What can you tell us about the current state of salvage?
TL;DRSalvage is being worked on and will let players strip hulls from destroyed ships with the multi-tool to repair their own, with catch-up tech and content work needed on older ships.
Salvage is a really, really exciting feature. It's something that I'm working on currently. And you're going to be able to salvage the hull from a ship. So I'll give you one of the examples, right? So you're in a dogfight with another player. You blow up their ship. You've taken some damage to your ship as well. You're going to have the multi-tool and you'll be able to jump out of your ship and salvage the debris from the guy that you just took out and then float back to your ship and do some patch repairs onto the different parts that got damaged. Visually, it looks really cool because you just hoover up the metals from the ship. It just feels really nice to use. And it provides you a way to repair your ship or also gain some resources from destroying someone else's ship. We do have quite a lot of ships in our game. So you need to be able to salvage pretty much every ship in the game. It's what we're working on.
It's a technical challenge. Obviously, we've had some ships that were made several years ago. So there's obviously problems that arise from those: people fixing issues on them, re-exporting them, and not realizing something's broken. Or tech has advanced on the newer ships that has made them potentially look a little bit better when they take damage and things like that. So there's some catch-up work to do on both the tech and content side. But what you showed me the other day, Joes, this was really cool, where when you're actually repairing the ship, you don't actually restore the paint. You just restore the base metal layer, where it's like, oh, this is super cool. I've been through a dogfight and I've patched myself up. I can see exactly where I was hit previously and where I've repaired. There's a scarring on the ship. So when you start seeing people landing at space stations and whatever, you're going to actually be able to see, oh, this guy has been through some stuff. It almost tells a bit of a story about where they've been. So it's really, really exciting. I'm for sure going to be messing around with it when it goes live.