Sean Tracy · Technical Director of Content

Well, yeah, it's one of the things when I took some of this combat pillar stuff over and we were talking about the Arena Commander and Electronic Access games. Overall, the thing that always surprised me was the amount of lore, even working here, that we have. I mean, the stories are just... there's so many, and so many interesting ones. And I felt like, okay, some of them are not big enough to tell in a grand Squadron 42 game, or maybe not even big enough to tell in missions or something. But maybe the scenario is something that we can tell within Star Marine or Arena Commander. Why don't we make this less about a game where it's like, okay, log in, get your ship, kill 10 waves. It's just not as compelling when we have as much lore as we have. So I really, really want to be telling kind of scenario-based stories. And what this makes is something that's a little more, you can set it up to be like an objective-based game mode where it's actually telling stories from the lore. And wouldn't this be what the Electronic Access thing would be? Because again, we talked about the concept of the Oasis within Star Citizen, right? So Electronic Access is this Oasis. Now, what would those people do with it, within Star Citizen? So you're a person, you live in the 'verse, what do you do for fun? Well, in the same way that we, I'm sorry, I'm not American, so the Gettysburg, what do they call this? Reenactments. Things like reenactments, or we go to the medieval fair, or we go watch knights beat the crap out of each other with wooden swords, well, some people steel swords, or what is that, the Renaissance Fair, right? And I talk about it like I've gone to all of these things so many times, but not quite yet. So basically, being able to retell those certain scenarios from within the Star Citizen lore, whether it was a hundred years ago in terms of the PU time, to the actual time that they were telling about. Because, for example, The Good Doctor is a hundred years before the time of the PU. It's a whole thing that happened before. But I think telling that story within the objectives of the map is just so much more compelling than jumping into a deathmatch map and it feeling like Quake or Doom, just for the sake of having a deathmatch. I want to tell some scenarios. I want to tell some of the stories, because I think they're quite interesting.

Richard Tyrer · Lead FPS Systems Designer

And to be honest, I think it also helps us that we're tying Star Marine, and eventually Arena Commander, to the PU. It is a connected experience. It is, like we said, about Electronic Access. It's this game within a game. And we want to make them feel like they're connected. And it's not just, like you said, you load up and it's a 10-wave deathmatch and it just feels like it's just a different scenario. But it is actually connected, it's part of the PU. And that's something that we want to get across, that feeling that it is an extension of the PU.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Now, this is of course stuff that we're working towards. As far as what they're going to see in 3.7, it's this map brought forward on its own to serve as a deathmatch map.

Sean Tracy · Technical Director of Content

And then, to give you a great example, we hope to put it in a patch, but we're grabbing some new audio that is going to again support the lore and the story behind The Good Doctor. Within, again, whether it's 3.7.1 or 3.7.2, we'll have some of the voiceovers to update. And then as we progress on the swarm mode or AI or anything like that, that's when we'll really be able to tell that story right. I'm sure people are thinking, oh my god, they're going to put zombies. And no, we won't put zombies. But the story of the Good Doctor has a lot to do with the cultists. So Dr. Fayou was basically a very, very charming and great leader, a good inspirer. And a lot of the screens that you see within The Good Doctor are quotes from him, or they're things that basically the Outsiders, as they're actually termed, quote themselves on anyway. So I think it'll be an interesting thing to be able to do that.