Thread: Gumby..... Lives!!

Originally Posted by The_friendly_smoker

I tried the standing pounce that belthy suggested and it don't work. At least not for me.

I'll show you in game sometime. My favorite is doing it on Dead Air 2 and 3, as they're really quick high pounces that are usually easy to land.

Originally Posted by Belthazar666

I'll show you in game sometime. My favorite is doing it on Dead Air 2 and 3, as they're really quick high pounces that are usually easy to land.

I pretty much play L4D2 exclusively. Does that make a difference in anything you just said?

Boing back to what I asked Eylof and what Belthazaar was saying.

1. I'm ashamed to say I did not know that you could "hold" the crouch button so when you land you can pounce immediately again. How the fuck did I not know that? I've been fucked so many times by that recharge too.

Did I read that right? You hold the crouch button so even off a high pounce you can immediately pounce again?

2. Yes, pinpointleaf94, I'd be interested in that.

3. For the standing pounce you can basically run up to someone if you strafe the wall then jump backward then jump forward?

4. Still not sure how you parlay wall jumping into a high damage pounce? Can you give me an example in say DeCe or DC or Parish?

5. Thanks for the info Belthazaar. I'm going to have to try these techniques out soon. I can't believe I never discovered them myself.

They all work on L4D2, just has more gravity so hunters fall faster, and seem to not go as far. Same with boomer bile, it falls faster and doesn't go as far as L4D1.

A good example is Dead Center 2, get on the top right of the saferoom, and pounce off that wall. Takes a few times to judge how far away you have to be, but you can get it so you spawn and jump back against the wall and pounce off it, right outside the saferoom. You can also pounce up the wall a few times instead and get a better pounce. The one you land right outside the saferoom, right away, is somewhere around 10-16 depending on how you hit it. Might be a few more points, haven't played L4D2 in awhile.

Originally Posted by Crimson Phantasm

Gotta remember, PC players can pull off way better pounces than those with shitty analog sticks. I mentioned to you, Visceral, a PC player, literally goes through an entire map staying up in the air as a Hunter, from the beginning to end safe house without much trouble at all. I would like to see a 360 user pull this off and please, record it for all to see.

I agree with this but there can be some good hunters I guess, I know one at least, check out crazy monkey YouTube - L4D1-L4D2 Hunter Pounce Tutorial

Some more crazy monkey for the L4D2 fans:

YouTube - Left 4 Dead 2 Hunter Montage - Crazy: Hunter Domination

Originally Posted by PrimeTime21335

1. I'm ashamed to say I did not know that you could "hold" the crouch button so when you land you can pounce immediately again. How the fuck did I not know that? I've been fucked so many times by that recharge too.

Did I read that right? You hold the crouch button so even off a high pounce you can immediately pounce again?

You must not be using the default controller layout because normally all you have to do is tap that button. Tap once to crouch, tap again to stand up.

So you should be doing something like this: Pounce at target -> tap LB -> shortly before making contact with the ground tap LB again. You should now be able to pounce as soon as you touch the ground.

2. Yes, pinpointleaf94, I'd be interested in that.

Pouncing while standing? There is a trick to it, you have to do something after you spawn before it'll work. I'll leave it up to you to figure out what it is. It is pretty simple.

3. For the standing pounce you can basically run up to someone if you strafe the wall then jump backward then jump forward?

You can jump towards any wall (A button) and pounce when you make contact with it just like a regular wall pounce. So yea, you can run right up to someone and do it if you feel like it. Just don't be surprised if you get dead stopped. Good players will expect it or just melee you out of instinct.

4. Still not sure how you parlay wall jumping into a high damage pounce? Can you give me an example in say DeCe or DC or Parish?

See video above, and this one:

YouTube - Left 4 Dead 2 Hunter - Visceral L4D2 [The New Revelation]

Plenty of good examples.

I too am interested to hear about pouncing while standing. If that creates an unfair advantage (like crouchwalking) then I want to know about it so I can look out for it in the wild. I like winning but I don't like playing in a way that gives me an unfair advantage.

It isn't the same thing as crab walking. One takes a little skill and knowledge of the game mechanics. The other is a cheap glitch.

Originally Posted by Eylof

You must not be using the default controller layout because normally all you have to do is tap that button. Tap once to crouch, tap again to stand up.

So you should be doing something like this: Pounce at target -> tap LB -> shortly before making contact with the ground tap LB again. You should now be able to pounce as soon as you touch the ground.

Honestly I never let go and I can curve just fine

Originally Posted by Malevolence

Honestly I never let go and I can curve just fine

Yea I forget to do it a lot as well. It does help to stand up but it certainly isn't required to curve. I only stand up for those long range pounces, and even then sometimes I forget to crouch before hitting the ground and end up looking like an idiot hunter standing in the middle of four survivors.

I can't figure out how to climb up the walls. I'm not sure why I can't figure it out but I just don't understand. Please someone type out instructions on how to do it as if you're communicating with a total idiot.

I'm looking at this video hillbilly posted and although the pounces are awesome, it's not showing HOW he's getting up there. I saw his 25 on parish 5 and I"m like... WTF!? I was playing with voodu the other day and this motherfucker is like 100 ft high with a hunter out of nowhere on DeCe2 too. I say, "how'd you get there?" he says "I jumped"

This is l4d2 on Xbox ftr.