From what people saw at CitizenCon, where are you taking it [Theaters of War] from there? What are the changes, what are the improvements before it goes live?
TL;DRBefore release, Theaters of War will get visual polish and effects, like a dramatic space station destruction, plus a move from Tech 3 to final Tech 4, while fun stays the priority.
Yeah, and we built this very much in a way that fun came first. That was really, really important, that we would find the fun. So we spent a good amount of time on that. So now let's make it look awesome and let's make the experience really fun. So a great example: at CitizenCon, when you take out that space station, I want something incredible to happen. I want to disintegrate the thing. When you're taking it out, you have to destroy some engines on it, it starts falling to the planet and things like this. So I want to add a bit of the Track View and the effects that we need to add to it. Kind of the exciting visual polish.
And to be fair, it's kind of the fun stuff. And I think because of the timing, we didn't want to risk it, so it uses Tech 3, which I used to think looked great, but now I'm looking at Tech 4, I'm like, eh. So we're going to move it to final Tech 4, right?
Absolutely. And then, again, we're going to try little things within the map. We're going to keep iterating on it. It's just a bit of polish now that's got to go on it. Some art and polish, update to V4. And that'll be it.