wrong key press for wall walking-jumping?

[ericjmz]

Hi

Stuck in Foundry...getting 1st heart stone (although my problem would appy to anywhere)...can't do something I've done before...failed with 70 (!!!-yes literally,I counted) tries to do this maneuver.

Wall walking...or jumping...or skirting...not sure the correct term...the one where you sliiiiiiiide along a wall real fast.

What I am doing is holding DOWN the key for the direction I'm going (D=rightward),holding DOWN the shift key, PRESSING/-Re-PRESSING the jump key continually (space)...all the while facing the way Im going

What happens is that the shift key (I think) is causing me to jump AWAY from the wall,into the firey lava.

So do I have the key combo correct? (direction held down,shift held down, jump=space key continaully press/re-press...and facing the way you're going?)

Or do I misremeber which keys to press or hold? I find plenty of youtubes showing death jumping correctly,but not showing you the key-press for PC...and plenty of texts online telling you the X-Box keys but not the PC keys

thanx

ericjmz

[furbleburble]

I believe you are talking about running on a wall. As such, the following is in that regard. I just got in the game and started a new game. The first level within 3-5 minutes of starting has a wall-run section so I checked it out. My last few playthroughs have been with an Xbox controller so I wanted to double check keyboard controls before posting. Anyway...

I'm not clear on what you're saying up there and I think you are incredibly over-complicating things. Though, to be fair, I seem to recall the game giving awful instructions about how to wall run. My setup is k/m and using wasd for direction.

Run to a wall at an angle (1) simply using W (forward) and then jump to it and you should auto-run on it. That's it. I know, right? To expand on that a bit... when you come upon the small wooden sections that stick out of the wall (2), don't press anything, the game takes care of it by itself, even though I seem to recall the game says to press jump at that time. Don't press jump. If you want to change from one wall to another as you're running on it, simply press jump and it should handle it automatically. Also, you should be able to just let go of all buttons as long as you're running on the wall.

(1) It might be required sometimes to manually run diagonally (ie W+D), because of a lack of space to move, but I don't think that should be an issue.

(2) As opposed to the section that you hang on to and can move back and forth on, or the beams that you can stand on.

Hope this helps. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll double check.

The shift key should only be held when you want to focus on a single target when fighting. I'm gonna start a new game again with the tutorials on and see what the game says.

EDIT:
In-game instruction text: "Press and hold Shift to lean away from a vertical beam and then press Space to jump away." I imagine this to be where the confusion comes from. Also, I had forgotten about that. I got so used to using the buttons that I just do it without thinking about it, so the idea of using Shift for anything but auto-lock seemed odd.

I forgot to add: "Death can extend wall runs by vaulting over ..." . I didn't get the rest of the text. The "vaulting" messed me up a lot when I first started playing because I thought it meant to press jump at that particular time. I think this is what I was referring to when I noted bad instructions, and after starting the game with the tutorials on, it seems they're not as bad as I remember them to be. Though, I started playing with the vanilla game, and not the DE, so I don't know if the instructions were altered at all.

[ericjmz]

Yes to 'it was wall-running'
And yes to...with your kind help..i did it! :-)

I find it ironic....but not in a good way...where the single tutorial on how-to-wall-run...that you get prompted to ONCE early in the game,when you 1st do it...emphasizes the jump(space)...which you DOn'T do...amd pressing the shift key...which you don't do.

Essentially, it seems you need do NOTHING...
...which is what worked :-0