Grappling hook thoughts

And Gyarados's hyper-beam would incinerate little ol Caterpie.

 

You should be able to hook creatures and lauch them super high in the sky.

Or hook birds and pull them in range of that Butcher Knife you always dreamed of using...

 

I don't mind the grappling hook, it's a bit of fun.

I tend not to become reliant on these items too much though. I always build and explore with the idea that if I can't traverse it normally then it's not practical, only because eventually you find new fun toys to play with

 

This makes me sad, since those techs obviously aren't balanced (also easily abused for infinite use).
I think techs should be like your third "attack" on Risk of Rain, a dash that allows you to dodge attacks, a momentary movement boost or something that acts as a decoy to mobs etc. Not something which gives you incredible mobility 100% of the time, it is a get out of jail free card. You shouldn't be able to move like that in Starbound IMO.

 

For some reason when i am thinking of grappling hooks, i have something completely different in mind.

 

Before I found some of the more useful tech stuff (like the gravity bubble), I found it useful as all hell.

It was fun to just dig a mineshaft straight down, no wooden platforms...And just jump down, and occasionally grapple on to something to break the fall/fall speed

 

I feel like the grappling hooks feel too... floaty. Floaty and weak.

I'd enjoy them if they felt like they had more oomph to them. Like, you grapple onto something from the ground, and you just sit there. You wind it up, and you sloooooooowly slide up. Or it breaks.

I wanna grapple around like Batman, and preferably without the high-vis bright orange gun and striped cables.

 

They're obtained wayyy to late in the game, By the time you get to durasteel level you almost certainly have a better mobility tech.