Hello everyone! years1hundred here, bringing you the notes for Reverse The Verse Episode 36! Big thanks to Erris for transcribing the first quarter of this week’s episode!

Reverse The Verse – Episode 36 Link

• Status on the mining mini-game
  • Hopefully coming today, waiting on Turbulent
• More on the Orion tomorrow
  • More art
• Do CIG employees get discounts?
  • Nope!
• Is the Reddit AMA being rescheduled?
  • Chris has no time in March, but they’ll probably try to do it again eventually
  • Even getting Chris to sit down for 10 FTC is hard
• Can the Orion land?
  • We’ll find out more about that tomorrow – new set of art from George Hull shows how it lands
    • The team don’t know, but apparently we’ll find out!
• Does the Orion have a jump drive?
  • It does.  Pretty much everything has a jump drive
• UK team are going through their tickets, but it’s taking its toll
  • One of the UK community team dislocated her arm apparently
• Patrick and Allie
  • CS folks over in the UK, they’re on the show today
• Next concept sale will likely be the Vanguard deep space fighter
  • Then the Hull series
  • They were originally going to do the Hull C, but now they’re going to do those all at once
• A couple of fans got a look at the Vanguard yesterday and they liked it
  • It’s coming.  Not next week or the week after, but it’s coming.
• Will we see anything new from the German office soon?
  • Yes, they’re working on a kind of ‘tour’ video soon, so we should see things from the new office soon
• Someone suggested ‘Arena Commando’ for the FPS module’s name, and they seem to love that idea
• Disco Lando talks about his video
  • Once a month
  • Want to try to highlight best of the fan questions
• Not going to be a PTU release tomorrow
  • All hands on deck pushing for 1.1
• Disco will be on the Base tomorrow
• Operation Pitchfork skin being incorrect
  • Working on being resolved
• People want them to change the name of Terra
  • It’s not happening
• Pledging for Hull A, B, and D
  • Perhaps… we’ll see how pledging for Hull C goes first
• Jen has not yet moved to LA
  • Prob next month or so
• Will Greycat be added to Arena Commander?
  • Ask Disco Lando
• How is the UK customer support ticket mountain going?
  • It’s a work in progress! Working as quickly as they can!
• Do UK customer support handle other languages, like French and German?
  • German definitely, they will be trying their best with other langauges as well
• Will physical pledge packages ever come back?
  • It’s a possibility, but unsure at this point
• Any update on Avenger variants?
  • Not at this point
• They will be catching up to tickets RIGHT as 1.1 launches…
• Bacon popcorn is yummy
• Pledge money is not going toward pinatas
• PINATA variant!
• What kind of social interactions can be expected with Social Module?
  • You’ll see!
• Any changes with CCU system?
  • It’s coming soon-ish
• What part of the game will be showcased at SXSW closing party?
  • A few stuff, but it’ll also just be a fun party – including Star Citizen-themed drinks
• What’s coming at PAX East?
  • If you wanna play FPS, go to PAX East!
  • You can play against the Devs!
  • Will beat the Assassins’ Creed: Blackflag devs a few years ago at E3
• Will these events be streamed?
  • It costs money, so not sure
• Ship commercials at PAX East?
  • No – Cinematics team is working on SQ42 at the moment
• What is the UK office like? Does it even exist?
  • Not as fancy as Austin  :)
• Has the Cutlass gotten bigger?
  • No
• Will energy riot shields be a thing?
  • Yes!
• Will hates apples and egg yolk and babies and freedom
  • But he likes Aliens
• No info on new Corvette other than it’s been put into their schedule for the future
• New org system
  • Big delay for this is the requirement that they rework a bunch of things
• Bengal?
  • It’s in the lead for the box art!
• Will there be a SQ42 separate purchase deal down the line?
  • Yes, it will break out separately from packages
• Will there be pokemon?
  • ABSOLUTELY (jk)
  • Digimon is good but isnt as good
• Jenny = Ginny Weasley
• Will I be able to share exploration data to friends via mobiGlas?
  • Yes, absolutely
  • This presents gameplay elements – who do you trust with your data?
• Any updates on 64bit precision?
  • No updates yet
  • This will also be asked of Chris during 10FTCM
• Moar TNG shipz??
  • No – while everyone at CIG wants to do them, there are other, more urgent matters
  • CIG fully intends to do cool things with them – it’s just on the back burner
• New damage system being developed on Gladius
• New mapstreaming for multicrew requiring a “certain multicrew ship”
• Starcrash
  • Greatest movie ever made
  • Italian knockoff of Star Wars from 1978
  • “Intergalactic Spaceship: halt the flow of time!”
  • Robot Darth Vader with southern accent…
  • Planet of Amazons…
• Any information from HOTAS?
  • No – that’s Sandi’s domain
• If I don’t have any friends, can I still fly the Orion?
  • Yes, you can fly any ship on your own with NPCs, though it might not be very efficient
• Will there be bad guy NPCs?
  • Yes
• Mouse and keyboard deal is still being balanced!
• Any new information on Merchantman?
  • Not yet
• Scythe in Hangar?
  • Not 1.1, but soon-ish
• Is there something wrong with M50 damage states?
  • Not that Community Team is aware of, but with all the damage state work recently, it’s very possible!
• Capture the Idris still planned?
  • Yes, but in 2.0
• Will CitizenCon be available for people under the age of 18?
  • Depends on the venue
• Gladiator news?
  • Nope
  • Had considered rushing to get it in between 1.1 and 2.0, but not sure if that’ll work out
• How is the Gladius?
  • It’s cool
  • A Gladius free-fly weekend will be done in the visible future
• Will REC also unlock things permanently?
  • No, it’ll be a rental, and CIG already explained logic on that through Chris Roberts’ posts and ATV last week
  • REC system helps them test a lot
  • It metagames the game
• Any Freelancer news?
  • No news yet
• Is Quantum Travel require to travel large distances? Or can you just drift and not worry about hitting invisible walls?
  • Quantum Travel is needed to get anywhere of consequence – otherwise, it would take a really, really long time
• Any new dogfighting maps in the works?
  • Yes, but can’t talk about it
• Gladius max speed?
  • “7!” “(I heard 8!)”
    • (I think they were joking about this, guys…)
• Connie updates?
  • Not yet
  • This is because the new character rig for 1.1 changes a lot of things
    • Characters suddenly couldn’t interact with things or sit in chairs and such, so touch-ups were required
• Idris hangar-ready?
  • Not crazy-far out

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