Wingman's Hangar ep045 . November 8, 2013

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hey everybody Eric wingman Peterson saying hello this is episode 45 that's right 45 that's almost a year of this show weekly show if you're new to it well this is kind of an inside look at everything Star Citizen in cig Chris's amazing Vision we're here to give you the inside skinny and get to meet some of the team members and see what's going on this week got Cloud Imperium games what do we got going on well we got the weekend review we have Forum feedback with your questions and videos and there's a particular one I like a lot this week by the way L new uh we have wide world news which is tidbits from The World At Large about space and we have an interview with animator and mocap man Daniel Craig who knew that guy was working here as
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well as on the movies so let's get right to it well first of all week can review you guys as ever sent some amazing gifts look at this wonderful cookies arrived just during citizen C we were so busy at the time we had no chance to actually acknowledge these but we wanted to catch up and say amazing thanks to Blue Al for these for me for Mei cookies from uh I guess they're from um Philadelphia apparently they're really big in Philadelphia another really big in our office this is the last tin no one else knows I have this hey G you sent us this really really cool gift and I know exactly who to give it to so let's go check it out hey guys yo Chris and Mark you guys smoke some cigars right absolutely well one of the citizens one of the better citizens in the world has
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sent us a box of Triad cigars it's g g t or gotu and he says thank you for the Glorious job you've done so far and for all this yet to be done what so now that it's all over after the Rick smoke up drink up and they see us in the verse so we got cigars right here for the get it on the hug come over the hug oh we get cigar check them out check them out check them out thanks buddy yeah holy moly oh my God look at this box box is elaborate look at that thing look at those bad Bo we put a little thing in there for holy moly oh those are beautiful thank you very much so much man you guys
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rock these will go to good use well I think I butchered goto's name um a few times in that so my humblest apologies well we're not the only ones getting gifts or doing things take a look at uh Travis day in Santa Monica and um his special day 27 years old how does it feel you know I feel so special Okay who wants a peace that is compliments of brought that in by the way no anybody else want to say well that was really cool and if you notice they were eating birthday cake which as I'm on my diet I'm not able to do so we've skipped a few segments of wingman's weight but we're not skipping
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it today because well we're not so well we started at as you know 236 horrible pounds as of a couple weeks ago we had made it all the way down to 215 that's right but where are we now 212 yeah the Winger's back on it man we're working hard on it we're gonna we're going to go all the way down to 185 that's our goal and you guys hold my feet to the fire is a big deal thank you guys very much for that and I know some of you have joined me on this Quest and I appreciate that we are doing this together just like we're making the game together kind of cool how that works isn't it yeah all right we got new hires this week we got Mike Jones and I director he's going to oversee our entire it operation and with offices in Manchester and Santa Monica and Montreal and uh all over different places he's got a lot to do we're building the it
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infrastructure because not only do we need it for creation of the game but we also need servers so you guys can play the game and as we all know things are coming up pretty quickly that will allow you to play together so uh we need to have service architecture and support for that and that's why Mike Jones was hired we have David hobin he's a an artist out in Los Angeles he's working working for us now full-time oh my God Los Angeles and Santa Monica are growing like a weed well they're actually the same place I don't know why I called them that but they're Santa Monica's growing like a weed they're actually the fastest growing Studio inside Cloud Imperium and so David joined us out there oo it's time for new office update I know you guys have been wanting to know what's going on so well you know we thought we'd finally show you hi this is Aaron Roberts uh Foundry 42 coming to you from South Manchester just wanted to show you um the office space that we're
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going to start working on in the next uh actually couple of days I'll give you guys a bit of an Insight so uh basically a bit of a look around here we have this is the space as you can see it's in lovely disarray with stuff on the floor and everywhere um basically this is all going to be T down going to build it build it out so we can get to full production in the next four weeks um so have an idea fing around it's basically about 5 feet and this area is going to be open plan so we have all the guys in here do production so forth we'll probably have a nice breakout room over there and then we'll have some very important conferencing meeting rooms where we talk to the rest
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of the world to get everything achieved uh on the project anyway just want to give you a quick brief look of this back to you Eric so you see I know you guys were probably expecting to see our studio update St but we wanted to get to surprise you and give you a little bit about what's going on in Manchester with Foundry 42 and Aaron and the boys it's going to be really cool over there our studio update is ready to show we just have to get the landlord to sign the consent form what does that mean we've all agreed on the terms the landlord has finally agreed with the lawyer or our lawyers have all agreed so now we just need the landlord to sign something which says yes because because it's a subas and then we're in so we're hoping end of this month December so it's very very soon and again we'll bring you guys along for the ride so hey guess what you know what time it is is that's right nose cam let's get this thing on here and go take a look around
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the office come on let's [Music] go everybody everybody everybody's walking everybody's busy at work we're going to go see Ted and no Ted no Ted Elijah where's Ted h where's Ted I don't know you don't know we know where Ted is Ted Ted's dead baby Ted's not dead Ted Ted got his teeth pull today let's go in here to Mark we're going to go take a look at the style guide hey guys what's up Chris Mark what's going on guys where's Ted uh you tell me where is Ted he works for you oh CRA who I'm sorry nothing don't look at that so what
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are you two up to uh the citizens out there would like to know what's going on with uh Star Citizen what is a style guide uh sty guide is basically a visual Bible of all the different artet art assets and and basically um how to follow um from an artistic perspective um the just the the different cultures and races that we're dealing with the different ship manufacturers so we're sort of on a consistent sort of basis with all the different companies okay now Tad's primarily working on this but he's getting his teeth pulled today and and you guys are all working it with him so what what let's show show how it works or I know we've been working on it a while so what um it gets updated as we go so explain how it works well basically um we have a Confluence page which is a companywide
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page that we um that everybody has a access to and in these Pages uh we kind of we decided to go big and then small so we're starting with the bigger races um and then under the races we have like their environments the weapons they use the vehicles um backstory on them like um the different things so if you go to like the band new section um you know there'll be character environment stuff weapons about like different things about specifically them that make them who they are like a color palettes uh we use like um if you look here we have like uh silhouette examples of like the different the different styles of Silhouettes for each of the what makes
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the races unique to themselves this is really super handy for working with outside vendors and us um so that we can you know just hand it off to them they can read it um they can get backstory on it they can get uh like instant um visualization of what they're supposed to be working on so yeah we we don't want to clutter it too much up with like back fiction because that's what um other pages are for but we sort of work very closely with David hadock um our fiction writer um as we're developing the the reference and the artwork and everything and and as he's sort of um writing the backstory and everything so um a lot of times what he writes we'll get and it'll sort of alter where we're going to go visually and a
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lot of times like stuff we come up with um will inspire him um in the writing so kind of a back and forth process and this is kind of important because we have a lot of outsourcers or people around the world working on stuff so if they're going to build say a bonu ship or something they need to know what others have done and what look and feel you've set for them as Chief visual officer right hey no hey put me down you must have huge WS well that's kind of an inside look thanks Mark right there thanks Chris right there and thanks Mr style guide right there we we would have gotten Ted on this but it's yeah here's here in in memory of in memory of Ted we've got it in T piss off get that camera off of me is very happy that we're having we have a Style guy com yeah I know static about it all right thanks
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fellas nose cam Tiny Kitchen man there's Ron and we're coming back and Oh Hey Ron didn't see you there all right right what's going on Rob Rob Rob Rob Rob Rob Rob what are you doing apparently I got my calendar wrong no you got your calendar right you it's you know what time it is right now right do tell it's it's it's not nose cam time it's Forum feedback time are you sure yeah I'm sure this time we're really sure it's for feedback time it's time for all of us to answer questions about the citizens now we're missing one of our
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our Forum feedback buddies our wingman's wingman's wingman one of our wingman's whoever knows to the third removed or whatever um the third sylon yeah now the third sylon right so Gary the sylon or whatever so Ben is actually in Santa Monica this week um working with uh the marketing team and Chris out there doing some stuff so he's unable to make it but we do have him for the MVP post cuz you know just because he's not here doesn't mean he's not contributing he's a big cont still here he's still here but we could take it for now and so we'll take form feedback and go from there so we'll start with question number one from 10 he says can we have a clan tag decal logo on the ship's hole that that comes up a lot a lot of people want to know about that so there's there's two different sides to it one we are working right now on a a new decal and paint system um so the
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technology should be there then it's just a matter of how we set up an approve process for that kind of a decal cuz you know people will try to sneak in some stuff that shouldn't be there it's not just a decal it's a cal people put all kinds of stuff in their decals and we have to make sure that it's uh yeah I mean you know yeah I think you guys know what we mean there all right from xXx well there you go from xXx gamer how appropriate that that came next could we physically fly from system to system without the jump drive if we wanted to also can can we jump out in the middle of nowhere or do we have to jump to a predefined jump path well here's the thing these systems are very very far apart so the jump gates are necessary otherwise you know
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you'd be flying for hundreds of years which you know I don't know if the servers are going to last that long we'll try they are going to last that long try um as far as jumping into random locations no jump Gates go to one place in each Direction and we're not rendering the Dark Matter between systems so if you if we we could just let you drive I guess we could procedurally generate dark matter which is not interesting so empty space empty spaceace space empty space for 30 hours until you reach the next jump to the next jump system so no that's not going to happen all right we got a video our first one from salivan annabis Grim I do own the caterpillar but the constellation is I fear my biggest ship would I then be able to use the constellation in my asteroid hanger that is a good question question and a good video and a good video it's one of those
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things that uh that a lot of people want to know so the asteroid hanger is designed to be at least as big as the deluxe hanger so it can hold any of the ships that are in the deluxe there you go well that's cool good I'm sure that's good news for a lot of people from town mut t w y n mut I was curious if there are any plans to include unarmed ships especially civilian vessels for purely mertile Transportation or exploration purposes so like shuttles and stuff well we know we're going to have shuttles and bus we definitely going to have shuttles but what about I think he's just talking about mertile unarmed wandering around in an Explorer vessel with no guns I don't know about an explorer vessel but sitting duck that's true enough it's probably the ship that Chris is going to make me drive around in probably like a
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big pink bunny or something out there we're going to Nerf your guns I know it's ridiculous I'm going have to get a secret account just so I can build that up so are we going to have them out there you know some yeah I mean it's they're they're not first on the schedule right now we're working on the things that are more important which are ships for the players that they've already pledged for and then ships for squadron 42 right yeah there there's a there's a shuttle involved in Squadron 42 I believe so cool from dener indal if the second seat of the Avenger will be removed in the player version will we be able to access the cockpit through the cargo hold and vice versa I think you know before we answer this I think some of the fans out there have actually shown us how we could actually do that they did take a look at that that looks pretty cool look how it's going there man it's almost like he can see the future it's almost like he can see the
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future so the serious answer to that question though is yes that's something like that something like that because the answer here says you beta you beta from Hearts blade oh haven't heard had a Hearts blade one now this video's been in the can for a while and we have videos that you guys send in and we by the way that brings up a point um when you can always we always grab every videos each week so if it no need to repost the videos we will have those in a section then once we get to the point where we can answer that question we will we will get to it so that's what's happened here with hearts blade take it away hey wingman Hearts blade here with the new Hornet release setting the standard for all future ship releases I'm wondering if we'll see any freelancer variants before the LTI cut off on November 26th yeah that's that's a good question we get a lot of
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questions about that kind of a lot of that question um and unfortunately the answer is no but we would we would not leave people hanging um if I understand this correctly the way we're going to deal with this is we're going to allow you to have when the variants come out you'll be able to buy a badge or an upgrade for any type of ship and your LTI will transfer from the hole so if you had a freelancer that was sitting there and we bring out a variant for it that you really really want you can buy the upgrade on that particular hole that has LTI and that will transfer over so um you'll still be able to get it but uh you know just buy a bunch of have 10 Freelancers just in case just in case not redact that because there's not going to be 10 variants of the
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freelancer maybe maybe we'll be able to tell them how many variants before the deadline yeah maybe that'll happen but you know uh have to get that cleared yeah yeah that's true so but that's how that's going to work and that's a good question it generated that answer so you don't have to worry about um you know not being able to get that on the variants because you just have the hle upgrade your hole and there you go from one good dog can the cargo hold option on the ghost Hornet be applied without sacrificing any of its stock stealth equipment that's a pretty technical this a good technical question it's an excellent techn okay so the cargo hold goes in the ball turret hardpoint right on the Hornet so since the ghost currently doesn't have anything in the ball turret Mount it's just got a lid basically they could put the cargo hold on there now the only cause stealth wise is your profile increases slightly with
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that cargo hold on top but other than that no it wouldn't take away any of your other equipment cool well there you go so from Ralph will cargo be mass and size for example will some cargo need a constellation or bigger due to its size of the load even if it only weighs one ton does size matter size size Matters we should ask the wives and girlfriends out or not does size matter uh in the cargo in space um I know it doesn't get any better I've lost my train of thought um so yeah a ton of feathers is obviously a lot more bulk than you know a ton of lead right for instance so yeah I mean the the cargo descriptions on the ship stats are giving you a general idea of how much that ship can add to its mass before it
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it uh struggles but yeah the the volume matters as well okay so the volume the mass matters but also he was also asking a question about size as far as the volume of the yeah exactly so there will be it'll be both right so there might be some containers that only can be carried by the larger ships yep so size and mass matters doesn't it Mike uh so I've heard okay from from Gray Lobo hello there wingman grey Lobo back again I got a question for you this time about what to actually go into the cargo containers uh cattle will be getting into new worlds and surely we'll need to settle them with some of our own native creatures so I wonder Ed will there be cubed cows polygon poultry or even Square
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swine again I thank you for your time wow he's a nice camera work gray we brought that in and by the way he also had alliteration with cubed cows polygon poultry or squared swine so um are we gonna haveing weird space Critters yeah I don't know depends on if the artists want to build weird space Critters and animate weird space Critters well we already have fish fish hauling fish hauling confirmed so and by the way I don't think you could have a cargo with air holes for the poultry to breathe in space they'd have to rely on the uh system that you also use to breathe in your ship so you know exactly all right but we love that video and we love the camera work there good job from Solomon when will be able to see the upgraded ships in my hanger I
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and probably many others can't melt my package as I would lose my physical items otherwise melt my package qu joke holding off on now no no no don't do it so he says he can't melt melt his package because he he doesn't want to lose the physical items and I completely understand that so what are we doing there um so they're they're actually we are working on a hanger update that will allow you to see the upgrade packages applied to the ships there you go so yeah it's coming um from kistra can companies on existing planets go broke can they go broke yeah I mean the the economy is is is meant to be a simulation so if they can't get what they need or they can't sell what they produce then eventually like any other
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business they'd go under so yeah then you can have a nice cobwebby Factory building sitting around for someone to buy o cobwebb Factory to buy are you sure about that we're not going to have to redact that later maybe fair enough I've been wrong once haven't we all from Craven I'm part of an international Squadron that has formed around Star Citizen many of the members come from the US and some from the EU will I be able to play with my friends in the persistent Universe without having to go separate ways on two different servers can I play with my American friends in the persistent universe and have dog fights with people from you service so my ping doesn't impact how I'm able to fight thanks for taking the time to answer all questions this is krain signing off well that is a
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good video and it's a really really pertinent question and a frequent question it is it's it is because I think it's frequent because it's important that people want to know um so the answer to that is TBD I mean essentially that is why we're doing the dog fighting multiplayer that's why we're doing dog fighting things we want to work with you guys and find out just how many people can dog fight and where where and what server I mean what lag times you need to be effectively have a dog fight and that's some of the stuff you guys are going to help us figure out so you know whether you can be in England and then have a friend in Australia not not seeing any English and Australians get along maybe over match of rugby um but that may not work because of the physical distance but but that's to be determined based on the testing we'll be doing going forward so
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and some of the less uh ping related items might work better like social stuff might work better across the pond good point but yeah like a fighting is a lot might be tough might be tough it is cu this Chris has always said it's a skill-based game so it's going to be important that we keep people equal at least on that level of things to where then their skills matter yeah you know we don't want somebody with a lag trigger being able to have Advantage you know in their in their instance all right from Vader will we be able to purchase SAR citizen concept art such as Mr Elijah's for use as in-game decoration via a banner or poster of sorts to hang in our hangers or some kind of personal apartment also might we see concept art lithographs prints sold at some point O that's a good question big question so two sides
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to that question yeah sure the hanger decoration stuff I mean that's that's an interesting idea I mean we're always looking for new things to put in there um there there things that we're working on that lead up to expanding the hangers right um but yeah we might we might eventually put some concept stuff in yeah I mean that we've talked to Banter a little bit about people being allowed to put their own like having a slot or two to put their own artwork or something in there and that might be a way to do it um you know also what's happening with that is any any type of personalization of your hanger at this point we're waiting on what we call client side persistence because right now the way it works is you log in you put your account name in it goes to the database grabs your data what you have and it populates your um your hanger based on what ships you have and what stuff you have in your account and so and it's all set up in a pre
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pre-ordained manner eventually we're going to have it to where you can move stuff around um probably through the mob glass or some some other interface that we're going to allow you to set your hanger and personalize it but right now since every time you log off it just Vapors and then it pretty much does it every single time we need client side persistence and that is coming coming and by the way if you want to if you want anything to be sold like any of this cool artwork physical Goods physical Goods the best place to put those is to put that in the form put that out there um we at Cloud Imperium read those forums our marketing Department's all over that kind of stuff they're always looking for your feedback so the best place to to have that answered is is probably on our forums all right so San says if you don't pick a question someone sent in for specific episode is there any point in asking the same question for next week's show and
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the one after that and so on and so on and so but you know that's true um we kind of answered that earlier where video questions there's no need to repost we you can repost your we open a new Forum thread each week yeah every week that's the way it works every week we drop a forum thread out there and say hey what do you guys what questions you have and then um so if you want to get your questions not answered then put it in there now it's been three or four weeks or you know there's a lot of questions to be honest there's like I don't know 150 200 questions and we we really only have time to answer about 20ish a week yeah you know 10 to 20 somewhere in that sweet spot so we may not it takes us a while to get through them and some some questions are so big that they need the man himself to answer exactly and and so we push those over to the big man's desk and he usually that's generally where a lot of the ne Nexus of
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the the Comm Links come from Chris will take those and and write a big post because they're they're just really important to what we're trying to do um and he and then Ben will will put it together and put put it up online and that's where a lot of the letters from the chairman and death of a Spaceman all that all that stuff is generated from is you know your question so if we don't get to your question here you'll probably get it answered eventually so keep keep putting them in there that's how we get our stuff that's what makes this show great is you guys from DMO other than no LTI what would you have done differently if you had to do it all over wow that is a luded question it is it's one you have to kind of walk around very carefully no wingman's weight yeah no accountability man I know actually I probably would still do that I mean I I
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honestly cannot think of much that we would do differently we probably would have had me host the show and yeah other than that we'd have had you host the show maybe Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike would maybe we could have reversed roles I could be in your spot I could never fulfill your Sho that's how the man keeps his job no I don't think okay not show related but I I think honestly um part of this process that Chris has put in place is that we want to engage and work with you guys in building this game and so it it allows us to make decisions the right decisions earlier in the process so I'm not sure we change much of anything no I mean I I wish I had been here sooner that's all yeah I missed out the first party you did you did now and we do stub our we're going to stub our
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toe a little bit along the way but you know you'll help us corrected and you know we'll we'll go from there and so I think I think we I think we just keep doing what we're doing and I I think that's kind of the fun part of it seems to work yeah from lwin the ant he says W I'm famous I I I think they just forgot the in in front of that Infamous so but it's a cool question so you know there's a lot there actually was a lot bigger part of this
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question but we could we could we couldn't answer the first part yet so um what do you think about the defense platforms run space stations so basically we're still designing some of the mechanics of personalizing locations and space stations and things like that um but as far as defending it yeah I mean you'll certainly be able to you know have your friends there to defend it or hire NPCs to defend it and maybe we'll let you float some platforms out there on the perimeter you know you don't want to clog up an instance with a bunch of Defense platforms so no ships can get in there yeah but that was what was happening in his video yes that's exactly what was happening in his video and you got to give him credit for using the freelancer video for that was very nice right and now it's time for the subscriber questions some subscribers um make this show possible we want to make sure that we get enough of their questions in each
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week so here we go from Fabian Winkler a subscriber thank you will we see Star systems with different colored Suns that also change the color palette for the whole system and landing locations will the sun color influence the color of the vegetation in the landing zones wow that's that's interesting it's uh it would happen it's realistic um and what are we we're realistic um yes we uh one of the things we do when we're defining system is talk about its star um so we are aware of that we're aware of the different colors and everything and we keep that in mind and of course we have all these experts who do lighting and effects and everything so yeah you put a star out there that's a different color you beta it's going to change the lighting and we're to set dress I mean that's kind of what we just showed the style guide earlier so we're going to kind of you know that's one of the things that the style guide is for to
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help planets and everywhere else be uh you know set dress correctly to where it fits into where it's supposed to be oh is that what you were doing when you left me in here I I don't know what you're talking about from Kanan also a subscriber thank you very much are you currently looking into any multiactor authentication Technologies for website client authentication i e tokens biometric etc etc etc wow that is a really technical question H what do you think Rob yes well there you go cool we have stealth programers stealth programmers yep from pet 11111 a subscriber will different weapon manufacturers have different color shots for their energy weapons oo pretty yeah pink lasers pink pink lasers so um it might not just be
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based on the manufacturer but yeah we're going to have a lot of variations in the effects um for for the weapons Shields all of it um you'll have some idea of what's coming at you mostly the different Technologies Chang the the shape of the effect as well as the color but the the different companies will will have some differences so you'll be able to see some residual shots and maybe know what's being what being shot at exactly what kind of trouble am I in right right the more you're right the more astute people out there that are playing we have we'll get to recognize that stuff and be able to yeah cool cool cool all right so from Disco orando he's been sent some vide in but well I don't know how to describe this one just take it away good morning wingman this is Lando
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disco Lando and I heard you say in last week's wingman's hanger that you weren't ready to answer my other video questions it's okay baby we can take this slow it's my first time too anyway this week I'll ask about your plans for communication options in the finished game now we've seen people mention the possibility of integrated voice communication and even an avatar-based webcam system have you made any decisions yet on how we'll be able to communicate in game talking to people as an avatar could be useful see without an avatar my identity is exposed but with an avatar I can be anyone I want and say anything I
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can are you an angel because I feel like I'm in Cloud City now disco Lando has never had trouble talking to the ladies but with an avatar are I can be free to truly express myself without fear of embarrassment hey girl you put the hot in Hoth hold on there you've just Obi wandered into my heart what Lando shot first I don't think so I love the creativity of some of the people out there that's that was some funny stuff so yeah but but he had some good
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questions there what communication options are we are we looking at what are we going to do well there there's still a lot of discussion to be had on that um you know we we've discussed viip we've discussed um we certainly have talked about things like live driver and all that where you can you know you can see your face absolutely the Avatar yeah that's going to happen so your avatar will be able to look somewhat like you you mimic your face plus we've got the the face scanning technology so you know characters may even look like you like this Lando like the Disco Lando landow Lando Lando I keep want to say Martin landow it's disco Lando know why you want to say that I don't know because uh I think I'm still creeped out by creeper Dev earlier there that that was a I know I know I know so there you go wow good good form feedback and now all the way from Santa Monica where it's time for this week's most valuable
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post hey everyone welcome to MVP most fa post I'm here to tell you what the best post at the star syst forms was this week helping me is SAR the Kathy God of War I'm here in Sun Santa Monica where Chris Roberts and the rest of the team are working hard of the dog fighting module and other aspects of stares and it's been a great week working with them and uh we've gotten a lot done but uh on to the forums this week's post can really only go to the star sism musical by Lady caterpillow and high blue six uh I think the reaction that everyone on the team had to seeing this was something along the lines of what uh I don't think we can even show it to you because it uh will set off the copyrighted music alarm but uh it's amazing you guys go check it out thanks a lot back to you Eric wow
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that's cool congratulations to lady caterpillow and high Admiral blue six those are uh two of my favorite people that I got to meet in Germany really really cool that you guys got the most valuable post this week well done love that stuff all right now it's time for the wide world news November 3rd 1979 and Mariner tin is lifting from Cape canaval at top its Atlas Centaur rocket booster destination Mercury but first a flyby of Venus for a quick photo op Mariner tin will be the first spacecraft to visit two planets during a single Mission and the first space probe to use gravity assist to change its flight path slingshotting
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around Venus deeper into the gravity well of the sun to its Rendevous with the innermost Planet Mariner tin will take thousands of photographs of the two planets revealing for the first time the details of Venus's mysterious atmosphere and Mercury's moonlike surface with its onboard magnetometer Mariner will discover Mercury's metallic core a surprising 80% of the planet's mass the space probes radiometer will read surface temperatures ranging from 187° C on the day side to minus 183° C on the night side orbiting the Sun at roughly half the speed of Mercury Mariner will have two more encounters with the planet before it will run out of maneuvering Fuel and be shut down by its NASA minders cast a drift it will still be orbiting the Sun centuries from now
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Mariner tin giving mankind its first detailed glimpse of our inner system sister and brother in space and of course now it's time for our very own existential break with Mark Skelton if a mute swears does his mom wash his hands with soap wow there you go that's uh that's
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Mark and look everybody it's Daniel Craig Hi you look completely different person yeah a little bit the mind control device Brian strapped on me yeah is that that's what it is it's a mind control advice now that's not true well by the way I think I think yours is bigger than mine yeah but I like your color better thanks so size does matter so what is that what the heck do you have on your head what the heck is that uh so this is one of our head cams we do facial M cap with okay and uh we just got them in so we're kind of playing around with them cool so now facial map um what's that mean um we record the actor's face while he's performing uh to get all the um sorry it's okay I know I know it's
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very nervous to be on a show watched by fives of people fives of people so no what's it what's it do what mean what do you do with that yeah so we record the actor's face during his performance and uh we give that data to another company and then they help us with the the facial acting in the in cinematics for example so when we're doing our cinematics in in essence we can block out a scene like real in real life and then we're also capturing the the eyelines and everything else in real time at the same time is capturing the motion yeah I mean that's why we get the good actors right so we can get the facial animation too that's completely right and now we'll get so that's that's part of full performance which you guys out there have helped us do this is this is kind of the rig we're going to do you can you can go and take that off if you want to so yeah it's a little hot it's a little hot yeah can you get it off yeah there we go cool that is really cool by
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the way it looks really nice yeah it's 3D printed is it really that's made with a 3D printer that stuff is amazing these days it's really cool yeah so am I I'm 3D printed I just need him to shave off a little bit of the front there so you're you're half German I am Mom German Dad American now there's a story here because your mom your mom watches she's one of the five people out there watching right now yes uh she's kind of stalking us pretty much she uh she told me a couple weeks ago that she was watching wingman's Hangar and um I asked and she said when are you going to be on there I'm like well I'm working remote because I was still working outside of the office at the time because we're crammed into this place like sardines yeah so so I told her uh oh I'm not on the show that much
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cuz I'm I'm out of the office and uh she said oh well cuz Eric said I'm like Eric you know so he's like the wingman she's telling me Oh the wingman Eric I'm big with moms all over the world so she told me she told me most of the show pretty much I didn't she knew more than I did that's awesome so she was like yeah make sure Eric puts you on the show I'm like all right I'll do what I can I'm just glad to have work now are you going to tell are you GNA tell her this week that you're on or are you just going to let her be surprised by it um I think Facebook pretty much took care of that I think she'll know okay cool now the funny part about that is you worked remotely for a while and while we set up the map Studio you run you run that for us we'll get to that in a minute but you actually when we finally brought you in the office you took someone special's desk uh yeah Chris Roberts Chris Roberts
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death I borrowed it you borrowed it that's right so there are times when Chris comes into our office to work here um with the team you know because he's always traveled around to the various teams you have to work remotely that week yeah I'm I'm politely asked to do we do it politely I didn't realize it was politely I come in in the morning and then I don't have a seat then you can always come in my office man the mor them area we have like 18 people in there already so your mom watches a show that's pretty cool but how did you get in the game industry you've got a pretty interesting story there what what happened how did you decided to do this well cuz I speak German at uh well then why don't you tell this the answer to how you got in the game industry in German in on the spot man all right well if you said my German might be a little rusty that's okay mine is horrible I won't know what you're saying all right um okay so
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um it's really rusty apparently apparently I don't even know how to start it's so rust if you don't want to do it it's okay we won't haveen yeah let's not let's not do it it's just uh that's that's a lot of thinking that I'm not capable of right then there's a question so you you lived in Germany till you were 16 right yeah and and you graduated from the high school in Germany yeah now when you dream when you live in Germany are you dreaming in German or are you dreaming in English and and then how long does it take when you come back to USA to switch over to English I think it depends on what country the dream is in oh so if I'm Inman then I'll be speaking German or if I'm with German friends in the dream then I might speak German is that right yeah that's kind of cool so I've always wondered that because I I mostly I I do some Spanish and English but uh um I
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don't dream in Spanish unless it's like Margarita Margarita senorita just kidding honey I was that's just a total joke so you you uh you had to take a pay a pay decrease when you took your first job in Industry yeah yeah I talked it over with myh special lady friend and uh made sure we could handle it um because I was making pretty good money where I was at and uh but it was not industry related whatsoever so I was trying to get in into the industry and uh this QA position popped up that was oh you came through QA yeah and because of my German language skills that's why what kind of got me in and then I worked my way up from there but yeah it was like a what 60% or something like that decrease and pay oh I did the same thing I went from a computer sales years ago and Chris
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pulled me into origin systems and and I had to convince my wife that taking a 60% pay decrease was a good idea and you know I think that's kind of reminiscent of a lot of people in here at Cloud Imperium is we're the game we're here kind of Cu we love games yeah you got to love it I mean all the work you have to put into and you you have to be fully in it or else you know now you're what 52 how old are you come on I'm 49 you're not you're not 4 no that's that's not true how old do you really I'm 29 29 but you got the gray so there's interesting story you you when you met your wife's father he he he questioned your age right yeah yeah he wanted to C ID and all that he want see your ID I thought he was joking but he wasn't he wanted to
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make sure I'm not show me that ID and said so did you show him his ID your ID yeah I did he's big I almost I don't want to mess with that's pretty cool I mean you got to do you got to do what you got to do right right and so your name we got to get to your name Daniel Craig I mean you now that James Bond is sitting next to me um you you get a lot do you get a lot of that um I do now that he's Bond I mean he's been an actor for a while but people didn't really normally like if you go to doctor's office D old lady behind the counter doesn't know James Bond or doesn't know Daniel Craig but now that he's James Bond everybody is like oh you think they get excited like they see Daniel Craig coming in they want to know if it's the Daniel Craig and it is the Daniel Craig yeah I got that a lot when I started here everybody was excited and then they're like this
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is Daniel Craig and they're like Oh I thought it was a different Daniel Craig now some YouTube comments though said some stuff about it though oh yeah yeah the first like the third day I was uh I was working for you guys um I was still contract at the time and we did a MOAB shoot I did an interview it was our very first Mo cap shoot and in the interview you know they had a little show at the bottom Daniel Craig and then all the the top YouTube comments were like Daniel Craig really let himself go like a man but you're working out you're yeah I was well I was at the time I kind of since I started working now it's kind of going down again but well your beard is inspiring I'm actually this is movember you're already there obviously but you know movember is like when for male health awareness we we grow our beards out for a month so we'll see how long I think
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I'm what six days in or whatever you how you're what I'm really aware appar you're you're you're two days in yeah that's I shaved last weekend yeah right you grow really really fast so you're going to be what are you gonna be doing for us that's what really what they want to know you're going to be operating the map Studio correct pretty much one of the things yeah handling a lot of the map Studio setting it up running the stuff uh you know recording handling the shots dealing with actors just you know working with Brian a lot yeah how's that Brian guy I don't know considering you're sitting right there Brian Brian who that Brian guy can I tell them just nod at me no yeah he straps me into this if I act up and uh you know put yeah zaps me
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no he's you know he's awesome great he knows so much and that's that's one of the things I love about working here is so many talented people and since I'm fairly new to the business so much I can learn so well that the the funny thing is is you you just nailed it and and don't sell yourself short you are one of the talented people which is why you're here working for us and we we love everything you're doing for us and the audience out there is going to really really love seeing all these animations that you and Brian and and and Jay Brushwood who's a new guy's coming on it's gon we're building the animation team up aren't we Brian woohoooo Brian's tired of being like was the only guy can I cheer Brian yeah sure y you can cheer anybody you want all right well listen I want to thank you for joining us thanks a lot out there to subscribers and pledgers special thanks subscribers you guys allow us to make the show and you allow us to put out
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things like jump point and and all this kind of stuff without you there is no us and we truly appreciate that uh coming up this week well we have a Veterans Day Sale uh your only chance to get the f7a military version of The Hornet by the way 50% of the proceeds will go to a charity called play to give back to Veterans more details will be up on the com link so check it out and if you want to get that Hornet you want to upgrade if you're not really into Charities there'll be a way to use to use credits to get that too but if you are support the charity 50 it goes to it's a good cause thanks a lot uh hanger and dog fighting is going on man the dog fighting charge is being led by Chris out and the Santa Monica office they're busy working on all that stuff the hangar charge is being led here in in the Austin office we're working on what we can do in in the hangar we've got a big update called PBR coming up which we'll we'll tell you a little bit later
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it's going to probably slow down some of the hangar up patch releases because we have the lot it's a big change we have to do but we'll give you a little more details on that um office lease signing oh man please does anybody in here want a new office oh yeah oh yeah all right so we're just waiting on the consent of the landlord we're this close and if that happens 30 days later we'll be in the new spot um Summits it's Summit week we have an AI Summit going on next week we have a lighting Summit this is we groups of teams because we we're dispersed around the world get together get their their ducks in a row and make sure that they they go down the same path you know we have that style guide for the art side we also create these these Bibles or diaries for how lighting works and how um how is going to work and things of that nature so they're all important um subscribe to our YouTube channel so you get a little
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