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GOW Madness Features:

• *NEW* Orb Ride - Carry the orb in any vehicle.
   
• *NEW* Unlocked Vehicles - Jack any unmanned vehicle at any time.

• Easy Rocket Lock - It is much easier to lock onto targets using the rocket launcher.
   
• Bigger Shock Combo - Shock combo blast is more deadly and wide-spread than stock.
   
• Stinger Strength - Tweaked stinger primary fire to do more damage with more spread. Secondary fires a bit faster too.
   
• Sniper Strength - Tweaked sniper to do more damage.
   
• Translocator Flight - Your velocity is reset after you translocate making easier to gain and maintain height.
   
• Shaft Reduction - Bots favor the link rifle less now so you don't get shafted every time you're near them .
   
• Tele-orb-return - Hit the orb carrier with your translocation disc to return the orb back to its base.
   
• Flak Attack - Flak cannon has faster, stronger, more focused primary fire. Secondary fire splits into three separate shells
   
• Deadly Enforcer - Enforcer fires faster with complete accuracy. Secondary fire releases a burst of 6 shots. Dual enforcers must be picked up again.
   
• Health Meters - You now see a health bar overlay for teammates on foot just like you do for friendly vehicles.
   
• Link Flexibility - When link-healing, the link beam now bends up to 90 degrees in any direction.
   
• Matrix Moves - Low gravity mid-air dodging. See below for full details.
   
• Default Inventory - Enforcer (single), Link Gun, and Avril... no Impact Hammer
   
• Hover Vehicle Health Boost - Manta and Viper now start with 250 health... usually enough to survive one Avril hit.
   
• Translocator not included in next/prev weapon cycling... use the circle button on sixaxis.
  
• Semi-Berserk - Weapon Speed now set to 50% greater than normal... previously it was 80%.
   
• Keyboard Dodging - If you use mouse and keyboard, you can dodge by double-tapping yout directional keys... just like the PC version.
   
• Translocator - It's baaack!. Now you can use either the translocator or hoverboard at any time. On the sixaxis, the circle button brings up the translocator. On keyboard, it is the same as A.S.S.
• Team Linking - Boost teammates' link gun damage by using your link gun's alt-fire to create a direct link like UT2K4.
   
• Team Healing - Use link gun alt-fire on teammates to heal them up to 300 health points. Teammate must not be firing a weapon to be healed.
   
• Scavenger Boost - Scavenger does much more damage with its bolt weapon and can jump much higher.
   
• Fast Hoverboard Remount - Remount your hoverboard w/out waiting (stock board makes you wait about 1 second).
   
• Superhero - Destroy 5 enemy orbs to receive 30 seconds of super-health (800 pts), super-speed (2x), double-damage, and the ability to fly.
   
• Kamikaze Board - Hoverboard moves faster and jumps higher. Push L1 to trigger kamikaze blast. Push R1 to attach to vehicles including other hoverboards.
   
• Game Speed + 10% - Same speed as PC version.
   
• DropItAll - Drop all weapons when you die.
   
• Anti-Spawn Camping - Slightly increased invulnerability time when spawning.
   
• Anti-Idle - 2 Minutes of Idling... Adios
   
• AutoHealth x2. Starting health is 150 - Collect super-health pickups to 300

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Matrix Moves:

In a nutshell, matrix moves give you more time and control in the air. Once you jump into the air, gravity effects you less than it normally does and you have 3 jump boosts plus 3 air dodges. Jump boosts are just like double jumping... press the jump button again to boost your height... except you get 3 jump boosts (like a quad-jump) and you can boost any time you're in the air rather than having to do it near the peak of your jump.

Air dodges thrust you in various directions while you're in the air with even more speed than a jump boost. You can dodge to the left, right, up, or down... note that non-lateral dodging is up and down, not forward and back. How you perform each air dodge depends on whether you use the a keyboard or controller. With a keyboard, you simply double-tap one of directional keys... like normal dodging on the PC. With the controller however, you have so called "smart dodging" which is Epic's poor excuse for dodging on consoles. Press jump while the left analog stick is all the way forward to dodge up, all the way back to dodge down, and so on. I find it very tricky to air dodge on a controller but I normally use a keyboard anyway so my coordination in that regard is sub-par.

Finally, you can hover in mid-air for up to 7 seconds. To begin hovering, press the feign death button (now finally you have a good use for that). To end hovering, press the feign death button again. Once you end hovering, you will resume traveling in whatever direction and speed you had when you started. Keep in mind that you can only hover once per jump and you can only do it for 7 seconds at the most.

HINT #1: To move quickly through the air, get on your hoverboard, gather up speed, jump, get off your hoverboard while you are still in mid-air, and perform jump boosts to gain height when needed. You will carry your forward speed as long as you do normal jump boosts and you can steer your flight left and right. Be careful not to do a forward air dodge though, you'll gain more height than a jump boost but it will slow you down.

HINT #2: When in heavy combat, save your last air dodge for the trip down. Otherwise you'll be left in a slow decent back to the ground... an easy target.

HINT #3: Use mid-air hovering when you need to do some sharp shooting from a lofty vantage point.

Special thanks to A.S.S. Poker for sharing his Matrix source code with me. Be sure to check out the A.S.S. gaming web site and try out the A.S.S. warfare server next time you play on PC!