Are suit lockers in ships getting any closer to becoming a thing, especially with the upcoming feature of flight suits being necessary to handle more G-forces?
TL;DRWork on functional suit lockers has started, with ships being checked for support, and the initial release should hopefully cover many ships, with no date given and not every ship getting lockers.
Yes. So from a vehicle content side, we have started the work to make sure they are all up to spec in our ships. So we have the prototype for what will hopefully be the initial rollout of functional suit lockers. Obviously, we have suit lockers in all of our ships, but I think most people use them as temporary jail cells for people at the moment. But again, I don't want to speak on behalf of the feature team doing the work, but we have got our templates there and we're going through all the ships and checking that the volumes are correct and you can interact with them in a quick and clean manner, because we don't want it to be: you go to your suit locker, press button on the door, world's slowest animation of a door opening, you interact, swap your equipment, and it goes back up again. So there's a few ships where the doors need changing or just removing. And hopefully in the initial release of that, which I'm not going to give a date for, there will be a pretty comprehensive selection of ships supported. Not every ship has suit lockers. Not every ship is going to get suit lockers. So if your ship has suit lockers now, it's going to support it, hopefully. If you are in a ship that doesn't have any anywhere, there is probably a reason it didn't have that, and we don't particularly want that level of gameplay there with that ship.
It's the whole 'not every ship is supposed to do everything.' There are supposed to be choices. There are supposed to be sometimes some hard choices. That's intentional.