Is building the weapons for the game something that gets prioritized and therefore built faster in order to get a specific patch over building it over the course of time and when it's ready it's put in then?asked by KuruptU4Fun1
TL;DRWeapon production is a mix of both: schedules are lined up with ship releases where possible, though either can run ahead, and four full-time weapon artists work on them.
As in a lot of the things that I manage, honestly it's a bit of both. We know what ships and weapons will be released, we know what new releases they'll be in or what patches and so on, so we do our best to line those schedules up. Obviously if we're going to put a ship out, we want to try to get a weapon functional on it, or as many or all of them if you can. Sometimes the ships move a little faster in production, sometimes the weapons move a little faster in production, but we do our best together to line them up to give the best experience.Internally we have a good amount of weapons we're working on. We have four full time weapon artists, we have our lead and then three other guys are helping him out. So there's stuff that's coming out of them on a daily and weekly basis, again making good progress.