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What does the cutter attachment do in the Persistent Universe?

TL;DRThe cutter's functionality exists but little content uses it yet; it is meant as a lockpick-like gate opener for locked crates or shortcuts, with more lock types hoped for in future.

Dan TrufinLead Systems Designer, Foundry 42 Frankfurt

I'll take it. But it sadly doesn't do as much as we would want it to do. And not because the functionality isn't in there. We have the functionality. It's a matter of us getting the time to build the content. We would love it to start being used as in, let's say I go through a facility and I find, through the harvestable system, that there's a crate that just spawned that has this massive lock on it. I can bring out my cutter and start cutting the lock. It takes me a bit of time. I can open the crate and get this new awesome prototype weapon from there. Or it could be I find a certain hatch or panel that I can cut, and it allows me access a quicker way inside a facility. I could still go without the tool and fight ten other NPCs to get to the same point, or I could sneak through this thing. It's a gate opener for us. It's a thing that, if you have it, we allow you easier access to certain places or we allow you extra loot. There's a lot of games that have these chests of awesome loot, but you get there and unless you can lockpick it or something like this, you cannot get it. This is basically our lockpick. And I think in the future, we're aiming to have different locks and different methods of lockpicking, basically. So cutting is one of them.

Star Citizen Live›Alpha 3.7 Roundup·
Published on this date.18 Oct 2019