The pogo stick item’s controls feel really awkward and unnatural right now, and I had a cool gamer solution to make them work better:
One way its controls could be improved is to make it so you can hold down space to bounce rather than just pressing space. The longer you hold it down, the higher you’ll bounce (with a height limit probably, so you can’t just bounce into orbit).
Also, this isn’t really specifically related to the controls, but the animation for bouncing looks really off to me and it could probably be improved a bit.
Yeah this has always bugged me. The bouncy rod thingy goes up when you jump, which isn’t how pogo sticks work. The whole thing should go down and like, compress the spring to build up pressure when you hold space, and then the rod at the bottom should shoot out to bounce you into the air.
Agreed, would be nice to have it revisited at some point. Still a very cool item, just not too fun to control. Probably a little difficult to do things like timed jumps in plaza with latency.
I’m just hoping the Skateboard feels solid. It’ll probably just feel like the hoverboard rotated 90 degrees, but it’d be awesome to be able to kick and feel the OOMPH in speed boost.
The original Pogo Stick controlled way better than the current iteration. You used to be able to really gain momentum through pogo bunny-hopping and speed through the map… while crazy, it was still fun. The current Pogo is just sad and needs a rework.
Agreed, I wish that you could just control it with the normal walking controls and speed but be able to chain up speed and a bounce by constantly jumping over and over.