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Dino-Hopping & How to Execute It
By SoberBiscuit
Give yourself the edge by learning how to dino-hop!
   
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Secrets
Languages: English
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26 Dec, 2016 @ 8:27pm
26 Dec, 2016 @ 8:30pm
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Guide Index
Overview
What is dino-hopping? 
How to line up a dino-hop. 
How to improve your dino-hop. 
Citations & Notations 
Comments
What is dino-hopping?
Dino-hopping is a strange mechanic that allows a player to bounce when attempting to land on an enemy. This mechanic allows the player to traverse by bouncing atop hordes of medium-sized dinos without recieving any damage. This is particularly useful for moving between two platforms on Arid or Outback without expending valuable blinks or taking damage.
How to line up a dino-hop.
  • Place your crosshair on the raptor you wish to hop onto.
  • Hold the jump button while walking towards it.
  • Do some aerial adjustments with the movement keys.

You should get (after some practice) about 90% of attempted dino-hops with 1 or 2 bounces.

This method is simplest way to dino-hop, so mess around with it!
How to improve your dino-hop.
There are some things wrong with the first method:

  • It only applies to 1 of 10 enemy types.
  • It only works with super jumps.
  • It requires you to aim at the raptor, removing it from any effective use in combat.

So, let's fix it with a few rules and exceptions:

  • Drop on top of any dino. in any way to initiate a dino-hop.
  • Your crosshair only needs to be vertically aligned with the dino while moving forward.
  • Aerial re-adjustments don't require the crosshair to be aimed at the dino.
Citations & Notations
For reasons, here's a video of some dino-hops:


Most of this is just self-researched through the game itself, so I would gladly take any input from the community. In fact, I encourage it. Try messing with it yourself and tell me your results in the comments!
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Wünterschlee№1 4 Apr, 2017 @ 11:28am 
Same can be done to a harvester, it also has hitboxes that you can "hop" or "slide" on.
As there's no strafing while in mid air not like in CS or TF2 so when you "slide" you can't change you horisontal movement speed and it applies constantly when you slide. So theoreticaly, you can slide on a dino or harv forever, if you manage to remove all horisontal speed before you jump or use blink to lauch yourself into the air. Yes, any kind of go-airbone is fine, even dropping from cliff\rock or being launched by dino. Think Namor atack with it's head