Ed Lewis and Sandro Sammarco (Blandro No Remmarco) talk to us about the 2.3 Beta!
Side note: Ed wants to re-affirm to us that FD love being as transparent as possible, but can we PLEASE understand that anything can change as development progresses.
- Ed will be forcing Sandy to have water and Custard Cream Breaks
- Usual Caveats and apologies if Sandy says don’t know / can’t comment etc
- Any chance for text only name plate
- Yes but there are no free ones
- Also the only way you can see someone else’s ship name
- Store only name plates
- Store Only at the moment
- Will call signs change
- No ETA / No Guarentee
- Can we block from main menu?
- Nothing has chaged as far as Sandy knows
- Any discussions about comms panel colours?
- Yes colours are changing – it’s in 2.4
- Will there be an option to hide the hud automatically in debug cam
- Maybe as an option
- Will the planets cam be increased > 250 m
- Sadly not it’s technical
- Can we remove the Bounding box and have a normal mesh
- Sadly not at the moment
- Can we store cam positions
- Not impossible but not yet
- Why was hyperspace debug cam removed
- It wasn’t meant to be in the 1st pace and it’s easy to mess things up š
- Why Dockable Megaships
- Markets, Mission, Population, stepping stones to a brighter future!
- Can we dock on Capital Ships?
- Might not happen because of scale, but might have Future idea
- Can mega ships be atacked
- atm they are invulnerable but “more in the future”
- How important are mega ships?
- very
- Will there be ice asteroid bases?
- Nothign to announce at the moment
- Different kind of asteroid bases
- Nothign to announce at the moment
- What is for 1.8
- Ships names
- missions
- mega ships
- asteroid bases
- ship balancing
- cam suite
- Helm control in multicrew?
- At the moment no. there are tech issues regarding ship ownership and at the moment mc is focussed on Drop in Drop out. Maybe more things for crew to do at a later date.
- Will there by improvemnts to disconnects
- Yes it’s an ongoing process and FD are working away hard on it.
- More GFX downgrades as part of 2.3?
- REALLY????
- What BGS changes in 2.3?
- it’s being looked at balancing pass
- They are serverside so can be done ad-hoc
- How will mining work without a gunner? Can we link to scanners
- Can be locked to forward
- Was the spoiler distress call MEANT to be in beta
- “no comment”
- why are new cqc assets in 2.3 withotu gameplay
- there is gameplay but just represent a building block
- Better outfitting / Shipyard to Colonia
- it is being investigated
- Why is nav data not being retroactivly applied
- Tech reasons – sorry š
- Will we get space whales? (IJ Reilly)
- Sandy would love them but no comment at the moment!
- Where is the dredger?
- Not going to tell you
- PS4 will be in lockstep with PC version
- More hairstyles?
- Maybe but no comment
- PS4 release date?
- Q2 this year but that’s it
- Are FD angry that the location’s been found
- Does sandy look angry?
- Faster SRVs?
- Do we want to hit things and do more dmg when hitting a pebble š
- Harder SLF?
- They are meant to be glass cannons
- Cannisters spawn further from USS to avoid crunching into them on drop down
- Maybe
- Can NPCs be made harder?
- FD are looking at ideas
- Full share of Bounties vs lone wolf?
- FD are aiming for more group play this is one way to encourage it (sorry)
- Why does the Python have a higher masslock factor than a t9?
- Bug needs rebalanced
- Can we reduce hull repair costs?
- no. large ships can make money much easier. this is one way they balance it at the moment
- Will collonia have crash sites in game
- Soon tm
- Fix for keyboard / mouse flight not movign hand
- it’s in the list but low priority
- Can we add Caseopia A
- Sandy doesn’t know sry
- Will Ram Tah’s scanner tech be extended for more features?
- Mayyyybe nothign to announce
- Will star colours be updated for more data?
- FD DO take temp in to account and try to balance between asthetics and science (listen to stream technical)
- Can scan visited be written to journal
- Maybe later nice idea
- Summary about organic structure types?
- Noooo
- Are fungal trees and other things tied to guardians
- Steve says “no comment”
- FSD range tweaking?
- Not at the moment fd are happy
- More complex routes? I.E. waypoints?
- Nothing at the moment and good idea but hard
- Auto update of route after fsd boost
- Maybe but nothing at tge moment
- Faster SC travel?
- Nothing at the moment
- Future galaxies i.e. Andromeda?
- Let’s stick the milky way for now
- Combined Surface / Detail scanner?
- Maybe in future
- Comets / Acretion disks / Meteors
- Love it no comment
- Orary Map
- No comment
- Jumping between stars in system
- FD haven’t come to a decision
- Multiple lightsources?
- No comment at the moment
- FD don’t like the idea of downranking players
- will there be a trailer competion?
- Sandy would love to see one?
- Ed confirms that they WILL BE DOING A COMPETION FOR CAMERSUITE!
- Can more things be moved to frontend shader?
- maybe
- Can we get > ultra?
- Not sure
- motion controller tech?
- No comment
- Virtual Keyboard
- non trivial
- Does Cobra take advantage of multicore
- yes it does
- improvments for vive
- dunno
- console / pc crossplay?
- cool concept and fd would love it but political and hard
- VR updates?
- Sandy doesn’t know
- GPU Tessalation for planet gfx?
- Sandy hasn’t got a clue!
- Mouse options and updates
- Don’t know
- Will min specs increase with 3
- Dunno but might but dont want to
- PS4 shareplay?
- Dunno too early
- Differences between PS4 and PS4 Pro
- Sandy is wrong person to ask š
- C0bra 4 for PS4?
- Don’t know sorry
- book mark tourest beacons?
- good idea
- Dropable beacons?
- Want it but later
- Improvement to bookmark organisation
- Wants to say yes but can’t @ the moment
- Links between BGS and powers
- Dont know
- NPC will be improved
- Voice to Text NPC messages?
- it’s extensive and awesome but no plans
- Would life adapt over a planet
- Maybe but please rem this is a game?!
- T1 NPCs?
- No comment at the moment
- Can groups attract mega ships
- It’s being discussed
- Will there be a tutorial to the BGS?
- FD will be sending emails out to new players sayign welcome and providing resources to folks but want to work on accessibility
- Missions can now branch
- Juicy missions that require maybe a smaller ship?
- Nothing at the moment
- Can Colonia have a CG slot?
- As Colonia is expanding more things will come out.
- Something coming in April according to Steve Kirby
- Any plans for FMV in missions?
- No
- Do fines affect missions?
- No
- Plans to do quick outfits?
- No at the moment?
- Extend docking comp?
- No
- We may get more ‘specialist’ slots but no ETA no Guarentee
- Heat Sync and Limpets etc synthasys
- Sandy wants it
- Plasma Accell balanced?
- It all depends on everything, sandy goes into aĀ lot of details. Large shields are still effective but 6 boosters will not be ‘god mode’. Please test and game test!
- Why no small Plasma Accel?
- FD don’t want them everywhere
- Have cap weapons been balanced
- no need to be
- Can we have roles for wings?
- Maybe, cool idea
- Can we land on atmspher / lave b4 s3
- no comment
- Engineer to reduce RNG?
- Doesn’t want to rule it out
- thinks rng is in for a reason
- maybe changes later
- Mining laser engineer?
- maybe later
- Balance Cascade Rail
- Want to look at it but later watch this space
- Panther Clipper?
- ??? š
- No comments on future updates
- Patches between 2.3 and 2.4
- maybe no comment
- Why can’t we view blueprints remotely?
- Sadly tech reasons Sandy wants to though
- 2.4 non combat related
- Can’t comfirm or deny nothing
- Ship Transfer times / cost changes?
- No fd are happy for now
- Radio in ED
- Cool but no
- MultiCrew a ship when we can walk?
- ???
- Areas for heavily engineered ships?
- Yes fd want to make harder places
- Will we get a ‘hard mode’
- FD want to make cool challenges for ppl
- Ironman mode?
- no plans at the moment.
- More char names?
- Sandy would like it
- More Cerylic chars
- Sandy would like that too
- Gold conda back for sale? (and for all other limited things)
- If FD say it was one off it will be one off. FD are trying to now say things are NOT a one off but have said in the past
- Windscreen smudges?
- It’s to make things feel cinematic apparntly but will ask Chris Gregory
- New ship interiors?
- It’s a lot of work?
- Pack for One Colour for all ships?
- FD know ppl want it
- Sandy wants repair limpets
- What is Sandy’s favourite colour?
- Yellow!!! NO Blue š
