Now that we can see other ships on re-entry, what are your thoughts on meteor showers?

Well, I have tested this, and on the VFX side it is obviously completely possible. It would just depend on the design requirements, perhaps story elements in Squadron, things like that. But on our side, it's possible, and it looks pretty cool.

I imagine it's one of those things that's easy to make look cool from a distance, but then you have to figure out the gameplay implications of what if somebody goes to that meteor shower and flies to it. Now it's more than just looking cool. Now there have to be gameplay implications to it, and that's a much more complicated conversation.

Yeah. In a normal game, you can use meteor showers as a backdrop. For us, how do you spawn a meteorite in the sky? Where does it come from? Will it just pop into existence?

I mean, that's a great point, Leo. That's the challenge. That thing's got to come from somewhere at some point. Where? Is it hidden behind something? Is it in a gas cloud? Is it hidden? There's always a possibility that someone could be at that place where the thing spawns. Yeah, that's quite a unique challenge to our game.

NPCs in games have monster closets. Are there such things as meteor closets where they can spawn and come from? And again, they have to be visible from every angle, because you can't control where the player is going to be when they see it.

If you want to see how it looks, just get a couple of friends to all come down at more or less the same time at the same speed on a planet. And then that's kind of how it would look.