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Reverse the ‘Verse: Episode 98 Incomplete Transcripts

Today’s topic will be about them talking about 2.4 and possibly a ship reveal? =D

Ben’s week in review: Killed the tutorial. It’s still there, just disabled for now and won’t come back in the current form as there’s a lot of changes to the key layout so they’ll do a new one down the road. There will be a Free fly during E3 as well. Quite a bit of talk about updating AtV with three weeks away from episode 100. Support for 2.4 and setting up the live release post for when it comes out. Also work on the new concept ship that will be revealed later on in the stream. The Buccaneer gun will be attributed Monday so make sure you have a Buccaneer in your account when that rolls around as you won’t get it after when they run the script. Monthly Report went well and they’re talking about how amazing Jim Martin is and how peaceful of a person he is to talk to.

Alexis’s Week: Merchandise and setting up a spreadsheet for organising all the stretch goals and subscriber flair. Also working on a t-shirt concept that will be available sometime in the next few months for sale. In Around the ‘Verse, they revealed today’s Subscriber flair. It’s a Sabre model, which will be attributed today. It won’t show in hangar, will when 2.4 is released though. People who bought the sabre during the concept sale – there will be an additional model. They want them to be slightly different, they’ve done it a few times. If you bought the sabre, the model for that will come later. They need to go back to the referral program and flesh out some later referall rewards. This is a note for INN. They use our transcripts as notes for what they say during shows, apparently, because we’re awesome.

Lots of Disco’s work right now is prepping up for AtV 100. Gonna stretch some stuff out over a few episodes. They’re gonna celebrate all the different segments, they’ve got some cool stuff coming up.

Justins’ week – lots of editing. 10 for the Devs with Brian Chambers was this week, it was a wild ride. When Chris’ out of the office, it can be a scramble to find people to fill in. They went to Brian very late to do the show, and eventually he said ‘can I do more than 10 questions?’ – He wanted to do 13 questions. And a fire round. This week’s was crazy. Total of 22 questions.

Apparently Brian made Disco promise him something for August, but he won’t let us know what it is. We’ll find out in August.

Tyler’s week – Busy week, everyone’s trying to get 2.4 out the door. He’s happy to be back – he was on a trip to the X-games. He worked on the Buccaneer Q&A posts, lots of screenshot and video gathering this week, working on the 2.4 release post, etc… He’s happy to be back.

Time off is terrible, apparently.

2.4 is on the PTU – they rolled 2.4 out to everyone last night. They’ve been working on network issues the past few weeks that have been blockers. They’ve got a build now that looks really good. There’s one smaller blocker – ships spawn inside the landing pad. They’re working on a fix for that, should have that later tonight. Fingers crossed for tonight, if not, next week. They have the Bugsmasher himself working on that one.

2.4 has new controls, they’ve done a PDF with what’s changed. The 2.4 post will include lots.

Few things will come back on sale with the post as well. New gun on Voyager Direct, there’ll be the Starfarer, the Gemini, and the Reliant Kore.

Starfarer should be 300, 340 for the Gemini, and 65 for the Reliant.

Drake Dragonfly! That’s the other announcement today. They talked about it on the show yesterday, but they’ll be bringing it out next Friday. People have been talking about the Dragonfly for a long time. It narrowly lost in a user poll to the Reliant, but they’ve been stuck on a space motorcycle forever. It’ll be a useful ship in game. They normally announce the pricing a week out – Dragonfly will be $35. It’s a little guy. But apparently it’ll be useful in game. It’s smaller than a Merlin, but it has some very interesting utility. On Monday they’re filming a segment about it for AtV, tune in on Thursday for that, and maybe see an early teaser image.

Ben’s starting an impromptu contest. He wants your ‘Ben’ drawing, posted in the forums, about what you think the Dragonfly will look like. It has to be hand-drawn. MS Paint. All five of them will pick their favourite, and the one that’s closest to the final one, and the furthest from it, and those people will get a Dragonfly. They’ll announce the winners next week on RtV.

They also finally announced the Shubin mining winners. If you haven’t seen that, go to RSI website, see the top five winners. Those winners will get Orion’s, and five runners up will get MISC Prospectors. Ben made a bad joke, and silence happened. There were a lot of entries. Lots of ‘lol asteroids’. One person submitted the lyrics to ‘Tell me what you want, what you really really want’. A lot of the entries revolved around the characters father. People thinking about space families. There were also a handful of ‘my moms’ in there.

And now, Female character model! There’s a preview of it on Sandi’s Facebook, and there’ll be a segment about it on AtV in the coming weeks.

And now, Questions and Answers.

[Can we get a 10 for the Turbulent devs?] That’s a good idea! They can go to Benoit and others. They’ll get back to us on that, but they like the idea. If Turbulent are willing to do it, then they’ll do it.

[Going back to the BUK’s (from the Vanguard). Are there plans to sell Idris P and M kits before release?] No. It was something they promised very early in the campaign, because there’s two different Idris’s, they don’t want to just sell you a better Idris. It’ll be something you do in-game.

[Do you promise to judge the Dragonfly contest in a shorter time?] Ben – I promise nothing! – Pictures are easier to judge. They had to do a lot of reading.

[Will any other ships go on sale after 2.4’s push to Live?] Just the two Starfarers, the base Reliant, and the new gun. It’s possible that the 2.4 sale will be going on at the same time as the Dragonfly, but they’re two separate events.

Ben’s secret for remembering the early guns – he stuck a Wing Commander reference into each one.

[New things to buy in-game in 2.5?] They’re not code-locked on 2.5 yet. Almost certainly, but they can’t say what they are, in-case things break in the next few weeks.

[Ejection seats?] Some ships have them, and some ships don’t, because they’re not 100% essential. It’s a trade-off. Survivability ups the cost of the ship. It’s a spectrum, not every ship has everything. As for specific ships, that’s up to Design.

[Vanduul Blade?] Disco saw it on Patrick Solerno’s screen. They (community) don’t track the Vanduul ships too much, cause they’re all going into SQ42, so they don’t get to show off much.

[Who’s the face of the female model?] The face on the model is not final. The face in the pictures is placeholder. They’re still working on the faces. Also they have no idea who the face is.

[Starliner update?] No movement on variants for it. It’s scheduled out, it’s on the production plan, but no-one’s working on it now. They’ll work on variants after they get the first ship done.

[Dragonfly LTI?] Yes.

[Plan once 2.4 goes live?] Ben’s gonna take a long nap. No, they’ll all play some SC. It’s going to be good for the whole team. It’s the basis of a lot of systems. Once it’s in, they can flesh out stores, clothing, etc…, and the item port system is big for the component system, etc.

[Ask a Dev?] It’s up now! UK programmer Ben Parry took some time to answer quite a few questions in the Ask a Dev section.

[New mousepads?] They just shipped the last one they did. So maybe fall? They’re working on shirts right now.

[News about Caterpillar?] You’ll see it more real soon. They’re sharing some stuff about it with the Dragonfly. Might even be a neat video in the AtV 100 celebration.

[Fast-forward wasn’t any different?] The fast-forward is not gravy every week. Can’t have steak every meal. This one was highlighting continuing work in Frankfurt on the movement animations. It was much smoother, EVA’s not done though. Still being refined and tweaked. There’s stuff down the line still to show.

[Brickleberry?] They don’t watch it.