In general I have no insight to determine, which bugs are getting fixed. Hopefully, that will change in the coming weeks as I’ve completed my first three months at IO (time flies!) and I slowly, but surely get a hang for all the processes. I know we have a long list of reported stuff and the team regularly visits the forum to look at bug reports and other threads.
I was just happy to bring some of the most wished stuff into the roadmap!
Granted, it doesn’t make a huge difference. But I can imagine it’s good to place in a path, do some other stuff in the meantime and go straight to the bathroom to kill the NPC.
Then you run the risk of emetically poisoning the wrong person on that path, which is the risk of using proximity gadgets in general unless you’re really sure of the routine.
I’m not saying it won’t be impossible to use, but I don’t see it being any more beneficial than the Durian. I don’t think it’d even be faster, considering how slow NPC’s are to walk in that state.
On the plus side, this does add some variety to the duckies, so I can at least appreciate that.
I would love to see a system, that lets players favourite suits and items, so that they are easier to find. What good are nice suits if you need to scroll through dozens of them to pick the one you actually want.
I have to point out one important issue that I haven’t seen addressed, and that is falling through graveyard in Dartmoor. If you go in area around Alexa’s grave, you will fall through map’s geometry. This is especially an issue in Freelancer, when this can completely kill your run, and you don’t know about Alt + F4. I don’t usually push heavily for bugs I report to be fixed, but this one is really significant and needs to be looked into!
EDIT: I’ve checked on new ET, and this issue does not seem to exists anymore. Not sure if this was cause by another of mods I had installed, but hey, thankfully its gone!
I have wanted a proximity emetic duck for a while (suggested one as a challenge idea maybe last year), I can see that being very useful.
I like the CET content. I like the ICA Druzhina and Turtleneck unlocks. The purple screwdriver is good for people who don’t want to do the 70 FCs (or whatever it is) to unlock the black one - and again something I’ve personally suggested being included in the past for that very reason.
And one of the major issues that affects Roulette has been fixed (facility analyst crash) - though didn’t see any mention of still fairly major ones like Dubai Disconnect bug or the crashing issues that were introduced with the last big patch..
All in all some good stuff here though!
p.s. seeing as Landirthome got the Solstice Suit recently and now Heisenberg gets his Turtleneck, I hope to see the VM unlock in the near future
Ok, this is the answer to getting every item into Freelancer. And, of course, Freelancer-exclusive items, the few there are, can be easily added to the main game.