Re: Bhop Healing - Is it allowed?

It's an exploitable glitch related to how the game deals with movement momentum.

The gist is you bind jump to mouse wheel (usually down), start a slide, use a med while sliding, then start jumping using your mouse wheel (thus sending jump commands much faster than you'd normally manage with, say, spacebar) while angling your movement and aim at a 45 degree angle (think in terms of vectors - going at an angle gets you going faster than going straight ahead or directly to the side). With a little practice and timing you can achieve absurd mobility while your character does a very cheesy 'bunny hop'.

It's apparently been around in games made on this engine for forever.

dizzy even has a bot command explaining how it's done on his stream...it's really disappointing to see it reach that level if you ask me.

I really don't think it's that overpowered. Streamers die all the time b-hopping popping a shield cell because taking cover could've been better. You make a lot of noise moving around and you're definitely going to be visible. You could just heal in the nearest corner, and you might be in a better position that was unheard. Then run and fire. It's preference in my opinion.

It's using obviously unintentional loopholes in game mechanics (revolving around using mouse wheel to jump, really) and results in thoroughly cheesy movement that translates to an obvious (and unfair) advantage over people that do not also exploit it.

That's worth frowning upon. Shroud can whine all he wants about it when Respawn removes it, it will still be the right move.

Is it all that big of a deal, compared to much of the other issues in the game? Perhaps not, but it's one less bit of strife for people like myself that would like to enjoy the game without any underhanded shenanigans ruining the experience.

Not to mention it annoys me every time I see these big-name streamers doing it as though taunting their viewers with their privelege...which in my brain I know isn't the case, they're just doing it because it gives them an (unfair) advantage, anything for that Winner screen, but the dirty feeling of it is still there.