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Q&A vid - Don't pass it up
wendysue53
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The Season 12: Q&A may have some stuff you wanted to know about in it, so don't pass it up.
It is 2 hours long, so you may just want to have it playing in the background while you play. Just thought I'd toss it out there.
It is 2 hours long, so you may just want to have it playing in the background while you play. Just thought I'd toss it out there.
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I work in a related field, so it's interesting to me.
Still watching it, but I always like to hear the points of view of the artists. But the Exec says a good bit about things that had me wondering, particularly the way they run their project scheduling, story design, alien groups, etc.
Anyway, the two biggest things I'd like to know are did they mention pulse phaser sounds or the lack of an NX bridge?
Nothing about the phaser sounds, though.
Well, anyone who listens to the podcasts. They have the story planned out a year or two in advance.
Thanks for posting the link, wendysue53.
I must admit, though, that I zoned out pretty early into the vid. It's cute listening to Designers talk about how they can't just do tentacles on a whim and all, but not enough for me to stay with 'em for that for 2 hours. Priority One Podcast, IMHO, is much more entertaining that way, and talks about things I find relevant, like where they want to go with the game.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
M. Night Shaymalan couldn't have written a better "twist" ending to the Iconian War.
-The Iconians worship the tribbles and when they're about to destroy Earth, they receive a message from the tribble hive mind: "The Alliance are our friends and under our protection, leave now. Feel free to keep wrecking the Klingon First City, though, they're jerk to us"
-There is no Iconian, everyone was mind-controlled by the Deferi all along and killing each other by seeing hallucinations
-The Iconians are the good guys and trying to free everyone from a VR simulation set up by the Dominion
-You suffered a fatal injury during the Vega colony invasion. It was easily thwarted, but you were a casualty. The Iconians (and all other antagonists) were actually angels trying to make you move to the afterlife but you viewed them as enemies because you refused to accept your demise
-"computer, end program. -enjoyed your holodeck game... M. Sisko?"
This one seems Cryptic enough to get used
All of those are better than what we got.
I'd like to touch on some things I found interesting here (most of the rest was pretty boring). So, Salami(?) mentioned that the future proof arc setup AoY by bringing time travel to the foreground, and dropped a hint that they may have done something similar in reckoning. The reason I find this interesting is that, between DR and Future Proof we finished the DR arc, then did the entire Iconian war,a full year's worth of content before the build towards AoY started. If it's true that they are starting that now, is it possible that they could be moving from a 2 year expansion schedule to a 1 year expansion schedule, with expansion 4 coming sometime between august and November 2017? And what would the build up factor be? Protomatter? Those strange crystals? Exploration?
... I didn't say anything about the planning cycle ... in the past there has been roughly 2 years between expansions ... I was speculating about the possibility of then moving to just 1 year between expansions ...
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
You literally do not understand what I said it seems, because it's completely independent of the planning cycle. I speculated about expansion 4 possibly coming out 1ish year after expansion 3, rather than having a 2 year gap like they did between expansions 2 and 3. Obviously, if this were the case, they would have planned it long before AoY launched, giving them that 18 month turn-over regardless of the time between expansion releases ...
oh. sure. I can see that.
They did say that they started planning for this year around early of 2016, but didn't start the comp work until around Sept for the first episode released in Dec. Still, they aren't done, so the 18 month turn-around isn't over yet.
And you're right, release dates are just what the public sees to compare things, where as the work schedule is what they actually do. It could easily look like 1 year between 3 and 4, while actually having 4 underwork for nearly 2 years.
As for the 18 months and such, I was just going by what the current Exec was saying in the vid for their stuff.