Talk:Air Bladder/@comment-107.223.130.147-20160411040830

The way the air bladder currently works, it immitates a Buoyancy Control Vest in SCUBA. But, in SCUBA, your BCV is merely used to let you rest on the surface of the water without sinking (since you have dive weights and gear that would normally cause you to sink). The BCV is hooked into your tanks, and you fill it with a button. You then deflate it to submerge and empty all the air from it to achieve neutral buoyancy and then dive. (The dive weights you add to your gear help compensate for the air tanks being full, and help you go down instead of bobbing at the surface like an idiot).

Anyways, the air bladder acts like this in that it draws air from your tanks. This is a bit annoying, though, because the times you're whipping it out usually involve you being at the end of your tank and not able to spare any air...even 3 seconds. So, I hope they change how this works.

Likewise, once they came out with ultraglide fins, seaglide, etc... the rate this thing takes you up is about as fast as ultra-glide fins. So, it becomes a bit pointless. It's still good for taking you up when you don't want to hold down the swim key. However, you can't whip out your PDA and stare at it and keep floating up... things pause. Would be nice to inflate this thing and it takes you up while you do an inventory check on your PDA or something.

It's useful early on, but eventually it's just taking up space once you get advanced gear (and when you're heading back to seamoth or cyclops to replenish air instead of surface).