Hand Simulator

Hand Simulator

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Chargrill88's Fishing Guide
By chargrill
using this technique I got the 100kg achievement in 3 days of a few hours fishing. I aim to create an army of proficient hand simulator fishermen. it's easy to execute. you'll learn to pick up bait quickly, bait the rod quickly, cast quickly, reel fish in quickly, take fish off the rod safely and much more.
   
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Introduction
So I was looking through fish pie recipes with my husband and I thought about how I hadn't played any fishing games lately and blah blah blah.

I refined this technique across roughly 3 days of fishing for a few hours each session, in that time I've got all the fishing achievements (I believe) and none of them have been achieved by more than 1.2% of players. this is upsetting, fishing is a nice way to relax in between painting servers with each other's blood and so I share with you here my simple technique for quick and easy fishing.
Ground Rule(s)
Before teaching you to be an awesome fisherman I'm going to teach you to be an awesome person. to achieve this here's some basic observations I've made about fishing mode.

* anyone can join any public fishing server at any time.
* no one is shooting at you.
* there's no winner (i.e., the round wont end just because someone else caught a fish.)
* there's almost nothing any other player can do to stop you from catching a fish.

knowing all these observations above I have come to one inescapable conclusion, there is absolutely no reason to restart a fishing server. If you drop your rod or in some other way make it so that you can no longer fish, leave and come back. that way everyone else can continue fishing happily.

If however you're like me and don't trust losing the host privilege to someone who might restart at any time, and so find yourself having to restart, look around, wait for a time when restarting won't ruin everyone else's experience.

most importantly! relax, enjoy yourself, NOBODY IS SHOOTING AT YOU!
The Basics
Fishing is really very simple, it's just 8 easy steps.

1. Pick up the rod.
2. Pick up some bait.
3. Bait the rod.
4. cast.
5. wait.
6. Reel in your fish.
7. Remove your fish from the rod.
8. Put your fish in the bucket.

and now you know everything go get your 100kg achievement.


all jokes aside, these are the basic mechanics of the mode that may not be immediately obvious to everyone. in the following sections I will describe each step in detail.
1. Picking up the rod
It probably goes without saying that picking up the rod is probably the most crucial step. if you can't do this effectively, you're not going to be fishing proficiently anytime soon.

For quickness sake, in each section I will describe the method, then go into the mechanics of the method afterwards. That way if you're just interested in learning the steps and not so much why the steps you can just skip the mechanics part.

Method

lower your right arm to the rod then grip the rod toward the top of the handle with (as best as possible) your thumb index and middle finger. you can just use LMB to do this while only the required digits are touching or almost touching the handle.



next flip your hand over as smoothly as possible (hold down RMB and move mouse to your right.) the rod may jump about a bit but with practice this will happen less and less.

once your palm is facing upward tilt your wrist so that your fingers are pointing upward. (hold down RMB move mouse toward you.) you may have to move your characters arm out to the right to achieve this.

when all is said and done your rod should be positioned like the rod in this image.



Switch to head view to lock in that grip.

Mechanics

90% (insanely inaccurate hyperbole) of fishing is moving the rod from horizontal to vertical. Just as an experiment, right now in real life try to point upwards with your palm facing down, then try it with your palm facing up. notice the greater range of motion when your palm is facing upward. it's that simple. Add to that locking the handle between your hand and forearm greatly stabilises the rod. you would not believe how much easier most of the following steps become with this grip on the rod.
2. Picking Up the Bait.
it's time to get over your fear of holding slimy wriggly things. we're going to play a little circle game with these maggots then punch 'em in the throat when they lose.

Method

switch to your left hand and pinch together your thumb and forefinger. (F and SPACE keys.)

(you don't need to turn your wrist this is for demonstration only.)

move your hand down (scroll wheel) until you jab one of the maggots with our pinched thumb and forefinger. the maggot should stick to your pinched fingers, if it doesn't, try again you may need to manipulate your hand so that your pinched fingers are able to reach the maggots.



You may want to switch to head view to lock in your grip but generally I find I can do the next part fast enough that holding F and Space bar isn't an issue.

Mechanics

I'm late to the party with this technique, and I don't think I need to explain how much time you'll save versus fiddling around on the ground for the maggots. using this technique I've managed to pick up every single maggot given to me at the start of a fishing session. further this technique has applications all over Hand Simulator any time you gotta pick up something small, use the pinch method, works on grenade pins, bullets, small fish etc., I did hear some Russians (I think) speaking together use the word 'glitch' in reference to me using this technique on a grenade pin (I assume they were talking about me) but seems no less glitchy than shaking the grenade until the pin falls out.
3. Baiting the rod.
It's time to breathe and employ the most important skill in fishing, patience. from this point on every move you make has to be calm and calculated, the time for haste has passed now the key is precision.

Method

twist your wrist so that there is plenty of fleshy maggot pointing toward your right hand/rod then raise your arm straight up to about eye level. one of two things will be occurring, if your movements up until now have been fairly smooth and enough time has passed the hook will just be chilling out in one position ready for you to just bring the maggot to it, otherwise the hook will be swinging backwards and forwards, around and around etc.,

Don't (and I cannot stress this enough) chase the hook. try to hold the maggot in a position where the hook will hit it on it's swing, throughout the whole process repeat the mantra do less. eventually the hook will clip the maggot or it will stop moving and you can (carefully) bring the maggot to the hook.

when the maggot and hook touch each other they should stick together (which you can test with slight hand movements.) and you can then let go of the maggot.



Mechanics

from here on out remember that every movement you make will have some effect on the rod which will provide inertia to the hook, the less you move, the less you will have to move.
4. Casting
thanks to my technique, this is the easiest step.

Method

Switch to your right hand and channel your inner Spiderman by flicking your wrist out so that your fingers are now pointing away from you (hold RMB move mouse away from you.)


these two screenshots show the positions your right hand should be in for most of your fishing experience. (no rod for demonstration purposes.)

stop flicking once the float (white and orange bullet shaped thing) is floating in the water.

Mechanics

There seems to be a sweetspot where you want the float to land for a faster bite that you'll get kind of an intuitive feel for. plus I don't think I've ever got a bite on a float that was completely still in the water. as a result of this I'll move the float around in the water a bit maybe recast if I've been waiting a while. Does it help? I dunno but it passes the time and improves immersion.
5. Waiting
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6. Reeling in your fish.
so you got a big ole' bite and it's time to reel that sucker in everything has been leading up to and rests on this moment.

Method

when you get a bite your float will begin bobbing up and down of it's own accord. You don't need to do anything until the float is totally submerged resulting in your rod being pulled downwards.

now we reverse our Spiderman move, flick your wrist so you're pointing to the sky again. (hold RMB move mouse towards you) once again you may need to move our arm out to the right so that the handle can pass your forearm, but this time you're also going to need to move your arm up (scrollwheel) or, once the handle is passed your forearm, you may need to bring your hand in towards your shoulder. alternate between doing these things until the rod is pointing straight up. one of two things will have happened again. Either you've hooked a big fish or you've hooked a smaller fish guidance for each follows (medium sized fish may need a lil of both methods.)

Big Fish

Big fish are actually easier to control than smaller fish. Once you've hooked a big fish all you have to do is bring that sucker in for a big ole' hug. The closer you can get it to your chest the better also it doesn't hurt for your faces to be in smooching distance.using the method outlined previously should get the fish fairly close, just scrollwheel until you're at a comfortable level of intimacy then switch to your left hand and close in that hug, get a nice curved grip as high up the fish as you can then swtich to head view to lock in that grip. (quarantine is going fine btw, I don't miss human contact at all.)



Small Fish

Small fish can be a little trickier, they won't want to come in for a hug like the bigger fish do, instead they want to frolic and fly. being lighter though you don't need to struggle to so much to get the rod pointing upwards. As such you can move your right hand out in front of you (without altering the angle of the rod) so that the fish on the hook dangles in front of your face. then you should be able to (carefully) bring your left hand to the fish to grab it. once again switch to head view to lock in that grip.

Don't (and I cannot stress this enough) reach for the fish. once again, like with the maggot do less.



make sure once you have gripped smaller fish to move them towards your left hand side before attempting the next step.



Mechanics

Any reaching you do is going to make your body lean forward which in turn will change the angle of the rod moving the fish further away from you and the cycle continues. Don't be this guy (aside from reaching he and his buddy were restarting the session everytime I hooked a fish so don't feel too sorry for him.)



you have to bring the fish to you, the more vertical the rod, the closer to you the fish will be, beyond that a safety net is provided for the next step if the fish is as close to us as can be.


7. Removing your fish from the hook.
now we can taste victory, and it tastes like frenching a fish... moving on.

Method

removing the fish from the hook is actually pretty simple, you've probably done it several times up to this point unintentionally. all that's required is for the fish to be twisted off the hook. hopefully you'll be doing this once you have a firm grip of the fish by simply twisting your wrist (I usually find it easiest to do this in the direction opposite that which the hook is in the fish's mouth). It should come off pretty smooth and you can just move on to the next step. once again this is something you'll get a feel for the more you practice.

If you have to struggle chances are you're going to drop/yeet the fish. this is where the previous step will have saved us. thanks to our forward thinking a bigger fish that we've dropped will land in our lap and a smaller fish will land beside us. As such you can simply reach down and pick up the fish, little fish you can even use the pinch method on.





once again, once you've got the fish off the hook and in hand switch to head view to lock in that grip. in the event that the fish dropped in the water or got yeeted across the map, flip it off and go back to step 2.

Mechanics

Honestly I don't know, it seems like a good curved grip and gentle twisting reduces the risk of dropping/yeeting fish but it also seems like pot luck as to whether or not a fish stays in your hand when you take it off the hook, take the rough with the smooth.
8. Putting your fish in the bucket.
the final step.

Method

Fish in hand and off the hook twist your wrist so that the fish's head is facing downwards then dunk it's head in the bucket until you hear the victory jingle and see the type of fish and your new total weight of fish caught. easy peasy.



it may be difficult to dunk the head of smaller fish in the bucket, in which case make sure that you are comfortable with the fish's position over the mouth of the bucket and simply drop it in.



shortly after the fish has been counted it will stop wriggling and you can do whatever you like with it, personally Ilike the aesthetic of keeping smaller fish in the bucket and leaving a pile of larger fish next to the bucket, this can cause problems which I will go into in mechanics though.

Mechanics

you need to be able to get the fish's head past the threshold of the mouth of the bucket, anything in the bucket may block the fish in your hand from entering the bucket, it's safe to assume though that any fish in the bucket have been counted so you can jostle them about and even knock them out of the bucket to your heart's content. any big fish in the bucket will likely stop any other sizeable fish from being able to enter the bucket. when ditching fish outside of the bucket try to avoid covering and /or disturbing your maggot pile.
9. Mystery Step
Method

repeat steps 2. through 9.

Mechanics

there's plenty more fish in the s... pool.
Advanced Methods/Problems
Improving your fishing so markedly will create or reveal problems you would not previously have considered. here I cover a few of them.

Inverted Float

Sometimes turning your palm upwards (or other jostles of the rod throughout your fishing session) can turn the float upside down. (orange section at the bottom) you can still fish like this in much the same way but the fish tend to be hooked upside down and higher up meaning you may have to reach up higher to get the fish. it's not impossible to fish like this but I've found you can undo the problem by having your float in the water and circling it with your rod (this means dunking the end of your rod in the water.)

Maggot Management

The maggots which are right next to the bucket can be difficult to get to so when picking up bait you may want to take some time out to move the maggots around a bit. you can generally reach all around that area except right next to the bucket. I tend to manipulate them with my little finger or another maggot. when you're actually using your maggots they run out pretty fast, once this happens there's only one thing you can do, start a new session by leaving and coming back or (provided you're not ruining anyone else's experience) restarting.

Fish Getting Stuck Over Your Shoulder

Using this method, contrary to the usual problem of fish not getting close enough while on the hook, they can come too close resulting in them being stuck over your shoulder. the best remedy to this I've found is to think through the problem of which way the fish needs to be moved. most commonly, smaller fish get stuck behind my left shoulder so I simply move my right hand to the left then forward, then back to my right again.

Fish Getting Stuck On Your Boot

nothing you can do about this, if you drop a fish and it lands on your feet where you can't reach it, flip it off and move on.


if you discover any other problems leave a comment and I'll do my best to address them.
3 Comments
Aspringtum 1 Apr, 2024 @ 3:04pm 
Thanks, with this guide I can finally remove fish easy from the hook. This was very troublesome for me :reishocking:
ysrehi 2 Feb, 2022 @ 4:44pm 
thanks
Jovial Merryment 10 Dec, 2020 @ 9:09pm 
this guide help a lot! Thank you so much! :)