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It was an odd choice to not have swimming especially coming out a year after San Andreas which had swimming. Don't start with the LC water is contaminated anyway so you can't swim. I'll let you know that I would drink that water.

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On 7/15/2020 at 6:11 PM, Zello said:

It was an odd choice to not have swimming especially coming out a year after San Andreas which had swimming.

It sure was. I heard LCS was based off of VC's engine so maybe they didn't tinker too much with it for their first attempt on a GTA on that scale on PSP and improved on it later with VCS

 

On 7/15/2020 at 6:11 PM, Zello said:

Don't start with the LC water is contaminated anyway so you can't swim. I'll let you know that I would drink that water.

Hey man, your drinking habits are your business. At least it isn't the Alderney water though, that thing... 🤮

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It may have been feasible with liberty City stories to actually implement swimming into the game just like the unobtainable mavericks as this time it was using a heavily modified vice city engine, just like vice city stories. 

 

Also given the liberty tree articles regarding the oil spillage evaporated into the water fluids throughout liberty city in GTA 3; one may assume why such mundane things aren't present in either of the 3D liberty city games.

 

To link it back to the question of was it necessary or was really tempting to add such feature, I am personally fine without it in LCS, as there was only like one mission that utilized boats and you only needed to stop at a corona, in which if you completed the cutscene of delivering the boat of weapons to phill; you will spawn on the road adjacent to the Staunton ferry.

 

Now lets thank the lord that there are none of the hidden packages placed really close to sea level.

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I think LCS was more an immature/unoptimized game when released, you can tell by the fact that helicopters exist, but can't be used because they didn't have time to model the roofs of all the buildings.

VCS was all the stars aligning in terms of optimisation and functionality, even better than GTA:SA in some instances.

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universetwisters

Who the f*ck wants to swim in nastyass liberty city water smh

Even if you could swim, lets say you fell in on the east side of portland, how to f*ck you gonna get back to the surface? unless they add climbing, you're gonna have to swim for a good 15 minutes just to reach the beach next to Salvatore's Place, Liberty City aint designed for swimming at all.

On 12/1/2020 at 11:36 PM, JetNormalGuy said:

Even if you could swim, lets say you fell in on the east side of portland, how to f*ck you gonna get back to the surface? unless they add climbing, you're gonna have to swim for a good 15 minutes just to reach the beach next to Salvatore's Place, Liberty City aint designed for swimming at all.

i was talking about this, nowhere to reach the surface

 

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Swimming would be pointless - nothing to do, nothing to see. LC has no mystery islands to explore. The map is all land-based. 

If I wanted to swim I'd buy a darn pool pass irl and play in the chlorinated water, glancing in shock at the naked old men in the changing rooms walking around nonchalantly. 

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Well, I’ve been collecting some hidden packages lately and the the thing is, it’s not about swimming. It’s the dumbass insta WASTED screen as soon as you touch the water.

 

Also there aren’t many boats around the city which makes it harder to explore it through sea.

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On 1/23/2021 at 7:02 PM, OH76 said:

3D LC's water is toxic.

I'll drink that water.

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LeatherJacketSoldier

You know, by swimming, someone could reach the other islands early and get all of the packages. There could have been a development "error", like in GTA III, in which you could access Staunton Island and then Shoreside Vale by jumping from one girder to another in the wrecked Callahan Bridge. That way, I got all packages right after the first mission (learning how to fly the Dodo, and accessing the other safehouses), and could complete paramedic missions in Staunton (I had to cheat by setting to 0 the damage of the guns the Cartel use, because they were giving me an annoying hard time). So, not giving swimming capabilities to Toni was indeed a very bad idea, in my opinion.

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I've been browsing this site for some time and this thread(?) made me decide to make an account. I've also been working on a Head Radio mod that I didn't know if I wanted to publish or not. I'm still not sure about that. Sorry about resurrecting an old thread.

I'm stuck at 99% in Liberty City Stories and during my journey swimming would have been amazing. All of the times I fell in the water trying to do a unique jump [especially the one by the stadium]. Landing in the water and being able to move while it drained your health would have been great. It's just falling in the water and being so close to the edge but not being able to move and watching your health drain thinking about losing all of your equipment and then reluctantly loading a save 3 jumps prior is just irritating. Eh, but not that much of a deal breaker.

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it would have been nice to have swam in liberty city stories. its not because the water is bad, its because they 1, dont want you swimming off to the other end early (but in vice city stories you get pushed backwards in water, so why not), and also because in 3, they didnt have the good enough tech to actually get you to swim... think they admitted to that one time? who knows, but it would have been nice

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