Is the plan to just make [dogfighting] and arena-style shoot-em-up, or will there be some more specific scenarios to test?asked by Whiplash
TL;DREarly dogfighting iterations will mostly be arena-style shoot-ups, with scenarios maybe added later, since the module mainly tests multiplayer infrastructure, ship balance and flight model rather than being a full game.
Ok, so the answer on that is: on the very first iterations of dogfighting there will be mostly just arena style shoot-up, head-to-head or flying against some AI. Maybe two teams, red and blue would be sort of the standard teams, but we think we may switch that up to be even more fun than re vs blue.Then maybe later on we'll do some scenarios, but the idea of the dogfighting test isn't really to deliver a fully fledged game like you would normally expect, this is really for us to test the back end of infrastructure for multiplayer, the balance of the ships, seeing if the flight model and everything is fun, so it will be an iterative process.The early parts of any of the modules are obviously a lot rougher than the final, polished versions, but it's all in the effort of making the game as good as possible.So I guess bear with us on that.