I mean the boss at the end of Starstone Barrows has an entire portion of the fight that involves the Z axis. Heavily.
It can be hit mid-air.
But pop off I guess.
At the end of the day it’s still lazy as hell development.
No swimming in a game the takes place on an island in the ocean. 
wasnt invented yet
Then I stand corrected. The engine has the feature, the devs are just too incompetent to utilize it thoroughly. Not sure how that’s much better, but meh.
You’re absolutely spot on though.
The laziness is still worrying.
Not as much as an engine that doesn’t support it in 2021.
But it’s still concerning.
Aeternum does weird things with gravity. The rocks float, fall damage can’t kill you, people aren’t buoyant in water…
This is the most constructive criticism of New World I’ve read yet… 
I also use magic, die multiple times, gave up my soul to save the world, and fall from 80 feet in the air without injuring myself beyond the impact of a hard punch.
You have two unrealistic options: you can swim in armour or you can’t swim. They chose the latter.
You’re right that they’re just lazy. Hopefully they add swimming because it’s honestly embarrassing.
I just wish they would go fully Pirates of the Carribian style and remove the breath meter too.
Anyone that can swim is a corrupted witch and we will burn them at the stake.
Removing the ability to drown would be nice too. They ignored the entirety of being able to swim, while simultaneously adding in all the detriment of swimming. If I kill something in the water, it starts getting really dicey when I try to skin it without drowning.
i just imagine hero with full equip swimming :)))))
Yeah it’s dumb. You run out of air extremely fast and it’s legit possible to drown in 5 feet of water.
you so wrong i see rock and flower that i wasn’t able to collect cause they were flying, so much hate man
The reality is you are dead, animated bones, you only think you are alive with flesh. Bones have no buoyancy, so you can’t swim or float.
Swimming to go blast those zombies with a fireball. Let’s not fall back too hard on reality.
No doubt! I’m really missing world of Warcraft but I can never go back lol. I really hoped this game was going to be the mmo scratch I needed.
i really hope they put an extension under water, maybe in colaboration with 2k (bioshock) and we play big daddys, just walking in the deep
Just stop and do it again once your breath meter is full