And it’s apparently fun as heck! Liiittle hard to control though. I keep smashing into hillsides giggling uncontrollably.
I picked it up from https://nmsspot.com/2023/03/21/speed-tip-the-melee-reload-jump-trick/. Apparently you can
- take a projectile gun (e.g. boltcaster) and fire a shot so it’s not full
- hit melee, hold it down
- while holding down melee, tap reload really fast
- instead of reloading you’ll do the melee elbow animation over and over, going really fast
- optionally take off with jetpack, or just keep giggling until you smack into something
Seriously this is like something straight outta Warframe.
I think the fact that you can’t really control your direction very well just adds to its hilarity. And makes it less likely to get patched.
– Frost
They might not patch it. The melee boost is a bug, but everyone loved it so they never patched it out
Even if it was initially a bug, Hello Games now treat it as an official mechanic. One of the patch notes during the Expedition update (3.37, I believe) calls out “fixed an animation bug when melee jetback boosting.” It seems HG has been well aware of this for many years and explicitly don’t intend to remove it.
How the mechanic/glitch functions has actually changed over time, which indicates to me that they’ve deliberately meddled with it for balance purposes. It used to be, for instance, that if you melee-boosted into water from land or the air you would keep your initial forward velocity in the water and could “coast” at that speed as long as you kept holding forward and did not hit anything… even without jetpack input. This is no longer the case, which is a bummer because it made traversing large stretches of water less tedious. It also completely obviated the need for a Nautilus unless you were planning on diving, though, which is probably why it was tweaked. IIRC that change happened with the Abyss update, or whenever it was they changed the water effects to allow for the large waves during storms.
They apparently did patch one where you could normal punch boost but then keep meleeing, and just keep gaining speed in midair, and straight-up fly! Never got to try it out, it sounds like it was fun. But to be fair that one was just absolutely busted. This one isn’t that much faster than the normal punch boost and it’s way harder to control (unlike the flying glitch I assume).
– Frost
Damn. That was like ten years ago lol
On the side, I’m loving how games can be around for a decade now.
Mmmm, nice purple bubble grass
Yeah! It’s beautiful here. In the daytime the sky is mint green and it’s really pretty.
There are “storms”, but they just make the bubbles whip around really fast. Doesn’t trigger hazard protection. You do have to watch out for the localized gravity storms though!
– Frost
Yeah, I love a planet with False Storms.
I had 3 prior to the last Universal Reset, now I’m down to 1
Interested in sharing the coordinates? Euclid?
Oh dangit, the video didn’t upload!
Edit: Fixed, apparently 38 seconds was too long for some reason.
– Frost
