Guild Wars 2

Everytime I go underwater in game I am completely shocked by the lack of Anet’s understanding in physics. Really, why am I even using the word “physics” as if this were a matter of high science? All you need to do to see the countless flaws is submerge your head in water and see what being underwater really is like.

1. There is no way in hell you can listen to other people underwater the way you do in game. Especially not at the long distances you presumably can. Our ears and clearly the ears of all races in game are designed to listen through air. Sound travels through air conduction on the surface of our planet. Sound behaves differently underwater. There is a good article here explaining why we can’t listen underwater:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150311-whales-hearing-underwater-ears-echolocation-ocean-animals-science/

2. There is no way you can talk underwater either. Yes, you also use air to communicate. The moment you open your mouth, water rushes in and prevents you from saying anything. It would be impossible (and sad) to have conversations with Quaggans if Arenanet had any real knowledge in science.
http://www.quora.com/Can-we-talk-normally-underwater

Also if you don’t believe any of this and are too lazy to experiment yourselves, there’s actually videos on youtube of people doing the experiment of talking underwater. Obviously, you can’t hear them at all.

3. Swimming speed is way too fast. Seriously Anet? Have you ever watched the Olympics? Have you ever tried swimming at Usain Bolt speeds underwater? I think you need to spend more time in the sea.

4. Lung capacity is a joke. Even with an aquabreather, you can stay underwater forever in this game. You have more lung capacity than a blue whale. Is Anet taking us for idiots?

In conclusion: Me 2; Anet 0

It’s a video game with sentient robots, a race of tiny potato people, talking cat-people, and dragons. It also takes place in a fictional universe; any number of reasons could be made up to explain any issues.

So yeah. You don’t win anything.

Talking cat-people and dragons are in Skyrim, I think you are in the wrong universe here.

Ah, so you’re only trolling. Carry on, then.

But shooting lazers from our fingertips is so totally realistic.

Dawnbreaker.6215:

4. Lung capacity is a joke. Even with an aquabreather, you can stay underwater forever in this game. You have more lung capacity than a blue whale. Is Anet taking us for idiots?

If you understood science, you’d know that aquabreathers draw oxygen from the surrounding waters, and filter it for your characters to breathe. This works exactly like how fish gills do.

I know, I’m a scientist.

In a world where instant point to point travel is available via way-points and asura gates, there is no reason to believe that the technology would not be possible to provide a never-ending supply of oxygen to an aqua breather without needed an o2 tank or filter system at all.

In real life, it is quite possible to communicate via speech when underwater in a dive mask. Therefore there is no reason that aqua breathers could not contain comm’s equipment.

In conclusion: Anet 2; You 0

Dreadnaught.1975:

But shooting lazers from our fingertips is so totally realistic.

I have seen this reply before, but here is the deal: we are given a reason to believe in shooting lazers from our fingertips, we are told that our characters can manipulate magic. But we are never given a reason as to why we can speak underwater and swim so fast for so long.

I think this video is the only reasonable counter point to your argument.

Talking cat-people = Charr
Dragons = Elder Dragons, Tequatl, Claw, Shatterer, etc

You’ve consistently shown that you can’t grasp the nature of a fantasy game and keep trying to prove it wrong with real world examples. GW2 is not the real world.
You 0, Anet 2.