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Things that dissapoint me in many MMOs is the inability to swim or climb. In some MMOs you hit a wall where there is water (which is weird), in others you just walk thru it as the level is always knee-deep (which is weirder).
I don't think it necessary to have swimming quests and such, like in "that other MMO", but I would still love to see swimming, even if it's just to get somewhere, say across a stream, or to an island, or a sukken dungeon, etc...
Climbing is rare in MMOs, but would be another fun aspect. Again the idea is to get somewhere only accessible this way.
Flying I mention only because of the other two. I agree with those who said on the mount thread that flying mounts aren't really necessary.
I would also add skill points to these features. So as if you go swimming or climbing a lot, you progressively get better at it, and you can access harder areas of the map.
I don't think it necessary to have swimming quests and such, like in "that other MMO", but I would still love to see swimming, even if it's just to get somewhere, say across a stream, or to an island, or a sukken dungeon, etc...
Climbing is rare in MMOs, but would be another fun aspect. Again the idea is to get somewhere only accessible this way.
Flying I mention only because of the other two. I agree with those who said on the mount thread that flying mounts aren't really necessary.
I would also add skill points to these features. So as if you go swimming or climbing a lot, you progressively get better at it, and you can access harder areas of the map.
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the water barrier I can only think of was in final fantasy 11 and 14, but that was because they were trying to keep it final fantasy....none of the games allow u to swim.:D
But I do agree, the climb bothered me a lot since my rogue could never climb, im not a fan of leaving skills of classes out. :cool:
what about shoes with wings on them? got to have those.....+5 even.
i don't like the idea of flying mounts in a game like this i dont want to se every tom <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> and harry flying around on a pegasus or dragon
on the other hand a short distance, limited time/speed spell might be okay enough to tolerate.
The no swimming (wall, knee deep or otherwise) in MMOs also irritates the heck out of me. Being able to swim down to the sunken ship or the secret underwater dungeon entrance would be awesome.
I would like to see more climbing stuff going on too as already mentioned. Rogues being able to scale walls, towers and what not.
When oh when is Cryptic going to start answering these simple game mechanic questions? Does it really need to be so hush hush top secret?
So lets speculate!
*twinkle*
Note:- The illithid standing undetected behind me twinkled, not me.
Just realized:- 4e has floating islands.
In that context, don't you think flying would be more common in NWO?
As common as commoners having it? No. Having teleportation circles and mounts, maybe.
Ok, I had to relog with my old PWI account and merge it with the Cryptic one, so now I'm Banjinkun, where I used to be Colm... Anyway.
It seems the "Questions for StormShade (Devs)" thread disappeared. Where'd it go ? Did my questions hit a wall ? O_O"