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Did the ability to retract the top turret on the Vanguard make it into the rework?

TL;DRThe retractable top turret is not in the Vanguard rework because they ran out of time; the ship was built to support it, the turret guns still need remodeling, and they want to add it eventually.

John CreweVehicle Pipeline Director

It's not in game. We want to do it. We wanted to do it from the start. We've built everything to support it. We just ran out of time to do it.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

So it's got a place to retract.

John CreweVehicle Pipeline Director

It's got a place to do it. So the one big thing that's left is we need to remodel the outer surface of the upper turrets. If you remember, on the original concept the guns on the turret rotated up onto it and then the whole turret goes down. We just haven't modeled and set up the guns to do that. The turret itself has space to dip down. It doesn't go all the way down like the original concept, because that actually just went into the interior room inside it, which isn't great. So when we did the rework, we actually bulked up the top of the ship to give it space to put the turret back down into it. So we'll get to it one day. It's just not in the rework release.

Star Citizen Live›All About Spaceships - Alpha 3.5/3.6·
Published on this date.5 Jul 2019