The hop doesn't increase your speed at all but it has a different arc than the slide jump. It gives you a little more height and less distance which can be useful in some cases. Sometimes it's better/easier to get a hard fall and then convert that into forward speed with the slide.
Viewing post in CyberRunner jam comments
I've uploaded my Course run (1:18:08):
Just refining your movements in the most part, could not discover new ones and still feel needing tools instead of doing it manually (which is at least difficult, and sometimes impossible). That's not about making you to do them right away, just wanted to explain that i feel a bit demotivated to do experiments because of that. But i probably will try to apply new knowledge from Tutorial in a 1-2 weeks anyway ;)
Thank you for explanation of hop, tried to use it at Tutorial, got some good results (44:13):
Earlier when you was talking about hop i was thinking more about big chain jumps as in the beginning of my Tutorial run, that one really speeds you up if you time this properly and gave me a huge breakthrough imho
Forgot to show my input, was feel more to just play. If that's interesting for you, let me know, can think about setting it up it next time :)
If you want to know how to do double dash i can try to explain, i can reproduce it pretty consistently now ;)
I'm also curious, do you have a stats for how a lot of runs done? I think that's A LOT for me, would be cool to know the number :) Btw how a lot of runs do you have to take to do a record for last 2 times (1 per level)?
Before i reply i was thinking of creating new post either here but as a new thread (because going inside big thread imho is really inconvinient) or at your game page. For the last one i guess it's good to show some engagement but on the other hand it's probably will be a lot of messages, so i wanted to ask you, what do you prefer?
Actually, I just created a new devlog talking about this update. Maybe that would be a better place to discuss this release.
https://micahpharoh.itch.io/cyberrunner/devlog/948710/update-13