Sticky [Deathrun] New Users Guide

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*Note: Anything in this orange is information of interest, so try to look those over the most.

New Users Guide​

Hello and welcome to Serious Gmod's Deathrun! This is the second gamemode that was implemented in July of 2015, and has been a part of the community ever since.

About Deathrun:
Deathrun is a game mode consisting of two roles:

• Deaths
• Runners

The Deaths are the ones that are similar to the traitors in TTT, where the role of these Deaths are to attempt to kill the Runners that traverse through the map with various traps and obstacles in their way. You as a death claim and activate these traps in order to kill the runners and win the round.

As a Runner, your only goal is to traverse through the map, avoid any and all traps, and make your way to the very end of the map, where you are given many different minigames to choose from that chooses the fate of the death. These generally vary, but are given in the following outline:

• Bunnyhopping (Bhop): This is generally an easy one where there is a set of steps leading to a center, which contains various weapons to use against each other. This does have a risk if the death is any good at bhopping, but it is probably the fairest of the gamemodes.
  
• Easy: This is generally the most certain one to victory for the runners, where the death is put into a deathtrap himself, and is killed without any chance of winning.
  
• AWP: This is generally including a level, flat playing field, which includes both players being given AWPs, and are asked to battle to the death.

*Note: There are some unique gamemodes found within certain maps, such as "Old School, Survival, and Knife Arena" in Atomic Warfare, but those are exclusive to the map.

 

Bunnyhopping and You: A Direct Guide to Basic Bunnyhopping

Bunnyhopping is pretty much essential to being consistent at completing maps. Sometimes just walking through and taking it trap by trap is neither as fun, or as consistent as bhopping through and maintaining a quicker speed.

First, it is important that you enable "Autojump" in your deathrun settings console.

To do so, you can open the menu using F1, and then enabling "Autojump" at the bottom of the menu, as seen here.

This allows you to continue to jump by holding space bar, which is much easier for beginners.

In order to first gain speed, you are to first do what is known as "pre-speeding". Pre-speeding allows you to maintain the speed you wish to go throughout the entire map using the w key to begin going forward, so long as you continue to wiggle and move your character in either the left of right direction that corresponds with the movement key you are using.

There are generally two ways to pre-speed: the circle method, or the figure-8 method. The circle method uses a single continuous direction to gain speed before bunnyhopping, while the figure-8 method uses both directions to gain speed while going in a figure-8 pattern. This is based on preference, but both do follow the same objective in the end, which is to gain speed in order to bhop efficiently. Remember, it's about making it through the map as fast and as in control of your character as possible!

For Example: If you were to want to move in the left direction, you would continue to keep the jump button held down, and while moving your mouse in the left direction, you would also hold the "left movement key" in order to do what is known as "Wiggling". Wiggling allows you to gain speed, and can be done in either the left direction or the right direction depending on where you wish to move.

 

Current List of Maps:
We have an entire list of maps to choose from, all ranging from beginner to a more difficult map. The maps include various secrets and unique traps that are found throughout the map.
These include:

 

The Store And You: Understanding the Store and What It Has to Offer

The Store offers different ranks that vary in cost, ranging from Bronze, a 10$ rank, all the way to Legendary, which costs 200$.
This can be seen here in our store:

Spoiler: Deathrun Premium Ranks

Spoiler: Global Premium Ranks

The first 4 ranks listed above only apply to Deathrun, while the Global Premium Ranks apply to both TTT and Deathrun. Think about the benefits and find the one that bests fits your needs. Keep in mind that some of these are permanent, while some of them only last a month to a year respectively.

 

Pointshop Listings:

This is a list of our current items in the pointshop, all listed based upon the tier in which they reside in.
*Note these items will be at different prices depending on the rank you have on Deathrun, as these ranks can provide discounts in the pointshop.

Models:

Spoiler: No Rank

Spoiler: Bronze

Spoiler: Silver

Spoiler: Gold

Spoiler: Elite/Legendary

 

Death Models:
*Note: There is no model for players who have no rank here. Keep that in mind.

Spoiler: Bronze

Spoiler: Silver

Spoiler: Gold

Spoiler: Elite/Legendary

 

Trails:

Spoiler: No Rank

Spoiler: Bronze

Spoiler: Silver

Spoiler: Gold

Spoiler: Elite/Legendary

 

Knives:

These are the current lists of knives available to the community:

Spoiler: Current List of Knives

*Note: These are all available with the same skins, all varying in price based upon the rank, as well as the availability.

Current List of Skins:

Spoiler: No Rank

Spoiler: Bronze

Spoiler: Silver

Spoiler: Gold

Spoiler: Elite/Legendary

 

Ghost Mode and You! A Guide to Understanding !Ghost Command

The ghost command is something entirely unique to deathrun, and can be used in various different manners, such as getting some practice in, or look through the remainder of the map without the risk of death.

By typing in the !Ghost command in your chat, you are able to become a ghost, and freely noclip and bunny hop throughout the map. All it takes is using the "V" key, and you'll be ready to clip through anything you want. You also are unable to die in this mode, meaning that when you fall off the map, you just simply have to noclip back up and try again.

This can be helpful when you wish to bhop through the map as fast as possible, learning new routes, or understanding what the map has to offer in general.

 

Achievements and You: A Guide to Our Leveling/Achievement System:

This right here is for all players to be able to accomplish, rank or not.

Using the achievement system we offer here, you are able to scale through the ranks of Unranked to Challenger, the same ranking system used in League of Legends.

There are 56 Achievements total throughout the various prestiges you earn.

With enough achievements, you are able to prestige and reset the amount of achievements you do, while they increase in difficulty as you go up the ranks.

The ranks go up as follow:

Unranked

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Platinum

Diamond

Challenger