Grav Gun Tips and Techniques

[SoulSlinga]

I'm hoping everyone will post all the cool things they've figured out using the gravity gun here, hopefully get this puppy stickied. I'll start with tips i've already found:

Best Grav Jump explanation, from Rail0r:
find something that acts as a good see-saw, or dense object, like a filer or a car. Stand a few feet away from the edge of the object, run towards the nearest edge with the sprint key then before you fall off the edge, shoot directly down with the manipulator and jump at the same time you fire (while still holding sprint) Hope this clears it up. Try experimenting with the jump/fire delay, like Quake rocket jumping, it depends how you fly through the air.

(maybe someone could make that clearer - do you have to be on top of the object when you jump, and do you just click left mouse to shoot it and jump, or do you have to click right mouse first then quickly left mouse to jump? Is there a right/left quick click or not? )

this guy palehorse864 from the steam forums knows his grav gun. he's a real visionary check out the whole thread here: Palehorse864 & the future of the grav gun

palehorse864 points out great potential for the grav gun like blocking, core grabbing (blocking shots), weapon/powerup trading (launch health to a wounded buddy across the map), launching grenades, stealing weapons/objects before they're picked up, grabbing weapons/health from a distance. build covers, barriers, blockades. This weapon is the begining of a new world of fps gaming, in my opinion. BUT PLEASE THIS IS NOT A THREAD ABOUT WHETHER THE GRAV GUN SUCKS OR NOT. STRICTLY HINTS AND TIPS. Maybe i just covered them all, and those are all self explanatory, but if you got something, post it here. Lets not go the direction of this thread which tries to first explain grav jump but turns into a grammar arguement. typical.

CATCHING QUESTION: if you hold down the right mouse when someone throws something at you, can you catch it if it suddenly lands in the reticle? or do you have to get the object in the reticle, then click right mouse????

 

[Blaz]

I don`t use it very much

 

[jimmyjam]

if it comes into the reticle you can catch, I don't think you have to train it on it the whole time

 

[SoulSlinga]

I don`t use it very much

please useful info or tips only.

 

[SoulSlinga]

if it comes into the reticle you can catch, I don't think you have to train it on it the whole time

so by that, jimmyjam, you mean that you can just hold down the right mouse button and try to get the object into the reticle?

 

[ComradeBadger]

Yes, thats all you need to do: it's easy to catch nades n stuff.

 

[ray_MAN]

I just had a lot of fun with the grav gun. I picked up nades and threw them back at the initial thrower. I came in first. Not bad for the second day of playing. \o/

 

[Prototelis]

If you go onto hl2files.com there is this map that has a mech in it.

Personally, I don't play on it for the mechs, I play on it because it's helluva fun to change the gravity gun to be able to lift cars and throw them. It's also rather big, so theres room for a few buggies to be spawned and raced around.

The flatbed truck is the best thing to throw, it PLOWS through EVERYTHING because it is just so heavy.

 

[Lone_Bullet]

when you are in that city 17 map and someone is hiding behind a car pick ur gravgun and SHOOT THA CAR (prim fire) reaction the car land on the peeps I killed 3 peeps in a row like that...was fun....the sprite is a toilet right? shoud be a car

Lone

 

[notmydesk]

You can now catch pulse rifle grenades with the Grav Gun; I don't think you could when DM was initially released.

It's a little tricky, since they bounce all over the place, and you only have a moment between when you hear the grenade about the be fired by your enemy and when it is actually fired.

The pulse rifle grenade will only last a few seconds before it disintegrates, so find a target quickly and fire it!

It also tends to lag a little bit if you're carrying it while you run. It may look like it has disappeared but it will reappear when you stop.

Now if only you could catch RPG rounds!

 

[Tantalus]

What I like to do is on dm_overwatch , go down to the room where the pulse rifle is. Block the entrance to the outside, and then sit in front of the stair way, and use secondary fire.

This technique gave me first twice in a row... then people started catching on and went after the .347


MAKE SURE ONLY TO DO THIS ON SERVERS WHERE CAMPING IS ALLOWED

 

[kevinb4567]

the entrance to the outside is easily unblocked, the grav gun primary fire clears things really easily.

 

[Flyingdebris]

in lockdown when the server had temporaily emptied out exept for me, i began dragging every last object, every radiator, every toilet, every sink, etc over to the 2 entrances to the back of the map, (the hallway that has the airvent with the rocket launcher inside)

I ended up barricading myself into that part of the level. When people finally reentered the server, it became a game of trying to knock down my walls while i kept putting them back up or shooting at the attacker through the barricades.

The more i play the more i realize people are starting to build choke points. Such as blocking off the stairs to the roof in the overwatch level, or the entrances to the super charger in lockdown.

 

[Tantalus]

the entrance to the outside is easily unblocked, the grav gun primary fire clears things really easily.

but the delay gives you enough time to dissolve them with the pulse rifle secondary.