Advanced Mechanics

Strafing

Bunny Hopping

Air Control

Dagger Jumps

Shotgun Tech

Combining Stream + Shotgun

Steam Shaking

Shotgunning the floor

Kiting

Scraping Centipedes

Scraping Gigapedes

There's two types of strafing: circle-strafing and strafe-running.You'll mostly be strafe-running in a circle in this game, although sometimes it's useful to circle strafe. Like when you're finishing off a swarm or fighting the Leviathan.Strafe-running is done by holding two directional keys at once. E.g. W+D or W+A. this makes you run slightly faster, and when combined with bunny hopping, lets you move really fast.Bunny hopping (Bhopping) isn't REQUIRED to survive, but it sure is helpful for not only outrunning SKULL Is, but also for gaining enough speed to kill things sooner than later.To bhop, you need to time your space presses correctly. A well-times press will result in a basketball-sounding sound, and an increase in your FOV.Not really much to say here. Air control is a little weird, you can strafe and look with the mouse in one direction to influence the direction you move in-air, but I still don't quite understand it. This is something you just have to get used to.Not a necessary technique, but you can rocket jump in this game. If you aim downwards and shotgun blast and jump within a small interval (order doesn't matter), you will jump very high. You can even double rocket jump. The only time this is necessary is if you are fighting a GIGAPEDE and it coils around you. But even then, you're more likely to fly into a random body part and die.It can save your life, though.I would consult Bintr's video for this one. His tutorial is excellent.It's important not to spam the shotgun too much, especially when there are gems on the arena. You need every gem you can get, and shotgun blasts actually move gems AWAY from you. Although you can make an exception when fighting the Leviathan or the ghostpede. By the time you're fighting them, you'll have the maximum upgrade and their yield is so small (6 for levi, 10 for ghostpede) that it's not worth it.The enemies you want to use this against the most are:* SKULL IV* LEVIATHAN / ORB* GHOSTPEDE* SPIDER II* THORNEverything else can generally be killed with the next technique or by just streaming/scraping it to death.This is really effective against a lot of enemies. You can lead a stream into a shotgun blast, and it's good for killing...* SKULL IIs - the stream stuns them and makes them vulnerable to the shotgun* SQUID Is @ Level 1* SKULL IIIs @ Level 1* SQUID IIIs @ Level 3* SPIDER Is @ Level 2 and 3* etcI've seen Bintr do this in his runs. It's actually pretty effective at taking out large swarms of skulls with level 2 and above. But you need high look speed/DPI to make it work. At least that's how it seems.You can shotgun the floor immediately in front of you to make the daggers bounce off into an even wider spread. Varying the distance varies the angle and spread, so it's worth experimenting with.Kiting is a very important maneuver. If you don't learn how to do this, you'll get overwhelmed when the trios of spiders spawn at 175s and 200s. Kiting is the act of leading skulls or centipedes in a circle so that they can never quite reach you. It's a big part of movement.You don't really have to kite centipedes, as they're pretty easy to deal with. And kiting Gigapedes is also super easy, since they move as fast as you walk. The hard part is scraping them.The most important thing to remember here is to NEVER run in a straight line. The Skulls move faster than you and will overtake you very fast. Keep your movement in circles, and your circles mostly anti-clockwise. Sometimes it's necessary to go clockwise, but it's rare. There are only two times when moving in a straight line is okay.1. is when the arena is clear or mostly clear and a Squid or Spider spawns. Running towards them is usually the most effective way to take them out. And it's also part of my strategy for dealing with 134-174.2. (and you should be strafe-running while doing so) is when you're in the middle of a farm and there's a lot of SKULL IIs flying around. Cutting through the center of the arena lets you kill a ton of them and makes it less likely that you'll get randomly snuffed by one. When doing this, it's probably a good idea to alternate the direction you're looking in. I.e. if you were kiting anti-clockwise, and keeping your mouse movement going to the left. You'll cut through the center with a smaller anti-clockwise circle while moving your mouse right. This is because the Skull IIs are actually tracking how you move and will try to blindside you if you cut through their territory. Contrary to what every other guide says, the Skull II's actually DO chase you. They chase you when you get too close and/or aren't looking directly at them, but they try to strike you from above or from the side.A lot of people go wrong here. Centipedes have some nuances to them that you should understand when fighting them.The wrong way to fight a centipede:Do NOT go under the centipede. It will burrow under the ground immediately and you'll lose your chance for a clean scrape.The right way to fight a centipede (includes scraping the centipede at 174s):Notice how I angle my aim "inwards" to get more daggers into each gem. Also, I'm moving straight to the right or left. This is one of those rare times when moving in a straight line is okay. Moving here helps you avoid the Skulls that spawn at 184 and kill the centipede faster, which makes the later part that much easier.Gigapedes are hard :( watch Bintr's video:Pay special attention to the kiting and the way he leads into the scrape. That's what you want to do, but you have to be REALLY good at it. Don't circle too wide, and don't circle too narrowly. You'll be stuck on this for a while. Just don't give up. You can also try to throw in some Centipede scraping strats. It helps you scrape off just a few more gems.Aim tilting and movement are two things you'll have to become very proficient with to get a good giga scrape.