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What's the current status of hover trolleys? Are there still plans to give players this or another method to move multiple cargo boxes around locations at once?

TL;DRHover trolleys were cut for the release over physics problems and unresolved design questions, but the developer says they are still coming back, alongside ongoing thought about moving cargo more easily.

Cloud Imperium

Yes, so hover trolleys, another thing that was sacrificed to the release gods. In particular, the hover trolleys have some new physics around their behavior and they were being pretty wonky, I'll put it like that, as far as the actual like attachment onto the hover trolley, not with the attachment, but how the hovering dealt with it. So like you would suddenly have this attachment and like the thing would kind of like sway around and sometimes like violently flip over or something. So there's some physics issues with it that need to get sorted. And also there's some questions about quite how to integrate it into the game loop, as far as how you get them, or is that something that you buy or can you find them in the world, et cetera, et cetera. So we took a step back from that to focus on getting the release out the door, but it's not forgotten. They are gonna come back once we've kind of smoothed out the implementation and like the physics problems, and then also pinned down exactly like how we want players to use them and where they are in the game. So yeah, it's still coming. I will say beyond the hover trolleys, there are other things in addition that we're always looking at as far as like figuring out how to make the game loop for moving cargo better. And certainly I think in mass is certainly like a thing that now that we have manual loading in the game, we have more experience with it. It's clearly like there's like this interesting point where if you're not dealing with the largest boxes in the game, some like combinations of medium to small boxes can be cumbersome. So it's definitely like a thing that we're aware of. And there's, I think gonna be continued design consideration on that.

Star Citizen Live›Cargo & Hangars ·
Published on this date.13 Sep 2024