How do you make Lara do a flip?

[Mike Hawthorne]

Hi

I can't get Lara to do a flip; whenever I try she just turns and jumps in the direction of the control button that I push, even when I do them together.

Can anyone tell me how you accomplish this?

Mike

[Guest Fusion]

keep making her roll till she puts her hands down then press jump. Or roll her till she puts her hands down then press jump then roll again. or just keep holding roll you have to experiment alot i have found three moves.

one of these jumps is like a side thing with her legs crossed thats the upside down swan dive one and the other move is a really high tuck jump one and the other move i found was kinda a combo of both. im not sure about the method i explained to making her do these rolls but there close to what you do. *note to make her change to a back flip thing press jump

i have some videos but i cant upload them to youtube cause of a unsupported codec which is weired cause there AVI

Edited May 30, 2007 by Fusion

[Mike Hawthorne]

Hi

You mean that Lara can no longer flip to the side and fire her guns as she is depicted doing in the Anniversary trailer? They certainly show her doing that when fighting the raptors in the video.

The one thing that is missing from both Legend and this demo is the feeling of being in control of the combat. I loved the way that you could really use your skill in the combat in the old games. In the original games it made a difference how you use reflexes and strategy in combat. If you were good at it you could take down the toughest bad guys with little of no damage.

Combat in these new games just doesn’t have the same excitement, it’s almost like an afterthought, “Oh yeah we better have her shoot something”. Either you stand somewhere safe and shoot everything, or you run around in a circle and shoot every thing, but you don’t have the opportunity to have real input.

And remember those great timed sequences such as the run through the ship in TR2 to turn off the burners. To do that kind of thing you had to have real control of Lara, the new games just don’t seem to have that.

In fact it’s almost too easy, I guess they are looking for a larger audience but I miss the challenge of the old games.

Now that I have gotten the hang of it I can blow through the demo in a couple of minutes, you don’t ever have to be accurate. I the bear cave you can jump in almost any direction and end up on the pole, and all you have to do to kill the raptors is stand on the rock right of the entrance to the area and shoot them. They can’t climb up on the one-foot tall rock to get at you.

Mike

[Mike Hawthorne]

Hi

I was lamenting how Lara couldn't do her flips as she used to.

Well I was wrong, at least partly.

Lara can do the traditional flips in combat mode.

That's the key, when out of combat mode she can not flip but once she is in combat mode hitting a direction key and the jump button does make her flip, just like in the trailer.

I feel better now!

Mike