Can we JUMP? (Dev) Replied

HISSSSSS. Bah to Free-Jumping

 

Gaaahh! Serpents everywhere! *jumps to safety... but possibly into another trap*

 

*Burns the snakes with a fireball and walks over the ashes*

 

Why'd it have to be snakes?

 

There seems to be a sizable group of players who don't want mandatory dexterity puzzles in the game. That being said, I wouldn't mind if there were optional exploration puzzles that involved jumping around to find hidden spots.

 

Nothing wrong with the occasional jump puzzle, imo

But, like many posting above me, I don't think it should be a core mechanic. Something put here and there, a jump puzzle to get to an optional side chamber in a dungeon.

Also, like many posters above me, I think it'd be really cool to see some "Exploration" skills - Swimming, Climbing, Jumping, Sprinting, being able to spend points in these skills to make you slightly better at them. Climbing up vines, trees, cliff faces (with the right equipment), I'm not the world's most experienced programmer but I think the tech for climbing would be fairly simple, a character model animation for climbing, and instead of using a terrain flag to mark it as climbable (which I assume would be labor intensive to implement if most of the terrain is already done), have the game run a check client-side to determine if terrain is climbable when you hit your "Climb" hotkey? I dunno, just speculating for the sake of being bored lol.

Can't wait to try out combat, you guys had an amazing and creative idea for approaching it and I can't wait to see how it's been executed

 

+1 for jumping. i want to jump!

 

I want to jump ship too, I want to jump!

 

I usually want to jump everything i see....but let's keep it at that haha