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Ladder Physics
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Much like Jump Physics, characters in video games don't usually tend to interact with ladders the way people in real life do. These things range from climbing ladders apparently without needing to use arms (i.e. keeping them free to fire large weapons, like the BFG), to completely breaking one's fall simply by grabbing them. Also, in many cases you'll be able to rotate your view a full 360 degrees while attached to the ladder, with no physical restraints. Sometimes, it's even possible to 'jump' up the ladder, or climb up backwards. This works against you as well, as ladders are among the most prevalent causes of death in first-person shooter games. The primary reason for this is that getting on and off a ladder in many FPSs is automatic: if you're touching the ladder and walking in the proper direction, you'll get on or off and climb. The problem with this being that it's very easy to slide off the sides or walk backwards off the front to your doom. It also makes getting onto the top of a ladder something of a crapshoot, since it seems no two developers ever come up with the same solution; you might have to walk as if stepping off whereupon you'll automatically turn around and grab on as you start falling, step backwards off the ledge and use air control to grab the ladder on the way down, hit the use key...even when you're on it, climbing is a risky business and working out what 'climb down' is can result in death. For example, pressing 'back' (because forward is up the ladder, surely!) may make you leap backwards off the ladder to your doom, because the devs thought it made more sense to use crouch and jump as the climbing keys. Third-person games tend to be more realistic with ladders than first-person, because when the player can see his character the developers have to at least try to make it look good. Another related mechanic is when a ladder is only climbable from one side, even if it is accessible from both sides. This is done to avoid frustration (you don't want to climb a long ladder for ten seconds only to find out at the top that you climbed the wrong side and can't get up on the platform), though it can be annoying if you want to quickly latch onto a ladder to escape something on the ground. Rarely, if ever, is your character given the ability to simply move from one side of the ladder to the other. |
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Averted in inFAMOUS, where Cole will realistically hang from any surface (including ladders) with one hand and either switch hands or twist around any way he needs to in order to aim a lightning bolt. | |
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a funny one: you can't use anything that isn't a pistol or a knife while climbing, but if you do equip a pistol (sometimes it's necessary to deal with whatever nasties may be at the top), you hold it in a two-handed grip. Such is life in the Zone. | |
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Battlefield: You can't use weapons and you only have up and down motion for the duration of climbing the ladder. You can even switch to third person view and watch your character climb the ladder. A heavy downside in Battlefield 2 and 2142 is that a soldier who gets killed while holding on to a ladder is always instantly eliminated without any hope of being revived by a medic. |
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In Killzone, your character puts their weapon away and you actually see their hands grip the rungs of the ladder from the first person view. When going down you grab the side of the ladder and slide down. Both are activated with a use key. | |
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In Stinkoman 20X6, Stinkoman can only move straight up and down while on ladders. 1-up climbs ladders slower than Stinkoman, because he's hauling himself up with his teeth. | |
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Breakdown had realistic ladder physics, as you would actually see Derrick Cole's hands grabbing the ladder and climbing it, getting the same view you would get in Real Life when you climb a ladder; within a few rungs he would start to look up at the ceiling as he ascends the ladder. | |
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First Encounter Assault Recon goes for a mostly realistic approach to the ladders in its thirst for averting First-Person Ghost: your character is shown mounting the ladder from either up or down, you can see your arms and legs gripping it as you climb. As you might expect, even looking any further than 60º away from the ladder's vertical axis is essentially impossible. Additionally, ladders are not "magnetic", as in you do not engage them just by getting glose enough — you explicitly have to hit "interact" to grab ahold of the rungs. The only bizarre part of the ladder physics is that you can break a fall from any height and negate Falling Damage by grabbing on to one in mid-air: your character will simply place himself on it just like if you'd grabbed it while standing on the ground. | |
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Dark Souls: You and your enemies (if they can climb them) can't do much of anything on a ladder other than move up and down, slide down, or jump off. You can do some swiping/kicking attacks if there's an enemy on the same ladder, but they are weak and their purpose is more to make the other guy fall off than to kill them. Its predecessor Demon's Souls is even more restrictive: you can use certain items while climbing ladders, but can't attack at all, slide down it, jump off, or even be knocked off. | |
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This looks ridiculously stupid in multi-player games, watching players walk up ladders - even sillier if they're crouching, because the player appears to be levitating up the ladder from a kneeling position. Egregious in supposedly realistic settings like Counter-Strike, though at least climbing the ladder makes your gun horribly inaccurate. | |
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Operation Flashpoint and ARMA, being heavily-realistic shooters, require you to put your weapon away before climbing ladders. Oddly enough, at least in ARMA II, your hands and feet never actually line up with the rungs. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: Climbing ladders is portrayed as very simple. You can climb ladders normally, you can quickly climb ladders via speeding up, and you can slide down ladders to reach lower area more quickly. | |
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Even better, in the first game you can walk and strafe up ladders simultaneously for a healthy speed boost. | |
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It's notoriously hard to grab ladders on the way down in this game. Most players have learned to quick-save before even trying to descend a ladder, because of the sheer number of ways it can go wrong. That or players approach the top of the ladder while holding down the use key, the crouch key, the walk key, or a combination. Half-Life 2 made it slightly better by letting you press use to attach yourself to (or remove yourself from) a ladder from a little ways away, whether you're approaching the bottom or the top. | |
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Half-Life: Freeman's HEV suit evidently has magnetic feet, because even during earth-shattering explosions, he's able to stick perfectly to the ladder without even taking his hands off the weapon. It's even possible to reload while on a ladder. It's notoriously hard to grab ladders on the way down in this game. Most players have learned to quick-save before even trying to descend a ladder, because of the sheer number of ways it can go wrong. That or players approach the top of the ladder while holding down the use key, the crouch key, the walk key, or a combination. Half-Life 2 made it slightly better by letting you press use to attach yourself to (or remove yourself from) a ladder from a little ways away, whether you're approaching the bottom or the top. Also, in Half-Life: Opposing Force, the ladder physics become even more absurd when they get applied to rope climbing. Cpl Adrian Shepard must be one hell of an acrobat. Even better, in the first game you can walk and strafe up ladders simultaneously for a healthy speed boost. |
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A heavy downside in Battlefield 2 and 2142 is that a soldier who gets killed while holding on to a ladder is always instantly eliminated without any hope of being revived by a medic. | |
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In games like Quake III: Arena that lack actual ladder behavior, some maps attempt to get around this by just launching the player upwards when they approach the ladder. | |
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One of the many, many things that made Daikatana so infamous was the wonky ladder physics. Trying to climb down without dropping off a ledge entirely was almost as difficult as trying not to kill yourself by self-inflicted friendly fire — and predictably, much like the self-inflicted friendly fire, the worst of it is in the first episode. | |
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The Game Boy Advance game based on Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart uses an especially lazy implementation. Grabbing onto ladders is automatic if you're in position to do so and not still moving up from a jump, and there's no way to let go other than jumping or reaching one end. On the positive (if unrealistic) side, you can jump at full height on ladders, so you can move up super-quickly by mashing the jump button. | |
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The guards in Thief: Deadly Shadows are completely incapable of dealing with ladders. If you ascend one, any guards chasing you will stand at the bottom, shaking their fists at you and shouting "How did you get up there?". Unless they're armed with a bow, in which case you're in (minor) trouble. | |
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PAYDAY: The Heist averted this by making all ladders tilted, so you scaled them via jumping on each rung instead of through special physics. The sequel didn't, and its ladders are an often-cursed part of any map's design. | |
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The Tomb Raider games have pretty good ladder physics, probably because the game's about 80% Le Parkour and 20% gunplay. The original games also have relatively realistic ladder physics, although graphic limitations meant that Lara generally climbed on flat surfaces and therefore did not always hold on the "rung" aspects of the textures. | |
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Also, in Half-Life: Opposing Force, the ladder physics become even more absurd when they get applied to rope climbing. Cpl Adrian Shepard must be one hell of an acrobat. | |
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Ladders aren't subject to many unusual movement styles in the SmackDown vs. Raw games, or the earlier Smackdown ones. Aside from being OK to dive off them onto someone and being able to walk away, or being able to smash someone with it and have the victim be able to walk away. Which isn't that hard to believe when you consider what those games are licensed on. What makes the ladders even weirder is if you create a move ending in a Backstabber in Create-a-Finisher, the ladder will actually pop up into the air. |
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In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and onward, you cannot fire weapons or do anything else that requires the use of your hands (except throw grenades) while climbing a ladder. You can't see your hands, but you only have hands during one cutscene and while you're actually holding a weapon. | |
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Red Faction is bad with this. Ladders work like no-gravity areas where you can move almost freely: you can move off a ladder a bit and still hang on... You can also grab onto and climb girders, climbing up and even shimmying across them, and you can, with small difficulty, climb from the bottom of a girder to the side, and then onto the top! Jumping towards a ladder near-instantly halts your momentum, and can be a life-saver when you're falling to your death but notice a ladder next to you. You can also look anywhere and shoot while climbing ladders. | |
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Bio Menace, due to using the same engine as Commander Keen, allows you to hold the "up" key and repeatedly hit jump to climb ladders really fast. Some players nickname this "ladder flying". | |
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In Commander Keen 4 and later in the series, firehouse poles feature as ladders. Keen can arrest a fall instantly by grabbing a pole, and also alternate jumping and grabbing to move up faster than simple climbing. | |
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There are some really long ladders in The Legend of Zelda that can take an annoyingly long time to climb, especially in Ocarina of Time. Twilight Princess speeds Link up a bit, while Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom lets him jump up them even more quickly while depleting the stamina meter. | |
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Halo: In Halo: Combat Evolved, your character runs up ladders instead of climbing them (similar to the Half-Life example). Which means not only can you climb and shoot, you can let go and climb back up, so long as your character's looking up. The developers realized the inherent silliness of this trope, but originally had no real way of fixing the ladders without breaking the pace. Solution? They replaced almost every ladder in the game with gravity lifts in Halo 2. The ladders make a few reappearances in the Halo 3 campaign, but have been absent ever since. | |
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In Shadow Warrior (1997), while climbing a ladder, you cannot use weapons or even look around until you get off it at the top or bottom. | |
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Averted in Dirge of Cerberus; the player cannot take any actions while on a ladder, both arms and legs are required, and there is no automatic climbing, although being a third-person shooter, the camera can be rotated almost all the way around Vincent. | |
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In Battlefield Heroes, you can use an emote while climbing a ladder, which will cause your character to let go of the ladder and perform the emote (e.g. waving, making airplane motions, and other hilarious things). | |
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In the original Far Cry, you couldn't use weapons on ladders, but the controls on the ladder are relative to how you got on the ladder. So it's possible to go down a ladder facing away from it, which also makes it possible to run off the ladder, to varying degrees of pain or death depending of how high you fell off from. | |
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Far Cry 2 doesn't have very many ladders, but yes, you climb them pretty realistically and can see your arms grabbing the rungs. Its later sequels continue this, more obviously because there are quite a few more ladders. | |
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God of War features a few ladders which Kratos either jumps up five rungs at a time or slides down the arms. However, the real fun comes when Kratos climbs masonry or cliff faces. Using his blades as pitons, he stabs the wall the direction he wishes to go when going slow or takes giant leaps between wall sections, stabbing the wall with both blades when he gets there. To top it off, he can also still attack enemies with his blades, and even grab them and throw them off the wall. | |
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Final Fantasy XI avoids this in a rather nasty manner. In the few places where ladders can be found, the player is treated to short-but-too-long Resident Evil style animation of a ladder being ascended and stared at, while their character position remains unchanged at the base until the animation ends, and groups of aggressive monsters that see through invisibility effects wander around behind them. | |
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Hitman: Hitman 2: Silent Assassin takes this to ludicrous extremes: Climbing a ladder forces the camera in to 3rd person perspective, and it doesn't restrict your firing capabilities at all, meaning you can and are forced to watch Agent 47 run up a ladder in third person while contorting his body so much that he can fire a shotgun directly below and behind him. Hitman: Contracts: Agent 47 has forgotten his ladder skills. Try and descend a ladder in a rush and the skilled assassin leaps off in grand suicidal swan dive. |
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin takes this to ludicrous extremes: Climbing a ladder forces the camera in to 3rd person perspective, and it doesn't restrict your firing capabilities at all, meaning you can and are forced to watch Agent 47 run up a ladder in third person while contorting his body so much that he can fire a shotgun directly below and behind him. | |
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Shadow Complex averts this by treating ladders fairly realistically. You can climb ladders as normal, you can climb them quickly up to the limits of your stamina (which quickly increases as you level), you can slide down them (friction burns are ignored, but later on you get armor, so then it's okay), shoot from them by holding on to the ladder with one hand (but you're not climbing up or down while you do this, and it takes a moment as you stop and pull out your firearm and put it away, and this doesn't address the issues of recoil while holding an AK-47 with one hand), reload with one hand (again, you're stuck on the ladder in one spot while you reload, with a lead-in and lead-out time), and once you get the jet pack, you can even slide up the ladder. Which looks kind of awesome. | |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl uses and averts this. Obviously, every character has limbs—but you'd think Ivysaur (the only true quadruped) would have a bit of a tough time getting up each rung. Avoiding spikes and long pits in the Swamp stage requires jumping from ladder to ladder. | |
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Hitman: Contracts: Agent 47 has forgotten his ladder skills. Try and descend a ladder in a rush and the skilled assassin leaps off in grand suicidal swan dive. | |
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Donkey Kong: Mario is quite vulnerable to a barrel to the brainpan if he hasn't finish climbing not only the ladder, but getting up once he's on the higher platform. And no grabbing the ladder as you run by and jump, either. Granted, Mario's also got the broken ladders hanging out (though they may just be missing rungs). | |
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God of War II ups the ante by letting Kratos also climb the ceiling. Not only can he still attack, but he can also catch an enemy with one blade while hanging on to the other, pull it towards him, and smash it into the ceiling several times while sticking to the ceiling like glue. | |
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In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, you climb ladders without even touching them, instead using Layle's powers to pull yourself up to the top of the ladder instantly, making you wonder why you can only do this when a ladder is present. | |
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The Ratchet & Clank series has the "jump up the ladder" variant. | |
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Medal of Honor: Allied Assault works about the same way as above, with the added bonus that it's possible to climb up ladders on the wrong side and have to climb back down to get on the correct side. Even better yet, the use key allows you to grab onto ladders reliably from any angle, no more suicide mounts! | |
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In Everybody Edits, climbable tiles such as ladders and vines automatically slow movement when touched, and can be navigated in any direction. | |
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Ladders in Command & Conquer: Renegade force the player to hit the use key to get on them, at which point the viewpoint shifts to third-person (if the player wasn't already playing in third-person) so the player can watch Havoc climb the ladder. This actually makes guard towers somewhat dangerous, as Nod Officers tend to hide in them, and it's usually difficult to take them out without going into the tower yourself (unless the Officer is keen on completely ignoring you, which he likely is). | |
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Legacy of the Wizard, where it was a matter of course just to jump up all those zillions of long ladders you face, since it's faster than just pressing Up. | |
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La-Mulana has very frustrating ladders: while you can use your weapons (main weapons, at least) while on ladders, you have to start climbing them from the bottom or the top; you can't jump or even walk onto the middle of ladders. You can't jump off ladders, either, but taking any hit while on a ladder, usually from colliding with Goddamned Bats, sends you falling to the bottom. You also can't climb down a ladder if its top is the foot of the screen above it, which makes it easy to get caught in traps. | |
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In Mega Man X2 and X3, X uses both arms to fire a charged shot once upgraded. Which means falling off any ladders you might be holding on to. | |
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Final Fantasy: Averted in Dirge of Cerberus; the player cannot take any actions while on a ladder, both arms and legs are required, and there is no automatic climbing, although being a third-person shooter, the camera can be rotated almost all the way around Vincent. In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, you climb ladders without even touching them, instead using Layle's powers to pull yourself up to the top of the ladder instantly, making you wonder why you can only do this when a ladder is present. |
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An interesting example/lampshade in Psychonauts: ladders work properly for the most of the game except for one that twists after you start sliding down, making you slide upwards. Justified since it's a ladder inside the mind of a circus acrobat currently experiencing serious... problems. | |
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God of War: God of War features a few ladders which Kratos either jumps up five rungs at a time or slides down the arms. However, the real fun comes when Kratos climbs masonry or cliff faces. Using his blades as pitons, he stabs the wall the direction he wishes to go when going slow or takes giant leaps between wall sections, stabbing the wall with both blades when he gets there. To top it off, he can also still attack enemies with his blades, and even grab them and throw them off the wall. God of War II ups the ante by letting Kratos also climb the ceiling. Not only can he still attack, but he can also catch an enemy with one blade while hanging on to the other, pull it towards him, and smash it into the ceiling several times while sticking to the ceiling like glue. |
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein takes the above example a little further: it's possible to not only reload and fire your weapon (even the minigun!) but also kick while climbing the ladder. This presumably means that your character is attached to the ladder by one foot. The game avoids the 360-degree rotation bit, though: if you aren't facing the ladder, you'll promptly fall off. They must have had a lot of fun with these ladders during development: there is a note posted in an early level mentioning that safety cages have been installed on all the ladders due to a rise in "ladder-related injuries". |
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Having your head spasm like a spastic shoggoth is apparently how goats climb ladders in Goat Simulator. | |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution switched to a third person view whenever Adam started climbing a ladder, accurately showing him grabbing each next step while being unable to do anything except climb. In fact, he can't even let go except when he comes to a ladder's end (even when he has the aug that negates fall damage), which means for instance putting a box at the bottom of a ladder prevents climbing down it. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Naked Snake has to climb a very tall ladder to get to the top of a mountain. The only exhaustion experienced is on the part of the player. The ladder is so long, about a quarter up, the game starts playing the theme song to kill time. | |
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay also has good ladder physics. You cannot do anything else while climbing. | |
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The developers of Team Fortress 2 specifically avoided having ladders at all both because of the stupidity of physics involved and because having spots where people have their movement slowed down is just asking for people to camp. Amusingly, there are some decorative ladders that new players may fruitlessly attempt to climb. | |
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Ladders in Minecraft are subject to all kinds of weirdness. They seem to simply slow your fall when you occupy the same square as them, and move you upwards at the same rate when you move against them. This means, among other things, moving into a ladder square while falling at terminal velocity will instantly slow you, and it's possible to mine a block while facing away from the ladder you're on. This reaches ridiculous levels when you realize, with a bit of luck, you can place a ladder segment while in freefall, and instantly cancel your momentum with it. Also, neither water nor lava can exist in the same space as a ladder, leading to shenanigans where a ceiling made of lava lights up a room, but won't actually fall down into it because it's afraid of invading the ladder's personal bubble. Spiders can climb up vertical walls, but any overhangs can stop their progress. Ladders, which barely have any width at all, can block a spider's climbing as well as a 1x1x1 cubic meter stone block can. |
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Averted in Duke Nukem Forever, where you have to "use" a ladder (or corrugated pipe when shrunk), can only move up and down, can only LOOK up and down with a very slight side-to-side, and can't really do anything else until you get to the top or bottom. Fortunately, there are very few instances of ladders you have to climb during intense combat situations, usually you can just wait until you've hamburgered the incoming waves. | |
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Call of Duty: In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and onward, you cannot fire weapons or do anything else that requires the use of your hands (except throw grenades) while climbing a ladder. You can't see your hands, but you only have hands during one cutscene and while you're actually holding a weapon. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) goes further with an actual animation of your character climbing the ladder, with their sidearm still in their right hand so if there are any enemies at the top you can quickly take care of them before climbing all the way up. |
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Likewise Crysis, which is actually pretty good at showing your own limbs, including if you look down. | |
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In Deus Ex, trying to look in any direction other than straight up while climbing a ladder may result in the main character launching himself off at truly impressive velocities and breaking his legs. Climbing down a ladder without a very careful approach is more dangerous than throwing TNT at enemy soldiers. | |
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God Hand has a few ladders sprinkled throughout the game, but Gene never actually climbs them, he instead just jumps up and down to where they begin and end. | |
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Gothic ladders tend to interrupt long falls safely but otherwise behave correctly. Your character can't do anything but climb or let go while on the ladder and getting hurt while climbing will knock him off of it for good. | |
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Chuckie Egg allows you to jump and catch onto a ladder, but you can't step off one midway unless there's a platform there. Also, if the bottom of a ladder is in mid-air, you can't let go; you must jump up to fall off the ladder. Finally, probably a glitch, but you can climb ladders sideways, so that your character retains his normal walking animation. | |
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In La Tale, ladders can be grabbed while jumping or falling. Due to a graphical glitch, the character's hands and feet never quite line up with the rungs, either. | |
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Dark Messiah, partially. Being on a ladder means you can only look around 90 degrees, move up or down the ladder, or jump off. The player can climb chains, which behave similarly, but these can break a fall and so fit this trope. Mooks suffer the same restrictions, though they will gladly attempt to pursue you up a ladder no matter how many of their comrades you've effortlessly arrowed to death from the top. | |
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Doom³ allows Doomguy to climb ladders while holding his weapon, though looking too far away from the ladder makes him fall off. | |
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Ōkami avoids the issue entirely; ladders are treated like doors, automatically cutting to the next room whenever the wolf protagonist would need to climb a ladder to exit (as in Susano's room). | |
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Quake: The ladders in Quake II are like glue: once you're attached to them, there's no way in Hell you're going to get off unless you've reached the top or bottom. Need to jump off? Not bloody likely. Source ports usually make ladder physics more flexible, similar to the Half-Life example. In games like Quake III: Arena that lack actual ladder behavior, some maps attempt to get around this by just launching the player upwards when they approach the ladder. |
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Turok 2 not only represents the action and strain of climbing a ladder, but makes it impossible to do anything else. | |
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TimeSplitters: Future Perfect would zoom out to a 3D view of Cortez climbing the ladder realistically, during which you couldn't really do anything except go up or down. You never really need to fire and climb at the same time anyway, so it's more a neat little graphical trick than an attempt at realistic gameplay (this is TimeSplitters, after all). | |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) goes further with an actual animation of your character climbing the ladder, with their sidearm still in their right hand so if there are any enemies at the top you can quickly take care of them before climbing all the way up. | |
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Though ostensibly a bug rather than a deliberate aversion, the original Mega Man deserves a mention for making your one-armed hero fall off of a ladder whenever the game is paused. | |
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent has you grab to ladders with the Interact key, making you much less likely to accidentally fall off or get stuck to them, and you can't carry an object in your hands while climbing. However, you still can only climb one side of each ladder. | |
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Especially noticeable in Action 52, where you can freely walk off ladders most of the time and the climbing animation often doesn't match up. Lollipop is the worst example of this though, as you literally climb ladders by jumping up them. | |
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Mirror's Edge noticeably restricts your ability to turn and look while climbing a ladder. Also, while you can still grab a ladder while falling, it will do a fair bit of damage, and it is possible to die by falling onto a ladder from high enough. | |
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Averted in Grand Theft Auto IV and on: the gun goes away, and you climb the ladder slowly (though you can speed it up by pressing the sprint bind). However, it should be noted that the protagonists simply slide down ladders - even on the ladder of a 200ft tall construction crane, which should rightly burn their hands clean off. | |
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Freedom Planet is pretty good about this most of the time - characters will even swing themselves around a ladder before grabbing it if they're moving fast enough - but all of that is thrown out the window with Carol's motorcycle, which can ride up ladders and stick to them without moving at all. | |
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Doom The classic games lack actual ladder behavior. A common trick used by modders to get around this is to create a set of stairs with extremely narrow steps, forming a nearly vertical ramp that can be ascended like a laddernote the issues of getting on them from the top without splattering yourself are avoided by the game completely lacking Falling Damage. Later source ports allow map creators to designate the area in front of a ladder as being underwater, allowing players to "swim" up the ladder, though with the caveat that, since drowning in underwater sectors is determined on a per-map basis rather than per-sector, using this trick together with actual underwater segments results in either ladders that you can somehow drown on or the Doomguy having Super Not-Drowning Skills. Doom³ allows Doomguy to climb ladders while holding his weapon, though looking too far away from the ladder makes him fall off. |
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Climbing up a ladder in Jak 3 works much exactly like in real life. If you walk up to one you automatically put your weapon away to grip the sides with both hands. | |
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The ladders in Quake II are like glue: once you're attached to them, there's no way in Hell you're going to get off unless you've reached the top or bottom. Need to jump off? Not bloody likely. Source ports usually make ladder physics more flexible, similar to the Half-Life example. | |
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Gears of War averts this trope in the most badass way possible. Players climb ladders with one arm, leaping from rung to rung with pull-ups, and climb down ladders by leaping off the top, grabbing the ladder half way down to slow their fall and flip back upright, then drop the rest of the way to the ground. You can't do anything else during these scripted climbing sequences, but since ladders are extremely rare, never very long and you climb them ridiculously fast it doesn't really matter. | |
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Vanquish takes the same approach to ladders as God Hand (incidentally, the two games were developed by the same company) by having Sam Gideon leap to the top of ladders rather than climb them. | |
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Mega Man: Though ostensibly a bug rather than a deliberate aversion, the original Mega Man deserves a mention for making your one-armed hero fall off of a ladder whenever the game is paused. Also deserving of mention: in the first two games of the series, attaching Mega Man to a ladder reversed his direction (so if facing right when initiating a climb on a latter, the character would face left when reaching the top, when reaching the bottom or when jumping off. This can make for an amusing effect if the ladder is just above ground level, but still reachable when standing on the ground (one such ladder exists in Elec Man's stage): hold "down" and Mega Man will continually switch direction rapidly. In Mega Man X2 and X3, X uses both arms to fire a charged shot once upgraded. Which means falling off any ladders you might be holding on to. |
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Similar to the Jak 3 example above, whenever Sora (and his friends) climb up a ladder in Kingdom Hearts, it's realistic. | |
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Averted in the Assassin's Creed series, where free running is one of the main mode of getting around. Even better is that climbing up the wrong side of the ladder doesn't mean you have to drop down; just hit left or right on the joystick and you swing around to the correct side. | |
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The only ladder in The Dead Mines can be a bit screwy to get off or on, but it's only encountered very briefly in a single section and the game has no fall damage. | |
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In America's Army, the player loses the ability to brandish any weapons while touching a ladder. | |
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Left 4 Dead The game averts any kind of ladder related weapon using nonsense despite running on a newer version of the Source engine that powered Half-Life 2 and its ladder weirdness. The fact that a survivor character can still hold onto a ladder with a couple dozen common infected standing on their head is another story. They are still major deathtraps in Left 4 Dead anyway, though, as mandatory ladders are almost perfect choke points, and being caught by a Special Infected like the Hunter or Jockey will force the Survivor to let go of the ladder, which can deal some hefty Falling Damage. The new ladder behavior only applies to the Survivors, though; Infected players in Versus mode, in addition to being able to climb up damn near anything like it's a ladder (conveniently marked by claw symbols and an arrow), can still take advantage of the old diagonal speed boost nonsense. |
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Super Smash Bros.: Super Smash Bros. Brawl uses and averts this. Obviously, every character has limbs—but you'd think Ivysaur (the only true quadruped) would have a bit of a tough time getting up each rung. Avoiding spikes and long pits in the Swamp stage requires jumping from ladder to ladder. Because the series has jumping, double jumping, and triple jumping being such an integral part of the game, they have to provide a reason why you'd climb a ladder instead of simply jumping right up: Characters climb up and down ladders really, really fast, faster than if you had leaped all the way to the top, assuming the ladder isn't leading to a platform out of your jump range. This quirk was carried over into Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and is a key way to quickly travel across the Wrecking Crew stage, which is vertically-oriented and heavy on ladders. |
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