Can We Turn Off Automatic Ladder Climbing?

[MycroftCanadaNS]

This is seriously a real pain in the rear end. Just bumping into a ladder has you climbing it.

Really annoying like so many other things in this game like having to hold down a key to access it, and so on, and so on.

Pure console garbage at it's finest.

[xPEDx]

+1,
They should add a interact button before we can climb.

And also add a elivaitor too.:)

[Blou]

+1000

[Shy]

PLEASE

[MechWarden]

As someone that's used to ladders in videogames (yes, based on my avatar, I did play Half-Life and Half-Life 2), I'm a bit amused by ladders in NMS being just the opposite of what they typically are. Instead of being death traps because they are hard to get on or stay on, they are clingy and difficult to jump off of. While repairing things on some frigates, I'm glad that the ladders have a fairly aggressive snap-on system.

That said, they could tone down the 'gravity' of ladders. Instead of grabbing people that aren't looking at them, have it where the character has to be facing it and walking into it to invoke the climbing animation. No need to have some button blocking the way (the way our Lord Gabe intented), and making it flow more naturally. If I were doing it, I'd also put in a condition to grab the ladder if you walk off a ledge (with a ladder nearby) and fall further than a story. That way slip ups when doing some frigate repairs, or trips down a long ladder on your base, isn't deadly.

[FoolishOwl]

The puzzling thing is, you do get a prompt about using the action key to use the ladder -- but it's irrelevant. You don't need it to mount the ladder, and you can't use it to dismount.

It's funny that in most games in which you can build structures, stairs and ladders tend to be problematic.

[Satho]

Another annoying little thing:

Let's say you've built a base that has 3 floors, and you've connected the floors with a ladder:

Climbing the ladder frorm the 1st floor to the 3rd is easy - but in my opinion, you're having a hard time trying to get to floor #2, it's an annoying jetpack-struggle to leave the ladder there, trying not to bump into it again.

(Hope that makes sense, English isn't my 1st language)

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Satho:

Another annoying little thing:

Let's say you've built a base that has 3 floors, and you've connected the floors with a ladder:

Climbing the ladder frorm the 1st floor to the 3rd is easy - but in my opinion, you're having a hard time trying to get to floor #2, it's an annoying jetpack-struggle to leave the ladder there, trying not to bump into it again.

(Hope that makes sense, English isn't my 1st language)

Yeah, it goes along with my statement of being hard to jump of/get off the ladder.

HL treats ladders almost as if they are another surface to can move over, going up or down based on which direction you are facing while 'walking' forward. You can also strafe side to side, which makes it easy to get off... sometimes almost too easy, resulting in moving right off the climbing surface.

I do appreciate NMS' climbing animation, but some camera angle changes for going up and down would be nice, and stealing a trick from some games, like Dark Souls, where you can slide down a ladder, would be nice as well. Heck, maybe even do a reverse and jet back up!

[BurlsoL]

Also need to do something about those holo communication towers. Those things are just such a MASSIVE pain in the ass, every single time. Can't upgrade jetpack to fly up more than a tier at a time, all the ladders are super slow, and you have to do this 15-20 times through the main 'story'. Just begs the question what the hell they were thinking.

[7th7andwich]

ok but how much time are you spending on ladders lmao? u know u have a jetpack right?

[Satho]

Originally posted by BurlsoL:

Also need to do something about those holo communication towers. Those things are just such a MASSIVE pain in the ass, every single time. Can't upgrade jetpack to fly up more than a tier at a time

Yeah, there are way too many ladders on that tower, I think.
If you add six S-upgrades to your jetpack (3 in inventory slots, another 3 in tech slots), you can fly all the way up to the top tier with ease, though.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by 7th 7andwich:

ok but how much time are you spending on ladders lmao? u know u have a jetpack right?

Well yes but the problem is all you have to do is be near a ladder and shazam.... You stuck to it just trying to walk by it.

That is annoying... But not game breaking.

[7th7andwich]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Originally posted by 7th 7andwich:

ok but how much time are you spending on ladders lmao? u know u have a jetpack right?

Well yes but the problem is all you have to do is be near a ladder and shazam.... You stuck to it just trying to walk by it.

That is annoying... But not game breaking.

yeah I totally understand that... but maybe it's because I'm fairly new to the community... I have yet to be in snapon distance of a ladder that I wasn't planning to climb anyway?

[JTracx]

I alternate their direction for multi levels. But sometimes they STILL grab me!
Especially irritating when I try to access a plant or planter nearby.

[7th7andwich]

Originally posted by JTracx:

I alternate their direction for multi levels. But sometimes they STILL grab me!
Especially irritating when I try to access a plant or planter nearby.

OOOOH you can put ladders in your base? ok now i understand, so far all i have unlocked is the wooden ramp lmao

[Satho]

Originally posted by 7th 7andwich:

Originally posted by JTracx:

I alternate their direction for multi levels. But sometimes they STILL grab me!
Especially irritating when I try to access a plant or planter nearby.

OOOOH you can put ladders in your base? ok now i understand, so far all i have unlocked is the wooden ramp lmao

Yeah, you can place ladders at the center of a room, so everytime you enter that room, you need to remember to avoid the center, or else the ladder will catch you. xD