We also talked about Space Whales. Do we have a name for Space Whales yet?
TL;DRDave Haddock says space whales have no name yet and are still awaiting visuals, are meant to become indigenous to Crusader later on, and might support gameplay such as whale tours or harvesting from their surfaces, which he hopes can be pulled off.
Yeah, apparently that's the thing. No, we don't have a name for them yet. We're actually still waiting on seeing them, I think, before we dive into it. But yeah, the idea is that they are going to be indigenous to Crusader, and not at-launch indigenous, but down-the-road indigenous. They sort of exist within the clouds in the deep, highly dense parts of the planet, but will basically breach every so often. So they'll come up to the surface and hopefully get to the point where players can actually see them. One of the things we're talking about, and I really hope we can pull it off, because we've been talking about this idea about tour guides, because obviously tourism factors very heavily into Orison. But the idea that there could be basically whale tours, space whale tours, where they basically go out and look for breaching space whales. And also, with a lot of the harvestable stuff that the PU is starting to implement now with plants and materials and stuff like that, part of the fun with these things, aside from coming up with the name and the history itself, is figuring out how we can incorporate them into gameplay. Is there stuff that you can collect off of them? That's what I talked about with the Kazi Grazer. You can harvest their eggs or harvest their skin, stuff like that. But are there gameplay opportunities for the Space Whale? Getting barnacles off of it, stuff like that, to make it more fun and give players an opportunity to get really up close to these things.
I was afraid you were going for whaling there for a second. But no, you're talking about being able to land on them and maybe scrape collectible stuff off of their surface.
The idea that they're going under the dense parts and they come up and they brought stuff with them. It's a race against time to harvest stuff off of them if you can.