How will players fly from planet to planet? Will we just fly from planet to planet on our own, or will there be cutscenes similar to landing on a planet?asked by Hasselhobe
TL;DRPlayers can fly between planets manually, or use an autopilot-style fast travel that unhooks speed limits in a straight line, letting them walk around the ship, rather than a cutscene.
Okay, it's not going to be a cutscene in the sense of the landing, what they're talking about there. What we're talking about is there's two modes of transportation, of course. You can either just fly it manually, so all those explorers out there who want to just go spend an hour or two just chugging from one planet to another, we can allow that.
Maybe searching asteroid fields or derelict junkyards or whatever's out there, right?
Exactly. But for the players who are in a hurry to get from point A to point B, we are going to have, if you think about autopilot, for instance, from the old Wing Commander games, any of those games, there is a way of traveling faster. And basically what it does is it unhooks the controls that keep your ship from going too fast because the maneuvers would injure you. And as long as you go in a straight line, much faster. So that's how autopilot would work. So you could get up and walk around your ship and look out the windows while you're fast traveling.