Did the developers plan for grenade and rocket jumping?
Has anyone ever put together a list of important or hidden locations that can only be accessed by grenade jumping? After so many years with the game, I have to wonder how much I missed not knowing about it, earlier.
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There’s a weird one in Torgue’s DLC - on one of the buildings in the main crater is a vane with a unique vandalized “Fully Torgue’d” sign on it. You can’t actually jump up there, but you can get pretty close.
There is also a legit one - access to an actual red chest in Hammerlock’s DLC:
From the end of Ardorton Station (where the Fast Travel is), walk through the nearby boundary to Hunter’s Grotto. You’ll be on the stub of a broken bridge, but if you can clear the gap to the next standing bridge station, there’s a red chest there. The jump is tricky but quite possible.
It seems like there were way more, but I’m so out of touch with that game now. 
Look up “Grenade Jumping locations” on YouTube; you’ll find more than you would asking around here. There are a few unreachable chests accessed using double badaboom/two for one grenade jumping with Sal, I believe. There are quite a few, maybe four or five.
Seems as though it wasn’t really considered a thing for the original Borderlands. Does that sound right?
There’s a Claptrap that waves at you from above Fyrestone that you can only get to with multiple grenade jumps. So I suspect it was something the developers knew about and anticipated people would try. I don’t know if there are other spots, but that’s the most obvious one.
I’m going to assume they did. I first rocket jumped in Marathon in 1995 (and there were earlier examples), so it’s been part of of game mechanics for quite a while.
I don’t do it much in the BL series cuz, well, I’m really bad at it.
It’s a quirk of rocket knockback/Player character physics in Unreal; to not include it would essentially be ignoring the quirks of the engine. Another classic is framerate being tied to a lot of the combat math; although it has less noticable effects.
No, but he waves and invites you over so nicely it would be a shame not to at least attempt the trip? This involves multiple grenade jumps up the cliffs outside Fyrestone, and I haven’t succeeded yet. Which makes me wonder if it was fixed in the remaster.
Or, I could just be really bad at grenade jumps!
I tried to bypass the initial Robolution missions to reach the Claptrp Rescue. It did not go well. There’s a video that makes it appear easy. It is NOT easy. I couldn’t even get the first three jumps right.
Rocket-jumping in Doom and Quake was easier and more predictable.