Dear Stormworkers, Two weeks ago, we announced first person equipment, including ropes and repair kit. Your responses were huge and many players made great suggestions on the first person equipment they would like to see in the upcoming major update. We are carefully considering all requests and have plans to implement many of the suggested items so far! This week we can announce that first person medical equipment will be part of the next major update, as well as incapacitation, a new hospital system, healing and reviving survivors and multiplayer friends. We are working on two new first person items - the first aid kit, and the defibrillator. The first aid kit repairs heath on yourself or others, while the defibrillator can revive players who have been incapacitated. This has a huge impact in the next major update, where new missions can be very dangerous and pose threats to the player. When a survivor is seriously injured or drowns, they become incapacitated and can be revived, giving the player more opportunities to complete the mission and turn the most serious situations around. Giving the player these medical tools brings huge impact to the search and rescue gameplay. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//28842908/acefaedee6da15e8b909673f261fe26af73e8e4c.jpg[/img] The new hospital system allows many hospitals to be defined in missions rather than baked into the islands and missions. This means you can rescue survivors to any hospital in the game, rather than a specific zone. Players could create hospital ship mods where you can rescue survivors to a medical vessel, or new island locations. In fact, this concept is entirely created within our new lua modding system, where we have simply created zones named "hospital" in our environment mods, and looked for such zones in our new lua mission game mode mod. Content creators have the same power as us to make their missions work any way they like. This is a really exciting change because we know the community will do really exciting things with this feature. When the player is incapacitated, they have the option to respawn at the nearest base island station, or otherwise wait for another player to revive them. This means players can depend on each other in multiplayer and have the power to help each other out when things go wrong. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//28842908/3374c3e5a3854a406a6894659fecc123b19ef0f4.jpg[/img] We are really excited about the way first person items change the game, and can't wait to share more news on this feature as development continues. We also have some much-requested minor updates on the way. Much love <3 The Stormworks Developers