What can you tell us about the development of FPS utility items/FPS devices?asked by Az-Tek
TL;DRFPS devices (throwables, consumables, deployables) are still being worked on or discussed, with the aim of looking at them next year if priorities don't change, and a deployable shield is among the first wanted.
Yeah, so they're definitely being worked on still, or at least being discussed and looked at. So we want to look at them next year, as long as priorities don't change. So effectively, we actually call them FPS devices internally. What we call combat throwables, combat consumables, and deployables, and then things like utility items as well. But throwables, a current example of what we have in game right now is a grenade. But we might be able to have throwable gadget-style items. So we might even have something like, and this is just me thinking off the top of my head, a throwable shield or something like that that you throw down on the floor in the same way that you throw a grenade. Consumables, we've already got them in the game, at least the first couple. So we've got the MedPen and the OxyPen at the moment. And we can utilize that system as well to actually have drugs or something like that to enhance performance. And then deployables is probably the big interesting one that provides us with a lot of options: something that you actually put down on the floor or on a wall. Kind of like a proximity mine, a trip mine; a deployable shield is the big one that is always mentioned. And that is certainly one of the first ones that we want to develop on. But yeah, they are certainly coming and being worked on. We've not forgotten about them. It's just going to take some work to get right.