rocket jump
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editrocket jump (plural rocket jumps)
- (video games) A jump performed by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
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editrocket jump (third-person singular simple present rocket jumps, present participle rocket jumping, simple past and past participle rocket jumped)
- (video games) To perform a jump by blasting a rocket launcher in close proximity to one's character.
- 2003, Doug Radcliffe, Halo - Combat Evolved: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets:
- Be advised that rocket-jumping is very painful. It's inadvisable to attempt it […]
- 2004, Alex J Champandard, AI Game Development:
- Ideally, we don't want to test for rocket jumping directly, instead letting the evolution discover rockets as the best approach […]
- 2008, Jim Rossignol, This Gaming Life:
- This technique now arrives almost subliminally for Quake players, but rocket jumping has long been recognized as one of Quake's key skills.
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editBorrowed from English rocket jump.
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