Depots are going to be quite large, a nice blended combination of office rooms and then larger open areas in the middle, like warehouses. So what were the fans really after? Well, small interiors weren’t high on their list of the things, so let’s build bigger interiors so we now have more space to play in. So where you would normally have Mage, Rogue or Paladin, we have Enforcer, Mob Doctor, Hired Gun, and the Fixer is the next one. Ian O’Neill, Game Designer explained, “Our professions are like classes. When you get to a Depot, you might have a Fixer on your side (or have to deal with one on the other), so what do they offer, and how do they go hand in hand with these completely new levels? “With the idea of Precincts and supply lines, we can say that here’s the areas you can expand into, and because the Precincts are going to be slightly different to each other, the AI can look and start scoring Precincts to go “Actually it’s *this* Precinct I want to grab.” We feel there’s a lot of potential to make the AI more strategic and better at the game, and also just more interesting for the player to be sharing Chicago with.” Right now you can grab a racket anywhere in town, and a racket is a racket is a racket, so from the point of view of the AI, trying to decide what to do, where to attack and these kinds of things is really quite tricky. One of the key things that the Precinct does is create an importance of location. “Obviously we will have to get the AI to work with the new systems,” Chris King, Senior Game Designer said, “but chatting with our primary AI programmer, Ronan Pearce, we feel that there’s a lot of potential to make a better AI. Given how Romero Games has continually worked to improve their AI since the game’s release, will they have to overhaul their approach all over again for the Precincts and Depots? Additionally, Katie revealed that plenty of the new missions for Lansky’s story will have economic and diplomatic options to complete them, expanding on the narrative role-playing elements already in the base game. The Buyout is a diplomatic means to further your goals, effectively buying other gangs off, while the Chi-Town Mogul is a new economic win condition for the game. That won’t necessarily mean rocking up with your best gangsters and blasting away, with a few new options coming to the game. In a significant change, you won’t be able to just rock up and capture a racket anymore, but have to take a Precinct’s Depot to do so. it changes how people might handle combat.”ĭepots will be at the heart of the new overhaul of how you divide and manage your empire, coming as an intermediate management level between the overarching neighbourhood and the individual racket. “The Fixer does have some unique abilities that are more diplomatic,” Brenda said, “but it really has a strong role, particularly on the Depots and the layout of those levels, which are larger. It feels like they’re going to be pretty integral to acquire at least one of them to your retinue. Lansky is the tip of the spear as five other Fixers will be added to the game’s gallery of gangsters for you to hire, and they come with the unique perk of unlocking the new loan shark racket, letting you set up in regular shops and loan out money for cripplingly high interest rates.
He did bring people together with the Atlantic Crime Syndicate in Atlantic City, and he was bringing people together who had never been in the same room before, and basically created all these branches across the country of these mob bosses and he was somebody who could make people work together who found it difficult previously. Katie Gardner, Content Designer added, “When you think about a Fixer, who they are and what they do, Lansky was the epitome of that kind of character.
“Meyer Lansky was known for creating Murder, Inc., so that escalated his selection process, just because who would not want to play someone from Murder, Inc.?” “Well, for starters, we wanted a boss who also was known for more than just being great for a gun,” Brenda said.
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