Ben Curtis · Vehicle Art Director and Weapons Art Director

So I guess most people have probably seen that when we originally released one of them into the PU, people were stealing it and glitching inside it. And you can probably tell that the interiors aren't done. If you look at the Javelin, there was a bunch of work to get it to where it was for the tour. But beyond that, there are some areas of the ship that are complete, and some that just have a little diagram on our internal Confluence page to tell us what's going to be in that area. So we wanted to get these in and get that player experience with the exteriors, but there's a little bit of work left to be done.

John Crewe · Vehicle Director

There's a lot of interior there. Like Ben said, there are bits that aren't done because these ships are primarily Squadron. So the thing we've said a lot is we want people's first experiences of them to be in Squadron, where it's this living, breathing environment. And there is a marked difference between what is needed for Squadron inside those ships and what is needed for a full-fat release in the PU, where you have to get to all these components and do things to these components and have interactions with all the seats and the setup for doing all of that. If we were to release them as they are now to players, they would probably be very disappointed with them, because you couldn't use them as a capital ship. They would just be an over-scaled single-seater fighter.

Ben Curtis · Vehicle Art Director and Weapons Art Director

A lot of corridor space.

John Crewe · Vehicle Director

So there is a lot of difference between the needs for Squadron and the needs for the full release in the PU.

Ben Curtis · Vehicle Art Director and Weapons Art Director

It's really cool seeing it. I love it. There's an awful lot of work to go into finishing the capital ships to a point where you get the gameplay you deserve out of it, rather than just getting, like you say, a shell with some corridors.

John Crewe · Vehicle Director

I know people want to do that [fly it around like an enormous Hornet], but that's not what we want.