Guild Wars 2

Maybe I’m missing something. This seems like such an obvious problem. But it’s still a problem.

When I’m underwater I have a key bound to go deeper and another one to rise up closer to the surface. No problem. And when I’m on top of the water I just go left-right-forward, etc just like when I’m running on land. However, if I’m on the surface of the water and want to go underwater I have to change my hands around and use my mouse to “steer” myself underwater. Where I can then again use keybinds for up and down like I prefer. It’s a bit of a pain in the neck especially when you’re on the water surface and being attacked by something underwater.

Why doesn’t the key I have assigned to go down allow me to break the water surface and submerge? It sounds like that’s the way it should work. It works that way with every other game I can think of.

PS – Apologies if this has already been discussed (I imagine it has) or is in the wrong forum. But for some reason the forum’s search function is not working with my Firefox browser.

This is definitely in the Controls option of the game. Just assign the Dive and Jump/Rise buttons.

There’s a ‘Swim Down’ keybind which works only if I’m already underwater and a ‘Swim Up/Jump’ keybind. But no ‘Dive’ or anything like that, that I can see, which will take me from the surface to underwater.

Perhaps the ‘Swim Down’ command on my game is not working the same as yours?

I’m sorry, I misunderstood your question. This may be a bug that needs to be addressed as the feature may not be working as intended.