[Black Mesa] Hat & Pizza - 8 Jump Pads (SUCCESS!)

BREAKING NEWS: How to bring the Hat AND Pizza past the 8 jump pads room!
Similar to my other ideas videos, I set the push triggers up for one jump pad (e.g. Northern).
Basically, once you take a jump pad up, there is a trigger which decides where the "catcher" spawns further up, as well as enabling the corresponding triggers that push you into the catcher when you reach the top.
So if I take the Northern jump pad, this will always spawn the catcher in the North slot and push the player to the position of the North jump pad when you're at the top and captured in the catcher.
But by cancelling the jump, I can take e.g. the NW jump pad but still have the catcher spawn at North (and push me into it).
So I let the pizza jump on North, I myself take the hat to NW or NE, and then if I properly time the jump so I reach the top just when the pizza is in the North catcher slot, it'll be caught and I'll be pushed into it as well.
Then I found a method of doing the trick explained in the Idea 2 video: Simultaneously letting the pizza, and myself with the hat, jump on neighboring jump pads:
- Break two of the pods heading to the "Northern" jump pad, so that we have a bit more time (the NPCs don't bother us).
- Place the pizza inside of that jump pad, and ensure it does not jump away. By having no pods fall onto it, the pizza does not move away for a short period of time. The position of the pizza is important, so be ready to retry this step a few times.
- Bring the hat and move towards a neighboring jump pad (NE or NW).
- To make the pizza jump, simply save&load. This is fairly tight timing, as you must basically launch on the same frame as the pizza.
- Finally, pray that the position of the pizza and the jump timing was adequate for both of you to end up in the same catcher. In my case, it wasn't, but the pizza somehow clipped into the catcher anyway :D
Next hurdle: the suction vent that comes right after it... :(

[@espalhalixo99]

hard asf

[@danielkarami9655]

I can't understand, what does "I set the push triggers up for one jump pad" mean?

[@RedMser]

I explained a bit more in the first idea video description.
Basically, once you take a jump pad up, there is a trigger which decides where the "catcher" spawns further up, as well as enabling the corresponding triggers that push you into the catcher when you reach the top.
So if I take the Northern jump pad, this will always spawn the catcher in the North slot and push the player to the position of the North jump pad when you're at the top and captured in the catcher.
But by cancelling the jump, I can take e.g. the NW jump pad but still have the catcher spawn at North (and push me into it).
So I let the pizza jump on North, I myself take the hat to NW or NE, and then if I properly time the jump so I reach the top just when the pizza is in the North catcher slot, it'll be caught and I'll be pushed into it as well.

[@danielkarami9655]

@@RedMser OH! I get it now, that's actually very creative. I have tried a lot of ideas from different videos, but since only a few countable people have done this, there are not a lot of references out there to help. And most of them are based on luck too

[@MrGrim-ib4ix]

How the hell do you guys figure this shit out???

[@RedMser]

Try things in the game, or open up the map in the editor and look at how its scripting is set up.
I have some other videos trying out different ideas for this skip on this channel, where the description goes more into details.

[@espalhalixo99]

i'm trying right now, its impossible :(

[@RedMser]

It took me hours of trying, and a lot of save loading, to get this setup working 😅I mostly edited save/load out of the video, so you might only see it as a small stutter in the video.
I recommend creating multiple key binds that save and load to different savefiles, so you don't have to restart from your last manual save. You can do that in the console by entering
bind x "save abc"
bind c "load abc"
Luckily this part is the hardest in the run. There's some other tricky stuff (see my "End Game" video), but it's fairly doable I think.
Good luck!!

[@espalhalixo99]

@@RedMser there's a right position to place the pizza inside the launcher?