why is the wingsuit absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage

[ADAM96]

so im trying to jump with the wingsuit to a hangar to complete a stash mission but the wingsuit barely gets me to the base of the cliff before i have to parachute otherwise i fall and die. i can press shift only once, or hold it. i can try and point straight up. i can look down. nothing makes this stupid waste of a perk work. what the ♥♥♥♥ is wrong with this piece of ♥♥♥♥?

[ADAM96]

i just tried it with the radio tower nearby across the parking lot, i dropped to my death half way across the parking lot. who the ♥♥♥♥ thought this piece of ♥♥♥♥ was a good idea?

[ADAM96]

apparently holding w (like any reasonable person wanting to go forward) makes you go LESS FAR and not holding w lets you actually get to it. what the ♥♥♥♥ were the devs thinking?

[BioFringe]

How exactly do you think Aerodynamics & Gravity work? You don't have an engine so you can only control your momentum with pressure. Sideways pressure will steer you left and right, backwards pressure will slow you down while forward pressure will speed you up. If you speed up then of course you'll reach the ground sooner. In case it's not known, when you "speed up" in something like a wingsuit you need to dip your body down towards the ground. This is just how it works.

Having said that, yes...the windsuit sucks! I will bet 100 to 1 that most people don't finish the Clutch quests because of it. I know I didn't.

[neo2001]

The wingsuit is pretty worthless in this game.

I think they increased the time until it is deployed in comparison to older FC games. I remember deploying it sometimes accidentaly in FC 4.

But in FC 4, for example, the suit was also still controlled like an aircraft (pulll BACK to minimize altitude loss).

[BioFringe]

Originally posted by neo2001:

The wingsuit is pretty worthless in this game.

I think they increased the time until it is deployed in comparison to older FC games. I remember deploying it sometimes accidentaly in FC 4.

But in FC 4, for example, the suit was also still controlled like an aircraft (pulll BACK to minimize altitude loss).

The wingsuit in 4 & 5 work exactly the same. Push forward and you will dip down thus increasing speed. Pull backward and you'll dip up thus decreasing speed. The faster you go the sooner you'll hit the ground.