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Any final thoughts you want to share with the community about your work on the overall new flight experience?

TL;DRThe developers say the new flight model will require players to relearn flying, and they aim to get it to a fun, tentatively finished state rather than keep revamping it every couple of years.

David ColsonGameplay Programmer

I think one of the big takeaways from today should really be the first question we answered, which is our goal here, which is the main-centric, low maneuver, where we're going to find some balance where we make that experience fun but also realistic.

John CreweVehicle Pipeline Director

And the skill to learn. So all the pro pilots out there have something new to learn. It's not going to be like how it was. The day it drops, everyone's going to be back to square one. And if you want a challenge, then the challenge is going to be learning how your ships fly and how to maximize them.

David ColsonGameplay Programmer

I think it's definitely the case that when this flight model drops, there's going to be a lot of relearning how to fly, which I think is exciting. I don't know if everyone's going to be [unclear], but I think it's really exciting and it's really cool.

John CreweVehicle Pipeline Director

It's good to finally talk about it, because we'd sort of been quiet about it for a long time, and now people hopefully know why we were quiet about things.

David ColsonGameplay Programmer

I would like to add that there's a point that we want to get to with this flight model where we can tentatively call it finished. We have the vision that we've laid out today, and we're going to work toward making that vision fun, and the hope is that iteration will get smaller and smaller over time until it decays to: it's done and we're happy with it and we can leave it alone. We don't want to keep revamping the flight model every couple of years, forever, forcing people to relearn every two years. We're going to get it to a fun state and then we're going to call it a day.

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Published on this date.26 Oct 2018
EpisodeFlight model