Will there be explorable caves in the PU someday?
TL;DRExplorable caves are in very early prototyping and R&D, with the prototype looking promising, and something may be revealed once the tile sets, metrics and gameplay questions are worked out.
We've been doing some prototyping on that. So one of our guys here in Frankfurt has been doing some very, very early prototypes and seeing how we can build that from a modular standpoint, and then design and art will have kind of a powwow sync next week and see, are there certain no-no's to stay away from, if you get the ravines, or kind of visual language of can you get lost in these things? And right now the answer is yes.
Oh, yes. I saw the same prototype that you did.
Yes, you could get lost. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. It really is just going to be us going through a little bit more R&D on that and figuring out what works, what doesn't work, and then seeing, okay, what are the different tile sets that we need to create? Rock, ice, magma, whatever.
I think it looks very promising. And then from there, it's figuring out metrics. Does it look like you can actually jump up there, and then you actually can jump up there? What are things that happen with the AI in there? What if you take a vehicle in there? What happens if there's water in the cave? Do you transition and swim? What happens if you drown? So on and so forth, all these systems that we just kind of walk through in our minds that a lot of times the artists don't think about the same way that we do. And so there is that back and forth that happens. And then at that point in time, I think we're ready to reveal something.