Add npc dialog/underwater fighting

Make npc contacts talk or say brief phrases. Also i would love to see some underwater content/action added to the game.

NPCs do.

As for underwater stuff, dunno if that is likely to work. A lot of work for few content.

Do you mean having NPCs actually have audible dialog? Like when you click on them they audibly say "Hello There!" or "Wazzzup?"?

Something like Hi super hero! Omg i like your tights! Well here is what i have for you today crime fighter! But yes a voice over to maybe entice us to want to read that wall of text. Underwater fighting could be a new sewer trial or something for low to mid range levels except your in the water. Maybe fighting a new npc sea group called the forgotten fish. Goldfish that mutated from being flushed down the toilet.

BaB shot down underwater without a trace of doubt. Now that he's not working with Paragon though, who knows? I think it at least says there are no current plans for it.

I kinda wish they would go through and at least add some vocals to at least some of the cutscenes, especially the newer ones for iTrials, SSAs. Understandable that it may be tough to get them in all of them in the game, but if they were going to add vocals, that would be my choice as far as where to start.

I always supported the idea of underwater fighting. But the issue is that it'll be really hard to do.

First you have to make an AoE based auto-power that acts like flight while in water, except with a different animation. Then you have to tweak various animations that are already in game from their flight stance to their underwater stance (at least those that don't fit already). Then you have to come up with an explanation as to why it is your toons can hold their breath for hours.

Though if they're willing to do all this I won't stop them.

Underwater doesn't need shooting down when it's been dead and buried for so long, with good reason. I guess I can't take my archer or fire characters down there, hmm? Dern, skippeh!

As for vocals? Dear god, no. Given the standard of vocal artists these days apparently, you'd need the budget of Bethesda/Skyrim to pull off something that didn't totally suck. And even then they had repeats and none of them could put on other accents worth a damn.
Example? The new tutorial voice overs. Dear. God. Tearing my ears off with 'argh'.

The one good bit of vocalisation is Recluse's screen monologue in Grandville. I still like his voice a bit better in the old cinematic trailers, though.

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I think that underwater fighting and movement could be "faked" with a permanent zone-wide version of Group Fly - only with a trail of bubbles instead of the usual air trail effects of flying, and the use of the current swimming animation as the default fly pose.
This would mean that no new animations would be needed, and the ability to select the normal fly psoes would also let people move through the water in a non-swimming way if they wanted to - like if they were a robot or other non-human thing.

A second underwater option is for something like an underwater city or base, which would have us under the sea, but not actually in the water - we'd be indoors, but be able to see the sea through the windows - like the way we can see the rest of the zone when we're inside an AE building.