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Ashley Bardhan

"Apologies, Palworld gamers," but Pocketpair communications lead says an underwater level will never happen: "You're pushing the game to its absolute limits"

Palworld.

Palworld fans have been asking for an underwater ecosystem ever since the creature collector launched in 2024, but John "Bucky" Buckley tells GamesRadar+ it's never going to happen.

Buckley, developer Pocketpair's head of publishing and communications, explains that the underwater expansion many fans dream of is too much of "a huge undertaking." He tells these fans, "You're talking about rewriting a lot of the game's bones to allow for that. And so, these ideas, these big ideas – that's what you get into. Is it worth that massive kind of restructuring? Or, do you start thinking about, 'That could be something else'?"

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