Lerkflight Costing No Energy

[SaltzBad]

Woah. Just plain woah.

[Clashen]

That makes no sense.

[SaltzBad]

Removed energy cost for lerk flight (to encourage flight while using abilities)

From the changelog.

[Clashen]

Removed energy cost for lerk flight (to encourage flight while using abilities)

From the changelog.

Yea, i've read that. But it makes no sense anyway, you can't ju flapp away without beeing tired.

[a civilian]

Well, it makes as much sense as being able to run without ever tiring.

[Geminosity]

considering lerks are the new 'hot property' I doubt this'll make them any less popular.  Might even see them overtake fades as the main alien offence at this rate huh? =o

[Berger]

No, lerks will always be support because they die in one shotgun blast. This will make them a hell of a lot more fun to play though.

[BOZO]

Yah...Lerks are hella fun...was hopeing for a hp/armor increase....but oh well.

[Fewlio]

hafaf now I have a chance at playing lork! me M nub@lork.ns olll

[Satiagraha]

Yah...Lerks are hella fun...was hopeing for a hp/armor increase....but oh well.

Yeah, but more than that (no matter how slight the possiblility is), I look for the day when lerks can strafe in flight <3  <3  <3

[Decimator]

There is still an advantage to gliding though, it's silent.

[Satiagraha]

What's this BUS? (Big Unnanounced System) that they added (it's in 'Phase 1').  Does anyone know yet? or is it still confidential?

[Sancho]

I've always been partial to getting adren and slamming spacebar alot anyway.   Works much better than the gliding method

[Grillkohle]

Well, now you can get celerity, keep slamming the spacebar and fly a whole lot faster.

[SaltzBad]

I've always been partial to getting adren and slamming spacebar alot anyway.    Works much better than the gliding method

Gliding just has an eventual slowdown - the main good thing about it is you'll regain energy inflight, which you'll need for future takeoffs/speedups.

This of course all goes away, and you can just mash your jump key and/or have an alternate triple jump handy for those rocket-like boosts. Don't even dare blame that on scripting, as you could mwheel the same thing or use any other form of hardware +jump spamming.

Imo, the same thing as with the pistol needs to be done of they want to make headway on balancing the lerk - a limit on flaps/second. Also possibly a vertical rise speedlimit, as thats pretty insane as well.

And even then, the Lerk should not necessarily be flying for free. Cheaper, sure - but free is a tad bit lame.

Anyways, off to find a server and see if I can get a good demo of what Lerking is like right now (basicly its vertical masturbation+random biting = kills by the boatload).

[Satiagraha]

[...]you can just mash your jump key and/or have an alternate triple jump handy for those rocket-like boosts. Don't even dare blame that on scripting, as you could mwheel the same thing or use any other form of hardware +jump spamming.

Heh, yeah. I had my fun of doing that in my own server to check out the new maps. I bound mwheelup and mwheeldown to +jump. Man! Rocket lerk! Although, It is a lot harder to control than gliding or manually flapping.

[-Lancer-]

I have a feeling lerks will be used a lot more often than in beta 3

[Doobie Dan]

There is still an advantage to gliding though, it's silent.

Until Mr. Lork starts growling and screaming and making all sorts of disturbing sounds.  It's like as soon as you begin gliding he won't shut up.

[Grillkohle]

There is still an advantage to gliding though, it's silent.

Until Mr. Lork starts growling and screaming and making all sorts of disturbing sounds.  It's like as soon as you begin gliding he won't shut up.

Yeah, but it would be kind of stupid if the lerk wouldn't do that, since then the silence upgrade would be completely useless with the lerk.

[Gadzuko]

There is still an advantage to gliding though, it's silent.

Until Mr. Lork starts growling and screaming and making all sorts of disturbing sounds.  It's like as soon as you begin gliding he won't shut up.

Yeah, but it would be kind of stupid if the lerk wouldn't do that, since then the silence upgrade would be completely useless with the lerk.

No way, silence is so disturbing with the lerk.  There's nothing creepier than seeing something come rocketing around the corner and silently eat one of your teammates, and then disappear as quickly as it came.  Even if it wasn't constantly growling and hissing silence would still be way cool.