So what's different about this last section here?
TL;DRThe last section now lets players take a shuttle straight back into the action instead of flying their own ships to the barge, and the barge has a redesigned maze layout and a fully designed boss fight.
Yes. We've skipped the idea, originally in Siege, where you had to fly your own ships up here and try to push your way to the barge. And instead now we let you take the shuttle and get straight back into the action, and there's no chance of anyone being left behind because all the ships have been taken and all this sort of stuff.
What you can do as well is if you come here to the Cutlass on the left, then we can actually see a little bit of the narrative world building that we've done as well: the Ninetales have used this Crusader barge to just Trojan horse their way into Crusader. And we can see that they've used all these containers and that a lot of the stuff came out of it. And that's also why this final boss battle happens at this barge, because this is that stronghold that they flew into. So now we are sieging the fortress.
Yeah, so this barge was actually my pride and joy of the old Siege. This was the thing that I got to make, the old warehouse. If there's any old-school players in the chat, they'll remember it.
The OG barge you made with the fire on it as well.
Oh, yeah. We made a version of it that had fire in the final area of that thing, but VFX said it was too costly at the time, so sadly, we never got to put out the en fuego version. But we did decide to change the layout of the barge quite considerably, and I think it is significantly, significantly better than what we had before. It's now a sort of maze to find your way over to where you'll find the final boss. And then that final boss room is a completely different thing to what it once was. It's a whole designed boss fight, so hopefully everybody enjoys that, but we'll wait till we get to that bit.