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Reverse the ‘Verse: Episode 89 – Incomplete Transcript

Lots of spaceship work this week by Ben. Lots of new designs for things we’ll see in the second half of the year. Carrack revisit has been kicked off, as has the rover.

Ground vehicles are in the works, as well as things to do with them.

Worked on Monthly Report this week, might come out later tonight, but it’ll be done. Some studios haven’t sent in their work yet.

A fan sent CIG a blanket like the one in the Starfarer’s Captain quarters.

10 for the Chairman was this week, Chris Roberts is back in Austin now.

Around the ‘Verse had a chat with Captain Richard this week.

Alexis – Subscriber flair released today. hornet Tracker model this month. Also released Concierge flair today, should be on your account. Won’t show up in Hangar inventory, it’s not an item, it’ll just appear in the game.

The Concierge flair is a top-hat and monocle.

Sandi and Alexis are visiting lots of warehouses tracking merchandise and such. Sandi went to McDonalds for the first time in about two decades.

Justin had an exciting week. He went on a cruise vacation, then edited some 10 FTC, edited another Loremakers, the works.

Sandi’s week – sorting out a track jacket sale for next week, with a bonus notepad. 49$ for track jackets, comes with the playing card set, starting Monday. And they’re working on some event merch for Gamescom and Cit Con. Sandi did lots of work on Gamescom this week.

Swag for Cit Con has been sorted out. Ben and Sandi have been talking sales all week. Lots of marketing ramping up.

Tomorrow they’re going to play through Secret Missions 2 on Twitch @1200 PDT

Patch 2.4 – Which Disco thinks he’s pronouncing wrong. There’s a new 2.3 patch in the works being tested, but 2.4 has ‘branched’, everything they want to include in it is being worked on with QA. They still cant’ say exactly what’ll be in it, but they’re aiming for persistence. They had a test build last week that had some persistent features. Working on another ship hangar, and another ship flyable, ready.

Jake Ross has talked a lot about Persistence in AtV News from Around the ‘Verse segments.

Still too early to say exactly what’s in 2.4, but it’s begin worked on.

Where’s my Spaceship!

Internal concepts for Cat are coming in. Sandi’s Facebook has a mystery ladder from the Cat.

Herald is in Austin – Josh Coons working on the interior and exterior of the Herald. Chris Smith is working on the Hornet F7CA the military variant.

UK are working on the Javelin. Lots of active Javelin work. Getting the Starfarer its space trials. They have builds where it’s flyable. Matt Intrieri is working on damage effects for the Starfarer. The MISC Prospector is the next concept ship. Much smaller individual mining ship.

We’ll see more of the Prospector soon. ‘Think of the Toyota car, they make cheap sedans, and then they make big trucks’, Ben likes the idea that they make consumer grade and industrial ships.

The BMM – is still waiting for people.

Carrack had a kickoff meeting for internals, making sure everything works in-game, Gurmukh is going to revisit it once the Caterpillar’s done.

And now it’s Q&A time. Ask questions in the RSI general chat. Ask them by typing [QUESTION] before your question.

[Can we ship Tyler and Lando?] Disco didn’t know what shipping means. Ben and Alexis are sure there’s Disco hentai out there.

Don’t send it to them though.

[Concierge flear wearble?] No. It’s just decoration.

But down the line they’d like to make it wearable.

[Big Benny’s machine in hangar?] Not sure when. Disco’s asked for it, but it’s out of his hands. Ben proposed an event where they do that, but it hasn’t been vetted or approved yet.

[Lynx and Ursa rover?] Ursa rover has been kicked off this week, they’re gonna talk more about it soon. lynx already has concept art.

[2.3.1 before 2.4?] Yes. They have a build they want to push today.

2.4 is still a ways off. It’s not ready yet.

[Sent you a graph with procedural trees, is this useful or a waste of time?] Anything you send them they’ll send on to the proper folks. They know who to send that stuff to. It’s the Germans.

[AtV fast forward?] Procedural build from a month and a half ago. Used it in the February show-and-tell. They were kind enough to let Community share it. It’s not even close to final, it’s continuing development. It’s showing things as they progress through development.

[New Concierge flair every month?] No. Last year they asked what kinda perks Concierge wanted, and flair was an overwhelming response, and they pulled some things from that thread to do. They’ll do more as they go forward, but it’s not a schedule like subscribers. Subscriber money pays to make the flair.

[X56 unbranded version of SC HOTAS?] Nope. They would have their development prototype if it were. it’s the gen before the SC HOTAS.

[Is it CIG’s current plan to have all announced ships flyable at commercial launch?] No? Depends what you mean by commercial launch. You can buy the game right now, so technically it’s been launched commercially. Everything from before the Endeavour should be before the end of the Beta.

Now they’re talking about how Batman vs Superman sucked.

The Rogue 1 trailer happened this week. It was good.

[Dogtags?] They’re going into production very soon. Probably another month or so till shipping.

Mousepads sold out quickly, they’ll be available in store again eventually. Patches might come back to the store too. They’re working on two sets of manufacturer patches right now.

[Dragonfly?] Its gone through the initial design process. Its either got a concept artist, or is going to one. There might have been some Dragonfly concept art posted today. Jim Martin’s doing the Buccaneer.

when I say Posted Today, it’s on their internal stuff. not anything we’d see

[Big ship sale?] How big a ship do you want?

[Day for Gamescom this year?] Gamescom tickets are already on sale. CIG are doing their event differently this year. They’re going to have several social events, and a booth on the show floor. No ticketed CIG event.

[Make the Rover red?] You can make the Rover any colour you want.

[Network backend rewrites pause development?] No. Rebuilding things is part of the process of literally any game ever. When you get in a car in GTA, that car’s been redesigned 30 times. The only difference is with SC you see it. If someone’s rewriting the code, they’re doing their job. It’s the difference between development and construction. Construction makes it all the way through. Development you’re trying to create and discover the end result.

Disco doesn’t like ME 2 as much as ME 1 because Disco is a smart person and ME 1 was the best game in the series.

[Rework of the 300 series?] Down the line, yes. It needs another work.

[What kind of headwear is Alexis’ favourite?] Alexis likes a beret? Like a knit floppy beret. Crocheted.

[How often will the AtV fast forward be?] Every week. Sneak Peek has been replaced with something more robust. Lets them show more.

[News on CIG livestream planned for Jan 16?] It didn’t happen.

Late last year they had an idea of doing a livestream every month or two, but when they got to it, it made more sense to put out a prepared video instead of a livestream.

January livestream was going to be to show off Gillian Anderson and some Xi’An Scout work. So we’ve seen it all already anyway.

[Price change on the Starfarer mean there’s a price change for the gemeni?] Yes.

[Ship mounted space shotgun?] If you’re a subscriber check out the vault this week, there’s a picture of that concept.

[RSI Orion?] Work on mining mechanic in general, but it’s still waiting for its turn.

[Video of finished LA office?] Soon. They’re still working on the lobby.

[purchasers of AMD GPU of Polaris line get a free Polaris?] No. No connection there.

Ben came up with Polaris during the meeting, were looking for something that said navy military. Ben went with Polaris cause of the ICBM’s.

RSI is normally spacey, they wanted something that fits that, but also feels more military. Name isn’t 100% yet.

[Explore Idris before game launch?] Don’t know yet. But check out the interview with Erin Roberts from AtV last week.