[319] How to Vault Like an Esteemed Professional

For anyone who doesn't know: You can do this "vaulting" with another Knight partner. Just have Knight A shield up, Knight B runs towards Knight A, jumps, and essentially is vaulted up.

 

You can also sorta vault up with a ladder and drawbridge by jumping up to them and then keeping going upwards. I think you'll go higher than you would if you just jumped off the tip of them.

 

In the physics of KAG, vaulting makes sense. Actually it's a direct product of those most basic elements unique to KAG. If you delve deep enough you'll probably be unable to find anything in the game that makes sense in real life or follows it's laws completely; it's not so much about making sense as making enough sense to be acceptable e.g. no, slashing someone in the foot causes your team base to collapse; no, jumping over a block makes you explode. And even then we'd be okay with that. Though it would be terrible, that particular feature. It's up to the developers to chose at what level of reality they will adhere to. So I guess up to the devs whether they want to keep this in. To me, it fits well, vaulting does, in the game. It doesn't make me pause. I never thought KAG was realistic in the first place and I don't expect it to be either. 2D, pixel arty characters and stuff.

 

I had a guy argue with me on my Rapid server today that I was glitching because I could vault up to places and reach him and I kept bomb jumping...

I agree with Neat, bomb jumping is definitely a feature.

 

The part where you can channel all of a bomb's energy into your jump simply by shielding upwards makes no sense though. I mean... I'm HOLDING the bomb, but it doesn't hurt me. It's amusing and useful, but seems like a noob barrier, or whatever people called vaulting in this thread, since it's so nonsensical. The Training area's gonna need an Advanced Techniques section pretty soon. :P

 

I'm pretty fond of this. I always assumed it was a product of wall-climbing physics.

Also, great guide. It's never occured to me to do one for this.

 

I know, it adds so much to the game and you really only need to build a tower one block higher to prevent it.

 

You can also vault directly upwards using trap doors like this.

It only works if you're only pressing up and not toward the wall.

 

This also works if you're coming at the lower bridge from the left and jump up with forward momentum, so you grab the side of the bridge and vault upwards.

 

Thanks to the help of Blueluigi, I've realised that vaulting 4 high walls doesn't actually require a block to vault off of. Here's how to do it:

Walk into a wall, and keep walking


While still walking in that direction, jump over the wall



You have about half a second to jump after walking into the wall.

 

Thanks BlueLuigi. I have done this on accident a few times and wasnt quite sure how. Im sure many shouts of "hacks" will now ensue :D

EDIT: Haha sorry Wyeth was very tired at the time :D

 

SO MANY QUIRKS TO UNDERSTAND I think that's actually a good thing though.

 

Nice guide! Now I can vault like a BOSS too!

 

I would sincerely love if corner jumping was left it. It was such an awesome unintentional bug that adds so much to the gameplay. It made navigating the enviroment totally different for people who figured it out. I can fluidly overcome a lot of things that I couldn't without it or would have to dig as a knight. With it, I feel such a nice sense of accomplishment when I use it. Much like when I get a knight ladder up and sit on the corner of the ledge shielding up so he can get up too. It just gives me a really nice feeling when we thumbs up each other then die to a stray bomb.

So I kinda derailed my own post, but Vaulting should remain a feature. Is there anything to be said for getting together and asking Geti to keep it in?

 

Wait say what?I actually did something?WTF IS HAPPENING!?!?

 

There is another method o vaulting which, I believe, wasn't described here. I call it backward accelerated vault.
This method uses the fact that you can "jump back" to a block you've just jumped from.
Pics show this:





So basically it's almost as overpowered as vault showed by Eggnogg.

And, just for notice, pictures don't match because I took first four from fragment of video involving unsuccessful vault jump and the last one is taken from successful. My bad, but I think this isn't important.