Will we ever be able to switch the pilot controls in the cutlass from the front seat to the rear?
TL;DRNo, there are no plans to move the Cutlass pilot controls to the rear seat, since the front seat was deliberately built with the flight hardware and a rework isn't intended.
Right now, no. That's not something in the cards. It was intentionally designed where the front seat was specifically built to be the pilot seat, including the hardware needed for flight. So you don't just have a single stick and you're flying your ship functionally. It's the throttle and stick, or even other ships where it's a dual stick setup. So the rear seat was built to not have all of that set up to it. To try and accomplish that, we'd have to kick things back to art, do a rework on that. But also at the same time, that was just never its intended design. So one thing I've seen people bring up, because I've seen that sort of pop up in Spectrum as well, is they're saying, oh, it should have been an attack chopper. That was never really the aesthetic reference for the cockpit as much. A bigger thing was actually the dropship out of Aliens, where it's much closer to that, because we've already got the giant shoulder-mounted ordnance. It's just ours doesn't fold out like the Cheyenne did. But the cockpit is also very much in that similar kind of mindset, where you have a more panel-heavy pilot seat in the front lowered position, right up at the nose of the ship, but then you have a much more unobstructed support gunner seat behind that pilot. If you even go through and look up the Cheyenne itself, it's like, oh, you can actually see a lot of those same cues. Although they have a weird, cramped hallway to get the pilot and the co-pilot through to their seats. We're like, no, no, we can't do that for collision reasons and being a game. So the cockpit is how it is. It's definitely not an unheard request.