OboeCrazy wrote:Then again any good duo can do the same thing, even on the ground.
Yeah but the available real estate on the ground is a lot tighter. It's just like you said, the point is to attack from two angles that are far enough apart you can't easily switch between them/have them both on your screen simultaneously.
In my experience most people don't jet pack in a fight, but it's one of those things you can do to surprise your enemy, especially if they lost sight of you for a moment. This happens a lot in Ragnarok in the canyon and the river. Those pathways gently bend so two people hugging the same wall will naturally lose sight of each other, more and more often jet packs use the opportunity to gain elevation so when you come around with that headshot ready to pre-fire you don't see anyone. It's especially common on the river rocks where there are places they can land so they have 9 seconds of higher elevation instead of just the jet pack's burn time.
I use it a lot on the hill to drop off the ledge and an enemy starts looking down for me in the river as I land right next to him. I'll also use it to gain max elevation on people whose cover is level-dependent, as I said above. Snipers especially seem happy to take 4 shots and then crouch to avoid the 5th. I tend to be comfortable using the jet pack like that because if I'm fighting the sniper that usually means we've killed everyone else.
Most the time it's not a dodge so much as a feint. More often it's useful for starting a fight someone didn't expect to have, like jumping up to the sniper posts on Solace.Those guys aren't interested in having you that close shooting at them, that's why they're up there.