[2022] Why does West tease us with a design and implementation of loot beams a day after someone requested it, but then 6 months later still nothing?

It's super cool and pretty, and we want to do it, but spawning/despawning these beams with an object on the ground has a few complications we haven't worked out without a bit more investigation/work on content and engine. So for now it's kind of ended up in 'This is awesome, let's do it, but also let's do the other things first because this may take a while'-land.

It happens! If it helps to know, the response for loot beams took it from 'this isn't going to be a thing at all because why would we' to 'oh man, okay, file that under things we're gonna do at some point!' So I still think it's a good thing that we share a lot of our ideas with players. :)

Big projects do be like that though sometimes

Sorry about that! I certainly would've preferred for these to be in-game sooner but this was not a guarantee when I 'teased' them. It was a hot day and I had to hide in my room from the sun and ended up making some cool loot beams after getting inspired by the community.

I've always seen my twitter as a place to throw out ideas and gather feedback on potential updates. Sometimes my ideas go beyond just implementing graphics and there is pretty much no priority to get something in (as there are more important things to do first) that just looks cool. Now, if the assets were in the game, RL could access them and use them for the system that they've implement - this was my plan when realising we couldn't do it ourselves in a timely manner. The assets were in the League 3 dev stream and that was going out in a few months so I figured that was a reasonable time for them to become usable... then the delay happened.

Guess what happens tomorrow :D

It's a shame it'll be a while until mobile sees something like loot beams. I play a lot more on mobile than I use to and the need for them on that platform is a lot more obvious! It's certainly something I'm willing to push for when it comes to nice-to-haves for other platforms :)