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irl their plate carriers and belts are full crye but I personally think they clash with the flecktarn too much, ranger green is eye candy

I think it’d be pretty rad to have an experience similar to Ronograd city hall sieges in Operation Resurgence; breaking the skylights, roping down, fending off waves of hostile reinforcements, and cursing out the awful hostage AI path tracking. This isn’t purely motivated by nostalgia, though. This would be a perfect opportunity to introduce a wider variety of content (within reason) pertaining to counter-terrorists and LEO, and more themed updates.

Knowing that BRM5’s update cycle will eventually come to an end, I can accept if they say this kind of content is outside of the game’s scope. They can’t add everything, and they need time to tackle framework challenges like bullet penetration and advanced wounding mechanics.

There are bigger roadblocks to adding hostage rescues besides a potential development slowdown. Roblox’s ToS has experienced several changes in recent years regarding "depictions of terrorism/mimicry of real-world tragic events".

After reading the ToS myself, I can say that it permits a somewhat loose interpretation of a "sanitized" hostage crisis. The devs are actively seeking a workaround to bring back hostages and have already taken the ToS into consideration, but I’ll briefly restate the restrictions for people who don’t know. 

Hypothetically, Roblox would allow this if it:

• Is not a 1:1 copy of its inspiration
• Is set in a fictional location
• Prevents hostages from being injured or provides consequences for the player
• Discourages real acts of violence
• Does not depict torture
• Does not depict a real-world insurgency
• Does not have political or religious imagery

If a depiction of a hostage crisis in a fictional government building in a fictional country is not watered-down enough for the AI moderation, there's still that oil rig raid we may or may not be getting. With a game as big as BRM5 though, I understand that ToS crackdowns are going to be even more strict since it has enough exposure to make it onto the front page. This probably isn't worth the risk of a takedown or an outright ban after almost ten years of effort put into the game. I wouldn’t want to deal with Roblox’s bureaucratic appeals process either.

Regardless, I think we can all benefit from a PvE map where the missions are more grounded and feature plausible high-stakes operations rather than a rehashed save the world plot like in Ronograd.