Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

So, again, this new story initiative just started this year, and we're still in the fourth month of this year. So it's not like we've...

Dave Haddock · Narrative Director

Well, technically, I think we're in month two of the storylines.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

I would say with the start of Pyro, with the Fight for Pyro. So we're really only four or five months into this initiative. But the missions have all been very combat. The story has been very combat-focused. Even Mine on the Line, the regen thing, the first thing you do is go to a big central sandbox where you're forced to fight with a bunch of people.

Dave Haddock · Narrative Director

Yeah. From a high level, actually, the B story, the science story, the Regen Crisis story, is actually the non-combat one, because it's science, it needs resources. And the Frontier Fighters one, which is the A story, that is obviously much more focused around combat. But within each of them, obviously, there's going to be opportunities to do both combat and non-combat. Again, I think a lot of the systems for combat have already been proven out. So I think, you'd talk to the mission team, but I think they're a bit easier to set up. So it's faster to iterate on adding a lot of combat stuff versus mining stuff. But as far as I understand it, the hope is that we want to have a very nice balance between the two, that if you don't want to fight, you don't have to fight.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Supply or Die, which was kind of a refrain from that A story, a little denouement where you take a break and we introduce things, could be done completely without combat. You were able to mine your way to completion and get all the rewards, or salvage your way to completion. Now, what other players allow you to do, that is the universe that we're making. But it was not exclusively combat-oriented. There was a path for combat, a path where you could avoid it. I think we'll see more of those things as we go on, providing alternate paths to things. As the Regen Crisis continues, there will no doubt be opportunities for some major combat. But there will also be ways to contribute that are not.