Diagonal Speed Boost: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Quake]]'' stopped Doom-style straferunning by capping a player's running velocity (by default, to 320 units/second). However, the fix applies gradually, and only applies on the ground, meaning strafing and jumping at the same time preserves the momentum gained from strafing. You can also strafe and turn while in mid-air, speeding you up even further. Some Quake ports have a feature that will have you jump the first moment you hit the ground when you press and hold the jump key. Combining all of these, it's not surprising to see people hurtling around maps, going more than double the normal max speed, and jumping around like... rabbits. It's pretty obvious where the term "bunnyhopping" came from.

** Similar anomalies show through in the [[Half Life|Half-Life/Source]] games. Spamming directional keys can get you moving slightly faster than your maximum speed, which is excusable, but you can still [[Ladder Physics|strafe and walk up ladders simultaneously]]. Custom maps have even used this as a puzzle element since you can jump from the top of a ladder with more upward velocity than your legs can provide. Even the recent [[Left 4 Dead]] series only sports new ladder code for survivors; the zombie team can still climb walls 50% faster with this trick.

** ''[[Battlezone (1998 video game)|Battlezone 1998]]'', on the other hand, retains this. In fact, going forward, strafing, pitching your hovertank forward (auto-stabilizing needs to be turned off or the tank will try to level out by itself) and using the jump thrusters all at once gives much faster movement - to say nothing of an engine glitch (?) that allows hovertanks to float high enough to be out of range for most weapons.

*** Naturally, all versions of ''Battlezone 2'''s unofficial 1.3 patch take flying out, [[Broken Base|to much rage from the veteran players]].

** One of the earliest creatures in [[Nethack]], the [[Meaningful Name|grid bug]], cannot take advantage of the diagonal speed boost. The "grid bug conduct" is an unofficial [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] to voluntarily apply the same limitation to your character, which is much more important and potentially lethal than it sounds.

** The ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' series.

* [[Youju Senki AD 2048]] has an odd variation: moving one space diagonally is considered the same as moving one space vertically or horizontally (counted as one space when moving or shooting), but the characters cannot move like this if the spaces next to them are occupied by enemies or obstructions (to put it simply, if you can't move there without diagonal movement, you can't move there period). However, this limitation does not affect attacks (meaning that even if a character can't move diagonally into a space, they can still shoot that space if they're in range).

* Oddly present in [[Halo]] 3 and Reach. Picking up a turret causes you to move slower, but moving diagonally is slightly faster than walking straight ahead.

* An odd variation in ''[[Sonic Labyrinth]]'' is that Sonic walks slighty faster if he moves to the left or to the right.

* ''Gunrox'', an online turn-based, grid-based, squad-based tactics game, has this. Making use of it is an easy way to gain the advantage over an inexperienced player.