Richard Tyrer · Squadron 42 FPS Game Director

So if you've played the latest PTU patch, you will notice that we have disabled the use of the multi-tool tractor beam and the medical gun and the dedicated medical gun and the other med pens to be able to target other players. So that will mitigate or will remove the scenario that has been described with the roving overdose squads. We sat down and discussed this, myself, Todd, Tony, Chris, about how we wanted to handle it for 3.15 and going forward. Obviously, the ultimate goal is to have green zones be that you can get anything out. We're not arbitrarily stopping you from doing those things. And then there are mechanisms in place, whether that is AI guard security to be able to... Because of where we were at with 3.15 and the cycle, we felt that the most prudent solution right now was to kind of keep the status quo, which was as it is in 3.14, as it has been for a long time, which is to prevent essentially interaction in the green zones. The main reason behind this because of the most prudent is that if you do suffer an injury in a green zone and you do regenerate at a hospital, you don't lose your gear, you don't lose your equipment, because essentially we simulate that AI security saw you and then came out and rescued you and then took you back to hospital. So even though you regenerate in a medical gown, when you go to your location inventory, all of your equipment that you were wearing is still there. So we felt that for 3.15, the safest option was to do that. We did discuss for 3.15 the potential ability to just go, hey, well, maybe you can get your weapons out and you can only fire them at criminals. But we thought that might be just throwing more petrol onto the bonfire. And I think if we were earlier in the cycle and we'd done some of these changes, because we had to focus on quite a lot with inventory and healing, they're two huge intrusive features, potentially we could have gone down that road. But for now, for 3.15 and the latest PTU patch, it has been disabled. But we will be looking into the future about how to more elegantly solve it and allowing interaction, because that's what we want. The tractor beam is supposed to be loading up cargo boxes. Although I did read one guy was like, oh, I can't send hot dogs and ice cream to people in the landing zone with my tractor beam anymore. So I'm sorry for that person. But yeah, we do want to have it in the end.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Okay, so to make sure that I understand, the intention for right now, for 3.15, for the immediate future, is to disable the medi guns and all the med pens inside green zones?

Richard Tyrer · Squadron 42 FPS Game Director

Just to be clear, that's to disable it on other people. You can still use it. You can still get the gun out, you can still get the med pens out and use them on yourself. We're just disabling being able to use it on other people.