Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:41:00
Crackdown orb tip - Shai Gen plaza - Corpse ladder
I was having the worst time trying to get the orb that is located at the top of the pillar, next to the lion statue, right in the middle of the Shai Gen plaza area. I was playing co-op with juggalo1987 and I helped him get it by shot-putting him up there while he was inside a car. Problem was, he’s not advanced enough to lift the car and shot-put me up there yet.
I already tried jumping off every building around the plaza and landing on it, but; One, most of the buildings aren’t close enough or high enough. Two, it’s like threading a needle with gloves and a blindfold on. Three, you die when you hit the ground, so you have to regenerate and get to a supply point and climb the buildings each and every time you try.
I also tried stacking cars, dumpsters, trucks, the big yellow skips, nothing gets you high enough. Then I had an idea: shoot harpoon bolts at the wall and jump on them. The problem there is, your character doesn’t seem to have collision detection with the bolts, and that means the game doesn’t know you’re trying to stand on them. So what can you pin to things with the bolts, something with which you definitely have collision detection? Dead people.
And thus was born Corpse Ladder. Kill someone, throw them at the pillar then shoot their dead body with a bolt.
Click me, I get bigger
Hop from one to the other, grab your orb and go. It also works at the lighthouse past Funland, and anywhere you can pin a dead body to a wall.
Posted by JimK at 09:41 PM on June 09, 2007
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#3 Posted by Orpheus 
on 06/10 at 12:28 AM -
That’s better. Nice technique… shame I don’t have an xbox. Is there a PC version? :)
#4 Posted by JimK 
on 06/10 at 12:38 AM -
I doubt they’ll port it. They SHOULD, and let players from the Xbox Live and the PC mingle online.
Of course that would mean you need Vista, since the “Games For Windows” (which is the new Live-style service for Windows PC gaming) doesn’t require Vista, but all the games that USE it do.
So stupid.
#5 Posted by Orpheus on 06/10 at 06:16 AM -
Yech… Vista. Typical of Microsoft to make DX10 Vista-only. There’s no technical reason, of course - Windows has barely changed since Win 2000, except for the user interface shit.
I’ve noticed a trend recently of new games not coming out for PC at all. The next GTA, for instance, and Call Of Duty 3. It’s disturbing. I may be forced to buy an xbox 360, which I’ve been resisting until someone modchips it (on principle).
#6 Posted by JimK on 06/10 at 08:33 AM -
I just can’t keep buying new PCs or upgrading CPUs and video cards every two to three years to keep up. I settled on an Xbox and I’m pretty happy so far…
Modders are currently battling Microsoft. Couple weeks ago, MS figured out how to spot modded 360 firmware and banned all consoles. This past week, modders figured out a way around it that they claim if future proof. Problem is the mod only ever only worked with certain model dvd drives. There’s no nifty chip yet…
#7 Posted by Orpheus on 06/10 at 10:00 AM -
I don’t want it chipped to run pirated games, I want it chipped to run XBMC :) I do have an xbox, the original version, which I’ve used as a gaming console exactly three times (project gotham racing, it came with the console). On the other hand I use it for far too many hours a day to watch House, Veronica Mars, Rome, and a bunch of other good shit :)
A 360 would play HD content, which the original xbox doesn’t have the CPU for, *and* it would play decent games. What’s not to like when the modchip comes along.
#8 Posted by miguelito on 06/10 at 03:50 PM -
I’ve been a game whore for ages, and I just refuse to even bother with Vista at this point.. which means PC games are going to drop off my radar I guess. I loved a lot of them over the ages and have boxes of games from 10+ years ago until now, but I’m sick and tired of putting up with MS’ crap on a PC. As a Unix admin, I’ve been won over to macs for computing (at least notebooks) these days with linux on my servers.
That said, I actually think MS did a pretty damn good job with the 360. They seem to have actually listened to their customers for once, rather then telling customers what they should want. The tie-ins with live are pretty neat, achievements and stuff are kind of fun to track. Sony’s online bits suck in comparison. So far anyway.
I’ve got all 3 current gen consoles now and don’t really mis the PC games anymore. Yes, I have all 3… I said I was a game whore. :)
BTW, been playing Crackdown myself the last few days (only started a couple days ago, have had it but just never put it in until then).. and boy is this game fun! More guilty pleasure type fun like the GTA games were… do things you’d never do in real life.
I’m actually such a game and tech slave, I’m looking to update my 65” 2001 model 1080i capable (no 720p unfortunately) TV to a 1080p unit, and my receiver (2003 model which is pretty good but no HDMI) to a new model that has hdmi and supports uncompressed pcm streams for the blu-ray movies that have them. Will probably stick to Marantz on the receiver but thinking of getting a 71” Samsung DLP set to replace my Mitsubishi one. The games are wicked fun on a gargantuan set with badass surround. Oh, and a high-end powered subwoofer helps. :)
#10 Posted by juggalo1987 on 06/10 at 04:28 PM -
hey thanks for name dropping me. well hope to play with u sumtime. miguelito ushould send me a friend request on live. jimk already gave it out.
#11 Posted by Orpheus on 06/10 at 11:49 PM -
Oh, and a high-end powered subwoofer helps.
Helps what, make the noise abatement officer’s prosecution easier? :) I had a visit from the cops once when I was a young’un, because I was playing Doom with the sound turned way, way up. This was when hooking a PC up to a stereo was a bit novel, and apparently the screams and shotgun blasts disturbed the neighbours greatly.
#13 Posted by miguelito on 06/11 at 01:17 AM -
Helps what, make the noise abatement officer’s prosecution easier? :) I had a visit from the cops once when I was a young’un, because I was playing Doom with the sound turned way, way up. This was when hooking a PC up to a stereo was a bit novel, and apparently the screams and shotgun blasts disturbed the neighbours greatly.
Double-paned, vinyl windows really helps with that. Plus the neighbors on the side closest to where my HT setup is are above me and we have a pretty thick wall to block the sounds even more.
I can pretty much use my stuff any time of the day or night and no neighbors can hear me. I’ve asked plenty of times to make sure I’m not bothering them and they all say they never hear anything.
I have to keep the doors and windows shut of course, but I have a central heat and AC system now, so that’s actually a good idea anyway.
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#1 Posted by Orpheus
on 06/09 at 11:44 PM -
Your “i get bigger” link is broken - it points to the thumbnail.