Underwater Detection

[Tarius]

Does it actually kill you when you run out of air or are you just starting to lose health?

You just start to lose health, with a drowning sound effect playing and a red graphic flashing on the screen as you take damage.

This may or may not matter, but its good to note that the Vivec puzzle canal quest requires you to drown. One of the oversights you hear about is that its impossible to do this when you are waterbreathing.

[Greendogo]

Does it actually kill you when you run out of air or are you just starting to lose health?

You just start to lose health, with a drowning sound effect playing and a red graphic flashing on the screen as you take damage.

This may or may not matter, but its good to note that the Vivec puzzle canal quest requires you to drown. One of the oversights you hear about is that its impossible to do this when you are waterbreathing.

How is that an oversight?

[Tarius]

Does it actually kill you when you run out of air or are you just starting to lose health?

You just start to lose health, with a drowning sound effect playing and a red graphic flashing on the screen as you take damage.

This may or may not matter, but its good to note that the Vivec puzzle canal quest requires you to drown. One of the oversights you hear about is that its impossible to do this when you are waterbreathing.

How is that an oversight?

Well people see it as one in some cases. In the original game it isnt. When people add mods that make night eye and water breathing permanant for the beast races(which really makes alot more sense) then there is a problem.

[heilkitty]

Well people see it as one in some cases. In the original game it isnt. When people add mods that make night eye and water breathing permanant for the beast races(which really makes alot more sense) then there is a problem.

Lizards cannot into Temple, apparently.

[TorbenC]

Does it actually kill you when you run out of air or are you just starting to lose health?

You just start to lose health, with a drowning sound effect playing and a red graphic flashing on the screen as you take damage.

This may or may not matter, but its good to note that the Vivec puzzle canal quest requires you to drown. One of the oversights you hear about is that its impossible to do this when you are waterbreathing.

How is that an oversight?

Well people see it as one in some cases. In the original game it isnt. When people add mods that make night eye and water breathing permanant for the beast races(which really makes alot more sense) then there is a problem.

That is the mod's problem, it interferes with a quest. It is an oversight of the mod-maker, not of the game itself.

[Gez]

This may or may not matter, but its good to note that the Vivec puzzle canal quest requires you to drown.

Technically, the quest requires you to be underwater and to have very low health. Then it heals you and teleports you and opens the passage and stuff.

People using permanent waterbreathing effects can still accomplish the quest by taking some damage health poisons or other methods to hurt themselves. As long as their Z position is below the requisite height, and that their health is low, it'll work. Inversely, you can drown for hours to no avail if you have a constant regeneration effect that heals you faster than drowning damages you.