How can this be a concept ship when it's already been 3D modeled and was included in game assets before?
TL;DRConcept work is mostly done in 3D now, and the earlier leaked model is being fully replaced by a ground-up build with interiors, since leaked content may not appear in the game.
It's because we do most of our concept work in 3D now.
Well, actually, I can tell you some more to that. The 3D version that some folks might have found in a leak that someone posted has been totally replaced. It's getting a new ground-up 3D model with interiors thanks to this concept.
Yeah, it hasn't been built out with all the damage states and with the new techniques that we've learned and all that stuff.
That entire initial model is out. They're building it from the ground up. And actually, that's kind of an example of one of the things that having these sales lets us do. We can put more fidelity into a ship that, yes, we've thought about in the past, but we haven't kind of committed to. This may come as a surprise, but some of the things that are in the leak are not going to be in the game at all. There are entire ships in there that the design has changed. They're not even there anymore. There's a lot of work in there that will appear and a lot that won't. And that's not on any game. I was digging through Privateer 2 the other day, and I found that there is an entire pirate cruiser in the game that they either cut the missions it was used in, or they never wrote one in the first place, but they had designed out an entire massive pirate ship that just never gets spawned anywhere in the game. So you'll find that in everything.