Swimming and underwater content?

[Nikita]

Can we have swimming fatigue? I don't want to see people spamming swim.

lol!

Anyway, this seems pretty cool, really thinking outside the box when you look back at FFXI with all of the things they are adding, which I like. Underwater temples seem really cool, maybe we could even learn more about the Sahagin and Leviathan! I really want to see a zone that looks as cool as Al'Taieu did, though!!!

[camjay]

Awesome! This sounds great! I've always loved to swim in MMO's and just any game in general really. I'm excited to see where this game will be a year from now. *Drools*

[Teknoman]

When I hear underwater and Final Fantasy, I think of:

Beyond the deep blue sea

Underwater Ruins

And of course DONT TEASE THE OCTOPUS, KIDS!

Ultros

Octomammoth

Granted they arent underwater at all times, and we wont be in a XIV underwater dungeon, but you cant have an underwater dungeon without some sort of aquatic boss. Not to mention i'd love to see an Ultros cameo boss appearance since he works like a Gilgamesh style character.

[Leonesaurus]

Hey gang! Yoshida was pretty active on the forum this weekend, and while this is kind of an old topic, his post seemed to fit pretty well in here so... He touches a bit on the discussion around 'free running' (or sprinting) as well as underwater/swimming-related content.

Holy Chocobos, Batman! This sounds pretty freakin' awesome!! O___O I'll be honest... I didn't think I would ever hear the team give the green light on considering expanding the game to underwater or "swimming in water" scenarios and exploration.

Go FFXIV team!!!! (/cheer)

[Shipp]

The only thing I think of is Vash'jir which I completely hate. Though it can be done properly. I just hate the way WoW has implemented it. Though the actual instance is "underwater" it's in a temple like structure that you have to swim to get to, but once you get there, you're not swimming anymore.

[Malakhim]

Hey gang! Yoshida was pretty active on the forum this weekend, and while this is kind of an old topic, his post seemed to fit pretty well in here so... He touches a bit on the discussion around 'free running' (or sprinting) as well as underwater/swimming-related content.

Kinda spoiled by the Japanese translations thread by Reinhart(good job with that as always), but nonetheless thanks Bayohne for the response and putting it back up ins. I'm honestly more excited about swimming and underwater content than I would be about jumping any day. It's great to see that our leading man and the dev team are also a fan.

Alright people, put your thinking caps on and lets get to idea tossing.

When I hear underwater and Final Fantasy, I think of:

Beyond the deep blue sea

Underwater Ruins

And of course DONT TEASE THE OCTOPUS, KIDS!

Ultros

Octomammoth

Granted they arent underwater at all times, and we wont be in a XIV underwater dungeon, but you cant have an underwater dungeon without some sort of aquatic boss. Not to mention i'd love to see an Ultros cameo boss appearance since he works like a Gilgamesh style character.

ACTUALLY, I posted an idea in the dungeon thread that resembles the force field idea in Crystal Chronicles. Maybe that field could actually be a bubble that produces oxygen for you in an underwater temple of sorts, and aquatic mobs are constantly trying to take out the field generator while you have to defend it and progress through the submerged ruins/dungeon/whaever.

BAM! Insta-idea.

...Or you know, aquatic races or submarines...

[Raistlin]

Bayohne

[Malakhim]

Also, I've been thinking that there needs to be more ways to keep our fellow gatherers interested in their professions, and adding underwater content in relation to fishing, such as in-depth(no pun intended) spear fishing as some people mentioned, and other ideas.

Oh man I am excite. I hope this works out.

[Coldbrand]

Excellent stuff, I'd love to see Geomancer in that case!

[weeble]

i'm not into water content much, even though i'm looking forward to gw2 it's not for the water content in it. i didn't like it in wow. i think my dislike of water in video games is routed back when i was little, playing mario brothers, 2.1 board i believe it was, ....dun dun dun water. was one of the only levels in that game that no matter how many times u beat the game always took the same amount of time unlike the rest of the levels lol.

but yeah i prefer no water in my mmo's to swim in at all, now boats to fully control on top like some of the older ff series ..yeck yes.