windy canyon eastern rise. Ropes dont work properly.

[liquidsonic]

Ropes were being placed but we couldnt climb up them leading to alot of hp loss. Spamming  them or replacing them or trying them in different places had no effect.

[TaintedDreams]

The first time I encountered this issue, I simply thought that my rope was bugged. But its been a persistent issue that multiple people have encountered, and in my experience, only in this location.

[Caster13]

Any messages in the combat log? Couldn't go up the ropes despite successfully making the climbing checks?

[TaintedDreams]

In my experience it was a successful (or multiple) climbing check(s) but not actually going up the rope.

[Dredi]

I can concur, all checks are made and no unusual messages appear however what I can say is that the player is definately displaced, but that he is displaced to a point near enough where he is already standing - rather than above - like the destination waypoint isnt generating properly in that area.

[Caster13]

Hm. Has this always been an issue or is it an issue that's only started recently?

Also:

Has anyone been having trouble with climbing down areas or only climbing up areas?

Has anyone seen and used a climbing up area that's worked recently?

[TaintedDreams]

I can remember having this issue as far back as September 2014. Its a lesser-used area, so I suppose most people just dismissed it happening as isolated incidents.

[Dredi]

Apologies. Its just in this area and its been fairly historic, and its ONLY climbing up. Climbing down works fine.

[sharkinajar]

Happened to me once in Exploring the Dark. Bad placement of the rope going back from the purple crystals made it so I couldn't climb the rope. had to make painstaking tries at using a climbing claw. I think it was because the end of the rope for me was at an odd angle compared to the climbing point. It was shifted over a bit.

[MetallicSlime]

I've had this happen to me several times as well, in various areas.

It looks like the script somehow gets stuck in a loop, as if there's something that fires to make sure you're not moving around, likely before taking stock of where you're currently located. Normally after that, it puts you where the placable you're climbing to is. So essentially, you can't move with the mouse because your action Queue is constantly being cleared by the script, and when you try to use your keyboard to move it just results in you rubberbanding back to where the rope is placed at, with the only way to break free of it being to remove the rope, or log off and back on.

I don't know if this is the same bug as we're talking about here, but if so it doesn't seem like it's tied to this area in particular.

[Pup]

I've witnessed this in the Windy Canyons as well, but it was solved by picking a better spot to put the rope.  Not sure the mechanics of the grapple system are bad, just the way NWN does pathfinding and the unique shape of the area are.  A lot of stalagmites and such along the cliffs.

Also, did you try just clicking off your char on the ground somewhere nearby and see if it transports then?  After the roll?  I've found this resolves a lot of the grapple rope bugs.  Like just click the ground right next to your char after you have tried to cross and failed.