Video games are filled with tactics that aren’t necessarily of the norm. They let you perform unrealistic skills to complete challenges, defeat enemies, or even reach secret places. One of those tactics is the rocket jump. It is a classic gaming maneuver that sounds exactly like its name implies.
Related:Camping Spots To Watch Out For In Valorant
A rocket jump allows you to achieve greater heights than a normal jump with a little help from an explosion or the recoil. Several games include rocket jumping as a viable movement technique. You just point the rocket, jump, and then shoot. The rocket blast or the expulsion of the rocket from the launcher will send you to where you want to go. Most of the time.
10Valorant
Rocket jumping isn’t as prominent of a feature inValorantas it is in some games, but it is still possible. There is just one character that can accomplish the feat, however. If you take Raze into a game of Valorant, you can use her Ultimate ability known as Showstopper to rocket jump.
It takes a certain amount of deaths, eliminations, or orb pickups combined to activate your Ultimate in Valorant. That makes rocket jumping a rare occurrence, though still incredibly fun. Couple Raze’s Showstopper with her Blast Packs, and you’ll send yourself flying.
9Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament has an alternative to rocket jumping known as impact jumping. While this uses the impact hammer or other impulse weapons, there’s still the option to send yourself up with the game’s rockets. you may even boost your teammates in normal modes where friendly fire is disabled.
Rocket jumping in Unreal Tournament works as it does in other games. Obtain a rocket launcher and aim it at the ground. Jump up and, at the height of the jump, fire the rocket. You’ll take some damage, but you’ll get some air.
8Serious Sam
Serious Sam’srocket jumping is a bit tricky. As you plow through various creatures in the game with an arsenal of wild weapons, you’ll come across rocket launchers of all kinds. Each of these allow you to rocket jump, but if you are on the lower difficulty settings, it isn’t physically possible.
Rockets in Serious Sam send enemies jolting back when they land. You’re immune to your own rocket damage on the low difficulty levels, making it impossible to rocket jump. Raise the difficulty and get the repeating rocket launcher. you’re able to use that to boost yourself up as many times as you have ammunition.
7Quake 3: Arena
TheQuake seriesepitomized the rocket jump technique. In the third entry, Quake 3: Arena, everyone can rocket jump. As you find yourself boosting up with a rocket, you’ll see that non-playable characters can do the same.
Related:Beginner Tips For Quake 4
The first person to realize that was probably terrified. Imagine you’re ready to take out an enemy, and you shoot a rocket at them, only for them to rocket jump to avoid it. The rocket jump ability in Quake 3 was truly innovative.
6Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2is as serious as it is goofy at times. The rocket jumping found in it isn’t as simple as other games. you may send yourself across the map rather than just onto a ledge that typically isn’t accessible.
You’ll need to take on the Soldier role if you want to successfully execute one. Health does take a hit when performing the technique, but the Soldier has a special perk that reduces damage from his own rockets by 40 percent.
5Halo
Halois probably the first game that comes to mind when you think of general explosive jumping. Speedrunners, casual players, and professional competitors all use grenade jumping to meet their goals. Rocket jumping is much lesser used, but is much more effective.
Rockets are a valuable type of ammo, whereas grenades are very common. Still, if you look down, jump up, and shoot the rocket, you’re able to control your trajectory much easier than timing a jump onto a live grenade.
4Doom
Rocket jumping isn’t a necessity inDoomlike it has become in other games. That doesn’t mean it isn’t as important. You need to use rocket jumping to reach a secret exit in the Mt. Erebus level of Inferno.
Related:The Hardest Classic Doom Levels
The technique is easy to pull off compared to some other games. You don’t even have to jump before you use the rocket launcher. Just aim it at a wall and fire to be sent backwards. This is an effective way of avoiding damage from enemies or to move quickly through levels.
3Half-Life 2
Only the fearless can successfully rocket jump inHalf-Life2. It works similarly to other titles, but it is much more dangerous. If you don’t time it perfectly, the damage from the rocket will immediately end your life and send you back to the last checkpoint.
More often than not, you’ll end up at 10 HP in Half-Life after executing a rocket jump. The window after you jump up to fire the rocket is very small. This is one that will take some practice if you want to reach the higher platforms.
Rise of the Triad: Dark War was released in 1995. The first-person shooter isn’t as well known as some other games that include rocket jumping, but it holds an accolade that the others don’t. It is the first game where a vertical rocket jump is possible.
The gameplay is similar to that of Doom, often being called a failed replica due to its low amount of copies sold. That doesn’t change the fact that it established the vertical rocket jump and set the stage for other titles to accomplish the technique.
1Quake
Quake is the game where rocket jumping took its place in the spotlight. It wasn’t an intention by the developers, though. In fact, rocket jumping was considered an exploit in the first Quake, before it became a key part of gameplay in later entries.
The community realized this exploit allowed them to travel through levels quicker and challenge enemies with unexpected movement. It became a vital part of Quake speedrunning and Deathmatch competition.
