When will Tessa Bannister come back?
TL;DRThere's no date; the team definitely wants to bring Tessa back but must first decide what to do with her original voice-only lines, which have no facial or animation data.
Yes, Tessa. We've talked with Luke a bunch about her. We know that there's a lot of love out there and a really exciting cartography community among our pilots, which is outstanding. We've definitely been talking about Tessa and got some plans for her. We have some initial challenges that we have to address, because the initial line set that we recorded for her, that everyone is used to, was just recorded in a VO booth. We basically had a long session where we got a bunch of the pirate lines and the Crusader security lines, and we got Tessa in that batch. So currently it's just voice only. We have no facial data, animation data, anything like that. So whatever the plans are that we have for her, the one hurdle that we have to address is: what do we do with those original lines? Do we re-record them? Do we have the actress lip sync to the lines? Stuff like that. So there's some weird technical stuff that we have to address before we can really go one way or the other on Ms. Bannister.
But you're open to the idea of bringing Ms. Bannister back.
Oh, most definitely. She's fantastic. And we'd love that everyone thinks so too. So yeah, we definitely want to bring her back.