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Star Citizen

Wing Commander series creator Chris Roberts is returning to the PC gaming business. He is currently working on a game called STAR CITIZEN, a PC exclusive developed in CryEngine 3. It'll be pretty!

Developed in CryEngine 3, Star Citizen is at least two years out from release and is being designed for advanced hardware, the results of which are already stunning; A small, pre-alpha demo showcased ships with hundreds of individual parts, all of which contributed to the physics driving its movement. On top of looking like something out of a current games cinematic, each ship has an exceedingly realistic damage model, allowing players to damage each component and have it dynamically affect a ships performance.

More info: »ca.ign.com/articles/2012 ··· frontier

We haven't had a good space sim since FreeeSpace 2. And now the creator of one of the greatest space sims of all time is working on one.

All I need on top of that is Homeworld 3 and I can retire on the moon with these two games forever.

Also awesome:

For all the beauty Roberts longs to bring to the Star Citizen universe, he also wants it to represent life – which is to say itll feature a truly ugly side as well. Travel outside of the heavily governed areas and youll find yourself without police protection. Journey out into space in search of treasure or to do a quest and another player might just decide to gang up on you with his friends. When pitched a scenario where me and my friend are piloting a freighter, Roberts said the plan is for it to be entirely possible to have one person flying while the other runs around in the ship to man stations and turrets – like the freaking Millenium Falcon. If things go way south and, say, the attackers want to take your ship, they can board you and it can come down to shooting it out, gun in hand, just like a first-person shooter.


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Re: The return of the space flight combat sim

Sounds great!

Freelancer 3?

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FreeLancer was a 3rd person space combat arcade game. Wing Commnader war cockpit-view and much more akin to a flight sim than an arcade style-game.

You meant FreeSpace 3 maybe?

If so, it looks like it may be it.

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Yeah Freespace 3, I loved the Freelancer game too.

This will be first day pre-order.

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Sounds like a cool idea. Hope they can make it into a reality. That is the way I always dreamed of space sims to work.

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I never got into the Wing Commander series, but have loved space flight sims since I was a kid. Freespace 2 and Tie Fighter are my personal favorites. It would be nice if this revitalized the genre.

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I think space sims peaked at Defender II.

Joking aside, it sounds interesting. It has been a while since I have played a space sim, so I might check it out if/when it launches. The space flight missions in SWTOR just didn't cut it for me.

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I don't have much experience with space flight games except for Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. I LOVED that freaking game and put many hours into it. Luke Skywalker and Biff Tannon vs. big cats flying spaceships. "Chalk up another for the Maniac!" - good memories.

Anyhow yeah I will be more than happy to give this game a chance.
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That was Biff as the Maniac?

I know that Luke was in that game though.

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said by Kearnstd:

That was Biff as the Maniac?

Sure was, and Malcolm McDowell as Admiral Tolwyn. Gimli was one of the Senators too.
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Never knew that and I think I have WC4 somewhere.

I guess Biff musta borrowed the Delorean and became a fighter pilot sometime in the future. =)
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Well there is this going on to help out...

»www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/ ··· -raised/

Then there is some artwork floating around,

»www.pcgamer.com/previews ··· low-out/

And finally if no one has seen it, a 5 minute video showing off IN GAME footage

»www.youtube.com/watch?fe ··· MZHT74sE

There is supposedly a longer video from Comic-Con or something like it floating around.

And yes, if you cant tell I am excited to see this coming back around. Chris Roberts was a god to me when I first got into PC gaming. Until Luke...I mean Mark Hamill became the lead actor in the live action parts.

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X Rebirth I think is coming out soon...

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The X series is much more of a strategy game rather than a combat sim

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said by TigerLord:

The X series is much more of a strategy game rather than a combat sim

Disagree, combat is an essential part of the X Series, though I suppose the game is flexible enough though that it can be entirely avoided. The number/variety of player-flyable ships is the great strength of the game, one can choose to fly the smallest fighter to the largest capital ship. If Star Citizen keeps me locked in a fighter for the whole game, I won't buy it.

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»www.kickstarter.com/proj ··· -citizen

Kickstarter campaign is up

We have investors that have agreed to contribute the balance we need to complete this game as long as we can validate that there is a demand for a high end PC space game. By meeting or surpassing our target on Kickstarter you tell the world that you want a PC based Space Sim and allow us to make this game.

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FreeLancer pledge from me

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Bounty Hunter pledge from me.

Kinda sucks there's nothing between $60 and $125. IMO most distributors have the price right with an $80 digital deluxe option (even if the included bonuses suck), it is a nice sweet spot under $100, but more than basic retail.

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My first Kickstarter contribution. I'm intrigued. And a alpha/beta/game for $30 isn't too shabby either. Sounds like the timing will be just about right for me to build a new rig so that will work out well also! My i9 and GTX700 series card will rock this game.

They have 4 backers at $10,000. That's just insane. Sorry, if I put in $10,000, we'd better be talking stock options not USB sticks and 10" model space ships. lol

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That's usually companies or website that do it, and a lot of them get help from their users. One tech site did a 'help us reach $10,000 to get an inn named after us' fund in Project Eternity from what I remember.

I've tried looking around and had trouble finding it... will this be a pay2play or free2play with paid content? I'm confused about those galactic credits.

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wing commander the series was pretty good for its time. i played it in the late 90s. however, YOU MUST ALL REMEMBER ONE THING:

this so-called gaming "legend" was the primary person responsible for ... THE WING COMMANDER MOVIE.

Also, he hasn't accomplished anything of note for like 10-12 years and suddenly shows up out of nowhere. That is not exactly a good resume. I'm not that excited over a guy who had a good run in the 90s and then failed hard and fell off the face of the earth.

A lot of people are voicing a lot of skepticism that this guy will be able to put half of what he is claiming into this game. He is basically just describing an idealized space sim game which he is supposed to pull off with a very limited budget?

Skyrim had a development and marketing budget of $85 million. This guy is supposed to pull off a game with more depth than Skyrim for like 5 million? You guys really believe that? o.O

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Both are his movies and both are good as well. Lucky Number Slevin especially, a movie I've seen half a dozen times. Wing Commander wasn't awful, but it wasn't good either.

RSI hopes to get 2M. If they manage it, they'll get their private funding (not publisher funding) because they'll have proven there is a market for it. All-in-all, Roberts said during the Reddit AMA that they expected to spend 20M overall by the time the persistent online universe portion goes live.

FreeLancer was pressured to ship by Microsoft so many features were removed or borked. Still, it was a great game, so imagine what they can achieve without any publisher or stockholders pressuring you to release the game so they can get a payday, without caring for the quality of the game the slightest.

From Reddit AMA:

Question:
I'm curious about the budget, you're looking to raise a few million dollars but promise an amount of depth and complexity (MMO & singleplayer, visuals, etc) that needs at least 20 million (and that's probably not enough by far). Any plans on where to get the other 80-90% for the game? Do you plan on working with a publisher or do you have private funding?

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We have private funding (not publisher funding). The crowd funding side helps to determine how ambitious we can be upfront. The overall game wont cost $20M upfront, but probably by the end of the first year of public release we will have spent that much between the original game and the ongoing content that year.

However, Skyrim and SC? Not even close of being the same type of game. The scope isn't the same either.
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Re: Star Citizen - Wing Commander Creator Returns to PC Gaming

Took 4 days to raise 500k on KS. They've also raised 1.3M on the main RSI website, so they're currently sitting on 1.8M out of the original 2M objective, with 26 days to go on the funding.

New stretch goals will be added to KS.
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2M goal has been reached. Star Citizen has been greenlit so it will happen.

You can still back the game and get it in full for 35$ via KS.

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Awesome!

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I don't know...if this will be apart of the WC universe or not.... It would be great to reboot the series in some way...

but remember, Chris Roberts worked for "Origins", when origins was bought out/merged/etc or otherwise went the way of the dinosaur..it was origins that got stuff done... Origins tag line - "We Create Worlds"...

Coming from someone who played the entire series of WC line of games(WC, WC special mission I & II, WC II, special mission pack I & II, WC III: Heart of the tiger(first game to include live action/characters( Mark Hamil, John Rys-Davies, Rodney McDowell, to name the big three actors and there were a few more)...

As for the wing commander movie..ugh..don't even get me started, I really don't know what Chris Roberts was thinking..he messed up the entire time line...
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Wing Commander your earning your reputation and ranks and gaining respect of peers... plus constantly evading maniac's friendly fire...(Angel - is still alive)

Wing Commander II - starts with your character(Christohper Blair) out in space with a wingman... two cloaked kilrathi ships appear from no where, and destroy the tigers claw destroyer... the ship that was your home for all of the Wing Commander & the special mission pack for I & II... All of WC II your fighting to earn back your reputation, respect as the flight recorder of your ship was sabotaged and you were blamed for the loss of the Tigers claw destroyer. Finally proof of cloaked Kilrathi ships is found and you are vindicated. Angel is still alive.... plus constantly evading maniac's friendly fire... Special Missions pack I & II follow...

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All of the above - animated only/cut scenes were CGI --
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Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger - All live action -
Beginning of the game - Kilrathi home world - council chambers filled with angry Kilrathi - Human spies captured on Kilrathi - Angel is one of the spies - She is killed by the Kilrathi -

Christopher blair befriends a new member to the squad, a Kilrathi defector, no one wants to be his wingman, Blair takes him as his wingman...

story unfolds as the defector, has amnesia and can't recall what happened to him or aboard his ship...turns out at the end of the game...the defector was forced plant by the Kilrathi empire and upon hearing the words uttered by a Kilrathi command ship - Heart of the Tiger triggers the forced memory wipe to end and the defector remembers who is and what he is suppose to do. Blair saves the day... delivers devastating bomb device to kilrathi home world... peace breaks out...
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Wing Commander 4: The price of freedom .... opening sequence, friendly ships attack a peaceful ship... rouge squadron of human kilrathi symphayizers...
Live action actors - Internal strife/kilrathi attacks... turns out Rodney McDowell (admrial) trying to start his own internal war...
the answer to the title of the game? -- "eternal vigilance is the price of freedom"...

"plus constantly evading maniac's friendly fire"... not so much in WC 3 and WC 4 as the A.I. was much better than it was through out the WC, WC II and all four special mision packs...

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Re: The return of the space flight combat sim

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Both are his movies and both are good as well.

No they weren't. The wing commander movie, he wrote and directed. Those other movies he was involved with he was only a "producer" which is an ambiguous position in movie-making which is non-creative.

My point is that this guy was involved in a few good games, but for example, the guy who actually made Wing Commander 3 was not Chris Roberts, it was Frank Savage. Chris Roberts went off to hollywood and filmed the cutscenes while Frank Savage made the actual game. The reason that game was great wasn't because the guy who directed the cutscenes did such an amazing job, it was because the game mechanics and gameplay were solid.

proof: »download.wcnews.com/file ··· _xna.wmv

I don't doubt he played the same role in WC4, after all the game has a huge budget for the time of $12 million, most of which Roberts spent on cutscenes. This guy was a wannabe movie director who happened to be working for game companies. WC3 and WC4 were good games, but not because of Chris Roberts.

The only project which this guy OWNS, his baby, was the wing commander movie. He directed and wrote the thing. He owns it completely. It was the culmination of his whole career leading up to that point...

...and it failed about as hard as it possibly could have.

I remember I went to see it and I hated it, this coming from a big fan of the games. People I knew who saw it and didn't play the games just walked out like: DAFUQ WAS THAT?

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Re: Star Citizen - Wing Commander Creator Returns to PC Gaming

Skyrim is a much bigger game than SC will ever be. Just the voice overs... mind boggling. Crafting a realistic world is much harder than generating nebulas and asteroids.

Producers can and are often involved in the creation of a project. Just because they aren't directing doesn't mean it's non-creative.

Wing Commander, Privateer are still considered some of the best space sim 20 years after their creation.
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Kickstarter Specific Stretch goals
The combined Kickstarter and RSI crowfunding has just passed 3.2M, with a week still to go. The last stretch goal is 4M.

If you think of it, it's kind of amazing that Obsidian managed to raise 4M from people like you and me in a month, and Chris Robert and his gang might manage the same thing as well. I mean, 4M in a month...

I know they were getting an additional 10M from private investors (they get shares, but the controlling shares are still held by CR and therefore any decision-making powers ate held by CR and his team, no publishers or anyone else can dictate anything).

Time will tell if they can deliver on what they promised. I'd be happy with just a stellar SP campaign like Freespace 2 delivered.

Here is the latest update by CR, posted today November 11.
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Update #21 · Nov. 11, 2012 · 65 comments
Hi everyone!

I get a lot of questions about how the whole persistent universe works and what I mean when I talk about battle instances.

I’ve given some answers but as it keeps coming up, I thought it would be good to give all of you a longer description in how this all works and fits together.

One of my goals with Star Citizen was to create a huge open world that you could adventure in solo, with your friends, mingling with NPCs and other real people.

Freelancer was built to have up to 128 players in multiplayer, but as a few of you know that was more a theoretical maximum than something that was really practical, especially back in 2003. When I started building Freelancer, partly inspired by the work done on Ultima Online (which was in development when I was still at Origin), the fun I was having playing multiplayer games like Command & Conquer and Diablo I had wanted to bring the Privateer experience into the bold new world of multiplayer. My original vision for Freelancer was to first release a single player game and then follow it up with massively multiplayer version with a dynamic economy and a world that reacted and adapted to the players actions.

I didn’t get a chance to deliver this vision and ultimately while Freelancer was a good game, it fell short of what I was aiming for.

With Star Citizen I was determined to combine what I wanted to achieve with Freelancer, with the personal experience that I think both Wing Commander and Privateer were so strong with.

But me being me, I wanted to combine things I like about the promise of a MMO, but avoid the aspects that I’m not so keen on like splintered player groups, griefing and grinding. I also was really impressed with how Demon’s Souls merged the single player experience with the multiplayer side.

All of this helped form my thinking on how Star Citizen is going to balance the difficult balancing act between multiplayer and single player.

All multiplayer games – whether they are a persistent world massively multiplayer game (MMO) like World of Warcraft or just an online multiplayer game like Battlefield 3 – have a limit to the number of players that can be active in anyone area or level. This number is usually inversely proportional to the amount of data that needs to go between the client and the server. For a game with complex physics and a fully destructible terrain, like Battlefield 3 the number of players that can active in an instance is less than a game with less real time fidelity like WoW, or Eve on Line. But in all cases there are always more players than any one server instance can handle. For a persistent multiplayer world like WoW the solution is to split up the player base into more manageable groups called “shards”, which are a permanent instance of the universe that look after a certain amount of players.

One thing I don’t like about most MMO structures is the fragmentation of the player base between these “shards”. If you had joined much later than a friend of yours, there may not be room on his world instance anymore and you have to join another parallel one and so cannot play together. This is one of the nice things about the Eve Online design – everyone plays in the same universe.

In Star Citizen there is going to be one persistent universe server that everyone exists on. So you will never be separated from your friends, and if you want you’ll be able to join up and adventure together, you can. Due to the fidelity of the dogfighting and physics simulation we can’t however handle thousands of players in the same area of space. Even if you had enough internet bandwidth to handle the data going back and forth and a super computer for the server there’s no PC, even with quad SLI that could render that many spaceships with Star Citizen’s fidelity.

So the “magic” of Star Citizen’s multiplayer design is how we combine a persistent universe with a more traditional (and easier to implement) temporary multiplayer “battle” instance.

The way it works is that the persistent universe server, which we’re calling the Galaxy Server, keeps track of all players’ assets, group relationships and locations inside the Star Citizen universe. As the Galaxy server isn’t handling any realtime action it can handle our complete player base, which right now would be about 45,000 players, but is designed to be able to scale to millions if need be. The other key thing the Galaxy Server does is dynamically place players based on their location, skill level, alignment and player versus player (PvP) preference into battle instances. Think of a “battle” instance like a Battlefield 3 multiplayer session or a World of Tanks Battle with the key difference that the selection of players is done transparently and is “in fiction”.

An illustration of how this would work is like this –

I start out planet side on New Pittsburg. I decide to buy a few tonnes of steel to fly to the shipyards of Terra. I’m currently in the hands of the galaxy server that communicates with my client and handles my purchases and interactions on the planet as these are not real time in the manner that the space action is. We render these in the manner of Freelancer, as detailed 3D environments where we see a third person view of our character in a location and we can click on Non Player Characters (NPCs) or terminals to buy / sell, upgrade your ship, get gossip, hear about a mission and so on. You’ll also be able to interact with other players via a chat interface. We haven’t fully worked out the player avatar handling planet side but the bar or private clubs will be where you can meet / chat to other players. Besides populating the bar with NPCs, the game will also populate the bar with other players. If there are more players planet side than there are slots of avatars in the bar the ones visible to you will be based off your friends list and then it will be based on relevance to you – a player looking for a wingman, one from a similar group, or maybe someone that you’ve been given a mission to find or hunt down. You will also be able to see the full list of players in the room if there are more players than there are slots. Default would be a drop down list for this, but as I hate anything that breaks the immersion, we’ll probably come up with a better in fiction way of seeing the list of players – maybe you tell the bartender who you’re looking for, maybe you can look at the door list for the bar.

Having bought my cargo I launch into space. If there are players already in orbit there will be an orbit instance already created. If it’s not full then I will be placed into that. If it is full then a new one will be dynamically created. All orbit (and battle) instances reserve slots for friends and persons of interest (POI), which can be NPCs or other players, so if you’ve launched and there are multiple orbit instances and you have friends already in orbit you should be placed into that instance. This is also the dynamic that will be applied if you want to follow another player – you can “tag” them as a POI and then the game will do its best to place you in the same instance as your POI. For instance if you tagged someone planet side and they launch your PDA with its future version of Siri will notify you that your POI is leaving, giving you a window to launch into space too.

Once in orbit I can pull up my Navigation computer and set a course for my destination. If its several systems away like Terra, the nav computer will chart a course through the relevant jump points. You will be able to adjust this like on Google maps, so if you click a different jump point on the system map it will then re-route you on the shortest path to your destination with that jump point as the first “jump”

Once I’ve plotted my nav course I would then engage auto-pilot and head towards my first “way” point on the path to my destination (a jump point, an interim space feature, like an asteroid belt and so on). At this point I’ve been handed back to the Galaxy Server, which is determining whether I will encounter a hostile, someone that has tagged me as a POI, or a predetermined encounter on the way, or if I’m going to run across ongoing battle instance that is relevant to me (some members of the instance are aligned against or with me). These encounters could be with an NPC or a live player(s) and are sorted on skill level and also – which is important to all of you that like a more single player experience and don’t want to deal with griefers – based on your player versus player (PvP) preference. So if you’ve set your game settings to be low PvP and you’re in a relatively safe area, you’ll likely have an NPC (PvE) encounter as opposed to a PvP one. Of course your ranking and any reputation you earn won’t be the same with a PvE encounter versus a PvP. My hope for this dynamic is that it will allow people to first play Star Citizen in a safer more single player open world style, but as they grow in confidence and want to test their mettle against other real players they can take the training wheels off and get into battles with real players. There will also be areas of the universe that no matter what your PvP setting is, will be PvP. These will be systems that are on the fringes of the policed galaxy and will be notorious for pirate and other illegal activity. They will also be the most lucrative areas – if you can survive.

Now if you’re flying with your friends, who you can link to via the game POI “tagging” system, they will be with you when you’re pulled into a battle instance, whether it is against NPCs, real players or a combination of both.

Once the Galaxy Server has determined that you will have an encounter based on the above criteria it either dynamically creates a battle instance, or puts you in one if one already exists at the encounter point, and that instance has room for new players. To exit this instance you either have to resolve the hostilities by defeating who’s targeting you, negotiating an exit or just outrunning them. Once in an instance you can put out a distress call to your friends. There are two ways people on your friends list (or squadron as we’re going to call it) can help. We save slots in all instances for friends to warp in to fight. To do this they need to be in the same system. If they are they can autopilot in to your rescue and will be dropped into the instance. If they’re not in the star system, if they can get to your system before the battle is over then they can join (but will only be able to join once they’ve reached your system). The second way for your friends to help out is by “dropping in” on your ship. This only works if it’s a multi person vehicle like the RSI Constellation. In this scenario they don’t need to be in your system, they just will drop in inside your ship and will be able to move around in first person, climbing into a turret to man it, or jumping in you P52 to fly it in combat while you fly the main ship (or they could fly your main ship and you pilot the fighter)

Once the hostilities or the event (sometimes you could be pulled into an instance because you came across a derelict ship or space station and we want to give the player a chance to explore) that triggered the drop out of auto-pilot has been resolved, you can hit auto-pilot again, get handed back to the Galaxy Server and go about your way on the nav course you’ve plotted.

You will always drop out at jump points and planets, where you will need to either make a jump to another system or land.

This process is continued until you reach your final destination, which in my example would be Terra, where I would use my comm system to negotiate a landing slot, which would take me down to the planet’s surface via an in-engine cinematic. Once planet side I’ll be able to sell my cargo, replenish my supplies and look for new opportunities via the third person planet side interface.

The advantage of this system is that is allows you to tailor your experience towards your preference – solo, co-op or full PvP. It also doesn’t partition you into different, parallel versions of the Star Citizen universe as everyone is kept on the persistent server. Because our battle or orbit / space instances are temporary, you’re never stuck

with one group over the long term and due to our heavy emphasis on friends and co-op, there will always be room for your friends to join you on your adventure; whether it’s against other players or NPCs.

The same instance system underpins the single player Squadron 42. If you’re playing off-line, your computer will be acting as the server and client, there will be no opportunities for friends to join and everyone will be an NPC. But if you play Squadron 42 through the Galaxy Server, even though your missions and space areas are pre-determined (you don’t get to pick where in the galaxy you are flying if you’re in the military) we will allow your friends to drop in / drop out to take over NPC wingmen and if you want extra skill ranking you can allow other players to drop in and take over enemy ace characters. This system is pretty similar to the Demon’s Souls setup where people could drop in as a Blue Phantom to help you kill a boss monster or fight off another invading player, or you could drop in as a Black Phantom to someone else’s world and try and kill them for XP and other gamerewards.

The key to all this is to allow player choice – you want to play alone you can, want your friends to join you in co-op we allow that and if you want to be challenged by other real players you can do that. The special part is that it can all happen in the same holistic universe.

I hope this helps in terms of understanding how we’re balancing the aspects of multiplayer as well as making the game fun.

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I remember Maniac being a funny guy.

Apparently they want to bring back Mark Hammil and Malcolm McDowell.