can you make the ladders easier to go down?

[Steel_pandabear]

or add a video camera that can record 2 seconds?

[Scottjon Dansteve]

Please?

[Beerzerker]

10/10 Need better ladder usage.

[lacres181]

yeah, i hate Looking "UP or DOWN" to go that direction.
should just be an interact button, and a jump off button.

[Thumb]

Please!

[MrWhitefolks]

The 'forward' key should always push the player in the direction they are facing, regardless if walking or on a ladder. If you're climbing down then you look down and press forward. If you're climbing up you look up and press forward.

It's an intuitive design and has been the standard in almost every game for the last 10+ years, for good reason.

Players don't need to second guess their controls in a high stress environment, possibly getting themselves killed in the process and leaving a sour taste in their mouth.

[Kai]

This is a unity game using first person control templates found in other common games, where ladders are a entity that makes you 'float' when you touch it or enter it's collision box (which is invisible).

Minecraft is a good example of this mechanism, it's ladders makes you able to ascend with the spacebar even if you don't touch the ladder due to you being inside the voxel/block space.

A alternative way to use ladders is to code the player avatar to 'climb' down the ladder like in other physics based FPS games where E to interact makes you animate and cling to the ladder, and spacebar is the only way to release off of it.

The former way is much easier, but going down ladders is a huge pain unless you add in some sort of magnetism to prevent the player from falling down ladders. For instance when you touch a ladder you will move at 'walking/climbing speeds' automatically (slow your horizontal movements temporarily, but ascend/descend like normal) until you move off of it or hit spacebar which nullify any further 'grabbing' of the ladder (for 1 second) until you hit E or move towards the ladder to touch it again?

[Kai]

I think in Counter-strike or other valve games they had a magnetism for ladders in later titles?

Where you touch a ladder and it 'floats' you to a target point above it so you can look down to descend without going off the ladder. And if you are below and press E or touch it, it floats you to a space in front of the ladder so you can go up without being pushed or moved off of it... It's magnet style.

[Zepheros]

İlk olarak lacres181 tarafından gönderildi:

yeah, i hate Looking "UP or DOWN" to go that direction.
should just be an interact button, and a jump off button.

Except you don't have too? W for up, D for down. Doesn't matter what direction you're looking once you're on. Better if you're looking at the ladder though to keep from "sliding" in the direction you're looking.

[succubus]

this is the only part of the game I am not liking. I can go down the ladders sometimes, except when I have awesome pictures and I doing the ladder to get down like I always do, except it decides to walk me off of the ladder onto the street. -_- please fix the ladders, this is the only part of the game that is very frustrating.

[Splat ♥]

İlk olarak Steel_pandabear tarafından gönderildi:

or add a video camera that can record 2 seconds?

theres no fall damage around most ladders (the ones more then 2 stories will kill you)

which means you can just sprint off and ignore the ladder going down entirely

[succubus]

I am definitely complaining about ladders taller than two stories

[AKA_C33J]

I would love like an interact button to start climbing when near a ladder.

[Lupa]

İlk olarak AKA_C33J tarafından gönderildi:

I would love like an interact button to start climbing when near a ladder.

That would be a lot better, the way it is right now is just too floaty. Same way I have trouble with them in minecraft. I think that's my only real gripe with this game.

[Mara_Winterhyde]

Yup. I can't figure out how tf to get down the ladders eitehr without falling off the edge of a building and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dying. It's SUPER frusrtrating. Please add an interact button to go both up and down the ladders.

[Rockpaw]

Think in one of the steam news posts they mentioned changing the ladders to be easier or more reliable.