Are locations made for Arena Commander and Star Marine, like the Good Doctor, designed with the idea that one day they'll be included in the PU?
TL;DRNot really; the mentality runs the other way, with Arena Commander and Star Marine maps reusing existing PU building assets rather than being built for later PU inclusion, and the Good Doctor map only teasing a possible planet.
I wouldn't say they're designed with that mentality in mind, necessarily. I think it's almost the other direction, a little more, where something that got created for the PU, we want to try to reuse as much as possible. So, super interesting: on the Good Doctor map, very little of that is brand new art. Very little. A bit of the exercise areas, some of the treadmills, the dumbbells. The dumbbells had to be made. That got made. But generally, that was reused building sets. And that's the whole idea here, that we don't need a 100-man team to make this new stuff. We've got 90 gigs worth of assets.
Modular assets.
Yeah, that we can use. And actually, if you can get that stuff together and make it look as good as that looks, right? That looks totally unique in its own sense. Why not? Now, having said that, it is a representation of what the Leir II planet would be. Having said that, it's not actually what Leir II is going to be in the actual PU. Now, can I sort of hand-wave this away, where it's like, well, it's Electronic Access, it's just a simulation, so kind of, yeah? But the reality of it is that we've not made Leir II as a planet yet. And actually what we created, we really wanted to have a planetside location. We wanted it to be on Leir II because of the story and the lore and everything. So yeah, we took the Hurston planet, tweaked it, dropped the map on it and called it a day, right? So this is not taking a whole team's worth of people to do that. Yeah, we want to tweak it a little bit, but Leir II will likely end up looking a little bit different, but let's say that we're kind of teasing what it might look like. So I would say that the mentality is actually not the way of building those specific things for Arena Commander, Star Marine, or any other mode for that matter, and then giving them over to the PU. It's more that the PU will build something and we will consume it as much as possible.