Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - Incursion

Trailer

New Incursion Mode

• Introduced a challenging new game mode where players team up to tackle a series of difficult missions
• Players must work together strategically to overcome tough enemies and complete objectives
• Rewards in the Incursion mode are exclusive and offer valuable loot for players
• The mode adds a new layer of depth and teamwork to the gameplay experience

Mechanic Review

Responsibilities:

• Assist TD to establish production pipeline by utilizing JIRA smart checklist and technical checklists
• Provide insight info. and options to assist TD for making technical decisions
• As part of the lead team, making decisions on technical related elds.
• As TD hiring manager, create interview questions, interview and assess candidate’s capabilities during hiring process.
• Provide technical support for audio team, LD team, Data Tracking and TA
• Training and mentoring new comers with sharing sessions from beginner level to advanced tech. topics.
• Created an internal tool to help improve the efficiency of searching from knowledge base
• Responsible for all Hellfire boss beat techs. Including writing all logics of behavior tree, skill scripts, all in level gameplay elements, and architecture of level scripts
• Responsible for core AI, Collectible, Mission Flow implementation, as well as technical review for Level Designers’ work on scripting and level design team
• Took initiative to establish weekly technical sync meeting to train designer’s tech skill. Review issues and solutions for the whole team
• Host tech kick off meeting for designers to preview the architecture of their design before head to ensure that there solution can be executed. Results in 0 rework on all major features across the project

Works Highlight

• Established the mission technical skeleton setup (Essential mission flow entities, main script structure, sub script structures, pave the way for LDs to expand their own logic without breaking the mission)
• Responsible for the hellfire boss tech (The melee boss in the cover page) including:
• All logics in the boss behavior tree and boss manager script:
  • Combat & Non Combat behavior
  • Phase change detection and animation
  • Target lost and research
  • Custom pathfinding ability to be more swift than players
  • Enrage mode to become even more aggressive
  • Contextual aware skills, only deal melee damage when the target is CC-ed
  • Other AI would also react to the boss behavior
  • Roll away when the boss is about to deal AOE damage
  • Immune to boss’s status effects
  • Evade aside when the boss is rushing towards
• Level specific gameplay ingredients, including
  • Valve and Sprinkler
  • Alcohol pipe that can be broke by boss, create area denial