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Wasn't the mountain surfing/skiing a physics bug, that they liked so much they just kept in the game?
by michaelcampbell 9y ago
Wasn't the mountain surfing/skiing a physics bug, that they liked so much they just kept in the game?
- croon 9y agoSame thing with bunny hopping in Quake, Half-Life and subsequently Counter-Strike. For an even deeper cut there are at least for older CS-games a sub-genre of surf maps specifically about navigating large areas with lots of pitfalls through that feature (previously bug).
- talmand 9y agoI believe they took pains to prevent the bunny hopping in Quake 3.
- croon 9y agoIndeed they did try that with a patch, but it had unintended consequences with "regular" movement feeling clunky, so they reverted it. It seems bunny hopping is a tightly linked side-effect of the set of physics rules that make those games "feel" good.