(thread originally started by @Kent)
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This is the map Iām most exited for
One of the first things you do in Dubai is to scan a security keypad with a camera so that your field support can open it up for you.
Sounds like default story start will make you go through a brief camera tutorial. Sounds like itās unlocked from the start. Also not sure what this means for inventory, do you permanently have a camera with you in every mission no matter your loadout? Cos if you had a choice then a player could not pick it, and theyād be unable to do the mission.
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Touched upon that issue in the old forum with Accidental_Kills98ā¦ If the camera is supposed to be usable (for non-photographic purposes) outside of Dubai as well, then I guess it should be selectable in the loadout, otherwise it goes against the whole loadout management dilemma I guessā¦
But as you mention, if itĀ“s a mandatory thing for DubaiĀ“s default starting location (which it sounds like it is), then itĀ“d make sense to have it always available. Unless the first playthrough has a Ā“forcedĀ“ loadout and itĀ“s subsequently bypassed somehow, e.g. by keeping this particular window route unlocked in the future (i.e. that shortcut feature Matte was talking about). Am curious how this is gonna workā¦
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i want it to be a permanent inventory thing. itās about time we get some binoculars, or at least something to zoom into the distance without having to lug around a sniper 
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Yes! And enough of those āIĀ“m gonna aim my gun threateningly at this piece of paper so I can read itā situations! 
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I think camera will be a permanent āabilityā
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Lol. Anyway, I image it as a meta feature, such as instinct
Same. Diana also talks to us all the time and Ive never seen an earpiece in 47s ear, soooo.
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I am definitely excited for this map, because Iām sure itāll have a replay value just as Sappienza.
What would be cool, would be if they add some new game mechanics as so high in the sky it seems to me like a waste not to implement things just as a rope for example to go down to the mission area and such, or a parachute jump would be also cool.
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Iād love if this could allow for listening to conversations from a distance.
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Imagine it like Splinter Cell or XIII, where you have a microphone to listen to conversations.
Or maybe an objective where you have to get into a certain part of the map and plant a secret microphone on a phone to eavesdrop a conversation. Damn, that would be cool.
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I was actually expecting Dubai to be somewhat big, until I saw in that video that the area underneath the glass is inaccessible and just for show (Presumably where the actual āhotelā part of the tower is). Iām still hoping itās notably bigger than New York though
And for those who somehow missed it, THIS guy is a disguise you can take and have a meeting with the older target
At that point I donāt even know why you need the disguise, itās not like theyāre gonna say āWe have a meeting with a man who wears a blue suit and green shirt, but we have no idea what his head looks likeā
And yeah, like someone said in the other thread, interesting how the man who was announcing the opening of the Burj was a white dude in a suit in original trailer, and now been changed to Sheikh Al-Ghazaliā¦ itās almost like they never intended to actually put the Sheikh in there, but then for six months weāve all been saying āWhoah, canāt wait to mess with Sheikh Al-Ghazali in this level!ā so IO was like āhmmā¦ we should probably put him inā 
Also, when can we say āI told you soā to the peeps on old forum who were like āNo, weāll definitely be able to run around the bottom of the tower!ā? 
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As it turns out to be a tutorial level, I wonāt be surprised if we have one, maximum two floors accessible with a couple of service premises. Now I donāt expect it to be as huge as Sapienza and Paris combined.
Two or three big rooms besides a main hall where we could aquire our target(s) and a couple of small ones, and thatās it.
My feeling
Whatnow?
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Tutorial levels are small and not much to-do-in-there.
Now I not expect it to be huge. Maybe as big as ICA Facility, but not as big as even Whittleton Creek.
I want to be mistaken, but seems it will be small
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They confirmed months ago itās a fully sized level + 20 Mastery levels
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Weāll see, weāll see.
They still need much to confirm/announce