Reverse the Verse: August 28th, 2015

30 August 201501:00:381,513 linesWatch on YouTube ↗

Transcript — every row opens the video at that moment

00:00:05
crazy swag. Basic stuff. You know what I'm going to do is I'm going to wear my Star Citizen shirt and I'm going to me and my daughter are going to do what we did last time at ComicCon and anybody says Star Citizen. That's cool. We're going to like get like something. Yes. Hey, how you doing? How you doing? [Music] had a pretty chill day. Didn't have much going on. Hello everybody. Welcome to Reverse the Verse. Hello. It's Friday, August 28th, 2015. Uh I'm one of your community managers, Jared Huckabe. This is your director of community engagement, online strategy, and spaceships, Mr. Ben Lesnic. That's our videographer extraordinaire, Mr. Thomas
00:00:53
Hennessy. Sitting in the chair behind him is your other community manager, Mr. James Pew, the OG. Peeking over Ben's shoulder. That's our subscription manager, Miss Alexis Lesnik. And poking around somewhere back there is our associate marketing producer, Miss Alyssa Del Taco. Well, I wait. I either give y and our vice president of marketing, Sandy Gardner. Hello. Hello. Hello. Look, James. It looks like you're like kneeling to her or something when you were like texting my mom telling her we're live. Oh, all right. Hi, James. Hello, James's mom. Where where is No, but seriously, where's the lasagna? He keeps promising us, right? What? Yeah, you do. You've mentioned lasagna several
00:01:43
times. My mom mentioned, man, good on her. All right. So, as as usual, we start each episode with our weekend review. Sandy, since you're here, what have you been doing this week? What haven't I been doing this week? That's a good question. Yeah. You know, it's hard for me to remember what I did yesterday, let alone what I'm doing right now or what I've done for a while. We have gotten emails where she says, "Guys, what did I do yesterday?" No, we haven't. No, we haven't. No, it's it's usually me filing a barrage of emails saying, "Where's this? Where's that? What happened? Can we do this?" Yeah. All right. Well, then we'll move on to Mr. Ben Lesnic. Ben, what did you do to this week? Um, well, this was uh this was a weird week for us. Um, I actually work from home on Wednesday. Today I had a little cold and on
00:02:32
Thursday we had the California equivalent of a snow day where a uh a construction crew managed to slice through our entire fiber cable taking the Santa Monica office offline. So we uh we were all working from home. Um, James was carrying files back and forth from our raid array on uh on uh flash drive so we could get stuff online and get ready for the Vanguard uh Vanguard event that's happening a little bit later today. Um, so it was a busy week but lots of fun. We're getting ready for Dragon Con next week. Uh, of course a little thing, the social module uh hit early in the week. Uh, woo indeed. Yes. And uh you'll be seeing more of that shortly. Yeah, if you if you saw this week's ATV uh during the sneak peek, you
00:03:20
saw the very first Star Citizen join the social module. And of course, it was Josh. Hi, Josh. By the way, I have to pull I have to pull this up in our Skype records, but the the first line that was spoken in the Persistent Universe was something about where to get tacos. Yeah, we did it right, guys. Congratulations. Yep. surprised it wasn't game finished. Uh but we're we're all just so so proud of the guys in Austin for getting that out. Uh they did an incredible job. We can't wait to see where it goes. What did you do this week, Alyssa? Uh speak up so they can stay there. Do it. All right. Yeah, do it. I I actually helped um I helped the CS guys by answering some tickets this week, which was interesting learning how
00:04:09
to use that system and also be as polite as I possibly could, which is uh not my forte. Um and then just helping Sandy chase like 107 billion T things regarding Citizen Con. And it's not a real number. It is too. It is now. I helped her chase a Google of things. How about that? What? Um, and yeah, yesterday killed my phone twice checking for updates on when the internet was going to be back up. What'd you do this week, Hennessy? I made some videos and uh went to a product demonstration for some uh software and some cameras that we hope to acquire in the future. What
00:04:57
kind of cameras are those? This would be Blackmagic uh cameras Ursa minis to be specific. So I did that and set up a piece for next week on the making of the social module that you guys might see on around the verse. Great. Putting that together uh putting that together for next week's episodes. I'm working with Austin on how we can basically film a piece without me being in Austin. And so that's been challenging the last couple weeks. So, that's coming together and you guys see that next week. Cool. Justin, what did you do this week? Not at no work. I spent most of this week on my anniversary vacation. Yay. Where? Like, where'd you go? Cancun. All right. Yay. So, partied it up. So, so
00:05:47
while we were all here working, you were in Cancun. He missed the great internet outage of 200. But he came back for Friday. I did. I came back for Friday for the day when there's nothing to Yeah, we're we're going to talk about that later. Mr. James Pew, Mr. OG, what did you do this week? Uh, worked on a bunch of posts that hopefully you'll see today. We had to work to get the episode out because we were kind of down a man and he decided to just take a vacation Wednesday. Yes, I I said more than a few colorful metaphors on a Wednesday. Um, we got it done though. Yeah, Ben and I have been working on a couple posts that go out today. There's a lot of stuff going out today. In fact, let's talk about stuff that's going out today because we have um posts up the wazoo as the kids today are saying. No one said that. There
00:06:36
seems to be a lot of debate about whether or not I should have lost my beard or not. You should not have lost your beard. If by a lot of debate you mean nothing, then yes, there's no debate. No matter what's going on. So, um, what's going out today? So, big ones. We've got the uh the Vanguard. Uh you're going to meet the new variants. Uh that's a very very cool post that's just undergoing its final styling right now by Turbulent. Um Turbulent, we love you. Please style our post. Um if you're watching Turbulent, answer our calls. Style the post. So our our hope is that'll be out a little bit earlier in the day. Um the uh you're going to see it's focused very largely on the interiors of the new variants. Um so you're going to see how those all differ. You're going to you're basically going to see a lot about if if you don't
00:07:23
want a new Vanguard, you just want to see what's in your old one, we have you covered there. There's a cool video Germach did where he it's like a cutaway where he shows you how you get into the different areas of the ship. Um it's it's our most thoroughly concepted interior at this point for a concept ship, I believe. Uh it's a cool post uh that'll be up earlier in the day. Um, to go with that, uh, Todd Papy, Matt Sherman, and the, uh, our elite design corps have put together a a shorter design post on, uh, EWR, what we're doing, uh, for, um, you know, jamming and electronic warfare and all that. Um, I believe that is actually on my plate now. I need to, uh, sex that up for public release. I will doing that, uh, after this. Um, it's a shorter design post, but, uh, some cool stuff. Um, and that's to go with the Vanguard Sentinel,
00:08:12
which is an EWR uh ship variant. It'll also apply to the uh the Hornet Tracker and some of the stuff the uh Herald the symmetrical Herald uh does symmetrical herald. Symmetrical Herald. Um and uh so that's in the works. Uh we have the standard FPS post um which is coming from Jason Hutchkins in Austin. If you are listening to us, Jason Hutchkins, please do that. Um, we've got a post with the Dragon Con schedules for um me, Sandy, and our two Daves. Uh, that's just about ready to go. We'll have that up momentarily. Uh, we are doing a little social media roundup. As you know, Star Citizen social media has uh caught fire in the last week. So, we're we're going to do a little roundup post talking
00:08:59
about uh how you get information from our Facebook, our Twitter, and how you can follow our devs. even though they're, you know, it's their private account, some of them will are willing to share their lives with you. We're going to start compiling and basically index of that. Uh, and we'll talk about stuff like the the digital trading cards that we've been creating. Uh, the I'm a Star Citizen stuff. Um, so kind of right up there. James is working on that post right now. Um, well, not right now. We're not right now. No, he's just But now laying around like a lazy birdman right now. Bird person. Bird person. Sorry. Don't be burntest. Um, what else do we have today? Uh, dubdub. That's all the ones we're allowed to talk about, but there is another potential post later today that will be a surprise if it happens. And if
00:09:48
it doesn't, it will be disappointment. Can I touch on the trading card? Sure. Sure. Talk about the trading cards. So, uh, we've started a new line of I'm a Star Citizen digital trading cards. They're going up on our Instagram page. Uh, the first one went up this morning. I'm going to see if I can put it up on the screen here. Yep. That's our very first card, the Vanguard Warden Attacks, number 56 in the set. And you can see that on Instagram, and I'm because every card needs a back. I am adding the back to Instagram right now. So, that just went up on Instagram right now. So yeah, look for those. Check back every day. Yep. We thought that would be a fun way to grow
00:10:36
our Instagram. Um, one of our when we do social media, one of our, uh, big things is we don't want it to be the place you get information. We want it to be an extra fun thing. So, uh, we thought creating a trading card set, you know, clearly inspired by the old Star Wars Tops cards, which several of us here are, uh, quite obsessed with. Uh, we thought it would be fun. Um, and we hope you guys enjoy it, too. Uh, and we'll we'll do more of that in the future if it goes well. Um, meanwhile, on the uh the Twitter front, we have the I'm a star Susan. That's just take it off. Um, it's it's really heartwarming to read all of your uh all your posts like I'm a Star Citizen, too. Wow. It's a real live action one. Okay. Okay. I didn't realize you have to slide over so fast. I had the sides mixed up, but go
00:11:25
ahead. Um, so if if you'd like to do one of those uh for Twitter or Facebook or wherever you post uh filled out surveys with your picture on them, uh please do that. We we love seeing them. Hashtag I'm a star citizen. Um it's I'm astitizen.com. Uh very kindly put up by a backer. Um which backer was that? Human error. Human error. Yeah. So www. I'm a starcitizen.com. If you don't do the wwws, it doesn't always work. So, and you can there's a generator up there. You can make your own. Post them on uh social media and use the hashtag so we can see them. Otherwise, we're not going to see them. Be sure to include http or it won't go to the web. And it's I'm a star citizen, not I am a it's a star citizen. You're a star citizen.
00:12:18
Okay, that's on I was playing went nowhere. I was playing. No. No. You want to know what's cool? Watch this. Check this out. You haven't seen this yet. Better be cool. It's not gonna be cool. This better be Look at that. Okay. Oh, what? It's like our our trading cards. I was going to leave it up the whole episode. Yeah. Okay, fine. Wow. Zoey. Kids are saying that these days. Wowee. Wow. Zoey. You guys are so in line. Ben and I are stuck in the 1950. Ally and I are actually stuck in the 1990s. We can mention this about our weekend review. We started watching um XFiles from the beginning uh to get ready for next year's reboot, rekindle, whatever you call it. I think it's just a continuation. Yeah.
00:13:05
Six episodes. It's like it's an event series. Um so we we started watching the original ones from 1993 and we're pairing them with whatever the number one music video of the week was. Um, which has proved to be an unfortunate decision in many cases. Sounds amazing. I need to do that. Uh, Meatloaf was a lot more popular back then. Yes. Oh my god. Yes. Uh, we should also reiterate the I'm a Star Citizen info card contest that you mentioned on Around the Verse. Oh, yeah. Um, I should say it doesn't have to be one of the info cards. Uh, feel free to throw the info cards up there, but just anything that shows you're a Star Citizen. um cool stuff you created, your your gaming rig, uh some idea you have for the game, just tag it. I'm a star citizen. We'll be looking through all that and we'll
00:13:52
hand out some Vanguards next week. So, all right, 11:15, 1/4 of the show down. It's time to It's time to start in with the questions. All right, let me push some buttons here so we can see all the questions. Yeah, watch Mr. Robot. Oh, and uh Dragon Kong. We are getting ready for Dragon Con next week. Um, uh, our panel is on Saturday at, I believe, 5:30 in the Hilton. Uh, that's the big one, the Star Season Q&A. Uh, we'll be answering all your questions just like this, but live in a room full of other people. Um, and we'll have a couple cool things to show off. Uh, we'll have some swag. If you see us on the at the show, just come up to us and demand a pin or something and we'll do our best to give it to you. Um, Dragon
00:14:40
Hunt's one of my favorite shows there is. I used to go as a fan back in the uh, what do you call the 2000s? Knots as Okay. Well, I don't know. That's what we started call I don't know if that's official. Okay. Um, and it's it's just a I don't think any vibe. Um, I'm pretty sure it's all official. Like a writhing mass of geeks everywhere. It's great. Uh, so I'm looking forward to that. Um, and you should be too. All right. Ready to start another questions? Yes. Okay. What did you eat for dinner last night? What did I What did I eat for dinner yesterday? What did you think? I ate pizza. A burger. Burger. Yes. Um my my diet got a little derailed, but we're back on. Okay. Um Does Ben die? No, I do not. Ben, are you sick? What do you have? Uh I am getting
00:15:29
over a cold. I'm pretty much better now. Yeah, I had the cold yesterday. It wasn't nearly as severe. Ben was pretty stuffed up. Sounded funny. funnier than normal. Anyway, how's how's the sub module looking right now, Ben? Social module is looking great. Um, I bet a lot of you have actually played it. Um, you know, they they've very quickly diagnosed some connection issues, uh, I think, which had more to do with the launcher than the, uh, the actual persistent universe itself. Um, but we've had it's it's been going a lot better than we expected really from the, uh, test. We've been able to ramp up the number of players pretty quickly and that will continue. Uh question for Alexis. Is there a status update on the physical Star Citizen cards for concierge? Yes. Uh I've been working with uh Ryan Archer
00:16:18
this week. Uh he's been creating the art for these. Um we should be selling them I would say within the next month or so. Uh it'll be a very special card just for concierge folks. Um, we're doing a non-personalized card because, as you know, there can sometimes be issues with that. Uh, so we'll have more info in the coming weeks about how you can order that. Uh, our weekly CCU system update, uh, it's still pending some testing. Uh, basically, they've got a lot on their plate. It's on the schedule and it will be ready when it's ready. There will be CCUs for the uh the two Vanguard variants. Uh people who have an existing Vanguard and want to swap to a uh Harbinger or a Sentinel. Um where's
00:17:09
that? There will also be uh what we're calling Battlefield upgrade kits. Um we called them field upgrade kits for a while until we started thinking about acronyms. And uh basically what that is is an inworld thing where you can Very good. An in world thing where uh instead of buying a second Vanguard, you could just buy a field battlefield upgrade kit that will let you swap out the components. Um so basically little piles of ship parts. Uh hopefully save some money for existing Vanguard pilots. Um the only thing you don't get with that is the uh the change styling. Uh you know, all the little differences don't impact the stats of the variants. Uh but you can you you can you know convert to the same stats as the Vanguard uh
00:17:57
Harbinger or Sentinel or both. Um you can swap them around as well. Basically it's similar system as the uh Retaliator pods but external instead of internal. And uh that should be fun. Um I'm also pleased to announce that the two Vanguard variants uh were overpriced a little bit in our first analysis. Um, so they're they're slightly cheaper. I think it's about 10 15 bucks cheaper each uh in the uh final skew and uh you guys will have access to those shortly. So, uh we we take our uh we take our kind of reviews seriously for pricing ships based on components. Yes, ultimately most Vanguard information is coming later today, guys. Oh, no. We can talk about some of it. Um absolutely.
00:18:44
Yeah, I can certainly try to answer Vanguard questions. I saw somebody asked about patches. Yes, we will have uh those again soon as well. There's another question about how the CSQ is going. CSQ is still very backlogged. Um I see people on the forums talking about how it's been eight or nine days since their tickets been replied to and that's about uh I think where the queue is. I think we're a little over a week behind right now. So, we're trying. Continued patience. Uh the UK CS team is working their butts off. Mhm. Completely off. Yeah. Completely. Their butts are completely gone now. They are butts. There are no more butts. Uh and we've been helping out here as much as we can as well. So just, you
00:19:35
know, just know it's one of those times. It's going to be a few weeks. What's your favorite Vanguard, Ben? Uh somebody asked what happened to the FPS update last week. There was an FPS update last week. It was on Friday uh late in the evening, but it did happen. Um for clarification, I don't know if you start with this, but there is no more Elonic update on ATV because we have the FPS update, which seemed like it made just sense and we wanted to get uh Frankfurt in finally. So, yes. Yes, that's a good point. I've seen some conspiracy crafting about this. I still working on Star Marine. We've just uh we now have a fourth internal studio that can do videos. They're all set up to share what they're working on in Frankfurt. and we just swapped that out for them because you still get the FPS update on Fridays and the text one. Um, so it's not a case of ilonic being
00:20:23
kicked to the curb or anything like that. Uh, there was there was no slight just made sense. Yeah, because you know we have half a dozen outsources, moon collider, um, other ones that have behavior turbulence. So they don't like you know this one the one we always me um and we you know we we generally don't require they do video updates. Um, so, uh, we we're going to focus on our internal studios for the, uh, news from around the verse on Around the Verse. Is there anything we don't name Around the Verse? Nope. Okay. Uh, will the Vanguard Warden also be up for sale today? It will. Um, no more LTI, but if you want one with twoear insurance, um, you'll be able to pick one up during the sale. And somebody had asked which one of the Vanguards is your favorite. Um, I am a
00:21:12
fan of the Harbinger. Um it's it's the uh the torpedo armed fighter bomber version. Um going way way back to the original concept for the Vanguard. Uh the idea was that it would be similar to the twin engine fighters in World War II, the measurement 110, the P38 Lightning, and so on and so on. So it would be able to be converted to be, you know, our version of a night fighter or a fighter bomber or a longrange recon photo plane. Um and so that's what we're doing here with the variants. uh this idea of field upgrade kits, battlefield upgrade kits, uh where you uh so it happens in the field rather than uh something you go home for. Um we have some cool fiction uh that we've worked up on the military side where you know these mixed squadrons of vanguards work together to do long range bombing
00:22:01
runs from forward operating bases. Um it's cool stuff. Uh it uh hair is terrible today. I wear a hat. I wasn't wearing a hat this morning. Wondering what was going on. What happened to my hair? My dad will say like, "Shut." Yeah. Like five minutes before the show, I went, "I'm going to go get my hat." Someone would love to have Ben's hair. Shut up. Uh I like the Harbinger just because of the name. Harbinger is my favorite. I like I like that word. You really like It's also olive drab, which is like my favorite color. You really like Mass Effect, don't you? Um, uh, somebody was asking, we mentioned going to that air museum in Palm Springs, and they wanted to know when we were going, and could they join us? Uh, certainly you could join us. We could make a, uh, like a weekend Star out of that. Uh, let's figure that out offline.
00:22:49
Yep. Yeah, it it something we want to do. It got, uh, it got supplanted by talk of going to Medieval Times. So, all all week this week, we we're trying to figure out when we could all go to Medieval Times because it's the end of summer sale. Tickets are like $25 off. There's a free plug. Medieval Times. Give us free tickets. Yes, we're going to do that. We have to As soon as this is done, we have to figure out. I've never I've never been to a Medieval Times. I'm very excited. It's a dinner and tournament. I love it. Very excited. I I love Medieval Times. But you know, if you want to hang out with some of us idiots on one of these stupid idiot things we do next week, next week, Thursday night after work, we will be at the Toys R Us in Culver City for uh Star Wars the Force Quake is merchandise release. Um so if you want to come wait
00:23:39
in line with a bunch of Star Citizen uh us, then uh feel free so to do. Uh, it will be the saddest thing we do all year. No, I hope the saddest thing I do each year is when new Hallmark ornaments come out and I go buy the Star. Yeah, but at least we got that done in like 30 minutes. Yeah, that was over. That was over and done. We're going to spend several hours sitting in a parking lot. Bought me the Crayola to buy a Star Wars toy at midnight. Be a little sadder. Since I was like one years old. Will the Vanguard escape pod modules be interchangeable like in the Retaliator? Could you add the harbingers pod with the torpedoes? Yes, that is part of the upgrade kit. The uh the uh the escape pod in the warden pops right out and you pop in the uh the torpedo racks.
00:24:30
No, mix and match. By the way, uh thank you to everyone who did not reply to Sy's picture of the uh the torpedoes in the Vanguard with nice racks. But now you put that idea out into the world. The four of you if it didn't already exist. Sure. It already existed. Um, will we have private message and social module soon? Um, I do not know about soon, but we will uh buy and buy. Yeah, Tony owns the chat system. We've had a couple conversations uh with the Austin team this week about the chat system. They got many plans. It's very iterative. Lots coming. Yeah, I will say uh one one thing about um Arena Commander, you know, we we put it out and we spent a lot of time uh I would call it almost experimenting. Basically
00:25:19
taking uh Arena Commander and saying, "Okay, this doesn't work. Let's do this. This the physics system is not accurate here." Blah blah blah. So, it was a lot of stuff you didn't predict. You know, each iteration required a lot of bug fixes that were not something that were in a long range plan at all. Um for the social module it is very very very different because it has been uh basically timed out very very very carefully. So we know that in this reason there's this and this this this um for like the next year or so to get us to the persistent universe. Um and it's it's really cool seeing that happen. Um I have a lot of faith in the guys out there that this will work out pretty well. Who from LA is going to sit the same con? That that question has been asked a couple of times. Um I think just Sandy
00:26:07
and Chris right now and uh Hennessy, our video guy. Yeah. Uh but you probably couldn't hear her. The question was who from the LA office is going to Citizen Con. It's just Chris and Sandy and Hennessy who's running a live stream. But you're going to have uh oh about a hundred uh about 100 uh UK UKians who will be there too. UKians. That's what people from England are called. I've never heard that before. I just made it up. No one has any status update on the new hollow table? Um, no. No ETA in the new hollow table. We know you want it. We know it will work, but it's one of those things where it's it's a task rather than a uh a thing to develop. Is that toast in the background? That was toast in the background. Yep. I was
00:26:56
sitting over there eating toast. Is the Vanguard Harbinger superior to the Retaliator? Um, no. Uh, in the same way that I mean, what does superior mean in a bomber? Uh, is is like a Dauntless or a Medish 410 or something superior to a B7? No, they're just different totally different things. a uh you're going to have less ordinance on a uh on a retaliator harbinger, but you also have a little bit more maneuverability. Um so it's uh it's a trade-off like everything in uh Star Citizen in life. What did my hair? Yeah, with this is a Oh god. A Hi, I'm baseball Ben. How cute are you looking at? I'm
00:27:45
fluffy hat. Good. Now you have I don't have eyes. I just have fluffy hair. Yeah. So, now you have likes. Now I have likes. Uh, is it okay we share? Friendship life. # friendship life. Uh, going back to the Battlefield upgrade kits, are there any other ships that we plan to put Battlefield upgrade kits for? I can't say yet. But, uh, the Hornet lineup might get something like that someday. Oo. So, I guess I did say what's going on. Redeemer versus Vanguard. How is that matchup supposed to play out? Um, TBD, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Each as Star Trek 2, each according to his
00:28:34
own abilities and so on. Yeah. I whenever people ask those those questions about this ship versus that ship, I I the the best example we got of how that's supposed to work out was our Gamescom demo when the Retaliator was supposed to win that fight with the Connie. You know, in every playthrough, the Retaliator was supposed to win that fight and then the crew got in there and the crew made their own destiny. So, it's not so much about this ship versus that ship. It's about that crew versus this crew. So, play better and you should be all right. Uh, will CI be going to PAC South? No plans for PAX South at the moment. Um, although of course our Austin office is full of uh giant nerds who I'm sure will be going on their own time. Um, if we have some compelling reason to be there,
00:29:23
maybe we'll plan something, but uh, it will be decided later, I think. Not on our schedule right now. Yeah. Um, sorry. Sorry. Go ahead and finish. No, go ahead. No. Okay. I just saw a bunch of questions I was going to try to hop in and answer. Um, I don't have a lot of information on the Freelancer right now because um, that's been handed off to the UK. I think I mentioned last week we're we're trying this new thing where we're um, doing the art for ships by manufacturer because it just helps us um, keep things stylistically more the same. It's just a little bit easier on us. So, they're actively working on it. I don't know the status right now um, but I can try to find out for next week. Um, I saw some questions about the Drake Dragonfly. probably won't see that concept before the end of um 2015 because we we um only have so many left.
00:30:12
But um that's um that's ultimately not a decision I'm going to be making. I'll just say I would be surprised if we'd see it before the end of 2015. And um next week on Ship Shape, I'm going to try to do probably do the Avenger. So tune in for that. Uh once again, Blake and answer for all ship status questions, guys. Uh we do have the post on the forums that has our most updated information that we're ready to release. So uh asking when this ship will come or when that ship will come, what not. We don't have answers for you at this point. Yeah. Uh I'll try to tell you about like development schedules when I can, but that doesn't always coincide with marketing at all. Sometimes we drive like sometimes like you know when we're going to do things you know like they have to make decisions like based
00:31:00
on it and sometimes that like they all make decisions and we have to you know so it's it's you know not always 100% hand in hand one way or the other. Oh Ben will the new Vanguard variants have LTI? Yes the the two new ones will. The uh Warden will not. Yes. I I will also note we will have a warden uh battlefield upgrade kit. Uh if people didn't have one be the warden before, they can pick up a uh they pick up a harbinger or a sentinel and then have the uh the top garden and and the escape pod from the warden added to it. And will these new variants come with uh how similar ships have come lately with a takatu modeler? Yes. Yes, they Here's a question. Can you tell my friend Andy to buy a Vanguard Sentinel because it's awesome. Uh, Andy, buy a Vanguard
00:31:47
Sentinel because it's awesome. You're saying, "Sorry, I need you to repeat it back or else I would have forgotten the words by the time it flew by." Yeah. Uh, will the variance be sold in Friday in Europe? Uh, most of our times are based here in LA. It'll be Friday our time. We're trying to get that out as soon as possible. We have a strong hope that they will be sold uh before Friday in Europe. Um, we had a post this morning and then uh we took a look at it and we said no, make this fancier. So, um, those uh, beautiful boys at Turbulent are fancifying the post right now. Why am I talking like this? No, I have strong hope and the beautiful boys at Turbulent. Uh, any plan for Paris
00:32:35
games week? Uh, no plans for Paris games week unfortunately because I would love to go to Paris. We've talked about it. We did talk about it. We've talked about I think we'd all there were some tentative plans at one point but like to go to Paris. Yeah. It's just fancifying. Yeah. Someone was asking should we not talk about how I talked about the communication station twice on around the verse. Um I don't care that much. Yeah. I don't think anyone cares that much. Like we've all forgiven ourselves and moved past it. Uh Disco, when are you going to remove your mask? All right, chat's getting weird here. Give me something I can use. Will Anvil Aerospace get a capital ship someday? Maybe. Uh, they will have a uh the uh
00:33:27
it's not quite a capital ship and it's not quite a woman. It is the uh Crucible which uh can fit fighter, you know, it can carry a fighter around in it. So, it's it's larger than a single seater. It's a a mini capital ship. Um, and that's coming soonish. Uh, love running around AR Corp. We love running around AR Corp, too. It was one of the highlights of my time here being able to be there when it went live and welcome the first citizen, which if you saw ETV this week was Josh. Because, of course, because of course Josh. Josh. Shout out to Josh first. If if we ever do one of those stupid precursor plots that sci-fi games always do and you have to discover what uh what creature seated the genes of
00:34:17
humanity to create the universe. It should just be a giant Josh head at the center of the universe. Currently in planet side chubby blast cubby chubby wrote chubby. All right. They're both ridiculous. Cubby blast sign says since 2935, but the ad rolling says since 2750. What's the deal? When you see something like that happened, a wizard did it. That means submit a bug report. No, maybe not a bug report, but uh we will uh we will address that. That is actually the sort of stupid little detail that we love fixing. Yes. But which one will it be? Which one is the right date? Uh, well, there's there's a cubby blast history and jump point that should have the right date. Hurts. Uh, will CI be at EGX?
00:35:11
Uh, no. Owing to the fact that I'm not sure what EGX is. Yeah, I don't know what EGX is either. Maybe it's something we do all the time and we will be there. Uh, yes, Chris Smith and Josh Coons are still working on the constellation. I don't know if they're working on the Phoenix right now. No, they there still Yeah, there we work on the base model and then we go to the variant. So, yeah, they're they're working on it. It's looking great. Yeah. Is it possible to invite Tony Z to RTV? We would love to. Um, unfortunately, Tony is based in Austin and he um he's one of those people who exists outside of time, so um maybe he'll show up at 2:30 in the morning to answer questions on chat. Uh, but you know, he's like a horse you can't uh you can't break. How cool was that for him
00:36:01
to jump into a chat at 2:00 in the morning? Yes. And spew a design post on the social module and chat. It was It was pretty amazing. I read about it on Reddit. And as we get ready for uh for the uh the social module to go live to everybody, he is working on a uh an introductory post. Um, in fact, I saw a draft of it arrived in my mailbox just now. So, we'll be checking that out after this. People asking about my cat. I haven't seen her in a while. I think that she got sick when I was coming. Well, not like I think she got sick of my [ __ ] I should sick of my [ __ ] stuff. Sick of my ships that I was working on for Gamescom. And uh that's why and and she's like stopped like hanging out because she didn't know when I was home. I haven't seen her around. So, I know
00:36:49
that she's alive. I feel like she'll Yeah, she'll figure it out. I think we also got like some cat treats that she didn't like and so she's not as interested. I fixed that. We'll see. Will the Phoenix ever be sold again? Uh there are some Phoenix's remaining at this point. U I think there were a couple left at the end of the last sale, like less than 30, and uh but people have melted them since. Uh we we could offer another watt of them at some point. Mhm. How is the Carrick looking? I really want to hear more about it. Um, no uh no changes to the Carrick lately. Uh, but when we do start more work on it, um, you will be the first to know. Um, by the way, I want to I'm going to say two words. Something I uh I
00:37:38
had a little meeting about this morning that uh and I will say no more about this, but just letting you know. Caterpillar variants. So, and then exploded. Um, no, no, we're we're getting to the point where we're looking at putting the caterpillar, you know, that that into the game, that that part in the process. So, we uh we uh are thinking more seriously about uh what's next for it. Um, this is asking about the banning merchant. Um, so we don't have anyone slated to work on it super soon, but I know it's been brought up again as hey, we should actually put this in soon and work on this um, more so than since I've been here so far. So, um, I might have more
00:38:26
information coming up, but right now I don't have any new information. I'll keep you guys posted. I know, trust me, as soon as I know anything about that ship, you guys will be the first to know. Um, because I know everyone's excited about that ship. In the future, will we be able to explore more of Park Court? Yes. Yes. Uh, in fact, in that chat we were just talking about where Tony Z jumped in to Star Citizen chat at 2 o'clock in the morning, he mentioned that a lot of those uh alleyways that don't seem to go anywhere will expand into new areas. Uh, you'll notice the doors to Cassaba, I think it's Cassaba, are currently closed. That will open at some point and there there have many plans. It will be a very iterative experience and you'll get to see just how a video game is made, which is basically true of this entire project. Um, I saw a question earlier, it went by
00:39:14
too fast, but it was about the HUD on certain ships, um, and the Merlin HUD. So, we actually have Zayn, our UI artist, uh, over in the UK right now to work with some of their UI designers over there to, um, to to come up with some strategies for um, basically how manufacturers are going to be styled. for example, I think someone asked about like the the holographicness in one of the HUDs. Um, some manufacturers will have that is the way we're thinking it'll go and other ones won't. It'll be more kind of what fits with that company's vibe. Um, so that's something they're over there talking about and uh working on right now. But in general, similar manufacturers will have more similar HUDs if if one has a holograph. And chances are others by the same manufacturer will. But they aren't all going to. They're all gonna be awesome
00:40:02
because Zayn is a genius. Uh, any update on a new Jump Point hard cover? No, no updates, I'm sorry to say. Uh, uh, somebody asked if there'll be buggy racing in Arc Corp someday. I want it so bad. I've talked to I've talked to everybody. Erskin. I've talked to uh uh Jake Ross. I've talked to Tyler Wkin. People who Gerald Manz, people who don't have anything to do with it. I've talked to everybody at Austin. All I want to do is drive my buggy around and do art demolition derby. Doesn't mean it's going to happen, but I'm championing it. We'll see how ineffective I am. Is this our actual microphone I knocked out? No. Okay. Not today. We had some troubles with that one. So, this is our
00:40:50
replacement here. By the way, how is the sound? Does the sound somewhat better this week? Let us know in chat. Um, let's see. Are the blades on the Vandal fighter supposed to heat up after they're extended? Met. Notice I timed that question to the arrival of two of our designers. Do the blades heat up? They don't have They shouldn't even have a heat cool to heat up. Like, how does I will look into that, but what? They shouldn't. Yeah, I don't think he's saying that. I can't tell if he's saying that they do and asking you if if that's how it should be or if he they should not and I don't understand how they might be capable of it. You guys need to step forward a little bit more. They're having a hard time hearing. Oh yeah. Okay. A question for Kaix. Why don't the
00:41:40
glaive blades do any damage? Uh do they not? I've also seen them do damage. I mean, I I'll look I'll look into that as well because uh uh we've I had issues with some of our integration stuff on account of internet. Uh not everything has made it in. Uh couple questions about why they can't walk into certain areas of art. Uh because it's iterative. It will expand. Yeah, you guys are seeing the uh the grain of sand. There's going to be a whole beach. No, that's a good analogy. Nor normally I have to shake my head, but that's actually a pretty decent analogy. Um, I still don't know anything about the freelancer. We hand it off to the UK. Um, but if you ask that question on the um, ask a dev ship thread, which
00:42:30
I've been neglecting for a few weeks because of Gamescom and follow up from that. Um, but I'm going to try to go back to then I will try to direct the correct people to your question. Can folks take the rocket turret from the Harbinger and attach it to the to the Warden? Yes, that that's the idea behind the upgrade kits. You uh you swap out the you you make it the other ship essentially without the styling. Say so you'll have the same stats. It just um people are asking about updates on the Cutless and like why we haven't been talking about it a ton. Um, honestly from from my experience, this is something that we've kind of handed back and forth a lot. We've had a lot more teamwork on that ship between the UK and LA. So, I think both of us have been
00:43:18
kind of hesitant to give many in-depth or certain updates because we're like, "Oh, well, but we're just going to give it off to them really quick." Um, and I know that a big part of what we were working on was getting everything ready for Gamescom. And we have, you know, some other stuff coming up that we want to make that are also a priority that, uh, we want to and and now we got that to a place where, you know, it was it was solid for Gamescom. We want to make sure that, um, everything else that has potentially, you know, more pressing deadlines and dependencies gets handled before we go back to focusing too overly much on the cut list. So, that's kind of that situation. We're not like withholding anything. It's not a disaster. I do have an update on the cut list, although it isn't the art updates that we brought you're talking about, which is uh part of the past that isn't in the current patch, but will be in this coming patch. Uh is we we changed
00:44:08
the health of hull with our our our balance pass previously. Uh but we did not go back and change the health components. uh as a result the uh the big components sitting on the side of the cutless uh were still had the old health values uh and so would explode if you looked at them. Uh so I've gone in and I've I've increased those health values uh like quite a lot uh and going through all like the should also be affecting the hornet. Um, I believe the Gladius is not helped by this because they mostly lose their uh uh their thrusters because they have lost a wing and the thrusters are on a wing. Uh, so that's going to get more
00:44:56
addressed with uh some of John Pritchett's future uh uh flight model updates that will allow for unbalanced thrust input uh where basically your ship has a really hard time pushing on this side if it can't also push on this side. So you'll start like spinning. Uh so that's some of the stuff coming down the pipe that'll help Gladius. But in the meantime, everybody who's affected by losing the physical object uh should be assisted by the new health of the A couple people have asked if they could take the rocket turret from the Vanguard and put it on the uh Retaliator. Uh I don't know given the current uh design of it. It was originally speced that you could but that uh if that's the case and as it was designed originally
00:45:46
or whether or not that's still the case because I haven't touched it in a while but uh it was also designed that if you are able to transpose this to other ships, it doesn't come with its uh suite of ammo. So you just have what's actually on the rack, which means that you get your uh some 30 odd shots before this is now a useless turret. Yeah. Uh so buyer beware. Yeah. When you see the Harbinger, it's got these cool uh it's got the rockets that are on there and then there's this whole section in the back where with more rockets and a cool reloading system. That's part of it. So the folks have asked about a tour terament at Dragon Con. Um I don't believe we're going to do one this year. Last year it came up suddenly I think last week. So if you are the person who set that up last year, we'd love to do it again. We will uh support you with
00:46:35
prizes and cool stuff and all that. If not, uh that's also okay. So because I see the another question on the rocket turret being able to rotate 360. Um, something to keep in mind with that concept piece is since it's a concept, we we still haven't fully answered everything. So, yeah, we'll we'll most likely do some cleanup as that gets fully built out into a gameplayable asset to make sure that you're not tearing a feed belt off your ship to to turn around and shoot some guy behind you. Um, so that that will definitely be taken into consideration. See if I can do I look Amish. No. You look You look more Amish
00:47:25
in this hat than I do. He's got the black high neck. Yeah. The shirt. Well, like it looks distinct on him. When you put it on, it looks like you're like an Indiana Jones fan or something. I look now. Let's see if I Let's see if I can I miss something. Let Let me see if I can look. Maybe a montage where the team tries on various hats. friend this shot here. Oh my god. This hat changes your religion. Yes. No, you don't have to like lose the mustache to have Oh, that's right. I got too much mustache. I have too much mustache to be honest. Gosh, it's a little disappointments in life. The problem is now we've confirmed that I do have the top of the head. Yep. Well, cut that out. And we all have
00:48:12
lights now. People in chat are being really creepy towards Lisa today. Yep. They're being they were creepy towards Sandy earlier. Hey people, stop being creepy. Stop being creepy. Actually, like in I mean there's always people like I have to say in like in general like there's a lot less creepiness than I expected. Um still plenty of creepy. Somebody asked if the Harbinger comes with a rail gun. That's a good question. Let's answer that. I don't believe it does. I don't think it does. Does one of them have the I don't think so. Is the new Are there plans to sell the new Corvette this year? TBD. Uh when it's when it's ready, it's
00:49:01
ready. Uh how will ships go from hanger to the takeoff platform when it comes to the PU or will it take off from the hanger? uh you the door will open and it'll go right out. Uh in fact, I remember being very concerned about this in the early days in Austin and we we had a whole like series of meetings where we came up with this Japanese car style garage where the ship would go into a platform and you'd you would carry it up and you'd see the other hangers around it. Um I don't know if that's still what's going to happen or not, but uh we have certainly thought it through. When are we expected to see new weapons in the Voyager Direct store? Not soon. Not soon enough. Now, weapons are you're gonna see some more components in the not too distant future. Weapons will
00:49:50
uh be coming behind those. It's been the topic of discussion lately. Yeah, we definitely want to get a full spread of weapons out for you guys because just having a couple as it is right now is a bit limiting. Yes. Uh, hey, does anyone here owe Ben a write up about some certain weapons? Yeah. Not me. Not me. Not me, but still. Raise your hand if not you. It could be me. I have no idea. It's Matt Sherman. Yeah. When can I stream the social module? There's so many weapons. So many weapons. Uh, there's a question about when they can stream the social module. folks that are in the PTU uh accepted an NDA. Uh um once it goes to live uh you can stream it. Um I can't tell you when that will
00:50:40
be just that uh I can't say anything else but uh once it goes to live. Um by the way we we did not do that to arbitrarily punish uh punish backers. Um we we wanted the the initial thing to be a focus on the actual load test. um back when we did Arena Commander uh 7.8, you know, we we people were just furious that streamers managed to be in the first group and how we we must be there must be a conspiracy. We're we're letting streamers show this off because all we care about is selling the game and we should be testing it. So, this time we decided to try an NDA. Um from Romania, you know, in Romania, it it's not like a traditional NDA. We're not going to be going after you if you stream. we're just, you know, disappointed. Um, and we'll be less
00:51:28
likely to include you in the next batch. But, uh, and there are some that we are already disappointed in. But that mean we mean we're going to take a whole like a picture of the whole company, all of us making disappointed faces, and just email it to you with no text. Just us being like, it's the it's the whole mom thing. I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed. My mom doesn't sound like that. Did we ever get that clarification on the retaliator cargo discrepancy? I don't think I ever heard back from that. Uh we will uh I haven't seen the art for the cargo area. Yeah. Those the the uh cargo values are measured by the the artists building the thing because the amount of cargo that your ship can carry is the amount of cargo space that it actually has. So that number comes out of the actual
00:52:17
geometry. Um, it was written to have a certain amount, but we always need to get that number back from what the end of the art ends up being. So, I usually just go by whatever the artist said. Um, question, any Javelin updates? I don't have any. Um, I'd have to check with the UK because I think I might have seen that on their schedule somewhere, but I don't remember if that was now or anything. So, I can I can find out, but I don't have anything to say about the Javelin. Chef's in the works for Squadron 42 and you'll be seeing more about it later this year probably. Thank you. How about the Idris? Idris is also in the works for Squad 42 and it's much further along. Um, you know, people asking about the Idris, the Constellation, and the Cutless. You just saw them all at the Gamescom demo. So, that's where they are. I think they were
00:53:06
looking pretty good. Yeah, they're I'm Mr. Beasts. Look at me. Nope. No. Where did you get it from? Uh, this I got this was an actual official product, right? And this was made by some lovely young woman in Romania and sent to me through Etsy. It's haunted, by the way. It's haunted. Absolutely haunted. I mean, it's a mess. It's already got some social issues. How many ship artists are working at CI? A lot. I don't know if Yeah, I don't know if I' I don't know if I've ever actually counted them out. A lot. We've got several here and uh a few in Texas and probably the most ship artists in the UK. Like probably a little bit more than here in Texas combined. Um
00:53:56
it's it's kind of tricky to give an exact number because we have some artists who will go back and forth between working on ships and other things. We have some ship artists who don't actually work on um you modeling the ships or creating them, but they're almost full-time dedicated to bugs and support. Um, so, so I'd say less than 10 here and a few in Texas and, uh, more than that combined in UK. I don't know how many off hand. And we usually have like two people working together on a ship uh, in the early stages. So, we'll have um, someone working on the interior, someone working on the exterior through the white box and gray box stages, which is the majority of time when we're working on a ship. And um, and then we'll usually both work on polishing and
00:54:44
materials and everything together. Sometimes, you know, one person has to come in and out and then after that is uh when all the craziness happens because we have to have all of the designers and the engineers and the still artists helping out um tag teaming the ship until it's uh ready. So, a question on uh the Mustang Delta. Uh it hasn't received any uh significant changes to how it flies, but the uh the Delta rockets have uh increased damage and flight speed, so uh they should be less useless. Now, you want to hype that uh Glaive poll that's in the forums? Oh, yes. Go vote in the Glaive poll in the forums. Um nailed it. Awesome. All right. No, based on the I mean based on the response so
00:55:34
far, it looks like maybe we will offer some additional blaves um from the Gamescom pool. Uh we'll make a final decision. We'll sit down with Chris next week and uh make a final decision. Um if you are Gamescom, um this weekend's probably your last chance to uh get a glaive with your special badge. So um go out glaive hunting. Yeah. Yeah. Poll's only been up for like two days, right? Yeah. Yeah. So we want to get a couple days worth of worth of feedback. There's also a question on uh our balance updates. Uh yes, they are generally future focused. So uh the the changes to uh how much health and damage is being done is more on establishing what we expect out of uh a physically based damage system and and seeing how that sort of how it feels, what we're working with. Uh same thing for like
00:56:24
some of the signature work I'm doing right now. Um, yeah, we any anytime we have new features that are coming down the pipe, we want to balance the game such that we can understand those parts better. Uh, question from Matt. Why are the Dominator 2 missiles so much slower than all the other missiles? I would actually have to check their stats to see their current performance. So, can't answer that just yet. I think Kirk worked on the missiles. Um, but those uh I'm sure there's there's a lot of legacy in the missiles uh in general. Like basically everything about the missiles is legacy at this point. So we need a lot of engineering time and to sit down and and reexamine what the design of each missile component is because it's sort of carrying a lot of
00:57:13
baggage at this point. All right, last three minutes. Let's get some good ones in here. Someone was asking about the ability to um solo drive the capital ship from the captain's chair because it can technically take over other stations. Um we're still um we're still I wish I had Randy here for this but um from like from what I know and I if he says anything different defer to Randy other than me. um the bigger ships that do have more stations and the responsibility is more broken out, uh you probably technically could, but it would be a lot tougher. Like I like almost in a sense it wouldn't be rewarding because you'd have to switch over to the navigation station to set
00:58:00
the course, switch over to the pilot to fly it, and then to like to you know, it's perfectly possible, but it's not but it's cumbersome and so not really feasible in an environment where other people have someone dedicated to that. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's it's at least as far as the station design is going, it's you're you're fully empowered to access your ship. Uh but you're not empowered to be awesome at it by yourself. Yeah. Like I don't think it should be possible for someone soloing in interest, you know, defeat someone else in a capital ship that has a maybe slightly less talented but full crew of people. Yeah. Yeah, it's the efficiency loss of trying to solo things is definitely going to be substantial. Uh it won't, you know, won't make things impossible. It'll still make sure that it's like, oh, I just need to move my ship from point A
00:58:49
to point B and you're not really going to get into a fight. We don't want you to be, you know, stalled from that. But if you're picking a fight between the capital ship, you're going to want more than yourself on board. And I don't I don't represent like the full breadth of our design decisions, but I have not heard anything about mechanically locking you out of operating your ship if you're a solo player. All the discussions are a matter of you will not win whatever thing you're doing unless you work together in these giant ships. It's not that you walk up to it and it says you need two more players to be a cool guy. We talked about this early on and actually put a bunch of planning into it. The the idea is that yes, it's it's your thing to a capsule ship is your thing to fail. You can try to man 30 turrets at once. Uh you're just an idiot if you do it. So it it's no
00:59:37
technical limitation. It's uh simply your own abilities. Yes. Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should do a thing. And that wraps up reverse the verse for today, Friday, August 28th. Uh thanks for watching. Uh that's Ben Lesnik, that's James Pew, that's Lisa O'Haney, that's Kaix Renault. It's always reversed. One of these two. It's It's Matt Sherman. Well, it's always reversed. Uh that's Alyssa Del Taco in the back. And I'm Jared Huckabe. Thanks for watching. Take it easy, guys. And we should say that next next week, um we online next week it will be a quieter episode. I think I'll be at Dragon Con. James is on some kind of like Vegas, baby thing that he won't actually go to. And um so you just have Lo and Alyssa. It's you
01:00:27
and me next week, guys. You and me. That's terrifying again.

Transcript from YouTube’s automatic captions — punctuation and Star Citizen jargon are approximate. The video itself is hosted by CIG on the official channel.