4.0 Swimming

Yes pls to simming. I want Costa Del Sol to have a use dammit!

Also I want a new race to go with the swimming expansion:
Hugely sexually dimorphic anglerfish people.
Giant stronk women
Tiny tender men.

To heal my salt over the Au Ra. y_y

*has flashbacks to Vashj'ir*

OHGODNO

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Originally Posted by Miste

I want swimming for sure; more exploration. It sounds like it would be a lot of fun.

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Yah, and then this happens
http://i.imgur.com/8rDeuAI.jpg

I'd rather have swimming as a bonus feature rather than a whole expansion of travel and exploration like flying is.

For example, we would be able to swim in ponds and the ocean like normal humans would. I wanna go swimming on the beach in the mist, I wanna take a dip in the little lake on the sea of clouds. And so on.

I'm not saying having deep sea exploration wouldn't be cool. But doing it that way means we'd probably never get to swim in the existing areas with bodies of water. Ams we would have to go the silly lore route of having aether currents underwater

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Originally Posted by Lumina

The only frustration I would have with this being added would be the same as I had for flying, they'd need to come up with some ridiculous lore reason as to why you could only swim in the 4.0 areas and not 2.0 and 3.0 series areas to explain away not wanting going back to update all areas for it.

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Yeah, that is one thing I am also worried about. If they add swimming I want it to be all areas even old 2.0 areas not only in the new zones; within reason anyway I kinda understand certain places like Coerthas and not allowing swimming in the freezing ice water I could let that slide.

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Originally Posted by IzVale

Yah, and then this happens

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I uh....whut? Sorry I don't get it lol is that like...nah nevermind I really don't know what I am looking at in that picture at all O.o

I can see potential of a massive area on 3 different layers, with a surface, an underwater, and floating islands. Not sure what this would accomplish other than being hard to move across though

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Originally Posted by Jpec07

*has flashbacks to Vashj'ir*

OHGODNO

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Whether or not you personally enjoyed it, Vash was one of the most beautiful and unique MMO environments in the history of the genre. Blizzard did a very good job on the controls and fluidness of being underwater. It may not be your thing, but you can't say they did a bad job on it.

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Originally Posted by Jimoori

I'd rather have swimming as a bonus feature rather than a whole expansion of travel and exploration like flying is.

For example, we would be able to swim in ponds and the ocean like normal humans would. I wanna go swimming on the beach in the mist, I wanna take a dip in the little lake on the sea of clouds. And so on.

I'm not saying having deep sea exploration wouldn't be cool. But doing it that way means we'd probably never get to swim in the existing areas with bodies of water. Ams we would have to go the silly lore route of having aether currents underwater

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This pretty much sums up my thoughts on it too.
I'd rather see Swimming put into existing places with water, rather than build an expansion off an idea that is something flight already takes care of.

Well, with flying in the game now we have three dimensional movement, so the system is already in place. They would just need to tweak it a bit to work in water, and of course design some killer underwater areas.
My only question is, would there be a limit to how long you could stay underwater? If so would it put stacks of "Can't Friggin' Breathe" on you until it killed you at 5? Or would it work like it did in FFX, where you can pretty much breathe underwater?

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Originally Posted by Hakuro89

Well, with flying in the game now we have three dimensional movement, so the system is already in place. They would just need to tweak it a bit to work in water, and of course design some killer underwater areas.
My only question is, would there be a limit to how long you could stay underwater? If so would it put stacks of "Can't Friggin' Breathe" on you until it killed you at 5? Or would it work like it did in FFX, where you can pretty much breathe underwater?

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Could swim under water for a limited time w/ a breath gauge, and then have to search for under water aether currents to attune for prolonged swimming in certain areas!