Topping Out Branch

[ReinBork]

How do I get it? I can see it 5 feet from me but have no way to actually get it.

[DevilDuck]

I would like to know as well. I tried shooting it with an arrow but that does not work. I also tried jumping on the plank that juts out in front of it that leads to a messy death because there is no collision on that plank.

[ReinBork]

EXACTLY, the plank doesn't work, bows don't work, swords can't reach I've tried jumping to it, I tried climbing on the roof and walking above it, the giant crane thing doesn't work. I've even tried yelling at it, no luck.

[ReinBork]

Ok so when you shoot it with a bow and arrow, aim towards the top, you're going to get a tiny little twing not the entire branch

[Joe]

this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ now that i shot it how do i get it !!!?????

[Joe]

never mind i see it falls ont he church door step below

[Comptroller]

You need to use wounding arrows with slash damage vs. stab damage. It worked on the first shot.

[Joe]

any arrow will do

[Luan]

shoot and arrow at it

[EvilEd]

Shoot at it. It may take a few arrows and you may have to hit it in a few different spots but eventually a branch will fall. The quest will then update telling you to go collect it. It took me four arrows to get it to drop and they definitely all hit the tree.

[General WVPM]

Hit it a bit above the centre of the branch.

[cptsavarus]

Not the most plausible solution in the world is it - shooting the thing with a bow.
I mean yes, that's how to obtain the branch. It just doesn't seem like something that'd ever work.
You could shoot that thing with an Uzi & you'd be lucky to break more than a few leaves off it!

I tried everything - fell off the tower a number of times trying to use the scaffold pole, fell off a few more times trying to climb over the roof from the other side, tried hitting it with a number of long-reach weapons, tried using a spade, hoped I could use that coneveniently-placed rope somehow - or the crane. Even thought maybe if I went inside the church there'd be a way to dislodge the wooden purlin that holds the branch... all the things that would make sense to try... but no. The one thing that makes no sense at all is the thing you're supposed to do!

Moral of the story - when faced with a difficult problem, don't bother trying to find a logical & practical solution, don't be imaginative, creative & observant and whatever you do, never ever try to use the tools you have to hand in any kind of meaningful way... Just shoot at it with a bow... because that works apparently!

This is the first thing in the game I find myself disappointed by and the most disapointinyest solution in the history of disappointyness

[40ozKilla]

I agree they need to fix this. The first thing I did was shoot an arrow at it, but nothing happened so I was wandering around for like an hour trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I got frustrated and fired 5 or 6 arrows at it, finally a piece came off. A piece should come off on the first shot.

[cptsavarus]

Originally posted by 40ozKilla:

I agree they need to fix this. The first thing I did was shoot an arrow at it, but nothing happened so I was wandering around for like an hour trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I got frustrated and fired 5 or 6 arrows at it, finally a piece came off. A piece should come off on the first shot.

I pray you're kiddingt?! Nothing should break off it at all... ever!
Try shooting a real tree with a real bow. If you can break off even the measliest branch with 1,000 arrows (let alone one) I'll eat my own sphyncter muscle!
This is a totally ridiculous way to break a branch off a sappling. You'd be stood there firing at it forever. It'd simply never work!

And all those other perfectly plausible ways to get the branch - right there in plain sight! The scaffold, the rope, the roof, all those boards lying around - all completely ignored in favour of "shoot at it".

So weak! So lame! Such a missed opportunity!

Want to brew a potion? Follow the recipe, use the equipment.
Want to learn to read? Get lessons, read more books.
Want to date a girl? Get mixed messages off her. Come back in a day or two.
Want to sharpen a sword? Get the angle right. Don't forget to pedal.
Want to sell some things? Keep the buyer happy. Don't p1ss him off.
Want to kill a bunch of enemy soldiers? Dress like one of them. Poison their wine.

Want to break a branch off a sappling thats 2ft out of reach... Shoot at it like a f***ing neanderthal!

The sad part is that games have conditioned us to think that way.
Hands up if shooting at it was the first thing you thought of. Where did you learn to think that way?
And now hands up if you didn't even think to try it because it doesn't make sense.

[capnclammy]

Originally posted by cptsavarus:

Originally posted by 40ozKilla:

I agree they need to fix this. The first thing I did was shoot an arrow at it, but nothing happened so I was wandering around for like an hour trying to figure out what to do. Eventually I got frustrated and fired 5 or 6 arrows at it, finally a piece came off. A piece should come off on the first shot.

I pray you're kiddingt?! Nothing should break off it at all... ever!
Try shooting a real tree with a real bow. If you can break off even the measliest branch with 1,000 arrows (let alone one) I'll eat my own sphyncter muscle!
This is a totally ridiculous way to break a branch off a sappling. You'd be stood there firing at it forever. It'd simply never work!

And all those other perfectly plausible ways to get the branch - right there in plain sight! The scaffold, the rope, the roof, all those boards lying around - all completely ignored in favour of "shoot at it".

So weak! So lame! Such a missed opportunity!

Want to brew a potion? Follow the recipe, use the equipment.
Want to learn to read? Get lessons, read more books.
Want to date a girl? Get mixed messages off her. Come back in a day or two.
Want to sharpen a sword? Get the angle right. Don't forget to pedal.
Want to sell some things? Keep the buyer happy. Don't p1ss him off.
Want to kill a bunch of enemy soldiers? Dress like one of them. Poison their wine.

Want to break a branch off a sappling thats 2ft out of reach... Shoot at it like a f***ing neanderthal!

The sad part is that games have conditioned us to think that way.
Hands up if shooting at it was the first thing you thought of. Where did you learn to think that way?
And now hands up if you didn't even think to try it because it doesn't make sense.

Shooting the topping out is dumb an yeah I doubt Henry's bow could do it but shooting branches of a tree with a modern hunting bow is "easy".

Modern hunting bows with sights an fall away rests are incredibly acurate and powerful. A novice can hit pennys at 10-20 yards.

[cptsavarus]

Originally posted by capnclammy:

Shooting the topping out is dumb an yeah I doubt Henry's bow could do it but shooting branches of a tree with a modern hunting bow is "easy".

Modern hunting bows with sights an fall away rests are incredibly acurate and powerful. A novice can hit pennys at 10-20 yards.

I don't doubt the accuracy of modern bows for a minute, nor do I doubt that a skilled medieval bowman would likely have been able to *strike* a small branch with a contemporary bow, even at range... and even possibly split his own arrow with a second shot...

but to completely dismember a branch is something else entirely. Tree branches (especially young ones like the one we're trying to hit) bend & flex and get brushed aside - and they almost never break without holding on by a few un-hittable strands of fibre.
Dismembering one & having it fall without getting hung up could never be called anything but sheer fluke. It's definitely not something you could pin enough certainty on to call it a viable method. More like what you might do out of desparation when all the sensible methods have failed!

Maybe with a crescent-head or even a very wide broadhead arrow you could cut a branch clean off - but that's still a huge maybe.

You could be the best bowman in the world with the best, most advanced equipment money can buy, yet you could fire 100 arrows at a branch that size and still not sever it.
And in the meantime all those nice pointy arrows are pitching on the Custodian's door-step - through his windows - possibly in Urban the doorman's head...