I know I can’t be the only one who hates using ladders in this game. They’re infuriatingly fiddly, they still have a habit of disappearing upon server restarts if you stack them on top of each other, and you can’t actually use them to climb down without just jumping down the hatch and catching yourself because you don’t actually interact with the ladder itself, you just climb on an invisible box in the ladder’s general area:
Basically, the whole affair just feels rushed and half-assed.
Meanwhile, ladders in Ark are way easier to place (and can also attach to things besides hatchframes), don’t disappear, you actually interact with the ladder and don’t just levitate near it, and you can use it to climb down without risking shattered ankles.
There aren’t a ton of things that I would say Ark trumps Conan in, but I think it’s clear this is definitely one of them. Are you gonna just take that lying down, Funcom? Or are you gonna show these bozos that you can do ladders good too?
Yep. Two ladders I had in place disappeared some time ago, and no matter what hocus-pocus I try I can’t make new ones to snap into place where the old ones used to be. It’s just a minor cosmetic issue for me, as ladders are basically useless in their current form - I just feel that there should be a ladder leading up/down from my basement hatch door.
Unless you’re Spider-Man, completely flat walls are more than difficult to most people. But the game would probably become awful if regular walls were made unclimbable.
And because my character is supposed to be a burglar-thief anyway, climbing sheer walls makes sense. Well, as much sense as it makes in any fantasy game.
Can’t help with the climbing part, but the placement part, LBPR and it’s Add-on (and yet another mod I’m working on will have lots of cool ladder options) makes placing them a lot easier. For what that’s worth anyways.
Can vouch, those mods are actually the only reason I was able to set up that demonstration structure so easily, and why I didn’t also post a bunch of shots of ladders refusing to snap.
