Looking ahead at 2019, what are some of the big-ticket items we can look forward to?
TL;DRExpected for 2019 are new locations, more planet detail, a new faster flight model, female characters, character customization and Squadron AI carried over, with the roadmap kept to what the team is confident of, hoping to add more.
Well, obviously we're going to have new locations coming through. We have some this quarter. I think also we're going to spend a lot of time on creating more detail on the planets we already have. We have cool stuff like tunnel systems coming along. We're going to have more locations in space, places to visit, sort of way stations and so forth. And also in terms of the gameplay side and feature side, we've obviously got a new flight model coming very soon, which is really exciting. It's going to be really cool. It's not only cool because it's just better in terms of flight in the atmosphere and flight in space and so forth, but another cool thing is it's a lot faster. It's very quick, which means that actually it's a big performance win as well. So people should see that when they start looking at stuff, because when you've got a bunch of ships and they're all using a system and that system's expensive, it all multiplies up. And this system's a much quicker and much simpler system. And the great thing about it is it's simpler to use for design as well, to get the work and the changes they want to do out of it. We have the female characters coming. We have the ability for characters to actually create their look in the game. And then once again, we'll be taking a bunch of features through from Squadron, so the improved AI will be coming through. There's a lot. With this release of the roadmap, I have very much made sure and asked the team that what we put in there is what we can achieve with what we have right now, specifically also with the fact that people may be pulled onto Squadron, and we know that there's basically this work. So although there's a really good set of stuff in there, my hope is we'll be able to add some stuff to the roadmap. But what I've done this time, rather than last time: last time we said we think we can do this, and we had it in the roadmap. This time we put in what we are pretty damn sure we can do. Okay, so now I'm signing up for this. And then, hopefully, if we do build a team and get more people, then we'll actually be able to add stuff to the roadmap. So with a bit of luck, towards the end of the year we'll be able to actually start adding stuff to the roadmap rather than taking it out.