What can you tell us at this point about how you envision [the AR cockpit]? What are the advantages of the AR cockpit?
TL;DRThere's no real design for the AR cockpit yet, so Crewe can only speculate (holographic cockpit displays, extra full-size MFDs); nothing is decided until a designer starts work on it.
It's very hard to say. Looking back at the original design, because these are very early designs, there was never really a huge amount of design put into it and there were never any concepts for it. So we haven't really decided on how it ties in. I know there was speculation that the entire front of the ship would be shielded and you couldn't see out. That's probably not going to be the case. If I was to speculate on something, I would suggest the MFDs that are there currently would be all ripped out. The cockpit would be all holographic projection ones. And then there would be extra full-size MFDs, like you have on capital ships, like there is in the engineering station in the back, available to the pilot. But until we start doing anything, it's all speculation.
I want to stress that that's literally John Crewe sitting here right now speculating. Until development actually begins on the AR cockpit, until a designer is attached to that feature and starts to flesh it out, we're not going to be able to tell you concretely what it will entail.
Yeah, we didn't want to spend the time now just making art on speculation without the other gameplay teams doing their part first.