Hatchling test flight ... lol...

[Spirit]

Just been having a bit of a fiddle with my mighty level 3 hatchling on Blight to see what this gliding lark is all about, and took a few pictures.

The top of the Spire near Spire's Shadow, surprisingly...


And..... Jump!


A second jump a little later...


Managed to get on top of the floating tower in Chiconis.


A few things I found...
- on objects like the Spire, which are not terrain, I was able to jump and skim up and down the tower. I couldn't skim on the proper ground, which is good. I assume I shouldn't have been able to skim at all.
- the glide angle was about 30º at a guess. Don't think it was the discussed 45, but it works just fine.
- If you stop going forwards, you fall... but I wasn't able to start gliding again once I was falling.
- I understood that as an adult I could vary my glide angle by the amount I was looking up or down with mouse-look. If you tried this with a hatchling and looked too high, I thought you would just fall. I prefer how it's been done though, as you can look around properly and enjoy the (brief) view.

Clearly this might change gameplay with hatchlings in some areas, but so what I can't see this being anything but a benefit and novelty for our young hatchlings. ... It seperates hatchling gameplay from bipeds in a pretty novel way.

Apart from the skimming on non-terrain features like the Spire, it works very well. Thanks for this patch!

Rakku

(btw the hatchling is pretty much a clone of Spirit from Unity)

[Zexoin]

- If you stop going forwards, you fall... but I wasn't able to start gliding again once I was falling.

Really ? I had no problem to start gliding again

[Spirit]

Really ? I had no problem to start gliding again

Perhaps I was having finger trouble ... if you've managed it then it must be coded in. I'll try again sometime.

Rakku

[Hrough]

Oooh, that looks like fun. I sure hope that gets approved for implementation on Chaos and Order soon. It'll make the levels I need until my first Rite a lot more fun. XD

I can see this leading to a lot of Hatchies gliding into walls or other undesireable circumstances. *giggle* Oh dear.

[Justa Mirage]

All i can think of is.....

Wheeeee, uh! er! there's nothing but water under me! abort abort, turn turn!

[Amecha]

lol Justa, that was me. Went to try a glide off of the top of the spire and fell like a ton of bricks right in the middle of the lake/pond below. I created a hatchling on Blight just to test the glide, but no matter where I tried, I still fell like normal. Is there something I'm not doing? I can't catch air! lol

[Spirit]

lol Justa, that was me. Went to try a glide off of the top of the spire and fell like a ton of bricks right in the middle of the lake/pond below. I created a hatchling on Blight just to test the glide, but no matter where I tried, I still fell like normal. Is there something I'm not doing? I can't catch air! lol

Arf... well... on blight... you have to enable the option in Options.. can't remember where it is exactly, but it's at the bottom of the list of random other settings, where you can choose to display combat actions etc.

Once this option is enabled... just jump off an edge.

Rakku

[Oakleif]

... just jump off and edge. BUT, don't have your free-look pointed down. You can have the camera pointed down though.