[Developer Blog] Dawn's Children. Part 4. New locations and modes

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Survivors!
It's no secret to anyone that in the near future a new faction ‘Dawn's Children’ will appear in the game. New cabins and structural parts, new weapons, hovers and what many players have been waiting for, the return of ‘Apollo’ — will soon burst into the wasteland. However, it should be noted that these are not all the changes that the survivors can expect in the next updates. In this blog, we would like to share with you the latest information about the most significant of them. New maps, a new raid, changes in the mechanics of gaining access to factions and earning resources — sounds good, doesn't it? Let's go!
 
Changes in faction access mechanics
We decided to revise the mechanics of gaining access to factions, which were originally conceived as a high-level. In addition, this change allows us to more closely link the initial and high-level factions among themselves, combining their common history and aspirations. So:

• Joining the ‘Steppenwolfs’ faction will now be available after reaching Level 10 in the ‘Scavengers’ faction.
• Joining the ‘Dawn Children’ faction will now be available after reaching level 10 in the ‘Nomads’ faction.
• ATTENTION! Those players who already belong to the ‘Steppenwolfs’ faction, but do not meet the new requirements, will not lose access to the faction.

Game Modes
New Raid ‘Big Heist’

Intelligence has recorded the movement of secret Raider cargo. We can not permit its delivery, so a group of 4 players is being sent on the mission, whose task is to destroy the convoy of two trucks, six escort vehicles and an unknown number of reinforcements.
 
The mission is centred around the opposite side of the Escort raid. Attack the fierce raiders and do not let them deliver the goods to their destination! But don’t expect that it will be easy — the raiders are extremely attached to their gear and will protect it from any encroachment, down to the last drop of gasoline.
 

Maps
New map: ‘Cursed mines’

Once there was a huge mining complex, which was built on a grand scale, in the hope of extracting superprofits from rich deposits. Today the gorge is a home, a testing ground and a hunting ground for hundreds of raiders who settled in the old mines. It is through this area that the shortest trade route between the valley and the western Kaganat lies.

• The map is only available in the ‘Chase’ raid.

New map: ‘Broken arrow’

The Waderkvarn Corporation owned large areas in the south of the valley, that housed laboratories and high-tech production complexes, as well as the small closed towns serving them. One object discovered only many years after the disaster was an almost unmovable private cosmodrome with a launch vehicle prepared for launch. Was this an attempt to escape? But where? And why wasn't the ship launched? Those who survive have little interest in these issues. But valuable resources and materials found in the town at the cosmodrome, made it an arena for constant fighting.

• The map is available in the Mission ‘Encounter’

Changes in the ‘Founders Canyon’ map

Analysis of the battles in the map ‘Founders Canyon’ showed that a very large percentage of victories are made by capturing the base. We decided to change the map by closing unnecessarily wide passages for the players. As a result, the map has been significantly redesigned:

• Changed map layout
• landscape and cover adjustments
• Lighting adjustments
• Changed appearance of the map, added new objects

New system of earning resources
We would like to note that in the Crossout world, resources such as wires and electronics are rare and valuable. We would like to make the process of their extraction more interesting, diverse and relevant to their significance. In addition, we believe that in the current reality all the familiar ‘Get the wires!’ and ‘Get electronics!’ missions do not fit into the lineup of other PvP missions, where the award is scrap metal and parts of common rarity. At this stage of development, we would like to fix scrap metal, as the PvP resource with which the ‘Mission’ mode will be associated with the players.

Resources (electronics and wires) are now moving to the ‘Raid’ mode. The number of raids available at the same time will be increased. As an initial (test) phase, we assume the introduction of a fixed number of specific resources for difficulty levels. therefore:

• Wires can be earned only in special raids of normal difficulty .
• Electronics can be earned in special raids of hard difficulty.
• The process of copper production does not change. Copper can still be obtained in individual raids of any difficulty.

We remind you that the Developer Blog series enlightens players about preliminary plans for the development of the project. The final version may differ from the changes described above.
 
See you in the Wastelands!

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Addition to the Developer Blog.

Survivors! First of all, we would like to remind you that the Developer Blog tells players about the preliminary project development plans, and the final version may differ from the changes described in the blog.
Thus, the information regarding the new system of earning resources has undergone some changes that we are happy to share.
We want the award for completing the hard raids to be highly valuable. Because of this, at this stage we decided to move the electronics into a category of PvE resources. Players always have an opportunity  to earn resources in PvP battles such as: fuel, scrap and wires, and sell them on the in-game market, and use the coins to buy all the missing resources for crafting. In the future, we would like the world of the wasteland to change dynamically and set new goals and objectives for players. We want our players to take part in various activities and, among other things, trade resources. All changes in full will be shown on the global map, which in the future will visually unite all missions and raids into a single world.
The amount of fuel needed to participate in difficult raids is planned to be reduced. The number of raids available at the same time will be increased. As an initial (test) phase, we assume the introduction of a fixed number of certain resources for difficulty levels. So:

• The resources that can be earned in PvP battles will be: fuel, scrap and wires. In PvE "Raids" mode it would be copper, coupons and electronics.
• The amount of fuel needed to participate in hard raids is planned to be reduced.
• Attention! The process of copper production does not change.  Copper can still be obtained in individual raids of any difficulty