Wingman's Hangar ep058 . February 26, 2014 (english subtitles)
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0:08 - 0:12Wingman: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Wingman's Hangar episode 58.
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0:12 - 0:17This is an inside look at everything Star Citizen, Chris Roberts' new epic space adventure.
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0:17 - 0:22We take you around the 'verse with all the teams that are making Star Citizen possible.
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0:22 - 0:24Let's get to it.
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0:24 - 0:27Coming up today, we've got the Oculus Rift. Where? In your hangar!
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0:27 - 0:30F-f-f-forum Feedback with your questions,
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0:30 - 0:34a round table interview with the devs who are bringing you the Oculus Rift in the hangar,
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0:34 - 0:39and we've got David Haddock in from L.A. to talk about Squadron 42.
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0:39 - 0:41Should be fun. Let's get to it.
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0:41 - 0:44What happened this week at CIG? Lots of new hires.
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0:44 - 0:50In Austin we have Calix... oh, Jason Cobb in Austin, we have Calix Reneau and William Lewis in L.A.,
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0:50 - 0:52and in Manchester Luke Pressley.
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0:52 - 0:56We're still hiring, so get your stuff in at CIG: hr@cloudimperiumgames.com.
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0:56 - 0:59Let me know; we need more folks.
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0:59 - 1:02What else is going on this week? Dogfighting.
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1:02 - 1:08We've got the servers worked out. We're now testing internally across multiple studios. Dogfighting!
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1:08 - 1:12I'm looking at you, Maverick. Watch out for Dakota - coming at you!
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1:12 - 1:18The Vanduul Scythe is near completion and it's ready to kick some dogfighting butt.
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1:18 - 1:23And of course, RSI comments are revamped and we're restoring all the old comments.
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1:23 - 1:29If you remember the way it used to work on the Comm-Links, the forum wasn't associated with them.
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1:29 - 1:33So right now, you put a comment about the Comm-Link...
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1:33 - 1:37"Comment about the Comm-Link," there's some alliteration action for you.
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1:37 - 1:40But essentially it will now be attached to that Comm-Link rather than in the forums,
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1:40 - 1:43so it's going to clean that up a bit. Something you guys asked for.
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1:43 - 1:47And of course, The Next Great Starship episode 1.4 aired last Friday.
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1:47 - 1:51Really cool, and the Wild Card winners were announced and saved,
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1:51 - 1:55and you got a look at the new Mustang. A very, very cool episode.
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1:55 - 1:59Sandi does an amazing job with that, I think. If you haven't checked any of these out,
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1:59 - 2:01you need to go on the stick, start looking at them.
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2:01 - 2:03There's some really fun stuff happening there, coming up.
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2:03 - 2:10And of course, it wouldn't be a Hangar without some fan gifts! From Nicki and Ska!
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2:13 - 2:16Hey, everybody! We got a fan gift, and you know what that means.
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2:16 - 2:19Ooh, it says "Wingman".
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2:19 - 2:22Let's see what it is. It says...
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2:22 - 2:27"Thanks to Chris Roberts and the team," which is all over the place, "from Nicky and Ska."
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2:27 - 2:31Well, what did you guys send us? But you know, I like the look of this already.
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2:31 - 2:34Mark, what do you think? It's looking good, isn't it?
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2:35 - 2:38Oh yeah! It's Friday, too!
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2:38 - 2:42High West whiskey and Single Barrel Four Roses.
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2:42 - 2:44Mark: Daddy like.
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2:44 - 2:46Wingman: Woo! What do we say, everybody?
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2:46 - 2:48Thank you!
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2:50 - 2:51See you.
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2:51 - 2:54Thank you, Nicky and Ska. It is always very, very nice.
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2:54 - 3:00Gifts are very much appreciated, especially those of the persuasion of the boozish area.
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3:00 - 3:05So listen, today, what's going on? We've got a Hangar patch coming out right after this show.
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3:05 - 3:12The Hangar patch is pretty important today. We've promised Oculus Rift support - today we release it.
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3:12 - 3:15You're going to be able to tool around in your hangar; if you have the Oculus Rift,
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3:15 - 3:17you'll be able to check it out, walk around, see what's going on.
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3:17 - 3:21It's not completed yet. It is like the first pass at that. There's a lot left to do.
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3:21 - 3:24We don't have an interface which shows you which way you're facing,
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3:24 - 3:27so you might be looking this way while you walk. But you know, that's okay.
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3:27 - 3:30First pass, we want your feedback. That's exactly what we need out of it.
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3:30 - 3:36And earlier this week I sat down with Jason Spangler, Kevin Southall and Tom Davies to talk about -
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3:36 - 3:39what it's like to play the Oculus in the Hangar today.
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3:44 - 3:47Alright. We've talked a little bit about the Oculus Rift,
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3:47 - 3:52and I'm here at the Oculus Rift summit / round table with Jason Spangler - our CTO,
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3:52 - 3:55Kevin Southall - lead programmer, Tom Davies - gameplay programmer.
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3:55 - 4:01And we're now going to be implementing the first iteration, or the first blush at the Oculus Rift.
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4:01 - 4:07Now, Tom, you've been working on it a lot these last couple of weeks. So, what can the fans expect?
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4:07 - 4:11Tom: Well, it's very exciting. I'm excited to get it out there because it's really cool.
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4:11 - 4:19It's definitely an early version of Rift support. It's going to be a pretty ongoing process to get it going.
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4:19 - 4:25Right now you can walk around the Hangar, you can look at the ships, and it all works pretty well.
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4:25 - 4:31You can check out - you can sit in the pilot seats, check everything out.
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4:31 - 4:35But there's definitely some issues with it that we want to iron out.
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4:35 - 4:37Wingman: Right, right, first blush.
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4:37 - 4:45And Kevin, you've taken over the build process here and so this is actually going to be your first build!
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4:45 - 4:47So, it's coming out today.
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4:47 - 4:50If you haven't got your build for the Hangar, or your patch rather, for the Hangar,
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4:50 - 4:53it's to be out right after this airs.
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4:53 - 4:55So, what can they expect?
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4:55 - 5:02Kevin: Well, we're updating the patcher and the launcher. I'm taking over all those processes.
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5:02 - 5:08This will be a good first test for some changes that are coming down the pipe in the launcher,
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5:08 - 5:14and be my first patch to put out to the wild, too. So that'll be...
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5:15 - 5:18Wingman: "To the wild" is a good way of calling it. Exactly.
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5:18 - 5:26So, Jason, this is the first Oculus Rift support. We promised it at the $12M dollar stretch goal.
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5:26 - 5:29But there are still some issues. This is not finished.
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5:29 - 5:35Jason: Yeah. Some of the issues are... The engine seems to have some higher latency.
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5:35 - 5:43Some of the demos you're used to was measured like maybe at 16ms, and this is like 40ms.
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5:43 - 5:48Tom measured it after he implemented support for the Oculus Latency Tester.
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5:48 - 5:49Some others are...
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5:49 - 5:55We're only using the post-processing stereo effect and not the true stereo rendering.
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5:55 - 6:00So you can see some stereo separation visible sometimes.
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6:00 - 6:03We only have some tracking and movement issues, too.
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6:03 - 6:06But they're all things we're planning to solve in the future.
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6:06 - 6:08Wingman: Right, but we've gotten to a point now where -
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6:08 - 6:13we think it's good enough for people to get in there and play with, and we want their feedback.
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6:13 - 6:16We talked earlier, before we came in here,
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6:16 - 6:22about how right now you can actually be walking this way and your head looking that way.
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6:22 - 6:25We don't have an interface that shows you how to align that right.
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6:25 - 6:29Tom: Right. And with a lot of other games that isn't such an issue,
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6:29 - 6:33because you have some kind of point of reference on the screen, like a gun or something,
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6:33 - 6:36so you kind of always know which way your body is facing.
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6:36 - 6:41Or games in some cases will have some kind of head steering,
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6:41 - 6:44so you'll actually walk which way you're looking,
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6:44 - 6:47rather than your head being detached from your body.
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6:47 - 6:50So, it's another thing we can look into, as well.
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6:50 - 6:55Oculus is such an early technology right now; everybody's kind of figuring all this stuff out.
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6:55 - 6:58It's very cool to get it out there and see what feedback there is.
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6:58 - 7:00Wingman: It's funny, but in 1992,
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7:00 - 7:03Chris had kind of created an early version of this for Strike Commander,
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7:03 - 7:07where you could look around the cockpit, you could see your hands moving and stuff like that.
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7:07 - 7:11One of the things that he was very excited about with Oculus Rift, when they came up,
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7:11 - 7:15was he could see his vision realized in Star Citizen.
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7:15 - 7:20So, we've been working very closely with these guys since they started and since we started,
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7:20 - 7:24and they've been very good to us. We've gotten really good support.
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7:24 - 7:29So, what are the differences between the original dev kit and the high-rez one -
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7:29 - 7:32other than not making me ill?
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7:33 - 7:38Kevin: Well, they've beefed up the hardware on that and it's higher definition, of course,
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7:38 - 7:44so it's a little bit cleaner. You don't have as much swimmy stuff as the original one.
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7:44 - 7:46What else am I missing on that?
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7:46 - 7:49Tom: Yeah, I think that's about it. One thing in particular about our game is -
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7:49 - 7:53everything, all the textures, the models, everything is so high definition.
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7:53 - 7:58When you're looking on such a low resolution screen as the original dev kit,
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7:58 - 8:03there's a lot of pixel flickering and blinking, all that aliasing.
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8:03 - 8:06So it definitely looks a lot better on the high-rez one.
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8:06 - 8:09Kevin: My term sounded more technical. "Swimming." I liked it.
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8:09 - 8:15Wingman: We got a chance - some of the fans got to try it out last week, because we had fan visits,
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8:15 - 8:17and what did they think, Jason? Did you get to see it, what did they think?
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8:17 - 8:22Jason: They seemed like they loved it. They were really excited and thought it was really cool.
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8:22 - 8:26Wingman: It's kind of, they were testing it out, we've been testing it around the office. I like it, too.
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8:26 - 8:28I can't wait to actually test it in dogfighting.
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8:28 - 8:33That's going to be kind of fun, and then we'll really be able to tell whether it's going to make you...
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8:33 - 8:39My son the Winglet is really looking forward to it. But some of those old dads are not.
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8:39 - 8:43Kevin: It's really cool, too, because you were talking back in '92...
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8:43 - 8:47When I was in college we were doing some of the original VR stuff -
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8:47 - 8:54through some companies that were trying to set up VR as the next big thing, and it just didn't happen.
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8:54 - 8:58And now it's actually happening, and it's really cool to be working on it.
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8:58 - 9:01Wingman: Yeah, and we've dedicated a little extra time to making sure that happens,
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9:01 - 9:03because we've promised people that we're going to do it.
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9:03 - 9:06Even if it takes a little longer, we're going to get it done.
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9:06 - 9:10We are working with the CryEngine team to make sure it works.
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9:10 - 9:14Sometimes we're waiting on them to update; sometimes we rewrite stuff ourselves.
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9:14 - 9:19It's an interesting process. We believe in making sure that we do meet those requirements,
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9:19 - 9:22even if maybe it takes a little bit of time sometimes to get it right.
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9:22 - 9:25But we've been playing with it for a while, right Jason, a little bit, in the Hangar?
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9:25 - 9:29And so, why are we doing it now? What's the deal now, we just feel it's time?
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9:29 - 9:34Jason: Yeah. It was time. We had the time available in the engineering side to -
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9:34 - 9:40really fix these last few issues that we really thought we needed to before releasing.
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9:40 - 9:48We have our high-def dev kit prototype, so that we can see it in higher resolution.
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9:49 - 9:50And - just, it's the time.
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9:50 - 9:54Wingman: It is the time. And the cool thing about this whole thing is that -
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9:54 - 9:56both our companies are crowd-funding successes,
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9:56 - 10:02and we are big on finally letting the voices of the community or the world be heard on what they want.
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10:02 - 10:05Clearly they want the Oculus Rift, clearly they want Star Citizen,
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10:05 - 10:09and clearly they want the Oculus Rift in Star Citizen - and that's happening now.
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10:09 - 10:13Go get your patch today. You'll enjoy it. I think if you've got an Oculus Rift, great.
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10:13 - 10:17If you don't - find somebody who does.
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10:21 - 10:26It's always good to see how those things are done with the Oculus Rift and the team that's behind them.
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10:26 - 10:31And now, of course, it's time for... (F-f-f-forum Feedback!)
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10:31 - 10:33Hey, guys. How are you?
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10:33 - 10:33Dave: Good. Rob: Great.
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10:33 - 10:36Wingman: Dave, good to see you. Rob, how are you doing. You guys ready for a little Forum Feedback?
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10:36 - 10:37Dave: Sure. Rob: Sure.
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10:37 - 10:41Wingman: Tag team action today. Cool, cool, cool. Let's get right to it.
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10:41 - 10:42From Infidus:
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10:52 - 10:55Hmm. Good question.
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10:55 - 10:57Dave: I don't know. Rob: How big are they?
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10:57 - 10:58Dave: They're really big.
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10:58 - 10:59Wingman: They are really big.
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10:59 - 11:05Dave: Yeah. The scale on that demo with the guy running across a platform...
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11:05 - 11:10A Hornet is very small compared to one of those things.
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11:10 - 11:14I saw one, they had one at the test level of the dogfighting test.
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11:14 - 11:18I flew up right next to it and it was just sort of like...
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11:18 - 11:20Staring up in awe. It's amazing, yeah.
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11:20 - 11:21Wingman: So probably not, right Rob?
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11:21 - 11:25Rob: Not on the small ships, no. You're going to need a bigger ship. I don't know how big.
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11:25 - 11:28Wingman: Well, unless you use the shrink ray.
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11:28 - 11:32Rob: What?! Wingman: [laugh] There is no shrink ray.
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11:32 - 11:34Totally kidding.
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11:36 - 11:41So no, we can't fit one in Idris, there's no way. It's just too big.
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11:41 - 11:44And they'll already be there. There'll be corporations that own those,
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11:44 - 11:47and they'll be there on the things that you can then get when you're there.
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11:47 - 11:49Dave: It looks like a real high-end thing...
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11:49 - 11:52Wingman: Yeah, and maybe there'll be ships that transport them later. I mean...
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11:52 - 11:56We just showed a destroyer the other day. We just showed that off to everybody, so that's kind of cool.
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11:56 - 11:59Alright. Let's get right to it. From Darklander:
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12:04 - 12:06Rob: [cough] Sorry.
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12:06 - 12:08Wingman: Yeah, that's a big adjective, "starring."
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12:08 - 12:11Rob: Starring.
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12:11 - 12:15Wingman: It's more like showing up... Rob: What does a Wingman do?
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12:15 - 12:20Wingman: To answer the question in all seriousness: meetings, meetings, and more meetings.
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12:20 - 12:23We do a lot of coordination between all the studios, all the offices.
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12:23 - 12:28My job is primarily to manage the Austin studio, as well as check on the integration.
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12:28 - 12:33The Austin studio is responsible for integrating all the bits and pieces into the game itself,
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12:33 - 12:38and the Persistent Universe. So there's a lot that's going on. We manage the teams in Austin,
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12:38 - 12:42we work with the teams in Montreal, we support Chris in dogfighting in Los Angeles,
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12:42 - 12:46and Erin in Foundry 42. So it's a lot.
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12:46 - 12:52It's a many hour a week job that is way beyond the 40, that we're supposed to work.
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12:52 - 12:55But it's also a passion, and that's what we do.
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12:55 - 13:00So, I manage the Austin studio, is the short answer to it. And I star...!
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13:00 - 13:01Rob: Way too late for that.
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13:01 - 13:04Wingman: Yeah, I know, way too late for that. Too late for that.
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13:04 - 13:06Alright. From Icinix:
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13:22 - 13:24That's a good question.
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13:24 - 13:30Rob: Quick answer - we're doing short answers again. No. No, it hasn't changed that focus.
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13:30 - 13:37It's something we've planned for all along, so we're still planning to support that whole range of -
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13:37 - 13:41soloists can go out there and wander around and do their thing, and small groups -
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13:41 - 13:43we really want to support small groups as well,
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13:43 - 13:48and while they may not be able to do things as epic as the very large groups,
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13:48 - 13:51there'll still be plenty for them to do to gain reputation.
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13:51 - 13:53So we're supporting all of that.
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13:53 - 13:55Wingman: Yeah, and it's exactly right.
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13:55 - 14:01If you ever played Privateer or Freelancer you'll know exactly what kind of game we're designing for people.
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14:01 - 14:03If you think about, like, buckets, there'll be things to do for the big ones,
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14:03 - 14:06there'll be things to do for the mediums, there'll be things to do for the smalls.
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14:06 - 14:15I personally like to group play with people, but I also like to sometimes go out and just play by myself.
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14:19 - 14:22I like the answer to that. From Karu:
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14:27 - 14:30Rob: Dave, you want to take this?
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14:30 - 14:33Dave: Let me break it down. No, I haven't a...
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14:33 - 14:37Rob: So, another quick one - yes. And in fact we already do,
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14:37 - 14:42but the engineering team has plans to further support that,
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14:42 - 14:45to extend the capabilities of the engine to use it better.
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14:45 - 14:48Wingman: So we'll be taking advantage. That's one of the things that Chris has always said,
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14:48 - 14:51that we're going to be supporting those with very high-end machines,
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14:51 - 14:56because nobody's out there doing that now. And that's part of our message, our core message.
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14:56 - 14:58So, you bet your bippy we'll be supporting that stuff.
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14:58 - 15:00From Loopydog:
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15:10 - 15:12Well that's a pretty good question, Rob.
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15:12 - 15:15We just had the design meeting today on airlocks, and boarding and stuff.
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15:15 - 15:18Rob: Yeah, and Dave was on a plane, so Dave missed the design meeting.
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15:18 - 15:20Wingman: Snakes on a plane.
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15:20 - 15:21Rob: Excellent movie.
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15:21 - 15:24Wingman: Yeah, right. So, airlocks?
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15:24 - 15:27Rob: Yes, airlocks are going to be different sizes,
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15:27 - 15:34and that means not every ship can dock with every other ship. That's the theory behind it, at least.
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15:34 - 15:40So, at the same time we're not going to let you buy a giant space suit and fit it in an Aurora.
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15:40 - 15:43So, you won't have trouble getting out of that airlock, because you can't get into the ship in the first place.
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15:43 - 15:50So, you know, the armor is also a scale thing. You have to have a ship that supports that level of armor.
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15:50 - 15:53Wingman: Okay. Cool. From Beltran:
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16:02 - 16:08Dave:I believe so, that's the understanding we are moving forward with, you are going to hear
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16:08 - 16:15your character speak. As to how many variations we have I'm not sure, that's for Martin.
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16:15 - 16:17Rob:TBD Dave:Yeah
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16:17 - 16:22Eric:Yeah, exactly right, again, this is one of the things the audience will help us determine,
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16:22 - 16:26maybe they come up with ideas on how many they want or what things they want.
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16:26 - 16:31There will be different reactions in SQ42 to different people, there will be multiple levels of
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16:31 - 16:37answering questions from folks, right? So maybe somehow put that into the PU, we'll see how it goes.
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16:37 - 16:41So TBD is the answer there, I know we have not done that in a while.
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16:41 - 16:46Rob:We also have voice chat and livedriver, so people can talk directly to one another.
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16:46 - 16:48Eric:From Shrike...
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16:58 - 17:05Rob:Well the er......the way we are doing it right now is there will be a token that allows you to
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17:05 - 17:14flip your LTI Aurora to an LTI Mustang, and for the more expensive variants of the Aurora,
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17:14 - 17:19if there's a price difference, we will give a refund in store credits I believe.
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17:19 - 17:25Eric:I think that's right, and there might be some Mustang variants perhaps in the future?
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17:25 - 17:29Rob:(laughs)Maaaaybe. Eric: stay tuned for that!
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17:29 - 17:34And last, but never least, from Andy Goodstar...
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17:43 - 17:45Eric:(laugh)Are we gonna have horses?
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17:45 - 17:47Rob:Piece of cake! (sarcastically)
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17:47 - 17:50D'you know how to make an artist cry? Tell them they have to animate a horse.
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17:50 - 17:56It's already been done, we think their horse technology is awesome, but no plans for
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17:56 - 17:58horses in our game at this time.
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17:58 - 18:03Eric:Cool, well, Rob, Dave, thankyou very much, and now it's , on THIS camera, it's time for
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18:03 - 18:08Mike Morlan with this weeks MVP.
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18:15 - 18:19Hi, I'm Michael Morlan, standing in again for Ben Lesnick, for this weeks MVP.
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18:19 - 18:25This week it goes to Markemp for his post "How to create your own art using RSI's assets".
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18:25 - 18:30Now this happened quite a long time ago when people figured out how to strip our assets out of the builds
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18:30 - 18:34and we thought that was pretty amazing, most developers would not think that was too cool, but
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18:34 - 18:36we LOVED what you guys are doing with it.
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18:36 - 18:42So Markemp set up a post that walked you through exactly how to get those assets out of the build
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18:42 - 18:46Thanks Markemp, you are the MVP this week.
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18:52 - 18:59This weeks Fan Focus is Caden Welborn, he an a group of friends got together and created an
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18:59 - 19:05entire Star Citizen soundtrack, it is REALLY cool, let's listen to some of the songs (music clips for each)
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19:05 - 19:13One of my favorites "Delivering the Stars" by Nick Fitgerald, so cool, love that stuff.
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19:13 - 19:21We have "To War" by Caden Welborn, these guys, very talented,
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19:21 - 19:28and we have "Decadent" by Lethe River and Nick D, wow, and it would'nt be complete without
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19:28 - 19:36"Sunk in the Void" by Yuchen Tian, I hope I did not butcher you name.
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19:36 - 19:42Some of this music is fantastic, they have about 22 tracks on there, go take a listen,
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19:42 - 19:48download it, put it on your iPhone/iPad your Samsung, whatever. It's really cool,
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19:48 - 19:52these guys have gone out of their way to create something very fun, exciting and engaging
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19:52 - 19:57for the community. It's our job to support them. Well done fellas. We appreciate it.
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19:57 - 20:00Thay's this weeks Fan Focus.
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20:00 - 20:04Wow, that was really cool, it takes a lot of work and passion, and we appreciate that.
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20:04 - 20:09A very cool fan focus. So, look who is here? Dave Haddock, we saw him earlier ovbiously
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20:09 - 20:14but you are this weeks guest, so as the lead writer, we met Phil Mellor last week on the show,
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20:14 - 20:19and talked a little about the mining colony and what was going on, so as lead writer of SQ42
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20:19 - 20:21I bet it is a fairly challenging project?
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20:21 - 20:29Dave:Yeah, there is a lot to account for, it's a pretty sprawling, epic story, and then mixed in
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20:29 - 20:35with all the wingmen and the personalities you have to manage on-board the ship it's a lot of
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20:35 - 20:38variations, a lot of characters, a lot of stuff to keep track of.
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20:38 - 20:43Eric:True, you have to, I mean, you can have variant answers or what happens in the story
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20:43 - 20:48actually can change direction it goes, so it has to be like writing multiple stories at once?
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20:48 - 20:54Dave:Yeah, it's really crazy, I had no idea, I mean, you play games like "Last of Us" or
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20:54 - 20:58"Call of Duty", stuff like that, and it's a very linear progressive thing, so you think that it is
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20:58 - 21:05a very straight forward method of story telling, but even those, it's a really complicated media
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21:05 - 21:09(laugh) Eric:Right, and the onus in on US to get something done exactly right, so you are
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21:09 - 21:17doing episodic adventures, right, we are releasing an episode at a time ...Dave:Right.... so is it
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21:17 - 21:21going to be like the old serials where you have a cliffhanger every now and then?
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21:21 - 21:27Dave:That's the idea at this point. I think with the serials we have been doing on the website
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21:27 - 21:35we have already established that as our fun way to tease the fans, but just recently we have discussed
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21:35 - 21:42what exactly are the episode breaks for all the missions and stuff, to make them manageable
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21:42 - 21:48and have the stories feel contained but still building towards a larger story, but you have to end on
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21:48 - 21:54that sort of cliffhanger, you know, dying to get the next episode to keep pushing forward.
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21:54 - 21:59Eric:It shouldn't be too long a wait between episodes for people to get in there and play, and it is
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21:59 - 22:04the prequel, it does set up the big universe, and you've been writing most of the fiction on the website
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22:04 - 22:10so, do you have any favorite characters that you enjoy writing the most?
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22:10 - 22:17Dave:Ah? Yeah, you know weirdly enough, the ones I surprisingly find a lot of fun to write are the
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22:17 - 22:22"Congess now" ones, where it's just a transcript of congressmen yelling at each other (laughs)
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22:22 - 22:27I don't know why, but for some reason they are so much fun to write, you just get these personalities
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22:27 - 22:34and they always just bicker and snipe at each other. As far as the fiction goes I like Kid Crimson a lot
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22:34 - 22:42because I love that type of "pulpy noire" novels. The Tonya stories I actually liked a lot as well.
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22:42 - 22:46Everyone has their own appeal, you know?
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22:46 - 22:49Eric:You think we might see some of those people in the 'verse somewere?
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22:49 - 22:55Dave:I think so, there's a good possibility, I mean, it's basically painting a big bullseye on them (laughs)
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22:55 - 22:59hoping that they live past "hour one" of the PU.
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22:59 - 23:05Eric:I doubt that! Rob:The people with "I [heart] Dave Haddock" bumper sticker will protect them.
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23:05 - 23:10Dave:Right, so in "hour two" when they die (laughs)
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23:10 - 23:19Eric:It'd be fun. So you do enjoy it, I mean writing these short stories is kind of, you have a
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23:19 - 23:23"creative Jones" going on, you can literally have some fun and go in all these different directions.
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23:23 - 23:27Imagine this giant universe, all these political agendas, all these things happening?
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23:27 - 23:35Dave:Right. I mean that was the best way possible to start tackling the universe. I mean those were
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23:35 - 23:40coming out, Cal Mason and Kid Crimson, were coming out during the crowdfunding, so it was
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23:40 - 23:46being able to "stress test" the universe, what we already had, to see what needed work,
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23:46 - 23:55what we needed to flesh out, what still needed to be explored, so it was a great opportunity to
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23:55 - 24:00test the limits of where we wanted the universe to go.
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24:00 - 24:05Eric:We will be seeing some more stories from some of the characters you've talked about,
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24:05 - 24:07but there might be some new ones introduced going forward?
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24:07 - 24:12Dave:Yes, we have a new serial that is posting right now, then there's stories in Jumppoint
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24:12 - 24:20there is a whole slew of characters there progressively coming out to keep everyone entertained
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24:20 - 24:23as we wait for the game.
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24:23 - 24:27Eric:The plan when the game comes out and the lore is created by some of the fans out there
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24:27 - 24:31by themselves, you might be able to pick up on some things going on and create lore around that.
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24:31 - 24:37Dave:Absolutely, you are the guy that kills Dread Pirate Roberts, you get into the galactapedia
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24:37 - 24:39someone might write a serial about you.
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24:39 - 24:41Eric:What about the guy who kills Wingman!
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24:41 - 24:44Dave:Well? Rob:It'll take five minutes. (laughter)
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24:44 - 24:51Eric:Says my wife! The point is, you know, you'll be writ.....can we CUT THAT OUT? Redact that part?
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24:51 - 24:56I believe we can. So, that will be fun, writing stories based around the lore of other people?
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24:56 - 25:02Dave:Yes, there was a question I answered in the "Ask a Dev" in response to the news update
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25:02 - 25:10about the stretch goal system, someone asked whether we would be able to be part of the lore
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25:10 - 25:19the idea came out that it would be fun to write a news article interviewing a backer who had
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25:19 - 25:29discovered a system, then release that news article to the public as a NewUnited piece, but getting
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25:29 - 25:35sound-bites from the player. Eric:That would be fun. I think the backers would like that.
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25:35 - 25:38I don't think that has ever been done before.
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25:38 - 25:42Dave:Yeah, I don't think there's been that level of interactivity.
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25:42 - 25:48Eric:Eventually, as we get into this further, as we get the PU going, we'll start writing for the
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25:48 - 25:53meta-events, large, global events going on throughout the universe, that'll be fun too.
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25:53 - 25:58Who is fighting who, where a war breaks out, what's going on in this system ...Dave:Right...
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25:58 - 26:02colonisation, that stuff. There is a LOT of fiction to be written for Star Citizen.
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26:02 - 26:09Dave:And there is, aside from the stuff that we come up with, the stuff that we have to adjust for
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26:09 - 26:14based on what the players do in the game. There are two levels, we have our plans, they have their plans
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26:14 - 26:20we have to figure out which way the universe goes based on what people do.
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26:20 - 26:25Eric:Now that also happens in SQ42 because you can take multiple paths, we talked a little about that,
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26:25 - 26:32it's got to be huge. When you think a normal script for a linear story is, what, 110, 120 pages?
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26:32 - 26:34Dave:Usually 120.
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26:34 - 26:36Eric:So what do you think this is going to be getting?
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26:36 - 26:41Dave:I have nightmares imagining the stacks of paper this script is going to be.
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26:41 - 26:44Eric:An all performance captured!
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26:44 - 26:51Dave:Yeah, the thing is Erin had a very good point about keeping the branching contained.
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26:51 - 26:56The more you branch, the more dilute your story.
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26:56 - 26:59Eric:The further it gets from the trunk of the story the weaker it becomes.
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26:59 - 27:02Dave:Yeah, you have to ensure things make sense. Everything starts to feel more episodic
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27:02 - 27:09and not have as much dramatic weight, so we have been able to keep it contained.
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27:09 - 27:14There are still choices, still consequences, but keeping focussed. There is a real threat,
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27:14 - 27:18there is a real villain, there's a real cost and real stakes, stuff like that, and
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27:18 - 27:21hopefully the player gets engaged by that.
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27:21 - 27:26Eric:Cool man, well thankyou for stopping by, always good to see you, you're in town for the Mocap shoot
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27:26 - 27:31Dave:Yes. It should be really interesting. I have never seen one of those things live.
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27:31 - 27:37Eric:Full performance capture? It's audio, it's face, it's body, it's incredible. It's going to be fun.
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27:37 - 27:42It's going to make real characters with real actions interacting with each other.
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27:42 - 27:46I want to thank subscribers and pledgers for helping us put together this show.
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27:46 - 27:50Helping the hangar. Without you guys there obviously is no "us".
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27:50 - 27:54Coming up? Well right after this show you can push that button and get your hangar patched.
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27:54 - 27:59If you have an Occulus Rift, put them on, play with it, tell us what you think, how we can make it better
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27:59 - 28:03what you like, whayt you don....well keep it to what you like. Kidding! let us know what you think.
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28:03 - 28:07What can make it better, all that stuff is important, that's why we are doing this together.
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28:07 - 28:11We just talked with Dave here about our first Mocap performances going on, we'll bring you up to
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28:11 - 28:16date with that in a future WMH, we'll go out and film a little bit of it, show you how it works.
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28:16 - 28:25Ooh, this week on the Next Great Starship the judges take a critical look at competitors initial ship design
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28:27 - 28:30CR:With the merecenary gunship we gave the specification to all 16 teams.
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28:30 - 28:33I think we are going to show on-sceen now?
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28:33 - 28:35Is that right? (laughs)
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28:37 - 28:40MS:It's Magic!
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28:54 - 29:00Watch for episide 5 coming up this Friday, it will be really fun, there are some insanely talented
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29:00 - 29:06people on that, and Sandi, and "The Chris's" and Sean and Mark...and the gold shirt (sigh)
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29:06 - 29:10The gold shirt man. Dave:(whisper)It's great. Rob:(Sarcasm)Great shirt.
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29:10 - 29:14Eric:(laughs)Yeah, that's a word I havn't heard describing that shirt.
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29:14 - 29:19Next week on WMH we are taking a look at Damage states. What does that mean?
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29:19 - 29:21You'll have to watch next week to see.
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29:21 - 29:27Subscribe to our Youtube channel, that way whenever we have something going up you will be first to know
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29:27 - 29:32You'll find out what goes on in video with either Sandi and NGS or us with WMH,
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29:32 - 29:36Ten for the Chairman, all the cool stuff that we got going on, you will be first to know as it's posted.
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29:36 - 29:41Submit your questions on the RSI forum, when you have something you want answered on
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29:44 - 29:50We put a FF thread up, I believe, every Friday, still getting into the new flow now we are Wednesday.
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29:50 - 29:56Put questions in the thread, we'll pick a few, that's where we get our FF, without you, no FF.
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29:56 - 30:04Remember, Wingman's Hangover, 15 minutes after this show, an informal look (can it be more informal?)
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30:04 - 30:10We'll talk together, have Skype calls, get in chatroll, communicate directly, let me know your thoughts
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30:10 - 30:16What can we do better? You way of getting your voice heard while pressing on your mind....
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30:16 - 30:20Not even sure that is the right phrase I'm looking for, but it's a good time anyway.
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30:20 - 30:25If you want your stuff featured on WMH, send it in, we just might use it.
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30:25 - 30:27Where we goin' ta' see'em guys?
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30:27 - 30:29All: In The 'Verse
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30:57 - 31:07(birdsong)Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is NOT to accept the mission. What do you do?
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31:07 - 31:09Hmm?
- Title:
- Wingman's Hangar ep058 . February 26, 2014 (english subtitles)
- Description:
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Eric "Wingman" Peterson bops through another Hangar episode.
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Wingman's Hangar is produced, written, directed, and edited by Michael Morlan.
With host, Eric Peterson
Executive Producer, Chris Roberts
Marketing Director, Sandi Gardiner
Linear Media Producer, John Schimmel
Reoccurring guests Robert Irving and Ben Lesnick
Creative Contributions by the Cloud Imperium team
Camera Operator: Phillip Sheldon--------------------------------------------------------------
Roberts Space Industries is a spacecraft manufacturer within the persistent-world game "Star Citizen" and its companion single-player spaceflight sim, "Squadron 42." RSI is also your portal for information, updates, and purchases of your very own spacecraft with which to trade, plunder, and protect the citizens of Star Citizen.
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- Duration:
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Specter edited English subtitles for Wingman's Hangar ep058 . February 26, 2014 (english subtitles) |