You can also make sure you’re moving fast when you start a swing. The other thing to notice is that you’re moving fastest at the bottom of your swing and slowest at the top - when you’re about to switch directions. But if you back up all the way until you’re on your tiptoes, you’ll have a lot more speed. If you sit on a swing and only take a single step backward, you’re going to swing pretty slowly. Think of playing on a swingset as a kid (or as an adult - we don’t judge here). Without getting too much into the actual (simulated) physics, there’s a logic to the way swinging and Traversal works. But there’s a lot of subtlety that goes into how Spider-Man reacts when you hit the trigger and what that means for your swing. When you’re in the air, it’s your swing button. When you’re on the ground, it’s your parkour button. Throughout Spider-Man, R2 is your move faster and keep moving button. Then, we’ll show you our favorite skills and habits to make Traversal faster and more fun. Finally, and more subtly, you’ll build Focus while swinging - Focus that you can use to heal by pressing down on the D-pad (see our Spider-Man PS4 fighting guide for more on that).īelow, we’re going to help you think about swinging, jumping, and diving your way across New York. Later in the game, you’ll get challenges where you’ll have to navigate a Traversal-type course nearly flawlessly. First, you’re going to do it a lot, so it’ll just be a big help if you’re not struggling the whole time. There’s a few reasons you want to get comfortable with navigating with city via Web Shooters - what the game calls Traversal.

Just like a lot of the mechanics in the game, though, you can get faster and have a lot more fun when you learn some tricks and habits. You’ll have to guide your direction with input on the left thumbstick, but that one button is technically all you need.

At its core, it’s a pretty simple mechanic - hold R2 to swing, let go, hold R2 to swing again. The open world - well, open Manhattan - of Spider-Man PS4 means that you’re going to be spending a lot of time swinging across town.

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