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[Gorvin]

Some more screenshots from hard to reach areas.

I spent some time trying to get up here about a month and a half ago before I stopped playing the game, but it got too tedious having to climb all the way back up after every failed attempt, so I gave up then.



I gave it another go today, and after several failed attempts of this...





... I tried another method.  I went to the hill with the temple on it and briar-rocketed myself over.  By "briar-rocket" I mean this: I jumped onto a brair aimed in the northeast direction, then planted another briar that would hit me as it sprouted out.  Sometimes when doing this, it would only push me a few feet, while other times it would send me flying at insane velocities.  I wish I could get a recording of it, but the aforementioned framerate issue made it impossible.





Like in the frozen veil, you can fall off the map here.  You can also swim down and actually go underneath the map.  While swimming underneath the map, I found a spot where there was a sonar icon on the mini-map.  I wasn't able to enter it or anything though.





Used another briar-rocket to reach this.



Unfortunately, that was as far up as I got before I accidentally briar-rocketed myself away.   



Another briar-rocket to get up here.  I found something strange up in the northwest corner here.  No idea wtf is up with it.

[Alphasoldier]

Hehe, all very nice work. And I think that that thing in the upper right corner is just a jellyfish or so. I noticed that in alot of maps there are enough things in the left upper corner that aren't used UNTIL a certain point, so they need to be idle there.

[Xiagan]

Incredible places! Next screenie will be Naija, first meremaid on the moon.


It's the kind of shooting jellyfish you get in the deeper parts of open water I guess...

[Glamador]

It looks like one of those jellyfish whose only purpose is to die and produce blue shinies.  I never mastered the art of "Briar Rocketting" as you've coined it.  Whenever I try it just ends up with me doing the equivalent of a normal jump.  That's certainly some handy mountaineering you're doing though.  Hope Naija doesn't dry out.

[Gorvin]

I never mastered the art of "Briar Rocketting" as you've coined it.  Whenever I try it just ends up with me doing the equivalent of a normal jump.

It's definitely pretty finicky, and seemed to be easier to get it to happen at some locations than others.  Sometimes I'd not be able to get the glitch to work at all at a certain location in the map, then later come back to that location and be able to get it to happen consistently.  I've been able to get it with near 100% consistency at this location, so you might want to try it out there:



It's kind of an out of the way area (just past a long wall-jump sequence), but once there you can aim yourself at the ceiling to see if you can get it to work, so you don't shoot yourself off of the cliff before you're ready.

At first I thought it was framerate that was causing the physics glitch, because I seemed to be getting it easier in high-up areas where there were little/no enemies nearby and very little terrain to render.  But then I tried intentionally lagging the framerate by recording with a high sample rate while I was at the above location, and I was still able to do both the briar rocket and high jumps off of briars (I had tried recording when I was attempting the rocket technique before though, and it had seemed to prevent me from doing it).  I really have no idea what's going on with it now then.

Video of the briar rocket glitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j5PxSr3ULo

[Alphasoldier]

So you plant a briar, then go sit on it and plant on on the exact same spot? Sounds easy, or I should say, looks easy.

[Glamador]

Yet whenever I attempt it, it's more like a briar hop.  I did manage to do it once by accident in the frozen veil though.  I think the trick is to plant it so the briar is perfectly perpendicular to Naija (A.K.A. pointing straight into her stomach).

[Gorvin]

The thing is, I've had it happen at a number of different angles and offsets, so I don't think it matters too much how you plant your briars.  It just seems to be easy from me to get to happen sometimes, and impossible at other times.  But at this point, I think trying to figure out what's going on with it is going to drive me insane.

[inkblob]

I'm so going to try that out. if I had my act together enough to make a mod it would be to do something crazy with nature form using some of these wak techniques to get to silly places. Gorvin, you're like some kind of briarnaut.

[inkblob]

I didn't have the same success as Gorvin, but did manage to get to some previously un-Naija'd places via briarnauting. I'm not sure if it was briar-rocketing or just really good lobbing tho.



this one I've been able to get to before in beast form from the left hand side jumping over. this time I scaled it using nature form platforming. definitely finicky, holding down a charge, jumping up and aiming below you to land on a briar. I found clinging to a rock and shooting a briar just below me, jumping back and forth between the acute angel till I got nearer to the tip and then jumping to the next section of the wall also worked effectively.



this one was jumping from the Ruhk egg area, took a few tries to get to the sun temple section, I used the palm tree by the nest as a marker and I think based the launch angle on that. I wasn't able to make it over to the next higher ledge on the right, I was just briar lobbing into the water.

while I was up there though I had good times hunting my mortal enemy, the flying, rainbow serpent but it seemed impervious to even my most diabolical entrapments:

http://www.blobfarm.com/images/aquaria/aquaria_nature_bird.avi  ~3mb

[Glamador]

Boy will it be hard to get that whole area white....

[Alphasoldier]

Well at least you know how to now. =p