Do you have any plans to add FPS PvE missions to Arena Commander? Any chance of pulling some of the actual mission gameplay and making little contained versions of that?

Yeah, I'm excited about this one, but Duncan, do you want to take it?

Yeah, sure. So this is something that obviously comes after 3.20, not part of 3.20, but it's part of that experimental mode initiative. We see all the comments. What happens if the AI are actually on a perfect server? People have encountered the AI on a good-running PU server and went, well, they're really good. It's a really fun experience. We want to get that into Arena Commander so that we can test and provide feedback to the AI team. While we're waiting for the PU to catch up on performance, we can get that feedback now in Arena Commander. So it is definitely something that we're going to be looking into pretty soon here. And again, I'm really into FPS, so I'm really excited about that. And Sean might be able to talk about this more, but we made The Good Doctor for this purpose. It is a player versus AI map.

Yeah, that was exactly it. Back when Duncan was at Firesprite anyways, that's what we had started The Good Doctor for. And I laugh because the whole intention of that map was to be a PvE FPS survival. So exactly like Pirate Swarm, exactly like Vanduul Swarm, just with FPS. And it just so happened our AI wasn't quite to the state that we needed it to be at the given time. Took some training for certain people. And in the end, we were happy just to get it in as a deathmatch PvP map, but we do want this thing to be in. There was a whole story for it. The whole concept of The Good Doctor was there was a bunch of, they were like scientists, kind of cultist people. And The Good Doctor was this one guy that was basically taking over and stealing all these people from their cities and stuff. It was a whole story and you were going to fight the cultists, but yeah. Neither here nor there, but we do want PvE survival. That's an important aspect.

Safe to say that a swarm mode for The Good Doctor at least is still somewhere on the to-do list?

Yeah. And now, again, with Squadron being much, much further along with the AI, we have this concept of spawn closets, this whole concept of just spawning an AI behind a closed door or something like this. So now that we've got all that, it's a lot easier to do.