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In the DFM, where is our hangar located?Are we already in space on a station? If so, how do we get the ship out of the hangar without creating a vacuum?asked by SlackR

TL;DRThe dogfighting module is a virtual simulation entered from your hangar by connecting to a battle net, so there's no vacuum problem and no real damage to your ship.

That is a good question, but the concept with the Dogfighting Module is actually that you're flying, essentially a simulation inside your hangar.So what will happen is, you'll be in the hangar, you'll get inside your Hornet, or any of the other ships that we'll have available for Dogfight v1, if you don't have any of those ships, we'll loan you a ship to fly in Dogfight v1. You'll climb in, and basically fire it up and at that point your HUD comes up and creates a "Joining simulation" interface.So we mentioned Arena Mode as a part of the game, where it allows you to practice flying around, fighting with your friends, but not taking your actual ship out into space and risking loss of equipment or life. That is what we're calling "Arena Commander," it's a bit of a nod to a game I may have made in the past.You connect up through there and it's all done in fiction that you're connecting up to a battle net, and you will fight against other people.What happens is you step into the ship in your hangar, connect up, then the outside of the ship once you've connected, you come back out, and bam you're out in a virtual space, flying around dogfighting. Once you've finished the battle, you return back into your hangar, and of course there won't be any bullet holes on your ship because it was all a virtual simulation.It is the beginning of the stub of the Arena Mode which will be in the game, throughout the game. It's one of the features that will be useful, and I think longer term people would probably use this feature to do e-sports or challenge each other without having to lose their precious cargo or precious ships.So we don't have to worry about a vacuum at the moment because it's all virtual.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 13 (2014.03.24)·
Published on this date.24 Mar 2014