After having the parachute fail to work upon diving off a cliff I decided to try to figure out how to get it to function properly. The result of this was that it just doesn't.
So far I've jumped off this cliff over 45 times and the parachute has deployed on a grand total of 4 attempts. On these 4 attempts I immediately face-planted into the corner or the cliff face and insta-died. On the other attempts to get the parachute to work properly I had everything from just running off the cliff like a loon and free falling to my death to the vault animation being played as I hopped over the cliff-edge and then proceeded to fall to my death!I even encountered a few instances of my player trying to climb back up onto the cliff face as they were jumping off it and then plummeting to their untimely demise.
Whilst all this was rather entertaining and gave me a good laugh it's clear that (at least along the cliff faces I have tried) the Parachute just doesn't work as it's intended.
Parachuting out of aerial vehicles seems to work flawlessly but whatever has been changed from Wildlands to Breakpoint seems to have made base-jumping all but impossible!
Anyone else got the parachute to work consistently, and if you have, what wizardry are you using?
I can make this work 100% of the time. So two things
1: be right on the edge, and not moving (you may not want to be sprinting as you'll just fall)
2: TAP space, don't hold longer than a second because this game is very sensitive to the difference of tap and hold
You cannot sprint off a cliff and then open up your chute, because that apparently doesn't make sense. If you do the above correctly enjoy your wonderious glide on your chute through the .... no parachuting is lack luster and it doesn't even feel right as just gliding a little you drop like a rock. If this was intentional they should have just given you a round chute instead of a ram-air chute.
I spent about 15 minutes cliffdiving slowly and unnaturally to my death before giving up on just using parachutes. I made it work once magically on the beta and was not able to replicate it on live.
Thanks for the tips Halagad, I'll give them a shot when the maintenance is over and post an update on whether it works or not (Y)
Yep, this skill definitely borked, I've managed to get it working twice in countless attempts on PC.
I've tried tapping space, holding space, a combination of the two....nothing. I've tried on xbox pad too. How this got through QA is mind-boggling, seeing as it's one of the first skills you can spend points in and one of the most obvious choices to shortcut around the world's verticality without dying.
Please fix.
Yes, please. It's terrible. Sometime it works fine but most of the time you "jump" down the hill and die.Originally Posted by Weirdstone Go to original post
Your absolutely correct - I just fell a good 150 feet or so, I tapped A, I held A, I double tapped A and no go. The fall was quite long so I was able to try several things. Also those that mentioned Beta - your playing a Ubisoft game so that was actually the alpha - with Ubisoft you pay to play beta which is the current version. The completed version will be a year or so from now. I’m guessing somewhere between v1.5 and v1.8.
Then the trick is not to buy it in pre-order and don't buy any games until they guarentee it works or you get yuour money back. The laws of digital sales really need to be changed. If a product isn't working as intended, you should INSTANTLY be able to get your money back BY LAW. You'll soon see an improvement or they fgo out of business.