fired gives you the ability to do a wide variety of tricks from small jumps, to climbing a wall. The technique is simple. Place your crosshair at a 45º angle, press jump and fire and the same time, and when you start to climb (immediately after you jump), release jump and continue to fire the gun. Your climbing. You may notice that you will move laterally on the wall based on 3 things. The radius of the wall, the direction of the plasma gun, and your strafe keys. Next you may take some advanced note and find out that an angle greater then 45º (moving the crosshair more onto the wall) the knockback from the gun becomes greater and it will push you away from the wall, go too far and it will throw you back away from the wall into maybe another wall or onto a platform. But by doing this just slightly you can slowly slide down the wall giving you a “hand break”. If you do the opposite of this and angle the gun less then 45º (moving the crosshair more towards the floor or your feet) you loose the knockback from the plasma gun and you will stop all together and just stay in place until you return the angle or fall off the wall.

In the future I may do another tutorial on the expert tactics with plasma climbing such as stalls, combo climbs, and strafe climbing. Hope you learned something with this.

Demo: q3schools_plasmatut_part1.dm_73 (45 clicks)