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    Help with Drowned Man cave?

    I don't know if there's anything anyone can do to help me with something like this, but I'm fairly desperate, so I thought what the heck, I'd give it a shot.

    I'm at the point in the cave where you go up a ramp and grapple onto an outcrop of rock in the ceiling. It's in the room where a mammoth skeleton is in the water. I'm supposed to swing over onto a horizontal rock bridge, and then drop down into the water on the other side.

    I have tried to do this about 40 times. I always, always come up short and slide down into the water on the side I'm coming from. I've watched people do this in videos, and although they don't SEEM to be doing anything different, they make it, and I don't. I've tried hanging low, medium and high. I've tried pushing the o: detach button and holding it. I've tried hitting o: detach and x: jump at the same time. I have also tried screaming at the TV and pulling my hair out, but I'm less surprised that didn't work.

    Short of coming over to my house and doing this for me, can anyone suggest anything? Because the map disappears when you're in one of these "lost" caves, I'm completely stuck here. My $60 game is now worth nothing because I cannot make this stupid jump, and there's no way to back out of the cave even though this isn't a critical path mission.
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    Not especially good in caves however...

    Is that the one that has plant growth over the entrance you are trying to reach, if so you have to burn that away first with say a lit arrow fired from a suitable vantage point otherwise you just bash against the blockage and fall down as the ledge is too narrow to hold you.

    I hope I am right and this is some help to you as some of those caves seem hard work to me. There is one jump I keep failing because I either over jump and fall down the far side or underjump - have to get back to that one - luckily it was not a block to me finding a way out again just to reaching the objects of my desire.
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    Originally Posted by PCCCorwin71 Go to original post
    I don't know if there's anything anyone can do to help me with something like this, but I'm fairly desperate, so I thought what the heck, I'd give it a shot.

    I'm at the point in the cave where you go up a ramp and grapple onto an outcrop of rock in the ceiling. It's in the room where a mammoth skeleton is in the water. I'm supposed to swing over onto a horizontal rock bridge, and then drop down into the water on the other side.

    I have tried to do this about 40 times. I always, always come up short and slide down into the water on the side I'm coming from. I've watched people do this in videos, and although they don't SEEM to be doing anything different, they make it, and I don't. I've tried hanging low, medium and high. I've tried pushing the o: detach button and holding it. I've tried hitting o: detach and x: jump at the same time. I have also tried screaming at the TV and pulling my hair out, but I'm less surprised that didn't work.

    Short of coming over to my house and doing this for me, can anyone suggest anything? Because the map disappears when you're in one of these "lost" caves, I'm completely stuck here. My $60 game is now worth nothing because I cannot make this stupid jump, and there's no way to back out of the cave even though this isn't a critical path mission.
    Do what I do with these FC games when you reach an impasse no longer fun to make. Download a cheat trainer off of gamecopyworld. The Lingon cheat gives you a super jump that will usually get you up and over things in these games. Sometimes you might need temporary god mode too so you don't die from the fall. Then just disable the cheats and move on.
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    Thanks folks, I finally made the jump successfully.

    Not the same cave, Vic. I knew it would be hard to recognize because there are so many caves with so many similar jumps. If anybody in the future happens across this with the same problem, I angled myself from left to right, and was able to get up on the land bridge.

    I never use codes, but it did cross my mind when I was frustrated after 30+ tries. I hate autosaves in principle, and this looked like that nightmare come true for a moment since I had no way I could think of to keep playing in any shape or form unless I made this jump. IMO, that should never happen from a game design standpoint, especially not in an optional area.
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    Sorry for my poor advice yes I was thinking of another cave.

    Stupidly have done that one in fact all the lock in find your way out caves and realised a bit after posting I was probably talking about the wrong one. Old memory is rubbish too. Now you mention it I even recall that issue of swing back and forth striving to get the right momentum and failing at first. The caves giving me the most grief are the ones you have to delve for collectables never sure if say that jump is so awkward because there is actually an alternate route and I am doing it wrong. Actually some alternate routes might be nice as in a route that is all careful leaps and one which is more about observation as in spotting a concealed easier way. I hate perfectly times leaps in games I am rubbish at them and the more I think about wait to this point before button pressing the more I get it wrong. There was a bell tower too in FC4 that drove me nuts then I just sussed out how to fly in and do it even though that was a bit tricky as the thing always started beeping there due to the altitude - dirty trick.
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    I just left the cave. After over two hours of swinging over the water with a rock behind you killing your backswing, I tried left to right, I tried everything. I couldn't do it. The quest is listed as "medium". Try near impossible. My only option in the end was to fast travel. There was no way I was going to reach that rock bridge. Disappointing. I wonder if the Dev's tested it.
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    Originally Posted by djwolf1952 Go to original post
    I just left the cave. After over two hours of swinging over the water with a rock behind you killing your backswing, I tried left to right, I tried everything. I couldn't do it. The quest is listed as "medium". Try near impossible. My only option in the end was to fast travel. There was no way I was going to reach that rock bridge. Disappointing. I wonder if the Dev's tested it.
    Maybe the Devs need to release a patch for some of the bugs that are still in this game.
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    Finally made it

    I don't know if it has anything to do with it but after 30 tries I made it and this particular time I did not focus on the bridge I looked up jumped much further and I made it
    Could be coincidence though
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    Idiotic game design

    Just seems plain stupid to me when you have worked out what to do that it is so dammed difficult.
    Maybe swinging 30 to 40 times and achieving nothing is someones idea of fun but this alone would knock a Star of any review I did for the game.
    Thank god you can fast travel out of this wretched waste of time cave.
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    Guys I have the same problem I can't overcome this stone bridge in any way. I am really disgusted. Generally Ubisoft game arey too hard for playing and save systems are really bad ihere.
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