Apex Grapple

WHAT IT DOES

In Borderlands 4, the grapple only hooks onto the points the game places, and the whole trip is decided the moment you press: once you are off, you cannot change anything. Apex Grapple replaces it with the Apex Legends grapple:

• []Hook anywhere: walls, floor, ceilings, ledges, scenery, anything you aim at, up to 30 metres by default.[/]

  []A rope that pulls: as long as you are hooked, the rope pulls you toward the point you aimed at, and the speed you already had is added on top.[/]

  []You steer your path: during the pull, the move stick (or the movement keys on keyboard) bends your path. Push it one way and turn the camera the other to swing around the point: you aim at one spot and land somewhere else.[/]

  []Jump grapple: while the hook flies toward the surface, you keep control and can still jump, as in Apex.[/]

  []Let go whenever you want: release the button after the hook lands, or press jump. A quick tap gives a full pull.[/]

  []You keep your momentum: however the pull ends, you leave with the speed you reached.[/]

The pull ends on its own when you get close to the point (6 metres by default), when you touch the ground, or after 4 seconds.

PUNCHING STAYS ON THE SAME BUTTON

In Borderlands 4, the grapple button is also the melee button. The mod keeps both:

• []You aim at an enemy --> you punch.[/]

  []You aim at a surface --> you grapple.[/]

  []Up close, within 2 metres, an enemy or anything the mod cannot recognize keeps the punch. A recognized surface can still be grappled up close.[/]

  []Nothing in range --> the button punches, as in the game.[/]

  THE GAME'S GRAPPLE IS OFF BY DEFAULT, BUT YOU CAN TURN IT BACK ON IN THE NEW MENU (KEEP THE GAME'S GRAPPLE), IN THE SHOT SECTION

  By default, the mod takes every shot, the game's grapple points included: the game's grapple no longer fires. You only have one grapple, instead of two that do not behave the same way.

  WHAT IS ON AFTER INSTALLING

  Everything except Keep the game's grapple. The default settings are the ones I found closest to Apex Legends, tuned by hand in game over several hundred pulls.

  The mod turns itself on the first time you launch the game after installing it.

  Open the console with ~, type mods, pick Apex Grapple: the mod's settings window opens. It comes in English and French, switched with the EN and FR buttons at the top, and it remembers your language.

  Four sections:

  • []The shot: range, hook speed, punch over grapple and its range, keeping the game's grapple or not, showing the rope or not.[/]

    []The pull: rope strength, how much speed it can add, how much of your weight it carries, steering strength and top steering speed on the stick.[/]

    []Letting go: hold to keep pulling, arrival distance, longest pull, take-off lift and take-off time from the ground, let go on landing, keep your jump when detaching.[/]

    []Controls: your buttons, see below.[/]

  Every setting says what it does. Everything is saved as soon as you change it, and kept the next time you launch the game. Restore defaults puts everything back as it was when installed, and Undo reset takes it back if you clicked too fast. The Enabled button turns the mod off and on. Close takes you back to the mod list.

  By default, the grapple is on the game's Melee/Grapple button: R3 on controller, and on keyboard whatever key your game options use. If you change it in the game options, the mod follows.

  In the Controls section, you can give it another button, separately for mouse and keyboard and for controller:

  • []a single button, any of them, extra mouse buttons included;[/]

    []or two buttons held together, on the same device. Each one keeps its normal action when pressed alone.[/]

  Melee then gets its own button back. Escape and the console key cannot be used. Reset controls puts the game's button back.

  WITH APEX MOVEMENT APEX MOVEMENT

  Apex Grapple installs alongside Apex Movement and Vehicle Driving without conflict, and its default settings were made with Apex Movement.

  Apex Grapple also runs without Apex Movement, but I tuned and tested it with it.

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  REQUIREMENTS

  The Borderlands 4 Python SDK (oak2-mod-manager). The mod will not load without it: bl-sdk/oak2-mod-manager