Similar to the question about push-pull, will the tractor beam gun replace simply carrying boxes by hand, or will there still be a reason to do this the old way?
TL;DRNo, the tractor beam won't replace hand-carrying, since it is a limited-resource tool not always equipped, though it adds options such as lifting boxes up ladders or out of caves.
No. I mean, again, it's like saying, I have a knife, will it replace me opening boxes with my hands? The tractor beam will be a limited resource. How you spend that resource is up to you. So if you're down in a cave and you're using that resource to mine, then you're going to want to carry stuff. So it depends on what scenario you're in. You might not have a multi-tool. You might not have had the tractor beam attachment. So the carryable system is something that we've put a lot of effort into investing in. It's not going away. It sits under my teams. Again, it's something that is critical to the gameplay. We have lots of different variations of loadouts that people have. So when we add more gadgets in the future, it might not be a sure thing that you're going to take a multi-tool and every single attachment. So it depends on what you're doing and how you're using it and how you spend that limited resource, when we add the fact that it is a battery. So 100%, it won't remove it. In certain circumstances, it will vastly improve things. So if I want to put a box or somebody in something and I have to climb a ladder, right now that's an impossibility. If I need to get something out of a cave and I have to vault something up, again, it's an impossibility. So it offers more player choices. I know you asked me the other day, Jared, player choices. Player choices underpin game design. So that is a fundamental essence and core of designing things, so that you have choice and the player can choose how they manipulate or solve particular problems that we present them with.