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I have loved the new big cave entrances, but will caves come that allow us to fly deep to the end of the cave and maybe out another part of the planet? I'd love to race my friends through a cave system.

TL;DRFlying or driving deep through caves is something they're looking towards, but linking two cave openings is technically harder, and they plan another pass on caves in Q4.

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

Right now, the way that we think about caves is... We haven't prototyped a huge hole or anything like that for you to fly in. We tried one out a little bit, but we haven't really gotten into it to say, OK, yeah, this feels right. Now, as far as linking up two holes, that to me is where, from a tech standpoint, I think that's a little bit more difficult. And then it's also just creating that content so it lines up perfectly. For us to be able to drive into them or even fly into them and have more of a flight or driving experience in the caves or those entrances, yes, that is something that we're looking towards. And it could be that, yes, that's just the end of the cave and it doesn't branch out into the FPS area or anything like that. We want to be able to have all those options, even looking forward into the future. The idea would be that it could be that you're going in from an underground facility and then that translates into a cave aspect, kind of like what we have with the prisons and the escape aspect. But all of that wasn't necessarily built the same way that we procedurally do our caves. And so that's the part that we're going to be looking at: how these adjust and how we're going to be moving forward with the caves. Basically, we'll be doing another pass on them, I think, in Q4.

Star Citizen Live›All About Alpha 3.13·
Published on this date.9 Apr 2021