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Rocket Boomer

Video post! Hey, you guys love them.

Anyway, I’d just happened upon a Boomer frag vid, of all things, from this guy you may have heard of called Visceral, or, more accurately, - √isçeral -. It applies the dive boom technique of jumping from high spots, but with a twist.

He calls it the “Rocket Boomer” technique; basically, you use the pre-spawn speed to run, and jump + spawn before reaching the edge of the building, i.e. before you enter the Survivor’s field of vision. Which gives you considerable speed for surprise attacks; something the Boomer normally lacks.

Not cake, really, since it requires precise timing and gauging of distance, but an interesting trick for a class that’s not-Hunter.

Have fun practicing!

 

4 Responses to “Rocket Boomer” (post new)

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    Visceral doesn’t even begin to deserve recognition here.

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    Pretty impressive stuff. So long as you ignore the fact that what he’s technically doing is an exploit.

    Even without taking advantage of the ghost speed, there were some pretty sweet shots in there. Though some of them surely should have killed the boomer with fall damage before he even got to puke on survivors.

  3. Sinister Minister
     

    @Alexander: Out of curiosity, why is that?

    In regards to the video, I think that’s a rather cool strategy to use, exploit or not. When I pop in L4D next time i’ll have to give that a shot.

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    I agree with alexander, pulling off all of those booms is not to impressive, especially compared to his hunter videos which show more skill

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