John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

So, Bucks were this Battlefield Upgrade Kit promotion that was used in the original Vanguard concept, back in 2015. It was pitched as an easy way to swap between all your Vanguards. And we only ever did it on the Vanguards. We never did anything else. The reason we never did anything else was it was an incredibly confusing way of packaging these items. It was a whole new name with a whole different explanation.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

It's one of those times where we attempted to make something seem easier and somehow made it seem more complex, because ships already have collections of components. Some ships have skins and stuff like that. This was just meant to be one item that was a proxy for five, six, seven different items. When you swap this one, it just swapped five, six, seven items.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

I believe at the time you could do that and then you could also individually customize them after that as well. That's what we allow you to do now on all our ships anyway. Going forwards, like we talked about in the shipyard articles back in 2017, instead of having a Buck for each Warden Vanguard you have, we're just going to attribute you the items, and then you can customize it however you want. You can swap out that middle module between them all. Even the Hoplite now, because we've reworked the Vanguard, the Hoplite central room actually fits in the same section as all the others. So all the Hoplite owners have a way to customize their Hoplites now. With the Harbinger and Sentinel in 3.7, we'll be releasing all the nose gun options. So each of the variants is going to get its own nose guns. They're still bespoke to the Vanguards, but they all have different ones. There's laser repeaters, there's distortion cannons, there's ballistic cannons, ballistic repeaters, and there's more than that as well.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

What's happening with the Bucks is, when the full in-game ship modularity comes and we swap out modules, people who own those Bucks will get the collection of items, all the items that were originally supposed to be in there. The difference will be, instead of one-clicking a collection of things, it will be click the paint, click the room. It'll be a few more clicks, but people are still going to get everything that was included in those things.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

Essentially, the only thing different from what you can do now with the Vanguard in-game is you'll be able to customize that interior module, because you can already swap out the components. When the nose guns are around, you'll be able to sort them out. It's just that central room modularity.