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What else is in 3.18 that you worked on?

TL;DRBesides Orison missions, the team's other designer worked on the prison mission, moving contraband kiosks to three locations to ease camping, and Jumptown changes adding two item dispensers and more entrances.

Elliot MaltbyPrincipal Designer, Mission Feature Team

The Orison missions. Go to an Orison island and kill people. I saw a couple of people playing it. Citizen Kate did a video on it that was very fun to watch, because there was this odd thing where she was playing it and the server performance was really good, so the AI were acting how they were meant to, and they were snapping, and it got to the point where in the video I think she said, "I need to put a silencer on because I keep just getting annihilated from miles away," which was very nice. It's the first step to branching out some of those missions into new locations.

Elliot MaltbyPrincipal Designer, Mission Feature Team

The prison stuff and the Jumptown changes were both done by our other designer, Max. So we made the prison mission; he's made it so there's AI wandering about, you kill them, you can loot them, you can then sell the loot to the contraband kiosk. We actually recently made a change where we were having a problem where people had to go to this one little area to sell the contraband and sell all the mineables. And then you had some of the bad players we talked about stood there waiting, just hammering people, just killing people. So what we did was, we were like, "Right, let's move the mining kiosk to three different locations to give those people a bit of a chance and spread it out a bit more." So we implemented that. And then the other thing Max did was the Jumptown changes. We added two item dispensers into Jumptown, so there are now more boxes that you can get. And we also snazzed up the location with the help of the art team and the locations team. We added a little bit more so it was less of a one-entry sort of thing, because that's a choke point. We wanted to add a few more ways of getting in and out. And you've seen some amazing videos on that as well. Love watching all of them. Citizen Kate again; Bed Bananas did a good one.

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Published on this date.3 Feb 2023