Swimming and Diving Improvements

[DanaePanakeia]

Below are two improvements I would love to see happening in the future:

A) Immersive traverse between surface and underwater. Please, make it without this eloquent loading screen. The same goes for the underwater hubs. It kills immersion and make the world feel fragmented.

B) Let us use mounts on surface. There is no logical reason that we dismount the moment we touch the surface, while we can use the mounts underwater.

[The_NPC]

gona point this out but for u'r sujestion 2, when u gain fly'ing in-zone it does that, sorta looks like a clooser to water surface version of 3.0 fly animation, but point is when u can FLY in-zone u don't dismount when coming outa water on flyable mount (not sure on if u ride from land to water when u have fly'n unlocked haven't checked but from flight to water works as long as u hit it at an angle))

[Maku]

Below are two improvements I would love to see happening in the future:

A) Immersive traverse between surface and underwater. Please, make it without this eloquent loading screen. The same goes for the underwater hubs. It kills immersion and make the world feel fragmented.

I agree with your point B. Point A, however is based on the size of the zone more than anything. The underwater areas are far larger in size then they appear when you are above water. If you make it non-transitionable, you will be shrinking the area of the underwater zones significantly.

[Lexia]

They can make swimming better by adding a barefoot option.

[Culfinrandir]

I agree, there has to be a zoning transition or it would be too taxing on certain hardware, probably on the servers too as they seem a common weak point.

I was very surprised that my Syldra mount can fly, walk & swim but not float on water. It makes moving through "surface swim only" water incredibly taxing.

[Culfinrandir]

They can make swimming better by adding a barefoot option.

I believe there's a "decency" problem with showing the soles of the feet as in a lot of countries/cultures it is classed as bad manners or possibly even pornographic. It is easier to always show a shoe/foot covering than have to adjust the game for certain regions to prevent bans or adult classification.

[Lexia]

I believe there's a "decency" problem with showing the soles of the feet as in a lot of countries/cultures it is classed as bad manners or possibly even pornographic. It is easier to always show a shoe/foot covering than have to adjust the game for certain regions to prevent bans or adult classification.

Countries that would give a game adult rating cause of a bare foot excuse me a moment

[Naunet]

A) Immersive traverse between surface and underwater. Please, make it without this eloquent loading screen. The same goes for the underwater hubs. It kills immersion and make the world feel fragmented.

Agreed. At the very least when we travel through the water into one of those underwater bubbles, it should just drop us from wherever we entered. I don't like just appearing on the ground in the same spot regardless of where I entered. Let me fall from the sky!

[BigRed5392]

watch the live letter from hamburg Germany. They explain the transition and why they have it.

for everything to load, that had to make diving a separate zone.

ya the mount thing is weird, it should work much like flying, or adding a doggy paddle animation for chocobo.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I actually rather like the transition sequence, but then i load pretty fast so it just goes woosh and im underwater.