Is the plan to just make dogfighting an arena-style shoot-'em-up, or will there be some specific scenarios to test?asked by Whiplash
TL;DREarly dogfighting will mostly be arena-style shoot-ups, possibly with AI and teams, with scenarios maybe later, since its purpose is testing multiplayer infrastructure, ship balance and flight model, so early versions will be rough.
Okay, so the answer on that is in the very first iterations of dogfighting, there will be mostly just an arena-style shoot-up, head-to-head, or flying in some AI, maybe two teams, red and blue would be sort of the standard teams, although we think we may switch that up to be a bit more fun than red versus blue. And then maybe later on we'll do some scenarios. But the idea of the dogfighting test isn't really to deliver a fully fledged game like you would normally expect. This is really for us to test the back-end infrastructure for multiplayer, the balancing of the ships, seeing if the flight model and everything is fun. So it will be an iterative process. So the early parts of any of the modules are obviously going to be a lot rougher than the final polished version is, but it's all in the effort of making the game as good as possible. So I guess bear with us on those.