Star Citizen: Reverse the Verse - July 8th, 2016

Somebody asks about the Carrack every single week. No change on the Carrack, I'm sorry. It's the next one they're going to be looking at after the Cat gets put to bed.

Really, really well.

It's looking very, very, very cool. Tour of the UK office yesterday, you saw Nathan Dearsley talk about the giant ship team they have over there right now. 21 artists, I think he said, working on ships.

And a lot of those artists are working on Squadron 42 specific ships, the Vanduul fleet, the Bengals you saw, the other capital ships, the military ships and so on. And the good news is that there will be a point when they are done with those and then we get them for Star Citizen.

But I was comparing that to our much smaller ship art team that we have here, led by Elwin and Dan Kamensky and Justin Wentz.

They've got a couple ship guys in Austin, too. The peerless Chris Smith.

Josh Coons. They'll be here in L.A. next week, too.

No change to the Reclaimer. Still waiting for all those Squadron artists to free up, essentially.

None that I'm aware of. I don't think we have a baseball cap for this summer. We have a couple shirts. Big Benny's shirt sample just came in for that. But no, unfortunately, Ally is not on the show today. We would ask her. But I don't think a baseball cap immediately. But we do have these cool lanyards. These lanyard samples just came for everybody. These are not a thing we're selling, but they're there for conventions. We're giving them away at CitizenCon, I believe, and Gamescom.

Yes, three different pod options, of which I think we have two ready.

Not yet. Once we have the updates to the base ships done, we've got a couple. We have the Aurora, 300 and Cutlass. Once we have those done, then we're going to move on to the variants. When Chris Smith rebuilt the Constellation, one of the reasons it took such a long time and there's so much detail is that we built it around the idea of easily switching to variants. So it's not another eight months for the Phoenix once we get there. It's a bigger job.

I do not have a price yet, but we will have that for you shortly. We try to do it exactly one week out. With it being attached to 2.5, one of the good things about our regular concepts that we do with our brochure and everything is we can pick an exact date when we know what's going to be out. With something that's going to be with 2.5, it's a little floaty.

Fit questions are hard until both ships are built. I don't know the answer to that question. When we size these things out in concept, it's the most educated guess you can make and whatnot, but until you're building it and you have to put people in it and walk around, you have to see how everything feels, things get bigger, like the Idris and the Starfarer. So hard to say until we build both of them.

Although I will say we get a lot better about it. You look at the early ships, and it's 50 concept passes to get it right, and now it's like three or four. We've learned a lot, but there's always unknowns.

I would suggest once the hangar sale comes, I'll have a much better idea. That'll be an update for you shortly. I don't know what I'll have, though.

No updates to report, not because no work has been done or anything like that, just because it's not my bailiwick.

The Grabby Hands was a concept. It was a concept that Calix Reneau put together to deal with cargo stuff, but it wasn't the only concept. It just was the concept that we showed.

They've got some exciting stuff they're working on in that ballpark, but I can't give it away, I'm sorry.

I think it'll probably come back. We're experimenting.

We're also down one Hennessy today, which is why we're using this computer Jared built himself for live streaming for this week.

The station that we're on is what we use for Loremaker's Guide to the Galaxy, and it's a replica of the station that we're using for our Gamescom show floor booth live streaming.

Part of what they're working on is a new in-game interface and stuff. So yes, what you see in Crusader right now is temporary. It was a necessary thing to do to begin building Crusader and to begin getting it in your hands and to begin testing everything. But like many of the UIs, it is not the final.

We like to call that initial implementation. In your head, you imagine computer science to be like a factory. You know what the final thing is. You put it piece, piece, piece together, and then it's done. The reality is it's much more experimental. So we do an initial implementation that's minimum requirements. It's starting to connect systems together, and you build on top of that. So it's an essential part of the process to have that early version, but it's not what will be in the final product.

I think you mean the legally distinct from Han Solo UEE jacket.

So the answer is yes, you'll be getting it. I just don't know when. Although we did just talk with Behaviour about fulfilling some things.

They've got a whole list of all the posters and ship models and so on that have to be finished.

I actually asked that question yesterday. I haven't gotten an answer yet. So I'll post somewhere once I get the answer because I was curious about that too.

Next week. Actually, if you remember, going back to our April Fool's Day prank or whatever you want to call it, we revealed 20 seconds of the Ballad of Big Benny's, which was a full-length music video for Big Benny's that we've been working on for the last three months, and it's done and we're finally ready to share it with the community. So tune in next week for ATV 100 Part 3 and you'll see and hear a full-length Ballad of Big Benny's, our first Star Citizen music video.

No, no.

It's more tied to its completion for Squadron.

Probably not in ATV.

I think you will be seeing that in the not too distant future, but probably not in ATV. In fact, I remember last month in the report, they were like, no, we don't want to talk too much about it because we want to wait. They're working on something cool.

Sub flair is next week. I guess, technically it would be today because the first was... I guess this is technically the second, right? But no, it will be next week. It's also in 2.5 rather than 2.4, so it's going to be one of those ones that does not appear until 2.5 hits. But we'll do the post and all that next week, and attributes and so on.

We absolutely should do that. I mean, not as a mean thing, but yes, and I pointed this out on Batgirl's show yesterday, if you were an Idris owner or a Javelin owner or one of those big ships, you do not need to buy an extra Argo. You've got one in your ship already.

Talk to Turbulent, see what we can do. That's a fun idea.

It's a snub. Again, check out the Morrow Tour from last year's CitizenCon. You'll see it's very small.

It's sort of cool though. I remember watching the intro they added to Super Wing Commander where they took the 3D model of the shuttlecraft from BioForge and had you arriving on the carrier. And I was like, I wish you could see that more. I wish you could fly that. I know that's a very specific-to-Ben desire.

No hard ETA. I was talking to John Erskine about the Austin ATV next week, yesterday, and he's looking at getting some more information about that, but nothing like a date or an ETA.

It's one of those things where if we were in a position to know how long it is to fix this problem, that would be great, and it probably wouldn't be a problem in the first place. It's more of an analyze, figure out, solve, so it's not construction, it's treatment.

I have no idea what they're talking about. It always makes me curious when people suggest something is more RSI than Origin or something is more Anvil than Aegis and stuff. I'm always curious.

I can definitely see that.

Unless there are other meanings of the word. We're defining these things still to this day.

You can have 15 posters the same way I had 15 posters. I took the artwork off the website and printed them up myself.

And then your roommate comes and sues you.

No, are you kidding? My roommate's Toast. He sat there and did that.

So print your own posters. Do not sell your own posters is the Toast part.

Yes. You can make whatever merch you want for yourself. We love that stuff.

Make it for yourself. We also tend to give away posters at our big events. So if you went to Gamescom a couple years ago or any of the PAXs, we usually had posters to give out.

Possibly, but not a priority. Weapons is a little bit more compelling than clothing, but in general, the hope is to move everything into the game economy rather than working it like the ships do right now.

The Subscriber Den has older designs.

I do not remember which one was in Ship Shape, but the one in the Subscriber Den is pretty recent.

Well, the one in Ship Shape was sent to us by the artist. So they're still working on it. I know they have not finalized the look and feel of the command module yet. So chances are they're both old, or one could be what they end up going with, or not. So still up in the air.

I think we have enough volunteers for Gamescom, but reach out, absolutely. It's always good to have backups, and we'd love to hang out with anybody at Gamescom. You don't have to volunteer.

We have a way of revealing that stuff.

Yes. It's looking really cool. Probably show you a little bit later this year.

No, it'll be after we get back from our grand tour. We're going to be in Europe for three weeks. Gamescom for a week.

What is the actual anniversary?

September, mid-September, I think, so it's right when we get back. So we're going to get back, then we'll set it for the end of September.

So let's say mid to end September. We're going to want at least a week to recover from three weeks gallivanting around Europe. So, September.

We absolutely will be doing it, though. It's going to be cool.

I don't know specifically for Dragonfly owners, but I approve of a Fonzie-style jacket.

Well, one of my favorite things about the original game is that you seem to be wearing a cool leather flight jacket, and yet you also eject out into space in it.

To my understanding, it's just a hangar flair. It's just a display right now.

Tune in to ATV next week for the Austin edition. We were just talking about doing a quick update on the Herald for that.

If you're a subscriber, I think we posted a couple Herald shots to the vault last week from the current broadcast in Austin. There's also an image or two in the monthly report coming out later today.

Designers are busy. I would very much like to. Pursuing that.

Yes. All the concept art shows they've landed, and they've done a bunch of work on landing gear.

Big, but it's not that big.

ETA suggests that we've said that there would be an add-on.

I think we will do one, though, once the Reliant's flyable. I think we'll just do five.

Yes. Two of the modules will be ready.

No, no updates for you, sorry. I've heard they're on a schedule, but I can't disclose details.

Didn't we do all of the cool ones already? Well, not that one.

No, we haven't done that one yet. But there are other ones that are cool.

Yeah, we did the ones that they initially planned, where they shot the interviews.

I think it means the website has, like, nine spots with all the heads.

Oh, the heads and whatnot. No, they're still working on the heads of a bunch of them. We will eventually post other heads.

It's one of those things where as much as the accusation that development follows marketing gets thrown around, it's the opposite. We put that stuff up when they provide it and it's ready to show. So they're still working on that stuff.