Inside Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 - What We Do In Space
Inside Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 - What We Do In Space
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18182379
Guests:
- Kaan Cakir, Lead Level Designer
- Stephane Charre, Environment Artist II
- James Kay, Lead Content Designer
- Assistant Environment Art Director
- William Weissbaum, Assistant Narrative Director
- Antoine Fauville, Senior Level Designer
- John Lang, Level Designer II
- Kristofor McMahan, Associate Design Director
TL;DW:
- Pyro has 12 space stations in total.
- Pyro space stations are bigger than the ones in Stanton.
- Rough & Ready gang own majority of Rest & Refuel stations in Pyro.
- Ruined Station (one from Citizen Con) has been expanded.
- Hangars will have direct access to the Cargo Deck.
- Hangars in Pyro will have external freight elevators to allow for (un)loading of ships like Hull-C.
- "Win station will have something called Ghost Arena".
- Contested Zones are like MMO dungeons
- Open space with loot.
- Easily accessible directly from the "normal" part of the station.
- Some routes are hidden behind puzzles, traps and key cards.
- Various levels of difficulty, various rewards.
- These are free-for-all zones.
- NPCs there are not linked to missions and will respawn on a timer.
- There will be Kopions running around, maybe more in the future.
- Boss fights are also planned, not confirmed for 4.0.
- Social parts of space stations are still green zones, no combat allowed.
- They showed clips with light-enhancement scopes.
- Asteroid Clusters are very different to the ones in Stanton.
- Asteroid Bases can be abandoned, used for missions etc. They also have loot, obviously.
That goddamn Doctor Benny's box gets me every time, the fact that they even remixed the theme to match is just glorious.
contested zones are DOA when they think, they can add snipers as PVP element that just shoot other players from a hidden location. As long as this dumb idea is used by lazy devs to create "content" it will alienate the PVE share of players (like 95% of player base).
I think they'll probably be reasonably popular with the CoD/Tarkov crowd, especially since they're set in locations you can quickly return to after death (next to social spaces at space stations). Too bad the whole idea (or at least the way they talk about it) runs counter to the idea of death having serious consequences.
There's a lot of contradicting choices being made lately at CIG.
This is a major communication issue. You cannot say X and then deliver game play of Y which is the opposite of X.
Touting a "cargo event" and then deliver a combat event is exactly what is going wrong here. Everybody sees, that you either a dumb human or a lying human. Not exactly a good choice to make.
Using PVP as a filler will become a big problem over time when your vast part of players is PVE oriented.
They're telling me very quickly that if I want to have a good gameplay experience, jet set and forget 'colonized space' and find a secluded valley (or better, asteroid cluster) in the middle of nowhere to base operations out of. Zero interest in the Tarkov, or worse, Rust crowd.
I don't enjoy FFA zones. I'm not a pvper but I love the game. I really wish you could choose pvp or pve servers.
CIG seems to be really adamant about not learning from the experience of the rest of the industry so we'll have to make do with "safe" systems whenever they get implemented. Maybe they'll change their mind in another 10 years or so but for now it is what it is.