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of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":665.88,"end_s":671.12,"text":"development um there's tons of people here waiting for you so I'm going to let","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":669.16,"end_s":673.92,"text":"you go uh thanks for taking time out of your day to have this interview I really","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":672.6,"end_s":678.76,"text":"appreciate it if you want to see all the rest of our pxi content be sure to subscribe to L Tech tips and as always","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":677.12,"end_s":681.44,"text":"thanks for watching this video thanks guys","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"lonus Tech tips coverage of paast 2014 is brought to you by Intel and Corsair all right guys we're here at PAX East with Chris Roberts at the Logitech Booth hey guys and I've got a bunch of questions for you first off though uh we've seen the hanger module we've now seen the dog fighting module once this game is released way off in the future what is going to be the success metric for you at what point in time will you be able to sit back and go like okay this is this is staris this is what I wanted uh well I want the so for me I won't be happy until the full univers is there that you can travel around that's of the level and scope they want so even in the early stages sort of like Alpha Beta Universe we probably won't have enough of the star systems for me to feel successful but essentially I want a sort of big vibrant stable community that's making their own like stories and history up that we sort of manage uh and when we get there then I'll be happy that they want add a bunch of extra features so I mean I don't see it ending anytime soon so for me the first part of the Sprint is just to get like all the features in and then at that point sort of start to massage it make it uh you know play as well as possible and then start adding additional content uh and let it seeing it grow I'm actually really interested to see the universe grow like we we're actually planning on a whole bunch of sort of functionality that's based around a dynamic like uh locations and so like if you have a colony and the when you first starting placeing play the game and it's going well in that system then over time maybe a year later you'd come back and the colonies come into a small town and a year later it's grown into a bustling City and so we we we're actually building that kind of tech into all the different planets and environments it's all managed by the econ economy simulator and we're going to all have it visually represented in the different places so I'm just really curious to you know two years on or three years on hopefully if we last that long which you know whatever touch W somewhere yeah yeah uh yeah just just to see that Universe sort of grow and evolve I mean it's really you know when you look at World of Warcraft or EV on line or some of the other MMOs that have lasted a long time it's really kind of interesting because you sort of see them now and you see them when they started and they're quite different games right so I'm kind of looking forward to getting the base in there and then sort of seeing how it goes from there yeah for sure and like when when looking at all that kind of stuff uh from our organization U even just within ourselves it's interesting to see how much you guys Foster just creative develop within the community because we've done some crazy stuff and it's been really well received everywhere uh like a few guys in the audience will know Pro uh project Monarch has been received really well with all the guys and it's this crazy ridiculous plan so it's it's actually really nice to see that you guys are supporting the community like that now completely different question what's your favorite part of the current dog fighting module uh okay well actually there's some stuff that that I actually didn't manage to demo on stage so we're going to do some videos this week uh but uh first of all the zero g uh stuff is which I noticed here actually on the floor for some reason in the Swarm mode all the GeForce stuff is off GeForce is on but you don't see the animation so you don't see the cockpit wayway uh so I'm actually trying to figure out why that why that's happening but uh but you actually uh can eject out of your ship and uh be in zero g and actually fly around in zero g there's little jetpacks on your your uh your pilot suit uh so I'm going to show a video of that later on this week so that's kind of fun uh but sort of the multiplayer Death Match stuff's the funnest which was also one of the things that on Thursday night we did the presentation we had server issues uh so I guess a lot of the fun stuff I I didn't really get demo but people are really going to like it I mean you know I think it looks great and uh it's kind of got a fun uh sort of fast-paced uh game play um and I'm kind of looking forward to seeing everyone play it and and that'll be really good just to sort of AC what people do and be see kind of where the areas that maybe need balancing or what works for people or what people don't quite understand cuz there a lot of features sort of under the hood right so there's all the different so you can fly the normal way but you can turn it off and you have the decoupled way where you could just change your orientation and also you can strafe also in that decample M you go left right up down forward back so I'm interested to see like people start to use that for their combat and then there's Shield management and energy management of your weapons like so if you're just running around in the swap mode here you'll see when you're firing weapons you can see the Heat and stuff going down but there's actually management stuff for that inside the HUD interface uh which uh partly is hooked up but not fully hooked up and it will be for the actual proper dog fight release so it'll be interesting sort of see how all people judge that so we got a lot of little sort of Polish tweaking stuff to do in the module and then obviously you get the back end super reliable uh which is sort of that's what's holding up us giving it to everyone right now uh but yeah when we get all that I'll be really curious you know because we got leader boards for organization an individual so yeah I'm kind of I'm curious to see who's going to be who's going to be the top dog fighter I'm really excited to jump on that and I think our group will do really well but um looking at like you you're talking about you have to get the server backend strong before you can actually release all that kind of stuff how the community seems to be perceiving now I'm going to say betas but this is like pre pre pre-alpha whatever you want to call it um are you guys worried about Community reception because I know at the at the pre-event on Thursday before PA East it was it was very positive but that is some of the hardcore and like I know I don't care if I run into bugs and I'll do as much as I can to do bug reports but are you are you worried about Community reception at all uh well I mean obviously that's that's the concern is that people don't understand that they're getting this way sooner cuz you know like normally if you get like a beta from a publisher it's not really a beta it's like it's basically they're giving you the G they're like a month before as a demo to get people interested and they pretty much think it's done uh whereas we're really like this is by the seed of our pants okay we think it works here you guys go uh and so I'm hoping I mean I I I was actually surprised on Thursday night like how positive everyone was cuz I was actually pretty bummed I was like oh my God we I didn't get to show this I didn't get to show that disaster and like the next day like all the Press was great and uh all the people at the event were great and I was like okay but I think the difference is that it's like a it's like a different mentality so I think a lot of the community I'm maybe all the community I don't know but but everyone sort of feels like they're in this together you know so they're part of and they appreciate sort of getting all the development updates as it comes along and so seeing so they sort of understand that you know they wouldn't normally get it this this isn't a slick publisher beta this is really early for feedback so their their opinions and Ma and voices matter right so like if people say oh I think this is unbalanced or I find this too hard to control that's stuff we take on board and will actually affect the game play uh and so I so I'm hoping that people understand that and you know the price you pay for that early involvement is that it's not necessarily going to be as stable as slick or as polished as it would normally be in a traditional publisher setup uh so I hope so I mean I'm sure there'll be a few people are like this sucks I want my money back this game doesn't play right uh but I you know I you know at the end of the day it's like look we're quite a ways off from having to finish game and this game's only going to be better by like everyone's involvement and feedback uh and I'd rather be open and give it because I'm actually enjoying it right it's really great to sort of see the involvement from the community see everyone's enthusiasm and also see everyone's sort of ideas it doesn't mean that you you're a you're able or want to react to everyone's ideas but certainly the ones that like make sense to you you go oh yeah you know that makes sense let's bring that on board uh so I like the process and and and uh you know I really do I mean like I I've had a great time here at Pax I meet all all the you a huge mind of our community members and everyone just sort of feels like they're part of the team you know and it's kind of cool and you sort of have fun and show them stuff that you're proud of and they're excited and so uh so you know despite the possible pitfalls you know I'm I'm okay with it it's going to be good honestly that that's got to be one of the benefits of being an open in an open development environment is people are supportive because being at the pre-event on Thursday when the helmet flipped that was the most ridiculous thing ever the entire whole club just exploded all at once because that was just amazing and and it is interesting to see and I do think it's going to be better received as you said um because of how it is in open development now um with a game like this um how do you manage expectations with a game like this uh well I don't know I mean it's really hard I mean I I know that there's a lot of people think oh my God it's like it's hype beyond belief it's too but you know I don't necessarily think that it's us hyping it right I just think that that everyone's getting excited probably because there hasn't been a game like this and then this and then we're really just sort of shooting for the Stars right so it's not just like oh we're just going to fly around in space it's like you know no you're going to be down and your first person on the planet at this level of detail you're going to get into your ship at this level of detail you're could be able to walk around the big ships that they board other ship so it's like pretty much sort of checking list of anyone that played a space gamees like dream game uh which is my dream game right so uh so yeah I mean that I guess you know and then at the point because we're early in the process you know everyone's got their own idea how the game's going to be and you know I don't I mean obviously it just can't you know people's ideas to what the final product going to be it's never going to consistently match up because you've got so many people but I do think we'll manage to have enough of all these features that will be the well enough done that it will be you know if we get 70% of what we're planning into the final game I think it will be a really really great game uh but yeah I don't know how I you know I don't know how to manage the expectations particularly well because you know I'm excited by what we're doing and of course I think we're going to do something really great so I'm not going to be there going oh well you know it's maybe it's okay I mean I'm going to yeah I'm really proud of how this thing's going uh so all I ask people is you know you just have to be patient during the process right so a lot of times I I do see like in our community people sort of see something or they hear something on the forums and then the sky is falling because that possibly can't work and I sort of think well why don't we just wait till you actually get to play it in the game and then see if it works or not and then at that point you're going to have we going have a discussion about it um but you know that doesn't always happen but that you that that's just the nature of the Beast I mean you know you I mean we've got a lot of people and they're very excited for this and so I guess I would rather have vigorous debate on the forums then no debate at all right because it shows people are invested in the game that's getting made and they care which is which is great honestly I think uh I've seen on our forums people talk about the game all the time and all that kind of stuff and I've seen a lot of huge expectations but I think what's helping it on our side at least is everything that people are expecting you guys seem to just be doing all of the time like everything that everyone wanted to see in dog fight uh on the pre-event there there was more than what everyone had expected which is kind of amazing that you guys are able to keep up with that level of development um there's tons of people here waiting for you so I'm going to let you go uh thanks for taking time out of your day to have this interview I really appreciate it if you want to see all the rest of our pxi content be sure to subscribe to L Tech tips and as 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