Did a whole bunch of testing to see how it works, and what would possibly break, or some possible bugs and glitches. And from what I experienced its very well implemented. All it really does is snap the player to the ladder easily, kinda like a “grab onto” button, and there’s plenty of things in place to stop weird exploits and keep the player from glitching into the ground or into walls.
Plus you can still use ladders normally so I’m happy, you don’t HAVE to press F to get on/off, it’s just there so you can press a key to connect to it. I see no reason for it not to be added unless some major exploits are found.
Actually I tested it too after being inactive on Forums, what needs to be said is that I was only speculating of how it was implemented and after figuring it all out in-game I’m fine with how it was made.
So, in retrospective to myself, speculative criticism I’ve been making isn’t relevant.
“It may affect my gameplay”
Who is really pressing F when mid fight? Only other option of pressing it is to showcase the weapon in your hands (oftenly being used to showcase skins), or to enter the vehicle. All of these options aren’t contradicting with each other, neither they are contradicting with instant climbing addition, that’s why I don’t see any problem.
“It will harm parkour maps”
Of course it won’t harm these elements on maps, because my first expectations about this mechanic aren’t true, and there are both options of climbing on ladders.
Bottom area is for playing on ladders with new instant climb addition and top one is for testing some features of it.
First experiment: how ladder teleportation reacts to barricade obstacles along it’s way.
Every barricade I checked here, whether it’s a door or it’s a bars fortifications don’t let you going through it and climbing onto the ladder while pressing F.
Second experiment: how ladder teleportation reacts to object colliders.
I placed an Ice (#2?) object backwards and tried sticking into ladders, but unsurprisingly you can’t go through colliders.
P.S. I know, first 2 experiments are boring, but they were needed to be done to test default obstacle conditions.
Third experiment, however, is a lot more interesting.
I placed 2 volumes (Kill Volume and PlayerClip Volume) in devkit and as usual tried to use instant ladder climbing through them. After that, not only I had an ability to actually do it (UI “Climb [F]” element had showed up), but teleporting through them didn’t cause me to die or to be blocked.
Summary: Nelson should probably work on defining certain devkit volumes as ‘obstacles’ to prevent players from teleporting on ladder objects through them.
Honoured that you guys did so much testing! Glad that it seems robust. Interesting point about some of those volumes - technically the regular ladder climbing would also ignore those, but on the other hand I think it is unlikely there are any maps with a trick kill volume in front of a ladder.
