How do you feel about prison gameplay in 3.11?
TL;DRLuke Pressley admits prison gameplay is buggy, mainly from untested multi-tool spawning, mining pickup and shop server issues, and says he is frustrated too and will chase fixes across teams.
Come on, cut me deep. You should have used the one that's not in chat. 'Why isn't it still fixed? Still can't mine. Missions bug out. Equipment still vanishes.' Right. There's a few issues. I think a lot of them stem from the way we give you the multi-tool. Usually, obviously, you go to a shop and it goes straight into your inventory. You don't see anything in your hand. There's no physical thing. We spawn you with the thing in your hand. We've never done that before, tried that before. It's obviously buggy, and the new commissary machine that you go to to get your multi-tool, that's the first time we've tried a vending machine. So it physically spawns it, you bend down, you pick it up, rather than it going straight into your inventory. And we hope to roll those out to the rest of the solar system as well. But when they work, it seems to be that when it spawns or when you're given it, you're losing either the mining attachment, or you're not seeing that in your [inventory]. And there also seems to be a bug sometimes when you pick up mineables, you drop the thing. It's such a shame, because obviously the prison relies on a lot of other features, and if any one of those breaks, the whole experience kind of crumbles, and we've tried to address that by adding the one mission in there. I really want to get back in there, get some time to add some other ways to earn merits so that you don't have to rely on all these other systems. But in a perfect world, all these other systems would always, always work. I guess another issue is that even if you do have a really good mining session, you go to sell it at the kiosk and you can't, because all shops in the game, I believe, attach to a specific kind of server. It's not the server you're on, it's a different one. And if that's having any troubles, then you're stuck for being able to sell, you're stuck for being able to get out of prison, and only the missions would work then. So there's no one answer for it. There's a lot of bugs in a lot of places on a lot of different teams, and I guess I need to really push all of them to try and figure it out. But it's always the case that for me, I own this, and this is something that's close to my heart. I'm about as frustrated as everyone who's playing it. But for all the other teams, it will be a small, tiny little piece of something. But in the end, it all adds up to something bigger. So I'm going to chase all of these things. I saw today a tiny little issue with a mission. Because it's a mission that everyone can accept, they race each other down. The whole point of it was you hopefully see other people racing past you trying to get to it before you. And if someone gets to it first, it silently fails. So you could still be running the whole way there and not have noticed that the little bit of text at the top vanishes. So I've got Ollie fixing that one, so you'll actually now get the bigger notification at the top of the screen. But yeah, I'm on it. There's just a lot to fix in a lot of different places.