Find a body of water. Since the action in GTA V takes place in the prototype state of California, finding a body of water will not be difficult. If you play as Michael, you can practice swimming in your backyard. The game also features several lakes that flow into rivers. Use them if you want to swim in a more open area.
- There is a huge reservoir in the center of Mount Tataviam. The mountain is located in the northeast, near Los Santos.
- Another large lake is in the north of Los Santos, in the center of Vinewood.
- Outside of the ocean, the largest body of water in the game is the Alamo Sea, into which several small rivers flow. The Alamo Sea is located in the west of Sandy Shores.
- The world of GTA V is surrounded on all sides by water, so if you move in one direction long enough, you'll eventually find the ocean.
Get into the water. Just enter it. As soon as the hero plunges headlong into the water, he will immediately begin to row.
Start swimming. To swim, use the left analog stick (PS3/PS4, Xbox 360/Xbox One) or WASD movement buttons (PC).
- The WASD keys (on a PC) are responsible for the following actions: “W” - forward, “S” - back, “A” - left, “D” - right.
To speed up your character, continuously press the X button (PS3/PS4), A button (Xbox 360/Xbox One), or Shift key (PC).
Dive. When the water covers your character's head, you can try to dive down. Press the R1 button (PS3), RB button (Xbox 360) or Spacebar (PC) and your character will dive.
Swim underwater. To move forward, press the X button (PS3/PS4), A button (Xbox 360/Xbox One), or Left Shift (PC). When the character is underwater, the controls become mirrored (the same as when controlling an airplane). To resurface, simply press down the left analog stick and "X" (PS3/PS4), the "A" button (Xbox 360/Xbox One), or hold down "S" and left "Shift" (PC). To dive deeper, press up the left analog stick and "X" (PS3/PS4), the "A" button (Xbox 360/Xbox One) or hold "W" and left "Shift" (PC). To move left and right, press the left analog stick left or right (“A” and “D” on PC).
Attack while swimming. While you are in the water, the only weapon you can use is a knife. In case you need to defend yourself from sharks, you can arm yourself with a knife by pressing the "L1" button (PS3/PS4), the "LB" button (Xbox 360/Xbox One), or the "TAB" key (PC). Then attack by pressing the circle button (PS3/PS4), B button (Xbox 360/Xbox One) or R key (PC).
- You can attack while underwater or on the surface.
Check your health. Since your character is only human, you can't stay underwater forever. In the lower left corner of the screen, next to the health indicator, there is a blue indicator. It signals how long you can stay underwater. Once the blue indicator bar is used up, your hero will begin to lose health very quickly. If you don't surface before your health reaches 0, you will die.
Unlike his predecessors, Tommy Vercetti and "Fido", main character GTA: San Andreas Carl Johnson is not afraid of water. It costs him nothing to jump off a boat or a bridge to escape pursuit, or simply swim down the river for his own pleasure.
CJ has several swimming styles at his disposal. When you press the “forward” key, Carl swims a slow breaststroke, using a minimum of effort. You can speed up the process by holding down the button - the hero will switch to a free style and increase his speed, but at the same time his strength will dry out much faster. Thus, the amount of energy stored will play a significant role during swimming.
You can not only splash on the surface, but also dive. Such swimming - good way escape the chase and enjoy the underwater scenery. True, it should be remembered that Karl is an ordinary person who, like everyone else, must breathe. Therefore, at the moment of diving, an indicator of the air supply in the lungs appears on the screen. If the oxygen runs out, the hero will go to feed the fish.
underwater world San Andreas worked out in no less detail than the land. Now, if a car falls into water, its color will gradually change as it dives. Additionally, the color and clarity of the water will change depending on the time of day.
If you fly your car from the pier into the sea, then Karl will be able to get out of the car and swim to the shore. True, this will have to be done quite quickly - time is strictly limited, and there is a risk of suffocation.
Now you can steal any boat, even if it is in the middle of the lake. It is even easier to steal a moored boat, but to perform a similar trick with a floating one will require skill. If everything goes according to plan and you manage to get into the boat unexpectedly, the captain will get scared and jump overboard in fear.
Wave physics has been completely redesigned - now water reacts more realistically to different weather conditions. If Karl were to get caught in a storm off the coast of San Fierro, he would feel the full fury of the waves.
CJ isn't the only one who can swim GTA: San Andreas. Other characters can also cut through waves, although it is not yet known how this fact affected the game design.
Having mastered the land, players, first of all, begin to strive to soar into the air - they buy planes and helicopters, climb skyscrapers with parachutes, and engage in sky diving, however, not everyone will realize that you can not only fly into the sky, but also dive under water .
What is diving for in GTA 5?
The underwater world of GTA 5 lives its own full life, there are sharks, small fish, reefs, algae, and much, much more. Unfortunately, at first you won’t be able to really explore the seabed in single-player mode, for the simple reason that the equipment doesn’t open right away, and you can’t swim far in shorts and a T-shirt.
Game diving is a full-fledged hobby that can be put on the same level as golf, tennis or skydiving. However, thanks to this hobby you can earn quite a bit of money: there are secret packages scattered under the water, each of which contains $12,000.
What is noteworthy is that you can get packages not just once, but many times, in addition, if you pick up a package, then quickly switch to another character, and, again, immediately return to the one with whom we dived, there is a high probability that the package will instantly appear in that same place.
It’s also worth mentioning that scuba diving in GTA 5 will help you find various Easter eggs. For example, the hatch from Lost, the remains of an underwater monster, or a sunken alien ship.
Also, thanks to scuba gear, you can unlock the Out of Your Depth achievement. To do this, you need to swim as far from the shore as possible on a boat, speedboat or jet ski, and, as soon as a red dot appears on the map, dive and submerge under water to attract a shark. As soon as she eats you, the achievement will be obtained.
Where to find scuba gear in GTA5
In total, during the passage of story missions, you will have to use scuba gear twice: in The Merryweather Heist Freighter and in Monkey Business. After completing the game's storyline, the characters will have a submariner's suit in their wardrobe.
In addition, there are several more ways to take possession of the treasured diver’s equipment in single-player mode:
- Buy real estate in Paleto Cove in Blaine County. The cost of Sonar Collections Dock is $250,000. Simultaneously with the acquisition of a business, you will become the proud owner of an underwater bathyscaphe - as soon as you get into the submarine, the suit is put on automatically. Thus, it is enough to jump out of it and that’s it, the scuba gear is on you.
- Look for an inflatable rubber boat, they are usually located near piers throughout Los Santos. Similar to the situation with an underwater bathyscaphe, the suit is put on automatically.
It is important to remember that the suit disappears immediately after the character steps onto land. It is also very important to note the following - although visually we see only one oxygen cylinder, in fact it is endless, however, we must not forget that a scuba diver's suit provides an inexhaustible supply of air, but does not save us from death, which is caused by excessive water pressure during a deep dive. When diving on a submarine, the pressure is much less, but if you dive into the abyss, it will simply be crushed (it looks cool, by the way).
By the way, while you are scuba diving, your character’s stamina is pumped up in exactly the same way as if you were without any equipment.
IN GTA Online Things with scuba gear are several times worse: it is simply not possible to purchase them - instead, the player can use breathing masks that are sold in Ammu-Nation.
The cost of one mask is $5000, it will allow you to dive for 30 minutes of game time (1 minute of real time). Do you agree that this is negligible? Therefore, the developers have added the ability to purchase 20 of these masks at a time - with simple calculations you can understand that in this way you will spend 20 minutes of real time under water, but it will cost as much as $100,000.
Underwater control
Many players ask the question: “How to scuba dive in GTA 5?”, and this is quite logical, because controlling a character underwater is very different from how to move on land. To swim forward, just hold down the “Shift” key; to continue diving, add W, so you get the combination “Shift+W”, and to ascend, change W to S—you get “Shift+S”.