Swimming

[Kyonye]

I feel that people should be able to swim. the heavier the armor, the slower you go. I don't think it should take away from stamina, because you're already an open target with no way of defending yourself. Although, maybe you could use the sprint ability in the water as well, which would then take away from your stamina. Obviously MAX suits would be a no go for swimming.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Ant001

NO NO NO NO
bridge fights were one of the best parts of ps..they could go on for days.

I voted yes, but this ^ is my main concern. Having natural bottlenecks like bridges made for fantastic battles. I think there is room for swimming, limited swimming, so I like the idea of it draining stamina.

For example, we've all probably fought a number of times at Leza in south Cyssor. If people could just swim across the water there, I think it would take away from the fights. Obviously you'd still need the bridge to roll vehicles over, but swimming too far and too quickly would take away from battles like that.

[LordReaver]

To elaborate on my view of stamina drain.

Swimming has the potential to provide a large buff to people using the water simply to deny someone a kill. They would go down, wait, pop their head back up, then go down again (Think VS MAXs, and early BFRs). Stamina drain gives the person something they have to manage or risk killing themselves, in return for added safety. To make it work, the user would sink like normal, unless they are pushing jump, elevate, special, or whatever. That way, it only uses stamina when a button is being pressed.

[basti]

Originally Posted by Lonehunter187

Swimming can be put in and still have geographical challenges like bridges. I would think the use of swimming would only be put in for people who drive into a body of water, or a cloaker running from aircraft. It shouldn't be a viable way of bipassing a bridge, but it is strange people can't swim in the future.

We can fly, hover, drive, teleport. Why the hell should we swim?

[Lonehunter]

Originally Posted by basti

We can fly, hover, drive, teleport. Why the hell should we swim?

Someone was concerned about people swimming around bridges, I'm just saying swimming should be slower then walking so it doesn't become a popular alternative to built in combat choke points like bridges

[Diddy Mao]

I look at it like this, someone swimming = easy target, if they gotta move armor they still gotta use bridges so those will always be choke points. even a squad in the water swimming across would get picked off unless they go ridiculously out of the way to cross, which would cut down time let alone it'd be better to just fly

[Mag-Mower]

In the Agile/Infil yes, and yes to stamina drain.

[Kyonye]

I feel that since a swimmer is an open, easy target... why add insult to injury buy having it drain stamina? If PS:N has a layout anything like PS, then there is no such thing as a small river. The rivers are wide.

[Baneblade]

I've always thought it was patently retarded that there was even a remotely applicable oxygen limit on battlesuits made out of nanites.

But, I do think there should be a special suit for enhanced aquatic movement to go along with suitable aquatic content.

[LordReaver]

Originally Posted by Kyonye

I feel that since a swimmer is an open, easy target... why add insult to injury buy having it drain stamina? If PS:N has a layout anything like PS, then there is no such thing as a small river. The rivers are wide.

You have to remember, that people wouldn't stay on the surface the whole time. They would just come up for air, then go back down.

[wildcat140679]

Say No to swimming.
Unable to swim across turned bridges made ideal chokepoints for all land based units, with the exception of a few vehicles.
Many great battles I've memory off taking place at one side of the bridge with the enemy on the other side.

If Swiming does make it's way in to the game than I hope only the armor types infiltrator suit and standard armor will be able to stay afloat, all other armor should drop you like a brick stone.

[Kyonye]

Originally Posted by LordReaver

You have to remember, that people wouldn't stay on the surface the whole time. They would just come up for air, then go back down.

I was even thinking about underwater swimming. I'm simply thinking about being able to swim across the surface of the water. But, if it's underwater swimming then I can see some stamina drain.

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by LordReaver

You have to remember, that people wouldn't stay on the surface the whole time. They would just come up for air, then go back down.

Why would they need to come up for air? They are already breathing recirculated air, assuming they are in Reinforced or a MAX suit.

[Furret]

Sobekus: I assume the air isnt recycled, and is instead cycled through the suit via invisible air vents that would of course not work under water.

Wildcat: Completely agree.

[Mightymouser]

I wouldn't really have a problem with swimming; I just don't see much of a use for it? I can count on my fingers the number of times I've wanted to swim across rivers in my nearly 8 years of playing PlanetSide; and most of those would probably be times when my vehicle died floating across.

I've run under a few bridges during bridge-fights; but that was really just laziness on my part, not wanting to get a mossy to hot drop behind the enemy.


As for realism; swimming with weights really isn't as hard as you might think; it's easier to swim with a lead vest than it is to run...