PC ladder climbing?

[Bambi]

It seems if you disable the VR-oriented "dash" locomotion, you can not climb ladders in any way. it would be nice to have some way to smoothly climb ladders on flatscreen PC

[Geoppolis]

Concur that the ability to climb ladders would be nice. It would be helpful for getting into the DE-6 (without using the dash function), and also because I want to climb the ladder up the tower crane at the harbor.

[ling.speed]

I think most (all?) train ladders are jumpable by design. It sometimes takes a bit of preparation but should be doable.

And if you for some reason cant jump over something, you can always crouch jump - old FPS trick of crouching after jumping. Gets you on DE6 no problem even from the side we are not supposed to climb on, or jump fences etc.

So yeah, you can play without dash no problem, just have to plan a little bit more.
(and ofc i'd like to have proper ladder climbing)

[pitty3878]

+1 For ladder climbing.

[Bambi]

The steam 0-6-0 locomotive requires you to climb on the roof with the ladder to see the coal level and to open the water tanks for refills

[ling.speed]

Originally posted by Bambi:

The steam 0-6-0 locomotive requires you to climb on the roof with the ladder to see the coal level and to open the water tanks for refills

Right! That one ladder on the coal box does not have physical helper steps like the others, it can be crouch jumped upon but its a tight timing (press crouch very quickly after space).

We are suppoesd to use the front steps to access all the externals of the 060, which is very easy to access, but like with 282 not during travel, which is imho fair enough.

Tbh rather than ladders i'd love all the steps, rails and ledges get walkability upgrade... for example how we can reach DM3 engine from the cabin, or go from front to back on DH4.


As a side note for steamers, when the coal in the coal box chances shape you have ~0.25-0.3 remaining, (~3 full fireboxes).

[Geoppolis]

Originally posted by ling.speed:

Tbh rather than ladders i'd love all the steps, rails and ledges get walkability upgrade... for example how we can reach DM3 engine

That reminds me: I find getting the fuel nozzle into the DM-3 extremely awkward. I advocate for anything that makes climbing up there seamless.

[Kimo]

Originally posted by ling.speed:

... or go from front to back on DH4.

At least in non-VR it is possible to "climb" around the cabin entrance. iIrc we need to pass the door sideways.