What's the status of the spaceships in development?
TL;DRCaterpillar concepting is wrapping up, the Buccaneer reveal is on track for late May if all goes well, and the F7A Hornet is being designed to look distinct from the existing Hornet.
As far as spaceships, work continues on the Caterpillar.
Yeah, we're starting to wrap that up.
Wrap up the concepting.
Yeah, the internal concepting.
The internal concept. They've still got to build the ship.
So we're moving towards next month's concept ship. I don't know if we want to say what it is yet or not. Should we?
The people already know of the ship.
Yeah, so we are getting ready for the Buccaneer, which will be late May, assuming everything comes together as we're hoping. Game development can go very quickly, but we're on track for the Buccaneer as our next big ship reveal. That's kind of exciting. I saw they were doing the work on the F7A Hornet for Squadron. I know for years now people have been like, but what does the F7A look like? Is it just like the C? The answer is no, it is not just like the C.
It's simultaneously very different but very similar. Chris Smith is doing a very good job at updating the design while still making it easily identifiable as a Hornet.
So you'll be seeing more of that as we get closer to Squadron. We want a very different hero vehicle, something that stands out from the one folks own. What other ship stuff is happening this week? We were supposed to have a kickoff for two new tiny ships, but that got pushed a couple weeks for the usual scheduling stuff. It's at the point where we're looking at what ship concepts we want to start well after the game is out. So it's a good place to be in.