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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Odin on August 28, 2006, 07:48:37 pm

Title: The Sprint key.
Post by: Odin on August 28, 2006, 07:48:37 pm
Why is the sprint key a "press to enable" function and not "hold to enable"? During fights I find myself constantly pressing the sprint key to re-enable it as I dodge goons/etc. It'd be much easier to just hold the key and sprint in whatever direction I go.
Title: The Sprint key.
Post by: Paradox on August 28, 2006, 07:51:04 pm
Uhh, just make it a trigger bind.
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Post by: PHREAK on August 28, 2006, 07:53:47 pm
How's the trigger bind help there?
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Post by: Paradox on August 28, 2006, 07:56:07 pm
it makes it so on release, you stop sprinting.
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Post by: Odin on August 28, 2006, 08:00:20 pm
Since when is that an option?
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Post by: Paradox on August 28, 2006, 08:04:13 pm
I remember that there was some variable set command that did it, but maby it was for a different engine.
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Post by: David on August 28, 2006, 08:50:38 pm
for moveing and stuff thay put a + infront of the command. try that.
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Post by: Neckhole on August 28, 2006, 09:26:37 pm
Can someone explain the difference between chosing the "Always Run" option in the menus and the sprint button described in this email?  It's a bit confusing.
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Post by: David on August 28, 2006, 10:28:55 pm
3 speeds. walk, run, and sprint. sprint is only for humans, and uses stamina (like jumping)
holding shit toggles weather you walk or run. walking is silent, allowing you to sneak up on people without radar, or hide the sound of your bsuit
Title: Re: The Sprint key.
Post by: rasz_pl on August 28, 2006, 10:34:01 pm
Quote from: "Odin"
Why is the sprint key a "press to enable" function and not "hold to enable"?


is it? I use it as "hold to enable" and have absolutely NO TROUBLE with stamina/sprint
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Post by: vcxzet on August 28, 2006, 10:34:37 pm
Quote from: "David"
3 speeds. walk, run, and sprint. sprint is only for humans, and uses stamina (like jumping)
holding shit toggles weather you walk or run. walking is silent, allowing you to sneak up on people without radar, or hide the sound of your bsuit

nice typo
Title: Re: The Sprint key.
Post by: Odin on August 28, 2006, 10:36:13 pm
Quote from: "rasz_pl"
Quote from: "Odin"
Why is the sprint key a "press to enable" function and not "hold to enable"?


is it? I use it as "hold to enable" and have absolutely NO TROUBLE with stamina/sprint
Well, that's how it is. If you'll notice, when you're running, just press the sprint key once and you'll continue sprinting until you stop moving in that direction.
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Post by: Henners on August 28, 2006, 11:27:46 pm
As sprint is stamina based like jumping it works until you stop moving in the direction you begin sprinting in. Hence you cant keep sprinting throughout a fight where you keep strafing backwards and forwards, you'll burn through your 3 stamina points in seconds.
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Post by: David on August 28, 2006, 11:44:14 pm
Quote from: "vcxzet"
Quote from: "David"
3 speeds. walk, run, and sprint. sprint is only for humans, and uses stamina (like jumping)
holding shit toggles weather you walk or run. walking is silent, allowing you to sneak up on people without radar, or hide the sound of your bsuit

nice typo


yeah, I'm dyslexic, and i type faster than i can (oxymoron?)
i use Google spell check most of the time but it doesn't get that sort of stuff :)
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Post by: LAMAK on August 29, 2006, 12:00:03 am
LOL.There's a sprint key?
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Post by: vcxzet on August 29, 2006, 12:02:28 am
Quote from: "LAMAK"
LOL.There's a sprint key?

x FTW
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Post by: Aninhumer on August 29, 2006, 12:04:59 am
Well I didn't know for several days of playing that there was a stamina meter, I kept thinking that there were bugs with the jumping code  :roll:
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Post by: Odin on August 29, 2006, 12:28:56 am
Quote from: "Henners"
As sprint is stamina based like jumping it works until you stop moving in the direction you begin sprinting in. Hence you cant keep sprinting throughout a fight where you keep strafing backwards and forwards, you'll burn through your 3 stamina points in seconds.
Anything to dodge that last Goon pounce.
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Post by: yetshi on August 29, 2006, 12:48:14 am
if you hold your shit too long you have to sprint, but only to the bathroom.
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Post by: kozak6 on August 29, 2006, 02:14:14 am
It took me a few weeks to find out that there was a sprint.

Much like the Mass Driver scope.

*sigh*
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Post by: David on August 29, 2006, 09:59:58 am
i, on the other hand, read the manual, and knew all if this before i first played :)
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Post by: Amtie on August 29, 2006, 01:56:43 pm
Quote from: "yetshi"
if you hold your shit too long you have to sprint, but only to the bathroom.


Lmao
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Post by: Kobrakai on September 12, 2006, 04:45:18 pm
Quote from: "kozak6"
It took me a few weeks to find out that there was a sprint.

Much like the Mass Driver scope.

*sigh*


this is so true. After several months of playing trem I found out about the sprint key (and yes, I did read the manual beforehand! Must have escaped my notice somehow  :(  ) come to think of it, when I'm a human, almost nobody uses the sprint key and I find myself wizzing past other players. I wonder how many people actually know it exists? I told my brother (pacra), who introduced me to the game, about it, and he looked at me and said "There's a SPRINT key!?"

Me - "The mass driver has a SCOPE!??"
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Post by: PIE on September 12, 2006, 06:08:57 pm
I always look for sprint/run/crouch/zoon before I start playing.. I only really use zoom and crouch though.. I've started using walk a bit as well when i'm in Bsuit and coming up to a door... aliens just don't expect that at all.
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Post by: Paradox on September 12, 2006, 11:15:23 pm
Cant wait for firefox 2.0 and its super spellcheck.
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Post by: vcxzet on September 12, 2006, 11:25:20 pm
Quote from: "Paradox"
Cant wait for firefox 2.0 and its super spellcheck.

aspell?
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Post by: holyknight on September 13, 2006, 01:02:51 am
I didn't know the sprint key makes you run until you press x again. I always hold down x the whole time... maybe that's why I'm sometimes slow.
Oh yeah, did you know that if you run toooo much, you black out? It is sooooo awkward.
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Post by: Kobrakai on September 13, 2006, 03:52:03 pm
Quote from: "holyknight"
I didn't know the sprint key makes you run until you press x again. I always hold down x the whole time... maybe that's why I'm sometimes slow.
Oh yeah, did you know that if you run toooo much, you black out? It is sooooo awkward.


Yeah, I found that out the other day! I was doing constant running and killing missions on the alien base, not stopping, and then my run slowed to a crawl, then to a near stop, and my gun bobbed up and down like my hummie was really panting hard, and the next thing I know, the edges of my screen start turning black.

Of course I stopped moving and recovered, but it was weird. That was the first and so far only time it happened to me.
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Post by: Stof on September 13, 2006, 04:36:31 pm
Running until you blackout is akward. Especialy considering there is no point in running when you are out of stamina :)

Also, for those who know that there is a sprint key, do you know there is a walk key too? You might ask, what use is that?

Well, I found 2 good uses for that one :
- when walking you get back your stamina, at the same rate as when you are still I think. So, on your way to the alien base, walk a little to restore your missing stamina instead of staying still :)
- when waling, you do not produce walk sounds. And I really mean NO WALK SOUNDS at all. It includes the infamous noisy basilisk walk and the "I could hear you from the other side of the level" battlesuit walk sounds ;)
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Post by: MtS on September 13, 2006, 11:53:00 pm
IIRC when walking you regain stamina slower than when standing still.

Walking when crouching forward is a good idea too  since it won't slow you down but you regain stamina.
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Post by: Stof on September 14, 2006, 12:07:52 am
Quote from: "MtS"
IIRC when walking you regain stamina slower than when standing still.

Walking when crouching forward is a good idea too  since it won't slow you down but you regain stamina.

If you say so for the stamina regen.

For the second, I had noticed that too. Feels kinda cheating though :) Still, I should take the time to rebind the "crouch" key to "crouch and walk" :D
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Post by: Rippy on September 15, 2006, 09:46:48 pm
Stupid me... here I am, reading this, thinking "wow, what's the point in walking, they still see you on radar". Then I realise that aliens can walk too. Had that confused with sprinting.
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Post by: MtS on September 15, 2006, 10:09:31 pm
Quote from: "Rippy"
Stupid me... here I am, reading this, thinking "wow, what's the point in walking, they still see you on radar". Then I realise that aliens can walk too. Had that confused with sprinting.


THAT took me a while to figure out as well. People laughed at me when I ask how %&/()(/& they could sneak up on me without a sound with dragoons. :o
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Post by: MtS on September 15, 2006, 10:13:40 pm
Quote from: "Stof"
Quote from: "MtS"


Walking when crouching forward is a good idea too  since it won't slow you down but you regain stamina.

...

For the second, I had noticed that too. Feels kinda cheating though :) Still, I should take the time to rebind the "crouch" key to "crouch and walk" :D

I don't think it feels like cheating, crouching shouldn't be as tiresome as running (I've never been to the army though, so I might be wrong). Headbiting with dretches from ground on the other hand, THAT feels a bit like cheating.