Will Squadron 42 let the player be a female character?
TL;DRYes, players can choose a female or male character in Squadron 42 and customise it, then carry it into the PU, though development starts with the male skeleton first.
Absolutely, so 100%. Both for Star Citizen and Squadron are female and male, so it's 100% part of our development plan. It's just that in the early stages, the concept is to not have to be revising assets, that we do it with one skeleton, which is the male skeleton at the moment, and then we determine exactly what animations, motion sets we want, because even though we've done all this performance capture, there's still a lot of stuff where you're working on the AI, for instance, the combat AI, or you're saying, oh, I need an animation to slide in to cover a certain way. Oh, well that one doesn't work. Let's change it to work this way. And so there's a lot of iteration, especially on the combat animations that you do for the players and also the AI. So from our standpoint, we don't want to have two skeletons that then we have to fix up two of the animations. So we work it on one skeleton until we lock all the animation sets that we know we need for the player and the AI, and then we just make sure that we create the other skeleton's animation set. So definitely you'll be able to play as a female or as a male, you'll be able to customise how your character looks in Squadron, it will carry across into the PU, so you'll be able to carry your character across from Squadron into the PU, and so there you go, yes.