Don't understand Safety Harness

[Hodalump]

I dont know if I'm doing something wrong or not or if I just dont understand the point of the safety harness.
I know it's supposed to be a passive item, but it doesn't seem to be collecting the rope anchors once i detach with T from the rope again.
Am I using it wrong?

[Nuard]

I don't use safety harness, but i believe the whole point of it is that you can collect rope without being detached from the rope you are currently attached to. Henceforth you can cheese every mountain with only 2 ropes. *When you don't have the safety harness, the moment you collect any rope from the wall you instantly get detached and may fall if it is your first time trying that Hahaha (Happened to me when i started)

[wolf_o_fate]

so it lets you recover the ropes without detaching. essentially letting you be in a constant state of being roped.

> place rope
> move up a bit and place new rope
> backtrack and recover rope and then climb back up using new rope that you are still attached to.

[Hodalump]

Originally posted by wolf_o_fate:

so it lets you recover the ropes without detaching. essentially letting you be in a constant state of being roped.

> place rope
> move up a bit and place new rope
> backtrack and recover rope and then climb back up using new rope that you are still attached to.

Thank you so much, this is the first explanation i understood

[Chef]

Wolf said it best. That's the intended use of the safety harness, and using that strat you can hypothetically scale ANY mountain without risk of falling as you will always be roped up and able to collect previous ropes.

For most of the game I wouldn't use it. You'll at most lose like 20 - 30 minutes from a bad fall. I kinda recommend it on the last mountain you climb tho.