May monthly studio report

[Montoya]

LA

• coolers and heatsinks design work
• Internal testing on powerplants and sheilds 2.0
• Herald in whitebox
• Reliant being made flight ready/Grey box
• Origin x85 being worked on by designer
• Signal pipes design work - How IR and heat signatures can be tuned
• Exterior passes on Caterpillar, Interior passes on cargo module
• Work on character hair

AUSTIN

• 2.5.0 planning
  
• Finalized design for Kiosk purchasing for large objects (ships, ship components) - Awaiting approval
  
• Shopping - Improved try-on mode that zooms to part where article is applied
  
• 2.5 to include grungier 'frontier' clothing designs
  
• Work being done on F7A Hornet military variant.
  
• New quick enter/exit animations for ships. 300i done. Avenger being worked on
  
• Background animations forSQ42 - Mess hall and ship terminals
  
• New weapon inspect and airlock death animations
  
• Lighting revamp - ArcCorp done, Crusader and Reliant being worked on
  
• Work being done on patch size reduction - ongoing

F42UK

• Shubin greybox complete
  
• Other unnannounced areas - final art stage.
  
• VS (vanduul swarm???) final art stage
  
• Props and components for SQ42 (will be reused elsewhere)
  
• Idris interior mostly complete. Story specific variants being worked on
  
• Javelin and Bengal exteriors being worked on
  
• F7A work ongoing
  
• Argo pods completed
  
• Concept work nearly completed on Drake Dragonfly
  
• New particle lighting
  
• Other lighting tech improvements (tiled lighting/area lights/HDR)
  
• Carrier takeoff and landing work ongoing
  
• Polish work on cover,vaulting, mantling
  
• Player movement and head stabilization work (see also F42DE)
  
• Various audio work and improvements
  
• Work done on how game audio will be mixed and sounds scaled
  
• Soundwork on recorded audio from filming for SQ42
  
• VOIP - Able to demo work internally
  
• 4 new unnamed concept ships - For PU not sq42
• Next Aegis ship being pitched ( not in concept phase yet)

F42DE

• VFX for SQ42
  
• SQ42 perf.cap work on scenes including quartermaster handing out heavy weaponry and an in-universe spectrum show(also hinted at in this weeks ATV)
  
• Subsumption AI work
  
• 2 New weapons finished
  
• new ballistic submachine gun being modelled
  
• Scourge Railgun in final stages of completion
  
• Outlaw base level design being finalized
  
• Power distribution system design work finalized
  
• "inner thought" "looting" and "use/interact" system design work finished and in production
  
• Rendering optimization work
  
• Full-Body Experience/ Eye stabilization for FPS
  
• Procedural planet tech work that they would rather show us than tell us about
  
• QA testing procedural planet tech including driving buggies on planets

BHVR

• Pirate base whitebox done and in hands of art and design team for set up. Shops for Pirate base being designed that will be different from ones at PortO/ArcCorp
• Ship component shop being set up for Port Olisar

Turbulent

• Multifactor Authentication almost at the QA stage
  
• work on new platform continues (new version of orgs 2.0) still a few months away from roll-out.
  
• New launcher/patcher in works.. supports multiple games and background patching

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

@Montoya with the inside scoop! I bet he get's his information straight out of an EMAIL from Chris Roberts that says "Subject: Thanks for the great idea for a video game, oh Glorious Leader! /bow /bow"

 

[Rolo]

QA racing buggies on planet, pirate base whitebox done... Man!

I'm excited =)

 

[Mog_No_1]

Hmm...so what is the time line for all that? Unfortunately there is alot more outstanding after that.......come on 890Jump hanger ready.....if I wish REALLY hard maybe it will happen? :rolleyes:

 

[188Octane]

@Montoya with the inside scoop! I bet he get's his information straight out of an EMAIL from Chris Roberts that says "Subject: Thanks for the great idea for a video game, oh Glorious Leader! /bow /bow"

No, no, nothing so official. The TEST raptor whispers secrets to Glorious Leader!

 

[Floating Cloud]

@Montoya with the inside scoop! I bet he get's his information straight out of an EMAIL from Chris Roberts that says "Subject: Thanks for the great idea for a video game, oh Glorious Leader! /bow /bow"

I heard that he hijacked a whitebox Herald and has it in geo-stationary orbit above L.A. ;)

 

[chrizz]

Duh. Org 2.0 still months away...

 

[CosmicTrader]

Nice bullet points.

 

[Black Sunder]

Nice summary. Much better than reading all of those words. I shouldn't be talking with the work I'm doing.....

 

[Rolo]

I like words... I like walls of text...

But I like a TL: DR version to scan with frantic haste first... =)

 

[Blind Owl]

Knowledge drop. Sweet. Now I don't have to read the email. Thanks Glowing Leader.

This information makes my pants tight.
Good thing I'll be home alone. ;)

 

[archiefalcon]

Thanks for this info. Job well done.

 

[LGF]

Anybody else pick up on "West Coast, Best Coast" at the top?
TEST propaganda is spreading...

 

[Blind Owl]

Anybody else pick up on @West Coast, Best Coast@ at the top?
TEST propaganda is spreading...

I missed this. Where did you see it?

 

[supitza]

I missed this. Where did you see it?

It's the title of the first segment. CIG Los Angeles.
"West Coast, Best Coast"

 

[Blind Owl]

It's the title of the first segment. CIG Los Angeles.
"West Coast, Best Coast"

Ha, well, as a west coaster, I'd have to say I agree. Also, good propaganda. TEST is BESTing all.