Ok swimming... but what about Climbing?

[Rane]

I think the low res textures in the distance pretty much ruin the types of views your talking about. Idk how they did the backgrounds in FFXIII, but why can't we have backgrounds like that?

Yeah, and I don't want to derail this thread about climbing, but the low-res texture issue is really annoying. Even when you turn up ALL the settings and background drawing detail, it's still an issue (and not many people can turn up setting to max anyways).

It shouldn't be such a sharp change between high and low res textures. If it was a gradual change, nobody would think anything of it.

Fair enough. I'd have to agree with that. The weird transition is especially noticeable when walking around Limsa Lominsa. I hope they can fix it.

In any event, I'd still like climbing to be a part of the game.

[giftforce]

Fair enough. I'd have to agree with that. The weird transition is especially noticeable when walking around Limsa Lominsa. I hope they can fix it.

In any event, I'd still like climbing to be a part of the game.

I'd still like climbing too. Don't get me wrong.

[OJtheLIONKing]

Some kind of platforming would be cool, and fairly unique for this type of game. However, something like climbing ladders would break flow i think (I'm thinking of both FFXI and Vindictus here), everything sloooows down when you were excitedly making your way through the area before. It would be awesome to have some scenic points you get to with skillful platforming though.

[giftforce]

Some kind of platforming would be cool, and fairly unique for this type of game. However, something like climbing ladders would break flow i think (I'm thinking of both FFXI and Vindictus here), everything sloooows down when you were excitedly making your way through the area before. It would be awesome to have some scenic points you get to with skillful platforming though.

As well as scenic points, skillful platforming can be useful for treasure-hunting if SE decide to re-implement this feature from FFXI.

[nibelunc]

What are you going to do with FFXIV... -.-

[Teknoman]

Honestly if it's climbing, i'd take a context sensitive climbing action for sheer cliff surfaces. Jump option is nice too, but nothing like Attohwa Chasm style cliffs.

[Malakhim]

TOMB RAIDER ONLINE PLEASE!

The real raid content.

(Oh, and look they own the rights so there's no copy right infringement).

Actually this is excellent, because they could theoretically get the guys from Crystal Dynamics to help them out with the climbing aspects if they do in fact want to implement it.

[Griss]

Heh, Give an inch take a mile in action folks.