Star Citizen: Citizens of the Stars - Josh Coons & Alysianah Noire

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   [Music] hey everybody welcome to another edition of citizens of the Stars our weekly look at the amazing content creations made by you the Star Citizen Community and to start us off this week we're going to throw it to Tyler Nolan and this week's citizen Spotlight hey everyone and welcome to another edition of Citizen Spotlight where we get to talk to some of the amazing content creators within the Star Citizen Community joining me this week is YouTuber alysian hey alysian thank you for joining me today hi Tyler thank you for having me you've had a gaming blog for over a decade why did you start

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   making Star Citizen videos well I've been gaming primarily doing MMOs for a really long time and I always blog about my adventures and so I started including pictures of Star Citizen but the scope and Fidelity is really just hard to explain I think in words and to be captured and a still photograph so I wanted people to really understand what I was experiencing this early in the games development life cycle so I wanted to include video can you tell the viewers what kind of content people can expect to see on your YouTube page I primarily do two shows one is casual citizen which is ship reviews game mechanics talks about the content that's currently in the alpha or what's upcoming and then I do something a little quirkier called the Star Citizen Night Bus which is a lot of oped lore

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   and I've recently started doing some fanfiction set in the Star Citizen Universe I'm looking forward to future episodes one last question before before we go what is your favorite ship so far it's going to be the ship I purchased last which was the 890 jump that's an excellent choice thanks again for taking the time to talk to me today thank you for having me that's all for citizen Spotlight let's see what's going on this week in Star hey everyone and welcome to another installment of quantum questions where we put a developer in the hot seat to

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   answer as many questions as they can in just under two minutes joining us this week from Austin Texas is 3D modeler Josh Coons Josh how are you doing hi I'm doing swell Tyler okay so how do you think you're going to do today um on a scale of 1 to 10 probably um 7.63 okay there you a five I don't know that's is very specific so let's go ahead and find out how you're actually going to do I've got 2 minutes on the clock starting now what is your name and what do you do Josh Coon's 3D modeler what are some of the ships that you have worked on while at cig Drake cutless constellation Mustang Delta now outside of working at cig I

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   understand you also work as an engine ER at Drake interplanetary what is that like yeah that's just on the side little extra coin we we make we make ships for for Pilots pirate I mean yeah just Pilots just Pilots so what are you working on right now I'm working on the Drake cutless black okay you look happy about that what are you working on next Drake cutless red blue phoenix constellation Phoenix next O So constellation Phoenix how would you describe that you want that ship to feel in three words uh uh Tupac Shakur uh bling and um uh metal go that's more than three

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   okay okay what's your favorite movie Aliens what is an LOD and how does it work uh Magic geometry that allows more geometry to exist in a game okay speaking of games what is your favorite game um Atari uh ET okay have you done any 3D art for cig other than ships yes so you're a Texan so I have to ask if you could only pick one which would it be barbecue or breakfast tacos breakfast tacos okay what types of things do you use for inspiration when working on a vehicle Google and breakfast tacos Jedi or Sith definitely Sith if you were

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   stranded on an island name one cooworker you would want with you we are out of time God the well thank you so much for taking the time out of your schedule and coming and taking on the hot seat Josh this this is a quite warm seat thank you for having me well that makes 13 questions for Josh Coons which isn't enough for first place but it's definitely not bad not to any of my co-workers that may be watching this episode please step it up because I feel like Brian Chambers has held the crown for long enough now let's jump over to Alexis Lesnik for this week's subconscious hey everybody Welcome to subconscious Alexis here I just flew in from Austin and boy my arms tired from

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   punching my way out of the airport I was back in Texas with Sandy to rep my sub subscribers at a special concierge planning Summit I can't tell you what we're planning just yet but there's definitely some cool stuff to come your May subscriber player should Now display in your hangers The Icarus 1 holographic model is the second in a series of space stations they're an interesting part of star citizens future history and it's also worth noting that they were created using the same Tech that we've been developing to build their big brothers the big news this week is jumpo which will release on Friday unfortunately the person place or thing we're covering is highly classified by the uee and can't be discussed but you're all smart so I'm betting you already know what I'm talking about let's just say this one is really going to Eclipse previous issues well that's it for subconscious we'll have a spectrum thread up for the

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   next town hall in the near future and as always your questions Will Make It or Break It until then keep watching the skies there's plenty more up there for subscribers I'll see you in the den hey everybody Ben here time for your top five and MVP number five Korea this is a super clean cinematic mode video showing an expedition to security post Korea um it's it's just awesome how star and backers are doing things like this they're telling stories just in the part of the universe we already have available so this you're going to see a lot more of these because backers are doing incredible things number four Flight of the star farers ever wonder what happens if 15 starf farers get into the same in

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    well these folks put together a video of just that and it's pretty cool we got a great big Convoy number three star Kitten 3D model um if you're familiar with the recent referral program they they've created a model of the mascot star Kitten interesting thing about star Kitten she was actually created over a year ago by the team at Foundry 42 as sort of an in joke during the development of the dragonfly and uh when we did the program we were like ah we can finally put her out there so enjoy a 3D model number two ejection SE pinball um this is someone who has figured out that if you eject from a ship and you hit something in space you bounce around like crazy and uh he did that with his M50 and Port olisar so check it out it's just like Wing Commander 3 and number one the most valuable post goes to this video in which a backer has taken the

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    different uh clips of Mark Hamill playing old man from Squadron 42 that we put out on ATV last week and they put them into the cockpit of the Gladius to see what they look like in the finished game um and you know I know this is a weird thing but it's just such a it reminded me of exactly the crazy stuff I used to do with the winand community so congratulations sir you're one heck of a Ben you are MVP well that about wraps up our show this week but before we let you go if you watched last week we gave out our MVP award to uh big Jr who made his GSS RX replica while he's delivered that replica to our Foundry 42 UK offices and Chris Roberts and Aaron Roberts were there to receive it live and in person

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    so let's check that out wait wait wait wait wait I give him the MVP and the UK guys get the replica how is that fair all kidding aside a special thanks this episode to ship artist Josh Coons and a community broadcaster elisiana from we're taking the time to answer our questions in the show so for citizens of the Stars I'm Jared hucke and you're not thank you for watching so if you want to keep it with the latest and greatest and Star Citizen of Squadron 42's development please follow us on our social media channels see you soon