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With Hurston having oceans as seen at GamesCom 2017. What will be the first iteration of water interaction (i.e. can players swim or ships operate underwater)?
Jonny Jacevicius · FPS Designer

So I guess I can talk a little bit from the FPS side, or the first-person experience. Yes, you will be able to swim eventually. So with the first iteration of Hurston, who knows if swimming will be ready by then? It's a brand new locomotion set, which is obviously a lot of work for our guys, and at the moment our priorities are on improving our existing animation sets. So we're actually doing a lot of work right this second. It's happening right now. We're improving some of our animation sets and our locomotion feel and everything. So yeah, our big priority at the moment is to improve the existing things we've got before we move on to things like swimming. So short answer is, yeah, I guess we will eventually be able to swim, but who knows when that will be done. It's definitely on our radar though.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

I think it's fair to say that it's not something that's going to hold up the release of Hurston, basically. Right now it's a little too early to say, where you've got multiple sprints going, who's going to finish, who's not going to finish, whatnot. But we're not going to hold up Hurston if swimming isn't done and ready. So basically it remains to be seen. It's TBD, put a pin in it, whether you'll be able to swim when Hurston is first introduced into Star Citizen. It's possible. And either way, you'll eventually be able to do it for certain.

Jonny Jacevicius · FPS Designer

Another answer is follow the public roadmap.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

As far as the ship question, I will tell you that I talked to Todd Papy on the side and he said, don't talk to me about ships flying underwater right now. So that's probably even farther back.

Jonny Jacevicius · FPS Designer

Yes. I think that's something that requires a bit more thought. I can say yes, swimming is something you can do. Ships flying underwater, I would definitely not want to talk about yet.

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