Star Citizen Live Gamedev: Arena Commander 3.20

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hi everybody it's really close hi everybody Welcome to a Star Citizen now star says now Star Citizen live I had four meetings all back to back right before this and I'm jumbled stresses and live game death uh Arena Commander 320. uh I'm your host uh most times Jared Huckabee and joining us uh for a very special Game Dev unlike game devs we've done before we are actually at my desk yes this is this is where the magic happens these These are these are my monitors this is my computer we're sitting at my desk and I'm joined by some Star Citizen development luminaries uh uh uh why don't you introduce yourselves uh we'll start immediately to my left here tell them who you are and what you do I am Samuel boss I am one of the designers on the acft team uh where
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I do lots of design stuff essentially and what does acft Team stand for oh the arena Commander feature team you said acft okay yeah yeah we'll go over that's what we should change and immediately to his left hi I'm Duncan Bunton I am lead the gameplay programmer for the arena Commander feature team and uh today in our Game Dev specialist Game Dev stls are where we basically take the hour to actually showcase some portion of the developers work live and in person uh on this week's show because these two find a gentlemen well I mean salmon Duncan anyway uh who was I insulting there I don't know
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we're going to be playing uh Arena Commander 320. live uh as it is on the PTU so if you want to jump in and just stream snipe the ever love and heck out of uh out of our out of our developers you can do that by jumping onto the PTU now um at this point we're going to jump into it uh Sam what you're starting us off you're in the hot seat right now what is what is our first element of today what are we doing so the first one we're going to be playing today is going to be gun Rush which is the game mode where essentially you are given various guns as you get through it and the first person to get a kill with each of the weapons uh wins the round or wins the game Commander creature says is this live yes you can jump in right now and and try to
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kill Sam in gun rush so I like my one more thing I want to do in this stream is make sure I win a round of gun rush so please try and stop me please yeah yeah they could feed us kills make us look good you know positive I have to earn it all right so yeah so we're also showcasing the feature as it's coming online at 320 hopefully uh uh but not too distant future everybody's getting you got our fingers crossed and other teams who are not sitting here doing this are working hard to make it so so don't skip what are we looking at this obviously this is a big new change here so you've joined into Arena Commander it's now a combined Arena Commander star Marine experience yeah uh so we unified all of our Arena commander and star Marine stuff so it's
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all here now um it means that everything you want to be able to do you can do from this screen essentially for getting into the um we see a few of your your actual online friends yep that's a few online friends there's a bunch of other people that Duncan uh has known on his account let me help them the thing here so if I right click on here yeah I can remove works there we go fixed yes so when you want to change your game mode do you simply just click on the camera button up here and you'll be greeted with a big list of uh game modes that you can play so we are going to gun Rush first what is this Loadout you have uh this
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it's not really a secret anymore um but this is the final uh part of gun rushes you get the knife and also the uh Giants Gary bear man that you run around trying to kill people with essentially if you kill someone with this then you win there is something a little extra special for us on screen but we want to spoil hopefully we can short on stream yeah if Sam does good but as good as I'm trying to at least yeah all right so I am just going to jump in yeah we're playing on EU wants to join us oh good shout out yes because we are here in the UK we are playing on an EU PTU elimination is about to begin one big in
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position towards your your style look who's swimming was that Simon yeah that was Simon I play I'm playing Boulders game three with Simon not that same or different times Simon oh okay no that's a different statement the salmon I play with dies a lot so I I assumed it was the same did you have a more run and guns tail or tactical I am very much shout out to Knievel regulars Bullpup let's go find something is Knievel streaming right now or are we actually gonna see this game from a few different perspectives ours and tables on his own
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stream that would be cool that wouldn't be a sick yeah who's the career everything all right now I put the gun that I'm really bad I've got three kills on Simon so far right so walk me through the rules of gun Rush here this isn't just run around and kill everybody that is true uh well I mean that is the main part Duncan you walk me through that um so gun Rush is as you can see as Sam gets a kill is his weapon changes it's not healing oh Sam oh that was I told you I'm really bad with this piston I
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hate this pistol do we shut down the stream now or wow um so as some ass what okay it's a kill I was hoping to tame it well well um the guy died from someone else as I was shooting it the pressure is on yeah his gun will change we've got 16 levels that you work through and uh this modes um other than being a favorite amongst us in the team from other games um it's uh where we used to prove out our refactor of our spawning and Loadout modules so um the switching out of weapons the changing of the armor you'll notice that everyone in the the match is wearing a different color armor the previous thing that wasn't possible it proved out a lot of Technologies and got all of our
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favorite Homes at the end of the game it's our first experimental mode okay his head shot me with that pistol so Sam's finally got off the pistols so so you mentioned the experimental notes for folks who haven't watched the several highest season we've done on this so far what are experimental ones um experimental modes are limited time modes that rotate from the patch cycle so out here on PTU right now we have almost all experimental moves available um but in live it will be one at a time um but those modes are used to prove out features gather feedback or just have fun with something like if we have a wacky idea which obviously won't work in the Pu we can't just switch your weapon
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out in the Pu right but we can do that in Arena Commander we can have a bit of fun with it I don't I don't understand having fun what is that generally it's isolated to Arena Commander so you have to go there more often to know what that means tell me you did sorry pu teams I love oh my gosh hold on apart from Alien the views and opinions of Duncan bunting do not represent those of cloud Imperium games Robert Space Industries turbulent or any of its subsidiaries he's some of them the arena Commander team for sure but I know um there's uh patch was primarily meant to be like a bunch of refactors there wasn't meant to be so much content and we got some more time we managed to get
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a bunch more stuff in there um gun Rush is the one that we were most passionate about to get in because we thought it would be brave well fun and successful and could use kind of proven that I don't think there's been a time I've went in PTU oh my God what is happening that was a new one that was a pirouette um and there's always been a Lobby again and there we go Samsung the final level where we've got a special weapon made by Mark abenth the person that made the spawn and then moved out no no no I don't know of the technique who's the spinning person I don't know there was a match I was in uh last weekend where I jumped over two real gunshots I felt incredible medical what
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come on okay it's not working so I'll just stab it all right oh hello there you go my victory are you going you won that's why there you go did you quitted yourself well overall so this is the new score uh scoring screen oh yeah anything just talk about here uh I think the scoreboard has been in for a while but we we fixed a lot yeah and there was a lot of problems um and we've added a bunch of quality life improvements and whatnot so now you can see the game mode that you're in uh see your squad mates if we were with Squad mates they'd highlight a different color um most notably is our new UI at the top of the screen um we just call it the top HUD but I guess you could call it objective UI and where we've got your score your
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opponent's score and of course if you're a member of the uh Precision Universe team who's watching the stream and takes any umbrage with the comments of Duncan uh you can jump in right now and uh make them pay for it did I make fun of it to you again that was very good all right that's not very good about myself in that one we got back to that triple kill right I think we got back I switched back for the trip oh I hope so yeah oh my God Sam got a triple kill if I didn't switch back in time in case you guys didn't see it I don't think about that person hit me once I was sick a guy called Lizard and say that anything oh okay hold on I tried oh
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it's an alien monster [Music] all right well hopefully we're back it looks like twitch just pick up we didn't change anything or reset anything we literally just hit start stream again maybe that was the new team's game the Pu team took down all of twitch for 10 seconds um I don't know where I got to when I was explaining the system so I'll just start again um yeah so the the gun game progressional gun Rush progression is um essentially we we didn't want to start people off of the easiest guns and just go all the way to the hardest from there onwards shotguns um
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sorry I'm being distracted by being shot from behind as well um yeah we didn't want to go from the easiest to the the hardest and that was it we wanted to basically start you up with easier guns SMGs lmgs and then every two like one or two easy guns we would then switch it back to a harder one to allow people to catch up essentially um obviously it doesn't work some people are just really good at snipers which makes it not a great stop Gap but that's the overall intention of it does everybody on your team in hot pink right now uh it randomizes the armor randomizes them so you're not any team in this mode you're it's it's a free-for-all not just the armor but the the weapon skins as well that's true and always has some changes people get various different skins um I don't know if there's any Rarity to the Skins but I always like getting the
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executive Edition not the gold no I don't think so I think it's just randomized completely it's just yeah yeah your weapons and your uh Herobrine zero two four asks if the toy pistol could be utilized in an experimental mode a little little Nerf gun Nerf gun that's right then not Nerf gun sorry not the Nerf gun mode no the foam toy gun you need to do your disclaimer again you want to continue with gun rush or switching yeah we'll switch now I think you can go into flight one uh I can do one more you won one you lost one do one more see if a rubber match here so but but what about the the weird kind of off-the-wall stuff are those the kind of
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things that are Rife or experimental modes absolutely like um with Arena Commander we can take more I guess Liberties as Awards with the engine we can it's a simulation right simulation within the simulation uh we can put stuff behind that's it's just for fun right we can focus on the fun so if that's selling us is fun why not if it's not fun maybe not but so imagine you had to spec out a a game mode with the phone Dart weapons now what are your first instincts what are your first what's the first thing that pops into your head should we keep the debt to give them zero damage yeah that's what was my question was can can you make it so you have to stick like 10 to a person before they die and
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it just it just stacks on you know dude they just or I'm thinking even more out of the box like maybe you've got an Eva race where you've got the dart gun and you shoot it and it has increased push so it pushes your opponents off to the side maybe you're trying to get through some free free boxes or whatever it may be and you push them and they go out your bones or something like that for those of you who are just joining us uh this is our Star Citizen Game Dev Arena Commander 320 special uh this is Sam and that's Duncan and I'm disco we're currently talking about uh experimental modes while uh Sam to hide the fact that Sam used to reload the client yeah because I mean it wasn't my fault never is yeah just like uh AC can take celebrities by being a simulation we can
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say this is PTU it's uh you know I see a mode where you know it's all it's all the the the the darts the the the you know the little foam balls were and they just they just stick to you and you have to like you have to like you literally have to get like 15 or 20 to stick to a person and then they die and then it's like single elimination so it's like when you get 15 stuck to you you're dead and it's just the last person standing with with darts we'll just call it porcupine oh my porcupine I like it we just invented an experimental mode right now so uh well Hedgehog we have to do this stream is sponsored by Asus oh yeah I didn't think about it we should yeah we like Asus right all right so we're back into the game we are back into our collection here we want to switch game once yeah um any comment on Starfield a whole
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bunch of people here playing it and having a good time yeah yeah how's that for common so we are gonna switch game modes now so if you would like to join us oh switching places any preference on game mode you'd like to see I'm thinking either Squadron battle classic race start with a squatter mount sorry start with Squadron Bell so Squadron battle is uh obviously oh I need to fire a ship don't know I'm gonna go easy and yes um it is our team based game mode um where you are eight versus eight I want to say I think if I was like 16.
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um you will see that we're in a new map however that isn't currently live which is INS Jericho we put it into Arena Commander so you can practice dog fighting around this is act station uh that's in the Pu it's one of several pu locations we've transplanted transplant that's I don't know if I like that word but uh Jericho station was the first ever pu location that we took um simply because it's nice and simple it's very easy it's it's literally just a station in the middle and or um I've got some nebulas off to the side we've got the sun in the background no planets no really where he's there so it was a good starting point for us so is this this again so even so this is so people are joining right now so yeah so if you want to uh square off against a a
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Duncan in uh Squadron battle right now you join up on the EU PT right now which is where we're playing oh game's starting we'll switch on over and we'll see if you quit yourself quite you know with the same level of skill and competence as Sam well I was hoping we would get Winner's Circle which is uh our atmospheric map I would consider myself decent the atmospheric fight uh you're already getting missiled I know someone is out for me um definitely not zero g you pick the blade I picked it because it has a good default all day I didn't want to mess about in the loadout editor um but normally I would have went for either the Gladius or the arrow as
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obviously switching out the ballistics on either for I only stopped working I think my wings are damaged or something um switching out the the ballistics for laser repeaters um since laser repeaters don't work as well no sorry ballistics won't work as well an arena Commander because to replenish them you have to pick up um pickups yes and I don't think I'm gonna kill anyone so how do I steal someone else's pickups do that as well for the weapons to recharge yeah Duncan's playing this one because I am an awful uh [ __ ] flyer I think they call that a pilot Sam plot pilot that's the word I was looking for
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wait what did you say [ __ ] flyer flyer yep proud to reveal the newest profession coming to Star Citizen and Alpha three ship flyer what's wrong with my blade has Don sealer correctly points out just a few weeks ago I invented the boat tank or Battleship yeah well it's different I'd say there's different ships that would classify as a boat tank yeah but I still think bro tank is a good idea yeah absolutely yeah we are cursed in the AC team as here in superco like that and immediately
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thinking why isn't it an AC already you know so I notice you're flying uh with dual joysticks today I am why do you fly with dual sticks as opposed to as opposed to hotels or I'm personally really into like the immersion of games and even though I don't know I don't know if I'm bare with the Dual Stokes but it feels better like yeah and it looks cool as well the cool factor is something you must consider are you suggesting that you play with dual sticks because it feels cool it definitely does feel cool in it uh it might clear factor that was a valid reason I mean I think you can you can have a higher skill ceiling when you get good at joysticks as well
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what happened to the beard what do you mean I've been here for nine years the beard comes and goes and changes and like every other week I'm hoping that you can get at least one kill I will not Echo bed is cheering you on Apprentice now running away from me oh yeah oh no that's something that's praying oh yeah [Laughter] there's Simon I'm gonna go for Simon yeah Bryn Brian and Simon are all uh members of acft so we just turned this information
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he's got time I'm telling you I can't handle these speakers brexit in the simulation Duncan talking about speeds something that we may explore later in the Stream uh so uh Sarah G says all spvp types are shrieking at the lack of power management oh [ __ ] oh yeah we use my one word does that count yes that counts you gotta be real careful now would you like to issue a reply that doesn't use profanity dungeon uh buttons talking hard can't do yeah Texas sounds I know I need to be changing between weapons and then Shields when I'm not using them I just can't be bothered I'll be honest yeah I don't know what more to say I
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can't be bothered you might remember that there was a moment uh in just yesterday's ISE not even not even 24 hours ago when um we put a bunch of developers uh in this internal play test against your folks from other areas of the company including our wonderful gameplay capture team and it became very apparent that well not like we didn't already know but just because you can make a game doesn't mean you're good at playing a game and that gets borne out time time and time again they're different skill sets yeah I think they end up in a [ __ ] just both better fps than we are at ship combat things yeah we're a bit definitely more FPS Focus for me personally uh I can't do the high speeds my brain just can't do it uh
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I would love to blame it on the age but it's really I just can't be bothered to learn it well but when Martin was comes around that's where we reduce the speeds quite significantly we have an experimental mode literally for that as well we do we'll make sure we're off later in this the stream I have a more Drive I suppose to to learn that flight model and get good at it because it brings that speed down it brings the skill ceiling down we suffer from Arena Commander being played by people that are really good at it so anytime we go in there to practice we usually get stomped on but uh hopefully we can bring that skill ceiling down a little bit masterless I think
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and we can get everyone enjoying flight combat even in zero g I was playing last weekend with uh one of the top orgs they actually won fight or flight Shadow Motors and we were playing Squadron battle I put one of their members down 4-0 in sport and Barrel so uh Goliath if you're watching take that um shame is not playing around if you check the leaderboards for squadron battle PTU and second you know that's just because life fed those four kills honestly it's like yeah you're also playing with a Toby head tracker I am so when you looked at me everybody watching the stream you know just just saw the camera
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when you look when you looked at me it was like yeah they're watching this dog fight all of a sudden the head goes overnight that was me scratching um oh wait you can't see the screen they can see me there you go there you go scratch your nose and that's that's Toby uh eye tracker uh how much do you like this is I'm gonna ask a question it's not a sponsor stream or anything but I'm curious uh I don't know every time I see you playing you're always playing with the Toby I assume you like it a lot um I I was on the fence about it to begin with because that's a lot of movement but when you when you're the person clean or even just watching it like it's really immersive like it's very intuitive how it works and uh personally I need it for racing um
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because generally you're not looking where you're going in racing you're like so it's very useful for racing so I was curious because the three of us are but what is happening what are you doing I was blocking it yeah so it was a hard G time so because there's the three of us in close practice approximation if I get too close will the Toby like track me instead of instead of you oh oh yeah well that's because you're blocking my eyes hard mode now hard mode now you should unblock my eyes I think it's fine um that's a feature I really like the eye tracking um so right now I'm not moving my head this is all my eyes doing it so I'll look to the left look to the right that's just my eyes are amazing
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big fan of that I've seen a couple names I recognize herbiza's in this was in this game for a little while a guy called Lizard followed us over from the the other one uh uh gullible's back yep T-Bones shout out to T-Bones with our news scoreboard wow gods of the north is killing everyone no that's either Jared being a bully no Jared being a a wild card an agent of chaos Jared being Jared never never a bully I might be able to kill Simon I don't
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think have I got a single kill I don't know I don't think you're happy I think you got close and then you got killed back to Sam and maybe play some uh tank we'll get grounded a little bit oh yeah we can go back to another uh experimental mode so yeah so uh are you sure you're still gonna try to are you still you're still gonna hunt for your first kill oh yeah all right we're waiting until the ground finish we're here until Duncan gets one kill oh you want to go after the person who's winning just one cool okay um just one kill causes the north we can negotiate just announce this will be a 24-hour stream don't use flares you can maybe try some power management
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uh unveil yourself of the tools I hope I was locked on there it was like he is still EPS AFK I'm going away I need to go faster there's no way you could lose what if I crash into it maybe there we go there you go all we needed was an AFK plan thank you thank you Studio erupted in Applause I'd like to say I knew you could do it but that'd be a lie well you've got enough four minutes of this now uh we can quit out um all right so you want to switch over to uh yeah to a a tonk Royale yes so for those people who maybe haven't followed
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the project forever why is it called Tonk Royale do you do you guys know the story I know the story I was there it's it's actually called tank Royale in the um we didn't want it to be chickened out of what we didn't chickened out I want to be clear now um no I I know the origin but only after we did the ISC on it yes people sent it yeah we didn't know the reason for the Batman convention until after but yeah I'm sure some of the Star Citizen Elders are in the chat and they can they can tell their fellow Chatters why uh where Tonk came from I started to uh dear friend Corrington all right so we are back in the interface now this lovely lovely new yes
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this is this has been updated as well since uh the last time it was showing on ISC obviously I would assume so PTU well it's been updated it's actually visually you want to show some of the things that have been yeah so uh I believe previously we had the title quite small written up in the top right but now it's been pushed a lot more into the center as well we've done a lot of visual Flair stuff on this basically just to make it pop a lot more when you you're looking at different tiles um we put the description uh behind this little hover Button as well so you can read what you're actually doing in the mode and a big thing for us was uh new players who don't necessarily know what a game mode is about right so we wanted to get that description then but on top of that description we wanted to give some tags for like what is the game mode
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a bit like am I going into PVP going into PVE what's going on here so you can see these white tags underneath every single game mod detailing if you can bring Squad members and how many players as a as a PVP do you get to pack your Loadout and so on um so what what we're going to go into a tank do team I think there we go also on here a few shown tank Royale we have the the rec multiplier as well as trophy icon to show whether or not you have the badge unlocked for this game mode um the badge being if you win the game mode you have to come first um to win it uh it will show a little trophy icon to show that you've completed that uh objective and hopefully we'll expand on that in the
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future but for no one wanted to get that in so you can see your achievements your achievements yeah screenshot and if you're just joining us we are playing Arena Commander 320 live on the euptu we're about to join into team tank battle so if you want to play with uh Sam here you can jump in now and join one of the squads you can join either Squad but I recommend the one that gets to kill him just from knowing them uh you're just spinning the tank oh that was a very important feature I asked again yeah we had to spend uh I also want a spin counter but uh that was apparently too complicated but we got spending one day I'm sure it won't be too complicated anyway I'm
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going to launch so yeah you can join us in team tank battle if you'd like I love that Gladys it just swooped in yes yeah the uh in in the front end we have videos in the background basically that just play uh nice little looping videos you to look at in the background as well someone that died on so does that say di Bunton or is that just the J in the font doesn't show the all right it's a g for John um my middle name tank right now yeah we've got uh two tank modes uh obviously tank Royale which is a free throw and this is team tank battle which is a team tank battle each one has kind of a different play
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style to it um Team tank battle is a little bit more tactical I would say yeah you want to stick with your your other tank mates you want to like push forward it's kind of like a a tug of war on the map to push to and from your spawn and then uh tanko Yao is obviously way more chaotic so Sam prepares team tank about all the tacticalness of it I like uh and I I just I do also just like driving directly into people so I don't know if that's entirely true who doesn't I live my life uh storm choke walk in the chat asks if we have shipper vehicle skins can we apply them um for almost every month I think you
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can for tank Royal if you own the tank so we've got this concept of communal Vehicles no and Community vehicles are free free yeah free free vehicles for the game mode which you can't use anywhere else you get given to them without any cost no wreck no UEC and money or anything like that and they are non-customizable but you can always rent the their time using the arena Commander currency wreck or purchase it from The Pledge store and you'll get your customization uh several questions in the chat uh and in my brain why are the tanks floating around unfortunately we rolled the latest
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gravity map yes so on this you need to be a little bit more mindful of like your acceleration and whatnot but also there is a bug right now yeah and that you can pull a wheelie with a tank yeah it was fixed last night but we are on that build where Sam is no pool and wheelies and my gun is disabled so okay thank God so yeah that's not to say that there can't be a mode where you're on an incredibly zero g oh yeah than it is meant to be at the moment for sure yeah no no don't get don't get us wrong it is meant to be a little bit flowy like being yellow uh that's 0.2 gravity yeah it's pretty slow and yellow
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yeah and which is really low so you do have to manage your speeds going over these Hills I'm very glad you can't see the screen I don't even know how to explain what just happened um okay uh Sam forcefully entered the map to his own death he entered the he entered the map with such Force I'm doing great Terminator I need to look at my school his existence um I'm doing fantastic in this month apologies for apologies for not being on the camera so it's fine yeah I'm doing great on this mode I I really do not do well on this map with this current uh tank block because it is so floaty and I hate driving slowly yeah
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as yell Mark points out that's still a one cent take one-ton tank on a 0.2 gravity yes and as we've explained it's fixed in internal builds it hasn't made its way out to PTU yet specifically how the handling happens right like we were hopeful it'd be out before today's stream but yes as it happens sometimes but yeah I mean it's kind of also there's the wheelie yeah nice um we should get like a scoring if you feel yeah that's very true um old f one thing to bring up however is that in this mode we do put you in the remote Target automatically when you uh spawn no because we don't oh they took out my gun again um yeah so it means that you don't have to worry about doing that to get to that
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point um and then also we have the ability to turn oh yeah it's a self-destructive thing didn't you I did uh you just said yep that's just reached across and self-destructed him that was gun was disabled yeah so it's only when the camera unfortunately re-entered the map one more time so when you do get back in uh show them the wheel show them the ability to change the seats in the vehicle is also one of the new features isn't isn't it not in this one you might be able to swap between seats with the radio wheel not at the moment no you can enter the remote turret from the driver's seat uh but the the multi-crew aspect yeah but that's what that is that's switching the seats of the vehicle there's two
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differences um and in the future we might do um because obviously the tank has a it has free seats actually yeah it's got your remote um yeah machine gun and awesome only got to use the piddly laser gun so it wasn't for free to use um I'll get it upside down when those multi-crew something how you know how cool that would have been it would have gotten that kill right there um but we've got multiple Maps here for
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the tank models we've got before and maybe you want to switch to one with a gravity yeah that was cool all right yeah why don't we why don't we why don't we switch to a map that doesn't have terrible terrible zero debug and we can look like you know what we're doing yeah that would be good let's try that again go with the regular yeah and just see if it fills us you can try it yeah the good doctor is good nice soon that is beautiful all right
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so now we're in Dateline you'll notice that it's still a little fluffy but not anywhere near as floaty and yeah so going back to some of the things that we've done for the mode um is that yeah you get turned into Target view remote view immediately when you spawn in and the other thing is that we have a zoom uh back on the tank now so I believe that's it across the Pu now as well it is yeah we did some tests we made sure it was fine for the Pu and there was an arena commander-driven feature but it's gonna benefit everyone we have not introduced the Giant floating uh structure the structure you don't talk about the giant 4 instruction the necron monolith doesn't want you to address it it in terms of what we actually why it's there it's purely just so that um people
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can easily see where the middle of the map is yeah um we have some of these maps are sizable we have plans for it what were those what were those spaceships and Stargate called the ones that were pyramid shaped laying on top of the Google [ __ ] I don't know did they have an actual do they have did they have a name sure they did attack there we go you know I could rely on that Community thank you twitch chat definitely not an attack yeah so we're still in Squadron battle or it's our team battle right uh no this is now just free-for-all oh you went to you switched it
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why are you pushing these buttons because we've got joysticks plugged in it changes the button for Ping just showing us on the button the metal one in the bomb um someone's using Flac to conceal themselves but uh yeah putting this in Arena Commander meant that the tank got a little bit more attention than it would have otherwise for a few 20. um so pretty much all the improvements you're going to be seeing from tankera might not have happened without this game mode and it's they may or they may not have but um seeing all the teams gravitate towards the game mode and support and be like man that was so fun I can fix that one
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for you we've been we've made no secret of this one part of the reasons for experimental modes are not just to test the mode yeah and type of gameplay it's also a test it allows us to bring focused testing to individual vehicles or to individuals aspects of gameplay as you just mentioned you know the the the Nova tank um it's been in there for a while but it doesn't have as many opportunities for use in the Pu is say a Cutlass does or whatever so we don't get the amount of feedback we would we don't get to see the amount of usage by creating a mode like this it instantly gets more eyes on the on the tank it gets generates more feedback on the tank that we can iterate more improvements and make the tank better and that that kind of mentality can be used for any vehicle that you know that folks
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might think are somewhat forgotten or maybe didn't live up to its ultimate you know potential what's he saying um yeah for sure uh like it's one thing I really want for arena Commander to help the overall game um and bring that attention and we got so many nice quality of life like this Zoom that wouldn't have been here without the game mode for sure um it was it was one of the the highest parts of feedback from our play test sessions like I loved sniping with the tank but I can't see anything so there we've got our zoom and uh I got a nice uh so you can get shots like that
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Jared say hi to Jake for me he's on the other side of the world man you're probably closer to him than I am um looking come on have you gotten a kill I did you just did you got an amazing snipe I just wanted I was looking at something else I love sleeping yeah it's really good on this map as well because you can see people stand out a lot a lot more in the distance there's someone behind me if I can't oh yep you you should take turrets of Indian balance yeah remove it's a great little feature oh there's Brian oh
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I think Marshall was the person in game in the back as well someone's got you they're behind you oh no uh no Blues manx is saying if you reduce the Rocks the map would be 10 times more fun it would um and we we had long debates about it like this is dmart this is actually a location on Denmark we always didn't put in the monolith in we haven't changed things about it right um the rocks are there and that it might seem like obvious feedback but getting some tanks down here you see how um hard it can be to play on some terrain and this is not the worst of it there's far worse uh biomes I suppose or self-destructing um this is what you get for being AFK
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Brian you're probably doing work but it's too bad so it goes into that updates thanks to the beginning you killed yourself trying to kill him yeah my tank my gun wasn't right he's still there yeah yeah oh no it's not there we go yeah afterwards how did that work whatever that moment on the cig Dev stream when the dev said how did that work I'll tell you whatever it's fine the vehicle destruction sorry I'm not sure but you're watching the last gameplay stream they ever let disco Endo do only on twitch.tv Star Citizen game Mode's about to end so we wanna end Alex is about to what do we reckon we go into next
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I mean we can ask the chat but otherwise we could probably do some control and then after that head it off with some end of the Swarm what's the time okay yeah sounds good classic race game modes which we love but it and before this patch the multiplayer wasn't exactly working on your shout out to Chris Archer good showing Chris Archer Chris Archer I wish you were here to demonstrate Pro gameplay we got three kills that's pretty good okay one of them you drove up to him and blew yourself up a tactic is a tactic and it works it
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works my gun was broken that was literally the only thing I could do initiated let's go class Grace yeah we'll do one race and then into endless Vandal swarm personal favorite of mine it's uh thunderstorm but endless uh Jared are you really getting angry emails if you mess up on stream um Robin I'm on like year nine I'm approaching a decade here at this point people know who I am and what I do and if anybody's surprised it's really on
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them not on me I take my continued existence as a tacit approval and endorsement all right so what are you going to race in actually I'm into school off offline modes so Jimmy I don't know who Brian is stop telling me to say hi to Brian you got to be I need more information than that I'm here with Sam and Duncan those are the people I can say hi to hi Brian it's pretty easy oh you just want me to say hi Brian I think so every brain deserves a high it's been hard work no every Brian does not deserve a high I've known I've known I've known some real bad Brian's oh yeah it doesn't bode well
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if you're a bad Brian that high was not for you please ignore it um so I went in offline mode which is what previously called single player um so you can go and without anyone griefing you without anyone what you're gonna Race by yourself why not he wants to show his skill point so you're going to do that some other day or yeah I mean I guess that's fair but he's a pretty dude he's a pretty decent racer at least compared to me but I'm also terrible so I don't know how good of a compliment that is yeah yeah just so yeah offline mode which uh yeah let's basically practice without having to worry about other people crashing and doing it and you see which razor you picked which razor did you pick the Razer LX oh
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that's something I wanted you to help with picking the skin I need to stop looking at saying I apologize um but yeah I changed my skin to I want to see this as a stormbringer skin favorite I mean black and blue lovely color combination yeah um as we said before in the previous Ice uh sees we are adding a lot of PE race tracks to AC so you can go into not all of her PE race tracks apparently but quite a few of them and we'll be adding more in the future um where you can test uh AC to your heart's content without having to worry about having to get your [ __ ] back from the terminals and return to the racetrack just to try all over again you'll be able to respawn
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immediately and keep trying to beat your personal best essentially Jared's office is apparently kept here no that was we're at the end of the day end of the week here so that was a lovely person who had volunteer to clean up some of our dishes that were still left behind it because people hit their desks lovely volunteer person thank you for your efforts you're a much nicer person than some of the people around you speaking about the razor you know we just did this we just released our episode on Racing for ISC yesterday it was a fantastic episode thank you uh yeah and some folks had some I I do want to address some of the comments I saw on YouTube here and this is there's time that's any um these were all real cig developers and what you heard was their real uh opinions which is why some of them
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trashed the 350r um some of them really liked the uh the razor and some of them had nothing real to say about the M50 which that itself is the story you know is the story there it's when we talk about you know how these modes can be used to help you know discover shortcomings and and and and stuff like that and saying nothing is saying something in a lot of cases so but we uh when we were doing the interviews we were you know we were asking folks to you know what do you think about this ship and what do you think about that ship and you know it was all on prompted it was all just like we do with any ISC interview yeah you're hearing the the actual views of the people that we put on camera it's one of the things that separates a cig content from a lot of other content and I really like uh and you know the folks you know
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had some positive things to say about some ships and they had some negative things to say about some ships and unfortunately it's I think the M50 what the consensus we got from the conversation was It was kind of just in the middle of stuff and not standing as well as it could I think it I think that itself is some information worth you know getting back to ship teams and stuff like this uh obviously the folks were enthralled with the new uh Fury LX commonly stating that everything players are thinking of the same things we're thinking just a couple months ahead of you yeah and stuff like this you know for many of them that play test was their very first experience with the fury LX it's like that so they were you know they were they were blown away by it seven it is a very cool looking ship but as I think a lot of people already know what are you doing a
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lot of people already know you know the ship only takes you so far it's there's the pilot that the pilot matters just as much as the as the ship you know and depending on the situation sometimes more I mean certain situations yeah a ship can make up for your lack of skill yeah in certain situations but in other situations the ship is not ideal and it takes your skill to make up uh for that so I don't think there's a blanket answer for for all things you know we're certainly not wanting to uh push the narrative that the that the fury LX is you know better in all regards and so I guess it is it's it's the new excited excitement at the moment and our developers were excited to fly for the first time which is what we were
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recording and stuff like this uh we hope our backers and our players will be just as excited to fly in too but as people learn its strengths and people learn its weaknesses it'll normalize itself out with everything else yeah on the topic of developers playing stuff for the first time that's something we're trying to do in AC with the experimental modes as well yeah there's a we want to basically help the rest of Sig uh get into their seat features and systems early so they can test them in a in a good location yeah and quickly so that they can find those issues and address them before they get further afield essentially uh somebody had a comment in chat was near and dear to my heart I I lost the name for it I think it shows that you know I can make any ship look bad that
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was Walker there he is Walker TR that would be me as well to be fair yeah yeah but yeah I think as more race tracks come online and more situations you know develop it's a we can start to specialize some of these some of these experiences like it's this is a more maneuverable ship versus this is a more acceleration based ship versus this you know if we get some long distance like Cannonball Run style races exactly in there you know I think you know things like the 350r might have quit itself better with you know larger fuel reserves and stuff like that it's these situations are all still being developed and still being borne out and I think as the game continues to develop we'll see more and more separation between the ships and advantages of one over another dependent on the situation not just the situation but also the pilot or ship
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flyer as some referred to it once again ship flyer that new profession coming to Alpha 320. I used to call the ships planes but it made a lot of people angry I remember why would you call them planes I I don't know it's they believe it it behave a bit like planes when you're in the atmosphere but not it's just when my bad English brain goes and yeah the Cannonball the Cannonball Run Race like that was one of my just a drag race basically well no like I had like early on like one of my earliest ideas we're not there obviously but this idea of like doing the Cannonball flight where it's a it's a multi-system race you start in one system you've got to
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get to another system and how you plot your route is is up to you between which jump point something and you you time it at a certain time of the of the year when there's some natural phenomenon there's some natural phenomenon that screws up a bunch of jump points a bunch of the normal jump points don't work so you have to figure out how to plot your thing and then you'll need spotters ahead of you to figure out what your roots are and then of course there will be all the people who are trying to sabotage you know the race and stuff like this and it'd be a true like long distance multi-system Cannonball flight you know what we call cannibal flight or whatever but yeah this was this thing this this is my dream this this has been my dream for racing I'm not talking about anything official this is literally the first time uh well it's not the first time but one of the few times I've ever I've said it out loud it's just this thing like I'm waiting when the game is there and supports it like I plan to push for push
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for it very hard there's always so much cool stuff in sci-fi like uh in the expanse they have races in that where they're doing like slingshots around massive bodies so they can get the fastest speed possible around something yeah imagine you know they've all got to be multi-crew ships and it's because it's a long distance you know long distance race you know you've got to need to do it in shifts and cruise with somebody taking you know Pilots for six hours they didn't realize over Pilots exactly just it's just just like just like the real life endurance races like that's the stuff I'm really I'm really waiting for I I love the arena Commander is encouraging more things like that um not just from an idea's perspective but like actually getting in there and doing it and boss we could call it
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around the verse we could resurrect around the verse call it around the verse yeah yeah do we have time for one more game mode or he's very excited about that uh yeah so I wanted to show you one more we're at a time well I'm very proud of getting in for 320 and that's a preview of Master modes and Arena Commander all right um through that we've got three game mods that you can try out we've got Vandal swarm we've got free flight and we've got dual if you're curious what Master mods is um can you see the screen here yeah um we you get a disclaimer when you select any of the game modes it kind of explains what they get what the the flying system is about what what does Master modes mean right
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um it's it's an update to the flight system it's a new Gunnery system it's a new targeting system lots of new app new UI and amongst that is a Massimo's feature itself where it's it's been in development for quite a number of years and it's been behind closed doors essentially we showed off I think you've done some iscs on it we've done is we've done citizen Gardens yeah it's big yeah and it's it's always been a thing for us like need to get it in players hands get that feedback right and I'm really happy that we managed to do that for 320 here yeah when we recorded the very first uh Arena Commander segment for ISE on on the step that's coming in 320 what is now like
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four or five months ago yeah it was the hope that we were going to be able to get master modes in there but we couldn't we couldn't guarantee it at that time so we didn't include it so uh I'm in one of those free game modes and it's a fan of swarm now we didn't want to just copy the current Vandal swarm because it's honestly in need of some love some updates so instead of just making those updates to the base modes we wanted to experiment let's experimental ones right two birds one stone uh with updates to Vandal swarms so instead of waves where you have an ending this is now endless Vandal swarm so you're up against endless waves uh of Vandal um it's yeah exactly the objective is simply survive uh and I suppose get as
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many points as you can every time I play this the Vander always missile all at the start so I've like Kate Aryan says any chance we could see some sort of Trench Run or return of the giant style Death Star assault someday uh I'm I'm not going to say yes or no to that I will say that I don't I'm not aware of any plans for that but given how important that Source material is to almost everybody that works here it's not an unsafe bet but there's nothing to there's no plans at the moment yeah typically if something's something gets made for the Pu and people want it in AC we can probably put it in AC uh uh Neta says content creators like
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Avenger one seem to have very strong insights into PVP interactions what to what extent does the community assist in the balancing well I'm going to go ahead and jump on this one here and say that we have a entire team dedicated to the process but two really teams dedicated processing and Injustice feedback we have the player experience team and of course our community team and a big chunk of what they do is to correlate uh that kind of data and to process it and to verify it because you know it's not always you know super accurate to verify its accuracy and then to get that into the proper hands people like Duncan people like Sam if it's you know reading Commander related uh pu designers and stuff like that and the Neiman Squadron designers if it's something that might you know affect or benefit them so to
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the amount it's not like I can put a number or a percentage on it but I can I can tell you there are literally two teams two complete teams that both have worldwide presences dedicated to Gathering and collecting and processing that information so uh do a very good job of it too I wasn't gonna go that far but I was going to say I think I can probably speak for everyone but those teams are no you definitely incredible you've um uh I'm in the vehicle balance sinks and discussions being had all the considerations before any change makes it yeah it's awesome to see then we have it and we have you know we have a number of internal resources you know you know you know people that work here will do
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very do we're very involved in this stuff like like Yogi clad and salty Mike you know folks who have worked here for years and who've been on the payroll thank you determined to make yeah what have you got so far is Tyler and evil and flimsy come on evil I've seen Flames here a few times so he's been managed to get in we've lost a lot click on the bottom I was promised trolling in extreme
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extreme stream sniping that's true Duncan they haven't seen that they have been incredibly respectful I expected to get around as soon as I spawned the only thing we had was that guy that was spinning I know this community can do worse this is our last game this is our last match here well I've made a guy that was spinning made it also easier to kill them so I uh can parties get into these matches together they absolutely can do obviously yeah yeah so alongside the front end is a reworked Lobby system which lets you play with uh all your friends uh before we were limited to what was it some for yeah I think it was full but now it's based on the game mode um so basically in any team modes you can fill up an entire team with your squad in your lobbies essentially and then for free for all you can take up the entire space of the game so I have a
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16 player mode you can pair up with 16 people and we'll just shall be all into that one game and of course a Sam and Duncan don't know this yet so you might as well tell them now uh we're doing a new feature on Arena commander in 321 for ISE here in a couple weeks so we'll be we'll be talking to you next week putting that together okay so yeah so you don't our momentum does not stop yeah we're always talking about stuff yeah there's a lot of questions in the chat uh re the future it's like that and I just want to say the reason we're talking about the future is because we have a separate talk about the future uh coming up in just a couple weeks we've actually did a big plan today for like an entire year I know I've been waiting for you to have this meeting before I
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sprung it on you yeah Duncan told me you guys had the meeting today I'm like haha you're mine yeah yeah that checks out a few people have messaged me since I mean but yeah we wanted to get you know ahead of the curve know what's coming through Arena Commander we had our entire free step or a free stage plan uh planned out but the exact details deliverables all that we talked about today and confirmed we've been talking about it for a long time 321 ISC Bob we've done three or four 320 iscs there's nothing and this one and then this is the second 320s SEL on the hiring commanders we've done we've done five shows this is our fifth show on 320 AC this will be the last show we ever do on 328 you see I'm going to utilize a feature of Master
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modes I'm changing to nav mode you can see in the top left there to unlock my speed and run away from the Vandal because I'm on my last life and I don't want to die nav mode of course lets you go a lot faster than SCM mode which is standard control mode people in the chat are like whoever means no 4.0 or whatever like I haven't been doing this for a decade I'm not gonna jump on that all things under the camera it's me again things will be when they'll be we don't do win questions anymore it's it's things will be when they're when we
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think they're ready and when we think they're proper and uh yeah so thanks for watching yeah so 12 percent as you can very clearly see on the screen there's a lot of enemies um in this mode essentially every uh is it minute or two minutes every minute every minute uh we spawn some more enemies uh some more Vandal for you to try and fight off um until eventually it's just too much but you're gonna just try and get as far as you can so we are in OT and this is infinite way we're not just gonna let you play so we'll give you about we'll give a couple more minutes and we gotta wrap it up 10 minutes
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yeah if you do last till we've 25 you get a reward in the form of a spectrum badge so anyone that is skillful enough to make it 25 minutes into the game mode there's that for you to collect I think my record is 18 minutes so I'm still trying to get there 9-2 Oh I thought he was gonna turn around me at least you uh you didn't die on the first few minutes I actually got a life back because I lasted long enough yeah I didn't I didn't even know that was a thing I love the red shield effect yeah
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um you got a lot of contacts on your radar there we do and I am very thankful that we are a four player co-op uh experience right now because I've lost control of my engine because it splits up the AI the AI will try and kind of please I don't want to say fair it's they never played fair but uh they will split their attention if there's multiple of you obviously so I'll reiterate again what happens if you survive 25 minutes uh you will acquire a spectrum badge um our pop-up will come up on your screen I don't recall it comes up as soon as you reach 25 minutes or you finish the game after reaching 25 minutes but that's our like that's our goal you're above average uh you get some kind of reward and that's us testing the ground with rewards and
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they're going to come over and if you survive a full hour you get a five minute Zoom call was on John crew using opinions of me do not represent those glider premium games where I respect survive an hour you know yeah I mean that's it for that time gentlemen you did it we did survived thank you so much for for taking time at the end of Friday to come on over come on over to my desk the the this this this is where I work folks who watch ISD might might recognize you know a lot of interviews that go on uh right there yeah that this is this is this is this is where I spend most of my time working people people think I spend all the time in the spaceship but I try not to I try to balance yeah I mean it would be nice to
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exist that but I can imagine it gets a bit boring after a while oh it doesn't get boring it's just get boring unless I guess you can't get both just everybody I need to talk to you can get bored on a spaceship if it was real because you'd be just flying through space for like years depending on where you go what a thing to think about yeah well space is scary sure there's movies on Chris Pratt comes to mind there's a movie because someone else is there with Chris Pratt I don't know Place basketball so yeah so uh that's been Star Citizen LIVE Game Dev Arena Commander 320 uh that's available everything you saw today right now is available right now up on the PTU
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um available to uh to to players as for when it's coming out be sure you keep an eye on the robertspace industries.com website uh for details that's where they track all that stuff new features uh there was recently a lot of new quality of life fixes and stuff being added into Alpha 320 not just for arena Commander but for the Pu including a long-awaited combat logging timer uh you should have heard the cheers that happened in this building when somebody said that that made then that hit the go on the go no go like it was when I say that you guys have the same thoughts we do I absolutely mean it we were like like they couldn't wait to run and tell everybody um so yeah uh if you haven't checked out uh this week's show on ISC on on racing and a bit of a look at the upcoming Fury
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LX that is arriving straight to flyable in the upcoming Alpha 320 and then next week uh next week is a special uh it's an ISC unlike any ISC you've seen before we are going to attempt something with almost no visuals uh uh we're gonna tell we're going to tell another story at the earliest stages of development about uh uh something I don't want to spoil it you'll probably find out on the this week in Star Citizen on Monday because they just can't help themselves so check that out uh for me I'm Jared for me I'm Jared on behalf of me I'm Jared and it's the end of the week can't you tell uh that's Duncan that's um uh take it easy everybody can't be worse than Elliot's SC oh man
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I thought it was quite good yeah I can't I can't even I learned quite a lot all right that's it bye everybody take care goodbye bye

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