Can you explain how bigger battles will work?I am specifically interested in how the refueling, replacing ammunition, and repair works during a bigger battle.Do we have to land on a carrier, or are there some other ways?asked by CoMManDoX
TL;DRChris Roberts says larger ships with landing capacity could let fighters refuel, rearm and make patch-up repairs mid-battle, with full repairs on a planet, and this is planned for later dogfight versions, not right away.
In the bigger battles, that's kind of one of the ideas of having the bigger ships that have landing capacity, so you could potentially land your fighter on board and refuel it, rearm it, potentially do some patch up repairs, because the full repairs would have to be down on a planet.We're thinking about in, not the dogfight that's coming out right away, but what we're calling dogfight v1.1, that we'll have some platforms, I think Dan was teasing it when he was doing the little dogfight reveal. We have it in our internal test stuff where in later game modes you can land and then you can rearm and refuel your ship and get back out there in the combat, because obviously some level of the ammunition you use, ballistic weaponry, missiles, are consumable, finite, right. And then there's fuel which would be consumed mostly by your after burners.So we're gonna actually put some of that in the dogfighting module. Not right away, but down the road as one of the things to do.That's really just laying the ground work for some of the bigger battles because when players will have a bigger ship like a frigate or destroyer or whatever the bigger ships will be, you'll be able to land and do the same thing, and then also we're gonna have some level of ships that potentially could do in-flight refueling or or would have some level of repair ability, or that kind of stuff. Those are all things we're thinking about to try and make some bigger battles where you have mixed use of arms. You've got a couple of big capital ships and some fighters and people have to do all sorts of different things in it.It should be pretty cool, that's one of the things that the UK team will be spearheading, the bigger ship stuff because it's a primary driver of Squadron 42, so they're working on that as we speak as well as helping out on the Dogfight.