2.3 The Commanders Beta Livestreams

Ed Lewis and Eddie Symons show us some in-game footage from 2.3 The Commanders.
https://www.youtube.com/user/FrontierDevelopments/live

Stream Notes 16th February – Multicrew

• Are we looking forward for Multicrew yet?
• Stream is live..
• Sandro Sammarco, Ed, Sr Designer Barry Clark and Adam Woods
• 8400 ppl!
• Old School Beta – FD are asking us to really get stuck in and give the tires a kick etc
• Multicrew
  • There is a ship name – “Rancorous Bison”
  • Want to make it accessable for ppl to play together
  • Want it to be fun
    • Drop in, drop out
    • Let’s have a mess around in a ship
    • Extended a lot of ‘periphery’ features too
      • Comms Panel – has faces and colours. looks like a text. Also looks like some audio (speculation!)
        • DM Yello, Wing Blue, White?
      • Friends list has changes
        • Icons
        • Multicrew panel, roles, benefits
      • Find a crew
        • Bounty Hunting
        • Piracy
        • Mentoring a Player
        • Can be easily updated by FD
        • There are rules associated with the roles… i.e. if you choose BH and commit a crime and you will get a warning
      • Join another ship
        • Same ideas as above also display availability I.E. 10 ppm are looking for BH
      • Can directly invite friends
      • History tab (only avail from in cockpit), shows what you did and with who, can block and make friends from here too.
  • Show off more of the camera with Sandy’s Cmdr
  • Landing page
    • Shows you your activity, law, ship name, ship type and want roles your doing
  • Your Holo-Me gets ‘assembled’ into the chair
    • You see a streamlined hud
    • Extra pip. Can NOT go over the max of 4 pips
    • Can tab to get the scanner
  • The Captain is the master of the ship,
    • power distro
    • fixed and gimbleed weapons
    • modules
    • synthasis
    • travel, hyperspace, etc
    • Control over NPC pilot
    • all star port services
    • Some restrictions too, i.e. can’t sell a turret that someone is in!
  • Fighter
    • Can deploy a fighter as in 2.2
    • Same as fighters
    • Helm can also launch his fighter so 2 fighters or Gunner can also go in a fighter instead
      • Can the helm go in a fighter and the crew man fly your main ship???
  • Gunner
    • Roles / Gunner
    • Control over turrets, launchers, defensive modules from the fire groups (does not affect helms)
    • Essentially two other fire buttons, blue and orange Q
    • Dynamic camera that shows you all around
    • Your camera is locked to the world and NOT the ship
    • Target Markers in the hud
    • Instant Scanning of targets! Shared with helm and fighter
    • Can lock someone
    • Missiles can fire behind you
    • Same for KWS and Cargo Scanner
    • Turretted Mining lasers
    • Zoom
    • Colors on ship to indicate what guns can see what,
  • Multicrew session report in the transactions tab
  • Dolphin is getting some ‘abilities’ tweaks
  • Corvette ship kit spotted!
  • Data link.. .we didn’t see that guvner! Says Sandy
  • No splitting of bounties and kills. This will be carried across to wings too
  • You can’t have multi crews and wings
  • More changes to SCBs need testing on this too

Stream Notes 14th February – Holo-Me, Camera Suite, The Dolphin and Fisher’s Rest

• Stream starts in two minutes… The hype train is growing
• > 7100 ppl watching!
• Ed is asking us to “CALM the hype :D”
• They’re in an FDL cockpit
• Talking about creating your commander “Holo-Me”
  • Can’t access it in Fighters or SRV. Can in FSD
  • Status Panel – Holo-Me
  • Can change whenever you want!
  • Your Holo-Me is in your current ship’s cockpit
  • Everything we see is based off the same base head
  • Age, Ethnicity, Gender, Hair, Beards, Scars
  • Looks like we can have a bunch of blemishes
  • Asymmetry, makes things more ‘believable’ not “too” beautiful
  • Lots of hair styles, but no hair is “too long” since we’re all pilots in zero g!
    • A wide, but not infinite selection of hair colours
  • Eddie gave her a scar over her eye… we can change individual eyes!
    • Including CYBORG EYES
  • Body, Complexion, Hair, Face, Head, Cosmetics are the tabs
    • SOOOO much choice – we could spend hours doing this!
    • Looks like we can do more than say Fallout or Skyrim!
    • Random buttons for sections too if we want!
  • Make up and Tattoos
  • We can undo changes
  • We have the “Ed Lewis” Preset!!!!
    • Ed is way excited 😀
  • Helmets, Always on, Opaque and Transparent
  • Patches, Left and Right Shoulders, Different (custom) colour flight suits
    • Ranks and colours
  • We can buy custom suits patterns from the FD store ‘later’
  • All this is in 2.3 beta
• Camera Suite
  • Ctrl Alt Space takes to Camera Suit
  • We can move a loooooong way from the ship
  • Much smoother than debug cam!
  • Can show / hide hud
  • You can lock to your ship and then ship control!
  • Zoom, Change Focal Distance, Blur effects
  • Change the camera speed
  • Defaults
    • Ship Back
    • Ship Low
    • Cockpit Front
    • Cockpit Back
    • Cmdr
    • Co-Pilot
  • Eddie is flying and shooting his guns whilst in camera! Looks like it is FULL game control!
• The Dolphin comes!
  • Placeholder Ship name?!
• MOAR – Notes from Mike Brookes
  

  Fisher’s Rest

  • A “Mega Ship” – Not flyable but we can interact with them
  • Docking
  • Emergency Projects
  • Can be used as a carrier
  • Fisher’s Rest
• Multi crew will be demoed on Thursday
• Thanks for reading!