Will players be able to save loadouts to choose from quickly in the new Star Marine?asked by Shafto
TL;DRLoadout selection is coming to spawn screens, but for 3.20 customization wasn't ready so loadouts are simplified to armor and weapons, with on-the-fly changes wanted hopefully not long after, and vehicles later.
Yeah, I'll take this one. So as you might have read in monthly reports and in ISC, we're introducing the spawn screen to pretty much every game mode. The first step of that is just getting a simple spawn screen with a deploy button. The second step is getting selection of your loadout, that being a different ship or a different kind of loadout. As you know, we've got, I think, three different loadouts at the moment. You've got both Control ones and Elimination. And then step three, I think we're on step three, yeah, is the customization of those loadouts. That's a very complex system we're dealing with there when we're customizing things. So FPS is a little bit better for us. That's pretty simple. You've got your armor pieces, you've got your weapons, you've got your consumables. For 3.20, we're simplifying it down because unfortunately, we haven't been able to get the customization in time for 3.20, but we're wanting to make the Flash experience in the front end better because that UI is not the best to deal with. But instead of having so many tabs and so much to change all those pieces, now you just change your armor set and your weapons. But eventually, we want all that customization to be part of the spawn screen itself so you can change everything on the fly. And the same with vehicles, but vehicles will, of course, come a lot later down the line because that is a far more complex thing than FPS, where ships have so many different variations of loadouts. So that's going to take a little bit longer. But yeah, we definitely want to get all that in-game, so it's a far better experience. You switch it on the fly, customizing on the fly, like you're used to in modern games nowadays. We just have to catch up to that. And hopefully it's not too far after 3.20 for that.