Interview [Issue 30] SwiftSmoky on 'Parkour Fighting'

[Pathfinder 1,690]

 

As many of you experienced players are already familiar with the usual tactics, positions and team strategies that are used in Tanki, today I bring something that may be completely new to you, something you may not even have dreamed of before! Parkour rarely mixes with regular battles, but as we shall see, there are cases where both can marry together to deadly effect.

 

We welcome @SwiftSmoky on Parkour Fighting!

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Thank you very much for your offer to be interviewed today! So, onto 'Parkour Fighting'. I think I have an idea to what sort of thing it might be. But, as far as I know it's not a mainstream term yet! Could you please briefly describe what it is?

 

Parkour Fighting is the usage of parkour to get advantage in battles. For example, getting on a higher place for a good sniping spot, using shortcuts to capture flags faster, jump over stuff to ambush the enemy from an unexpected direction, catching gold boxes, and so on. There are so many different advantages you can get with parkour that I am sure I haven't discovered all of them yet during my 3 years of parkour fighting.

 

Interesting! But does it not take valuable time though to get into those spots? And do you need a friend to help you get there?

 

If something takes a lot of time from the team it isn't worth the effort - the team will lose the battle if it spends too much time on climbing. Moreover, if a player can't get up to a good position fast enough the enemies will just kill him before he gets up. Most good places take no longer than 3 seconds to climb.

 

Some tricks are possible to do alone, or by forcing enemies to help you (flip them and push them to where you need, then use their explosion to jump). My favorite part of using the enemies for parkour is their mines - they leave mines to damage us but they actually help us!

 

Other tricks require the help of one team mate, usually just to shoot the player or make a ramp. Tricks that require more than one team mate are used very rarely and only if they give a really huge advantage to the team because the more team mates that are busy helping someone to get up, the weaker the team gets. No one is going to climb a skyscraper in the middle of a battle.

 

Awesome. So could you give us an example of a good parkouring spot and how you might get up there?

 

This is the best position in the map Highland. You can hit players anywhere on the map (except for those who stand between the houses) and it is hard to hit you if you know how to defend yourself. Positions as good as this one don't exist in most maps.

 

 

As you can see there is another player down on the lower level of this place (bottom left corner), the lower level is safer because you can just go back and hide easily. The higher level is less safe but allows you to aim down without the risk of falling off and without having to move around to shoot at different places. You can hide behind the rusty tank on the top, but it takes time to get  out of there so it is just a waste of time.

 

You have to notice when someone tries to kill you, and kill him before he gets to where he can shoot you, or shoot him to set his aim off if you notice him late. If your team wins and controls most of the map they will take care of anyone who tries to get far enough to shoot you, but you still have to beware of those who will try to aim up by leaning on the cliffs. The best weapon for this position is Thunder because it deals massive damage in long range and the enemies can't see where it comes from (unlike railgun and shaft that show a clear line that points towards the attacker).

 

If you use Wasp and Thunder you can get on the first level by jumping up the ramp and shooting down after you hit the cliff:

 

 

An easier way to get up with any equipment is a ramp:

 

 

You can stay on the first level and shoot from there until a friend gets up and makes a ramp to the second level:

 

 

Don't forget that the way up to this awesome position is right next to the enemy flag! The enemies will defend this place and you have to be strong enough to deal with all the enemies that will stand on your way.

 

I mentioned that parkour fighting is useful for catching gold boxes, this is one of the ways it can help you:

 

 

That's very interesting, thank you! You've touched on this briefly already, but could you give us some advice on the sorts of combinations that are best for tricks like these?

 

If you are the one that helps others to get up - Hornet with Railgun or Hammer, with any paint you want.

If you are a runner - Wasp or Hornet and nitro with Smoky, Thunder or Railgun and any paint. Runners don't climb objects to stay on them - they jump over stuff to surprise the enemy and to shorten their path if they grab the flag. The only case runners climb a place to stay there is when the enemies take the flag so the runner has to find a very safe spot to hide the flag until his team returns their flag. One trick runners use a lot is getting the flag on an easily accessible place that is very easy to climb but requires using their combination. Runners often cooperate with a team mate for easy and safe shortcuts, in this image you can see me using a friend's help to take the flag out of the enemy base quickly before they react and try to stop me: (tricks like this also require distraction and very good timing)

 

If you climb places to stay there and be a camper, it depends on where you climb and who helps you to get up there. Sometimes even Mammoth can be used. If you climb by yourself the best equipment is Wasp with Thunder or Ricochet - Thunder is good for higher jumps while Ricochet is better for going on narrow places. It is important to always be aware of your health and how much of it you will need to climb something with Thunder, sometimes you will have to drug to not kill yourself.

 

If someone else helps you climb easy places like small to medium houses it is the easiest with Wasp and Thunder/Hammer/Railgun/Ricochet but can also be done with Hornet and Smoky/Shaft. If someone makes a ramp for you, you can use any hull you want, if you use Mammoth or Titan you might need nitro.

 

The best paints for campers are camo paints - if the enemies can't notice you you are safe, and the fact that no one expects to see a tank standing on a high place in a normal battle helps a lot to stay unnoticed. If you are on a not very high position where you can be seen easily but you have a place to hide (or a lot of drugs) it is better to use a defensive paint against long range weapons. Choose the paint based on what long range weapons your enemies use. As I mentioned before, the best weapon to use on high places is Thunder because no one can see where it comes from, Smoky is as good as Thunder in positions where you focus on tanks that are very close to you. But there is one thing that only Thunder can do - deal damage without actually hitting the enemy. The splash damage of Thunder can save you from players that wait for you to show up to shoot you. For example, in this image you can see me shooting the cliff on the right of an enemy tank to kill him while staying safe behind the red house:

 

 

Our time is just about up! Do you have any final words you want to share?

 

Yes, just a couple!

 

I'd like to tell you about the history of parkour fighting and my plans regarding parkour fighting.

 

The history of parkour fighting:

 

At the beginning parkour itself wasn't so popular and there were not so many possibilities, so I was almost only climbing cliffs to shoot them from above and behind and be noticed by less players. When it was impossible to climb cliffs alone with Ricochet anymore players stopped parkour almost completely, and parkour fighting almost died - players were climbing stuff in battles only when agreed to make a ramp for them - which happened very rarely. As parkour became more popular and advanced I managed to make parkour fighting known by a few players, but I'm not sure there were more than 100 parkour fighters in the game until few months ago. Recently parkour became a lot more popular and a lot more advanced, and with it parkour fighting became more powerful and more players started using parkour in battles to get a little advantage. Till then parkour fighting was limited to climbing to good camping/sniping positions, and the use of parkour fighting didn't change even though it can be used for a lot more.

 

My plans regarding parkour fighting:

 

My goal is to make parkour fighting more popular, as I said in the forum before: "I will be very happy if one day I'll join a random battle and will get wrecked by an awesome team of parkour-fighters!". I already made a few videos random solo parkour fighting tricks, and now I plan to make well organized parkour fighting video guides about team parkour fighting in the most popular maps - I will post these in my parkour fighting topic. I also plan to organize team parkour fighting events, hopefully with crystal prizes to the winners.

 

Obviously the level of parkour fighting depends on the level of parkour skills, so I also try to teach parkour in the most effective ways, for example I made the parkour dictionary to show all the most popular and most useful parkour tricks and explain clearly how they work and when to use them. I will try few other ways later, like explaining the physics of the game and why parkour works. I might also post an article about a new strategy I developed especially for controlling the tank in complicated parkour tricks, stunts and flip fights: I call it "vectors thinking".

 

Alright, thanks for your time!

Edited January 7, 2018 by Hexed

[thunderousrailgunner 1,934]

I Will Try This !! 

[magnaboy2 656]

You remember old Silence II?
In blue team you had  best sniping spots by those pipes :D ^-^

[delnina2 1,570]

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Edited January 3, 2015 by delnina2

[jazz20 1,181]

very useful tactic in battle, although very hard to accomplish. One may die 20 times before reaching the desired spot..........

[r_GaIaxy2 8,611]

I have done a few of these before in battles and they are really useful :)

[jazz20 1,181]

lol I got that gold box though in the pic :P

[sachet100 1,020]

Nice :D

[Jesse_X99 47]

That battle was a nice one smoky:P 

Nice job on the interview!

And mom look I'm in the newspaper!!! Haha :)

[delnina2 1,570]

very useful tactic in battle, although very hard to accomplish. One may die 20 times before reaching the desired spot..........

20 times?  

 

Did you kill some players in that time ?  

 

If you didnt . so maybe you did a sabotage .

Edited January 3, 2015 by delnina2

[jazz20 1,181]

20 times?  

 

Did you kill some players in that time ?  

 

If you didnt . so maybe you did a sabotage .

I didn't do it. @SwiftSmoky @ObsidianSun @Jesse_X99 did. They were amazing and successful when they did it.

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

:D

[delnina2 1,570]

Ok "good job" 

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

And mom look I'm in the newspaper!!! Haha :)

Also @agentforgod7 - he helped me to get on the brown house near blue base :P And he's also the dictator that helps me to get the flag in the image of Noise.

Edited January 3, 2015 by SwiftSmoky

[B_A-R_T 493]

Nice swift :) , hope we can do more parkour together in future :D

[sachet100 1,020]

Thanks swiftsmoky, i wached your YT video and learned how to get on this building on the Noise alone. and as u said parkour is good for golds ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRLUVn2zl88&list=UUCmUL7rSdYfpp0266HaFO9g

[blackflag444 256]

nice!

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

190 views, the newspaper is a lot less popular than I hoped... :\ but thanks anyway, it still helps!

[wahsan2 4]

wow m8  :lol:  :P  nice tricks lel

[Quarks 2,255]

Also the building in industrial zone, that one is also good.

[g08408 10]

190 views, the newspaper is a lot less popular than I hoped... :\ but thanks anyway, it still helps!

Depends a lot on the article, but regardless this has more views now :) people who don't read this are missing out!

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

Depends a lot on the article, but regardless this has more views now :) people who don't read this are missing out!

Yea the newspaper announcement in the game was only today, so before this only players who checked the newspaper forum saw it. :P

[Hoop_Dog 2]

SWIFT YOU ARE IN THE NEWSPAPER NOW?!?! Jeez man you are becoming Famous. You and Obsidian lol. I am friends with both of ya! Good job! (you get cry for this?)

[dragoneeter 7]

lol all the people saying "wow im gonna try this this is amazing". i already do this with my shaft!

[SwiftSmoky 8,445]

SWIFT YOU ARE IN THE NEWSPAPER NOW?!?! Jeez man you are becoming Famous. You and Obsidian lol. I am friends with both of ya! Good job! (you get cry for this?)

lol no, I only gain popularity which is what I need to make parkour and parkour fighting more popular! :D