This is a version of Master Modes, because it's just the Gladius right now, and you've had to do some engineering to finagle it to work with the existing PU HUD, since it's being developed under the Squadron branch with an updated HUD and visor. So there was a fair bit of work massaging this to get it into Arena Commander, right?
TL;DRYes; CVars were turned into per-mode game rules parameters so only Master Modes game modes get the features, and the vehicle team plugged new systems into the old Gladius for partial but useful testing.
Yeah, so some of it was actually already done ahead of getting the game mode developed. The game modes were originally developed... I essentially made them the week after I had that thought when I was sitting with VFT. I met with Yogi and some of the other VFT programmers. I'm like, how can we get this across? And they're like, well, we use a CVar, a command variable for non-game devs, and this turns this on, we need this, this, this on, and so forth. So we got a big list of all the things that need to be on, and we made them what we call game rules parameters. Game rules being the parameters that control all of our game modes, for lack of better words. And we turned CVars into parameters so we can change it per game mode. So we're not affecting the PU. We're not affecting other game modes. We are affecting only the ones that are labeled as Master Modes to have these certain things enabled. And thanks to some fine tuning from the vehicle team and [unclear] on making those features available, we were able to do that. And again, going with the Gladius, we had to take the old Gladius and get it to work with new systems. And thankfully, the vehicle team experts in that area were able to take these new systems and plug them into the old Gladius so that we can have, not the full experience, because some of it isn't ready yet to even get feedback; it wouldn't be valuable feedback for now. But we've got what we need to be able to get good feedback in the current Gladius so that there's no holding back. We don't want to wait for this and that to finish to be able to get this in your hands. Once it's in an acceptable state where we can assess that feedback and benefit from it, that's when we want to push it out. And now is that time.