Guests:

• George Rankin, Senior Level Designer
• Zac Preece, Senior System Designer I
• Glenn Kneale, Level Designer I
• Eddie Hilditch, Assistant Environment Art Director
• Loek Gijsbertse, Lead Environment Artist

TL;DW:

• Reminder that Pyro is a free-for-all zone (yay for shootouts while shopping).
• NPC will have improved “classes and archetypes”.
• Some locations will be marked as special zones where NPCs will stay during combat.
• They hope server meshing will improve server FPS.
• Incoming NPC classes:
  • “Techie”: light armor, SMGs, more aggressive.
  • “CQC”: shotgunners, even more aggressive.
  • “Juggernaut”: heavy armor, LMGs.
• NPC traits are coming.
• One of the factions will have pet Kopions fighting alongside them.
• Factions will differ in gear, combat skills and available quests.
• New joinable factions:
  • Headhunters (more “rush” based combat, tier based armor: higher lvl = more tanky)
  • Citizens for Prosperity (accurate during combat, more “civilian” gear)
• Both of the above fight against Xenothreat.
• Xenothreat fights more cautiously and defensively.
• More insight into some of the new settlements in Pyro.
• 4.0 will add watchtowers for snipers (player and NPCs) to settlements.
• Pico daleks confirmed?

Another combat focused episode, it’s Pyro after all. Also reminder that 3.24 is out, albeit a bit broken for some.

Edit: Fixed the faction name.