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I just CAN'T do Defending Arcanum (RL inhibitions in games...)

ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912
in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Ok here is why. I can't jump. Period. I just CAN NOT jump. I fell into every 2nd chasm, which always ports me back to the start and I am gosh darn afraid of heights. Like some people are afraid of spiders or what. I just can't jump, when there is a deep chasm below. Virtual or not, it makes no difference.

Damn! Why did this story instance HAVE to be in a jumping sequence!

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  • LeetheLeethe Member UncommonPosts: 893
    I feel your pain. Virtual heights affect me as well. I still can't manage the Asura puzzles without feeling unwell.

    There is NO miracle patch.

    95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.

    Hope is not a stategy.
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  • ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912
    Originally posted by Leethe
    I feel your pain. Virtual heights affect me as well. I still can't manage the Asura puzzles without feeling unwell.

    It just sucks, because I cant finish one of the main plots of the expansion.

    People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert

  • nickster29nickster29 Member Posts: 486

    I feel your pain.  I have always had an aversion to swimming through murky water in any of the Elder Scrolls games, and most recently Farcry 3.

     

    I just hate those unexpected attacks from amphibious creatures.  /shudder

  • kabitoshinkabitoshin Member UncommonPosts: 854
    Imagine jumping with the oculus rift
  • hcoelhohcoelho Member UncommonPosts: 529
    thats kinda funny, i never heard about virtual height fear. Ask someone to jump for you, then you continue after that. 
  • DocBrodyDocBrody Member UncommonPosts: 1,926
    Originally posted by kabitoshin
    Imagine jumping with the oculus rift

     OMG! I wanted to write the exact same thing

    *Twilight Zone Intro*

     

     

  • ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912
    Originally posted by kabitoshin
    Imagine jumping with the oculus rift

    Heh, I guess I need valerian pills and a puking bag then. XD

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  • ktanner3ktanner3 Member UncommonPosts: 4,063
    Now that you mention it, I get a weird feeling every time my character accidentally goes over a cliff and falls a long distance to his death. It tends to happen on Belsavis because of all those darn hills and escalators..

    Currently Playing: World of Warcraft

  • ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912

    I just phoned with a friend with whom I had played GW2, and we both had with difficulty managed to solve many of the GW2 jump puzzles. He said, he found jumping iun SWTOR *a lot* more difficult, since the characters in SWTOR react much more cumbersome and slow. Now since I also managed to do the GW2 jump puzzles somehow, and I just fail at them in SWTOR, I guess indeed SWTOR just has a bit an issue with character movement.

    Maybe they just should not have had a story quest with mandatory jumping with their not so optimal jumping animation.

    People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert

  • BadOrbBadOrb Member UncommonPosts: 791

    My team played this very mission last night and it had my stomach fall out everytime I fell off , it wasn't plesant to say the very least. I was squirming a lot. We did complete it eventually , sweaty palms and all. i feel your phobia.Makeb itself isn't much better , a lot of cliffs to fall off there too.

    I can give some advise though , well it's a mini spoiler , the last few feet of the mission hasn't got any drops in it. Might help a little. O and beware of a champion ancient rakghoul ( if you are in a party of 3 ) , he is rock hard!!!!

    Cheers,

    BadOrb.

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  • bliss14bliss14 Member UncommonPosts: 595
    I don't have much of a problem with virtual heights while in game.  However, I have occasionally dreamed about the same game situation and woken up in a cold sweat.  Did you know if you hit the ground in your dreams you will die in real life?  It's true.
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