So while I wait for my game to stop crashing in fights, I’ve been playing around with mods in my own game. The latest I tried out allowed you to jump very high, so that I can finally get up on the roofs on houses.
I want to be able to do this “legally”!
Add ladders we can climb on, to get up on roofs and buildings another vantage point to snipe from, or just scout the area. Imho I think this would add greatly to the game.
Okay - being able to carry a ladder and use it would be great. You’d have to make a downside - like you couldn’t run or fight while you were carrying it, but it would make sense, and give you a new aspect.
Some of them you can get up, with a constant upwards jumping motion. What I want to do is take it with me and use it where I want to (um…like the skis at the hotel)…
I reckon that sniping from rooftops is a single-player must…
You can get on the roofs of all the churches. You go out the first window at the top of the stairs, the one divided by a pillar. Slide out on the left side of the pillar, and then jump to the right. You will land on the roof.
It’s like… A calculated risk. You can gain a better view of your surroundings, and you can duck behind the roof for cover. But if you get ragdolled, you fall aaaall the way down. Enemies with area-denial attacks like Tanks with mortars and Apocalypse Hunters can blow you off that roof in no time.
Use the ridge. Stand just below the ridge and then duck under it when they fire. All their ordinance will go flying over you and impact on the ground far away or slam into the side facing them, which is harmless to you.
My path to the roof is same as in Ishootfriendlies’s screenshots. However on the 3rd screenshot above, if you jump straight to the roof, you will hit the window’s center divider which stops you and you’ll fall down.
Here’s how i do it reliably;
I jump almost straight out of the window and while in the air, i strafe right, so i miss the center divider and also land on the church’es roof.
On my 1st screenshot, about 1-2m of the roof doesn’t have collision border and if you aim at the edge of the roof, you will fall through the roof. Once the wall below roof starts, then the roof is solid.
When on the roof, don’t get too near to the roof’s edge since at the edge, you’ll also fall through. You won’t die at that height with full health but you’ll take damage.
Well, there aren’t that many unreachable places on the map where rope and grappling hook would be required. Only few building’s roofs are inaccessible.
Another thing when dangling on the rope is that in most of the games, you can’t do anything but slowly climbing up or down, making you easy pickings for machines.