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The lava jump The mini lava jump

The lava jump |

| One of the most useful maneuvres you can practice. If you manage to find yourself in the deep lava pit, you can actually do a rocket jump type move to get yourself back out and on the walkway. Needless to say, you need a decent amount of health/armour to survive this trick. Here's how to do it: As soon as you fall in, spin around so that your back is facing the ledge you want to land on. Point your rocket launcher all the way down to the floor. Then use your back key to get yourself accelerating upwards. As you are going upwards, fire your rocket into the floor, giving you that extra push out of the lava, and make sure you keep holding back while you are flying out of the lava. That's it. It's very difficult to do at first because of the very precise timing you need, but once you get the hang of it (practice with god mode, obviously) and make it second nature, you can execute it effortlessly and successfully quite easily. My hit rate on this maneuvre (assuming I survive the blast!) while deathmatching is now about 80%, after tonnes of practice. Key point #1: Fire your rocket too early, and you won't have gained enough speed from backing upwards. Too late, and you won't get enough push from the rocket blast. The time between hitting your back key, and hitting your fire key, is similar to the time between moving the joystick and hitting 3&6 for Guile's magic throw in SF2 classic. :) Key point #2: If you are very far away from the walkway, use one lava jump to get closer, and another one to get out of the lava. You take less damage doing two lava jumps than swimming through lava to get closer. You still need full red armour and full health to make two lava jumps though. Key point #3: It must be your back key. Don't try and use jump to move upwards, 'cos you won't go fast enough. Having said that, you will only go faster with your back key if you are running or ALWAYS_RUNning. Key point #4: If you have a key bound for +swimup, and have been clever enough to change your CL_UPSPEED to a high value, then you can use that key instead of using the back key. I find that you get much greater height this way. You still need to press the back key once you are airborne, to push you back onto the walkway. Key point #5: You can also use the lava jump on DM2, if you fall into the lava pool in front of the RA and MH.
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The mini lava jump |

| This really isn't very tricky at all. It's just good to remember that in emergencies, you can quickly get out of the shallow lava area around the Mega-Health by doing an ordinary rocket-jump. It just saves having to muck around with the normal jump out of lava.
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