Will there be opportunities in the first person experience to perform covert actions?For example, if a trader is not paying attention while loading cargo into his ship to ferry supplies to his organization's Bengal carrier, could I as a player hide in one of the cargo containers, smuggle myself on board the carrier, and then perform acts of sabotage on vital systems in order to make the carrier easier for my own organization to attack the ship?asked by Pash
TL;DRProbably not at the start, since stowing away and sabotaging a carrier needs more fidelity than planned, though it's a cool goal and planet-side first-person mechanics are still being debated.
That's a pretty awesome scenario. I don't know, we're definitely going to have experiences in first person on planets that will allow you to do more than just walk around and buy stuff, sell stuff, and talk to people in a bar.We're actually going to add some PvE style stuff. Like you go down a dark alley, you'll potentially get mugged or someone tries to pull a gun on you in a bar. But they would all be NPCs 'cause we don't really want to have unauthorized PvP on planets, 'cause that wouldn't be that much fun for a lot of people. But we're gonna make it richer for people.In this particular example right now, I would say probably not. Because if it's a matter of paying attention to cargo or some other person gets on a ship unseen and goes onto another ship, I don't think we're gonna get to that level of fidelity at the beginning. But it's a pretty cool goal We're still debating the mechanics when we're on planet side.Like if you want to follow another person or you want to, like say you make a person of interest, how exactly is that gonna work? Can you follow them leaving from the bar and follow them over to the landing pad as they get into their ship, or do you just get a notification saying that they're about ready to leave for space and you'd better get to your ship to leave.So we're still going through a little bit of that, those mechanics and deign stuff, but we definitely want to make the environment, the first person stuff, cool.Like there's a whole environment of people going about and doing stuff. You can get into encounters. You can get into a fist fight in a bar and stuff like that, which would be pretty cool.I don't know about sneaking aboard a Bengal carrier, but I will keep it in the back of my mind.