so how do you climb down? (answered)

[Humpypants]

I see you can press the interact button to go down a ladder, but what after that? I just take fall damage from towers

Edited:

Holding space will grab onto a ledge while falling

[socialautiste]

Its hard to find the answer to this because the search results are all about unrelated topics where people are using the words down and/or climb. Mostly about performance going down after they finish climbing the tower is all I could find yesterday, and now today though there is a result for this unanswered but relevant question.

So far as I can tell, all you can do is look for garbage/matresses to jump down onto and then climb back up to where you want to go if you climb up anything too far and need to get to a lower point. Or take a zip line waaaay off to the distant horizon if you are too high up for trash jumps, and then run all the way back and do the climb. I climbed up higher than the ziplines (to see if anything was up on the very top) and almost died trying to get down to the zipline platform of the first radio tower.

[Ydyp]

I was wondering the same and if I missed something for climbing down. But I have the same experience as Ragnarok. Try to hit those piles of garbage/matresses or try to hit ledges when going down taking the falling dmg without dying untill you reach the ziplines.

But both ways are risky and most of my deaths I gathered up are from falling dmg.

[PallyLIVE]

Jump.

[C. Black]

When i get close to the ladder it gives me option press "F" to use, when i stand just on top of it and looking at it, try that

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Sir Black:

When i get close to the ladder it gives me option press "F" to use, when i stand just on top of it and looking at it, try that

A ladder yes, but I wonder how many towers you have climbed up, as none of my towers had ladders all the way to the top flag.

[BridgetFisher]

Originally posted by Ydyp:

Originally posted by Sir Black:

When i get close to the ladder it gives me option press "F" to use, when i stand just on top of it and looking at it, try that

A ladder yes, but I wonder how many towers you have climbed up, as none of my towers had ladders all the way to the top flag.

towers cant be climbed down, just leap off and die its faster anyways thats what I do.

[Francis_Mallman]

Sometimes you're up on an awning and want to go underneath it - but how?

[Wanderer]

Try waliking off backwards and quickly grabbing a ledge.
When I press B while grabbing a ledge I let go of it and gently drop.
I'm playing with xbox controller so B is crouch.

[Humpypants]

Originally posted by Redfeather75:

Try waliking off backwards and quickly grabbing a ledge.
When I press B while grabbing a ledge I let go of it and gently drop.
I'm playing with xbox controller so B is crouch.

I'll give it a shot. That's weird that crouch might be the answer.

[Enfo]

You can only climb down ladders. If there are no ladders, there will be a pole or a line which you can jump on to and slide down from.

[Humpypants]

Discovered the answer:

Hold space while falling and you will grab onto a ledge. I've only tried this off a small ledge. Will update if it doesn't work on a tower

[Wanderer]

Oh awesome, you found a way! :O
But I wonder what is space button for me, as I am playing with me xbox controller.

[Coors]

Originally posted by Redfeather75:

Oh awesome, you found a way! :O
But I wonder what is space button for me, as I am playing with me xbox controller.

Whatever is your jump button.

[Wanderer]

Okay is RB for me. I really wish I could change that as I keep pressing button A for jump.

[Thunderbird]

There are usually piles or blue trash bags at the base of tall falls, every tower I've seen has them. Just jump off tower and aim for the pile of blue bags, if you land on them you take no fall damage. The game touched on this in the beggining but didn't really tell you that it was a game mechanic.