Grappling Gun sucks, worthless.

[󠀡]

Too short range, even on Mega Grappling Gun.

[Sparkiekong]

I love the grapple. It's been useful for me.

[zytimer]

To be honest, yes the 1st and 2nd stage grapple gun have poor range and long cooldowns, you practically have to stand somewhat close to where you want to grapple to

It is only the 3rd stage grapple gun has ok cooldown rate with good range, followed by the final 4th stage grapple gun with its good cooldown rate and great range

[Stoomy]

Originally posted by zytimer:

To be honest, yes the 1st and 2nd stage grapple gun have poor range and long cooldowns, you practically have to stand somewhat close to where you want to grapple to

It is only the 3rd stage grapple gun has ok cooldown rate with good range, followed by the final 4th stage grapple gun with its good cooldown rate and great range

All you need to do is un-equip and then re-equip the grapple gun in your inventory to reset the cooldown lol

[Tetsuri]

when all people use it for is to try to get to a box, yes, it's bad. Not going to use it in a jump situation. Have tried to use it to scale walls, usually you don't even end up attaching yourself to the wall afterwards. It at least can reliably get you back up the ground if you glitched down(but only from your mount). But using the grappling hook to actually, y'kno, grapple, ya, no.

[DB]

When game came out and you couldn't move at all when you were encumbered and it was NEEDED. still convenient for that

[DirtyMick]

Originally posted by L3wt:

Originally posted by Stoomy:

Wait til you get the giga grappla

Let me guess, it goes 1 centimeter further than the "mega" grappler? The tools and bloody arrows in this game all requiring different crossbows to fire is wall punchingly bad game design.

I dont think the range even increases for each tier of hook. I think it's just the cooldown is lower. Though maybe range increases too, but if it does it probably is something like only 1cm like you said. Grappling hook is great though. I always have mine on, even though I play on a server so it only works half the time. Works everytime on single player though. It's good for moving to chests in base when you grab a ton of materials and go overweight.
Edit: apparently the range does increase.

[Stoomy]

Originally posted by DirtyMick:

Originally posted by L3wt:

Let me guess, it goes 1 centimeter further than the "mega" grappler? The tools and bloody arrows in this game all requiring different crossbows to fire is wall punchingly bad game design.

I dont think the range even increases for each tier of hook. I think it's just the cooldown is lower. Though maybe range increases too, but if it does it probably is something like only 1cm like you said. Grappling hook is great though. I always have mine on, even though I play on a server so it only works half the time. Works everytime on single player though. It's good for moving to chests in base when you grab a ton of materials and go overweight.
Edit: apparently the range does increase.

I am pretty sure the range does increase

[Deagle Trainee]

Originally posted by 󠀡:

That's what I wanted to use it for but I can't even move with it. Shooting the ground leaves me in place, and shooting anywhere that's not wood doesn't move me at all. Also, just has such short range.

Direhowl is much better, or you know, just use five king pacas for 500 extra carry weight.

Not to mention the stupid cooldown on the shots.

I never had that issue with the grappling gun. But I also haven't played in months, so maybe something has changed. Because before I could grapple the ground just fine.

But yea, the cooldown on shots is irritating. Even more so if you're playing alone.

Edit:

Originally posted by Tetsuri:

when all people use it for is to try to get to a box, yes, it's bad. Not going to use it in a jump situation. Have tried to use it to scale walls, usually you don't even end up attaching yourself to the wall afterwards. It at least can reliably get you back up the ground if you glitched down(but only from your mount). But using the grappling hook to actually, y'kno, grapple, ya, no.

I used it a little bit for exploring. I only had Nitewing still conscious for flying, so it helped a little. But I don't really mind that it's not that useful for exploration. That's what the flying pals are for as far as I'm concerned. But I'll still keep one on me. Because I've had instances where I've run out of stamina and fell into water and died, due to lack of stamina to swim/jump out. The grappling hook is not hindered by your lack of stamina, so it helps in those situations.(at least it wasn't when I played) Just grapple what I want to climb, jump, and immediately finish climbing the rest of the way.

[󠀡]

Originally posted by DB:

When game came out and you couldn't move at all when you were encumbered and it was NEEDED. still convenient for that

You could just use the Dash attack on a Direhowl. It's 100% better than grappling hook.

[zero254]

Grappling gun mogs pretty much everything combined with hangyu. That little dash isn't gonna be able to cover even 1/100000th the distance.

[Dagoth Earth]

The only good grappling gun is the last one. I honestly don't use it outside of my base, though... not a whole lot of point when it has the cooldown, especially since it's fairly difficult to steer away from whatever you're grappling at to leverage the speed for gliding without hooking the floor.

[ribeye007]

yeah i never made one see no use so far 120 hour in

[MilkMeSilly]

Originally posted by L3wt:

Originally posted by Stoomy:

Wait til you get the giga grappla

Let me guess, it goes 1 centimeter further than the "mega" grappler? The tools and bloody arrows in this game all requiring different crossbows to fire is wall punchingly bad game design.

i could be wrong so correct me if i am im pretty sure at this point in time the element bows+grenades are only really for applying status effects as any status on a pal makes them easier to capture so use poison/fire arrows to apply your status then go to your main weapon. also fire damage is % of max hp damage i know this as setting a tower boss pal on fire can do 250+ damage per tick from a campfire but only like 30 on a normal level 50 pal so if you can keep the burn on you'll kill a lot faster also we are getting some kind of map increase at some point so new alphas means new legendary blueprints. the thing is if they added all the legendary blueprints at the start (early access still dont forget) then the map would have way to much alphas around and they would need to like double up on items for each map they make for rewards so from a game design view its good to have the extra items that you can make legendary Blueprints for without having to make every 20+ new items just to fill a hole

[MilkMeSilly]

Originally posted by Tetsuri:

when all people use it for is to try to get to a box, yes, it's bad. Not going to use it in a jump situation. Have tried to use it to scale walls, usually you don't even end up attaching yourself to the wall afterwards. It at least can reliably get you back up the ground if you glitched down(but only from your mount). But using the grappling hook to actually, y'kno, grapple, ya, no.

i set up grapple points in my bases so i can move around faster like in one base its on a cliff side so to go up i hook the top side of a tower a built just for it and cancel while going up and it launches me way above my base and i can glide where i want. id also like to see a buff though it is disappointing

[󠀡]

Originally posted by zero254:

Grappling gun mogs pretty much everything combined with hangyu. That little dash isn't gonna be able to cover even 1/100000th the distance.

So how do you expect to use Hangyu glider while over-encumbered?

Also, you can use Direhowl mount at near level 7.