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What can you tell us about the 600i?

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

We did a tease for the 600 in the last Eclipse.

Jared HuckabyCommunity Content Manager

Are you willing to confirm that that was the 600?

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

I'm willing to confirm the 600 is the thing that exists.

Jared HuckabyCommunity Content Manager

I think it was the one before the Eclipse, actually. It was at the end of the Banu Defender brochure.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

There's nothing we can say yet. It is super, super cool, and it seems mean to tease it like that. I will go ahead and say it's not the next one you're going to see. We're taking a lot of time. This is a really, really special one, so it won't be the next ship you see, but it'll be soon after that.

Jared HuckabyCommunity Content Manager

I see it comes up a lot. In ATV it was mentioned that the 600 is concept complete. That is just one stage of making it ready for sale. There's still all the marketing requirements and stuff like that.

Tyler WitkinLead Community Manager, Austin studio

Iteration.

Jared HuckabyCommunity Content Manager

So it is concept complete, as they mentioned in ATV, but now it's to us and now we're creating all the marketing materials and designing the sale. So it does not mean it's ready to go to sale right away the second it's concept complete. But when it's ready, you'll see it.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement

Well, one great thing that we're actually doing with these sales now is we've learned to do the additional marketing stuff and the game work in parallel. So we now know that we don't need to make some high-res image just for the sale. We do it in such a way that the ship is starting to be integrated into the game already and we take those assets and work with them. It's made the whole thing a lot more efficient. As I think you guys saw with the Nox, we were able to show it in Bug Smashers in the engine the next week. It's so smooth now compared to years ago. It's great.

Happy Hour›Community Show·
Published on this date.30 Jun 2017