Can we expect first-person combat throughout Squadron 42? Or is that a special one-off thing?
TL;DRFirst-person combat runs throughout Squadron 42 as a fluid mix of ship flying and on-foot play, including zero-g, with roughly a 50-50 split of ship combat and first-person shooting.
No, no, no, no. It's throughout. So I mean, you know, I've always wanted to have a game that is basically from your point of view, whether you're on a ship, you're flying your ship, you know, like you're on the Bengal in Wing Commander or you're flying your Hornet. But I also wanted you to be able to be down on the ground running around and first-person, having a fight. And so that's been a dream for a long time. You know, a few members of our team a long time ago, I forget the name of it, something Bounty Hunter, they did it after they did Star Lancer, was kind of that was the idea with it. It wasn't a Squadron Wing Commander style story. But I've always wanted to do that. So even, you know, and if I did another Wing Commander, I would do it this way from a first-person point of view. And so for me, I just wanted to be a fluid story and experience. I mean, it's like, you know, you watch Star Wars, Luke Skywalker isn't flying his X-wing all the time. He's doing plenty of other stuff, running around on foot, having adventures. So the idea that we want is a completely fluid adventure that, you know, depends on the situation and what you have to achieve. You could be doing it flying a ship, you could be doing it on foot, you could be doing it in zero-g, in EVA. And you can be spending time, you know, in your off hours, getting to know the crew. And so there's definitely, I would say, there's, you know, plenty of ship combat and there is plenty of FPS and, you know, weather, you know, I would, 50-50 maybe, I mean there's a lot. So it's very fluid. And there'll be plenty of cases where you'll be in a ship and then you'll have to get out and you'll, you know, be on foot fighting and then get back into your ship and do their stuff. And so I think it's going to be fun.