Will there be full libraries of alien history and fiction to discover, or will it be limited to item descriptions and news stories? As I explore the galaxy, will I be able to find and collect documents, books and fiction from the various worlds I visit and read them while I'm sitting in autopilot?asked by AwesomeAD
TL;DRPlayers will collect artifacts and unlock Galactapedia entries through exploration and display trophies in their hangar or ship, though it's not certain there will be readable books to collect.
I think we've got one more that I've missed out there, which is the libraries of alien history and fiction. And so there's definitely going to be a case of collecting artifacts and items around the galaxy. Not necessarily sure so much it will be books that you can go back later and read. But there will definitely be in-game sort of information that you unlock, and then in your in-game Galactapedia you'll be able to get those entries and stuff. So there'll be some of that, but there's definitely going to be artifacts and items that you need to find by gameplay and exploring around the universe, and then we're going to let you sort of collect them. So when you have your private space, whether it's in your hangar or you get some other, like your own apartment, or in your spaceship, you should be able to sort of have items that are, instead of like the console, here's my trophy or award that you get. For me in the game, what would be cool would be different things that you sort of collected because you've done missions that have gone to these corners of the galaxy, and then you can sort of look at what you've got sitting on your dashboard or what you've got sitting in your hangar and go, okay, yeah, I went here, I was part of this battle, I did that. So that's sort of where our thinking is on that. And I think, again, that's another sort of push towards being as immersive as possible.
Physical diary kind of thing.
A physical diary, yeah, absolutely. And an in-fiction diary, right? So in-fiction rewards. Even in the original Wing Commander, you went in and you got the medals and they were in your locker, and they were medals that you were awarded for missions you were flying. It wasn't some sort of arbitrary gaming award.
Right, you get 200 kills, you get a thing.
It's not that way at all. You earn it.