aleswigger Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Been playing the game for a couple of weeks now, and so far, I haven't found any use for the grab key (z). I've tried it on all different sorts of things and nothing happens. Am I missing something here? What am I supposed to "grab"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Get close to a light object or corpse, and put your crosshairs on it. Hold down the grab key while moving the mouse. Havok will try its hardest to simulate movement in the direction you move the mouse in, originating from the point your crosshairs were on when you first pressed the grab key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cammy2k6 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 You can use the Grab Key to put Stuff into Display Cases or onto Tables, Desks... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer_87 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 *frowns* don't even think about tormenting yourself with it!!! placing stuff with the grab key is hell!!!! It's actually useless apart from role-playing uses, since even if you use it to "hide bodies" your opponents will not react to them in the first place! Its single use might be to throw things around but you should use telekinesis for it as well!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiNalien Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Actually, soulblazer, I killed somebody in the Imperial City once, and one of the guards seen it, ran over, and yelled something about the dead guy, then decided it necessary to attack me <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Povuholo Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 It can be used to trigger traps though. Throw an item against the tripping rope... But yes, except for that it's pretty useless for "gaming". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleswigger Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 OK, thanks for the help! I was trying to grab vines to climb out of a dungeon pit, and other actual useful things with the grab key, but I guess it seems more for aesthetics in the gameplay world. I also thought it was for combat, like some cool grab and throw move you could do or something. Anyway, as non-vital as it sounds, I did have one particular instance a couple of nights ago when I could've used my new-found knowledge of the grab key. I was tromping cross country through the wilderness, and came across this beautiful spring pond in the middle of the forest, all pristine, clean and bright. Then out of nowhere a wolf attacks, I kill it, and its dead body falls out into the middle of the pond. Great, now there's a dead animal carcass floating around in this once beautiful pond, contaminating this natural pristine spring water (not really, but that's what it looks like). Kind of ruins the mood of the setting. Not that I'm going to backtrack into the wilderness and relocate the pond and remove the wolf carcass now that I know how, but for future reference should something similar occur, I'll know how to handle it. And on an unrelated note, I'm knew to this forum, what's the difference between a reply to a post and a quick reply to a post? Thanks all for your feedback! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiNalien Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 No difference, except that fast/quick reply doesn't require you to load a new page, yet doesn't have all of the BBCodes and smilies that are usable shown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adras Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I discovered a new, somewhat useful feature of 'Grab'. You are running through a ruin and find a cool sword, but when you pick it up, you become over-encumbered. You cant afford to lose any of you other stuff but you really want this sword. Drop it and grab it. Put it in your inventory when you have to go through doors (you can go thru doors while over-encumbered) and drop it again and grab it. Grabbing stuff does not effect your encumbrance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiNalien Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I discovered a new, somewhat useful feature of 'Grab'. You are running through a ruin and find a cool sword, but when you pick it up, you become over-encumbered. You cant afford to lose any of you other stuff but you really want this sword. Drop it and grab it. Put it in your inventory when you have to go through doors (you can go thru doors while over-encumbered) and drop it again and grab it. Grabbing stuff does not effect your encumbrance.Heh, I've done that before... That was a big haul of loot I got from the dungeon, too <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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