Chapter - New Eden Mall - 'Escaping the Mall': Extremely difficult jump! Help?

[DK]

Hi.

I'm currently trying to escape the mall. There is this point where I jump down through a fan, into a darkened corridor. I run around the corner, and burst through some glass doors near two policemen. I avoid the policemen and the machine gun fire, turn left and take a jump into a kind of loft-space above the empty shops. Then I'm confronted with my nemesis.

It's two parallel orange walls with a horizontal pole at the top end and some glass panels. I kick out the glass. The objective is to wall-run along one of the walls and grab onto the highlighted red pole. Having got so far as this, I try to make the jump but always miss the pole. No matter what I do, Faith just will not grab the pole. I've tried looking at my feet to make sure I jump as close as possible to the end of the platform, I've tried looking further up and towards the wall as I jump, I've tried taking a running jump, I've tried jumping from close to the edge. I've even tried kicking as I jump, jumping twice, grabbing as I get near the end, doing the <space> <Q> <space> trick and quite a lot of other things. I've looked it up on youtube, and only found a walkthrough that made it look easy. I don't know what to do.

I finally managed to incapacitate the man with the machine gun, and I was looping from his position: running up the escalators each time I respawn to get to the loft space. However, it was pretty hard to take the man out, and I still eventually had to stop. I quit the game, so it will now reset to the beginning of this part of the map and I lose that progress.

At this point I don't care what the fix is; I just want to get past this point. Skipping it would be perfect, or cheating the jump somehow. I don't know. I'm at my wits' end.

Any help would be much appreciated. I must have attempted this more than 100 times by now (I'm not even exaggerating). It's been about four days of attempts, and this last session was already 90mins long - and that's just in looping this section of the map endlessly.

Please help!

Here's a screen shot of the difficult jump - http://steamcommunity.com/id/dirahkei/screenshots

[vitriel]

Wall-run, and then jump. <space> <space>

[Seebetterfromadistance]

Kick out the TWO panes of glass closest to the wall to want to run on not just one. (I choose the one on the right.) Or just wait for the machine gun to shoot them out. Then run slightly TOWARDS the wall for a clean wallrun, not straight ahead. Jump at the wall and start the wallrun. During the wallrun, use your mouse to look outwards just a little, not towards the other wall, but just a little left of the pole you are trying to grab, and press jump again. (default is the "space" key) Faith will grab onto the pole near the middle. Then jump off the pole when you have enough momentum to fly to the platform suspended in front of you. (You should be able to do it in one clean motion, no backswings.) Hope this helps! Let me know if you need more help, I've got almost 30 hours into the game and can make a short video for you.

[DK]

Brilliant. I'll try it, thank you guys. I'll update as to whether it worked soon.

[Rufus CrumpleDunkulus]

Oh I kept accidentally getting to an unreachable zone behind the cops that burst in downstairs