Okay it's been awhile and I'm in need of a Kenshi discussion. While I was playing today I spent some time in the water and all my ideas about swimming kept bubbling up, so I decided to get them out. I love the fact that we can swim, and having interactive water is a great part of Kenshi. Here are some Ideas to see if you can add them to Kenshi 2.
1. Clothes weight you down. All clothes should have a negative modifier to swimming. Swimming in full armor should be near impossible at best and drowned you at worst. The amount of clothes and the weight you can carry while swimming, should be tied to your swimming skill.
2. Swimming friendly items. If you have to strip naked to swim around maybe a water proof backpack that would be buoyant and make it easier to stay afloat. And swapping your metal boots with swim fins would make it easier to keep moving. A floaty belt for the newbies that give them a boost. Skeleton arms and legs that don't work on land but have propellers that zoom you along the river. A wet suit that protects you from the acid and lowers your drag so you go faster. The list can go on but I will stop.
3. Fighting in the water. Need to have some way to at least block against the things in the water. Offense would be extremely nerfed as you could only poke at things.
4. Dogs, Garru, Bulls, need to swim on top of the water. I makes since that Skeletons, Gutters and raptors walk on the bottom, but some animals need the air.
5. As I have said before, water only animals. or animals that move faster in the water then on land. Some thing that makes you look twice before crossing the swap pond.
6. I would also like to see swimming pools and hot springs as leisure buildings for outposts, but I guess that is a different topic.
Thanks for the chat,
looking forward to news on K2.