Would be nice if Climbing Axes could actually be used to climb..

[Martin]

As it is, you can only climb flat straight up cliffs.. that's it. They're utterly useless for any other rock face.

[Foxglovez]

That's odd, I have used mine a lot. But not all faces work, some just don't. I found that hitting V then if it doesn't just start, a little jump will get it going. If you kind of bounce back then that is not a climbable face. They do have to be pretty vertical though. I imagine perfecting that is going to be ongoing for devs. The desert cliffs work better than forest faces.

[Martin]

Would be nice if you could just bend over and climb the rock.. using attack mode.. I had to almost completely go around a hill to get to a point where I could climb up to then go back over to the otherside of the hill drop down slightly to mine the ore.. then go all the way back around again to get back up the hill.. and they're called climbing picks.. They're more like Ice Picks.. it isn't the falling and getting a broken leg that bothers me it's just the slightly curved rocks.. can't mantle onto them, can't jump to them, can't.. :D life eh..

[Ostego! God Of War!]

I found that some parts, if you look at the ground and walk forward it will do the climb mechanic and walk forward. Also some of the worst looking places, if you square youself just right, it will let you climb. The hardest places to climb are any spot where the top is out farther than the bottom. About 10% of the time the game finds a way to go and lets you do it, but most of the time you will either not be able to start, or you stick the picks in and hang 1 frrom from the ground until stam runs out.

[Machika]

Could build stairs.

[william_es]

Uhm, wrong.

When you have climbing picks equipped, you can sometimes scramble up onto ledges that you normally wouldn't be able to do that without the picks out. There's some other adjustment that's harder to pin down, where I jump sometimes with picks out, and I can run up a slope. Without the picks, I'd land on the same slope and slide down endlessly. So having the picks out seems to give you some helpful littler fudge factoring. Sort of the benefit of the doubt.

I found this out while trying to use the umbrella to glide across gaps, and then tested it extensively with picks equipped and not equipped. It's pretty consistent and repeatable.

[poleritude]

The irony of the climbing picks, is they don't work exactly when someone would probably use them IRL. Help on a steep surface is much more useful than trying to brute force yourself 90 degrees straight up. Anyone the "feels bad" issue in the game is that there is a pretty big range where a slope is too steep to climb normally, but not steep enough to make the picks engage. The even better bonus is when you start mashing jump angrily and it actually flings you out backwards and off the mountain side, where you then have to make a DC 25 skill check to remember your umbrella key and engage float before you crater.