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What are we working on for Stanton right now?

TL;DRThe team is updating older Stanton locations, such as adding hangars at Grim Hex and finishing New Babbage details, building foundations other teams can add content to later, with not every change advertised.

Ian LeylandStar Citizen Art Director

Quite a lot. And it's quite varied as well. So just to kind of give a little backstory. So you guys are just seeing how we've updated something like Grim Hex. So this is kind of a classic example of how we've taken one of our fairly old locations in our game and as we've developed the game we've kind of realized what that location needs. So obviously we've gone back through and we've updated it with the hangars so it supports the player ability to land and take off from there in all size ships. I think that was huge. That's something that we've wanted to do for quite some time. Also while we were in there we were doing other things, like there's the mission giver location. And although we've done that work, obviously the mission giver wasn't ready for that release and the racing, the gameplay elements there as well, weren't ready. But essentially what we're doing is we're almost making the movie set. We're building the sets ready for the actors to come, and that's kind of a nice analogy, a nice way to kind of look at things. So even though we're laying the foundations, it kind of gives the opportunity for other teams to put their content in a little bit later on. So that's one example. Also, as we've closed out New Babbage, we wanted to obviously validate that last release we did. But there's a few things that we couldn't quite get in there for that release. An example would be something like the Factory Line, the flagship store in New Babbage. And even something as small as the kiosk in the spaceport. We're constantly looking to go deeper or add further layers to the player experience. And it could be even something as small as the player noticing, oh, hey, that's changed. And for me, even as a player, I really like it when developers do that because the space feels alive, it gives you that reason to kind of go back to it. Alright, okay, what's new? And we don't always advertise every single change we do because as developers we want to make the experience as good as possible.

Calling All Devs›Stanton System·
Published on this date.31 Jul 2020