Will Star Citizen get sonic booms?
TL;DRThe team can't say much, but sonic booms are wanted and they have seen art and visual effects for them, without any date for when they might arrive.
I don't know how much we can tell. It's probably a question for Graham. I have seen some images of art that include sonic booms. I don't know how much we can tell. I have seen it. So it could be there. We want it to be there.
Well, you've said that we're going to be doing sonic booms.
Yeah, I've sold it now.
If there are sonic booms, there will be noisy booms with them. I was going to feed you that... where we're working, as well as working and delivering and releasing stuff, we're doing R&D all the time. There's never a day when we don't consider what we're going to be recording, in terms of props and things that we use to recreate sounds, and also systems that we want to bring in. We're always animated and motivated in that sense. It's not like, well, here's another spaceship, let's just do this. Every day we talk about this, not just in ships, across the department. Everyone's actively thinking how to make the sound experience better.
It's very alive. It's a game that's grounded in realism. I know it's sci-fi, in space and set in the future, but it's grounded in realism in many aspects. I think it makes sense that at some point we will have sonic booms. I just don't see a way around it. And as I say, I've seen some VFX for it. I don't know when it'll come, but I've seen it.