Reverse the Verse: August 14th, 2015

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hello everybody good morning everybody Welcome to reverse the verse this is Friday August 14th 14 2015 if you're going to assassinate the president you have to make that sound believable what I don't know uh I'm one of your community managers Jared Huckaby hello this is your other community manager Mr James Pew the OG this is our associate marketing producer Alysa de hotel and our director of community engagement and online strategy and spaceships Mr Ben Lesnik hey everybody um first RTV in two weeks we are very happy to be back um we got a lot to talk about we had a amazing time in Germany uh um and we very glad to see a lot of you out there yes yes so
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week can review I technically it's guess it's two weeks in review two weeks in review yep all right so uh let's go back to let's start on Wednesday Wednesday we all got on airplanes Wednesday we all got on airplanes and flew 12 hours to Germany oh the first four hours of our flight was turbulence and the uh the steart is or the flight attendants were jerks they were so mean yeah they were no they were straight up yeah do you hear that Air Berlin I'm shaking a fist at you I was sitting there with my window closed and the lady walked up and just pushed my window like leaned over us just to push our window up Jesus yeah to give you an idea how bad the turbulence was It was supposed to be a 9h hour and 54-minute
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flight and it took 12 hours yep so that's how much they had to divert to deal with the tur ulence I wanted to die I wanted to die it was not a great great flight the flight back was okay though what was great was the volunteers who met us at the airport with a uh banner and everything where's the banner go grab the banner go grab the banner okay yes we finally made it to the airport a day later uh because of the time zones so yeah the first time I went to Germany for Gamescom 3 years ago we uh you fly to dorf and uh I would say I had the single most terrifying experience in my life involving a cab um my driver actually stopped the cab at two points to try and fight with people who he thought were too slow ahead of him so we
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were not looking forward to that part of the trip and our volunteers the volunteers were there with their cars was fantastic we uh we were very lucky they deserve yes big shout out to uh uh kraban Eddie Eddie Eddie uh uh um uh oh my gosh zann yeah Zan uh Kaji kaj there is a lot of names there was a lot of names you watched ATV we put a a scroll and I think we still missed one possibly so if we did we apologize but thank you guys um and Germany was just wonderful um beautiful there um we worked pretty much every hour we were there um with you know we got the presentation done we uh you all saw that
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we uh we had a good time uh and we think most of our backers did too it was very very hot which was unfortunate probably lost like 12 lb uh I know exactly how much I lost because we had a scale here because we had to wh weigh the bags there's a scale around the corner and I stepped on it before we got on left for the airport and I stepped on it when we got back and I lost 7 lbs in Germany I lost five and a half in Germany probably all water weight y I gained two yeah we drank a lot of beer so I'm surprised that I actually lost weight I Dr one beer I drank no beers I Dr so many beers yes um so it was great uh as excited as we were to see citizens in backers we were also incredibly excited to meet uh
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a lot of our colleagues in the UK um Ally Patrick Michael they were just fantastic people um Patrick is a machine dud he is our own personal Thor yeah Patrick Patrick worked at Booth every day um and did the presentation uh we can't it was I can't believe they were up for that um Ally and Michael just such cool people we we want to hang out with you guys again soon I didn't get to hang out with them at all Alli and Michael I'm sure I'm sure you're probably cool people I miss you they were really cool yeah they were toast cool yeah there are bundles of energy that kept us going when we were all dying none of our natural American cynicism or laziness uh yes I went to Germany and drank no beer I drank no alcohol of any
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kind I don't drink I so James drinks enough for both of us and I'm just bad at it just couldn't get a strawberry Larita over there that bear man that was that was legit yeah I need to go to a BevMo and see if I can find some of it yes uh uh they they brew their own beer in colle it's called called kulch and anytime they actually have a thing where uh did you do the thing with the coaster okay so they will automatically just refill your Co your kch beer non-stop until you put your kch uh coaster on top of your glass so if your glasses there and you don't put the the you have an attentive waiter anyway uh or waitress and you don't cover your your glass they will just continuously
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refill your kulch so they're very proud of their beer in that town by the way Matt here Matt German y hi guys all right Alysa what are you chewing I was chewing gum but I just spit it up no gum in class I have plenty to share with the class I you got no class all that is totally true actually hi disc oando I am the annoying french cutless guy from Gamescom hello hello you weren't annoying for sure nobody was annoying oh that's not true well nobody that I encountered was annoying let me tell you how surreal it was this is my first event with you guys weirdest experience of my life having people come up to me at the table and ask me for an autograph and a picture so so bizarre I you never get
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used to I I hope you don't I hope nobody gets I I feel like I don't want to get used to that I told my husband about it and he's he was really excited and then him being the amazing sarcastic human being that he is he was like let how it feels for me too cuz he actually does have a fan base because he's been on TV wo don't don't like don't tell your mom question are you able to get all right then we came back we came back from Germany and uh James put together that lovely recap post thank you James um we had to fight with YouTube over the thumbnails for our videos for a couple days weird YouTube like a lot is they like messing up man like it there's a lot of thumbnail issues and for YouTube that yeah and
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basically just putting everything back together after Gamescom so it's been a weak process Hi Chelsea Hi Chelsea Chelsea we are sorry you could not be with us in Germany um because you know have original plan was to have Chelsea and Travis there with us and that would have been great um we miss you Chelsea probably probably would have been bad for me though what because drinking with Chelsea and Travis I probably would not have made it James is a machine there there was a Thursday night he stayed up quite late and then um I had to like I don't know how he did it but he had an hour of sleep and then woke up drunk and still made it through all of Friday which was like a 22-hour day or
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something didn't complain once it was amazing M respect uh for whoever I saw that just uh said good job Lando thanks for the stream zero crashes that actually is not me that was uh Alysa de Hotel who made sure we had the internet that was necessary at the event and Mr Tom Hennessy who actually ran the live stream so the switching between cameras and running our our live stream streaming box was Mr Hennessy that night so I actually had nothing to do with the live stream this year oh I recorded the video that the counter thing that you saw for the first hour that was all me but they but she was responsible for the bandwidth he was responsible for running it and they did a wonderful job no crashes yeah we're not sure what happened to the live stream right at the end when we were talking about because it cut out right at the end but it we were just talking about citizen con and
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that was it no um but I think that was a twitch problem and not an internet problem yeah no the internet was still good yeah internet was golden yeah uh the audio was done by the AV company we uh well if you're not going to say anything nice say anything at all we we're working on it no um yeah so I I can't see I can't see chat so what else we got going on I can see web chat not chat no the there okay without going too far into it there there are two switchers there's the there's the switching between the cameras and the presentation and then there's the switching within the presentation between the 10 computers Hennessy was presentation and then our nervous German friend was switching between the
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computers So It's Complicated by that was a nine nine player live demo how insane is that yes well it was 10 but we could only show nine one of the computers refused to Output the second video signal but it was still active in the demo yeah I'll I'll I haven't seen a live demo with that many people on stage before done by anyone I mean it could have been done but I haven't seen it so super impressed by everybody also Lando somebody uh says they want to run their fingers through your beard you get tangled I don't like I don't like it how's this how's his chin feel is is does he have a strong chin or noes have a chin no I it's all hair that turns itself into a person there's no purpose
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to this Someday I'm just going to shave it it's just going to be random I'm just going to come in one day and me clean shaving so I could be tomorrow it could be weeks from now so I'll let you guys gu tomorrow no I should I'm not going to come in tomorrow um but I I did want to say uh Ben talked talked a little bit about this in ATV for the two weeks everybody was working around there there was talk maybe we you know when we're struggling with the multi demo maybe we should pre-record a thing and what not Chris was always very adamant this has to be a live demo we have to show that this is real gameplay and what not and I Abs if you if you needed a way to fall in love with Star Citizen the company all over again you just have to watch Chris push everybody through to a to to a live multi crew demo yeah what point did I think it was actually going to work not cuz you know a week before this thing um it was it was terrifying is
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like okay we have it roughly working but uh if you uh make sure you don't move left or you fall through the floor and five times out of seven you die when you try to get into the Retaliator and it's it was amazing watching it come together so quickly I figured the demo would actually work like technically but it was just the concept of having all of these i't that many computers running at once on a stage and trying to those Fe that's the part I thought like this this is not there's no way it was the hottest day in Germany on record oh my God I cannot emphasize enough how hot it was also there's no air conditioning in that building just like my experience of going through places in Germany while we're there there's no air conditioning anywhere and
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Mr Hennessy and I in a hot box above the computerss under the stage lights yeah I yeah when I when I got off the stage I was incoherent about to pass out Allie had to get me this giant bottle of water and then I I missed the rest of the presentation I it was not a good place for fat people there's no the only place that was like sort of comfortable was like at towards the exit towards like the back end cuz there was a door that was open that had smallest of across Brees so for like the last like 20 minutes of presentation I'm just standing back there with back was watching the presentation cuz i' never seen it yeah but massive shout out to Hanan and Pa Vaden for all of their it support amongst many other things they were basically did a little bit of
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everything for us Paul was on the verge of death yeah Paul was sick the entire time and still powered through just I'm I'm so impressed with everybody it's just insane Paul sat next to Patient Zero on the airplane yeah evidently if there's a zombie complain Paul why is Matt sh's hair so awesome right now it's always that awesome yeah he he's inherited the the hair power of Rob Irving and this is the new great designer hair do you condition what do you condition yeah although it's just a shampoo conditioner in one you use a you use a two in one yeah can you get those results this is the worst conversation we ever had is it volume enhancing no oh my God all right let's let's answer some question question all we like to do a 15minute intro it is
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11:14 so we can start getting into question any news on the CCU system yes I was just talking to turbulent about this yesterday uh basically the front end is done they're having some they need to knock a few bugs out of the back end and as soon as that's done so uh no ETA but it is closer than it is farther away yes that is non-committal and answer enough for you what's the status on U melting uh we still up in the air have not decided whether or not we're going to do that yeah it's not it's not a technical issue it's a it's a uh well there's some technical aspects to it um doing that to the database has some issues in um it's it's an amount of work issue it's a game balance issue it's uh it's an ongoing debate here um we our
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feeling is that it'll be more of an issue when we make some changes to the component system um probably more likely to happen then um but it's not something that's going to happen today tomorrow next week just asked if anyone was going to be joining them for reviewing of wing Commander tonight one Benjamin Lesnik yes I will plug that I guess again don't pimp your stream during our stream come on they're not they're they're pimping their stream during our stream their stream rather than do with our boss's movies so I think it's okay yeah that's totally acceptable my job is to give Inn as much crap as I can all right no D it's actually not it's not at all really you should be helping them whenever you can um yes I will be Uhn is going to be showing the wing Commander movie tonight
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I'll be doing uh live commentary you're going to learn some very very uninteresting things um should be fun uh we've got some toys and stuff to show off uh it's just we're it's going to nerd out hardcore uh 6:00 tonight uh our time uh on the Inn stream out hardcore when will glaive owners get LTI uh should should have they're going to have to run a script to change it but it should be early next week um that was a fun conversation someone's like why doesn't the glaive have LTI looked like yeah why doesn't he's like I don't know uh that's a good question that I will talk to Ben about afterwards what was the question what was the question I'm not going to repeat it brought up so whoever had that good question we'll
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talk about it afterwards it's a question for toast how about that Matt they talked about the new component system is there an update on how it's going right now uh I mean it's it's a lot of work so it's it's so coming along nicely uh making a lot of really good progress on it um but it's it's just broad sweeping changes it I mean it's like the the very first roll out of it is mainly going be like the full overhaul on uh power plants coolers and shields but it it's going to be setting up the groundwork for everything we need going forward over the next few years um but it's it's going to be really cool I'm also really excited once we get uh physically based damage and like the weapon resizing and CU then uh the guns are going to look right for the
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size against their ship but the actual size and scale of things that we have planned out on big end or on the largest end is going to be ridiculous so there's going to be a lot of really cool stuff in the coming months but like anything it takes time to do right lots of questions about ships and I have one big overarching answer for a lot of things right now so what our production guys both the UK and here are currently reworking our ship schedule to make it way more awesome and um we're we while they're doing that there's not a whole lot that we can say about any ship in particular because they're they're making it so we get
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stuff bigger better faster stronger you know yeah yeah other words well I mean the one of the nice things also with even some of this compin stuff is we got now a lot more standard sizes for exactly okay what is a capital ship power plant going to be volume wise so when we're blocking these ships out it we can do less guesswork in our white box and really build out these right sizes build out these right specs from the ground up so you okay basically standard disclaimer for every RTV if you're asking us when a ship is going to come out that's not really something we can answer first of when it's done 20xx y soon TM yeah Universal so it's never
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going to be a question you're going to get an answer to on RTV what else do we got going on uh questions about the Retaliator modules there's a Q&A going up later today so look out for that we've had a thread in the uh official announcements and we've pulled many questions and that Q&A will go up today kind want go into a little bit about the thought process behind it though Ben sure um you like what sorry was the Retaliator thought process or yeah but by making it the the pods instead of an actual well so I mean it's like actual aircraft some uh sometimes you'll have you know seven different types of f-16s that you manufacture differently for different roles sometimes you'll have one base aircraft that you can convert to things easily um so this does not
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mean that variants are going away forever um it just means that some ships will have this sort of a modular system um and hopefully I mean the idea long term is that this system will be a little bit uh more than just every one ship has small modules swop around sometimes the modules might work on different ships U imagine a theoretical medium bomber someday that has one slot for one of these Retaliator modules um it it gives us something to build around going forward um there's all sort interesting stuff that's going to come out of it but uh it is not the death of Varian as I've seen some people say so no more variants the opposite of that you talked about open vment for the scitech hotas what does that mean compared to our version of open development well we're going to find out um they what they have told us is they're interested in sharing the whole process um we we're already
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Gathering feedback from our community for them um and they they want to share they're going to show where they are at each stage of the way um but we'll see how it develops I mean My My Hope Is that this is the first the first time kind of the cig G germ has infected uh another host uh we'll see how it goes uh are you aware that the new launcher doesn't load for some folks yes uh we have a wonderful gentleman named Mr will Leverett who is on top of all those kind of things whose fault it is no I saw another question earlier uh regarding the hotel which is about the the touch screen that was on one of the versions yes uh can you guys elaborate a little more on what the functionality of that is um so it would essentially be a part of your cockpit interface um if you've ever seen the
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uh like the vdu or HUD add-ons that some companies do uh that time with like Microsoft flight simulator so I plug like my uh Navigator navigation screen or my map screen or whatever and it it'll display separately from the game it'll be the same for Star Citi so you know part of your ship control panel would appear right there on the touch screen and you'd star Citi it up um I think in the demo we have uh it's one of the Retaliator uh multi Cru stations um so is there anything we can say about the animation retargeting that they talked about in ATV uh oh what the stuff for Star Marine you're having to redo the 3,000 animations yes there were it's not quite redoing 3,000 animations but it's it's targeting for the new rig um I think on Monday we we did the FPS module
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update they said uh we would have a future update when we knew exactly what what the timeline for that was going to be um we uh what's his name guy in Austin producer Hutchin Hutchin Jason Hut sorry Jason Hutchin Jason Hutchin is working on the next one of those updates uh as we speak so uh we we will know more when we get that and we'll share it with you Jason Hutchins who looks like me in 10 years Jason H looks cooler than you yeah way well like I'm I'm going to get cooler in 10 years got to give me a chance I don't I feel like your life is probably Peak coolness yeah my life did Peak coolness in fact you might be going downhill yeah picture I have a picture uh let's see question uh why was the tutorial locked
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out of the Gamescom free flight code that is a strong we don't know um but we're looking into it now I I got another message about that this morning um yeah I don't think it was intentional I don't think it was intentional at all unless it was like a last minute fix yeah maybe it broke some other thing we'll find out is asaria and Es SP supposed to be the same company ah I sent a panicked email to Dave hadock right before the presentation with exactly that question um Asperia is the updated name aspara is uh thrown out the airlock so it should be asparia with an IIA there's me and Jason hedin oh yeah Ben where's the bu cross this you not believe you you are different people no some ask where it was was trying to say that he going look
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likeon and just as what sort of features will the social module have can my friends visit my hanger right away um so it does have multiple you can share our Corp together I'm not sure about shared hangers uh we will find out I heard they did a uh a demo a test in Austin a couple days ago they had I think like every single computer that you get it on playing together fine um so stuff's going well there y will the glaive get an asparia HUD themed HUD AI uh TBD but likely you there'll be some hints of that thank you beat neck celebrity crash I'm not a celebrity what somebody said that I'm their
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celebrity crash and they complimenting me on my goth gear Lando how high from lack of sleeping caffeine were you when you gave some of these game com interviews I was so tired I went back around the bent so I was pretty manic a lot of folks say I was drinking it there's no alcohol involved just the sweet sweet drug that is stars is in development pretty much uh will the B new merchantman be nerfed to meet its original $250 price point no no if we undercharge for ship that's your benefit not our loss y ships are balanced more around what they're needed to do and not the price that we sold yeah what are Sig's plans for Dragon Con what day will you be running panels and events um so I will be Dragon Con
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Thursday through Monday um the Star season Q&A which is our Big Show there will be uh I believe it is Saturday early evening um I'm on at least two other panels more generic you know Community Management game Desy type stuff uh which I think are on Fridays and sun Sunday uh we'll we'll post a whole schedule for everybody uh on the site probably next week but uh ordinary panels um and we'll probably do like a get together with folks if they're interested uh I think last year uh back roll organized folks uh going out to a bar together and it was it was a lot of fun um and we'll do that again for sure if we can need to for you to watching on yeah we social
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deficiency social deficiency I like no way was the Idis fly over at the end of the demo an actual pilot or scripted that was scripted that was a track view basically telling it to fly over the map at the end I was going to mess with you a little bit he saved you yeah I was scripted I was going to do a whole thing about a magician never reveals a secret sorry I no we are not magicians we reveal our secrets uh what's the time frame for the game to get female characters kid characters and of course bearded characters no female characters first um you you'll be seeing a lot more of the customization stuff later this year as we move into pu updates rather than uh AC updates uh how long do you guys start
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looking thinking planning citizen con already now yes Sandy was over there she's still over there actually uh she's on her way back now I believe she was checking out the venue yesterday or the day before yeah we were discing for citizen con the Saturday following the ewor event so yeah we were at dinner we were at our celebratory dinner we were supposed to be relaxing and we ended up talking about citizen con yeah good dinner Aon Roberts it was Aaron Roberts was talking about planning citizen con during the presentation when he was saying or no uh after the presentation when we get Studio updates from German Alice ATV still trying still trying yeah still trying sent him an email Tuesday yeah the the the important thing and and you can look at every single ATV segment and and have this idea in your
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head we don't force or compel anybody to be on the show uh these folks are here to work they're here to build the game uh if they can find some time in their day to to to help us out with the show we appreciate it but we don't compel anybody some people just St up don't want to be on camera and you can't force them be on camera they could but it would be a really bad interview yeah will there be any other sales before citizen con for sure um we got a couple of Ships coming down the pipeline uh including the Endeavor The Crucible the uh variants for the Vanguard um and as those are ready we will make them available uh is sitc Con going to be streamed that is Our intention yes yes yeah stream uh still working out the internet uh availability at the venue internet which remind me immediately
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following this to start sending emails to people not no all right well since I said it out loud now I'll remember nice uh I don't think there's any idea on when you can get your hand your grubby hands on the star say and hotas it's still very early in the process yeah it'll be late next year probably yeah we don't it'll be a while before we even get our uh demo units here yeah the the one that was up on this stage was just a prototype I don't think it functions is work any updates on the status of the star map it looks cool it looks awesome it looks really cool yep I said chat the other day that was my exact answer and then uh the to answer B 101 UK um we are very likely not going to be releasing
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any more citizen Con tickets we are sold out and currently at capacity if we released any more tickets it would be not great we because there wouldn't be enough space for people people what El is going on is Chris actually good at coding yeah Chris is amazing at coding um he made games on his own for a while yeah uh that I mean that's that's how he got here uming during the game scone stuff or just like okay let me take a look at that and just trying to get the demo working so he's totally hands on yeah he's the guy who comes up in back of your back and redo everything for you um no Chris U one of the stories I'd heard about Chris over the years was
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kind of the generic oh he he just wants to make movies he doesn't care about making game you know he didn't do he didn't do anything going wink met three four and whatever um couldn't be further from the truth um he loves making movies but he is a coder at heart also great James now I can't see uh can't you get a bigger venue for sitcom this is actually the biggest venue for sitcom we've ever had yep um yeah we will continue to try to get bigger every uh every year uh but you know nobody wants to spend some crazy amount of money on and imp possibly huge venue and have it nobody show up um yeah on top of that we want to we want to spend your money making a game that you love instead of throwing giant parties that don't actually get any work done and I
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say that as someone who attended the Ultima Online World's Fair which uh rented out the entire avention Center for a couple hundred people um so yeah the if you build it they will come thing doesn't necessarily work in real life unless it's McDonald's yeah that's that's true I do wish McDonald's were still here do anyone see McDonald's our business the answer is no so a few weapon questions I'm seeing popping up a couple times so for AC 2.0 uh we're not sure what if any new weapons will be getting added into into the game um there's a lot of rework going on with physically based damage that's going to be impacting all of our weapons so even if you guys are seeing like the the Intrepid data miners out
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there going through our code and seeing like oh there's this XML or this XML um don't don't rest on that data thinking that's going in as is everything's going to be updated for all these new systems so uh we want to get more weapons out to you as soon as possible cuz that stuff really changes up the gam play but it it's not the quickest thing um then the second one regarding the glaive possibly getting retrofit to use human parts I wouldn't expect anything like that in any anything in the near future um Vandal weapons are and their ships are very distinct to human ships I in in the grand Long Term won't rule it out completely but for the near term and at
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least through getting like all physically based damage out uh Vandal ships these Vandal weapons and for the purpose of an effective aggressive craft you want it using the weapons that you're going to be facing you know as a design point so let me apologize for keeping get my phone um there's a point in the day that's the when Chris is on email and you get just Chris email Chris email Chris email usually that's later in the day and there's a point in the day where you get Sandy email Sandy email Sandy that's usually starting around 5:00 a.m. um but since they're both in Europe the uh they it's a rare Eclipse where they're both emailing at the same time and that time is right now so it's a fun time is this just uh oh Sandy sent me an email 3:00 a.m.
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ask me why I wasn't asleep s sent me an this morning asking me why I wasn't asleep so uh why weren't you asleep the to a likely story H what else we got when Foundry 42 gets Squadron 42 finished will it Focus its resources on completing the Pu or will it move directly on to Squadron 42 episode 2 um each according to their own abilities um I mean the cinematics guys there will likely move on to the next uh single player stuff uh ship guys may be freed up to do more uh caterpillars and Merchant men and all that stuff you are uh eagerly awaiting uh will we always just get in a ship and fly or will there there eventually be a pre-flight check I so
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that's something I've actually gone back and forth talking with kex about um there's there's a certain level of that that would definitely be cool to have and he he's very much wanting to have you know some of the interactive cockpit stuff that you do see in games like DCS and Road system but not to the point where that becomes the the standard interaction and everything else is key around that so it's it's very much something we're going to have to go back and forth on try out a few different implementations see what's going to fit right and play well in our game uh while still adding to the ships and making sure it it feels like oh cool I'm I'm really doing stuff to get my ship flight ready to get off you get off the ground into space flying around um how that expands out and how
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that gets still out is still up in the air hi Ryan oh Ryan hello Ryan uh if the if the glaive is is made by humans why does it have the Glitchy UI interface of the site shut up that's why it's cuz it's iterative game development the ship was ready before the UI was so I mean used to say asaria didn't do the recode for the sites and it's like hey the only way we can get their replication Tech going is really to uh you know replicate the bad dogs yeah yeah I assume what Asperia does is makes like d will dos box that then tries to run the the vand software we don't know much about asparia yet but uh uh ultimately the important thing to remember is that there isn't a single aspect of what you're playing that's
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finished yeah well I mean historically uh even in Wartime different countries have ripped off each other's equipment and they've copied it all the way down to like copyrights and stamps and trademarks and words they don't understand oh yeah you ever hear thisi copies of British stuff Chinese copies of Russian stuff uh like the US ripped off the bers cannon in world I the 40mm AA gun and uh they took everything from the Swedish Blueprints and it didn't fit in Imperial measurements so people are copying stuff all the time and they sometimes just they don't change things even when you think it's obvious that they should you ever hear about the uh the Russian copy of the b29 uh they they copied it from an example that landed in in Russia um so all the you know Russian what is it T4 I forget I don't know uh
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but uh every Russian version has the exact same imperfections as the lone example that they copied it from the missing screw here and whatever just because they were didn't want to deviate from their what they were copying sop I saw your question send me a send me a PM in the forums and we'll we'll get that sorted for you don't do it uh what's up with Sony and fish feather uh they're probably referring to is uh Danger Zone video oh yeah yeah he got shut down because he used the Top Gun music in his video but it lives on in the wonderful world of Star Citizen number 3 on our Channel with uh Pedro kamacho Pedro Pedro how do you say his middle name kamacho his middle name oh m m Pedro kaman's music under it so uh
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um so sorry Sony sucks y Sony sucks yeah look they keep doing a Spider-Man what you talking about give him back now he's a young British boy no they're sharing it's not they didn't give it back so's still making the movies but Marvel still has like some more control now like they're sharing sharing scaring yeah but they're bringing in oh I just realized I was wearing this by the way at Gamescom uh we gave away these cool little pins I'm gonna have some of those pins at Dragon Con if somebody comes up to me and like I need a PIN um I will give you one as long as I Sol one some ships will need a larger hanger Bay starf far merchantmen carck 90 are larger bays in
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the works yes I still like the shut up that's why this my favorite answer of all time what else we got highway to the danger zone now we're gonna get taken down yep yep oh and for those who asked why the the twitch playback suddenly went quiet for an hour that's because we faded in some of the uh local DJs music and twitch smashed us MH so you but you still watch the full presentation with all the audio on YouTube but that's what happened to the uh twitch version yep and that's why we couldn't a simple export and I was there till 4:00 in the morning doing a more robust one cuz we lost the audio on the twitch one uh can
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we get integrated voice control like that offered by voice attack in Star Citizen so we're certainly looking at all sorts of voice control stuff um my conversations with Chris have been that it it has to be something that makes sense you know um I remember adding uh game Commander not not our game Commander but the game Commander sof Microsoft device yeah for and it had a profile for Wing commander and you could you could you could tell autopilot fire missile and that's not a fun space simulator you don't tell your airplane what to do so as long as it makes sense you don't airplane fly left yeah make that Meme airplane and one thing also that's kind
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of odd at least to me from a design standpoint on things especially like voice attack is realistically there's no difference between voice attack and auto hotkey so it it also becomes a question of really how much do you guys want the game to be macroed out because if I can do five program commands as a single voice attack prompt I can do those five commands as you know a g key macro or some other device macro and are does everyone want the game to become automated like that do you want to take any choice and skill out on that side of it versus having that reactive in the moment stuff so and like Ben said that's just about making sure however it's implemented makes sense and and feels right for the game as a whole yeah that that exact reason
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is why you can't make strings of spellcast macros in world Warcraft anymore because they took away all of the skill required and people were just exploiting the crap out of it in PvP so I've always I've always thought that the way to do you one of the things that takes you out of wing Commander is the communication process ordering your wingman around you know C and pick oh attack Target see with that's what I would replace with voice stuff the uh the wingman controls um but ordinary cockpit controls not so much play the game better yeah just play better just play better don't suck now like one command one action like that's a that totally makes sense those are good options to have it when it does make sense but when it's yeah but m one
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command 12 actions it's like well yeah that's garbage garage [ __ ] you learn to copy a script which is what I used I jumy we don't have an answer for that yet get skill get skill yeah uh females will there be differences in in the genders other than look like strength G resistance amount of ammo carried TBD that's a mind field I'm not stepping in it will we be able to taunt enemies in the Pu yes that's that's a huge aspect of any Chris Roberts game is taunting people it's requirement and also working for Chris Roberts I try not to talk people but I think my existence annoys some I think
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pretty much the original win Commander invented taunting in games I I'll go that far and then uh to to reiterate the answer from about ships earlier um we're reworking our schedules we don't have any specific answers on ships right now that's all in the powerful hands of our production team we're we're redoing it to make it bigger better faster more awesome so please be patient what is the note in James's hand I it's his card key Chelsea that was Chelsea asking he keeps forgetting his desk and people to let him in the office no it's just me like talking about bad about Chelsea on hand he just does X's lonely also oh my God also Chelsea invite me to
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your guild dang it yeah me too don't mind I play uh will the glaive get a buff in Arena Commander balance is ongoing yeah balance is ongoing uh one thing I can actually say on that we were looking at some of the the Vandal weapons so not the GL in general we were noticing the lifespan on the projectiles was a bit too short for our liking so we are looking at that so the shots will exist a bit longer which will also give it a bit more travel time um any more specific than that we're you know still looking at but yeah balance I'm going will you be able to change the color of the UI to accommodate for color blindness uh I've seen Zayn's mock-ups of this it is it is in the works eventually there will be a whole set of color scales all of his uis are built bu
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uh in modular uh segments so you'll be able to take uh emergency warnings and regular status warnings and and frames and borders and and color them all as you see fit so not today not tomorrow but he has working on the technology I've seen it so maybe [Music] someday what mechanics will be applied to prevent players from stuffing a Starship with more people than the design intends uh well there's all sorts of things you can do there just physically inability to stuff a ship is one but um you know support yeah life support is a big one for theing it um got 20 people in a box there's enough error for three
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of you time to play Cold equations unless you guys uh are all clowns and in which case the the system recognizes and we don't want to we don't want to talk about our clown rolling system yet yeah we're not ready we're not prepared yet yet our second MPC class will be clowns I'm going to go ahead and confirm it right now we're like we we don't want women to play this game Let's clowns are gross and terrifying and awful is it time to talk about longy what's that is it time to talk about a longterm horse strategy no it's not time to talk about our long-term horse strategy space I always appreciate will it fit videos though so you try cramming as much people in I want to see videos where you you see how how fast the life support deteriorates the more you cram into a multi [ __ ] the headline from this will be discoland tell star Community cram it have you guys met
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Jeremiah yet will hey our concept artist he's particularly awesome yes and um he did an interview I think this week it's for next week next week okay you'll bearing I'm not telling them what they ruin it sh sh I'm just kid transcript good job ship shape I don't feel bad about this you can say that all you want hey how's your cat uh Not Dead awesome I thought my cat was dead not dead so I thought I I was worried my cat was dead cuz hadn't seen her in a few weeks which is really abnormal and then she showed up the other day so I think she just doesn't like the cat treats that we bought I'm just not I'm just not okay with like a a status of your cat being Not Dead Oh do it's not it's not super I think what happened is my cat got like sick of my
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Gamescom schedule and was like I'm not staying up this late yeah crafty cats yeah uh more in engine pictures of the Idis or Hall of viewers soon maybe maybe I saw a question about the prowler um it has not been aide an artist yet it will be a contractor um we want to do a little bit of extra work on this one because we is kind of establishing a lot about the tarns um so it's going to take longer but uh it'll be good yeah I'm excited the Tarn are the are the race that interests me the most um I was answering questions on the Asad Dev thread more often before games come and it sort of took a break um there's also
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a bunch of them on there that um I need to Wrangle other people to answer not this guy he's been awesome but um but there's some stuff that like I need the UK to chime in ETC so I am chasing people on that but there was definitely a l for Gamescom I also spoke to um well talk to and actually speak in person um the guy who mods that thread and um just about how to manage it and stuff and I was saying I know that you know you like to clean stuff up and keep questions not sting around too long and I was like be a little more generous with this one CU we have to get deel like really busy people in here more often and try to keep questions around for like two or three weeks before we before we delete them so um still on my radar but you know Gamescom kind of put everything else in the backg burner yeah that's kind of the case for I don't know
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everybody everything here and this this week is like half back to normal because there's a bunch of high priority stuff that you're all like we'll just do it the week after Gamescom yeah so uh we're getting all that stuff out of the way too question when's our when's our next Deep dive uh next Deep dive would probably be with the Endeavor I can't say when that is uh but we'll look at the science stuff um there there will be more in the future uh we' got to get get past game when we past gamc now yeah we got to gather our fores yeah um someone asking about the constellation redesign we don't have any like big news that's like fancy enough to be worth sharing and getting excited over but we have um nonstop had um Josh Coons and Chris Smith working on that in Texas and
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they're plugging away they're doing a good job so and you of course you saw some of that in the uh Chelsea has a fantastic question for lovely Stacy come on on Stacy is our new what's your official title fa facili manager our facilities manager and she can answer the question on how our new office is coming you got to like use your outside voice okay how the new office is coming well I don't entirely know what the timeline is but we're back on track and um and uh we're looking at a couple the renders so right now um forest and Eric are design designing some of the artwork that's going up in the office and we're selecting like the spaceship doors implementing the security so we're going
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to have badges that open doors remotely and the experience is probably going to involve like entering Building walking past my office which is the lobby and then having the spaceship door open I'm going ref to the lobby as your office also I'll be I'll be the jerk so Stacy's an now too it's Stacy with an i i see a lot of people saying hello to you it wrong all right I'm just I'm just helping you out just so you know I'm not accountable if my name's not SP right when I'm just trying to help you out no no no no you have a good point there yeah um among other things she's also upgraded our snack selections oh yeah thank goodness for you hey Costco ran out of coke yeah it happens in August in Los Angeles marketing move out of the basement have its own floor in the new office we're not in a
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basement basement thing here um so I'm seeing like a lot of people talking about the caterpillar so even though I don't have a ton of detailed satisfying information I'm going to address it um Alyssa told me she whispered to me when I came down that you guys already talked about how we aren't going to give any like super detailed schedule stuff right now because one of the things was put on the um back burner for Gamescom was something reliable ship schedule wise after that because we had projections but it all kind of depended on how you Gamescom things went um I have I think I have seen it on at least like one of the the drafts that's been floating around is like one of the next several so um I think I've said before we always have what we're working on like the next few and then you know not even on my radar I think it's probably going to be somewhere in the second category and hopefully in the next few weeks we'll
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have a little bit more information I will say that um Chris was involved in the process and it is one of the ones he has asked for so uh you know when backers ask you know we hear where's the caterpillar where's the caterpillar where's the caterpillar when Chris Roberts asked where's a caterpillar it's more serious so we'll have an update for you soon uh someone was asking about an interesting question for the bigger ships have you thought about doing something called exterior ready where even if the interior of the ship isn't ready just putting it in the hanger so you guys can walk around the outside um I've never heard that before so to my knowledge no we haven't considered it but um they'll bring it up with some people and see if we think is a good idea we haven't talking about that for some of the ships especially like the Idris where it won't necessarily fit in the hanger um we talked about like a fly around of just the whole um TBD on all
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that here's the current status of the caterpillar uh asked me to ask you where is Harold first of all I don't believe you but um second of all we have U we have Paul 40 and Dan kiny working on it upstairs right now Dennis hype Dennis denn H Dennis is a paladin guys true no don't get him started Paladin yeah last Dennis is the last real palet in the world a d andd campaign once it did not go well I died pretty early because I was like I forget what I think it was a Dr it was like cast some sort of spell like so you can detect my alignment and what I looked like I was just trying to be like ridiculous I was like I don't give you know and um there's a paladin in our group and I totally tricked him
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for a while I don't even know how that happened this is why I love her so much she gets it man really controller sub forms a good idea have you had a chance to think about a controller sub form instead of the Katamari oh yes I love having that discussion um H yeah we could do a sub form if you think there's enough uh enough unique topics in there I have no problem with that we'll kick it around in fact it would be good for feedback probably for scitech so yeah we'll look at it yeah we'll kick it around and like I mean really kick it around we we'll take a look at it next week be mean to it um here's a here's a question that's for you can we have damage and non-functional components on your ship um that's actually probably a better question for more details for
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matap but I know that we are planning on doing like damage for components and all that kind of stuff you probably won't see that um the first time you see like you know components rolling out in the The Hanger and like the first release of all the new stuff we're going to do for you guys but um that is something we're going to be doing you actually saw it during the multi-crew demo when the uh Retaliator uh Quantum Drive component became damaged yeah and we hadn't implemented the ability to repair it yet so yeah it's happening you'll see it damage components is very real and it works ask me about where to see it oh where to physically see it that I don't know yeah oh you just got to squeeze in anyone want to join a crime syndicate no I'm already starting a pyate c want stuff denn
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does Dennis is too good to be in a crime will voice chat be built into the social module soon not soon not soon uh first evil I handed over all of the stuff that was in my backpack and I think the cordal was in there um but I haven't had any yet what's a cordial um some of the Vol God I forget who gave it to us but one of them gave I think Alexis or myself some cordial and I threw it in my backpack and flew and then just handed everything to Alexis I will say um someone gave us a can of space lbe if it was NF Nar was a can space Lube it did it did not make it through security I'm sorry someone else has joined us oh for once a TSA saved us
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from visiting from the UK right ausome wow that is really creepy oh my God that is very creepy so creepy all right 3 minutes will there be any primitive races that use biological ships or someone's asking what kind of mask that is it's a bad mask it's a bad bad mask gocha someone was asking if it's a maybe they meant to say skeleton but they said skeleton which is hilarious because an art director named with the last name skeleton mhm he does not look like that it's a flesh mask let's see oh let's get one last uh great question before we wrap this up what do the uh Shon get out of the tech exchange with MK will we see any exotic human
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Tech in alien ships MH can't say more than that but mhm exotic human Tech exotic human Tech all right are you planning to remake the Aurora I am not no we'll probably let some designers do that yeah there will be updates so nothing is final right now uh but one one thing I've heard is a lot of people like oh you're getting rid of variant what about my Phoenix what about my Ln um we're not getting rid of variant those are still going to be ships that exist um Al no change I'm going to be a jerk to end this because I've seen a lot of people asking their questions in all caps we don't respond to all caps both of the chats move very quickly and we answer as many questions as we possibly can but don't yell at us yeah Bas that's a downer basically my question selection
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process is I ask questions I know we have a good chance of having the answer to if if I know we have no chance of having the answer to that that's why answer those and I tell you guys no so if you're wondering why questions could skipped or whatnot that's why um and with that uh there's going to be some good stuff later in today we're kicking off a Merlin free fly um so which by the way uh and you know I'm just going to admit this right now before it makes it out I I accidentally called the Merlin the Nugget yeah I don't know why James is very amused by um but uh yes another free fly um it may actually already be working so get out there and AC it up um the AC free fly we're extending to the 24th uh because of the tech issues we had early on um bring your F you know tell your friends
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tell your family tell your cats um let them try star Cien um we've we've seen an incredible increase in the number of folks playing because of this so uh and it's it's great data for our uh our devops folks and everybody else um keep them coming um uh what else is going on uh later today we're going to have the Q&A about the Retaliator modules um it's not our sexiest Q&A but it'll it'll have something for you guys are looking for you can still pick up a Retaliator module through uh Monday if you uh would like to build your perfect Retaliator um also note that those aren't the last Retaliator modules we have some others in the pipeline you'll be seeing in the future uh we're going to have a star Marine update as soon as St Hutchins finishes uh finishes his weekly review
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um hopefully more information about animations in there um what else is today your wink met oh uh 6 o'cl on Inn I will be um talking through the win Commander movie uh pointing out all sorts of trivia talking about what what the hell happened there that sort of thing um got some toys for show and tell should be fun uh tune in it's about 6 hours from right now actually 6 hours from right now so if you have time zone confusion No 7 hours from right now right no it's 12 12 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 to 5 5 to six okay okay I'm not good at math or time or time uh so yeah uh we are hosting after this we're hosting Inn right yes I think we're hosting their big special um on our stream or you can go to Inn live for
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their stream uh that's it you be fine that wraps up this week's RTV thanks for watching guys Jared I'm that's Ben that's Alysa that's Justin that's Stacy that's Dennis that's James and that's Ed Ted Ted Ted visiting from Austin thanks for

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