Is there going to be NPC radio chat in the 'verse? For example, when we're getting near a station, our radio picks up the chatter of other NPC pilots calling for landing clearance and things like that, which we'll be able to overhear.
TL;DRThe devs say they want NPC radio chatter and a sense of life around landing zones and it is on the roadmap, but it needs a lot of recorded content and will take time.
Yeah, I mean, I've had chats with Dave about this a few times, and I think this might have even come up in previous Q&As, but the idea is definitely that we want to have that, like a pilot has in a typical aircraft, where they get other chatter on an open channel. And that concept is something that we really would like to have for Star Citizen as well. I mean, the main thing that really holds up something like that is just pure content. To have conversations like that back and forth with many different actors, enough to make a feature like that very interesting, takes a lot of recording time. So it's something that's going to take a bit of time to get into, but it is on our roadmap. It is something that we really want to achieve, especially for interactions with the ATC and having people kind of overhear other people parking and things like that. We want that kind of feeling of life going on around the landing zones. And that's really important to us. That life element is, in general, really something that we're putting a lot of focus on as of late.
One cool little thing I was speaking to Darren, the audio director, about is, in the future, looking to go through jump gates and wormholes and that kind of travel. It would be really cool if we could, with permission, record the VoIP input of any player and then play that back whilst they're in these altered states traveling through wormholes, as if it's warping the reality of time and space. There's many hoops to jump through before we even start exploring that, but I think it'd be really cool to hear back some comms, all processed, reversed and stuff, just to give that ethereal feeling as you're traveling interstellar through this medium.
That would be very cool. I can feel my backlog growing as we speak.