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They were supposed to work on brick and other stone surfaces with sufficient cracks or indents to support them. |
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Looking at the strings for the training mission, this is the only appearance of 'vine': "Not only ladders can be climbed. These vines on the wall are strong enough to carry you. Use them just as you would a ladder.\n" So it looks as though the fact that vine arrows specifically attach to stone isn't being conveyed to players via the wiki or the training mission. If someone's got the idea from the wiki that vine arrows attach to rough surfaces by virtue of their rough shape, rough bark is going to seem an intuitive candidate, especially if you've ever seen vines/ivy growing on trees. (And of course T2 players probably expect them to attach to metal grates.) So this is maybe a problem of player (and mapper, in the context of the linked thread) communication: the rule isn't explicit, and can't be reliably inferred by reasoning about the simulation. Edit: It turns out they do attach to metal grates: quite a number of textures/darkmod/metal/grate/* materials are vine_friendly. (Though not grate_pattern_* even though they look a lot like textures/base_floor/sflgrate2mini, which *is* vine_friendly.) |
- Anonymous
