On the old roadmap, we could see a downed state that was planned for september 2017. Have there been any developments on this mechanic?
TL;DRKnockdowns, knockbacks and staggers are being implemented now to raise time to kill and are planned to roll out a little later, and the MedPen is planned to become a temporary heal, introducing medical gameplay.
So right now we are working on knockdowns, knockbacks, kind of staggers. So these are just kind of stepped-up hit reactions. And this is something that we're implementing right now, but we're looking to kind of roll out a little bit in the future. But this is our way of increasing our time to kill. In particular, if you're out in the PU, you don't want to get instantly popped when you flew out 30 minutes and then all of a sudden you get popped and you respawn and have to go through that again. That's one of the first states, and then from there, there's the medical aspect of it. So being able to revive yourself: right now, the MedPen is a full heal. In the future, it'll be a temporary heal, and then you'll still start deteriorating from there, which then would introduce the medical gameplay regarding ships or somebody actually going and reviving you, hospitals, those types of things.