Footage captured on launch day.

Standard vehicle entry boards the player into a default seat, forcing them to cycle through seats to reach the desired turret. However, that causes friction for players, which is especially costly under fire. I designed and built a system on the Patrol Gun Boat that let players enter directly at a chosen turret, skipping the cycle. The work meant understanding the vehicle's existing seat and occupancy handling well enough to intercept at the entry point and cleanly route the player to a specific seat, without breaking the standard entry path. At launch, to my knowledge, this was the only vehicle in the game with this behavior. Therefore, it wasn't an existing pattern to copy but a new system built against the vehicle framework. The Patrol Gun Boat was later vaulted from the live game for reasons unrelated to this feature; the clip here is from launch day, when it was live. The player-facing result is small, seamless, and feels obvious, which is exactly the kind of smooth action gameplay expected from the world's largest first-person shooter.