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Note: This transcript only focuses on questions relating to the game, there were others about background and other games.

Storyline for the game

In Defiance we have the long Von Bach narrative that runs the entire world. Initially every zone had its own story and that was pulled back. I would have rather have seen it in more in the forefront.

Frontier town in the bay area?

With the game they built a lot of worlds before the final world. They initially built a place called San Anselmo which was intended to be your hub for a long time. It was big enough that it felt like a frontier town. Unfortunately that went away. A hub is what the game is lacking right now.

Coming into San Anselmo they wanted to introduce the player to the hellbugs. Where you ended up getting your own little hellbug named Skit, and its still by far one of the greatest missions I've ever played in a game. Unfortunately it never made it to the end but neither did San Anselmo.

When you're dealing with a game world and things like texture budgets. In the end San Anselmo became a really expensive place when loading characters.

It probably would have worked as an adventure space, which I really think is lacking in a lot of games. Wish the Bay Area would have that also, where it is all about the player meeting people, and sets up the whole feel for the game and the zone.

Inside The Crater bar

We talked about designing the inside of the crater, and there were some really good concepts of the inside. No-one can get into it, but to me it seems like it should have been the center of the Bay Area. Especially with Varus Soleptor since he is trying to monopolise the entire Bay Area.

Radio tied into the show

That was one of the first things they always talked about. A shared radio that you would always hear. Like GTA where you could tune into channels and something always playing when you were driving around. We kept talking to Syfy that we wanted a shared voice that you would hear in the background in the TV and the game. It didn't end up that way, and they ended up using their own Raider Radio broadcasting out of the arch.

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