Hey everyone,
Did you know that two of the three green gas clouds above Uptown are actually solid and can be walked on? No? Well, now you know.
Yeah, I'm talking about these:
Another fun fact: once you step outside Uptown's outer boundary, there's no cap for flying upwards, meaning that you can ascend indefinitely — or at least until you run out of fuel.
Now, if you add two and two, you'll figure that there might be a way to reach the clouds, considering it's quite easy to get out of the map's bounds. This is exactly what I found a while ago. However, no mech class has enough fuel to fly so high. With Dr_Freeze001's help and support, I came up with a fun idea: if 4 fuel converter-equipped Technicians (2 Sentium + 2 Prosk) shoot and heal each other in a specific way, they can replenish lots of fuel — enough to do the job.
With help of our buddies from KDR, we managed to get there!!!
Meet the team
Idea: DerMax
Video recording and editing + support: Dr_Freeze001
The Tech squad: DerMax, rozermahbub, Erzunterweltler, SethUK
Enjoy!
P.S. There is a way to get there on your own in the Exploration Mode, and I've even managed to pull it off several times, but it's easily the hardest mapclimbing stunt I've ever done.
Extreme Mapclimbing: The Gas Cloud
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Posted 10 May 2015 - 08:44 AM
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#2
Posted 10 May 2015 - 08:46 AM
:O
P.S You need to change the title to EXTREME Map climbing ;)
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#6
Posted 10 May 2015 - 09:25 AM
There's gas clouds?
Huh, either I didn't notice or it's an effect I missed out on because I run Hawken on the lowest settings.
#7
Posted 10 May 2015 - 09:30 AM
Wow. This might be one of my new favorite Hawken videos
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#8
Posted 10 May 2015 - 09:31 AM
Just speechless.
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Did I say Call Me Ishmael?
You should call me Luna.
#9
Posted 10 May 2015 - 09:37 AM
#10
Posted 10 May 2015 - 10:04 AM
You guys never cease to amaze me.
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#11
Posted 10 May 2015 - 10:09 AM
#12
Posted 10 May 2015 - 10:27 AM
Another fun fact: once you step outside Uptown's outer boundary, there's no cap for flying upwards, meaning that you can ascend indefinitely — or at least until you run out of fuel.
I don't think this is specific to Uptown. That seems to happen on any map whenever you hover over a void.
#13
Posted 10 May 2015 - 10:32 AM
I don't think this is specific to Uptown. That seems to happen on any map whenever you hover over a void.
Checked multiple times, never could reproduce this on any other map. Could you please confirm?
#15
Posted 10 May 2015 - 11:22 AM
Sexy mapclimbing
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I simply cease to believe that something is OP just because it's OP.
#16
Posted 10 May 2015 - 11:31 AM
The same effect also happens on Bazaar, Bunker, and Wreckage, although to a much lesser extent.
#17
Posted 10 May 2015 - 11:33 AM
The same effect also happens on Bazaar, Bunker, and Wreckage, although to a much lesser extent.
I see the height capped in all the three cuts :/
#18
Posted 10 May 2015 - 11:43 AM
I see the height capped in all the three cuts :/
Like I said, "to a much lesser extent". As in, hovering still goes up beyond the normal height cap, but in uptown, the extended height cap is just far higher. It's not something that's necessarily exclusive to Uptown, just that it's the most extreme in Uptown.
Also something interesting (and I think this stems from the same effect), when hovering over a void under a map, no matter how far you drop, you can always hover back up to the level you started at, provided you have the fuel of course.
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Posted 10 May 2015 - 12:54 PM
#20
Posted 10 May 2015 - 01:10 PM
Most Excellent ! ...That was so delicioso
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#21
Posted 10 May 2015 - 02:02 PM
#23
Posted 10 May 2015 - 08:43 PM
map climbing elitists
They think they're up on a pedestal or something.
Edited by Xacius, 10 May 2015 - 09:45 PM.
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Someone whose name rhymes with "ZuneAmanda" being a ragequitting casual.
If the leaderboards aren't real, then how can our MMR be real?
#24
Posted 10 May 2015 - 11:55 PM
Thats crazy! ![]()

Edited by dorobo, 11 May 2015 - 12:00 AM.
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#25
Posted 11 May 2015 - 03:24 AM
Techtron! ASSEMBLE!
That was awesome.
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"The vectors... The vectors are all wrong!" -Bum
#26
Posted 11 May 2015 - 03:35 AM
Took us a while but we got up there in the end!
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KOBALT DEFENCE REGIMENT
...and let slip the dogs of war...




#27
Posted 11 May 2015 - 03:53 AM
Nice!
Edited by Elite, 11 May 2015 - 03:54 AM.
The PC community is the red headed step child Reloaded never wanted but got saddled with when they married the PC community's mother.
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Shoutout to mah real Africans out there.
#28
Posted 11 May 2015 - 11:04 AM
It's like some sort of terrible, terrible daisy chain.
#29
Posted 11 May 2015 - 07:18 PM
OOoooo can i join!
probably not but its worth a shot right? after all im fuzzy bunny at the game so it would be better to do something different then exploring maps most of the time :p
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*SCREECHING*
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