Dead Island 2 Slide/Bunny Hop In-depth Guide 

But it feels straight up impossible, ive tried so many different timings idk why it refuses to work even once. I got the initial slide hop down but if i hold slide again i just dont stand back up after the initial slide. I have to wait until i stand back up to press slide, and occasionally i can get a chain but im not picking up speed at all. Im so frustrated i just wanna get this down in time for ng+

If you need any help just ask, played some Dead Island 2 recently and it is really worth working on if you enjoy cool movement 😎 Just another thing that makes the game more fun to play in my opinion

its easier on pc.

I didn't notice I was holding sprint while aiming, I was letting go of both jump and aim before I press sprint but I think because my aim is on L2 (which is a trigger button) it remained pressed slightly longer as I let it go. As far as a crap explanation goes, it's still helped people out so it could have been worse but cheers for watching and for your input. I'll pin this so everyone can see how much of a smart cookie you are. EDIT: I decided to test your theory and it turns out you don't have to be holding Aim+Sprint. As you can see in this example I press Sprint (Triangle) completely on its own with no other inputs held and I still get the slide on the ground as you can hear. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oi2f2o9aVdM.html

@@niceguydom5460fyi, bro nobody wants a 10 min explanation. Just get to the point and tel us the easiest way to wctualy hit the input. No need to go around the map and all that bs. Plain simple and you get views. When you talk to my my adhd fucks with me and I literally can’t listen to you talk anymore. It’s too confusing. So instead of thinking about a select few autistic people as yourself, and think about everyone and the easiest way to reach them

this is the waay!

your explanation is worse what are you on about

@@aionvibe.fyi. Don’t be a dick the guy’s just trying to help and you’re being a weirdo tf is wrong with rude people like you??

Thanks, let me know if you have any troubles with anything and I'll be sure to help you out

Yo I trying and I struggling got any tips? I struggle on chaining the second 1 because I can do the slide and aim and jump but then when a sprint I always crouch or I just can’t chain the second one casual I don’t know what to press

@@Cartoonedits-cn6lx the sprint timing is the hardest part, if you press sprint but you're still holding aim you will land in crouch so make you let go of aim completely before pressing sprint while in the air As for continuing the chain it goes likes this Sprint - Slide - Jump + Aim - Sprint (after letting go of aim while you are still in the air) - Hold Slide (just before landing) - then after you land you repeat from the Jump + Aim step. At first just focus on remembering the buttons and the order and eventually when you have the muscle memory built up you can start chaining it all together very nicely. A good starting point to focus on is making sure you can land in slide consistently and the is what makes you build speed.

@@niceguydom5460 ty

I can now do 2 most of the time in a row but sometimes I mess up the sprint or the buttons

That's crazy, the marksman rifle bugs out for me

​@@niceguydom5460 Its kinda crazy I was thinking to myself duuude theres bunny hopping in this game I always knew you could. I didnt even look up this vid out of my will either it just popped up in my reccs.

Hold your crouch button while in the air so you don't have to time the slide, it will just do the slide as soon as you land :)

@@niceguydom5460 ohhhh thank you so much

Triangle is my sprint button

how to make triangle your sprint button?

@@kimberlynauta1828 Controller accessibility settings - Controller Configuration - Swap trianlge and sprint

Guns are janky in my experience, somtimes you can bug it out and get stuck in aim and you have to switch weapons to fix it but yes it does work with guns, it's just janky

A buddy and me have done a couple of co-op runs of this game, the movement is fun but the late game fights while being under level are kinda rough (for some reason doing just the main quests makes you one shot in the second half of the game) so we haven't done many runs. I haven't done any solo runs and don't plan to, I'll leave that to the better gamers

Tbf this movement tech has inspired me to go for a speedrun wr

@@Death-_-machine That's awesome, the movement is crazy fun and it's not a very long run. Good luck with the grind! Make sure to go to the speedrun.com page and join the dead island discord if you can, a bunch of runners are there and can help you out with a bunch of things if you need.

@niceguydom5460 thanks so much and this game is definitely hard towards the end but I will ask some questions towards other runners thx so much for your help as well

I had a similar thing happen, I didn't fall through the map but I was definitely stuck in the floor

Yeah still works I played it the other day. If you are just jumping try buffering the slide a little later in the jump. So rather than holding slide right after your first jump, wait a small moment then hold slide

Yup. but i have switched back to original controls since this video

@@niceguydom5460 Oh I see. Oh alr cool. Yeah I was like, "why isn't the L3 clicking in on his control"? haha then I just clicked 🤦🏽‍♂️😅 Uhm..this is going to sound weird but, I only have the game on ps4 slim lol old I know..just wondering if there will be a change in the frames or timing?

@@mersarultmit5577 there shouldn't be I can't 100% confirm that though. I imagine the game runs slower on a ps4 so MAYBE you might have to slow down the inputs but that is just a guess

@@niceguydom5460 yeah I do gain momentum quite abit but when I input on rhythm it messes up haha so yuh I have to time it just right to keep it sustained. Thanks bro, appreciate your tutorial.🤝🏽

So for slide hops you buffer slide and then when you hear the slide noise you press jump+aim when you hit the ground, so you can't buffer jump for slide hops only bhops. If you find your momentum getting killed straight away it could mean 2 things 1. You are pressing sprint too late and you are landing in crouch not slide. 2. If you are sliding but getting no momentum out of jump it means you are pressing aim too early. Aiming is what keeps your momentum which is why you jump and aim at the same time but if you press aim before you land aiming cancels your sprint so you won't get a slide. So if you in a nutshell Sprint - slide - jump + aim - sprint - slight pause - hold slide - jump + aim (when you hear the slide noise, if you do this too early you will cancel your sprint and kill your speed) - then repeat Hopefully this helps, if you have discord and are able to stream the game I would gladly watch what you're doing and see what's going on if you still can't get it consistent. EDIT: it's hard to explain but as you saw in the video I straight up missed my slide and was sprinting on the ground for a second but when I jumped I still had all the momentum. The part I meant to say was lenient was when you are jumping out of slide, the stuff before it kinda precise but not undoable. If it was really precise it wouldn't be consistent on a controller with no macros. If you need I can send my discord to you and help out more if need be. Hopefully this helps

@@niceguydom5460 ​ I noticed you buffer your slide at the apex of your jump after each skip, so you have time to let go after the hold and jump out of the slide’s startup animation. So I tried this. This does nothing on my end. Slide doesn’t buffer in midair no matter what I do. Long press, short press, holding until I land, on the way up, at the apex, falling, doesn’t matter. I land sprinting 100% of the time. The only way for me to do this is to slide the second I hit the ground every time. This may explain why your technique isn’t recreatable for me I do have discord but I’m on ps5 and don’t have a controller overlay or anything Btw, what are the specs on this tech? Like does Amy build speed fastest since she has the most cumulative momentum per sprint? What about fury mode? You move much faster in fury, right? Edit: Upon further testing some of these issues appear due to map inconsistencies for whatever reason. For example, I can sprint out of a slidehop 100% of the time on Emma’s property. However, pier drops 90% of my sprint inputs out of jump/aim. My timing is simultaneous with jump aim, it’s nowhere near late. Also, bafflingly, while (as I said) slide buffers do nothing for me on Emma’s map, they work flawlessly 100% of the time on pier. This would explain why it is so inconsistent and difficult to recreate this tech, and why people say it’s so much harder on consoles. It’s also mostly impossible to actually maneuver on console while using without swapping sticks as well, making this mostly a novelty or speedrunning tech. A shame, but still cool nonetheless

@@AMetalWorld I know I am late to this reply but 100% doable om consoles as I have practiced running this game on PS5, I just play with a claw grip and you can maneuver perfectly fine once you get use to it. I have been playing with a claw grip since way back in the good old MW2 days so for me it is second nature but I can understand that people wouldn't be comfortable with this at first but it is super worth investing time into this way of holding a controller because having full camera control whilst being able to press the face buttons is useful is literally every game first person game.

I actually was able to get it eventually to be pretty consistent and reach max speeds on most maps, even in other people’s games. The trick for me was (as is usually the case for me) understanding something about the tech fundamentally different. I was under the impression the slidehop tech had to be perfectly looped with each series of bhops, and once at max speed, *then* you could just hop to maintain momentum. But this isn’t necessary. You actually only have to bhop like twice, and then you can maintain momentum while hopping and continue to build from more slidehops after. They don’t need to be consecutive loops. So you can go sprint > slide > jump/aim > sprint > buffer slide > jump/aim, then just hop at that speed for a bit, and continue the loop after. This is far, far easier and more consistently recreatable imo, especially in online play where latency and rubber banding is an issue. I also feel like more controlled bursts of speed have more utility anyway, as lots of times you’re in alleys, or buildings, or sewers, or rooftops. I run dodge in tandem with this, as it both kills your momentum and redirects you in a single input, letting you reposition at high speeds, so flying across a room and dodging around a corner can be very quick for maneuvering in tight spaces. There seems to be a thing where if you do this into a staircase it forces you into the mount animation and kills your momentum, however. I’ve found that turning around so you don’t hit it with your front side seems to work pretty well to counteract this tho This video was definitely very helpful in the end, thanks. That sprint on triangle via accessibility remapping was huge. Took a bit of labbing, trial and error, and re-examining my understanding of the core techs being linked for me to get it tho haha PS I’m familiar with claw, I use a number of different formats depending on the game/situation tbh. It is useful for lots of inputs and still controlling the camera in FPS games for sure. Especially ones with crazy movement options like Titanfall 2. Heads up tho, claw is actually very very bad for your hand muscles and ligaments. A number of pros have injured themselves using it and had to resort to using things like fightboxes as a result. So you should try to avoid relying on it if you can. Thanks again for the tech tutorial dude, I’ve sent a few people this vid already to help them learn

@@AMetalWorld I'm glad you have made it work your own way! Also cheers for the concern about the grip, I did hear about all of these things I do take caution with it and have altered how I hold the controller over the years to make it way less strenuous (since controllers keep getting bigger) by holding the controller really loosely and resting my arms on a desk so I don't have to grip the controller tightly and put pressure on my index finger.

Still does, was doing this on the new Sola map

@@niceguydom5460 awesome ty for answer:)

Triangle

@@IMWICKED_ on PS5 you go to settings, accessibility, controller, custom controller layout, customise layout

Hmm are you on PC?

@@niceguydom5460 yeah im getting closer rn