SC DISCUSSION: LOOKING AT ROADMAP, SC IS BECOMING LESS TECH DEMO & MORE PLAYABLE GAME!
75BLACK SKY LEGION HIGHLIGHT CLIP#219: BLACK SKY LEGION HIGHLIGHT CLIP#219: SC DISCUSSION: LOOKING AT ROADMAP, SC IS BECOMING LESS TECH DEMO & MORE PLAYABLE GAME! (FROM EPISODE #092; AUG 20, 2021)
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SC DISCUSSION TOPIC: SO 3.14 WAS HYPED IN THE COMMUNITY AS THE “ORISON/CRUSADER” PATCH, BUT I THINK HISTORICALLY WE WILL LOOK BACK ON IT MUCH MORE AS THE BIG COMBAT REBALANCE PATCH THAT EVENED OUT A LOT OF VARIOUS FACTORS AND SET THE STAGE FOR TURNING COMBAT INTO A MUCH MORE BALANCED GAME LOOP.
ADDITIONALLY AND MAYBE EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY WITH THE ADDITIONAL POWER GIVEN TO TURRETS, MISSILE OPERATOR MODE; POWER MANAGEMENT, AND VARIOUS OTHER ASPECTS OF FLIGHT AND COMBAT CONTROLS THIS IS THE PATCH WHERE MULTI-CREW HAS ASCENDED TO ACTUALLY BEING THE POWERFUL FORCE MULTIPLIER THAT IT WAS ALWAYS INTENDED TO BE AND NEEDS TO BE IN ORDER FOR THE ECOSYSTEM OF SC PLAY STYLES TO BE PROPERLY BALANCED TO OFFER INCENTIVES TO MULTI-CREW. ADDITIONALLY, WHILE 3.15 IS BEING TOUTED AS THE “MEDICAL PATCH” I BELIEVE THAT LOOKING CLOSER AT THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PLAY A MUCH BETTER WAY TO LOOK AT IT IS THAT IT IS THE “SURVIVABILITY” TIER1 PATCH.
MEDICAL GAMEPLAY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF DEATH OF A SPACEMAN ARE JUST ONE ASPECT THAT WHEN TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH PHYSICALIZED INVENTORY DYNAMIC LOOT GENERATION IN SITU, THE NECESSITY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT ASSETS ARE KEPT WHERE, AND LATER AS THESE SYSTEMS CONTINUE TO EVOLVE WE HAVE HINTS SUCH AS THE OFFHAND COMMENT MADE BY A DEV ON THE ISC WHERE THEY DISCUSSED THE UPCOMING PHYSICAL HANGERS AND LOADING THAT, “NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO BE REALLY ABOUT BEEFING UP THE ECONOMY.”
IN ADDITION, IT’S BEEN NOTICED THAT SOME OF THE PRELIMINARY STEPS OF SERVER MESHING HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADDED TO THE GAME. SOME PEOPLE HAVE CRASHED TO 30K THEN LOADED BACK INTO THE GAME AT THEIR LAST LOCATION WITH THEIR CARGO AND SHIP INTACT. THEY HAVE QUESTIONED THIS ON SPECTRUM AND BEEN RESPONDED TO BY CIG INDICATING THAT YES, IN 3.14 SOME “PRELIMINARY” ASPECTS OF SERVER MESHING WERE ADDED FOR TESTING AND WORK. THESE FACTORS TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION INDICATE TO ME THAT SC IS NOW MOVING TO DO A DIFFERENT PHASE OF DEVELOPMENTS WHERE, FOR SO LONG THEY WERE BUILDING THE COMPANY TO BUILD THE TOOLS, THEN BUILDING THOSE TOOLS THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO BUILD THE COMPLETED GAME LOOPS, WE ARE NOW MOVING INTO PHASE 3 WHERE ACTUAL GAME LOOPS WILL BE FIRMING UP.
THE GOAL THEN WOULD LOGICALLY BE TO COMPLETE ROUGH VERSIONS OF ALL THE LOOPS THEN DO A SECOND PASS TO POLISH THOSE LOOPS OR “FEATURES.” ONCE THIS IS COMPLETE THEY THEN JUST NEED TO GO BACK THRU EACH “FEATURE” AND FILL IT OUT WITH POLISHED “CONTENT.” IN SHORT; I AM POSITING THAT WE ARE SEEING NOW THE END OF 2021 TO MID-2022 THE SC PROJECT MAKE A MAJOR SHIFT TOWARD BEING A MUCH MORE “PLAYABLE NOW GAME” AND SHEDDING MANY OF THE REMAINING VESTIGES OF ITS EARLIER “TECH DEMO” PHASE.
This Excerpt is taken from:
BLACK SKY LEGION #092: MULTI-CREWING WITH SOL CITIZENS! (FRI AUG 20, 2021)
https://youtu.be/qaSLI9c0vNA
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