LE Underwater immersion - appropriately

[RapBannana]

Hi all,

 

Please can we have some mods to improve the swimming and underwater exploration aspects of Skyrim.

There already exist some cool mods to get enemies to give chase when you try to flee across a river as opposed to giving up the chase once they reach the water's edge like a wuss.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/41637/?

Here's some other ideas.
* Bubbles which make appropriate sounds and float to the surface and cause ripples when they reach the surface.
* Bubbles when swimming.
* Bubbles when talking or exhaling while submerged. Similar to how the condensation frost breath works in Wet and Cold.
* Some kind of speech audio modification for talking while submerged. For those bandits who do follow you into a river and decide to talk trash at you while swimming.
* Fish! The waters are a bit empty sometimes.
* Interesting locations in the water. Wrecks with loot. Dungeons which are part submerged and require some swimming which might actually require you to use those water breathing potions you've never found a use for.
* Some better swimming animations.
* An iron man race quest. (?)
* A water park (??)
* Some kind of darkening of textures to simulate wet when leaving the water like GTAV does. I hazard that's pretty much impossible.

Waffle ended. Thank you all.

[reyzark]

what about underwater combat and creatures?

[masoncravens]

This has been wanted by many ppl, i mad a post last year about combat, cities, and enemies underwater just like this but no one has taken to it sadly :'(

[RapBannana]

I wanted to ask for some water combat. But I figured I'd come across as a bit of a dick because it must be near impossible with the Skyrim game engine? I don't want to pretend that I know anything about modding. I used to mod other games but haven't been able to get my head around Skyrim... At first glance though the game engine doesn't seem to want people in water to do much more than swimming around. I figure water combat would end up being some kind of buggy scripting nightmare?

On the other hand swimming around would be a whole new interesting aspect to the game if it was pretty, convincing and interesting. Interesting meaning there was some content based around the activity.

Somehow I've got to wondering if you can use underwater swimming as a stealth mechanic in Skyrim? Though lumbering soggy out of the water behind your intended target might end up being a bit splashy and noisy. So I'm not sure how well it would work in reality. Maybe I've seen too many movies of Navy seal divers boarding ships and silently offing incompetent guards ... sorry tangent.

[Mattiewagg]

It's possible. See here.

[masoncravens]

Matthiaswagg, does he say when this is going to be released as a resource??

[Mattiewagg]

Soon. I think he said 2 weeks about a week ago?

[snoopyretana]

I actually started making some underwater places to explore in Skyrim. Some will be completely submerged but since there is no working underwater combat mod that I know of there will be very little to no enemies underwater. Most will be partially underwater as to remain racial friendly, but if you really want to explore everything it will require one of three things: 1. Being Argonian of course 2. Have an equipped enchanted item that allows waterbreathing 3. Lots and I do mean lots of waterbreathing potions.

 

I've only seen one other mod to add one submerged dwemer dungeon and it was not the main part of the mod. Keep in mind that I am working on this by myself, but I am putting in a few hours everyday. It will also be my first mod and I'm still learning the creation kit so I'm not sure how long it will take.

[firepower02]

I wanted to ask for some water combat. But I figured I'd come across as a bit of a dick because it must be near impossible with the Skyrim game engine? I don't want to pretend that I know anything about modding. I used to mod other games but haven't been able to get my head around Skyrim... At first glance though the game engine doesn't seem to want people in water to do much more than swimming around. I figure water combat would end up being some kind of buggy scripting nightmare?

 

It is possible