Well, first off, what is bunny hopping?

Bunny hopping is exploiting the half life engine, to go faster than your designated speed. Since there is no friction (theoretically, but there is a small bit in practice) in strafe jumps, you (theoretically) never lose speed and keep going faster. It involves strafe jumping, and coordinating with your mouse. Since it is still possible to bunny hop as aliens, but disabled for the marines, I will assume that it is legal to bunny hop.

Now that you know what bunny hopping is, why should you do it?

Successfully bunny hopping will do two things, it makes you go faster, and it makes you much harder to hit, as the movement is seemingly spontaneous (from a marine's point of view when he has about .5 seconds to hit you).

Sounds neat! But how do I bunny hop?

I find that this configuration works best for me when I first learned how to bunny hop.

Change these buttons from default:

(note, you can assign tertiary binds to actions, but you can't do it from the options menu, you can do it via console or the config file in your NS directory)

Crouch=spacebar.
Jump=mwheelup.
Jump=mwheeldown.

Orient yourselves with the new configuration, and do the following instructions:

1. Stand perfectly still.
2. Start strafe jumping from the start.
|- To do this, you simply roll your mousewheel up or down, and strafe jump. However, to successfully bunnyhop, you must also move your mouse in the direction you are strafe jumping. For example, if you strafe jump to your right, move your mouse in a V pattern towards the right. If you strafe jump to your left, move your mouse in a V pattern towards the left. (When I mean V pattern, imagine that the bottom of your mouse is the bottom of the V. Do not move the whole of your mouse, but move the top half of your mouse left and right.) Always remember to hold your crouch key when you bunny hop, otherwise you'll be sticking to walls left and right.
3. Repeat.

Sounds simple? You have to remember to take it in turns. Don't expect to be able to do it from the start, it takes practice. But if you are really stuck, do it one at a time. Bunny hop left, stop, then bunny hop to the right. Establish a pattern, it makes it easier on the mind. Pretty soon you'll be bunny hopping like a pro.

Thanks to: Silverwolf, for showing me the basics.

Edit: Fixed a few typos.

Main tip I can add is that this doesn't involve holding down the forward key. You don't TOUCH the forward key. For me, it helps to just think about jumping forward using the strafe keys.

Argh, forgot to put that in.

One question; im not the bhopping type, i can do it to some degree, but i dont use mousewheel. When you do, can you just keep spamming it up and down basically, or do you still have to time it?

Mousewheel works best. I have mousewheel down set to jump. You still have to time it, but it works.

Bhopping took me forever to learn, because it's not just jumping while moving forward. You have to wiggle the mouse back and forth each time you jump. Once you get the pattern down though, it's like riding a bike. In order to keep your speed up, you have to think ahead and know where corners are too, so there is kind of a learning curve to bhopping. If you want to practice, just play any map with long, wide hallways or large open rooms, and spectate people who bhop. You can tell it's bhopping because the skulk will be hopping left and right, and if there's enough room for acceleration, be moving at around leap velocity. You can also learn to bhop by getting leap in co_ maps, and trying to keep the leap speed up after using it for your initial acceleration.

Use a +3jump script, the mousewheel makes it hard to attack with bhop, you'll have to move your fingers around to change from "bhop mode" to bite mode.

Can you please publish good working 3 jump script?

the problem for me is realizing if im actually bunnyhopping or just jumping aroud with normal speed

is there any speed-o-meter for ns or is there any other way to determine how well you bhop?

Holding forward and strafe left, jumping, and then right on time changing to strafe right and jumping, and repeating in such a manner...
What's that called? As long as I don't(!) move the mouse while doing that, I do speed up, noticeably. Not as much as bunnyhopping, but still. It's much easier for me to do, too.

someone should just get a webcam and record the hand motions. This bhopping comes up to much and people still won't get it.

That actually sounds like a good idea, i doubt someone will take the time to do that....please flame me if someone acts on the suggestion ^_^

i find mouse3 very comftable for BHing
ow, and at the begining BHing may seem hard,
but after a short while you don't it automaticly without too much thinking
it's recommanded to use an alias like the one given above
i'm experiencing a small problem with my BH script, perhaps i have too many wait commands
i'll try the one given by Apocalypse

If you're smart you wont need bhopping... speed-o-meter = cl_showspeed average speed for good bhopping is 600-650 w/out celerity... Bunnyhopping should only be used to get you to an area quicker never for attacking... Attacking is ambushing and killing in an instant.

Bunny hopping is good if you know how to use it. Pretty much sums it up. As for those scripts, kakakakaka.

Heres a webpage about bunnyhopping! woooohoooo
http://fidosrevenge.com/bhop/
Its animated, and easy to follow! Hope it helps

twice the speed of a default rine as a gorge? no way...

Also, to whoever said average speed of a good skulk bhop w/o celerity is 600-650, I'd love to see a demo of you doing 600+ (Ground speed, not total speed) consistantly without leap or celerity as a skulk. Low 500s is a good ground speed while in the air.

Theoretic maximum is 1.7x of normal speed, so for skulk it should be around 500-530.

The cap is 492 but you can gain more speed in the air before you hit the ground. Which is why I said low 500s is a good ground speed

<3 Samah <3 <3 <3

)okay, thx to your help i really got the clue

but i still need ages to accelerate :/
are there any "tricks" how i become faster faster? ( )

i find mousewheels for jumps easier cuz it gives you less to do with your left hand. holding crouch alternating strafes and jumping is just too much for one hand.

one point i want to make that i was confused about when i first started learning bhopping. you switch from left to right strafe(and viceversa) at the peak of the jumps, not on the landings. it something i did and i see alot of learners trying to do.

now i'm trying to learn double strafe squiggle bhop now, which is really hard. but it owns marines and makes you gain the max speed really fast

with practice, getting up to full speed (500~) shouldn't take more then one jump. the easiest way is to make a full 90 degree "swing" of your mouse and jump, basically a strafe jump. you can do the "swiggle" thing, but that's kinda hard D:.

scripts are for the weak.

Nobody answered my question

I'll be interested to use the showspeed later tonight.

I used to rock at bhopping around in Action Quake2, all those fun jumps

So it just naturally translated over into half-life. Fun stuff Bhopping is, I have a weird way of doing it though, it involves alot of key-strokes and lots of arrow switching ect, couldn't even try to explain it.

I dont see how a 3 jump script is worse than mwheel... you can scroll it up about 5-6+ times.... making it a 6 jump script?... Sure a bigger amount of jump script is worse, but still.

I'm curious to know what kind of ground-speeds you get as rines. As a marine you will only be able to make that "first" jump, if we ingore jumping a second/third time on a higher "level" (which we in this case indeed will ignore). I jump around at ~270 consistently. Of course, I havent practiced that much either.

Here is a quick bind for lazy people.

bind x "+jump;wait;-jump;wait;+jump;wait;-jump;+jump;wait;-jump;wait;-jump"

Don't have to go into your .cfg to do that. If you use it with the mouse wheel take one +jump and -jump out.

as marines you should be able to get to 400 on the first jump

Call me noob, but I find this extremely difficult.

I tried cl_showspeed 1 and all other variations... no workey.
I keep strafejumping and doing whatever that site says... no faster movement.
Does it help if you have higher sensitivity or lower sensitivity?

I really want to get this bunnyhopping thing down, because I just got my **** owned in CO by a bunnyhopping vet and that guy was litterally zooming everywhere... impossible to hit.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you have to have "cheats" enabled in the server. so, cl_showspeed 1 won't be working in pubs.

I like how people were saying dumping a Command Console in a doorway was exploiting and a bannable offence, then using a bug which makes you almost twice as fast and able to jump everywhere is suddenly accepted because people put some control emphasis on it. This is a sad time for NS.

I've tried using the cl_showspeed command in console but it just don't work cause well you have to do it with a server that has cheats enabled right? so no pubs. So I created a game but for some reason now it won't actually start until theres a player on each team or something I dunno. all that comes up is time reamining on map, WTH is that ****?
someone explain.
Oh, and about hte +3jumps script, I don't understand what this changes...If someone could explain that aswell?

If you really need practice bunny hopping and need some help with movement then run up 2.0 and install a _special script. It might help you with the movement part.