Give us a swim down button

@xdragonman15558 re-read what I wrote. You can swim up while looking down. You cannot swim down while looking up.

When you're in the water, no matter which direction you are facing, if you push space, you go upwards

Might be a shortcut for players to easily press and start rising up. “Fear”

You don’t need two buttons to go up and down, just use your mouse it easier

@xdragonman15558 You know what else is really hard in real life? Aiming a gun underwater. Swinging a sword underwater. Black powder guns straight up do not work underwater in real life. This is something you might have heard of called a video game. In real life when you die you don't go to a ghost boat either. In real life boats aren't free and indefinitely replaceable. V I D E O G A M E

My guess is that they made it more difficult by design, though it may have been just an oversight. Can't know that without straight answer from devs.

Regarding the idea itself, got nothing against it tbf. A lot of games with underwater content (like Subnautica, Atlas, GTA, etc.) have this option (swim up and swim down with a button press).

For SoT, since you cannot sneak underwater, imho it could just share binding with sneaking.

I think they have it like that in case players get disoriented, they know by pressing the space bar will always bring them to the surface.

To dive down, just turn your mouse and press forward. It is much easier indeed.

@europa4033 said in Give us a swim down button:

I think they have it like that in case players get disoriented, they know by pressing the space bar will always bring them to the surface.

To dive down, just turn your mouse and press forward. It is much easier indeed.

Honestly, I can't remember if I ever used even space for going up 😅 Even if this got implemented, I would most likely just keep using mouse+forward.

I think it's just more precise/easier, especially for wreck diving (and some Tall Tales).