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The disembodied voice in the darkness is a sci-fi trope. If you're going to bring [Tessa Bannister] back with performance capture, do you think we might lose something if we give her a full performance?

Dave HaddockDirector of Narrative, Star Citizen and Squadron 42

The thing is, we're working on video comms. So if we're starting to have video comms in communication chatter, you have to address the question: if you're not seeing her, then it becomes a question. And if our system is that if you're sending a comm to somebody, you see a picture-in-picture of them, then to keep her alive, so to speak, she has to be brought up to that spec. So theoretically, that would be part of it. But will it lose that ethereal quality to her, that she's just the voice in space? I don't think so. I think her performance was so good that when you see her, it's going to add a whole other dimension to the character, and that'll be equally fun. So I'm optimistic.

Calling All Devs›From Frankfurt with Love·
Published on this date.4 Sep 2018