Inside Star Citizen: Distribution Allocution

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   at citizen con 2952 we introduced the concept of distribution centers these enormous terrestrial microcosms of star citizens entire FPS experience and since that time we've intermittently followed along with their progress as they make their way to the persistent Universe in the upcoming Alpha 323 and with that Milestone approaching in just the next few months let's dive underground one more time and see where they're at now and discuss a little more about what you'll be doing once you get inside what are distribution it's a super super super basic question but I've got to unravel about 2 years worth of development time in order to answer it so a distribution center is a colossal Hub that an organization owns that they distribute goods for this

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   could be Commodities themselves or stuff that they're making they're very big locations on the ground there are high of activity but you can also go there and cause some chaos as well to the player depending on what faction it is it's still going to be a means to way of getting different types of missions we don't want you to go to this location and be the only person there doing a thing in some locations you're going to find that you're just doing a delivery Mission you're hauling some cargo out there you're dropping it off and you're getting your fee for doing that but while that's happening another player could be infiltrating it uh they could be assassinating a VIP in there they provide a large variety of gameplay anything to bombing

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   runs firsters combat theft un name a whole Quagmire of uh different things going on at any one time basically a microcosm for all the FPS related gameplay uh in the universe what's your favorite thing about the distribution centers they're nearly done so at citizen con we showed you what is going on at these locations but you want to know what's actually coming in 3.23 so let me tell you we're going to have multiple DCS throughout the santon system each one of those is going to be owned by different brands some of them

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   are going to be friendly towards you some of them they're going to be hostile towards you at each location you're going to have access to both sides of the building both Wings on those wings we have two landing pads and a hanger and two cargo freight elevators plus you've got the wing itself so all the missions that you can do outside on the inside you'll have access to the lobby and the rooms off that so sleeping Habs the kitchenet and VIP spaces and some maintenance places in there as well all with missions below that you're into the main body of it which has got the central part which is the warehouse which is made mainly all the goods go branching off of that leads into two side roads from there there can be a mixture of rooms it's always a cargo

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   shop which is a um Park delivery space Park canteen for the staff to use for refreshment and taking a break storage rooms which are the main hole of Distributing big cargo boxes which have to be used to be picked up via a tractor beam there are worker rest areas there are security areas side rooms and a side road which is more like a little maintenance area but it does have an under floor again with the ventilation access that's on the inside branching out from that as well there are two wings uh each one comes equipped with a cargo area a um shipping Depot and security door than the outside hopefully enough content for you

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   to get your teeth into in this kind of initial release can you bring theide uh to the outside Wings yes but you can't drive them into the actual Center no no sound really confident about it why can't you take Vehicles inside cuz we blocked them off how' you block them off vehicle force field B ODS you're telling me there's no way a player is going to be able to track your vehicle over those Ballers and get a vehicle inside I would like to say no backers you know better the challenge is made get the vehicles in [Music] there so what will bring players to the

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   distribution centers will depend on the type of player is we want to give variety depending if you're an aggressive player or a non-aggressive player and or lawful or unlawful it's for the four types of player that exist in the persistent universe so there's aggressive lawful unaggressive lawful aggressive unlawful and unaggressive unlawful which one are you I I quite like being a aggressive if you're going to go in might as well go go in hard right I'm nice in real life so I can be aggressive unlawful in the verse for aggressive lawful players you might get a mission where you have to go in and defend one of the distribution

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   centers from a hostile attack by Outlaw gangs you could receive a distress call from the owner of the Distribution Center being informed that a gang is trying to to acquire goods from a certain section of it say the storage room the play will arrive um they will make their way uh to the location which is under attack they will go in they will see a battle underway uh between defending forces and the attackers and they will join sides with the defending forces to take out the attackers those attackers might come in waves they might have big Heavies with them they might have bigger Weaponry um but you join together possibly with friends to take out this big assaulting Force lawful non-aggressive players

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   might want to do something more like delivery or hauling it's a distribution center um so you'll be able to come in land load your ship with all the various cargo depending on what kind of distribution center it is and take it where it needs to go whether that's another Distribution Center or somewhere else completely different the plan from doing an internal delivery would be using a hover trolley to distribute one cargo or multiple cargo boxes from one section in the Distribution Center to another they really are big enough to do an entire Mission without ever leaving you could be doing a delivery from one room let's say the storage room up to the lobby for an aggressive illegal player you might do an allout ass salt on the distribution center you can fly in um the location Security will kick in

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    so you'll be trespassing you'll get shot at by turrets if you manage to land you will infiltrate the facility all guards will be hostile to you and you can go in you can uh if it's an assassination mission you can go in take out VIP if it's a theft Mission you can run a heist go in Rob the place get out again each U distribution set especially the bigger company ones would have armed guards at least on site they'd also have um turrets mobilized around the outside so you would have to you coming in by air is very dangerous because you would be distinctly seen as trespassing so each security Zone around Distribution Center protects it even from the air not just the ground so for non-aggressive unlawful uh theft missions would be a prime example

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    of you sneaking into Distribution Center to avoid being detected by security to acquire Goods unlawfully you can basically do a stealth version of the Hostile Mission so instead of it being an all out assault and going in guns blazing maybe you find a back rout in maybe you sneak in past guards make your way to the location without being detected if you get the item that you need to steal uh you can turn around make your way out and hope they don't find you for players that don't have a mission the response that you get when you approach a distribution center is going to depend depend on which Distribution Center it is some are going to welcome visitors they'll be quite happy to see you others definitely don't want any visitors at all so depending on

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    the type of facility some public ones own you'll be able to come in and just use it as a social space other higher security level ones you would not have or be granted access without being granted a mission so besides missions if a player decides to go like full chaotic evil inside a distribution certain they can go in full guns blazing but they're going to be met with a lot of resistance so you're going to need to see some pretty like a heavily armored ship to deal with the anti-air guns and a lot of Firepower when you get inside cuz there's a load of guards to deal with so a big driving force behind the distribution centers is to really bring players together in all different kinds of ways so maybe you've got somebody there who's running a delivery Mission and at the same time you've got a group

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    of people coming in to raid the place and steal a bunch of stuff they all get caught up together in a whole big mess and the hope is that it's a fun exciting and probably quite chaotic experience we want it so that as you're playing it through yeah other things are happening around you things that you sort of want to get involved in yourself I hope the players receive it is mainly for the variety to give the players the choice to like to to lean into that they want to be aggressive or do they want to be passive that we know different players like playing different ways so we're hoping this Variety in the Distribution Center gives the players the access whether they want to play that aggressive or passive fantasy inside the ver of course this is the first drop of the distribution centers and development

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    will be ongoing we're shooting for a healthy variety of distribution centers uh for 323 and more to come as we approach 4.0 so at some point after 3.23 and into the future I don't know when we are going to be looking at the endgame stuff that you want to play and that's going to be in the form of raids raids raids don't put that in oh we're definitely leaving that in so what' we learn this week well we learned that distribution centers will be home to missions and gameplay of every sort that Alpha 323 will mark their arrival that the much anticipated raid gameplay first discussed Ed citizen con will follow at some point thereafter and that if you're the ISTC gameplay

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    capture team working in builds weeks and sometimes even months before evocati you may find that the planets of pyro and Stanton have have loaded into the same physical space and turned themselves inside out on all you're trying to do is make your weekly show don't worry they're having the time of their lives for inside Star Citizen I'm Jared Huckabee thanks for letting us share the process of game development with you and we'll see you all here next week like that now I had the time of my life though I never felt like this

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    before yes I swear it's the truth and I owe it all to you