Task Description

I resolved several hundred Jiras to improve the quality of Deadrock Pass and Desert Dunes in the months leading up to and after release. Below are some of their categories.

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AI / Navigation
Adjust nav mesh, create new nav mesh, create jump links for AI, fix AI not perceiving player, fix enemies unable to reach or attack player 

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Scripting / Blueprints

Fix bugs on level scripts, fix network replication issues, implement progressive storm and truck movement feature on DesertDunes, review and correct Blueprint code from team members

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Gameplay

Adjust combat encounters using our custom enemy spawners and wave spawn system, change bad looking spawn locations and animations, fix certain player skills breaking in specific locations, adjust and fix covers (move/change settings/smoothen transitions), fix players reaching places they are not supposed to, fix player camera zooming incorrectly in specific locations

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Quests

Fix checkpoint and progression-related bugs in several main/side quests, fix broken objective icons, fix objective marker and nav line pointing to wrong locations, change timing of VO and cutscene starts

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Collision

Fix invisible collisions affecting players (floating/getting blocked/getting launched into air), change collision presets or disable collision on meshes, create or adjust custom player blocking volumes to fix issues

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Cross-department

In some cases I had to communicate and take steps together with folks from other departments to get bugs squashed. This mostly included technical designers, code-gameplay, code-AI, meshing, animation, and DevQA.