When your guardian is sent flying horizontally and hits a wall, or some other piece of the environment, you take what feels like a disproportionately large amount of damage. It is especially noticeable with the movement speed buffs that you can get at the Farm by climbing on the cables, waterwheel, etc... and performing the challenge. Jumping off the largest building towards the cliffside and hitting the ground will not kill you, but hitting the wall will. Instantly. I'm pretty sure the damage modifier for falling and hitting the ground is much lower (and more reasonable) than for hitting vertical surfaces. Or maybe it's just me, or another factor that caused this, but based on seeing the tractor beam's power on Youtube, I think there might be something up.