As always I will update this comment if any information becomes irrelevant, however I also wanted to talk about the fast ride since I forgot something a little important for those struggling I MADE A MISTAKE, AIRSHOT DAMAGE IS 7 OOPS You may see freeze dash fire unfreeze as another option and yes it works too, I read my own inputs and came to the conclusion of freeze fire dash unfreeze. HOWEVER the inputs are so fast, it is more important that you get comfortable with dashing and firing at almost the same time. That's all I wanted to say, if I forgot anything do not be afraid to let me know. Thanks :)

Dislike didnt fully explain neuroscience

i didn't laugh at the memory explaining part but i appreciate the effort you've put into it, shows how great you are

One useful thing worth noting about the rocket launcher is that whiplashed enemies count as airborne, so if you spot a crowd of fodder and you're not too worried about hard damage from whiplash (full health, good style, whatever) then I find whiplashing an enemy and firing a rocket for the red explosion to be much easier than hitting a core snipe in tighter situations where you don't have so much distance for the core to travel to weapon swap and hit it. Plus if you want to hit that whiplash boom at longer distances for whatever reason, you can hold the whiplash button to keep the grapple on an enemy, fire the rocket and THEN let go of the whiplash to get them airborne just as the rocket's about to collide with them. Bit more niche but still neat.

On the topic of the rocket riding technique, I honestly found dash > fire > freeze > unfreeze to work the best because the dash resetting momentum first makes it much more consistent, although as you said it is up to preference. It also works easily in my brain to remember due to it pretty much being a "left to right" input chain just with the last one being twice

I think one thing worth mentioning is that frozen rockets still turn towards magnets, meaning you can magnet a cerb or swordmachine, freeze time, place a bunch of rockets, make a funny Za Warudo joke and have several rockets impact at once. Since they already face the enemy once they start flying, they're much less likely to miss and it circumvents the 2-3 rockets before the magnet breaks limit, it just needs some time and space to set up

4:52 you don't actually need to slam for this method. Just having a downwards momentum and whiplashing the rocket below you gets you on top of it

Something really useful I haven't seen talked about is using whiplash on a fodder enemy and immediately following with a rocket is the easiest way I've been able to pull of air shots. You don't even have to be pulling from off the ground for it to be an air shot. My guess is it has to do with a whiplashed enemy not technically on the ground even if it's literally touching it. But I haven't seen any videos on it, so I thought I'd tell you about it

Awesome video man, i laughed at the explanation on how memories work

Love this weapon in the cybergrind, Cerberus and swordsmachines stuck on bounce pads instantly create a red explosion when hit with the RL. Not the most practical use of it but fun nonetheless. Still gotta try out the rocket riding so thanks for the vid!

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this rocket launcher is definitely my new favorite weapon its just so fun to fly around with and also the red explosions are so satisfying

that cowboy bebop reference was fucken perfect i gotta say edit: the science regarding the brain functions is actually more or less accurate btw

thank you for discovering and inventing rocket riding

I've give it a spin for around 10 hours or so in regular levels (Not the cyber grind yet) and I now can say that it is a weapon that good in certain ocations, it complements the arsenal well after the nerf of the Whiplash but offensively it's a bad choice since Core Ejects are better since they do a red explosion upon hitting it and movement wise after the last hotfix has killed it a bit (For me) but I can see why it was done, I'll probably update this comment once I play with it in CB

thank you for the study tips, this will help me greatly in my neuroscience class

Such a juicy vid man!

This video was helpfull, other videos only show a more complex form of rocket riding with extremelly fast imputs, so I apreciate the help + It's the only guide(that i am aware of) that explains the launcher in so much detail

great video as always, personally i would also say to groundslam for easy airshots, stylish and effective

This is the most fun I've had with a weapon in any video game, besides the marksman

As a fan of jazz, your music taste is top tear.

i think the freezeframe is kinda useful for instakilling sentries by setting up a bunch of rockets, attaching a magnet and ground slamming the sentry for the airshot boost

i just love how the utrakill community can get so emotional about a gun getting nerfed when it hasnt been out for barelly a month lol i am truly curious to see how useful this gun is ganna be with all the varietions cause so far i only see it being useful being in cybergrind since rocket ridings needs a lot off space and you rarelly get that in wrath and heressy and rocket riding just wastes time in p ranking since hakita for some reasons made time limits really tight i dont see any use for the rocket launcher outside for those rare moments anyways good video as usual but is it weird that i NOW just learned that your profile picture is a frog lol

if you shoot a rocket in any direction (make sure you are moving, sliding works too) and whiplash it before it's too far away, it will go back to you and cause a damaging explosion (35 dmg). it sends you pretty dang far. it can also be chained mid-air with another rocket and whiplash. it's simple to pull off as well (also, i have no idea if this boost has been found yet, as i have started playing only a few days ago. if it has, shout-out to whoever that person may be)

Man I wasn't expecting the KOF XIII OST, absolute masterpiece of a video

I really liked the neuroscience bit, you clearly did your homework, easy like in my book

Another excellent video keep up the good work glu!

holy hell the editing is amazing

The more I learn about the possible tech in this game the more I realize people who are good at all of it are what a lethal dose of Adderall looks like

Bro used tekken 2 character select music Instant win lol great video

If you don't wanna spend a railcannon charge or it's recharging the malcannon + rocket trick works just as well if you replace malcannon with maurice's exploding beam (you can see this in the rocket launcher trailer) It's a bit impractical and frustrating to pull off considering you have to time it right because you'll either hit yourself, or no one. But damn does it feel satisfying, clears out projectiles and some fodder real well.

the soundtracks you use for your videos are some of the best on this platform,keep it up g

Really good editing, I really enjoyed the video

Fun fact: If you're chaining rocket jumps, performing a quick slide jump before firing the next rocket at your feet will preserve all of the momentum, making you able to do consecutive, huge jumps that cross a massive distance. It's basically the same as a regular slide jump, where you jump into the air during that tight window where you maintain your speed, but you fire a rocket at your feet the instant after you leave the ground. Timing's super tight, but if you get the rhythm down it's easy enough. Also, you can do this from a complete standstill, and i think you cross even more distance than you would in a dash-jump rocket jump

the first rocket riding tip is way easier than the one where you dash slam into it thx mate

4:23 This bit gave me 'nam flashbacks to 12th grade Psych.

Hitting minos while he's in the air is great

I'm just at 0:02 and my sides already got railcoinned by that tekken 2 character selection theme + reverbed fart

I just found a rocket riding technique that i find a lot easier to use! It has to be used a bit proactively but i find it much more consistent if you are starting out at rocket riding, like me! It only works if you are falling slower the terminal velocity, so in the first second or two of beginning to fall. You simply point down, try to get yourself falling in a straight line, Freeze, shoot, unfreeze. If you were going mostly straight down and not going too fast you should start riding the rocket instantly or after a moment as the rocket catches up with you. Like i said it has to be used proactively, since you have to predict when you're going to be falling and quickly orient yourself. But i think it's useful to know as an easier practice tool if nothing else.

Good video this gonna help me with rocket riding btw really impressive how you take the time to respond the coments

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Can i honestly say i want the regular speed version of the tanget about the front cortex and brain activity Also, really good video, I want to love the rocket launcher but Applying it to my method of play is proving difficult, and this helps alot

nice choice of music, tekken ost is goated

Anyone else would be unironically interested in a science video by Lud? Also cool Isaac music.

I know this is off topic, but imagine. wave 40 and clash mode activated that would be so much fun to watch.

Super useful video man, great stuff! I do have one question though, I keep seeing clips of others curving the rocket midair while riding it, and even saw some in this video. How the hell do you do that? Is it just something with the magnets or am I missing something here? Also the neuroscience bit fucking killed me

honey wake up rocket launcher video came out

thank you for the rocket enjoying guide i can finally have fun now

sick editing and succinct explanation

>ultrakill video >fighting game ost i always knew ultrakill was a fighting game

great taste in music

holy shmoly you totally gave off a soldier player vibe before I even knew you played TF2

A++ for Melty Blood music

i followed this and i still failed but then out of nowhere it clicked and now i can do it consistently thanks for this video guy

thank you so much, this video has allowed me to activate my medial temporal lobe to access my declarative memory. i finally learned how to develop muscle memory. could you do one for object permanence?

Rocket Launcher: *Gets added to Ultrakill* TF2 Players: _My time has come_

Fun Fact: that nerf doesn't work when NO WEAPONS COOLDOWN cheat is enabled. I know it applies to sandbox but it's fun to fly around. They disappear after some time btw.

rip in peace rocket launcher

At first I was like "you can ride your rockets?!" Then I thought "well, it's ultrakill after all..."

another important tech, if you pre freeze the rockets you can shoot one up jump and then quickly look down and shoot another one jump off of it and then you can have a rocket pillar

This is such a well made vid

I hear that under night ingirth s[ex] ost. Nice

i love rocket

Miiiiight have to sandbox this later to see if rocket riding is worth it outside of cringe grind

Because I'm shit at fast riding, what I do instead when I'm falling off on cybergrind is I look straight down under me, fire, freeze a split second after firing, and then try to fall on the rocket. Much easier, but it does give less height.

with this i've been able to finally p-rank 0-1 :D

Pog, the frog's sawgun says trans rights. Also thanks for the informative neuroscience lesson!

I tried to process what is thumbnail reference. V1 is posing as X from MegaMan X1 covert art from SNES.

Ultrakill, a game where you are parrying an attack and doing a projectile boost with a shotgun at the same time while riding on your own rocket as a GoPro with legs.

Hope i'm not the only one to recognize the pose that v1 is doing in the thumbnail. It's a Mega Man X1 reference.

We need jump beef in ultrakill. Hell, give us jurf and we’ll figure it out

Fucking amazing editing dude well done!

also guys I kinda strugled with this but S is up and W is down I dont think any tutorials on how to rocket ride tells this in the video but yeah also this serves if you also didnt pay attention to the "minimap" of controls in the corner like me

I enjoy your video editing and commentary styles. If you don't mind me asking, which program do you use to edit your videos?

all this time, I thought I'd never be capable of the *quick rocket ride™* then I watched the instructions, hopped in sandbox, and it's already in my muscle memory... ffs

Oh...you can speed up the rockets by whiplashing them. Just make sure they hit an enemy or an obstacle. Though if it comes back and hits you, you can get a nice horizontal speed boost.

For the motor cortex lesson, I paused the video, went to 0.25x playback. Surprisingly enough, it's not gibberish. I still understood jack shit on that.

W H E R E D A N O C L I P

I slowed that shit down. yes all that he said about the brain was true

offensively by itself its not very great, however just because its another weapon, it means you can just sneak it in mid-combo to get more damage. this is enforced by cerberus damage being 1.5 for rl for some reason, and also the weapon freshness system

sounds like he really wants to be a trollger in ultrakill lmao

4:21 what you need to know to speedrun ultrakill

nice rocket launcher

I like how he didn't just bullshit the sped up part

damn i went in expecting ultrakill rl knowledge and i left with the knowledge that my brain does

I'm waiting on that alternate rl that got shown off on twitter. I love rocket launcher and I love to airshot but rocket riding seems redundant outside of cybergrind

i would like to propose that you name your sawblade launcher "The Top Surgeon"

For me I find that one of the best ways to use the weapon in combat is to whiplash a small enemy and shoot a rocket around the same time triggering an airshot very close to the ground

every nerf is ok as long as i can still "market garden" with Knuckleblaster

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I'd also add that you can get a lot of enviromental kills with it, maybe not the most optimal way to use it but very funny

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FINALLY

i laughed at the mention of how the frontal lobes work, i got thrown off said what the fuck why is he talking about this. thought you were gonna go video essay mode about how we perceive things or human brain i would've liked it if you gave an explanation about how our perception of left right is affected by our brain being split in too. it's very funny i appreciate it.

this video didn't need to got this hard tbqh

I can't hit anything with this weapon and when I do it doesn't feel like it was worth it. Might not dust off my 5 key until the damage gets buffed or the direct-hit requirement gets changed because it just feels like this was designed exclusively for people who have P ranked Minos Prime. I'll try to learn the rocket riding, though. Thank you for the good guide!

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I see that mega man x boxart pose for the thumbnail

For rocket riding, I just fire, dash, freeze all at the same time and then just unfreeze The easiest way of doing it for me Anyway rocket riding and just combining rocket for combat is very busted on Cybergrind and i got to wave 69 (nice) with it Greatest update so far

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