News: GDC Community Q&A

[Hermes]

Thanks for doing the interview guys! Good work

[Lonehunter]

Originally Posted by basti

Three? THREE? BAHAHAHAH

THINK ABOUT HUNDRED SERVERS! HUNDREDS!

[Sardus]

Great questions guys. The SOE devs look tired as shit LOL. They worked their asses off in San Francisco.

[Tcakes]

really good questions guys. damn good job.

[JudicatorWombat]

Doe anyone have a shot of that reskinned TR MAX they mention at the end of the interview?

[Roy Awesome]

Something missed in the interview was about Max Crashes.

Just about everything will be governed by physics. The main reason that Drop Pods will kill players and vehicles is because they are phyiscal objects crashing into things. Tanks kill players this way (heavy object impacting a light object = squished light object), and Maxes will be able to do the same thing. Then Captain1nsano asked 'So, how dynamic will a max crash be' and higby respnded 'Dynamic as fuck'

We all got a good laugh out of that one.

[sylphaen]

Thanks guys !

[Biscuit]

Originally Posted by Roy Awesome

Something missed in the interview was about Max Crashes.

Just about everything will be governed by physics. The main reason that Drop Pods will kill players and vehicles is because they are phyiscal objects crashing into things. Tanks kill players this way (heavy object impacting a light object = squished light object), and Maxes will be able to do the same thing. Then Captain1nsano asked 'So, how dynamic will a max crash be' and higby respnded 'Dynamic as fuck'

We all got a good laugh out of that one.

So, your saying that if Max Crashes will have the run option on it'll be like a herd of bulls and buffalo in a stampede, running over any squishies in the way?

im sure murderherd's gonna be happy if thats true

[Hamma]

Thanks Roy - I will update it

[Captain1nsaneo]

The main reason there was cursing against you Basti was that the list was so bloody long.

Anyway, thanks to Roy for giving more info on MAX crashes. I didn't catch the meaning behind that exchange as lots of other stuff was going on. I also remember a few other things that were mentioned that I forgot in the main write up.

-Auraxis has lower gravity than Earth. Mags would not work on Earth.

-Voice macros will be in but in a smaller form as voice chat is now in game. However, the guys did recognize that they were fun.

-I may or may not have heard from someone that they may or may not be near Seattle some time. Can't really say I remember the specifics.

Also since most of my rambling preamble was cut along with the explanation on why every question wasn't answered, I'll put back up the question PR gave to us.
"If you hadn't played PS1, would you be as excited now for PS2 as you were when you were when PS1 was first coming out?"
I'm pretty sure the PR team would love to get more than just 2 fumbling responses.

Was great being there and I really enjoyed meeting up with with other PS vets. My voice still hasn't recovered.

[Tatwi]

Thanks for putting this together PSU & SOE!

[Grognard]

Originally Posted by Aaron

Thanks Captain1nsaneo and Mnementh2230!

"Mnementh"

Isnt that the protagonists mount in the Dragon Riders of Pern? I read that book about 30 years ago, but that name is unique.

[basti]

Captn, i just learned you guys took down Roys offer to record the whole thing?

HOW COULD YOU?

[EVILPIG]

My favorite part of the meet and greet..

EP: "Hey, what is your name on PSU?"
C1: "Captain1nsaneo. Who are you?"
EP: "EVILPIG"
C1 "Oh, I fucking hate you!"

[Hamma]