The Inside Star Citizen episode Friends in Low Places - Winter 2020 was published on 6. February 2020 on the CIG YouTube channel.
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| US PU Feature team - Updated friends list preview (Frontend) | |
| Klescher Rehabilitation Facility preview |
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The transcript was created automatically and needs to be proofread. Words may have been transcribed incorrectly.1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,920 it was woodrow wilson who once said that
2 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:11,920 friendship is the only cement that will
3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,000 ever hold the world together
4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,599 now much like the real world outside
5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,119 life in the star citizen persistent
6 00:00:15,599 --> 00:00:18,720 universe is often made better through
7 00:00:17,119 --> 00:00:20,240 the efforts of our friends
8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,840 whether that's protecting our backs
9 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:24,000 while we mine for riches
10 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,039 helping us to find whatever poi we're
11 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,320 looking for or
12 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:30,080 as this more often in my case just being
13 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,679 there to witness the incredibly silly
14 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,280 thing that i'm about to do
15 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:34,880 playing with your friends or making it
16 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,559 easier to discover new ones
17 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,960 are essential elements to life in the
18 00:00:36,559 --> 00:00:40,879 verse and that's why members of our uspu
19 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,399 gameplay feature team have begun working
20 00:00:40,879 --> 00:00:44,559 to improve the experience
21 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:47,280 of getting into games with your friends
22 00:00:44,559 --> 00:00:47,280 or allies
23 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,280 so this whole process starts by creating
24 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,559 a new friend service that both
25 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,960 spectrum online on the website and
26 00:00:58,559 --> 00:01:03,920 in the game can look at as a single
27 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,960 place to see who your contact list is
28 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,680 i'm excited for this like our game is an
29 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:10,880 mmo
30 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,479 and it's it's a social game right we we
31 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,600 have to be able to
32 00:01:12,479 --> 00:01:18,320 connect talk to communicate group
33 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,159 up as an organization as a fleet as a
34 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:21,439 squadron as a platoon like these these
35 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:23,200 are all concepts that we want to
36 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:25,520 institute in our game so like
37 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,280 i've been asking for you know to be able
38 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:30,560 to work on this for a while and and
39 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,320 to get to actually do it is pretty cool
40 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,240 we're going to be redoing the the front
41 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:36,159 end contact list in our new building
42 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,720 block system so it'll allow us to
43 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:40,000 more quickly and easily add expanded
44 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,840 functionality if we want to put
45 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,840 chat in the front end in the lobby if we
46 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,399 want to you know see your orgs all that
47 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,159 stuff
48 00:01:44,399 --> 00:01:48,479 it's the beginning of being able to
49 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:51,119 expand this system out so that we can
50 00:01:48,479 --> 00:01:52,399 add this social structure to our game
51 00:01:51,119 --> 00:01:54,880 once we get this
52 00:01:52,399 --> 00:01:56,000 new contact list structure in place
53 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,159 electronic access
54 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,439 we'll be able to to use this we want to
55 00:01:58,159 --> 00:02:01,759 create lobbies that
56 00:01:59,439 --> 00:02:02,799 you can go into the all of the different
57 00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:05,600 game modes basically
58 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:06,960 pu arena command or star marine i think
59 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,160 the biggest win for this is that we're
60 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,319 setting up the foundation
61 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,840 for things that we've talked about like
62 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:12,640 connecting spectrum and the game
63 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,160 together
64 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,080 without this new friend service this
65 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,239 wouldn't be possible so
66 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,800 we've got the group system in place that
67 00:02:18,239 --> 00:02:24,160 that can deal with the chats and and the
68 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:26,879 the void voip stuff this friends
69 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:28,800 service is the the next step in unifying
70 00:02:26,879 --> 00:02:29,280 the the platform in which the game and
71 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,879 the
72 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,360 the website can actually communicate
73 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:34,400 between so it's exciting for the players
74 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,800 because it's
75 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,280 it's opening up one of the funnels that
76 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,040 they've had a hard time getting through
77 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,640 there are many ways to make your way
78 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,640 through the star citizen universe
79 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:46,000 but most of these fall into one of two
80 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:48,560 basic categories
81 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,040 good or bad right or wrong or for those
82 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,400 like me
83 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:54,400 simply legal and otherwise for players
84 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,000 that choose to pursue an agenda outside
85 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,680 the laws of common society
86 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,480 the addition of prisons to the upcoming
87 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:02,239 alpha 3.9 are the first major step in
88 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,319 adding the appropriate risks
89 00:03:02,239 --> 00:03:06,239 to yield the ultimately greater rewards
90 00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:08,480 for criminal activity down the line
91 00:03:06,239 --> 00:03:10,080 so more than just a deterrent they aim
92 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,599 to provide an engaging gameplay
93 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,840 experience all their own
94 00:03:11,599 --> 00:03:17,040 and to bring forth a new flavor to life
95 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,040 in the persistent universe
96 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,400 what we're trying to capture is the
97 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,280 prison fantasy because the things you
98 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,360 can do in this game
99 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:28,000 are so like varied and detailed like
100 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,959 we don't ever try and make arbitrary
101 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,120 limits to
102 00:03:28,959 --> 00:03:32,480 players experiences like gameplay we let
103 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,360 them do anything
104 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,920 because there was just never that risk
105 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,519 and
106 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,959 you could have gotten away with murder
107 00:03:37,519 --> 00:03:40,959 you do get away with murder now
108 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,640 we've got the like longest list of
109 00:03:43,519 --> 00:03:47,519 crimes that i've
110 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,720 seen in any game and you can't really
111 00:03:47,519 --> 00:03:51,840 have crimes without
112 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:54,000 some kind of punishment for those
113 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,360 we just needed the prison on the end of
114 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,480 it to make that
115 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:00,080 all make sense
116 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,599 what i've enjoyed about this process has
117 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,480 been the the whole
118 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:04,959 design of it like it's it's one of the
119 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,120 few
120 00:04:04,959 --> 00:04:08,239 places in the game that because it's
121 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,480 outside of the game
122 00:04:08,239 --> 00:04:11,760 and purposely outside of the game it
123 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,640 interacts with
124 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,519 very few systems there like so i i was
125 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,759 able to kind of
126 00:04:15,519 --> 00:04:20,239 create a gameplay loop that's completely
127 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:20,239 enclosed
128 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,919 when you wake up in your prison cell
129 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:29,280 you'll find that
130 00:04:25,919 --> 00:04:30,880 your global inventory has vanished and
131 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:33,120 we've kind of hidden that
132 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:35,600 and all you'll have is the clothes on
133 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:39,680 you and the mining tool on you
134 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,680 and to get your global inventory back
135 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:44,880 you have to serve your sentence
136 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:48,560 you know you go in there with no merits
137 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:51,120 you earn your merits you basically buy
138 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,960 your freedom with the merits you've
139 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,120 earned
140 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,080 yeah it's just it's nice it's a little
141 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:00,320 bite-sized
142 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,320 bit of a game within a game
143 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,440 the prison is made up of the cell block
144 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,560 which has about
145 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,320 i think 50 cells in it and it's
146 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,680 built in a kind of panopticon style
147 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,000 which is around
148 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,880 all the cells arranged around a central
149 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,199 watchtower
150 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,919 that has automated turrets on it
151 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:19,919 underneath
152 00:05:17,919 --> 00:05:21,840 that you'll find the information
153 00:05:19,919 --> 00:05:24,800 consoles that show you how long
154 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:25,360 of your sentence you've served if you go
155 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,080 deeper
156 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,639 you'll find the minds these minds away
157 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,199 you'll do
158 00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:31,919 most of you know your man like hard
159 00:05:31,199 --> 00:05:33,759 labor
160 00:05:31,919 --> 00:05:34,960 and but in front of that there's like an
161 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:36,560 entrance and an exit
162 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,320 and the entrance you'll find the
163 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:40,000 commissary which is just a bank of
164 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,639 vending machines which serve
165 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,919 players for a price with merits of
166 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:47,520 merits um
167 00:05:43,919 --> 00:05:50,560 uh octi pens medi-pens
168 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:51,120 food drink that kind of thing and of
169 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,960 course
170 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,680 it's criminals who are sent to prison
171 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,160 and they don't like playing by society's
172 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,759 rules
173 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:03,039 so to capture the the whole
174 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:05,759 prison fantasy um we've obviously
175 00:06:03,039 --> 00:06:06,319 included an escape route for you guys to
176 00:06:05,759 --> 00:06:09,440 find
177 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:10,880 um good luck with that the escape is
178 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,960 only the start
179 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:16,800 but like maybe we'll talk about that
180 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,800 when we do the escape route later
181 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,039 so what we learned this week well we
182 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:22,319 learned that bringing you and your
183 00:06:21,039 --> 00:06:24,000 friends together in the persistent
184 00:06:22,319 --> 00:06:25,199 universe in the easiest and most
185 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,039 effective ways
186 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:28,800 is an ongoing effort that continues in
187 00:06:27,039 --> 00:06:30,479 alpha 3.9 and beyond
188 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,560 that prisons are more than just
189 00:06:30,479 --> 00:06:34,000 satisfaction for victims of a crime
190 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,520 there are also opportunities for
191 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,120 increased risk and reward for the
192 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,440 criminals themselves
193 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,600 and if you want to escape prison without
194 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,199 adhering to a silly merit system
195 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,560 you are a criminal right there's
196 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:46,160 something fun for those players to
197 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,880 discover on their own when that time
198 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,639 comes
199 00:06:46,880 --> 00:07:03,840 where inside star citizen i'm jared
200 00:06:48,639 --> 00:07:03,840 huckabee we'll see you next week
201 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,479 you
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