New Furnishing Request: Grapple Points

TheGamerSeal

I'm one of the kinds of players that enjoy grapple points whenever I find them; they're so few and far between that they always feel like a new experience when I come across them - and they're kinda fun to use, too. A grapple point furnishing, in my mind, would look basically the same as they do in other places with the exception that the furnishing would have a small platform attached to it so players using them in a house would have somewhere to grapple to. Grapple point furnishings would also give players more flexibility in reaching areas of their homes with ease, designing parkour courses for visitors, or building vertical structures without needing to place stairs everywhere.

A complimentary addition to grapple point furnishings would be an invisible guidewire which can only be seen by decorators in house editing mode, which would allow them to create intended paths for players to follow without having to cluster furnishings around them to prevent grappling off-course - think of it like pathing nodes for houseguests, except the grapple points don't move along them, rather you do in the intended order. The guidewire could also be expanded upon at a later time to include things like full house lighting with a single interaction, and efficient environmental mood changes involving the time controller, weather controller, and even music boxes.

I think this would make an excellent addition to the game that would allow players to liven up their homes even more and have more frequent access to a fun, but underused, mechanic.

oldbobdude

That would be cool. I’d use them.

LunaFlora

i have wanted grapple furniture ever since i bought Aldmeri Grotto in January 2022, it would make traversing homes like that much easier.

moderatelyfatman

In Guild Wars 2 you can switch to Flying Mode while in your home instance which turns you into a bee. You can then fly around your home and place items wherever you want including those hard to get places.
This is probably better than grappling.

tsaescishoeshiner

That would be so cool. I think they would just need to come with a small platform to land on. If you haven't noticed, some teleports and charges work on furniture, but not things like knockbacks. So it might need some special considerations to work, although it would be cool.

Honestly, I just want more grappling hooks in the game in general. I know they made a small appearance recently, but they were so cool in Unhallowed Grave and Vateshran Hollows that it would be nice to see them more

Sturmfaenger

Since murkmire (with the plant that does a very similar thing) that is a wish of mine. I was so exited when I saw that the plant was at the local furnishing trader... and then it was just decoration. That was 2018.
Grapple Points came with South Elsweyr, I think. 2019.
Thats more than half a decade.
If they would have wanted to implement it for housing, they would already have.
I don't have high hopes.

Northwold

Would love but would honestly like some kind of pulley lift first. There are a fair few houses that are vertically enormous and would benefit from an ability to just go straight up easily. And, indeed, the underlying game would likely benefit from the option too. Thinking of something along the lines of the lift in Witcher 3 -- so something that fits with the world.

ghastley

The other variant was the Void Anomaly in Blackreach. Same pull to location mechanism without any player item involved.

Some houses do have vertical lift mechanisms, such as the levitation pads in Tel Galen, and the dwemer lift in Kthendral Deep Mines. It makes sense that those need to be built-in.

The Shadow Queen's Labyrinth has a portal that I hoped would become a furnishing, but didn't.

Northwold

ghastley wrote: »

The other variant was the Void Anomaly in Blackreach. Same pull to location mechanism without any player item involved.

Some houses do have vertical lift mechanisms, such as the levitation pads in Tel Galen, and the dwemer lift in Kthendral Deep Mines. It makes sense that those need to be built-in.

The Shadow Queen's Labyrinth has a portal that I hoped would become a furnishing, but didn't.

On lifts it's places like those giant Ayleid ruins or the Grotto where it just starts to feel absurd. The slot limit means you will never, ever be able to furnish places this large properly so you have to pick a section. But some of the sections are so far away (and high up) that you can spend several minutes getting to them from your front door, or have to use going on 50+ slots to make any credible kind of stair or walkway route.

TheGamerSeal

Sturmfaenger wrote: »

If they would have wanted to implement it for housing, they would already have.

That's not a mentality I'd be so quick to subscribe to since they do eventually add the highest requested features if they're doable. I think they wait to pull off highly requested features until they see player counts dropping a bit, kind of like giving a plant more water.

Everyone here seems to have a positive view of this addition, so I have some hope that this will at least be considered.

SilverBride

I love grappling, too. It would be great to have this added to housing!