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Who is Tessa Bannister? What happened to her, and will she ever come back?

TL;DRTessa Bannister is still on the team's minds and a plan to bring her back exists, but nothing concrete can be shared yet and she is in the backlog.

Will WeissbaumLead Writer

I mean, she's still there. I talk to her all the time. Did you all just upset her in some way? She doesn't want to talk to you anymore? She is still very much on our minds. Matt, you have some feelings.

MattNarrative Designer

There have been conversations about Tessa. As someone who played the game back in the 2.x days, I think it goes without saying I'm excited to see her back. We're talking with the other teams about what would be the best way to do that. So we don't have anything concrete to tell you yet, but we all know we want her back. We know you guys want her back. So I know it's not the answer everyone wants to hear, but there is a plan.

Will WeissbaumLead Writer

I mean, there were some technical things involved with the decision to remove her in the first place. And then it's always that we have the same bucket of people working on a bunch of stuff, and where does Tessa fall into their schedules? Because missions have come a long way, and there's refactoring and adding new stuff and really making her the character we want her to be in the game. So it's not as simple as flipping a switch back on in order to get her in the game again. So it's taking us some time. We have it in the backlog, and hopefully she'll be slowly moving into the pipe till we get to her.

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Published on this date.17 Feb 2023