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Where is the second turret on the Cutlass?asked by The Meta Baron

TL;DRThe Cutlass's second turret is the tractor beam, while the main turret is now a class five manned turret; published ship specs are in-progress and will change.

Rob IrvingSenior Designer

Okay, so without going into too much detail on the classes of weapons again, which is all of course available on our lovely website. Originally, the turrets were less defined than they are now as far as the different classes of guns, like a class two and a class four and a class five. There's now those degrees where we're actually specifying one's just a gun that can pivot in one or two directions, whereas one is more of a free turning gun. So really the second turret on the Cutlass is the tractor beam.

Tractor beam, right. In the back. Class four, right?

Rob IrvingSenior Designer

Well, seeing as the main turret is actually a class five now.

Which means it's a manned turret.

Rob IrvingSenior Designer

It is, yeah. So basically, as with everything we ever put on the website, game in progress, development in progress, things change. In this case, it just was some classifications.

That's a good point. And the thing you guys have to remember out there is that those things that are published, generally speaking in game development, those things get washed out over time while you're making the game. And by the time it gets finished or balanced or put out there to everybody once you start playing it, that would have been six months, a year, two years before, had already been figured out or slotted or changed, and you guys wouldn't have even seen that. But because we're doing this modular and we're doing open development, we're letting you in on the process. So there's going to be a lot that will change over time, and specifically in ship stats. So yeah, just be understanding that that's going to happen, and that's part of the fun of being involved.

Wingman's Hangar›ep057 . February 19, 2014·
Published on this date.19 Feb 2014