This is funny [Thrax]

a clever alternate disk jump does wonders for hauling a heavy off of whatever they're standing on. Hook, fly over, disk their feet, and keep going and a light can pull a heavy right up into the air. WIthout the disk you can only pull them up a few feet before you come slamming back down, but you can drag them around a bit before they figure out what the hell is going on.

Can you latch onto an extremity of a building and do loops?



I think this is just hilarious, at the same time very exciting. It adds a whole new dimension to this game. Haters get the F*#$ out! =P

...but you can drag them around a bit before they figure out what the hell is going on.
:lol:

i wonder if 3 lights latched onto a heavy can airlift him away?

i wonder if people can hook to each other and create flying nets to catch people in

The rope will break before the person stops.

No clotheslines :(


Can we grab mortars out of the air?

More importantly does the hit box and orientation of the player model change while they are swinging on the grapple? I think it would look pretty stupid to have a guy swinging with his body constantly perpendicular to the ground. Conversely if the hit box doesn't change (which I believe was mentioned in previous answers regarding SuperMan loops and barrel rolls) and the orientation of the model does, where do we aim?

More importantly does the hit box and orientation of the player model change while they are swinging on the grapple? I think it would look pretty stupid to have a guy swinging with his body constantly perpendicular to the ground. Conversely if the hit box doesn't change (which I believe was mentioned in previous answers regarding SuperMan loops and barrel rolls) and the orientation of the model does, where do we aim?

You can be attached to a rope and maintain a relatively horizontal position as long as the rope pivots where it's attached to you.

I can't wait to see the grapple videos that are going to be made. Imagine four lights hauling a heavy off with some audio clip of a redneck from a tractor pull cheering.

I just had a vision of 3 or 4 lights coming from a back route grappling their heavy capper home.

You can be attached to a rope and maintain a relatively horizontal position as long as the rope pivots where it's attached to you.
I'm not a physics major but I fail to see how that behavior would be consistent unless the rope was always attached to your center of gravity. Considering it takes up a weapon slot and therefore is probably held that eliminates that possibilty and the effect would be similar to being dragged, with the upper part of the body leading the lower portion and the orientation coming closer to parallel with the ground. Of course none of that matters if they simply can't change the orientation/rotation of the model.

i wonder if 3 lights latched onto a heavy can airlift him away?

id be afraid that the person would break.

this opens up some interesting possibilities, especially with creating chains of HO or cappers and using NRG boosts in series, or something like that. Imagine a 3 capper chain running off with your flag using NRG boosts in series :(

new meaning to chain capping :p

cant wait to see the awsome videos the community is gonna make :) this is gonna get fun

a clever alternate disk jump does wonders for hauling a heavy off of whatever they're standing on. Hook, fly over, disk their feet, and keep going and a light can pull a heavy right up into the air. WIthout the disk you can only pull them up a few feet before you come slamming back down, but you can drag them around a bit before they figure out what the hell is going on.

Does this mean if the heavy grapples the ground immediately after being disked into the air that the light slams into the ground at Mach 3.4?