Why is there content in the leak that we haven't seen yet?asked by [Uncredited]
TL;DRRoberts says unseen content exists because they want to keep Squadron 42 story details a surprise and don't share work until it's tested and polished enough for useful feedback.
[86-minute special with Ben Lesnick - Summary Transcript]There's a couple reasons.– Reason # 1: It's a narrative story we want you to experience. If you see every aspect of it the whole sense of discovery won't be there, and that'll hurt the experience.– We definitely want to keep a lid on the SQ42 aspects that are part of the story. Some of the general stuff like what does a Vanduul look like, that's fine. A lot of the specifics like locations, characters, even some of the ships you'll be on (flying or coming up against) we wanted to keep as a great discovery and surprise.– Reason # 2: We have a lot of stuff in development and just because of programmer finishes writing something doesn't mean we instantly put it out there. We have to test and polish it, refine it. When we think it's in a good enough state to for some objective feedback, we get it out there and see what people think. That's a big point for us. Programmers and artists here, it's a constant fight because they want their stuff to be perfect. We don't want to share stuff to early. It's pretty stressful for an artist if you share something too early that he knows has 20 problems with it, then every backer gets on a forum and points out those 20 problems. It's the same thing with Star Marine and why we aren't sharing the build right now which we play test every week.– For those reasons, we think there are points where it's useful to share when the discussion will take it to places that we need that input on.– We try to have these gates where internal development, we get it where we like it, then pass it to QA, after QA feedback to you guys, and you guys give us feedback and we take that back and work on it. That feels like a positive iteration cycle.– We share it well before we would share it if it was our sorta final publisher game so I think you guys get a view of it sooner than you would normally have. Like I said we're not going to share everything from day one for the reasons given.– You don't want to show work, just to show work. You want to show work that says, 'Hey we've taken it this far and we would love your feedback.'