What makes a Siren fly?

[E(rik)]

We've all seen the phenomena; you shoot a Siren with a grenade launcher, and rather blow it up, it flys in the direction of grenade impact. Now, this doesn't really sound odd to me until I did some testing, and the Siren was the only zed I could get to do this.

Anyone know in particular why this happens?

 

[vealck]

I'm guessing it's because of the following:

-Enough hit points to survive grenade explosion
-Low defined mass
-No stun animation

 

[Faneca]

I've sent Scrakes flying. Fired a M32 and the grenade landed at it's feet and make it go flying trough the air, spinning. He was dead tough.


Would like to see a video of a Siren kissing the sky.

 

[timur]

anyone else have the hellish experience where they threw a grenade at the feet of a raging FP, and they ran backwards to avoid it and then forwards again, just in time to be hit square in the back....sending the fuming fleshpound flying towards you at hyperspeed! One time it actually catapulted over my team...

 

[Gartley]

^ Christ, that must have given you a heart attack. I know when I started playing as a demo the standing joke in the team was that they had to get sirens before me, couldn't help it, if I launched one it'd be right into the team and I'd be laughing so hard at the noises of shock and distress from the others I was useless. XD

 

[Ibin.]

^^ That reminds me of one time I was playing HOE Offices not too long ago. Holding the bottom floor a bloat and a crawler jumped down together, seemed easy enough. Then the bloat jumps on top of the crawler and got stuck there and both of them make it to the hallway by the red room in less than half a second. Nearly had a wipe because of it. I couldn't stop laughing at the sight of it though, never seen a bloat move so fast or bounce so much.

 

[Faneca]

That flying FP happened to me like 5 or 6 times or even more when I was starting to play KF. It's not that hard to do actually, just incredibly bad if that happens, because a FP is bad, a raged FP is worse, but a raged FP on LSD is a perfect recepy for death.