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We've talked a lot over the months about Saddleball. Is it happening?

TL;DRSaddleball will be done, but not in the first Star Marine release or the one after; it is on the roadmap, possibly also as an in-universe sport.

Chris RobertsCEO and Project Director

We will do Saddleball. It will not be for 2.6. Star Marine, the first iteration, will be, as we talked about at CitizenCon, a small map, essentially PvP, and a large PvP map. Saddleball would be in one of the later iterations, wouldn't be in 3.0. The ones later, we didn't really call it out, but it is on our roadmap for Star Marine, one of the game modes. It's also something that we want to put into the universe itself. For instance, we've talked about racing. Racing is a mode in Arena Commander, but really some of the most fun racing will be the in-fiction, in-universe racing. People can already see in GrimHEX that there's part of a race course that's already laid out there. And in a later iteration, we're going to open that up, where players would compete and maybe bet against each other with UEC.

Erin RobertsGlobal Head of Production

We want to have, you'll basically get a message going on that says, the championships are on, make your way to GrimHEX or wherever. And everyone will meet there and they'll have races.

Chris RobertsCEO and Project Director

We'll definitely have, everyone looks at the Dragonfly zipping along and you're going, okay, yeah, that's pod racing. So we're going to have all that sort of stuff, and Saddleball, while it's not racing, is another in-fiction sport. So we'll have it in Arena Commander, but potentially we could even have Saddleball competitions of teams that are happening in this universe. We want huge arenas.

Erin RobertsGlobal Head of Production

You go land your ship, you go in and you walk inside the big space station and you enter the arena and you go play against people and have other people watching and that kind of stuff. That's what's going to be really cool. It's almost like going to Sunday Night Football.

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Published on this date.13 Oct 2016