Flatscan
01-31-2004, 11:34 AM
Water skiing has been added back to T:V - this is a very good thing.
One idea that could expand the skill (and fun) curve is "disc surfing."
Typically when one discjumps the disc explodes immediately and the shooter is propelled in whatever direction the shooter intended.
Discjumping in water *could* be different, depending on how the physics are made to work*.
While I don't want to argue real-life physics**, it would be fun and possibly very skillful (depending on what it took to pull this off), if a water-skiing player could discjump, "catch a disc," and be propelled into the air at high velocity on top of the disc. After a brief period of time, the disc would explode, further propelling the shooter in the direction the disc is traveling (or some slight variant - see bullet 2 below).
I can imagine some bitchin cap routes emerging from this technique. It should be uber hard for a HO to make this work given their increased mass, but it should be possible.
Skill elements that would have to be mastered:
1. The angle you shoot the disc would be variable depending on your speed
2. Jet/glide management while on the disc would need to be hard (e.g. to keep your balance and not fall off). Thus, if you're falling off and the disc explodes you would get shot in the wrong direction. You should be able to slightly alter the direction you get shot out at by changing your relative position on the disc (e.g. if you're "noseriding" or riding the back, etc.).
3. Maybe some combination of 1 and 2 could impact when and how the disc explodes.
Controlling all of the above would be very skillful and require lots of practice to master. I can imagine myself sitting for hours trying to get it just right to use in a match context.
Note*: The basic physics story works like this - the disc, because of its electric and chemical composition and shape, shoots into the water without exploding and is then "shot out" at high speed - sort of like a player going into the water in TR2.
Note**: This is the "insert big-number" century. Keep it real boyz. If you asked your great-grandpa about whether we'd ever go to the moon, perform open-heart surgery or inject gold nanoshells into patients to use a laser to ablate cancerous tumors, I'm sure he would have told you you were crazy. We've learned to do these things in the last 50 years.
One idea that could expand the skill (and fun) curve is "disc surfing."
Typically when one discjumps the disc explodes immediately and the shooter is propelled in whatever direction the shooter intended.
Discjumping in water *could* be different, depending on how the physics are made to work*.
While I don't want to argue real-life physics**, it would be fun and possibly very skillful (depending on what it took to pull this off), if a water-skiing player could discjump, "catch a disc," and be propelled into the air at high velocity on top of the disc. After a brief period of time, the disc would explode, further propelling the shooter in the direction the disc is traveling (or some slight variant - see bullet 2 below).
I can imagine some bitchin cap routes emerging from this technique. It should be uber hard for a HO to make this work given their increased mass, but it should be possible.
Skill elements that would have to be mastered:
1. The angle you shoot the disc would be variable depending on your speed
2. Jet/glide management while on the disc would need to be hard (e.g. to keep your balance and not fall off). Thus, if you're falling off and the disc explodes you would get shot in the wrong direction. You should be able to slightly alter the direction you get shot out at by changing your relative position on the disc (e.g. if you're "noseriding" or riding the back, etc.).
3. Maybe some combination of 1 and 2 could impact when and how the disc explodes.
Controlling all of the above would be very skillful and require lots of practice to master. I can imagine myself sitting for hours trying to get it just right to use in a match context.
Note*: The basic physics story works like this - the disc, because of its electric and chemical composition and shape, shoots into the water without exploding and is then "shot out" at high speed - sort of like a player going into the water in TR2.
Note**: This is the "insert big-number" century. Keep it real boyz. If you asked your great-grandpa about whether we'd ever go to the moon, perform open-heart surgery or inject gold nanoshells into patients to use a laser to ablate cancerous tumors, I'm sure he would have told you you were crazy. We've learned to do these things in the last 50 years.