[2022] Icarus Styx Stream

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599s	all right go ahead liam we're live hello
601s	hello hello
602s	all right
603s	hello
606s	all right we'll uh
607s	get this underway uh we have dean just
610s	loading it as well with j-rod here who
612s	will be playing
613s	and
614s	i'll be somewhat hosting right in the
616s	ama and i've got a bunch of great team
618s	members coming in to join us got a bunch
620s	of questions already uh laid out
622s	which are looking really really good to
624s	cover some of the topics i know you guys
626s	have been asking about for
628s	quite a few weeks now and also if you'd
630s	like another question to be asked or
632s	send a chat about um please drop it in
634s	discord in the lobby or here in twitch
636s	chat um we won't be able to answer
638s	everything we don't have a all the time
639s	in the world but we'll try and cover as
641s	much as we can and try not to repeat
643s	ourselves in any topics so
645s	thank you all for joining i hope you're
646s	all enjoying sticks i know it's been a
649s	pretty busy weekend uh the game's out
651s	we've heard some really really good
652s	things from the new update i've seen
654s	some really really cool clips here
656s	people are loving the kias even though
658s	they're pests and making your lives hard
660s	um even is enjoying the new space so you
662s	know thank you so much for all jumping
664s	in and getting involved um
667s	welcome welcome home jrod and dean we're
668s	starting uh yeah jumping starting a new
670s	character j-rod yep starting new
672s	characters i had to delete mine um
675s	first question
676s	hard or medium or easy
680s	are you really asking that question okay
683s	done
687s	just casual jared is this the new casual
690s	j-room
694s	i went with hard
696s	good
698s	all right while you guys get set up i
700s	will go and summon our first two guests
702s	for the day which is two of our game
703s	designers adam and shawn are we
706s	how's that work so you guys can jab
708s	along and play i'll bring adam and sean
709s	into uh chat answers some questions but
711s	you guys are obviously welcome to chime
713s	in as well with any thoughts any of them
714s	as well uh and would probably mute you
717s	though no fair enough you can't play the
719s	game and try and oh very fear my voice
721s	is uh a drone versus soothing so i
723s	completely relate and understand you
725s	guys could you guys i don't know how
727s	should we do that j-rod
729s	should we just mute you you just mute
731s	them
731s	[Laughter]
734s	no strings they won't be able to ask us
736s	questions
738s	turn this volume down i had seen them in
740s	a written
741s	they could've seen them in a room they
742s	could write us a leader write you a
744s	letter snail mail
747s	tell you what if i've got a question i
748s	think you might like i'll drop a line to
749s	you as well you're welcome to unmute me
751s	for a brief period
756s	see if you can join my session dean i'm
758s	looking for it
764s	all right while you guys get on surface
766s	i'll get them loaded in
786s	you
812s	oh there's a wolf already i'm running
816s	nice
817s	great start really what we needed
830s	i'm just going to be dying here
840s	this has gotten very well to start we
841s	already have lost our first uh
844s	our first teammate but don't worry our
846s	rocket is here too do not go to your
848s	right
848s	[Laughter]
852s	or or go to your right and die
854s	that's up to you
860s	oh you should come res me
863s	will do
865s	i'm just sitting my
868s	all right i want these two uh figure out
870s	what they're up to start dropping some
871s	questions in chat so i'm just going to
873s	respond the first two guys we've got
875s	jump again adam and shawn they are two
876s	of our game designers so any question
878s	you've got related to game design that
880s	could be to do with missions it could be
881s	to do with some of the processes and um
884s	infrastructure we have in the game it
885s	could be how the game runs in place
887s	anything in that space that is your
889s	go-to uh topics to cover so drop some uh
892s	messages in twitch or in the lobby
895s	channel and discord thank you talk
896s	through
898s	what do you mean
899s	you're coming through uh liam's coming
902s	through you're just mike because he's
904s	really loud i'll be quiet guys
907s	this is nice this is not asmr stream
910s	hello adam welcome to the stream
913s	oh thank you
914s	i i can't um yeah i can't mute
921s	all right
924s	we'll just wait for our shoulders as
926s	well sean and adam here uh so serve
928s	again so before we actually get into it
930s	adam and sure just want to give a quick
932s	background on what you do for the team
934s	and um you know what you've really
936s	enjoyed about stacks
939s	oh yeah um adam uh design uh lead on
942s	icarus um
944s	been at rockworks for
946s	well it's over over two years now um
950s	yeah it's gone pretty good uh
952s	you know it's um oh sorry this music is
955s	playing over the top of me
957s	just joining into the game now um
960s	yeah sorry what was the question
962s	what do i enjoy about sticks yeah what i
963s	enjoyed about making it getting involved
965s	in it you know what and what have we
966s	done on it it's just been really cool to
968s	see just a whole new environment come
970s	together um you know so we we had a
973s	first couple of test maps that were
975s	making it at the start of the project um
978s	and then you know we eventually ended up
980s	with what became uh olympus map
983s	and um you know we've been playing on
985s	that on that for quite a while now so
987s	it's uh yeah it's just been it's kind of
989s	like getting to re-explore the game
992s	again from from from the start with uh
994s	playing on a new map like sticks
996s	love it awesome here and sean a little
999s	bit of an intro about yourself and i
1000s	know what you've been up to on sticks
1002s	and what you love about it
1004s	um sean i started as an artist uh the
1007s	first artist on the project um kind of
1009s	now in
1011s	the design team i'd say pretty heavily
1013s	um
1014s	yeah i guess uh stixx is just nice to
1016s	see um just a bunch of the lessons
1018s	learned uh applied in
1020s	um
1021s	kind of big broad strokes and just a
1023s	just a nice um kind of step forward um
1027s	from from what was a good kind of
1030s	proving ground in um olympus just to see
1032s	uh
1033s	you know where we where we can go from
1035s	here
1037s	love that no awesome here guys so uh
1039s	i'll jump into some of the questions we
1041s	do have for you guys around you know
1042s	what um
1044s	what we've got from game design and then
1045s	i'll also pull some questions out of
1047s	discord and twitch as well for you so
1048s	we've got some ones to topic um but the
1051s	first one i've got here is um actually
1053s	quite a cool one so when deciding the
1055s	look and feel of something say a new arm
1057s	or a new bench how do you um decide on
1059s	the balance of kind of grit tech reels
1061s	and fantasy is it some kind of round
1063s	table discussion or do they just submit
1065s	concept to make a decision so i guess
1067s	what's the process and how do you decide
1068s	all the elements of what goes into those
1070s	new features
1073s	i'd say that sounds very much like an
1075s	art question uh i'll pass that one over
1077s	to sean
1079s	um uh i guess yeah kind of key as being
1082s	that um round table discussion so a lot
1084s	of the stuff that kind of um comes
1086s	through
1087s	uh concept or even you know uh
1090s	updates through the modeling stage um we
1092s	kind of
1093s	all weigh-in i guess um everyone kind of
1096s	considering uh
1098s	different elements um
1100s	the design team is a pretty cool little
1101s	amalgamation of different talents uh so
1105s	it's just
1105s	yeah definitely like a kind of group um
1110s	unless someone has like a very strong
1111s	opinion you know that they can um
1115s	vouch for or
1117s	kind of
1118s	stake claiming then it's yeah definitely
1120s	like a unanimous decision that we kind
1122s	of all look at i guess you know
1124s	different parts of the project does it
1125s	fit in with aesthetic does it fit its
1127s	function um and all that jazz
1131s	cool so i guess that kind of plays into
1133s	a lot of the features we put it because
1135s	i know that a common discussion has been
1137s	right how do you balance realism with
1139s	obviously um you know enjoying the play
1142s	style enjoying the game and not having
1144s	realism somewhat drain away from the
1146s	experience so obviously that comes up a
1149s	lot in a lot of decisions we make so
1151s	what is kind of i guess the the team's
1153s	thought process around finding a nice
1155s	balance between the game not being
1156s	ridiculous but also still having their
1158s	layer of fun so we're not you're not
1160s	having to focus on every single element
1162s	you'd actually have to focus on as a
1163s	human being in real life
1166s	um i guess for me it's it's definitely
1168s	been um
1171s	a learning curve to kind of
1174s	be able to steer away from realism a bit
1177s	you know when it's when it comes down to
1180s	gameplay versus realism
1191s	the negatives gameplay that realistic
1193s	approach versus what are the what are
1194s	the positives from you know
1196s	doing things a little little differently
1198s	um
1199s	so yeah and we we try and find ourselves
1201s	in the middle ground but um
1204s	yeah
1206s	no that that's really good and i know
1207s	that that can be a difficult balance
1209s	sometimes and i know that people at
1210s	times can have you know they they prefer
1212s	one or the other so i think it is quite
1214s	kind of um important to understand how
1216s	we obviously have to make those
1218s	decisions and ultimately at the end of
1220s	the day the biggest thing about a game
1221s	is it's fun and there's elements of real
1224s	life that i promise you that no one
1226s	enjoys so if we wouldn't be that
1227s	detailed there's an element of taking
1229s	away from that
1230s	um so am i gonna go to work simulator
1232s	you know yeah what do you want
1235s	every morning in the rain like we can
1236s	put it in but you probably hate us so
1239s	all right we'll jump onto the next one
1240s	which is one that um i know has been
1242s	something that the team has been talking
1243s	about internally which is around
1244s	rebalancing things so will we see every
1247s	balance of some items so they've seemed
1249s	a little bit useless in the i guess
1251s	scale of things such as the pistol is
1253s	there a plan for more rebalancing around
1255s	existing pieces or or if not is there a
1258s	reason why certain items may not feel
1260s	like they serve a purpose but actually
1261s	have a different kind of value pay off
1268s	that one john yeah i'll jump it um
1271s	you know i mean it is as seen by just
1274s	the
1275s	the weekly kind of cadence update um
1278s	we definitely try and consider
1280s	holistically as much as we can um
1283s	[Music]
1284s	i'd say
1285s	balance would definitely come with um
1288s	kind of purpose um so you know if we
1291s	don't see things kind of
1293s	sitting their intended purpose or
1295s	finding you know some someone uses some
1297s	stuff in some cool creative ways maybe
1300s	i'm leaning into that and
1302s	trying to leverage that so um there's
1304s	definitely a couple things on our radar
1306s	that
1307s	we are you know 100 aware about but that
1311s	kind of just changing on a whim um
1314s	it
1315s	might have
1316s	a few more knock-on effects um so you
1318s	know the example you gave the pistol at
1320s	the moment does does fit like a little
1322s	niche of like an easier access um
1325s	firearm um but uh
1328s	you know upping
1329s	the
1330s	the damage or you know
1332s	there's this sure like minor tweaks we
1335s	can kind of do on everything which is a
1337s	rabbit hole that kind of starts to
1339s	spiral the more you get into it um so i
1342s	guess uh
1343s	looking at um maybe the whole uh
1347s	guns
1348s	as a blanket and then looking at their
1350s	fit um compared to other animals other
1353s	creatures um but again kind of comes
1355s	with that purpose so um you know if the
1358s	majority of the stuff isn't
1361s	isn't kind of broken maybe
1364s	don't touch a tiny little minutiae
1366s	unless it's a you know very very kind of
1368s	easy game and then
1371s	reevaluate as different parts of the
1373s	project come coming so you know things
1374s	like the scorpion boss how does he play
1376s	with guns okay you know if guns aren't
1378s	good enough to tackle him then like does
1380s	he need to change or do guns need to
1381s	change as a crude example but oh yeah
1385s	short answer balancing ongoing hundred
1388s	percent i actually kind of raised
1390s	another question and there was one of
1391s	your points which is around um yeah if
1393s	we see a creative way a certain item or
1394s	feature is used that you know we may
1396s	look down that path do have we had any
1398s	situations where we've seen the
1400s	porcelain game and gone oh heck this is
1402s	used in a completely different way than
1403s	we expected or there's something here
1405s	that we hadn't predicted so let's
1407s	explore that and see how we can
1409s	obviously build that out and develop it
1410s	have we seen anything in particular like
1412s	that or is it something that we can't
1414s	say we have done yet but we've got a few
1416s	on our radar
1418s	um
1420s	i'd say the question one creative
1422s	example is kind of leaving in the fact
1424s	that people are kind of hand making some
1427s	little lightning rods um by you know
1429s	building structures higher not
1431s	necessarily like unintended as we did
1434s	you know say cool look for structures
1436s	high up to strike with lightning but
1438s	little
1439s	little things like that that i guess are
1441s	um not necessarily intended features but
1443s	that are kind of gameplay centric things
1447s	another one actually being kind of bare
1449s	jousting which wasn't an intended
1452s	straight up implementation but people
1453s	kind of learnt
1454s	behavior around it and we actually fixed
1457s	it which then made bears
1460s	not kind of as fun to play so then we
1462s	kind of purposefully put it back in just
1464s	because it actually did fit that
1465s	playstyle and um
1467s	get all that um you know that kind of
1470s	fun combat kind of mechanic back in yeah
1472s	because that kind of speaks to as well
1474s	with um obviously game design the
1475s	balance between how something is intent
1477s	and how something is experienced so are
1479s	you finding us obviously we move through
1481s	all these months of occurrence and now
1483s	with sticks that we're learning more and
1484s	more and more about the game actually in
1486s	the hands of players with the thousands
1488s	of hours and going okay we can see
1490s	things molding and developing here and
1492s	that you know how much does that
1493s	influence um you know how you guys take
1496s	the game forward is there a specific
1498s	balance or does it kind of even flow
1500s	with this is the direction we're taking
1501s	it but this is how players are playing
1503s	is it an ongoing kind of movement
1508s	yeah i think um
1509s	obviously you know if we find
1512s	players making use of a mechanic that
1513s	you know we thought oh it would be this
1515s	would be great for a but they're
1516s	actually using it for b then you know
1519s	and if that doesn't have any massive uh
1521s	repercussions then um yeah we'll
1523s	absolutely lean into that kind of stuff
1525s	it's um it's very much a live service
1527s	game you know we we're
1529s	we're taking on board feedback and um
1532s	you know seeing how players are playing
1533s	the game and kind of uh moulding it to
1536s	to suit that as well awesome awesome i
1539s	guess one more point just slightly on
1541s	here which is a bit um off the side
1543s	that's the death oh we've lost someone
1545s	nope still alive
1548s	one thing we obviously talked about
1549s	there was the pistol being an example of
1551s	an item that people felt was possibly
1553s	useless at the moment on the topic of
1554s	guns is there plans obviously for guns
1557s	to be suddenly come to the workshop do
1558s	we have more expansion and firearms
1560s	coming forward um or do we feel that
1562s	there is a reason why we haven't
1563s	necessarily gone down that path with
1565s	firearms yet
1568s	hey i need i need a rescue
1573s	yeah i mean firearms is a tricky one
1575s	because
1576s	i mean in order to make firearms
1579s	uh not completely op you need to have
1582s	bigger creatures and bigger creatures
1583s	have their own set of challenges
1585s	um that you know players that are that
1588s	were around on you know beta weekend one
1590s	um they'll know that the the creature
1593s	scope is quite different and you know
1595s	it's constantly expanding and evolving
1597s	and um you know with that we we get
1600s	bigger creatures and
1601s	bigger creatures need bigger guns so
1603s	it's definitely something we we want to
1605s	lean into um i know that uh oh god
1609s	ow yep i've just slept
1611s	well
1614s	you look like you're standing up j-rod
1617s	broken bone he is uh
1619s	gone but not forgotten over-encumbered
1621s	because okay
1622s	um but yeah just just to kind of check
1624s	on on adam it's it's again just about if
1627s	we hit that kind of ceiling too fast um
1630s	uh you know we give the players a rocket
1633s	launcher straight away it's like
1635s	you know kind of you have to keep one
1637s	upping yourself so i think it's just
1639s	about taking those um measured steps
1641s	slowly um
1643s	just about yeah
1645s	not not kind of
1646s	leaping off a a cliff um
1649s	nicely
1652s	um yeah but just yeah yeah kind of
1654s	taking those measured steps yeah a good
1656s	example is the uh is the lever action
1658s	right so we
1659s	that was one of the first guns or might
1661s	have been the first gun we had uh in the
1663s	game
1664s	and um you know it was a five or six
1666s	shot semi-automatic you know real quick
1669s	to
1670s	put bullets down range and it was just
1673s	overpowered because at the time we had i
1675s	think we might have had the bear
1677s	um it was as the biggest challenge and
1680s	it was just mowing everything so
1682s	then we like okay we need we need
1685s	something that fires a bit slower which
1686s	became the um the bolt action rifle so
1689s	um yeah players early on might have
1691s	remembered seeing
1693s	the i guess the lever action rifle
1695s	switch places with the bolt action
1697s	because it became a higher tier weapon
1700s	got you
1701s	um so
1702s	if i'm a little confused then other
1704s	people probably are where is this the
1707s	ama segment yeah so we'll obviously just
1709s	do some questions with some of the team
1711s	over the top where you guys chat but
1712s	you're obviously also welcome to jump in
1713s	and ask where should people post the
1715s	questions uh so if you'd like to ask a
1717s	question this place is a hashtag
1719s	lobbying discord or just on twitch chat
1721s	and i'll be pulling a few out of there
1722s	but we also had a few of our mods go out
1724s	the last couple of weeks and grab a few
1725s	from the community and organize them so
1727s	we've got some briefings already had but
1728s	we'll obviously pick up some new ones uh
1730s	about six things it's now been out three
1732s	days so drop them in twitch or lobby and
1734s	discord
1735s	and i'm sure i speak from everyone who
1739s	who
1739s	frequents amas the important thing about
1742s	an ama is not to pick
1744s	the um questions that necessarily always
1747s	that we'd like because the worst thing
1749s	about an ama is when it's just a bunch
1751s	of like
1752s	um you know like when they do the movie
1754s	ones and the actors are just like yeah
1756s	it was my greatest project
1759s	for sure and i guess the next question
1760s	will be exactly one that everyone wants
1762s	which is around transportation
1764s	so is there going to be any kind of
1766s	transportation uh even in the short term
1768s	like amounts or even a carriage to
1770s	transport you uh more than you can lift
1772s	as your character so they give you that
1774s	extra carry-on opportunity so i guess
1776s	what is the vision for transportation
1778s	what are we thinking guys
1781s	well i think people should probably on
1782s	the transportation front read the blog
1784s	posts um yeah we
1787s	outlined there basically we still have a
1789s	lot of homework to do with the game
1791s	i think um
1794s	um
1794s	yeah well that's the key thing is we've
1797s	we've kind of been doing our homework
1799s	with the game through the last 25 weeks
1801s	six is kind of a culmination of that and
1804s	and yeah i mean we did a milestone data
1806s	miners have found some of the work we
1809s	did on vehicles early on um
1811s	yeah something everybody wants to do
1815s	all right what were your thoughts adam
1817s	shawn
1819s	yep they definitely um summed it up as i
1821s	said just even just reading that steam
1823s	kind of post really nicely um
1825s	encapsulates it it's just about
1827s	you very rarely uh
1830s	sorry very readily run the risk of um
1832s	destroying a lot of content by taking
1835s	that step too early um
1838s	uh you know just carefully kind of
1841s	mapped out map we've got some cool
1842s	biomes cool vistas um i think you're
1845s	blowing by a whole bunch of that in a
1847s	vehicle
1848s	not to mention the um conversation
1850s	around nicely navigating a vehicle
1853s	around things like the
1855s	the forest and um
1856s	areas like that will i think cause a lot
1859s	more problems then
1861s	they'll just solve by being able to move
1863s	fast
1864s	so
1865s	definitely on
1866s	you know the radar
1868s	do a lot of conversation around it do a
1870s	lot of um
1872s	planning and you know how could we make
1874s	this work but um for the for the most
1876s	part it's i think as dean said you know
1878s	learning the the lessons on things like
1880s	our environments and being able to
1882s	implement that and something large scale
1884s	sticks um is like a nice big step
1887s	forward just in
1888s	the general project and vehicles
1890s	definitely talked about but um i
1892s	wouldn't say coming very soon yes cool
1895s	cool i guess actually now just watching
1897s	gerald slide to his death again one
1899s	people might be interested in is what
1900s	type of vehicles are we thinking about
1902s	because there's obviously been talk
1903s	about handful carts for more carry
1905s	weight someone's actually just mentioned
1906s	in chat will be cool will be a glider
1908s	for some of those near dear situations
1910s	or are we thinking motorized so what i
1913s	guess has been discussed or looked at
1917s	i mean now that we have the uh the kia
1919s	bird in the uh in the game we need uh
1922s	wing suits right um
1924s	i think there's a lot of things a lot of
1925s	situations of value for those as we have
1927s	seen in the last 10 minutes
1929s	oh is this where we put in game requests
1932s	yes
1935s	yeah so i it'd be interesting to see
1937s	obviously the direction we take vehicles
1938s	how we play them out but to obviously
1940s	hear a bit about um
1942s	you know what goes into that decision
1944s	and i guess an interesting point as well
1946s	is around you know what when we consider
1948s	an item and how we add it how many
1950s	different um you know just how many
1952s	different things can get affected by
1954s	that decision and what do we have to
1955s	consider when making those decisions so
1957s	um i guess what's the process internally
1959s	when it comes to that we've spoken a bit
1961s	about obviously thinking about how we
1962s	discuss balancing items but is there the
1964s	same kind of discussion internally
1965s	around how do we add something without
1967s	creating you know an apocalypse
1970s	yeah i mean it's it's very much i think
1972s	sean touched on an earlier was um it's
1975s	very much a collaborative uh effort um
1978s	you know we all
1979s	enjoy different parts of the game and
1981s	we've all kind of
1983s	put um
1984s	yeah we've all kind of
1986s	had our hands on different systems in
1989s	the game so you know we each bring
1992s	different kind of viewpoints and
1993s	perspectives on you know if we add item
1996s	x how is that going to affect a b and c
1998s	you know and um you know through a lot
2001s	of back and forth and
2002s	making sure it fits in the game fits in
2004s	the theme fits visually if it's you know
2007s	the law all that kind of stuff um
2009s	this there's definitely been some items
2011s	that have tried to sneak in and uh kind
2013s	of get past those and um yeah we've
2015s	caught them and
2017s	changed them up or you know just make
2019s	sure that everything kind of is cohesive
2022s	awesome i've got a cool question here uh
2025s	just coming in from the community around
2027s	uh some of the reward systems so um
2030s	texas prospect rewards are pretty
2031s	similar in count um as some of the later
2033s	olympus missions but some of the
2035s	missions are harder and the example
2036s	given here was alcazar uh eddie plans on
2039s	a holistic rebalance some of the rewards
2041s	um so some like the farming missions
2043s	obviously are quite tough and is there a
2045s	plan to obviously always looking at
2047s	balancing rewards and i guess um no
2049s	currencies and whatnot alongside items
2056s	that one sean
2058s	yeah yeah i mean
2059s	again same with everything you know live
2061s	service game um as soon as we kind of
2065s	move the bar or i see that something
2067s	requires a new tier or a new
2071s	uh
2071s	you know we're throwing around ideas of
2073s	in the the the different implementation
2076s	ideas i should say of like the different
2078s	reward types um kind of moving forward
2081s	so again live service game definitely um
2085s	as
2085s	as we see an outlier or see something
2087s	egregiously
2089s	offending our beautiful designer minds
2093s	definitely expect things to be changed
2096s	but not without
2097s	kind of a lot of discussion as with
2098s	anything item balance or
2101s	all that jazz definitely carefully
2103s	considered um
2104s	but yeah as with rewards as with
2106s	everything else in the game there's so
2109s	many kind of avenues and aspects to
2112s	consider with like an open world live
2114s	service game i guess um
2116s	yeah awesome
2118s	cool um we'll jump into one here um
2120s	around obviously the map and the
2122s	environment so will we see changes to
2124s	icarus i guess olympus and sticks in the
2126s	existing environments over time as well
2128s	or are those going to be more permanent
2130s	with obviously more changes applied to
2132s	missions and creatures and items and
2134s	whatnot
2136s	we've got a successful kill over here
2139s	i heard it too
2141s	um
2143s	sorry what was the question uh yeah so
2145s	um we're looking at obviously the
2146s	accuracy environment are we expecting to
2148s	see changes today
2149s	yeah um totally yeah i mean um
2154s	i think sticks are still fresh um you
2157s	know there's been a lot of uh obviously
2159s	uh testing uh leading up to its launch
2162s	um we're still finding
2164s	new areas like as you know
2167s	not not as as world builders but as the
2169s	designers you know we're still finding
2170s	all these cool areas that that has been
2172s	built um
2174s	and so we're like exploring how missions
2177s	will go in those areas um you know we
2179s	might need to move some
2180s	[Music]
2181s	some impossible cliffs here and there to
2184s	to make room for things but um
2187s	i mean the the the world that you know
2189s	that we kind of get given as as
2191s	designers is um
2193s	massive and there's so much opportunity
2195s	that um
2197s	you know that hasn't really needed to
2198s	happen but uh
2201s	i would say like for for the most part
2203s	what's cool about sticks is again kind
2205s	of one of those um i guess less and
2207s	learn uh type implementations is um you
2210s	know the base set of missions does
2212s	fundamentally change um the way you
2214s	navigate the map by unblocking those
2216s	like shortcuts so i guess that that's
2218s	kind of like a step in that direction of
2220s	like permanently affecting and kind of
2223s	changing your environment um definitely
2225s	had you know precursory conversations
2227s	around
2228s	events and and all that jazz um i guess
2231s	it's just been about not not not again
2234s	taking on too much um too quickly
2236s	without looking at the knock-on effects
2239s	and stuff because again once you've kind
2240s	of made that change you've made that
2242s	change it's yeah
2244s	harder to retcon um at that point yeah
2246s	for sure and i think that um that idea
2248s	of obviously really considering all the
2250s	elements of change um no it can be hard
2252s	to understand at times too that um you
2254s	know there's a lot of thought process
2256s	that goes into every change because
2257s	impacts are compounding it's almost a
2259s	ripple effect things don't just have one
2261s	small impact and undoing something is
2263s	always harder than doing in the first
2264s	place i think we've learned that too
2267s	even looking at the fact that it's a
2269s	live service game you know making a
2271s	change and say half of the player bases
2273s	on that one prospect in that one spot um
2276s	and you say cool there's a big uh
2278s	asteroid that lands and creates a
2280s	mountain on the spot and you end up
2283s	covering our player bases already set up
2286s	nice spaces um yeah yeah yeah
2288s	yeah and that's all cool learning
2290s	experience too and i think the live
2292s	service game area that's been i guess
2294s	something for us that's been really fun
2295s	to experiment with so i guess for you
2297s	guys what's been the coolest thing about
2298s	through the live service space and
2300s	what's been the hardest
2303s	for me definitely just the the direct
2304s	community feedback um you know the uh
2308s	the mod testers sorry the mod the mods
2311s	um and they're the level of testing that
2313s	they do uh on the experimental branches
2316s	um and just everyone getting involved
2317s	there you know like even preparing
2319s	spreadsheets with you know links or
2321s	links to feature upvote and all that
2323s	kind of stuff like feature up but it's
2324s	been a massive thing for us as well
2326s	um just being able to see at a glance
2329s	what the biggest issues are you know
2331s	averaged out by the community
2332s	um
2333s	yeah there's been that direct feedback
2335s	and constant feedback really yeah shout
2338s	out to the um the experimental branch
2339s	team and all the other people in discord
2341s	and across feature effort have helped
2343s	like you guys probably would never
2344s	realize how awesome it is to get that
2346s	and you know the level you've gone above
2347s	and beyond this the spreadsheet is a
2349s	great example and stuff like that just
2350s	makes us go oh heck these people are
2352s	pretty on to it so a big thanks to you
2355s	all for that
2356s	um we've got a cool one here from um
2358s	shangpo and the chris um server is any
2361s	word on skill caps or being out of
2362s	research skills so i guess more of a
2364s	broad topic around school capture i'll
2365s	be looking to obviously at any point uh
2367s	increased levels increase more skills
2370s	more unlockable items i know we've got a
2372s	lot of veteran players now in the team
2373s	who have got you know an
2375s	absolute mountain worth of points and
2378s	blueprint and unlocked so what's the
2379s	plan to obviously extend that and build
2381s	that out or to provide more opportunity
2383s	for those points to be spent
2387s	um tricky one um
2389s	uh i guess you know again first step in
2392s	that direction is providing the kind of
2394s	single respec um option uh just to kind
2398s	of diversify based on that that
2401s	kind of one player um
2404s	mentality uh if you you're gonna ride
2406s	out that one player across the game um
2408s	being able to respect into some new
2411s	points that maybe get added to the tree
2413s	um or so um i would say it's again it's
2416s	a hard one to address holistically to
2418s	say oh you know there's this massive
2419s	long-term plan to
2421s	fully address
2423s	every aspect of you know your character
2425s	progression and all that it's again one
2427s	of the kind of ongoing things that we
2430s	evaluate at different stages you know if
2431s	there's a big piece of tech that goes in
2434s	um say we add a new
2437s	whole system to the game that requires
2439s	its own you know entire branch of the
2441s	talent tree um its own category then
2443s	it's like how do we um
2445s	you know incentivize current players um
2449s	to invest in that how do we enable them
2451s	without starting a new character do we
2453s	want you know a new character every time
2455s	um to have to engage with those big
2457s	systems um it's again yeah ongoing
2460s	conversational uh like meetings and um
2463s	how it plays with the game as a whole in
2465s	hell
2466s	and then again re-addressing once the
2469s	player feedback comes in
2471s	like
2472s	um
2473s	how how it did land how it did stick how
2475s	it's been engaged with um yeah cool
2479s	awesome that's really really good and
2480s	again i think it's another area too
2482s	you're gonna have players who are
2484s	unbelievably good at this game and are
2486s	gonna max it out you know players on the
2487s	other end of the spectrum too who are
2489s	more happy with you know earning a few
2490s	points here and there and being able to
2491s	do some stuff with it so i guess there's
2494s	also that idea that uh we'll always try
2496s	to do as much as we can for every type
2498s	of player but you're working with such a
2500s	diverse player base that at times it is
2502s	obviously being able to account for both
2503s	really yeah
2505s	and not only that um you know being able
2508s	like creating a game that scales from
2510s	one player to eight players on top of
2512s	that uh yeah absolutely challenging but
2514s	um you know we're looking for those
2516s	those wins where we can say you know
2518s	this this will work in in a multiple of
2520s	scenarios you know this will work for
2522s	veterans this will work for casuals
2524s	um you know this will work for
2527s	one player this will work for eight very
2529s	very unlikely that happens but um you
2532s	know with the i mean the
2534s	the
2535s	changes that we've done in the
2536s	difficulty system
2537s	um have have given us opportunity to
2541s	revisit that quite a bit
2543s	um mission difficulty and and so on like
2545s	you know when we when we spawn a
2547s	boss creature for a mission you know we
2549s	we look up how many people are playing
2551s	at the time you know we we buff their
2553s	health or all that kind of thing so
2556s	it is is very much an ongoing um thing
2559s	to kind of expand on as we go
2561s	cool that's really really good
2563s	um i can see this one coming up all the
2565s	time and not to shut up not going to
2567s	ignore him which is uh fishing what is
2570s	the plan with fishing everyone want to
2572s	get out there and do their best fishing
2573s	job they all want to be on discovery
2575s	channel tell us what's going on team
2579s	fishing
2581s	there's something near and dear to my
2582s	heart like i love fishing in real life
2584s	um
2585s	and i guess it's one of those ones that
2587s	we don't want to
2589s	half bake just for the sake of having
2591s	the mechanic in so you know might even
2593s	fall into one of those cool big bigger
2596s	system categories um
2598s	uh you know first stage might be
2600s	something like um we had a quite early
2602s	implementation of like fishing traps
2604s	which were quite like a nice little um
2606s	passive thing that that worked so you
2608s	know i might be like
2609s	exploring now that we have deployable
2612s	traps um in other areas kind of bringing
2614s	that system back as a as a start um but
2617s	yeah just just about not kind of half
2618s	baking something just for the sake of
2621s	taking the fireplace away from me
2623s	cool
2625s	sorry sean
2626s	he's just making me mad
2628s	[Laughter]
2630s	actually i just obviously saw something
2632s	on screen that wanted to raise a
2633s	question some people have talked about
2634s	which is around debuffs i just noticed a
2636s	new one there the komodo byte um debuffs
2639s	are an interesting one we are obviously
2641s	really putting in a lot of more risk
2643s	reward factors with a lot of um actions
2645s	in game
2646s	what goes into those decisions and how
2647s	do we obviously make them unique enough
2649s	that there is always something different
2651s	about every type of um
2654s	every type of debuff every type of buff
2656s	and how does that balancing system work
2660s	can i say that the
2662s	i'm really stoked with the
2664s	implementation that we did of the
2665s	komodo's behavior um yeah just
2668s	the the fact that you can pretty much
2670s	walk straight up to it and it just
2672s	casually ignores you but if there's food
2674s	around
2675s	and you're near its food it will just go
2677s	skits so
2679s	i think that that's just really cool
2681s	that we've um kind of and that that
2683s	leans into i guess part of its balancing
2686s	too you know if
2687s	you need to make a decision where you
2689s	you know do you need that food more than
2691s	the komodo does if so you risk a pretty
2694s	pretty gnarly bite an infection um you
2696s	know do you help me
2700s	you mean bit
2701s	yeah
2703s	um yeah yeah so you know do you have the
2706s	equipment to to to cure it yeah no yeah
2712s	love that hanging on a new character yes
2715s	i've got a good question here from um
2717s	odin wright and twitch i said you put it
2718s	in discord too which is uh what's your
2720s	ultimate goal for the size of the map
2722s	and is there any plans to upgrade to
2723s	unreal five at any point
2729s	uh gabriel five one might be a better
2731s	question to jump down later but do you
2733s	want to i guess chat to the plan for the
2734s	size of the map
2738s	sean did you want to talk to the like
2739s	the um the i guess the the changes that
2742s	we did to the mission layout
2744s	for sticks in comparison to to olympus
2747s	yeah so i guess um uh just overall uh
2752s	blanket answer to golf or size of map um
2755s	i guess just as as as big as feels good
2759s	um you know there's no point in doing
2761s	this this huge um 64 by 64 kilometer map
2766s	um
2767s	without vehicles you know like there's
2769s	no there's no um
2771s	kind of straight answer to that so i
2773s	guess just map size
2776s	whatever we feel like feel feels good um
2779s	it gives us enough kind of room to work
2780s	with um for the missions as adam said
2783s	olympus was like our first
2785s	implementation
2786s	and so again learning lessons um it was
2788s	a
2789s	quite a linear experience and we took
2791s	you from one of the forests and to a
2793s	couple of the biomes into the next virus
2795s	into the couple of other biomes and um
2797s	kind of tiered the missions as they went
2799s	sticks is going to be definitely a more
2801s	um kind of open approach where you kind
2804s	of
2805s	uh
2807s	take your path again comes with some
2808s	caveats of like
2810s	missions not necessarily like tiered to
2812s	like you know start here and here um
2816s	but a kind of cooler player-driven
2818s	experience i feel um being able to kind
2820s	of
2820s	navigate and choose the areas you want
2822s	to open up first and yeah tackle
2825s	awesome definitely some definitely
2827s	something we wanted to explore too with
2828s	sticks was that um
2831s	uh we felt like
2832s	we we
2834s	cut off access to biomes in a lot of the
2836s	missions um and you know when we wanted
2838s	to
2839s	uh
2840s	make special items you know so um
2843s	for example squash got moved to the
2845s	desert only
2846s	um and then we had missions that didn't
2849s	act didn't give you access to to the
2851s	desert so
2852s	we kind of felt that with that approach
2855s	it uh it was limiting kind of the
2857s	gameplay that we were creating so it was
2860s	it was definitely nice to kind of take a
2862s	different approach with sticks and you
2863s	know we're
2864s	we're not using um
2866s	you know those those those bound
2868s	boundary limitations and stuff uh we're
2870s	using
2871s	the world more naturally to do that kind
2873s	of progression yeah cool
2876s	cool um i've got a good one here that's
2878s	coming um
2879s	from with a test tutor i didn't see it
2881s	on twitch so i didn't get to it earlier
2883s	but thanks for putting it again in
2884s	discord which is will you have to be
2886s	reducing the mission timer's length uh
2888s	so they feel some people are feeling
2889s	that they're a bit too long and don't
2890s	really pose a threat as they might be
2892s	intending or i guess what is the ideas
2894s	now behind mission timing we obviously
2896s	made a um
2898s	change recently to how those work that
2899s	was one of our big updates a few weeks
2901s	back so i guess do we have any more
2903s	plans to reduce those to increase the
2905s	threat level or how do we plan on
2907s	working with them in the future
2910s	yeah so that um
2912s	that mission timer change um obviously
2915s	has a massive impact on this um
2918s	yeah we're going from
2921s	i mean i guess that that's one of the
2922s	reasons why the missions were so long is
2924s	because you know we had to account for
2926s	people who couldn't you know play it
2928s	every day and so we had to make them
2930s	week long and then some were a month
2932s	long so um
2935s	they didn't necessarily
2937s	suit the mission as much as it did um
2941s	uh average player play time so
2944s	i think we will definitely see
2946s	a
2947s	a shift
2948s	in that as as we kind of move forward um
2951s	you know tricky thing with
2952s	doing changes on a live service game is
2955s	you know if we uh if we chop those
2957s	timers then uh you know what kind of
2959s	happens to those existing prospects you
2961s	know and uh expectations you know
2964s	so um yeah i think it'll be a soft
2967s	ongoing change that we uh that we do
2969s	cool i love that
2972s	cool um i'll jump into this one here
2974s	which is i know another one that people
2975s	have been asking for a while and i saw a
2977s	lot more um chatting about it now that
2979s	we've brought the kia's out which is
2980s	will they be tameable animals to write
2982s	in the future or to have his pets or to
2984s	use his buddies i guess are we looking
2986s	to do more animals than just have them
2988s	as um you know prey or predators
2993s	yeah i mean again it's definitely been a
2996s	conversation that we've um had animal
2998s	husbandry would be a definitely like a
3000s	cool um
3002s	addition uh i guess it's just more about
3004s	oh that was not good
3007s	like the the
3008s	uh
3009s	the implications and um and uh you know
3013s	how it works with our
3015s	with our system um our capabilities as a
3018s	studio you know and and
3020s	what we kind of devote um time to um so
3024s	it's definitely
3025s	again on the
3027s	on the discussion table um some of the
3028s	games have have done it quite um simply
3031s	valheim's got a very very simple um kind
3034s	of taming mechanic um that would be like
3036s	maybe a nice like parallel to to look at
3039s	as a um stepping stone um
3042s	so yeah again uh
3044s	yeah
3046s	it's just about continuing that
3047s	conversation and yeah seeing seeing what
3049s	we can
3050s	i guess even in the chat in the check
3052s	and have some peace of mind that is uh
3054s	something we've talked about and
3055s	considered and we have heard you and we
3056s	like the idea too you know a lot of the
3058s	stuff that um you guys talk about we
3060s	really like it as well and um for us a
3062s	lot of the time like you've heard a lot
3063s	of decision-making goes into how do we
3065s	do this so it's cool and not um
3067s	absolutely game breaking so um i think
3071s	all of us would love to have a care as a
3072s	pet i think that is a uh across the team
3075s	feeling so you can rest easy on that one
3078s	um shoulder mounted pits exactly it'll
3080s	be awesome i really just want to care to
3081s	land on my arm and i could send it out
3083s	to get me dinner that would just be the
3084s	dream so put that one down um i've got
3087s	one here which um i think i guess i'll
3089s	just cover off because i know a lot of
3090s	people uh may still be a bit in the dark
3092s	about it but um has been answered for a
3094s	while which is around when players are
3096s	going to start seeing alien flora and
3098s	fauna um in the game um so i can kind of
3101s	speak to i guess the plan but adam and
3103s	shawn you have to jump into and i guess
3104s	chat about um the direction we're going
3106s	there um obviously
3108s	icarus first cohort is really um players
3111s	landing on the areas of um the planets
3114s	that actually probably had the best
3116s	response to the terraforming therefore
3118s	are the most earth-like even with their
3120s	own differences such as obviously some
3122s	some creatures that have proven to be um
3124s	you know a bit more alien such as the
3126s	sand worm but also the um oxygen and um
3129s	you know i'm climbing not being quite
3130s	exactly the same in the more volatile
3132s	weather but as we explore into new
3134s	frontiers and dangerous horizons we're
3136s	really venturing outside of what feels
3138s	almost like some familiarity and safety
3140s	into more alien and dangerous territory
3143s	so more of that alien floor and fauna
3145s	that you've really been championing at
3146s	the bit for that's really going to come
3148s	as we explained into
3150s	the first two dlcs so i guess speaking
3153s	to the drc's and the most recent posts
3154s	we talked to the i guess timelines and
3156s	plans for uh when those are coming i
3158s	guess adam and sean how are you guys
3160s	feeling about um the direction there and
3162s	are you excited what's the overall
3164s	sentiment you've got about uh new
3165s	frontiers
3169s	i mean
3172s	yeah i'm pretty stoked because
3174s	again like the similar feeling that we
3175s	had with um
3177s	with sticks
3178s	you know getting to explore the game
3180s	again from from from those early stages
3183s	i think we're going to see a lot of that
3184s	again uh in the dlc it's not uh
3187s	it's not going to be
3188s	um i mean i don't want to hype it up too
3190s	much but it's not going to be a small
3192s	thing um
3193s	i think it's yeah we're definitely um
3195s	got a lot of plans a lot of discussions
3196s	in the works
3197s	um i don't know how much what if any
3200s	detail we can go into
3202s	um
3203s	oh it's cool no i mean even just to hear
3204s	obviously some excitement in the team
3206s	about the direction we're taking is
3207s	awesome um i guess a cool one here and
3210s	this goes to um we've obviously had a
3211s	lot more food source variations i really
3214s	enjoyed jumping the other day just
3215s	having all these plants and different
3217s	options for growing that out um a
3219s	question again people have been asking
3221s	for ages is around different beverages i
3224s	had a lovely one i got earlier in the
3225s	week what about sake and whiskey we've
3227s	obviously gotten a lot more plants now
3229s	that have a lot more options to turn
3230s	them into different drinks do we have
3232s	obviously different options uh we've
3233s	obviously had beer and other options and
3235s	whatnot do we have plans for doing more
3237s	around beverages um i know a lot of
3239s	people are always asking about their
3240s	favorite friday 5 p.m drink i guess is
3243s	there any plans around what we're doing
3245s	in that space
3246s	well i think we need to do some kind of
3248s	uh some poll um to
3251s	to get everyone's votes in yeah um get
3253s	them all in i think that's a great idea
3255s	we might have to start uh getting a bit
3256s	more inquisitive what are your favorite
3258s	drinks uh what are your favorite foods
3260s	we if it's possible i don't then we can
3262s	do a fully cooked lasagna unfortunately
3264s	might take a few too many ingredients
3266s	but hey if you've got something you
3267s	quite like to see in game you never know
3270s	i mean i'm a real big fan of that we
3271s	have coffee plants now because i'm
3273s	pretty sure i'm 40 coffee bean at this
3275s	point so that was a great addition
3278s	i mean i i want to see chicken sniffles
3281s	outstanding i think i think we can call
3283s	the game done at that point yeah i've
3285s	got one here for cactus apples don't
3286s	even know what cactus samples are but
3288s	that does sound really delicious
3295s	um
3297s	we'll jump into this one here um will
3299s	there be better guns or a more complex
3301s	gun system to make them more viable
3302s	versus both i guess we spoke a little
3304s	bit to it earlier around that system but
3306s	i guess this plays into the bigger
3307s	question around tech and whatnot is
3309s	there um do we have some cool ideas what
3311s	is the plan for us expanding out in that
3314s	space i know that people have really
3316s	enjoyed a lot of the really unique items
3317s	we've added and the bows have been a big
3319s	hit so as they obviously planned for
3321s	other weaponry to be expanded upon and
3323s	built
3326s	um i will say that the
3328s	uh
3329s	we've got a bunch of larkwell
3332s	arrows coming in and they have
3335s	some specialization on them so i think
3337s	that's
3338s	uh that's i mean they've proven to be
3341s	pretty awesome in combat um in the
3344s	internal testing so um yeah it
3346s	definitely adds some flavor um and
3349s	yeah as sean said earlier it's tricky to
3351s	add um
3353s	weapons without
3355s	causing uh damage to the gameplay
3357s	balance um so it's certainly something
3360s	that we take measured approaches to
3362s	uh make sure it you know a solo
3365s	player can't just defeat the boss that's
3367s	designed for eight people with because
3369s	they've got one gun or you know if if
3372s	they can it's very limited use so um and
3375s	that that's where i guess um the
3376s	workshop items come in you know we can
3379s	kind of have a handle on on how powerful
3382s	they are for how long um
3384s	so yeah there's there's been a lot a lot
3386s	of discussion and um
3389s	yeah yeah a lot of discussion on what we
3391s	can do in the future for sure
3393s	so um i was thinking guys we uh
3396s	we should probably move the ama to a
3398s	separate day and do it on reddit um
3400s	because it's more of a q a um and then
3403s	we can sort of keep the questions
3404s	lighter um and keep them flowing yeah
3406s	for sure we'll keep uh jumping through
3408s	some of the funny questions about just
3409s	proven watching just because i think
3411s	it's going to be really hard for people
3412s	to go through and follow really specific
3414s	stuff and things like that so i think uh
3416s	what we'll do is we'll schedule um uh
3418s	we'll work with the um
3421s	uh the reddit community um and um and
3424s	you know take some of the questions and
3426s	and put them in here i think that that
3428s	way that people can follow it and then
3429s	just keep this this more as a light q a
3433s	yeah cool yeah for sure so if you guys
3435s	have got some ask some some fun
3436s	questions you want to ask the team uh
3438s	we've got a little bit more time of uh
3440s	editing some questions yeah i think um
3442s	it's just uh the ama format i think
3444s	people want to you know dive in through
3446s	the detailed stuff and and i think
3448s	people want to see it written and i
3450s	think it'll be hard for us to go through
3451s	and and write um all this up because
3453s	definitely some of the more complicated
3456s	answers um you know we have to go away
3458s	and talk with say uh you know our tech
3461s	team and stuff like that to confirm bits
3463s	and pieces you know we don't want to
3464s	sort of off the cuff promise promise
3467s	something live on here um
3469s	so yeah so i think um we'll try and
3471s	split some of the stuff into two parts
3473s	so some people might have some questions
3475s	um and yeah we'll deal with those uh
3478s	more in ama um now we'll try and you
3480s	know answer the things that we we can um
3482s	that are totally simple
3489s	yep
3497s	oh i hear google
3507s	all right um i'll do a cut one here hook
3509s	i'd like from the first chap which is
3510s	adam and sure what are your favorite
3512s	items or features that you guys have had
3514s	the pleasure of adding um i heard a few
3516s	of the cool ones you liked earlier but
3517s	do you have a particular favorite or one
3518s	of two that you eventually just love to
3520s	enter the game and what you've seen to
3522s	kind of be saying that you've got man
3523s	i'm stoked about that one
3527s	where you got sean is it going to be the
3529s	oxidizer
3531s	i'd say probably one of my
3533s	favorite ones that we um got in there so
3535s	this is was your little um scorpion
3538s	pincer trap
3539s	oh yeah
3540s	like a nice little cool um this
3543s	amalgamation of um you know the
3545s	creatures coming in using a bespoke
3547s	little um
3548s	uh
3550s	resource from that creature and then
3552s	getting in that cool little um
3554s	mechanic that then circled back around
3556s	into
3557s	leaning more into the hunting and and
3559s	all that jazz um probably mine
3562s	i think for me it's probably going to be
3563s	the flairo
3565s	um
3566s	yeah just be you know because it's been
3568s	dark at night for a very long time um in
3571s	the game and
3573s	um
3574s	yeah the first time
3575s	shot one of those flare arrows out and
3577s	the whole the whole thing lit up um
3580s	it can be tricky to do that kind of
3581s	stuff because of um
3583s	you know performance on a big light but
3585s	um
3586s	yeah i think the the visuals kind of uh
3589s	really set the tone and um yeah it's
3592s	pretty cool to see i think the green
3593s	really just pops as well and i think i
3595s	really
3596s	really loved about that and obviously
3597s	this is an area that we've looked at is
3599s	around uh we're going to find your
3601s	teammates know how to communicate with
3602s	people and understand that yeah i
3604s	remember early on like you know having
3606s	that flair and i just launched on
3608s	straight up in the years to get a bit of
3609s	a read that was awesome and it really
3611s	made it feel like kind of dangerous and
3614s	risky it felt like almost one of those
3616s	old-school like you know missions and
3618s	stuff it was a cool place yeah
3620s	we had some great um
3622s	testing moments you know like we would
3624s	have certain people leading the charge
3626s	and they'd be you know six six or so
3628s	people following and they'd be just
3630s	launching flare areas and you know like
3632s	just running at night no one stops you
3634s	know if you get left behind you get left
3635s	behind but keep an eye out for the
3636s	arrows it was um yeah real intense but
3638s	yeah i think it's such a cool feature i
3640s	think of stuff like that as well that's
3642s	where you get that really fun balance
3643s	between um you know we could just have
3646s	things like oh there's your teammate on
3647s	the map but how much cooler is it to
3649s	fire them you've got to see this green
3650s	orb floating up in the air and go that
3652s	way
3654s	it's just
3655s	effect um another one i guess people are
3657s	always interested in is um you know the
3659s	animals we add them or not so kind of a
3661s	couple of unique animals we put in this
3662s	time which is komodo dragon and kia um
3665s	and kia being a really unique one thing
3667s	is it is obviously a native bird to new
3668s	zealand and it's a very unique one with
3670s	a very unique kind of personality and
3672s	characteristics so i guess what what's
3674s	the cool kind of um you know um
3676s	reasoning behind why we do a lot of
3678s	stuff and the animals particularly
3679s	things like the kia they are such a
3681s	unique uh i guess addition to the game
3684s	so what kind of ghost process when we go
3686s	around what animals we're going to add
3687s	how we're going to create variety and
3689s	whatnot
3692s	get your go
3693s	um
3694s	all right i'm just trying not to die in
3696s	the game yeah
3699s	um
3700s	yeah i guess um yeah it's just speaking
3702s	to the the key in the the komodo there
3704s	were just some cool um
3706s	uh
3707s	the kia obviously we kind of wanted a
3708s	bird for a while um
3710s	it has some nice cheeky behavior of um
3712s	maybe stealing some some unguarded food
3715s	um items you might have lying around uh
3718s	campfires and oh some containers and
3720s	stuff
3721s	yeah yeah so maybe maybe maybe try and
3724s	um get those things under under locking
3726s	key joe right um
3728s	so yeah i guess the the ethos has just
3729s	been
3730s	around finding that that cool um spot to
3734s	to add some some more flavor and some
3736s	more um
3738s	of that kind of gameplay tie-in um the
3740s	komodo again you know nice one uh in
3743s	that it's food motivated as adam said um
3746s	so again
3748s	keep an eye on on your um fresh kill if
3750s	there's any komodos around because i'll
3752s	probably um fight you for it so yeah i
3754s	guess this is about looking at those um
3756s	sorts of opportunities and and how they
3759s	kind of play
3760s	yeah for sure and i actually speaking of
3762s	the key i mean the first time i jumped
3764s	to sticks for a play test i just think
3765s	they remember like going off doing some
3767s	hunting on my way back and i look at the
3768s	base and i go what the heck is going on
3771s	and there were five here just pillaging
3773s	everything and it was one of the coolest
3775s	things to see from a distance just going
3777s	oh crap like i've gotta warm my hands
3780s	when i get home by such a cool idea and
3782s	i it kind of brings a lot of those uh
3785s	survival game characteristics of having
3786s	to be always be aware of your base on
3789s	who your enemies are you know most
3791s	survival pvp games is like who's the
3793s	local uh thief that's gonna come by and
3795s	on your server and this one it's
3797s	literally a bird that looks friendly but
3798s	is out to steal your dinner
3800s	so i think a lot of those elements um
3802s	are really cool and for people who uh
3804s	don't know a lot about the kia um so
3806s	obviously it's a native parrot new
3807s	zealand it's one of the i think it's the
3808s	second third biggest parrot in the world
3810s	the biggest being the kakapo which is
3812s	another new zealand native and they
3814s	really are like that in terms of uh
3816s	being mischievous very smart and cunning
3818s	um they've been known to
3820s	create tools with rocks and understand
3822s	physics and the elements for obviously
3824s	being able to get different types of
3826s	prey um and if anyone who's really ever
3828s	been down there arthas past new zealand
3830s	will know the kia will come and steal
3831s	your windscreen ripers that's not even a
3833s	joke they will come and they will rip
3834s	them off your car so they really are
3837s	cheeky little uh cheeky little things
3838s	and so i think it's been a cool addition
3840s	to the game to also bring a little bit
3842s	of kyriana and a bit of new zealand to
3844s	it so
3845s	um no i've loved it i guess the other
3847s	really unique one crocodile obviously is
3849s	uh um quite a cool light um and it would
3852s	add to the game but the komodo dragon
3854s	which again is another really unique one
3856s	and you spoke a little bit there to its
3858s	um behavior as well so
3860s	i'm animals like that it's not one you
3862s	would see in every single game it's not
3864s	your standard so i guess are we really
3867s	you know exploring into different kind
3868s	of creatures and are we using kind of a
3870s	how would they behave in real life as a
3872s	bit of a um motivation for who what
3875s	animals we like in the game
3878s	i mean i think a lot of it is gameplay
3879s	driven um so i think uh i don't know how
3882s	early on in the piece sean we thought
3884s	about the the kia snatching stuff from
3887s	campfires but i think
3888s	that was that was a gameplay opportunity
3891s	we kind of thought of um you know
3894s	we see issues like oh yeah campfires are
3896s	always full of food okay well let's
3897s	let's put a keyer in the game and have
3898s	them steal all the food so
3900s	um and things like
3903s	just experimenting with different
3904s	behaviors uh so like the komodos
3906s	different kind of uh i mean we have we
3909s	have kind of overarching definitions of
3912s	you know territorial or um you know on
3914s	on-site aggressive or just general
3917s	passive but um you know as
3919s	as we kind of expand the game mechanics
3921s	and you know we find different um
3924s	different levers to pull um and we we
3926s	start exploring with you know what what
3928s	about a hybrid of you know it's kind of
3930s	territorial but under certain
3931s	circumstances and that uh that just
3933s	gives players new things to to learn and
3935s	experiment with and um just adds adds a
3937s	new flavor to the game um
3940s	that's awesome cool um i've actually
3942s	just had our next two uh you know guests
3945s	for the day jump in so that's uh matt
3947s	and cam so adam sean you're more than
3949s	welcome to hang out chat play uh if you
3951s	need to jump into something else uh big
3953s	thank to both of you for coming again
3955s	and having a chat today hey hey adam
3957s	really help me adam uh it sounds like
3958s	jayla does need your help though so i'll
3960s	let you go and save our fallen friends
3963s	but you know big thanks for jumping in
3965s	guys lots of good stuff there and
3966s	obviously
3967s	yeah we'll do it you read it ama with a
3968s	bit more details soon so i'll get you
3970s	guys to help write some stuff up but hey
3973s	keep going being amazing
3975s	all right thank you
3977s	all right i'll introduce our next couple
3979s	of guests got in so we have the amazing
3981s	cam and matt from our art team so uh
3984s	both these guys have been uh pretty
3986s	integral to what we've been up to if
3987s	you've seen it that probably has
3988s	something to do with it um and they've
3990s	been doing some crazy cool stuff for us
3992s	so i thought i'd bring them in and have
3993s	a chance to talk about you know all
3995s	things visual and creative and art and
3997s	what we're doing in that space so i
3999s	guess first things first um you know a
4001s	little bit of intro about yourself and
4002s	you know what you've been up to on
4003s	sticks and what you do for the team so
4005s	matt you wanna take us away
4008s	uh hello everyone my name's matt i'm a
4011s	concept artist here at rocket works um
4015s	yeah i've been here day one
4017s	uh
4018s	doing concepts for
4020s	olympus and now we've started looking at
4023s	sticks there's a lot of stuff still to
4025s	come into sticks
4028s	yeah everything from creature designs to
4030s	the tech to the benches and what you
4033s	make on the benches and uh
4036s	yeah all
4037s	the good stuff
4038s	hopefully better stuff to come oh i love
4040s	that all right and cam
4043s	go to kyoto uh my name's cam the other
4046s	concerto
4048s	might be a little soft cam
4050s	oh sorry
4051s	how's that my chick
4054s	this is so sweet that voice is the same
4056s	i don't know
4059s	keep going you're still
4064s	yeah just one of the concept artists
4065s	here i'm not sure i didn't do too much
4067s	on sticks myself but
4069s	um
4070s	looking at different types of creatures
4071s	and just kind of observing from a
4072s	distance and watch the map come together
4074s	the founder sticks
4075s	um yeah and what cam doesn't tell you is
4077s	he's the one who if anyone on the team
4079s	needs to be able to figure out what
4080s	that's up to or just organize stuff cam
4082s	should go to guys so he is uh
4084s	you know from a marketing side came to
4086s	be now our champion star along with matt
4088s	and getting everything moving so uh been
4090s	really really fun to work with both
4091s	these guys and obviously they've got a
4093s	lot of the hands and uh the art and the
4096s	style and the direction of icarus so
4098s	great chance to go and ask them out
4100s	related questions so i'll jump into a
4102s	couple we've got and obviously people
4103s	feel free to post some in twitch and
4105s	discord and we will try and cover as
4107s	many as we can
4108s	our first one i've got here is um you
4110s	know will there be more customization in
4112s	the future um you know a lot of people
4114s	have talked about um different art armor
4117s	sets we've obviously had a bit of
4118s	exploration into some of the different
4120s	styles of the different factions and
4121s	whatnot so i guess what are you guys up
4124s	to what do you think about you know how
4125s	much opportunity there is for art to
4127s	really build out this really kind of
4128s	colorful diverse world in that
4131s	area yeah um i mean that's a that's a
4134s	question that's not just for art it's
4135s	also for design and stuff
4138s	not entirely sure what we can say um
4140s	yeah but even like it's like what
4142s	have you guys got some cool ideas for
4143s	how we can really you know take art the
4145s	art style of icarus and build a product
4147s	with how we've built out a lot of the
4148s	world and whatnot like what's i guess
4150s	from a concert point like how like what
4152s	type of vision have you guys got have
4153s	you got some really cool ideas in the
4154s	bank what are you thinking
4156s	i mean we've always got ideas in the
4158s	bank yeah i love that
4160s	it's just a matter of like i guess what
4161s	comes up and what we've got scoped and
4163s	what you can put in the patch um
4165s	but the system we work with and the
4166s	amount of stuff we can chuck in there
4167s	it's you know
4168s	yeah if we find something it's good
4170s	being on the um the art team the
4171s	designer's really good with sort of
4173s	accepting like pictures from us if we've
4175s	got an idea that's like yeah it's not
4177s	exactly part of the game that's been
4179s	planned but we're like we really want
4180s	this um we made this armor it's cool
4183s	um yeah
4184s	chuck it in yeah i love that yeah
4187s	there's one thing yeah one thing we were
4189s	kind of looking at that
4191s	would be fun to do in the future is
4194s	variations of say the same leather armor
4196s	um so you have your own style um your
4199s	own blueprints
4201s	we've kind of had a brief look at that
4204s	and uh
4205s	yeah because we've
4206s	we've designed many variations of stuff
4208s	already yeah yeah we've had like a
4211s	polish passing like a round two on
4212s	certain items so there's always like you
4214s	know arts and never ending process so
4216s	yeah for sure variations
4218s	i guess on the topic of that um you know
4220s	what's a certain item or thing you add
4222s	to the game do you look at it and go man
4223s	i'm so stoked with how that looks how
4225s	that kind of appears and you know what
4227s	would be if there's any come to mind to
4229s	go yeah i think that one's like a really
4230s	awesome piece of work
4233s	ah for me because the icarus is quite um
4238s	real life so there's always a lot of
4240s	things we can draw on
4242s	to
4243s	like say if we
4245s	made a backpack you can look at
4246s	backpacks and stuff like that and say
4249s	but for me the one i enjoyed first was
4251s	making the oxidizer um
4254s	just because it never existed so you had
4256s	to come up with a way how to make
4259s	oxygen come out of a big set leather
4261s	sack with bones and
4263s	and where you attach the uh oxygen tank
4266s	to it and stuff like that so for me that
4268s	was like the first
4270s	thinking outside the box one yeah i love
4272s	that
4274s	yeah i think everyone's got
4275s	like a place in their heart for the
4277s	oxygen dissolver
4279s	you get the idea of like dissolving
4280s	oxygen from rocks and some sort of
4282s	primitive
4284s	technology that you just find from
4285s	dropping on the planet
4286s	those sort of
4288s	like problem solving processes i guess
4290s	you can call it
4291s	the thing that comes out of the end and
4292s	if you you know you've got a theory of
4294s	how it works there's always fun
4296s	yeah
4297s	i think my personal one and this heaps i
4300s	think some of the the benches are real
4302s	fun to sort of work on um
4305s	i mean i guess it's the bolt action
4307s	rifle oh yeah yeah
4309s	where
4310s	we kind of started to put together ideas
4312s	about like you know what is tier two
4314s	we've got like a lathe
4315s	um
4317s	it's it's advanced it's not like
4322s	it's not the most advanced thing you've
4323s	ever seen but it's still late so you can
4324s	sort of make like pipe guns and um use
4326s	that sort of technology to design
4329s	something other than wood um
4331s	yeah yeah i get you designing this the
4333s	pipe gun from planet
4335s	stuff was very very fun i enjoyed it
4338s	yeah no awesome awesome
4340s	yeah and i guess um you know you talked
4342s	about like obviously the process of
4344s	doing passes and updating things um you
4346s	know
4347s	how like what so i guess the the
4349s	mentality around when we say okay we
4350s	want to change how this looks to make an
4352s	update here or i can update there
4354s	because obviously the team does an
4355s	incredible amount of work really
4356s	refining and polishing and making the
4358s	items just look fantastic before they go
4360s	and game i guess for a little bit of
4362s	like you know behind the scenes for the
4363s	art team like you know how does that
4365s	process look how what is the point of
4366s	which we go yeah we're happy with that
4368s	because obviously you guys do an
4369s	incredible amount of work to really get
4371s	things and what players seeing gay
4373s	really is just the final product so i
4375s	guess a little bit of process around
4376s	that from start to finish
4381s	i mean are we talking
4384s	yeah
4384s	because obviously it starts with you
4385s	guys at the concept level in neo and in
4387s	for items by the time they're getting
4389s	game you know we look at some of the
4390s	original positive that you have done and
4392s	the amount of bit of detail right down
4394s	to having uh i think of the workshop
4396s	bench and some of the tools that are
4397s	sitting on it and the obviously the
4399s	visual and the skin of it right down to
4401s	the detailing on those there's so much
4403s	effort that goes into making things look
4404s	just so
4406s	great and in place
4407s	um you know
4408s	that level of kind of effort and
4410s	perfection like you know how that back
4411s	and forth and proceeds how what's the
4413s	time it takes to do things um you know
4416s	what really drives you guys to get to
4417s	that level of um you know perfection
4419s	each time
4421s	i guess the the
4423s	the perfection or the the level of
4425s	polish that comes from the effort from
4427s	the entire team like concept of you know
4430s	it's an interesting job because you just
4431s	sort of make an idea
4432s	um and then you present it to the 3d
4434s	team um and they're the guys that you
4436s	know really make it reality
4437s	um
4438s	so we sort of have an idea throw it to
4441s	them and they'll have some ideas and
4442s	throw it back or we'll do like a a
4444s	prototype um
4446s	or we'll have like a small test and you
4448s	know how big is it in the game when you
4450s	walk up to it is the right height is it
4452s	interesting enough
4453s	um then they'll throw it back and we'll
4455s	sort of do like a paint over or discuss
4457s	ideas further um
4458s	and it just goes on down the pipeline
4460s	and comes out fantastic
4462s	there are um
4464s	time timelines with these weekly updates
4466s	and stuff like that
4468s	so
4469s	we often promise the 3d team that
4471s	they'll get to polish stuff later yeah
4474s	yeah
4475s	but
4476s	because yeah sometimes they're under a
4478s	lot of pressure to get stuff out for
4479s	their weekly yeah yeah uh but we do
4483s	revise stuff and uh
4485s	and let people come back to it because
4487s	yeah they're very passionate about
4489s	what their model is going to look like
4491s	in a game and sometimes
4493s	we have to say well it's got to go in
4495s	but yeah revisit it
4497s	and uh yeah yeah i guess players would
4500s	have seen a lot of that as well of items
4501s	changing over time yeah
4504s	yeah no awesome awesome and obviously
4506s	you mentioned as well like the the
4508s	primitive element and some of the items
4509s	i've got and you've got a really
4510s	balanced primitive the advanced tech and
4513s	it goes into that so
4514s	you mentioned that that's quite a unique
4516s	kind of process of having to say how
4518s	would this actually look if we were to
4519s	make a primitive version of it um no
4522s	what's that experience been like of
4523s	having to
4524s	balance primitive resources with quite
4527s	unique tech
4530s	you start living off that yeah yeah
4532s	that's been the
4534s	that's been the fun part um
4538s	you you've basically got to put yourself
4540s	in the place of someone landing on a
4542s	planet and uh
4543s	and what materials you've got and what
4545s	you would do with it and uh
4549s	well
4550s	backed into a
4555s	uh
4556s	yes so
4559s	am i getting feedback from your mic
4563s	yeah let me just check that yeah that's
4565s	good so
4567s	what are y'all sharing a desk
4569s	we sit right next to each other we're a
4571s	very friendly team here in office
4573s	and we're sitting really really close
4575s	but
4578s	yeah so
4579s	yeah we've
4581s	we sort of sometimes have the high tech
4582s	stuff as a baseline and then we have to
4586s	keep stripping it back to
4588s	um what the primitive stuff will be like
4591s	but we also want people to be able to
4592s	recognize
4594s	this is a primitive version of the same
4596s	sort of family
4597s	so there is a there is a design language
4599s	that we want to carry through
4601s	but we also have the design language of
4603s	the different materials we use and the
4605s	different um
4607s	crafting craftsmanship i think it's a
4610s	good word um as you go up on the benches
4613s	we
4614s	have said that players put things
4616s	together better um there's better
4618s	welding and stuff like that rather than
4620s	say the tier two bench where it's almost
4623s	like you're
4624s	banging stuff together and and it's more
4627s	about the
4628s	um
4629s	purpose of the item rather than the
4631s	uh
4633s	the
4634s	how well it looks and how well it
4636s	functions and stuff like that um
4638s	yeah
4641s	yeah
4642s	it's kind of an interesting process when
4644s	you know you've come from space and you
4645s	do land on a planet with absolutely
4647s	nothing so sort of
4649s	you know our tech stuff is sort of
4650s	looking back in the past and um
4653s	looking at what i don't know getting
4654s	your kid in the space to think you know
4655s	if you you were dropped on the planet
4657s	with nothing
4658s	and there's beers what would you make
4660s	how would you start um
4662s	it's often like i'm gonna look at like
4663s	diy um
4666s	items or like how does someone make like
4667s	a
4668s	a welding kit with you know the back of
4670s	the microwave sort of thing so you can
4672s	sort of get into these weird little
4674s	weird pockets of the internet and draw
4675s	inspiration to get uh
4678s	this tech that you'd make sort of out of
4680s	nothing bare minimums and stuff
4681s	[Music]
4683s	yeah like that russian inventor guy that
4685s	we
4686s	followed yeah yeah yeah crazy projects
4689s	yeah yeah i was gonna ask around um you
4691s	know inspiration for a lot of what we do
4693s	is there any kind of particular places
4695s	you've drawn inspiration from or any
4697s	kind of you know either artist or maybe
4698s	other games or places you've gone yeah
4700s	that's really given me uh some really
4702s	cool ideas and some themes and feels
4704s	that i want to bring to icarus
4709s	oh that's a hard one i think for me it's
4711s	you know
4712s	art station in general or um
4715s	other survival games also have some
4717s	great stuff
4718s	i think
4719s	i think getting inspiration and
4720s	mechanics and the way things work from
4722s	other games has always been fun uh
4724s	valheim was great for that i think a bit
4726s	of v-rising at the moment not exactly
4728s	the same um
4730s	but seeing how things are used in the
4731s	importance of items i think that was
4733s	good inspiration um
4735s	and for the art style
4737s	um
4738s	just
4740s	i guess with a visual sense of it you
4742s	know quality art from art station or you
4744s	know
4745s	things from the team that you see and
4746s	you really really like um and for the
4748s	themes i think the internet is yeah yeah
4751s	it's great
4752s	i love that
4754s	i've got some um
4756s	old survival books as well i used to
4758s	live on a little island for a while for
4760s	about four years on solar panels so i i
4763s	accumulated all these old survival books
4766s	um
4768s	and yeah so i've got really some really
4770s	good old-school reference on how people
4772s	actually survived in the day and the
4774s	traps they made so
4776s	very practical stuff
4778s	yeah yeah yeah so i often go back and
4780s	pull out some of those and uh figure out
4783s	how to
4784s	yeah because that's stuff that's worked
4786s	over time it's like i've got you know
4788s	from the frontiersmen how they used to
4791s	make their furniture and stuff like that
4794s	uh yeah
4796s	it's good to draw on yeah yeah no i like
4798s	that
4799s	i guess another um you know bundle
4801s	people have um talked about there's been
4803s	a few cool fun items to put in such as
4805s	like the side the you know the side you
4808s	can make on the carpentry bench to be
4810s	able to label them name different parts
4812s	of the game and whatnot are there any
4814s	kind of cool things that you guys would
4816s	like to do for like kind of that
4817s	personalization i know one area that you
4819s	have spent a lot of time on recently has
4821s	been wall mounts and a lot has gone into
4823s	that so that level of kind of adding
4826s	personality to be players kind of play
4828s	styles and bases um you know have you
4830s	guys really enjoyed that what's your
4832s	thinking behind it what are you feeling
4833s	has that been an area you've enjoyed
4835s	kind of building out
4838s	yeah it's cool i think um
4840s	well personally i spent a lot of time
4842s	doing sort of like in-hand items and
4844s	benches and other stuff um
4847s	i think matt you actually did quite a
4848s	lot of the buildables and construction
4850s	stuff early on uh um yeah so when i got
4853s	to doing a bit of the i guess the
4854s	decorative stuff it was kind of it was
4856s	nice it was just you know i can imagine
4858s	putting it in my outpost
4859s	yeah yeah
4861s	yeah it's cool
4862s	yeah and you mentioned obviously benches
4864s	there as well as being an area that you
4865s	worked on we've got such a huge array of
4868s	benches like how did you really build
4870s	that differentiation them from a visual
4871s	perspective and i guess what was your
4874s	what was going through your head and how
4875s	did you want to make each of them feel
4877s	like they really were different unique
4879s	so there wasn't a repetition in the
4881s	design
4884s	yeah um i guess we'd describe it as
4887s	tears i think it's yeah like tears of
4889s	technology um so you know you've got
4892s	your own person stuff like uh the woods
4894s	fair being held here it's very simple
4896s	um and then when you get to
4899s	the crafting bench in it now you get
4900s	into woodworking and advanced uh ways of
4903s	putting together wood stone bone
4905s	uh
4906s	machining bench you get into like middle
4907s	lathes welding there's just like you
4909s	know for every detector there's kind of
4911s	like a
4912s	tech intervention that
4914s	we can draw inspiration from for the
4916s	items but also other benches and other
4918s	buildables in their area you know if you
4920s	figure out how to weld on a planet um
4923s	it's gonna mean you'll be able to build
4924s	awesome stuff and for design it means we
4926s	get to sort of
4928s	unleash a bit and try different things
4930s	you know yeah yeah having worked well
4932s	together as a fun process
4934s	yeah yeah i guess a really unique one i
4936s	can bring to minds the herbalism bench
4938s	seeing as the majority of them have got
4939s	their rectangular shape and then you've
4940s	got this one that's the circular um kind
4943s	of standalone pick so
4944s	why what was the reasoning behind that
4946s	one just being so different like what
4948s	was the logic
4950s	well we want players to be able to have
4953s	a quick read when they walk into a room
4955s	and know what each bench is supposed to
4957s	do because as you say there can be quite
4959s	a few benches in a room at a time so we
4962s	we do look at shapes and
4964s	the herbalism bench to me just felt a
4966s	bit more
4968s	um
4970s	almost
4972s	what's the word trudy like you're a you
4975s	know you're a um
4978s	a bit more shamanistic almost in a way
4980s	so i thought let's make that um
4983s	quite primitive looking but with a quick
4985s	read so with a lot of our benches will
4987s	have a bit of height to them in that
4989s	height you can like the herbalism bends
4991s	has herbs hanging off it and as you say
4994s	a distinctive shape there'll be other
4996s	ones the glass borrowing branch we make
4997s	sure there's a glass blower um that can
5000s	be seen quite quickly
5002s	so you don't want to just walk up to the
5004s	bench and look at the surface to try and
5005s	figure out what it is you want that
5008s	silhouette read and as you say the
5010s	herbalism bench sort of jumps out
5011s	because it is quite different a
5014s	different requirement to a lot of the
5015s	other benches
5017s	as in you're mixing herbs rather than
5020s	manufacturing
5022s	uh materials that you put together stuff
5024s	yeah no awesome no it's really really
5026s	good
5027s	i guess as well like you you've
5028s	obviously mentioned to the around you
5030s	know how we differentiate benches
5031s	another game that's obviously got a lot
5033s	of variety as weather and obviously
5035s	biomes and whatnot um a really good
5037s	example being storms so
5039s	i guess on the element of like you know
5041s	the the atmosphere the kind of overall
5043s	color scheme of like the um different
5045s	biomes like i guess how how do we plan
5048s	those out how do we kind of say these
5050s	are the feelings and experiences we want
5053s	to you know create what what went into
5056s	that
5058s	i think
5060s	i mean sort of leaning on what dean says
5061s	a lot of games are played not made yeah
5064s	it sort of started with um
5066s	you know a whole bunch of items together
5067s	and we had intentions for what they look
5069s	like there's heaps of atmosphere um
5071s	but as it moved on you know we started
5073s	thinking about
5075s	it
5076s	um we started thinking about i guess
5078s	separating the biomes like having each
5079s	one that would have a distinct sort of
5081s	feel
5082s	um but when you go into the arctic is a
5084s	little bit more crispy than
5086s	um
5087s	say the desert where you can see you
5089s	know you see a bit of haze throughout
5091s	the entire thing
5092s	um
5093s	so
5095s	we kind of went into them
5098s	a proposed experience like can you feel
5100s	like you're you're at the top of the
5103s	well in the valley of like some sort of
5104s	very cold alpine peak um and everything
5108s	feels like super crispy
5110s	barren uh i guess a bit isolating um
5114s	i think stixx does a good job with that
5116s	when you're running across some of the
5116s	arctic zones and it feels like
5118s	you know if you're solo player it's it's
5120s	just you yeah it is a fast path
5122s	landscape
5124s	yeah and i guess that's a good point on
5125s	the topics of worlds and obviously
5128s	you guys haven't been i guess
5129s	specifically world builders yourselves
5131s	you obviously had an understanding of
5132s	that element as well
5134s	that feeling of barren and almost like
5137s	just unbelievable size is obviously
5139s	intentional for the fact that you are
5141s	almost like somewhat alone on this brand
5143s	new planet
5144s	um and that feeling of almost a daunting
5147s	or that comes with that obviously then
5149s	translates into a lot of everything else
5151s	and we've talked about the primitive
5152s	elements and obviously that i guess the
5154s	other area is in animals and how we can
5157s	make animals really feel either fearsome
5160s	or feel like opportunity and all those
5162s	other elements so
5164s	we always we've talked in the past
5165s	around the process that it goes into in
5167s	our making of icarus some
5169s	videos
5170s	around the process that goes into making
5172s	the different animals right from concept
5174s	art through to rigging through to 3d
5176s	animation
5177s	i guess on that face
5179s	the process of kidding an animal into
5181s	game well how
5183s	like i guess people are interested to
5184s	know like how long does it take how much
5186s	of the team is involved what goes into
5188s	it these guys want to speak to some of
5190s	that process from like you know how do
5191s	we bring something like the polar bear
5193s	and turn it into this apex predator of
5195s	the planet from the art side
5199s	yeah
5200s	it does take quite a while because it
5202s	there is a
5204s	huge pipeline from concept through to
5207s	mod link to rigging to fur
5210s	um a big part that doesn't often get
5212s	mentioned is the audio of these
5214s	creatures
5215s	um i think that to me when i'm playing
5217s	the game is the
5219s	first
5220s	sort of
5220s	scary warning sign like if you hear a
5222s	polar bear suddenly you're crouching and
5225s	looking around for the thing
5228s	but it does take a long time and then
5231s	you've got the ai of the creature to
5234s	sort out
5235s	which
5237s	i'm not too familiar with it but i know
5238s	it
5239s	can cause all sorts of headaches yeah um
5243s	and also yeah there's
5245s	there
5246s	there is still a concepting phase to
5249s	making a polar bear look impressive um
5253s	obviously
5254s	as a concept artist you just don't want
5256s	to google a picture of polar bear and
5259s	hand that on to someone and say yeah
5261s	i've constantly added
5263s	so we we try find all the best elements
5266s	of a polar bear mash it up pick out
5268s	features that we want um
5270s	these ones are obviously i think they're
5272s	way bigger than a normal polar bear is
5275s	um
5275s	which which you need in these massive um
5278s	you don't want something to look like a
5280s	cute little cuddly thing
5283s	yeah
5284s	beers are not for cuddling though i just
5285s	did that the other day i just did a
5286s	streamer on twitter i was like this is
5288s	more the reverend than paddington around
5290s	here
5291s	that's right that's right i guess on the
5293s	topic of animals like that i mean this
5295s	is personally my favorite so i have to
5296s	bring it up and that's our big friendly
5298s	blender face sandwich is awesome so that
5302s	really for you guys would have been the
5304s	first i guess
5305s	non-earth-like creature you got the
5308s	opportunity to put into game
5310s	i'd love to hear about that
5312s	that was an awesome process that was a
5314s	concept because um it came in for a beta
5318s	weekend yeah and it was quite
5321s	a a rush job to bring it in and get it
5325s	going for the beta weekend
5327s	but we've been working on sand worms as
5329s	a concept team um
5331s	and i think that one can be called a
5333s	collaboration that sand worm um
5337s	i i'd done the base of it but then there
5338s	was back and forth with cam and george
5340s	and minnie
5341s	um
5342s	and
5344s	together we put together
5347s	quite a cool concept um
5350s	there were
5351s	um limitations with it when it went into
5353s	the game we had the idea that the face
5355s	would actually close up into a um almost
5359s	perfect uh
5361s	seal so it couldn't go through go
5363s	through the sands but for the for the
5366s	launch we had to have it sort of
5367s	scrunched up face um but it still looks
5369s	cool when it opens up and then it's got
5371s	little secondary movements which uh it
5373s	was cam's suggestion to bring in with
5375s	little smaller teeth that come out and
5378s	wiggle around and
5379s	say yeah the sandwich raw is very cool
5382s	but then we also had um
5384s	marcus our creature designer build that
5387s	and
5388s	we had our animation team put in all
5390s	these attack animations and this was
5392s	done over a week
5394s	i think so i thought it was an amazing
5397s	process to get it done
5398s	um
5399s	and yeah we had
5401s	special effects guys bringing in the
5403s	sand and the
5405s	uh the spit and everything and then of
5407s	course the ai and um
5410s	yeah that was that was a really cool
5412s	experience to suddenly pull together
5414s	about
5416s	five different teams to to get it done
5418s	and lots of back and forth and uh
5421s	flexibility and
5422s	it was cool yeah that moment when you
5424s	see it in game for the first time was
5425s	quite cool the thumb with that guy
5428s	it was so different to everything else
5429s	we had and it was our first touch sort
5431s	of alien in them
5433s	scale was awesome when you see that
5435s	thing charged up and you look at it
5436s	you're like okay cool yeah good job yeah
5438s	yeah r.i.p
5440s	yeah i totally was
5443s	sorry i was totally following so many
5445s	streamers waiting for that moment
5447s	because yeah they were like i bet
5449s	there's going to be a cougar here oh
5450s	we're going to have a cougar boss or
5452s	something and then yeah they have that
5454s	pop up during the uh beta test was
5456s	awesome oh man the first time it popped
5458s	up on me scared me yeah
5461s	it still scares me and i mean i've seen
5462s	that thing like 20 times now and i'm
5463s	still terrified like it's probably one
5465s	of the coolest things and i think that
5468s	the way it looks as well the fact that
5470s	it has somewhat earth like
5472s	characteristics but is so alien at the
5474s	same time it almost makes it feel more
5476s	terrifying because you can almost
5478s	understand it but you don't know what it
5480s	is
5481s	yeah and there's quite a back story on
5483s	that too there's um
5485s	so
5486s	uh sean and sean's been working hard to
5488s	develop a
5490s	you've got your cave worms that are
5492s	basically the lava spawn of these things
5494s	and uh
5496s	and i ran into the adolescent cave worms
5498s	yesterday in a stixx mission that i was
5501s	doing and they destroyed me they've been
5504s	amazing they're in the cloud i don't
5506s	know if you guys have seen them but i
5507s	broke into a cave and was wandering
5509s	through and these they're all different
5511s	colors and they all have different
5513s	things they do
5514s	so yeah
5516s	i don't even know that was happening
5518s	yeah
5519s	i still got to get my body
5522s	i guess that's kind of encouraged onto
5523s	another cool area of the map that's been
5525s	quite unique to icarus which is capes
5526s	and they've been obviously incredibly
5528s	popular and i think the fact that all of
5531s	them are so unique and diverse and
5532s	whatnot but also
5534s	the way they've been designed to almost
5536s	have even the audio the layout the
5538s	lighting the colors everything that goes
5540s	into that to make them feel truly like a
5542s	cave versus just necessarily a hole in
5545s	the rock um i guess that kind of speaks
5547s	back to that kind of experience thing
5549s	and played not made was there any kind
5551s	of uh process that went into really
5553s	making case feel like capes versus just
5555s	feeling like another area of the
5559s	map the hard one that could be a
5561s	question for the world builders as well
5563s	i think um
5565s	i think we went into caves no we wanted
5567s	like a a pretty dark day cave that could
5570s	sort of facilitate um some pretty good
5572s	jump scares and some some hectic moments
5575s	yeah
5576s	i can't know what cave it was but it was
5577s	on olympus i remember before you had um
5580s	the light uh light slot on your hip
5583s	running into a cave straight away from a
5585s	animal i think it was a
5587s	polar bear and just falling off a cliff
5589s	um
5590s	that stuff's perfect because like you
5591s	know it's
5592s	a cave will look like a cave i guess but
5594s	the experience you give with like height
5596s	and you know um
5597s	what else is in there is a big part of
5599s	it i think even like some of them being
5601s	underwater you've got a lot of them with
5603s	water in case ice caves the variety on
5606s	them is just so diverse
5608s	yeah i think to be honest i'd love to
5610s	work more with caves i think they're
5611s	really cool yeah yeah
5613s	there's some crazy ones in icarus uh and
5615s	sticks as well
5617s	um behind waterfalls and stuff like that
5619s	yeah
5620s	some massive ones that i've just started
5621s	coming across yeah there's so much
5623s	opportunity to discover them as well and
5625s	i think the fact that we've started
5626s	really developing a variety of them is
5628s	awesome and i know a lot of people like
5630s	there's obviously places um they have
5632s	you can obviously go and find them if
5633s	you don't necessarily want to search
5634s	yourself if that's not your play style
5636s	but for players like myself who are more
5638s	like we want to accidentally stumble
5640s	across things
5642s	like yeah it's awesome to accidentally
5644s	find a cave behind a waterfall like that
5646s	level of experience is just amazing so
5649s	it instantly feels like you're treasure
5650s	hunting it does it does and i think
5652s	that's really really cool and i've
5654s	enjoyed that experience of like you know
5656s	i think that kind of goes for a lot of
5657s	the different things in game is there's
5658s	been a lot of things that have just kind
5660s	of blown me away with um how they look
5662s	and how they've come out
5663s	um which has been a lot of fun
5665s	um and whatnot so yeah i guess honestly
5668s	um the last thing i'd like to ask you
5670s	guys um would be you know
5671s	what i guess are you most excited about
5673s	the sticks personally in terms of um you
5676s	know what you're going to do with it
5677s	like is there an item you've already
5678s	done like is it a care what's something
5680s	you've done you've loved or as an
5682s	overall expansion what's been the
5684s	coolest part of this view what are you
5685s	most looking forward to what have you
5686s	most enjoyed doing
5691s	yeah i've
5693s	we've got some stuff coming so i won't
5696s	give away secrets yeah yeah but yeah
5699s	there's some really cool um
5701s	almost law
5703s	coming in with um
5705s	with things and and a lot of it's still
5707s	got to be aok and work through with
5709s	design but
5711s	it's going to be like olympus as far as
5713s	a evolving map and
5717s	yeah i i had done a few concepts
5722s	as part of the pitch art and we ended up
5724s	with a
5725s	picture of the key of flying over sticks
5727s	but we headed some other concept art and
5729s	i
5730s	had to keep
5731s	um
5732s	putting that to the side because we
5733s	hadn't
5734s	put the thing in that we wanted to show
5736s	off yeah they're just going to mention
5738s	that there that everyone even watching
5740s	um no matt and cam have been all the
5742s	concepts that you guys have seen in
5744s	imagery or in posts or the weekly
5746s	updates or the content that we've had
5747s	for those um you know the hero images
5749s	and whatnot that's been these guys and
5751s	it's been just awesome to work with them
5753s	on that like some of the stuff they've
5754s	made is incredible every week like you
5756s	know we'll give them the most simple
5758s	brief and they'll just go away and make
5759s	a piece of art it's just phenomenal so
5761s	oh if you ever see something cool out of
5763s	there you like we do put a lot of the
5764s	stuff that we make in the brisket so if
5766s	people would like them as wallpapers or
5768s	would like to have them you know print
5769s	them out themselves a lot of stuff is in
5771s	there but make sure you go check these
5772s	guys out as well and i'm not thankful
5774s	for their work or have a look at what
5775s	they've got are you guys on art station
5777s	yourselves
5778s	i linked their art stations at the start
5780s	in the twitch chat brilliant there it
5781s	goes it was just panicking and going
5783s	back to see whether uh whether anything
5785s	in the woods leak is
5787s	coming but i think we're in the clear
5789s	well there you go so make sure you go
5791s	follow follow the art stations and see
5792s	the other stuff they get up to obviously
5793s	not just stuff on that crest but other
5795s	projects because you know it's pretty
5796s	awesome stuff guys and it's been a lot
5797s	of fun working on that stuff with you
5799s	guys and the content has just been
5800s	incredible so um yeah it was awesome to
5803s	hear about the kia as well and i mean
5804s	that image we had for the um you know
5806s	the
5807s	hero art for sticks is just awesome you
5809s	know it makes kias look like just
5811s	incredible wish they are but you made
5813s	them look even more incredible which is
5814s	hard to do
5817s	i feel bad for shooting them right
5820s	yeah kiwis
5821s	the kiwis are going to feel a little bit
5822s	guilty because they're protected here
5823s	but there's too many of them on that
5824s	cross they're not protected
5826s	you can attach them to your hip too and
5828s	they're massive looks like you've got
5829s	wings yeah that's pretty good what was
5831s	that me and you cam joking the other day
5833s	about the fact that doc was gonna come
5834s	and find you he woke up he woke up
5838s	yes if then if you start hunting kids
5841s	and seeing doc after your hunting
5842s	particularly if you've picked up too
5843s	many so be careful out there prospectors
5848s	i guess cam i got back onto you what
5849s	would be i guess you know what have you
5850s	really enjoyed about stacks or what are
5852s	you looking forward to as anything
5853s	particularly just overall just really
5855s	excited for this new kind of expansion
5858s	oh he sees me now
5860s	is this where i die yes that's where you
5862s	die jarrod looking forward to watching
5863s	j-rock get slaughtered and sticks that's
5865s	my highlight
5867s	yeah that that was fast
5869s	yes yeah was that your favorite cam
5872s	that was my favorite dude
5874s	i don't think i'm doing it
5877s	i think he's burying you in snow that's
5879s	not what they do when they like you know
5881s	defecate i thought he was flossing
5884s	dancing the line dancing was going on
5886s	there you said dance on by polaris
5890s	awesome but honestly guys thank you both
5892s	for jumping in you're welcome obviously
5893s	hang out you're not going to jump in a
5894s	plate but um i'm going to jump into a
5896s	quick chat with dylan and have a chat
5897s	about a few things as well but oh am i
5899s	done i have no response
5904s	rips in chat for j-rock mode
5906s	so that there would be a quick end
5909s	that might be the q a over
5912s	we're just staring we're on we're ready
5914s	for right now we're gonna go as long as
5915s	j-robe can live i'm gonna make a coffee
5917s	i'll be right back
5919s	i guess cheers cheers guys
5921s	cheers
5922s	thanks liam no more welcome uh dylan
5924s	i've been here for a little bit so we're
5926s	just going to cover a couple of little
5927s	things uh but majority of stuff will
5929s	obviously do in a more big red ama but
5932s	um i guess first and foremost you've
5934s	been
5935s	you know pretty
5936s	integral part of the community as well
5938s	being something that's gone back and
5939s	forth um one question i wanted to ask
5941s	you was just around um the experimental
5944s	branch and what we've done with that and
5945s	getting that involved and what your
5947s	experience has been like
5949s	developing i guess that kind of
5950s	community team and how much it's meant
5952s	to us so just kind of obviously you know
5954s	talk a little bit about what you're
5955s	doing there would you want to kind of
5956s	cover off what that's meant for us
5959s	um i think uh sean and adam briefly
5960s	touched on the community engagement side
5963s	is something that i think a lot of divs
5965s	really enjoy about game development um
5967s	and it's something that we enjoyed on
5970s	stationers for years just being able to
5973s	let people make the call for themselves
5974s	whether they wanted to trade off on
5977s	stability and stuff to play the newest
5978s	content so that they could you know be
5980s	um get give feedback when stuff's new
5983s	and and test it out like that with the
5985s	with the weekly patch cadence that we've
5987s	been doing um
5988s	it means that you end up putting a lot
5990s	of pressure on testing and stuff to
5993s	sort of test the full scope of the stuff
5995s	going in
5996s	um so that's where like having having
5998s	that same thing in the community is is
6001s	just
6002s	really really useful to everyone but
6004s	because
6005s	some of that content doesn't make it
6007s	into fairly close to patch day it's not
6009s	always possible to um
6011s	have sort of a scheduled thing where we
6013s	have yet another deadline introduced in
6015s	the week to to have everything on like a
6017s	tuesday so that it can go live on
6019s	experimental so we kind of treat it
6020s	fairly ad hoc at the stage and
6022s	look at the state of the build each day
6024s	and if we um if we feel like most of the
6026s	content's in for the week it's just
6028s	waiting on
6029s	the sort of things that come in later
6030s	like voice lines or
6032s	um descriptions of items stuff like that
6034s	where uh
6035s	we'll we'll get things up on
6037s	experimental so people can play it and
6038s	then wait for all the
6040s	um the feedback that comes in and then
6041s	that can just be a nice way but with the
6043s	time zone difference we can sort of get
6044s	that up in the evening here and then by
6046s	the time people turn up at work in the
6048s	morning
6049s	some nice um bugs to work through yeah i
6052s	mean i guess that kind of also speaks to
6053s	um you know having that update on uh
6055s	friday night new zealand time and
6056s	working towards that it's been a cool
6058s	process for me to work on with you guys
6060s	as well as getting that already getting
6061s	patch notes doing the write-outs getting
6063s	it all involved i'll be keen to know
6065s	what's been your favorite weekly update
6068s	what's the one for you that go yeah i
6069s	loved that one that was like my favorite
6071s	do you have one in mind give a couple
6076s	without going and scrolling through the
6078s	list which was my first instinct um
6084s	i've really liked the ones we've finally
6085s	been able to address like some of those
6088s	massive um
6091s	like the highest voted feature upvote
6093s	things you know like when we introduced
6094s	the belt slot and stuff like that it
6096s	doesn't seem like much but because
6098s	when i see something that sits at the
6099s	top of feature upvote for weeks on end
6101s	like that weighs on you as a dev you
6103s	kind of like man i really want to solve
6104s	that thing and and things take time to
6106s	to fix and address so
6108s	it's nice to kind of release the
6110s	pressure velvet when you finally get to
6112s	to stroll out in front of everyone and
6114s	say
6114s	hey that thing all of you have been
6116s	jumping up and down and wanting we we
6117s	did it
6118s	we did it
6119s	yeah no for sure and there's been some
6121s	cool ones on there like personally for
6123s	me it has to be the same one just
6124s	because of how epic it was but i
6126s	remember obviously a big one for us was
6127s	the in-game timer change and that was a
6129s	really obviously a lot of back and forth
6131s	and process put into that um you know
6133s	how what would be i guess
6135s	how how have you felt like that's been
6137s	received have you been happy with how
6138s	that's god are you overall like yeah i'm
6140s	pretty stoked that like we've we've
6141s	managed to make some good changes along
6143s	those weeks that have really contributed
6145s	to the health of game
6148s	one thing that i often find um
6150s	us telling the team is that the
6153s	often the community will present you a
6156s	solution they'll say you need to just do
6158s	this thing because that will solve these
6159s	problems we've got but often because
6161s	they don't always have the full context
6163s	and the full story and why some
6164s	constraints are where they are and stuff
6166s	you kind of need to take a step back and
6168s	say well what's the problem that they're
6170s	really wanting um wanting to address and
6173s	i think that one was just one where we
6175s	found
6176s	we found it wasn't probably the solution
6178s	we wanted it wasn't necessarily the
6179s	solution the community wanted but it was
6180s	a nice it was a nice middle ground where
6183s	it was technically achievable it was it
6184s	was going to cause the minimal
6185s	disruption and um
6188s	and it's just nice to sometimes see
6190s	those those things come out of the
6191s	woodwork where there's just a
6193s	a convenient fix
6195s	yeah
6196s	not for sure
6197s	and i guess obviously you know sticks
6199s	has been a huge undertaking for the team
6201s	a lot of you have a lot of time a lot of
6202s	hours a lot of love's gotten into this
6204s	um you know i was able to get this
6206s	launch out to have all the success and
6208s	whatnot how how what speed the journey
6210s	like for you to have i guess first kind
6212s	of large scale um i guess we call it a
6216s	map and mission back but not an
6217s	expansion but our first large-scale
6219s	update like this like how's that
6221s	experience been for you while also
6223s	maintaining a live service game
6226s	um this one was because it was so
6228s	largely based around the map like our
6231s	sort of week-to-week content updates
6232s	don't have a lot of um
6235s	there's not a lot of
6237s	work for the for the world building team
6239s	specifically to do in those except for
6241s	those occasional fixes remove the bush
6243s	from a rock or you know
6245s	lower a tree that's hovering seven
6247s	meters above the ground
6248s	um but
6250s	they've done a great job working through
6252s	that time getting getting an entirely
6254s	new map done um
6256s	especially as a as a fairly new team um
6259s	that they've managed to pull that
6261s	together and then all the rest of the
6262s	stuff just kind of came nicely around it
6264s	the um the designers really had to pull
6266s	out all the stops to get to get all
6267s	those new missions in but we've been
6269s	doing them for the weekly content
6270s	updates so we kind of knew what that
6271s	process was like
6273s	um everything's always going to be a
6276s	sort of push and pull between
6278s	trying to develop the long form content
6280s	as well as sort of maintain that that
6282s	weekly update cadence that we've been
6284s	doing um
6286s	no i love it
6287s	yeah i guess you know you talk a lot
6289s	about like you know it can be accuracy
6292s	is going what we're i'm getting up to
6293s	and whatnot and how we're bringing it
6295s	forward um and a lot of what has you
6297s	know moved therefore to be talked about
6299s	short about this has been balancing
6301s	obviously our vision for the game with
6302s	the community's amount of feedback and
6304s	getting that kind of in
6306s	um in real-time response and whatnot you
6309s	know how have you found that process of
6311s	not only working with the plan of what
6314s	we wanted to achieve and obviously the
6315s	feedback from internal q8s as before
6317s	launch to now shifting to having this
6319s	almost live service game with a live
6322s	service community testing for us like
6324s	what's that change been like for you and
6326s	how has it helped you know you and the
6328s	game move forward
6331s	um it doesn't necessarily scale in the
6333s	same way that like working on stationery
6336s	was great because it was a nice
6337s	tight-knit community um it certainly
6339s	wasn't the size of the icarus one so
6341s	it's just been it's just been a case of
6344s	you have just you have to delve a bit
6346s	deeper to find the to find the diamonds
6347s	to find the great little pieces of
6349s	feedback because you just don't have
6350s	time to look at everything so
6352s	um
6353s	it's been a lot harder to sort of and
6355s	that's where we we rely on tools like
6357s	that feature upvote page and stuff like
6358s	that we sort of
6359s	rely on the community to sort of help us
6361s	do that filtering um
6363s	you know let the let the most
6365s	significant issues bubble to the top and
6367s	again not necessarily let us just jump
6369s	in and address them straight away but in
6371s	in our normal process of looking for
6374s	um
6375s	achievable things that will will make
6377s	people happy we can you know it's best
6379s	for us to know what is
6381s	what's affecting the most people and
6383s	sort of impacting their joy of the game
6385s	cool i guess a lot of the questions that
6387s	obviously i cover up with you are a bit
6389s	more in depth and detailed so i'll save
6391s	most of them for a reader ama as uh dean
6393s	is mentioning now on the discord jetta
6395s	we'll do a more written out one we will
6396s	cover a lot of these topics with you and
6398s	go through a lot more of the detailed
6399s	stuff but i will kind of finish up with
6401s	one last kind of like fun question which
6403s	um someone sent him which is what is one
6406s	thing about the game so it could be art
6407s	could be a model could be audio could be
6409s	a mechanical whatever so you actually
6411s	think it's really awesome but you feel
6412s	the community might not be aware of or
6415s	might be overlooking a little bit by
6416s	accident it's something that you've kind
6418s	of gone huh i want to see that pic like
6420s	players do that more use that more
6424s	i probably sound like a broken record at
6426s	this point um we're talking at least
6428s	internally to the team but i think
6430s	audio is just so often an overlooked
6433s	thing in games you know it's like if if
6436s	doing their job perfectly you just don't
6438s	notice them you know what i mean it's
6440s	like it's just everything sounds the way
6442s	it should and it's never jarring and i
6444s	just think
6445s	like
6446s	sitting in a house in a storm that's
6448s	made out of a couple of different
6449s	building materials and you're just
6450s	hearing
6451s	everything sound the way it should and
6453s	you just like that is that is amazing um
6455s	yeah so i i yeah i i do see um i already
6458s	see lots of praise for the audio team at
6460s	least internally but i know that a lot
6462s	of people playing the game probably
6464s	don't even think twice about it yeah but
6466s	they should it feels intrinsic to the
6468s	experience but know i've seen how hard
6470s	the team works the effort they put in
6472s	the detail you know some of the some of
6474s	the creative ways they'd be able to
6476s	create the sounds they're after is
6478s	actually pretty amazing and one thing
6479s	today we didn't get a chance was to get
6481s	andy on david chatty was a bit busy but
6483s	i do plan at some point i'm getting a
6484s	chance to have a chat with him about the
6486s	audio for the game so that the community
6488s	can hear a bit about what goes into it
6490s	but yeah i'd agree the audio is just
6492s	it's such an integral part of it and i i
6494s	sometimes
6495s	you know when i'm playing the game i
6497s	sometimes mute everything just to kind
6498s	of see what it's like and it's crazy how
6500s	much the difference in the experience is
6502s	you know i might do it because i want to
6503s	call or something but having it the
6505s	music
6506s	the sound effects everything that goes
6508s	into that and makes it incredible i mean
6510s	hearing the thunder boom in a storm
6512s	let's get this oh no not the thunder the
6514s	thing i was thinking of was the crack of
6516s	a drop ship coming into the atmosphere
6517s	oh yeah yeah that sound like the level
6520s	of like ever that goes into all of that
6522s	but then also just the result it's
6524s	amazing and so i mean the team even
6526s	makes all the music for our trailers and
6527s	things we release so they really are so
6529s	unbelievably talented and i'd agree with
6532s	you it's an easy one to overlook not
6534s	because people aren't appreciating it
6535s	because they're not aware of how much it
6536s	does for the experience
6540s	cool cool we will wrap that one up there
6543s	today um however as dean's been
6545s	mentioning we'll look to do a proper
6547s	reddit written ama at some point so
6549s	which will get a chance to cover off a
6550s	few more of the kind of the in-depth
6552s	more questions with a little bit more
6554s	detail behind them so we can actually
6556s	type up answers for you guys that you
6558s	guys can have a look through uh and read
6560s	on so i would also you know say everyone
6562s	go and have a look at the update blog we
6564s	released the sticks on friday um that
6566s	has in it um a really good section
6568s	dean's written up on answering a lot of
6570s	those kind of core questions we've been
6571s	hearing for weeks at least from his uh
6573s	from the game runner perspective on
6574s	what's coming we'll obviously cover them
6576s	off again with him and some of the other
6577s	team in the ama but have a look through
6580s	that there's some really really good
6581s	answers in there um obviously this
6583s	stream as well will um upload to youtube
6585s	later so people are welcome to re-watch
6588s	um but honestly i'd like to thank you
6589s	all for coming out all for playing
6591s	sticks all for getting involved it's
6593s	been awesome to see we've been really
6594s	really stoked with the feedback and now
6596s	we're really excited for what we're
6598s	going for but here so you know big
6600s	thanks to everyone for coming out the
6601s	stream today bit of things all i guess
6603s	and dylan who's just jumped on here at
6604s	the end to help us wrap up and to j-rod
6606s	and dean for jumping and playing and
6608s	providing our visual entertainment um we
6611s	will tell you when the next chance we
6612s	have to jump a stream up we'll be but
6614s	apart from that get in there play sticks
6616s	keep asking your feedback we'll keep
6618s	working our little butts off to make it
6620s	awesome for you
6621s	and a big thanks to liam for talking for
6623s	the last two hours yes i'm going to get
6625s	a very tasty coffee and i'm going to
6626s	enjoy it immensely but i've loved it
6629s	it's always a lot of fun talking to you
6630s	guys so awesome cheers team we will see
6633s	you again soon
6634s	bye
6641s	[Music]
6668s	[Music]
6693s	you
6695s	[Music]
6750s	you
6755s	[Music]
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6769s	[Music]
6806s	[Music]
6904s	you

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