Gruntr

Great work on this. I'm a big fan of maps that take the game's world and expands on it. This also has a nice LA feel to it.

This is really, really sick. Please keep making these!

Damn that looks good.

All of our guns (especially since EA) have been made internally and we’ve been remaking old models too, we had a few marketplace assets like the launchers but those will also be changed up pretty soon. 

We actually had a prototype for it in UE4 but ran into issues where the transparent mag wouldn’t render very nicely. Lots of ghosting and funny normals.  

No idea how Sandstorm did it but if we can dedicate some spare time to make it look good at all times, we’d add it. Nothing is impossible, it just takes time and obviously we’d also have to create some very specific code to show the bullets disappearing from the mag as it’s spent.

Definitely not lazy, but takes engineering time away from other tasks too. 

We added lip sync to many characters, and eye tracking. :)

I wrote a little note for this week, and yeah we’ve been working on our overall process really hard. This is an example of that :)

Glad you had fun! It’s a bit of a quirky achievement 

This is so f*cking cool. Really nice, probably one of my favorite tattoos in the game.

We can definitely look at more graphics settings being exposed. Thanks. :)

You cannot just "turn on" Lumen, (well, you can - but it doesnt work exactly like you'd expect) though I'm sure some modders will be doing this if not already. It's definitely cool when enabled, and we're investigating how to allow for people to give Lumen a go while also having regular "baked lighting" for players who don't have supercomputers.

Noone who worked on these was fired just fyi. Rumors be rumors. Also these are from our ancient, abysmal PVP that we did way back. 

Wild collab ;)

Guns are free - maps and cosmetics are paid (minus the balaclavas which are also free). Lobby host only needs DLC for others to play as well.

I agree with both of you! B-Sides is a cool way of putting it actually haha

Because that is also true, a bomb threat in the gas station by gang members wasn't appropriate either -- but we're a malleable team and open to making adjustments for more fun.

I haven't really touched on this much before, but we decided to remove the mode selection because it was simply a whole lot of content to QA and bugfix through what was already a really massive update. Maybe some day it'll find its way back. A lot of the team were already pulling some pretty major hours just to ensure the new levels were playable and didn't have too many major issues.

From my recollection however not every new level had variations, though it "hit the spot" for initial early access because we only released with around six levels -- but adding even 2 versions of all 1.0 maps would be a heap of extra work that didn't fit the vision I wanted for the release. Was it the right call? Judging on feedback, it probably was not, but I don't want anyone to think the team removed them out of laziness or as a middle finger to the community.

Bottom line though, is that I'd love to see that as a return once we have less to focus on, especially with regards to desi...

This is certainly a cool idea, I'd love to bring back a few different things just for fun -- but we'd certainly not charge anyone for it. In my mind, the following levels would be a bit of fun to bring back:

• Wenderly Hills Hotel (full map, not just broken down)
  
• Fast Food (there's a mod that revives it which is pretty great)
  
• Meth Apartments (a level one of our former designers made on the side that's really nice to clear out)

We'll see how we go, but I wouldn't expect these any time soon. Even with the old levels, we'd want to bring them up to parity with what we have right now.

yea

They’re more of a continuation of the story and expansion of the world building itself :) the DLC won’t be required to be completed to get all the base game achievements and stuff.