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    FPS's and ladders - do I just suck?

    It seems that in every FPS I play, I have serious problems when it comes to ladders - am I alone in this, or does anyone else share my shame?

    The usual scenario is that I can't successfully get "on" the ladder when trying to descend, so I end up falling and getting hurt/dying depending on the distance and game.

    In Far Cry I've found something even more annoying - I can't even get up one particular ladder a lot of the time!
    (For those that have played the game, it's the bit where you ascend inside the broken tanker, the last ladder you climb up and the chopper and minigun guys take a dislike to you.)

    Most of the time I find myself leaping from opposite platforms and "clinging" to the ladder, then aim down and hit forward!
    I've tried facing away from the edge and walking backwards, very slowly edging towards it looking directly down, all sorts of things.

    I wish they'd just have a button for "use ladder" that puts you on or off it accordingly
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    I once had a small problem like that... now i just slightly look down or in crappy games... jump off and fly to the ladder (well glide or turn in mid air, what ever it is)! that way you get down faster and dont get hurt!

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    You aint alone, the amount of times I've fallen down a poxy ladder and died. Going up them is dead easy, its just getting on the damn thing from the top!!

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    can anyone think of games where ladder descent works easily? I can only think of Project IGI right now

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    Deus Ex and CS were a nightmare when it came to this.
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    You are not alone, but i found Far Cry to be quite good with ladders. I think i only fell once. Most others are deadly though.
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    Im always falling ladders and dieing in CS, seems to make others on the server laugh! thats the only game ive had trouble with tho!
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    There's a bit in half-life where you're in a lift shaft and there's a huge ladder you have to climb down. People used to try to jump off, and grab back on just before hitting the bottom. I managed about the third rung up

    Ladders are annoying because you either can't get onto them properly, or the action key for doing so is clumsy and unintuitive, or you're too damn slow on the things!
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    Yeah I found Deus Ex really bad for this. Especially on that fire escape outside the brothers hotel room!! The amount of times i fell off trying to get down that was no joke.

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    shall we start a petition to outlaw all ladders in FPS games! seems like this is a more common problem than 1st thought. hehe
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    I find the ladders in soldier of fortune 2 to be easy.
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    I've never really had a huge problem with them other than when you use them your completely exposed in death matches

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    Quote Originally Posted by kez
    There's a bit in half-life where you're in a lift shaft and there's a huge ladder you have to climb down. People used to try to jump off, and grab back on just before hitting the bottom. I managed about the third rung up
    Hah, yes, a great game that was - an optional jumping puzzle amongst half-life platform hells that was actually a bit of a laugh.

    Seconding all arguments about ladders in deus ex - cs isn't so bad, apart from the largest one on militia.

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    In rainbow Six 3: raven shield you had to press use on the ladders.

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    I dont liek the ladders in farcry. there was one bit where at the top f the ladder there was a enemy, and I find it hard to get off of the ladder (top or bottom) and i ended up getting shot a few times before it let me shoot him (you cant shoot on ladders)

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    lol raven sheild was annoying, u could be heard throughout the whole level "tink, tonk, tink, tonk" and u slug it as if ur never get up the ladder, which u dont cause u get shot. Being able to slide down them is pretty cool though.
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