Climbing & Swimming

[Alukah]

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IIRC GW2 uses a "fast current" excuse to set water zone limits, when you go near a zone limit you get a warning telling you why you can't go past the invisible wall, and it actually pushes you back if you keep swimming that way. In the end no swimming is more immersion breaking than an invisible wall.

[MageBlack]

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Immersion solved by permadeath from drowning, falling, or being swept out to sea. But fireballs, magical teleports, elves, and talking animals are ok, just don't put an invisible barrier in a video game cause its never happened before.

Here's a game for you!

[Meier]

I haven't heard this mentioned since beta... wow.

There are ladders in south shroud that drive me insane I can't climb.

As for swimming, I believe they made an official statement about why they cannot implement it in the game. So no pun intended but, don't hold your breath waiting for swimming to be added.

You never know, though. They also said flying mounts would be unlikely and yeah...

Actually...on the beta forums they made a HUGE list of all the changes and things they are making. One of them was swimming. It was under the "Coming, but as for when, we dunno" section of it.

[Alukah]

Actually...on the beta forums they made a HUGE list of all the changes and things they are making. One of them was swimming. It was under the "Coming, but as for when, we dunno" section of it.

Yeah IIRC for the first expansion they had to pick between sea themed or sky themed and decided to go with sky. Underwater combat is indeed hard to implement on an already ongoing MMO, but that's what expansions are for.