One of the exciting features for Alpha 3.5 is the enhanced ship customization coming online with the Origin 300 series. Is there anything about that we're ready to share?
TL;DRPapy declined to give details on the customization system but said future ships, starting with the 300 series, will have empty item slots that vary by variant, and 3.5 details are still too early to confirm.
I don't know what I can say and what I can't say on that, so I won't say anything.
I got halfway through the question and I realized that we haven't actually been weapons-free on that one yet. What I can tell you guys is it's still in active development. I got to sit in on a meeting with the folks at Turbulent a couple days ago. It's pretty cool for tiers of implementation. Rest assured, obviously, when it's ready to be shown... I show everything, don't I?
Yeah, but here's something I think we can talk about. So basically right now, the way that we've been putting our ships together, we have the bare minimum item attachments for everything, and one of the things going forward, and it will be first seen with the 300, is basically, if you think about the 350, OK, well, that will have some other item slots that theoretically the player could put what they want on there, or at least they have a choice of a few different options that they can put on there. And right now we don't have that in the game, but that's where we're moving to. So, let's say, the 300 base model doesn't have those, but the 315 has one, versus the 325 has maybe two, and the 350 has three or four kind of thing. So that's the way that we're adjusting the customizable ships.
You'll hear more about that as we get closer to the release. The release of 3.5 is scheduled for the end of quarter one. We just crossed the one-third mark of quarter one, so it's still a bit too early to have confirmed details for you.
Yeah, and a lot of the features, once we get closer to what we consider feature lock, we really start seeing what's being locked in, what's not being locked in. And then, obviously, going back to the ship customization thing, at that point in time, it's rolling it out to all the ships, making sure that from an item port standpoint, we have those empty item ports that will take different, what we consider, customizable items, whether that be, let's say, an extra radar or an extra cooler or an extra power plant. And then it's up to the player to pick and choose how they want to customize their ship.