[2023] Ready or Not - Developer AMA - NDA Discord | Ready or Not Dev Tracker

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1s	we uh we should be live
4s	uh hello everybody and welcome to uh
7s	Jesus second already uh Welcome to our
10s	second developer AMA uh we got
12s	we got our uh we got our staff here and
15s	we actually haven't have a plus one
17s	which is always nice to have uh first
19s	off we have uh Sterling director and CEO
22s	avoid
23s	yo what's up I guess I'd like to
27s	introduce myself and like talk about
28s	what I do
29s	believe it I do okay well I'm uh yeah
34s	that's fine that's um I'm in charge of
36s	the day-to-day operations at void and I
39s	founded the company with
41s	um a couple other guys
42s	um uh Jules SEO and ryro L CTO uh a
46s	while ago and uh we uh yeah I'm you know
50s	the game director as well so in charge
51s	of the vision for the game and stuff
53s	like that working very closely with the
54s	other guys in this Channel and a lot of
56s	other guys in the uh who aren't in this
58s	Channel and um really it's all them it's
60s	all the other guys who make this a lot
62s	of the next you know make reading what
64s	ready night is so uh I really just kind
66s	of sit there and watch everyone do their
68s	their jobs so
71s	everyone else does all the really really
73s	really good work just suppose
76s	all right that's it
79s	all right
80s	um next up next up we got the we got
83s	Steve uh another one of uh one of the
86s	programmers at uh at void and somebody
88s	who is
89s	been an immense help trying to get all
92s	this stuff uh for community events
95s	answers to you guys all that kind of
97s	stuff sorted out
99s	yeah hey old uh Steve or Shady cuts um
102s	so I actually am not a game programmer
105s	originally I did um corporate
107s	development for quite a while and um I
110s	know a few of the people who founded
112s	void and have been asked to come on and
114s	sort of help grow the company and put
116s	some process in and the likes um so
118s	I'm the boring mean one I guess you
121s	could say
122s	um so I've been here what six eight
124s	months now it's been really fun
126s	um when my wife comes in and sees me
128s	playing computer games I tell her I'm
129s	working and she says the war Fortress is
131s	not ready or not I say I'm researching
133s	so
135s	um
135s	there is one benefit there's plenty
138s	benefits it's good I love it here
141s	all right great
143s	next up we have somebody who is uh
146s	who should be recognizable to anybody
148s	who has looked at the game or uh
152s	attended our our first AMA in the public
154s	Discord uh Mark uh the lead environment
156s	artist
158s	hello everyone uh yeah not good to be
160s	back I really enjoy doing these amas and
162s	getting to talk with everyone
163s	um it's really good to sort of like uh
164s	have these kind of brainstorming
166s	sessions and allows us to event a little
168s	bit as well and you know have that kind
170s	of relationship with you guys
171s	um so yeah no like uh as as mentioned
174s	I'm um my sort of day-to-day job is to
177s	look after the environments not only
178s	just leading the team
179s	um but also one of the core content
181s	creators from the environments
182s	themselves I tend to
183s	um you know take a level from block out
185s	stage all the way to final whilst also
187s	managing my team who are working on
189s	other levels I also
191s	um sort of managed the the going-ons
193s	with um the Outsource when it comes to
196s	asset creation
197s	um for the levels specifically and yeah
199s	overall just kind of making sure the
201s	game looks as good as it can and
203s	hopefully running smoothly as well
207s	all right excellent
208s	uh next we have uh Zach uh composer
213s	sound director and uh author of fire
216s	tracks for uh ready or not
219s	it's doing too much honor I know what's
220s	going on everyone uh first of all I
222s	gotta say thanks to everyone for
224s	dropping in like this is this is crazy
225s	seeing over 200 people in here right now
227s	but uh yeah I'm sound leading composer
230s	of the void and believe it or not
232s	um this is actually my first major
234s	project I did some small stuff before uh
236s	mainly with with music so going on to
239s	the sound side is was pretty scary but
242s	again I work with probably the best team
246s	in the world when it comes to just
247s	collaboration and getting things done so
250s	I can't be more thankful for that
253s	um so day to day for me basically going
255s	in getting assets
257s	um getting the technical sound side done
260s	um and just also making sure that the
262s	music is implemented and and making sure
264s	it's all flowing together level the
266s	level and moment to moment and uh of
269s	course it's also a learning process too
271s	just making sure that I'm listening to
273s	feedback and seeing okay so what do
275s	players like what are they not like and
277s	then from there just kind of
278s	making sure the sound gets better and
280s	better and better and and that's that's
282s	pretty much it
285s	excellent
289s	and then we have uh we have the we have
293s	uh Mr Ollie somebody who is uh very much
296s	known to uh the NDA members as he likes
299s	to pop in from from time to time and yet
302s	again in another uh another avoids very
305s	capable team uh program members
308s	uh hey I'm ali um this is my first time
311s	as well
312s	um
313s	among the programmers on the team I
316s	um do a lot of things from AI to
319s	gameplay and um also networking
323s	um so for Co-Op and stuff like that
325s	uh yeah
329s	sure short and sweet isn't bad I was
331s	gonna say yeah Ali like he's being way
333s	too humble right now he like even if the
336s	sound team needs any help Ali is like he
338s	jumps in suggestions yeah like he's he's
341s	all over the map he's crazy so
344s	all righty he's a machine absolute
346s	machine
348s	and then uh last but very much not least
350s	we actually have a plus one from our uh
352s	original itinerary we have a uh Sam one
357s	of the one of the members of the art
358s	teams and probably
360s	uh the producer of some of my favorite
362s	art in the form of all the uh all the
365s	carcosa stuff
368s	hello I'm Sam
370s	um I guess I'm currently in a tornado
372s	right now
374s	um I will lead two togethers
378s	and we do a lot of the concept art
380s	I do it for characters
383s	in some environments I do
386s	some graphic design
388s	in some UI
390s	so
392s	yeah just anything 2D
396s	pretty much my field
399s	okay
401s	so Let's uh let's get this show on the
404s	road with uh starting from right from
407s	the top of the questions Channel
409s	um very very common question ever since
412s	uh the first stages of the alpha and
415s	since
416s	honestly a lot of people's first touch
419s	into Ready or Not what is the current
421s	state of um the PVP being uh being
424s	relaunched into the current version of
426s	the game
428s	no so we haven't really touched the PVP
432s	too much we've played around with it
434s	occasionally for some for fun
436s	there's a few different modes
438s	um that we've played with we actually we
441s	have this mode that we've you know
443s	casually some of the guys will jump in
444s	it uh where it's just literally like a
446s	1v1 oh sorry it's like a free-for-all
449s	kind of thing you just spawn in you just
450s	shoot each other and that kind of gave
452s	us the idea that it's very likely PVP
454s	will be a lot of fun if we get it right
456s	the biggest trick is make sure that it's
458s	an interesting and kind of engaging game
460s	mode something that you can play and not
463s	feel like the old PVP we had kind of
464s	felt like it had no purpose it was kind
467s	of flat a bit and and it was probably
468s	over designed as well and it didn't
471s	really fit like a lot of the levels
472s	didn't really fit the the top the style
475s	of gameplay that our our game was going
477s	for
479s	um so going forwards I think with a PVP
481s	I'm not we're not I'm not going to like
483s	talk about what that could look like
484s	just because it's quite
486s	um
487s	uh you know I'm not if I say one thing
489s	it might end up being something entirely
490s	different but I can say that we have a
492s	few different ways that we're going to
493s	implement PVP
495s	um and one that will come to ready or
496s	not
497s	um at some point and I'm probably not
500s	too far down the track would be
503s	um yeah part of the new station that
505s	we're working on so uh you know right
508s	now we have players who are going in to
510s	the kill house and they're running
513s	around shooting at each other like just
514s	kind of kill each other respawn run down
515s	do it again do it again do it again
518s	um with a new State uh with the new
519s	station which actually I think that may
521s	have just been a bit of information that
522s	now I know about
523s	um with the new the new Lobby level uh
525s	there's going to be a larger kill house
528s	area large killer Zone and there'll be a
530s	dedicated area where you can actually
531s	just you know decide to enter into PvP
533s	with your friends and that'll be our
535s	first like taste because that's
537s	currently what we can do in Ready or Not
538s	Like that's what we've tried and it's a
540s	lot of fun it's really cool like having
541s	a firefight with someone through a wall
543s	you know
544s	um and actually we haven't tried it I
547s	think with like the new Ricochet or the
549s	spawning stuff but um even before all
551s	that it was really sweet having like a
553s	big gun fight and you're like kind of
554s	trying to guess what the other dude is
555s	through the wall
556s	um you can hear them walking and stuff
557s	and you're trying to like Ping him
558s	through that or like breaching a door
560s	throwing Grenada and then just kind of
561s	trying to find the enemy
563s	um it felt really really cool so that'll
565s	be our first foray into it um almost as
568s	like a staged thing this time just like
569s	kind of staging it out going well how do
571s	people like just like a very basic PVP
573s	where they can kind of play around
575s	um in an environment and and whatnot
578s	the station itself the actual the arena
580s	area the the shoot house area
583s	we'll have a bit more of a
585s	um there'll be a bit more to it
587s	but uh yeah so
591s	so expect expect something I would say
594s	definitely this year
596s	and then as for a larger PVP larger
598s	scale PVP which is probably what people
600s	thinking of you know uh
602s	um
603s	we
605s	we're just still kind of talking about
607s	it thinking about it it's not really in
608s	the Forefront of our minds honestly it's
610s	mostly everything's serving Cooperative
612s	in single player right now
614s	um but it will get into that stage where
616s	we're like well you know we could
617s	probably start branching at it to a bit
618s	of PVP because it is it could be a lot
620s	of fun you know
621s	um to kind of have something a bit more
623s	CQB oriented unique
625s	um as soon as we get it right you know
627s	we want to get it right
629s	and on that from a development point of
632s	view we've been making improvements to
634s	the builds and the likes um and one of
636s	those improvements has been to um
638s	generate dedicated Service as a proof of
641s	concept so going back to grunters
644s	timelines um that's something that we do
645s	plan to do from a technical point of
647s	view
648s	yeah
649s	I can actually Branch off into I guess
651s	the voice chat part of this because I
653s	know voice chat is obviously super
654s	important in PvP and uh something that I
658s	like I know that the sound team really
660s	wants to explore is actually having the
662s	voice processed by fmod instead of it
665s	just being through Unreal Engine like
667s	the default stuff so that means that all
669s	the environmental effects that you hear
671s	in the game that's going to be pushed
673s	onto the voice so like your friend's
675s	buying a wall it's going to sell muffled
676s	or they're in like a Reverb tunnel and
678s	it's going to be you know reverberating
680s	through that tunnel so just
682s	um kind of these hand in hand
683s	improvements that'll help push the PVP
686s	immersion along a little bit further
689s	yeah
692s	awesome thanks guys alrighty
695s	um
697s	and then to the second most uh
700s	ask question at least by some of the
702s	people over here you know who the hell
704s	you are
705s	um but when is the uh full HRT rework
709s	coming
710s	so we've done a fair bit of it we still
714s	have to scan the pants and the shirt we
717s	initially were we're working with a team
720s	um I think there are some questions
722s	asked us before the whole
724s	um the war in Ukraine I think
727s	but during that time we were already
728s	working on a scan and then that team
730s	that we were working with
731s	um we actually have not been able to
733s	communicate with them since so uh we
737s	tried to but nothing's come through so
739s	we've had to start that again
742s	um about to start the close again but uh
744s	Mary G Gerard uh has been working really
748s	hard on he's been working on the a lot
749s	of the hard service elements you know
751s	we've got the gpn video teams
753s	um already done which is going to be
755s	really cool uh and a few other elements
757s	as well
759s	um some of the holsters and whatnot and
761s	we've got a a really talented artist a
764s	technical artist actually who has his
765s	own scan studio so he's been going
767s	through getting ready and scanning all
768s	the gear
769s	um and we've just been making sure that
771s	it's kind of authentic it's a lot more
772s	lined up
774s	um with the you know what you'd actually
775s	expect these guys to wear
777s	uh and and that shouldn't be too far off
779s	honestly that's our that's literally the
781s	first thing we're doing we're getting
782s	this out of the way now uh and it
784s	actually branches out into a few other
785s	things we're actually very lucky that
787s	we're doing it now in this fashion
788s	because there are a few other things
790s	that we are
791s	uh looking into and hopefully we're
794s	going to be executing relatively soon
797s	um which will make the HRT uniform a
800s	little bit more I think exciting to
803s	actually have access to you know being
805s	able to pick say different gloves or
808s	different
809s	um or being able to mix and match some
810s	of the clothing options
812s	um things like that would be really cool
814s	it's not going to be too excessive but
815s	you know that that's something that we
817s	would have if we did it previously it
818s	would have probably been a massive
819s	problem for us
820s	but it's coming soon I know that
822s	everyone's waiting very patiently for it
824s	um at least I I think it sounds like
826s	maybe not uh and that's fine too we've
828s	been saying you guys look at that for a
830s	long time
831s	um and the current one isn't really up
833s	to scratch so yeah
836s	well
838s	as there to uh they're too impatient
840s	they just uh won't let anybody live any
843s	any uh anything down so when you say
845s	soon so you better mean soon
847s	well so yeah soon in 20 years no I mean
851s	like I get it it's it's like it's it'll
853s	be the first character thing that comes
855s	out that's not like you know I mean like
858s	as far as police and playable characters
859s	go it'd be the first thing that people
861s	get access to we're not really gonna do
863s	other things first that would be a
864s	massive you know kick in the face I
866s	think all right um and I guess a
868s	tangential question that is related to
870s	that is Will
872s	um
873s	will officer skins always be one and
876s	done skins or will there ever be any
878s	opportunity to modify you know where you
881s	have your patches where you have your
884s	um kit or hell even uh swappable patches
888s	coming back or being a thing
890s	yeah so I don't want to uh like Nikita
892s	the tame in this sense no offense
895s	offense of the king but uh I would say
898s	that we have some plans for it which is
900s	essentially like you know um patches
902s	will
903s	it's we're looking at patches coming
905s	back as well as a few other things too
906s	so
908s	in our kind of exploration into this we
911s	don't want to necessarily go down the
912s	route of like crazy
914s	unrealistic looking characters you know
917s	nothing too crazy in that sense like
919s	nothing too outlandish is probably the
922s	right word for it but we want to look
923s	into something where you can have that
926s	personalization we can kind of give
928s	players a little bit more incentive to
930s	maybe get higher scores get better
932s	scores or even perform certain tasks
935s	um so patches will be an element to that
937s	how they work we don't really know yet
939s	we've talked about it a lot the way yeah
941s	obviously the way it works is you talk
942s	about it then you explore then you
945s	execute and then you you know reevaluate
947s	because sometimes you can't actually
948s	achieve things or it's too expensive you
950s	know all of a sudden you've cut down
951s	your frame rate of [ __ ] though because
952s	you've got to add another song yeah a
953s	lot of iteration exactly it's a lot of
956s	iteration that happens with everything
957s	you know happens with AI for example
959s	um so you know it's yeah pretty common
961s	but one thing we're looking into now is
963s	yeah being able to have different kinds
965s	of patches
966s	we may not see the kind of like internet
969s	URL link patches just because of the
971s	there's a lot of like concerns on our
973s	end of that I'll be the disaster yeah it
976s	could be it could be quite risky but um
978s	we will probably be going along the
980s	route of you know a lot of different
981s	patches that players will have access to
983s	based on what they've um performed in
985s	the game you know like things that they
986s	might be able to achieve
988s	um and then show that off you know
989s	they're really cool patches we don't
990s	just want to like let's say us let's say
992s	you get S rank on meth on like all of
995s	every single meth level so you like kind
996s	of aced it
998s	um we would just give you a patch I said
999s	method that would be lame but having
1001s	like really well designed nice
1002s	embroidered looking patches and then
1004s	being able to have it players get access
1005s	to that and then choose where on their
1008s	unless shoulder right shoulder head you
1010s	know like a helmet that could be really
1012s	cool for us I think and really exciting
1013s	if we were to go down that route
1015s	um and there's a few other things as
1017s	well in that regard
1018s	um just tattoos and things like that
1020s	other personalization options uh that
1023s	we're looking into
1024s	and ideally we get we're looking into
1027s	getting that done relatively soon but uh
1030s	it is more of an aesthetic thing but I
1031s	think that's a good way of like we've
1033s	talked about this a lot and a lot of
1034s	people on the team you know they they
1035s	feel and I know a lot of community
1037s	approach feels the same way it's like
1038s	you need that hook kind of like but like
1039s	how do we keep how do you keep people
1041s	like enjoying the game and engage in the
1043s	game sometimes just finishing a mission
1044s	nowadays isn't really enough sometimes
1046s	it's good to have other things the idea
1048s	to like have you know your guide showing
1050s	off like maybe some specific gloves you
1052s	have and tattoo you have like with these
1053s	rolled sleeves and you have like some
1055s	patches from some very specific tasks
1057s	you perform could be really cool so
1059s	that's what we're looking at that's our
1060s	goal it's um so it's not necessarily
1064s	something we're going like we need to
1065s	just see how that feels first how it
1066s	goes because it could be
1068s	you know could be a lot so sort of like
1070s	a a trophy system where if you achieve
1073s	this feat you get you know a patch you
1075s	get some gloves you get you know some
1078s	something small but something enough to
1079s	make you stand out to you know other
1081s	players
1082s	pretty much yeah look I mean our game is
1084s	honestly mostly first I mean it is a
1086s	first person game so having you know
1088s	most of your screen covered with these
1089s	custom things is cool the patches being
1091s	the only thing that you won't see
1092s	necessarily but yeah that would be one
1095s	thing that we might be looking into
1097s	um and just seeing how that feels
1098s	alrighty
1100s	yeah lots of Juicy information for that
1103s	one question uh some people be quite
1105s	happy
1106s	um
1108s	all right scrolling down our uh
1111s	what's going on a question chat uh
1114s	there's another question coming from uh
1117s	one of our uh one one of our map modders
1120s	who's frankly
1122s	doing badass work
1124s	um
1125s	is there a uh rough ETA on a full good
1129s	and proper NBA sorry wow NBA SDK
1133s	that's the word that's the letter
1134s	combination I'm looking for luckily no
1137s	more no more NDA luckily yeah
1139s	I I can answer that one um so we've been
1142s	making a lot of improvements to the game
1144s	itself around uh modding support
1146s	internally
1147s	um so one thing that we'll be shipping
1149s	early this year is the safe mode
1151s	um and loading just really or not picks
1153s	to get around some of the loading issues
1155s	and help help people with it and then
1157s	after that we'll be looking at building
1160s	um the SDK with help from the community
1162s	on on methods and and functional
1165s	functionality that I'd like to see uh in
1168s	this SDK because one of the challenges
1170s	we ran into is uh unreal pack support
1173s	doesn't allow you to load
1175s	overwrite content at runtime so we
1178s	really need to extend our our mod
1181s	loading to do it at runtime so you know
1183s	find all maps and in the back file find
1186s	all weapons and the pec file and extend
1188s	our internal data tables
1190s	so hopefully I'll be taking on that um
1193s	this you know quarter I guess so um I'll
1197s	be looking for some support from the
1198s	community there
1200s	but as with a date when we'll have a
1203s	fully fledged SDK uh soon I guess can't
1206s	say win just but I will be working on it
1209s	but for us it's something that we oh
1211s	guys you go ahead you're good it's all
1214s	good oh no no after you I insist we
1222s	um we just added uh kind of simplified
1224s	uh sound modding support so this is very
1227s	this is it's pretty Bare Bones but with
1230s	that being said
1231s	um it lets you place custom sounds and
1233s	put in custom music
1235s	um there's a few kavits or caveats I I
1238s	don't know how to say the word but I've
1240s	got a I've got a um a dock that I'm
1243s	typing up right now and I'm gonna
1244s	include it in The Unofficial modding
1246s	guide and that's that's a Quantum nuke
1249s	project and he's actually a newer member
1250s	of our team and he's awesome dude you
1253s	gotta gotta ask that guy more questions
1254s	because he like he knows all this stuff
1256s	just off the top of his head but um yeah
1259s	ideally in the future we're going to
1260s	have much more in-depth support so
1262s	that's like you don't need fmod right
1264s	now to mod but in the future we want to
1267s	have it so that you can crack openfmod
1269s	and have all these crazy parameter
1271s	changes and just do stuff how you
1274s	envision it rather than with this kind
1276s	of restrictive way that we have now
1279s	yeah he's watching us right now by the
1282s	way I see him yeah just gonna shout out
1283s	to Quantum nuke who was a modder whom we
1286s	hired as well uh late last year mid to
1288s	late last year doing a great job this is
1291s	the king did I work anything
1293s	okay
1295s	okay
1298s	so we'll we'll be getting uh getting
1301s	those modders all tools we need we've uh
1304s	thanks to you guys and uh both the
1306s	modders I've been able to uh kind of
1309s	pass off exactly what they're looking
1310s	for and get you know bits and pieces to
1312s	help them do what they need but having a
1314s	good and proper SDK will be
1317s	a massive Boon to everyone
1321s	yeah so if we can get a few of the key
1323s	modders who are Keen to help and um I
1326s	guess um help with the direction of that
1329s	sort of stuff by all means let's do that
1331s	they're they're chopping at the bit I
1333s	can tell you that much so we've got 239
1336s	of them 238 I must have offended someone
1339s	37 look it's gone down
1343s	um
1344s	that's
1346s	um that is a big thing for us I just
1347s	wanted to tack on there it's like you
1349s	know the very robust mod support is
1350s	going to be really cool I even saw that
1352s	I saw this recently I think it was a
1353s	couple days ago someone dropped that uh
1356s	Ragdoll return ragdoll's return or
1358s	something um which looks really cool
1359s	things like that
1361s	being able to introduce mods like that
1362s	you know I really really like seeing
1364s	that kind of stuff I think there's
1365s	another mod out there
1367s	um I saw I think it was gunfighter mod
1369s	which was even just moving around the uh
1372s	it wasn't just before the view model
1373s	there's a almost a total gameplay of a
1375s	whole um from someone who you know
1377s	they're like oh I like it like this I
1378s	like this specific kind of gameplay
1381s	um those kinds of mods are really cool
1383s	because
1384s	you want to be able to have that access
1387s	you know from the community if someone
1388s	says oh I really like I like reading I
1390s	like how it feels but I really want to
1392s	be able to get in more firefights or
1394s	even something as simple as I don't
1395s	really like what the view model is on
1396s	this screen having that kind of depth in
1398s	customization model and modification is
1400s	is really cool and it brings me back to
1403s	the old days of like modding where you
1405s	really could change a lot of things you
1406s	could play around with a lot of
1407s	different variables and get kind of
1409s	Cadier and experience if you really
1411s	wanted to and you start seeing these mod
1413s	packs kind of arise as a result which is
1415s	super super cool you know wait we're
1417s	making reading on how we want to see
1418s	ready or not if there's really someone
1420s	out there who's like yeah I want to see
1422s	this I want to see that you know like oh
1423s	you know we release the SDK and
1425s	someone's like oh yeah they've still got
1426s	the animations for sprinting let's say
1427s	and um you know oh they've still got all
1430s	the code it's just commented out boom
1432s	I'm going to write that I'm going to add
1433s	this in or it's a I mean I don't think
1436s	they're going to give source source
1437s	source code access I'm not Taylor sure
1438s	but those kinds of things
1441s	um I think it's really cool to see and
1444s	and I don't honestly that's definitely
1446s	where like the end point for modding in
1448s	my opinion that'd be really cool for
1449s	where it goes but even as a baseline
1451s	just maps and weapons and um even like
1454s	yeah gameplay overhauls are really cool
1456s	and ai2 is considering how our AI is now
1458s	written uh Ali's made it very easy for
1461s	people to kind of write new behaviors
1462s	yeah it's all in assets and uh
1464s	blueprints that can be extended
1466s	um yeah yeah yeah I just need to find a
1469s	way to um
1470s	like um
1472s	a modest to like modify that
1476s	um so yeah
1477s	yeah yeah like we're rolling back to
1480s	something you had said earlier uh
1482s	designing a game that you want to see
1485s	rather than what you think the community
1486s	wants to see really is at least in my
1489s	opinion the way to do it because that
1490s	way you
1492s	create a a more robust more cohesive
1495s	sort of experience rather than kind of
1497s	bouncing around all over the place
1499s	yeah I mean it's it's good to have a
1501s	finger in the wind with the community
1502s	it's like how things are going you
1503s	really sounding like ah sucks you gotta
1505s	[ __ ] all right that's not a good idea
1506s	then we need to go back to the drawing
1507s	board but uh when it comes to yeah I
1510s	mean look I wanted to make
1512s	um this game since I was like yeah 16.
1515s	and we have this we're so um I mean
1517s	we're all very grateful for this
1518s	opportunity but I'll speak for myself
1519s	I'm very very grateful for this
1521s	opportunity to even be able to do this
1522s	that um you know I don't necessarily
1526s	want to capitulate and be like oh well
1527s	we're just going to make what everyone
1528s	wants to see because it's impossible you
1530s	can't please that many people it's not
1532s	feasible so yeah you make the game you
1533s	want to make but giving people the tools
1535s	to make what they want to make is is
1537s	it's second to none if anything that's
1539s	that's like that's even it's even better
1541s	you know some people will be better devs
1543s	than you know like from what their goals
1545s	are like if your goal is to make like
1548s	uh a zombie mod let's say you may be a
1551s	better
1552s	creator of that like you may be a better
1554s	developer in that sphere than we would
1556s	be if we try to do it like that is
1558s	absolutely entirely possible and that's
1559s	why modding is so cool and what's why
1561s	that's why we hire a lot of modders
1562s	because there is that
1565s	um they're so passionate and they're
1567s	also really really talented and you go
1569s	well if you're interested love to
1571s	collaborate more together because that
1573s	is just like it's the icing on the cake
1574s	that's like where the it's the it's the
1577s	creative juncture that you want to
1579s	achieve
1580s	um with your community I think and you
1582s	can't have that without modding so yeah
1583s	no that's um yeah that's the end of my
1586s	answer to that yeah but I hate to say
1588s	crafting and ready or not stealing yeah
1591s	absolutely you're going to start
1592s	crafting on shifts
1594s	um
1595s	loot cabinets and crashes
1598s	yeah
1601s	to kind of build on top of that as well
1602s	sorry for interrupting guys um just to
1604s	kind of build on what stolen was saying
1605s	as well I think we're in a like a really
1608s	interesting sort of position as well as
1610s	developers where you know just as a
1612s	working example like some of the past
1613s	games I've worked on and stuff like that
1615s	you don't have this kind of feedback
1617s	with the people playing your game until
1619s	it goes out the door and then by that
1621s	point it's really too late to kind of do
1623s	anything but what an awesome opportunity
1625s	is to be not only making it in like but
1628s	getting real-time feedback as we're
1630s	doing it so it's not even a case of like
1633s	like it's with of course we're making
1636s	the game we want to make but it's it's
1638s	great to be learning as well as we're
1641s	making this game and I'm sure like like
1643s	you know the community can kind of see
1644s	this as we're going as well like the
1645s	game's only getting better and I think a
1647s	lot of that is to do with with the
1649s	feedback that we're getting almost on a
1651s	daily basis from the the community
1653s	actively playing it and we're reading it
1656s	we're seeing it with you know we're
1658s	we're adapting to make the best game we
1661s	can effectively
1662s	yeah for sure a thousand percent and
1665s	watch it's it's like watching uh
1667s	playthroughs of people playing the game
1669s	too where it's kind of like you know
1671s	you're working on something actively but
1673s	there's someone playing the last
1674s	iteration and uh like I could speak on
1677s	the sound side just like you know
1679s	there's like a bug that you missed and
1680s	some maybe they didn't even notice it
1682s	but you just noticed as they're playing
1683s	it you catch something you're like oh
1685s	[ __ ] I gotta go in and like fix that up
1687s	so like that's we're thankful because
1689s	you guys are catching all this stuff and
1691s	you're also giving us the feedback ASAP
1693s	like this works this doesn't work uh so
1696s	yeah I'm kind of echoing what everyone
1698s	else is saying right now but I
1699s	completely agree
1701s	awesome can I just add uh one other
1703s	thing on the modding by the way Kaminsky
1704s	oh you're good
1706s	yeah so I'm just saying quite a lot of
1708s	questions and coming around uh mod IO
1710s	and Steam Workshop and the likes
1713s	um so my IO is what we're using in the
1715s	UI right now
1717s	um we don't have any plans to actively
1718s	not use anything else
1720s	um however before we go and look into
1722s	that I want to make sure we want to make
1725s	sure that really or not supports mods in
1728s	the way that we've already talked about
1729s	so once we get the SDK worked out then
1732s	we can go back and revisit the other mod
1734s	platforms available but by no means are
1736s	we saying no to anything or yes to
1739s	anything
1739s	yeah we're not locked in anything either
1741s	so
1742s	I guess I guess since you brought it up
1744s	then
1745s	um
1745s	uh the uh question that came up a lot at
1749s	the Advent of mod IO is why one over the
1753s	other especially if you were planning on
1755s	doing Workshop uh from the get-go or at
1758s	least saying these are going to be doing
1759s	workshops and they get go
1761s	uh so the mod I know guys are from
1763s	Australia
1765s	that's probably it I guess
1768s	the goal with Modio initially was to so
1772s	if someone went out of their way and
1774s	made a
1775s	I don't know like a Grand Theft Auto
1777s	style Ready or Not mod with careers and
1780s	money generating and whatnot
1782s	um then with Modio they can monetize
1785s	that mod and and we can it's a way we
1788s	can support the community with their
1789s	mods especially for people who take a
1791s	lot of time
1792s	um to do this sort of stuff and then
1794s	they can share that money with the
1795s	assets or the people that I've worked
1797s	with to make that mod uh successful
1799s	which is something you can't necessarily
1801s	do in other areas so we were really
1803s	looking at that
1805s	um
1806s	yeah I mean to be fair if you think
1808s	about modding from like holistically
1810s	it's just loading Peg files into the
1812s	game we need an easy way to do that
1814s	um so we've used Modio I think that
1817s	decision was actually made before I
1818s	joined
1819s	um for now
1820s	well this is just really convenient it's
1822s	just right in the game right in the menu
1823s	just press a button and uh just
1826s	automatic downloads for sure and the big
1829s	thing for us like to pick you up but to
1831s	piggyback off what Steve said having
1834s	um the ability for modders to monetize
1836s	the stuff it's not like the Skyrim style
1838s	like oh yeah now you must pay like we
1840s	can basically go oh well you can let's
1843s	take a like a Kofi you guys if anyone as
1845s	that is it's like the the kind of like
1847s	you buy something oh you donate some
1848s	money yeah it's a good donations like
1849s	you can do that you can do it in a lot
1851s	of other ways you can actually run
1853s	um campaigns too to be like oh well we
1855s	got this competition like come and run
1856s	this come do this come do this and it's
1857s	all within the the monitor kind of like
1859s	system itself
1861s	um and that was really exciting to us
1862s	when we jumped in uh and yeah we talked
1865s	to our workshop and um again it's not
1867s	off the it's really not off the table
1868s	but for us Workshop has always been
1870s	something we're like well we need to
1871s	finish what really not is let's say
1873s	hypothetically just for you guys
1875s	um
1876s	hypothetically we released Steam
1878s	Workshop
1880s	um
1880s	instead of what I like now
1883s	and then what you've done is like and
1885s	that was when we released that the AI
1887s	was the different an entirely different
1889s	system
1890s	um I feel like steam worship has a very
1892s	large reach everyone's going oh sweet
1894s	load in downloads the mods let's go
1896s	let's get this let's get that
1898s	um
1898s	what we noticed was when we released a
1900s	new update actually a lot of mods ended
1902s	up breaking the AI system the new one
1904s	that we had because it's almost a
1905s	completely different system a lot of the
1906s	randomized values that we have in the AI
1908s	data table aren't used anymore
1909s	um for example a lot of them are now
1911s	because the AI score stuff we can get
1913s	into that later if there's any questions
1914s	about the AI but
1916s	um it's a different system and I'm not
1919s	saying this is why we did it but it is a
1921s	reason why Steam Workshop would have
1922s	been introduced later is because or will
1924s	be interested is because the
1927s	um there's a I feel like there's a very
1929s	large ridge with that with Steam
1931s	Workshop and you could potentially be
1933s	breaking even more stuff um just that we
1935s	wouldn't even be aware of and we really
1939s	want to make sure that there is a solid
1941s	SDK
1942s	um at the end of our release and our
1944s	plan was always to be like okay well the
1945s	workshop we're going to release that uh
1947s	you know with a big SDK and make sure
1949s	it's like finished so we're not like
1950s	updating the core gameplay framework
1953s	um obviously releasing model either way
1956s	for us it's like well you know we're
1957s	early you know we're still working on
1959s	the game so let's experiment with some
1961s	alternative routes and um they've been
1964s	you know it's been very easy to work
1965s	with them uh and and can't work with the
1967s	systems and we've seen a few other games
1969s	that have used their systems that have
1970s	done well and obviously the community's
1972s	highlighted a few games that have used
1973s	the systems and not done well
1975s	um but that doesn't necessarily you know
1977s	correlation doesn't equal causation
1978s	noise so who's who's to say sometimes as
1981s	well as the other way around sometimes
1982s	it's not necessarily just because the
1983s	model is successful it's just because
1984s	the game has got the certain mod
1986s	framework that it has
1988s	um so we're just experimenting guys you
1990s	know like it's just kind of what we're
1991s	doing right now but it's like Steve said
1993s	we're not locked into anything
1995s	um we want to get the SDK out and we
1997s	want to finish and not touch ready and
1999s	not base we really don't want to touch
2000s	reading our base first and then we can
2002s	kind of look at how everything feels
2004s	because that's the big thing for us
2005s	right is getting into that final stage
2007s	and locking that in then you know
2009s	because we're always we're very flexible
2011s	right now everything's kind of you know
2013s	it's it's it's super flexible right now
2016s	and I guess uh this uh talking about all
2019s	the technical stuff makes it excellent
2020s	Headway to uh quite a few questions that
2023s	we're we're getting in the question chat
2024s	as far as
2026s	um like uh more comprehensive options
2029s	for Server hosting uh server browser
2033s	more options for
2035s	um like a server hosts stuff like that
2039s	are we going to be seeing any more of
2040s	that
2041s	um either before 1.0 or after 1.0
2045s	yes
2047s	yes
2053s	like I said earlier um with the changes
2056s	to the build we have been
2057s	um working on building a dedicated
2059s	server and the likes and getting that
2060s	into our pipeline so yes it will be the
2062s	ability to host service yourself at
2064s	least right now that's the plan unless
2067s	something goes drastically wrong I don't
2068s	have a time frame for it it was actually
2070s	a pet project of someone internally um
2073s	in the spare time to go and figure out
2074s	how to do all this that we've got some
2076s	stuff lying around there we'll see what
2079s	Sterling says in terms of priorities
2081s	it's on to you
2083s	oh no the water right now no no no
2087s	I'm not being beholden at 241 people uh
2091s	no that's um yeah look I think when it
2094s	comes to those like especially dedicated
2095s	servers um or server browsers it's it's
2097s	going to be something that we get in and
2099s	I imagine soon ish I keep saying soon I
2102s	gotta stop saying that word
2104s	but it'll happen soon can mean anything
2106s	from next patch to next year I know
2108s	that's the problem it's so it's so
2110s	ingenious to be like oh you know ah we
2112s	gotta soon
2113s	um but no it's it is something that we
2114s	want to do and we've been pretty much
2116s	being like yeah we need to get server
2117s	browser and we need to get a server
2118s	browser a lot of people are host their
2120s	own Services is critical
2122s	um you know being able to like you know
2125s	especially when it comes to modding I
2126s	think as well you know yeah uh so so
2129s	yeah it is something that's on the
2130s	Forefront of our mind and yeah something
2132s	we could probably need to plot out a
2134s	little bit better but it is planned yeah
2136s	and uh one thing too oh sorry go on
2138s	there you go you go yeah I'm saying
2141s	unfortunately uh I I can kind of see it
2143s	from your point of view when it's like
2144s	okay do we fix uh do we fix the AI
2149s	in these situations that are
2151s	surprisingly common running face first
2153s	into a wall or do we add a server
2155s	browser it's like
2157s	um exactly
2159s	depending on who's welcome because we're
2160s	not a very loud we're not a massive team
2162s	yeah so that's exactly what I was going
2164s	to say the the programming team like the
2166s	people who do code behind the scenes is
2168s	about four and a half people because I
2170s	don't really count as a full person
2172s	we're only a really really small team
2175s	um so trying to find what's the most
2178s	important thing to do is is difficult so
2180s	if we think about ready or not as a game
2182s	it really and we went from zero to a
2185s	hundred overnight uh last year when it
2187s	was released and so yeah we we're still
2190s	playing catch-up in some ways um it's
2193s	good zero to 100 you mean like
2196s	what do you mean no when we released
2198s	overnight last you know uh to steam last
2200s	year you know we we went
2202s	it just went nuts no one could have
2205s	anticipated how big it got and and how
2207s	fast Iran has exploded it's honestly
2211s	been kind of absurd
2217s	how I put it and how I told people it's
2219s	three guys in a basement
2221s	uh you're sitting at number one on Steam
2223s	for a while right that's really what
2225s	we're trying to deal with we're trying
2226s	to build us into is this large company
2228s	where you compete with the Triple A's
2230s	with the budget of three guys in a bus
2232s	basement but that's where we were when
2235s	we started
2237s	sorry I'm sure you don't live in the
2239s	basement no I still do growth is uh
2243s	I don't mind it here you know mummy
2245s	brings me food it's great
2251s	I'm not being sarcastic again no so
2253s	there is there is that element to it I
2256s	think where you do want
2259s	um you kind of like
2262s	you want to grow really fast
2264s	and for anyone here who's like looking
2266s	at starting a business is like in the or
2268s	has a business that they've been working
2269s	on
2270s	um that is the thing you know you oh
2271s	growth growth I want to have 100
2273s	employees I don't have 200 employees
2274s	there's a lot that goes into that um the
2276s	more people you have doesn't necessarily
2277s	just make it better you can't just hire
2279s	a hunt like you can't hire 10
2280s	programmers and it just works it's not
2282s	how it works you have multiple aspects
2284s	that you have to consider if you
2285s	consider but the code debt you have to
2287s	consider the um the uh the cost of
2290s	actually bringing them up to speed
2291s	getting used to the team do they work
2293s	well with the team does that it
2295s	literally takes like one month at least
2297s	to just familiarize yourself with the
2299s	code and all that and then you've got to
2301s	make sure you go to vet them and you've
2302s	got to vet them before you even hire
2303s	them you're going to meet with them a
2304s	couple times there's a lot of steps
2305s	involved because and also programming
2307s	programs are not cheap so you need to
2309s	make sure you pick the right people
2311s	um and then there is the element of uh
2314s	you know manage and so that's just the
2316s	program it's then you've got to manage
2317s	that so you need and you go might go
2319s	well we have 10 programmers they'll just
2320s	do tasks we give them no are you going
2322s	to know you've got to make sure their
2323s	tasks are being tracked that being
2325s	managed effectively there is the right
2327s	middle middle Management's the wrong
2329s	word but there's the right management
2330s	that is in charge of that because you
2332s	can only manage so many people before
2333s	you actually uh kind of overextend and
2336s	that's how it does that's just how it
2337s	works we've done really well I think
2339s	kind of like promoting people into
2340s	positions where like they've shown
2342s	excellence in and they're like they're
2343s	actually really talented at managing
2345s	people to Spain by their nature
2347s	um or they just want to some people like
2349s	are good at it but they just don't want
2351s	to do it
2352s	um and we've allowed them to almost like
2354s	become leadership figures uh and and I
2358s	think that's something where it goes
2360s	okay great that's a really good way of
2362s	kind of Bridging the Gap
2364s	um but at some point you and all of a
2365s	sudden you're no longer hiring
2366s	programmers you're hiring uh you know
2368s	um maybe like a specific producer role
2370s	that Shanghai that works with programs
2371s	or you're hiring someone who's in charge
2373s	of like a lead producer and then like a
2375s	bunch of other ones and it just kind of
2376s	starts to balloon out yeah um on top of
2379s	the fact that in with Early Access
2382s	software it's not like bringing somebody
2384s	onto something that's
2386s	um to an established project there's not
2389s	a uh a Bible of okay here's what
2391s	everything does study this okay now
2393s	start working on it
2395s	yeah exactly and it's like oh we have a
2397s	relation and and on top of all that we
2398s	have a release in like a week you know
2400s	what I mean like that's then all of a
2401s	sudden it's not it's not we don't have a
2403s	release in a week by the way I'm still
2406s	working up please say that yeah
2408s	um but yeah that's the uh that's that's
2411s	the short of it I think I forgot what
2413s	the original question was I ramble a lot
2417s	what was the original question
2419s	that's the scale thing right we started
2422s	with yeah with the SDK
2424s	talking about development what's what's
2427s	the most important thing but when you've
2429s	got more than three people working
2431s	together it does get a lot harder from a
2433s	communication point of view and it's
2435s	important to note that we're fully
2437s	remote and around the globe for example
2440s	uh Mr 3DS over in UK I'm a New Zealand
2443s	you know we're um those are the opposite
2445s	time zones yet we still manage to
2447s	deliver this game and some of us haven't
2450s	even met each other
2451s	Steve being the Mad lad crawling himself
2454s	out of bed at eight in the morning on
2455s	his side 1 p.m my side and we're
2458s	squeezing out a release in what 15
2460s	minutes getting all of our stuff done
2462s	oh before the morning and that's why the
2465s	release times are what they are because
2466s	I do the releases in New Zealand
2470s	yeah but it's really cool but it does
2474s	bring some interesting challenges around
2476s	how do we handle the scale
2478s	um yeah it's again it's not three people
2480s	just talking in a room anymore or on on
2482s	Discord it's 40 to 50 people yeah no
2485s	it's true like I've been in teams of
2488s	kind of like 20 environment artists in
2490s	the past and one thing I can say is like
2492s	the way that we're working it's kind of
2494s	incredible in a way that like I never
2497s	thought it would work but it's one of
2500s	those things where I would rather and I
2503s	mean no pun with this but I would rather
2504s	have a SWAT team of a few people that I
2506s	know that I can give the job to and
2509s	we've got the communication there and
2510s	they're passionate I think the passion
2512s	really is like a massive factor in this
2514s	like everyone who's making Ready or Not
2516s	wants to make ready or not so like we've
2520s	we've had it in the past where we've
2521s	expanded our team and you know we've
2523s	we've not necessarily got the people
2524s	who've got that passion there and it
2526s	shows and you know we have such a big
2528s	trust
2530s	um within our company kind of ethics and
2532s	how we work with each other like we
2533s	trust each other not only to get the job
2535s	done but uh you know to have those
2538s	Communications and to talk with people
2539s	and make sure that like you're that
2542s	we're always striving for the next best
2544s	thing rather than just kind of doing
2545s	what we're being told
2547s	um so yeah like I would rather take a
2549s	smaller SWAT team of people than an army
2552s	any day like our output is incredible
2554s	compared to like some of the teams that
2556s	I've worked with in the past
2557s	um and yeah it's one of those things
2559s	where exactly what you're saying more
2561s	people does not necessarily mean more
2564s	content or more quality it it if
2566s	anything it becomes just more waste of
2568s	time as you're trying to Corral all of
2570s	that to get the final product exactly
2573s	yeah yeah very awesome
2577s	all right and then we can take a little
2578s	bit of a break from all the uh all the
2580s	really technical heartfelt stuff and um
2583s	ask if uh you guys actually have
2586s	anything bracketed for
2589s	um kind of like SWAT four style single
2591s	player scenarios campaigns
2594s	yeah
2595s	I want to share the juice but I I really
2600s	do should I got any more any more juicy
2604s	uh ml lower for us
2607s	oh yeah for sure in fact you get to
2609s	Richland you probably get a bit of that
2610s	but I'm not gonna say anything else
2612s	about that so look um
2614s	uh the
2617s	so the way that we're looking at the
2619s	campaign this question come up I had a
2621s	dream about it uh the way that we're
2624s	looking at the the way the single player
2626s	is going to work isn't the typical swap
2628s	for like oh play this level then you
2631s	unlock the night vision and then you
2632s	continue the next level and you get it
2635s	um mostly because the way that we're
2637s	going to release run the future is you
2638s	know continue to expand the um
2642s	uh lithuanas world you know like we
2646s	really want to expand this city and like
2648s	think like Payday 2 how you just at the
2649s	end of that that game I don't even know
2651s	they might still be making
2654s	um I don't think they're still making
2655s	levels for it but whatever by the time
2656s	that was done their production was done
2658s	um they had a shitload of levels that
2660s	you just play it was awesome
2662s	um we want to have that and also plus
2664s	Community Maps as well which is really
2666s	cool
2668s	um we want to be able to have that and
2669s	then have a
2671s	an in a sense a narrative that allows
2673s	the player to kind of like experience
2675s	this in a way that's very engaging so
2677s	the way that we're looking at it is
2681s	um we're calling it uh less Thanos
2684s	Commander
2685s	um and it's a little bit more of an
2687s	active world that you are kind of
2689s	managing and then uh it's it's a lot
2692s	more it's kind of permadeathy I'll leave
2695s	it there just because again it's it's
2696s	very similar to the customization these
2698s	are the two things that were experience
2699s	so personalization these are the two
2701s	things it was actually there are three
2703s	things I don't say a third one there are
2704s	two things that were experimenting with
2705s	just to see how they feel
2707s	um this is something that I think would
2708s	be really exciting if we get it right
2710s	um it would probably become something
2712s	that I would hope you know that's
2715s	something that really
2716s	cement's original is an incredible
2718s	unique game
2720s	um far beyond its its peers as as cool
2722s	as some of these other games out there
2724s	are and they've got their own you know
2725s	drawers
2727s	um but in this in this realm I think it
2728s	would be something that was really
2729s	unique um and also
2732s	uh what's the right word for it
2735s	um like
2737s	contextually it makes sense yeah the
2739s	world that that radar setting isn't
2741s	meant to be like a nice place and it's
2742s	meant to be quite even the even the fact
2745s	you're not you're not doing all the
2746s	missions you know your character isn't
2749s	doing all the missions there are other
2750s	SWAT teams out there putting out other
2751s	fires so to speak
2753s	um and even some of your guys might go
2755s	and do some of that too some of you guys
2757s	might be you know uh part-time officers
2760s	you know you have a full-time sport team
2761s	but there might be some part-time
2762s	officers in there
2763s	um you know and maybe while you're
2766s	playing things kind of happen to you in
2769s	the
2770s	um well it's your team in the world you
2772s	know every week get a Roundup and you
2775s	know maybe uh one of your part-time
2777s	officers was on a patrol lost his call
2780s	um you know broke some kid's arm you
2782s	know did something like that and now
2784s	he's been suspended he can't use him for
2785s	the next mission things like that that's
2787s	where we'd like to explore it and um
2789s	still tell a story but it's a story that
2792s	continues to always like it continues to
2794s	grow until itself and then you know
2795s	that's that's where we'd like to go with
2797s	it
2798s	um but again I'm getting very nervous to
2800s	almost
2801s	if it doesn't work we may not release it
2803s	just keep that in mind guys just like if
2805s	it doesn't work like we'll probably like
2808s	I'll probably we'll have another q a
2809s	I'll be like we tried it it sounds cool
2811s	babe it's not cool in gameplay but uh
2813s	Los Windows Commander would be something
2815s	where we really you know it really it
2817s	changes the the single player itself
2819s	isn't just like cult with Bots it's
2821s	actually its own thing you know the the
2823s	the station is you know breathing it's
2826s	it's it's a different kind of
2828s	environment and you have to make
2830s	decisions in game and before you load up
2835s	um that really affect you you know the
2837s	uh you know future missions or affect
2839s	your team you know that's kind of where
2842s	we want to go with it or where I'd like
2843s	to go with it that sounds cool as hell
2845s	yeah I mean I could go on all day about
2848s	like we have this like you know we've
2849s	got this document written up we've got
2850s	all these plans now that um kind of
2852s	stick they kind of hinge on the SWAT Ai
2854s	and a few other things
2855s	um a few other you know gameplay
2857s	elements but yeah yeah it should be
2859s	really cool and it also it's all look
2861s	the whole game
2862s	to now has been almost created with this
2865s	in mind like it has been it's not just
2868s	something we've gone oh look at it now
2869s	no this has been something that all the
2871s	all the modes the mission types that
2873s	wasn't a thing until this mode was kind
2874s	of this idea was kind of formulated
2876s	you've got your
2878s	uh hostage risk you've got all this
2880s	other stuff you know you've got uh and
2882s	these modes are all meant to be
2884s	um kind of hinging on the ls Commander
2887s	mode
2888s	um which again may or may not come out
2890s	the way I'm explaining it uh very
2892s	vaguely explaining it right now so
2895s	yeah it has been something that we've
2896s	been talking about and planning for a
2897s	while uh and and we'll see how it goes
2900s	and I'd be really excited if we can get
2901s	it right I think with this team that's
2903s	why I'm so confident
2905s	um that we can get it right
2907s	because I think with early teams it
2908s	might have been a little bit more
2909s	difficult but with this team I think
2911s	yeah we can we could probably nail this
2912s	I think with the skill level everyone's
2914s	at right now it could be really exciting
2916s	if we get it right
2917s	um well it sounds exciting yeah I'm just
2920s	going to slide in The Words Hunt
2921s	Showdown and I'm going to leave it there
2922s	it's not it's not like a it's not a like
2925s	like a looter shooter thing it's nothing
2927s	about just one element of that game but
2929s	I'm just gonna leave it there
2931s	and now for uh for for thankfully a very
2934s	much smaller scale uh question
2937s	um
2938s	are you ever are you guys ever gonna
2939s	bring back the original paintball pepper
2942s	gun
2945s	you mean yeah
2947s	I don't think so that that holds a soft
2950s	spot in uh in quite a few users hearts
2954s	yeah we know
2956s	all right we have two we had the tech
2958s	700 and we have the uh the one that was
2960s	in the PVP the mlo a pepper gun the the
2963s	classic one uh it was just a paintball
2965s	gun
2967s	um look probably not not no current form
2970s	because mostly because animation was
2971s	depending the ass
2973s	um we can get that right it could be
2974s	cool uh but really at that point it's
2976s	just like a
2977s	it's slightly different you know there's
2979s	not really much of an advantage to it
2981s	and for us that's just a lot of work so
2983s	I would say
2985s	maybe not at least not for now you know
2989s	um let's not for now sorry guys well to
2992s	be fair when we get the SDK and users
2994s	get the ability to add their own guns
2997s	instead of having to piggyback off of
2998s	existing guns you guys wouldn't even
3000s	have to do it so you guys can add 500
3002s	different paintball guns if you'd like
3003s	you can have the speed ones and electric
3005s	oh God [ __ ] speedball guns no yeah
3009s	you disabled they'll be sick
3014s	um hmm let's see well lots lots of
3017s	repeat questions unfortunately so I
3018s	gotta dig a little bit
3020s	um
3021s	any uh any plans for uh additional
3024s	tactical items not not like um
3026s	additional types of launchers but more
3028s	uh utility tools like different sorts of
3030s	breaching tools
3032s	um accessibility tools stuff like that
3035s	uh like for example drones ladders
3038s	um
3040s	uh anything else you guys can think of
3042s	that would fit in that uh uh Jones was
3044s	an early uh uh concept but I don't think
3047s	that's coming back right uh yeah uh well
3051s	is one of the first uh first things I
3053s	implemented um it was really cool but
3055s	yeah I don't think he has a use anywhere
3056s	in our levels at the moment yeah the
3059s	only way that I could see that working
3060s	is if we did like and again I'm not
3062s	saying we're doing this by any means but
3064s	if we did do some kind of like hardcore
3066s	sort of like single player campaign
3068s	where it would be like a One-Shot sort
3070s	of like scripted event
3072s	um you know like very akin to like a
3073s	Call of Duty kind of company yeah I
3075s	think that's the only word that that
3076s	kind of scenario would work is if we can
3077s	just vastly and heavily limit what
3081s	they're just kind of curate where like
3083s	here at the exact level to make it for a
3086s	drone exactly yeah but because our
3088s	gameplay just basically doesn't support
3090s	bass like there's just I can't imagine
3092s	that's ever gonna be a thing no look
3094s	it's probably not going to be a thing
3095s	and yeah we definitely do any curated
3097s	levels like that but it it probably
3099s	won't be a thing and until
3102s	it might be something we do in some sort
3103s	of DLC I think uh it might find its way
3106s	in really the idea is you've got to
3107s	build your level around around these
3109s	things like lattice you've got to build
3110s	your level around that as a valley kind
3112s	of was meant to be built with ladders in
3114s	mind and then it shifted a little bit
3115s	because we realized that they were
3116s	difficult as hell to get to work
3119s	um but and we were doing a thousand
3121s	things but yes there are plans for new
3123s	technical items to answer your question
3124s	um we have a few different things there
3127s	they've been animated they've been
3128s	modeled so that's cool
3130s	um but we haven't really touched on them
3132s	yet I think we have so many larger
3133s	things that we're looking at that again
3134s	with our team
3136s	um
3137s	we might just have to wait until you
3140s	know a bit later but yeah we have
3142s	um I'll show you guys have seen the
3143s	sledgehammer thing I forgot what it's
3145s	called there's a halogen bar
3147s	um
3147s	and uh we even have a different a few
3149s	different types of breaching items like
3151s	we have this uh we have this uh the the
3152s	deck cord
3155s	um and it's a roll of Decor that is
3156s	attached to a piece of tape and we even
3159s	have the animations for it where it kind
3160s	of relax the tape down the hinges of the
3162s	door
3163s	um and you blow the hinges off uh and
3165s	the idea initially back in the day was
3167s	pretty cool you'd like to kind of like
3169s	make x's or like squares or whatever but
3171s	now it's just more like something where
3173s	it's like we have all the assets for it
3174s	we haven't really thought past that and
3177s	um the thing with our design is like
3179s	well
3179s	you can only be like right now C C2
3182s	breaches the door it just blows the door
3183s	up so there's no real like there's no
3185s	other way to bridge the door if you if
3187s	you disintegrate the door then that's it
3189s	but
3190s	um as we go we might find ourselves
3191s	getting you know and the community
3193s	probably this is something where you
3194s	land in the community a bit get a bit
3196s	bored of just breaching every door the
3197s	same way so maybe there's you know
3199s	different types of door that all of a
3201s	sudden having a certain type of bridge
3202s	would be very useful that's actually
3204s	that's not what I was going to ask or um
3206s	or hell since the since the dead chord
3207s	is a much smaller explosive you could
3210s	have it where you breach with a dead
3211s	cord and it doesn't you know harm
3213s	anybody behind the door just because you
3215s	know you're not putting a block of uh
3217s	plastic explosives
3218s	exactly yeah exactly there's a lot of
3220s	different ways you could do it um and
3222s	yeah maybe it's yield is smaller maybe
3224s	it can't Bridge certain like steel you
3225s	know I mean like so all of a sudden
3226s	that's how you kind of balance it out a
3228s	bit
3229s	um at this point we've got
3230s	considerations for all this stuff I
3231s	think this should be really cool all
3233s	right
3234s	um
3237s	what else what else what else
3241s	um oh that's actually a pretty good
3243s	question uh will there be
3246s	um any specific types of
3248s	uh game modes or scenarios in The Wider
3251s	multiplayer space that are specific to
3255s	certain types of maps
3258s	like say full health house having a
3261s	specific type of
3263s	um type of Rescue Mission or
3267s	uh
3269s	crack house having its own specific type
3272s	of breach and clear
3275s	yeah custom game mode for like each map
3278s	you mean no it's like it sounds like
3281s	it's like for healthy rescue for like uh
3283s	for um for Valley would be
3287s	um
3287s	maybe instead of there being a party or
3290s	probably still be a party but you would
3292s	have you know maybe you know Amos falls
3294s	in the basement and there is you know
3296s	maybe there are kids in the basement
3298s	already and you've got to go rescue them
3299s	instead of it being as
3302s	um various potentials
3304s	yeah so like um perhaps would have
3307s	static scenarios that you can play in
3309s	multiplayer instead of the randomize as
3311s	it is now
3313s	yeah yeah that's planned yeah actually
3316s	it's planned for um hostage rescue
3318s	specifically oh cool um yeah
3324s	all righty
3326s	planned I should say but we again you
3329s	know we need to see remains to be saying
3331s	but I'm pretty sure that would be a good
3332s	way to make hostage rescue a little more
3333s	unique
3335s	yeah we have yet to implement it yes we
3337s	have yet to implement
3340s	so that that sounds pretty neat
3343s	um what about uh what's uh how does this
3346s	little selection process go when you
3347s	guys are picking uh new guns to add into
3350s	Ready or Not um you've already stated
3352s	that you don't want to
3353s	you don't want to make a 2 out there you
3356s	want to kind of keep it where
3357s	you want to give people guns so you want
3359s	to give the players access to guns that
3362s	law enforcement
3363s	units do use but at what point is it not
3368s	either is it either two out there or is
3370s	it not used enough
3372s	Navarro actually he Navarro tells us
3375s	which ones sound the best and then based
3377s	on that
3380s	that's precisely not we will uh honestly
3384s	a lot of the guns picked it is because
3385s	they're interesting and there's there's
3387s	a lot that are there that's what teams
3389s	to use
3390s	um yeah we're based off something maybe
3392s	an advisor wouldn't mention like our
3394s	advisor with Mission or uh it was
3396s	something we've seen but really a lot of
3398s	a lot of guys using M4 that's our
3400s	platforms
3402s	um so it's not
3404s	so important platforms and things like
3405s	that so it's not super
3407s	it's various I think you know you have
3410s	your like one and done kind of solution
3412s	there
3413s	um but a lot of now at this point we're
3415s	like oh this is cool we like this you
3417s	know we really like this specific gun we
3419s	want to add this in
3421s	um
3422s	uh you know it's cool like maybe one of
3424s	us has gone to a range and shut it like
3426s	I've shot a few guns um I took I took a
3429s	few guns out to range and shot those and
3430s	they were really unique weapons newer
3432s	ones and I was like this is pretty cool
3434s	let's work on these and everyone's like
3435s	oh that seems like a cool gun ad let's
3436s	do that well someone will be like oh I
3438s	saw this gun in another game it's really
3440s	sweet let's add this again
3441s	um some guns that we are holding on to
3443s	for other for other things I think
3445s	um
3446s	just because you know you don't want to
3447s	have a thousand weapons
3449s	um in the base game
3451s	it's kind of a lot so you can get a bit
3454s	bored of making guns every time
3456s	um so that's the other thing I mean if
3458s	if we're talking about uh cool guns uh
3460s	more bullpups win
3462s	yeah yeah it's the uh what's the what's
3465s	the most popular one that people want
3467s	right now is like the Devore or is it
3468s	like the AUG f88 specifically V Tavor
3472s	x95 and the AUG A3
3475s	yeah of course yeah
3477s	I'd like to see an org yeah it'd be cool
3480s	I mean uh DC and walk I believe it's DC
3484s	and Washington forestry agents actually
3485s	use uh AUG A3 is no is it yeah I believe
3489s	it's dogs
3490s	three agents believe it or not yeah
3493s	really shooting what are they what are
3495s	they shooting they're cutting the trees
3497s	down actually yeah ball pups are short
3499s	they're they're Compact and 16 inch
3501s	barrel and like a 20 some odd inch like
3504s	package in case in case you gotta put
3507s	down something aggressive at long range
3508s	you know that's fair that's true that's
3510s	very true and whether a New Zealand Army
3512s	weapon of choice for a while too the
3513s	style aug pretty cool yeah yeah this is
3517s	all right now so
3519s	um yeah for sure that'd be really cool
3521s	we'll see I'll say we'll say for now
3523s	um you had mentioned uh DLC earlier uh
3527s	do you have any idea what uh future DLC
3529s	might take the form of
3531s	yeah yeah we we have um
3533s	we have some ideas on what the DLC could
3536s	look like uh we have some plans as well
3539s	uh
3540s	we're looking at currently how we're
3542s	going to handle DLC I think you know
3545s	we're like honestly my DLC
3548s	DLC are usually like Maps you know what
3550s	I mean like a lot of them will just be
3551s	like packs of levels and things like
3553s	that
3554s	um and then you'll also have uh
3558s	I feel like I'm saying too much but like
3559s	you'll have like you know the idea is
3561s	almost like categorizing into DLCs and
3563s	expansions DLCs are levels expansion
3565s	packs might be new gameplay feature
3567s	introductions as well as levels and
3569s	characters and things like that
3571s	um and that's kind of those are the two
3573s	different ways that we want to
3574s	potentially approach it
3576s	um
3577s	and obviously no threats anyway AI
3579s	threats and things like that um would
3580s	probably be across both I think
3583s	um we do have plans I don't want to say
3585s	what those are just yet but we do have
3586s	plans um some of them will serve you
3588s	know the single player some of them will
3589s	serve um not that you won't just be able
3591s	to play them you'll be able to play on
3592s	the co-op as well
3594s	um they'll all have their own their own
3596s	place I think
3597s	um
3598s	and we're planning some research trips
3601s	to to help with that
3604s	but yeah yeah it's just something on the
3607s	side right now that we're thinking about
3608s	a little bit because it's good to kind
3609s	of get that Runway that projected Runway
3612s	foreign
3621s	a lot of questions here about
3624s	pre-planning that was mentioned in the
3628s	um in the public AMA but is there
3630s	anything either you want to uh you know
3632s	restate for the record
3634s	um add to the uh talk about pre-planning
3637s	because it's been
3639s	it's been I believe five months since
3641s	the last day me already it's been a
3643s	while yeah
3645s	uh I do is I don't want to answer I've
3647s	been talking a lot and I just want to
3648s	answer this question
3650s	I don't really um I haven't seen the
3653s	pre-planning but I know it's been worked
3654s	on by our other programmers
3656s	um I don't know how far that's coming
3659s	along but yeah it is yeah no so yes
3664s	pre-planning is is coming along really
3665s	well we've got this uh it's the way that
3668s	we're doing it is quite a unique way not
3670s	just like some HUD that pops up on your
3671s	screen or anything like that
3673s	um it's accessible in the lobby and in
3674s	the game uh and the way that we're doing
3677s	it is a little bit more unique
3679s	um we're calling it The sit rep menu
3681s	right now
3682s	so it's not let's say menu so to speak
3684s	but you can pick
3686s	in the lobby you'll be able to see the
3687s	missions
3688s	um pick your entry points and whatnot at
3690s	some stage
3691s	um as well as you know draw map plans uh
3693s	kind of get an idea of what the map
3695s	might look like and it's coming it's
3697s	been Sam you might be able to talk a
3699s	little bit about maybe the maps
3700s	um how you've been handling some of
3702s	those maps that we're looking at
3704s	um because I think it's a really cool
3705s	little little thing to have
3708s	um but yeah no no we do we we actually
3710s	wanted to release it with the atom
3712s	update um but we kinda
3714s	um some things happened uh outside of
3717s	the development of the game
3719s	um for some some individuals and they
3721s	couldn't get it done in time so that
3723s	will be something that will happen uh in
3726s	the future and definitely something
3727s	that's I'm really excited for because
3729s	that's a big element to it's once you
3732s	play like a lot of you probably played
3733s	the maps a lot so you probably already
3734s	know where every single room is you know
3736s	you may even know where all the spawns
3738s	are which is [ __ ] impressive
3742s	um but that doesn't necessarily mean
3744s	that you know having a map isn't useful
3746s	especially with new players especially
3747s	with people who may want to strategize a
3748s	little bit more before they enter an
3750s	engagement and there are even some other
3752s	aspects of the sit rep menu which I
3754s	won't talk about yet but things that we
3756s	may be looking at which could
3759s	make
3760s	um
3761s	some other gameplay elements a lot
3764s	easier I'm being super vague but um yeah
3767s	there's a few out there's a few aspects
3768s	of this menu
3770s	um we're probably looking at it
3771s	replacing the tab
3773s	button so you know you press tab the
3774s	score comes up because the secret menu
3776s	will encapsulate your map score it'll
3779s	even give you team composition uh you
3781s	know it won't tell you how much ammo
3782s	they have or anything like that but you
3783s	know if they're alive or not
3785s	um
3786s	and a few other things too objectives uh
3789s	I already said that um and briefing
3792s	information as well so there's a few
3794s	things that you'll be able to get access
3795s	to and ideally we give this to players
3797s	in the lobby and then we give them
3800s	different things in the game as well
3802s	which they can also use
3805s	from an outside as well that's just
3807s	really great because it really sets the
3808s	tone for the level it's like a little
3809s	bit of like Flavor before you get into
3811s	the game where we can just like you know
3812s	establish some of the story stuff set
3814s	the mood um and just have that little
3816s	bit of freedom from an art side to kind
3818s	of like get the player in in a certain
3820s	frame of mind before they start the
3821s	level absolutely and I mean the other
3824s	thing that's really cool too is like you
3825s	have a certain levels where maybe you
3826s	don't have the and this is where we can
3828s	interface with Dan with our um with our
3830s	advisor and and he'll be like oh well
3833s	you know in a situation like this you
3835s	know we're responding kind of very
3837s	quickly it's not planned so you probably
3840s	try and get access to maybe a fire a
3842s	fire escape plan or something like that
3844s	you know we would say if it's a hotel or
3846s	if it's an apartment you know it's just
3849s	something there and then you know on the
3850s	sit room and you pull it up and it's a
3852s	Well Sam maybe you want to talk about
3854s	what that could look like on the super
3855s	menu
3857s	um yeah I mean like I've kind of gotten
3859s	started on some of the maps right now I
3862s	think I've finished uh gases math and
3867s	um
3868s	I'm still kind of working on the map for
3871s	um
3872s	agency
3873s	so but it's been really fun like
3878s	um thinking about like the meth Maps
3881s	um
3882s	I want to do like a typical house floor
3885s	plan
3887s	um but it's going to be interesting
3888s	because like the current met Dallas has
3890s	like all these holes in the walls and
3892s	it's like falling up like falling apart
3895s	um
3896s	but like the original floor plan is
3898s	going to be all intact it's going to be
3900s	you know this was originally built so
3902s	kind of
3906s	that sort of unpredictability is kind of
3908s	yeah that'll be cool and like some of
3910s	the maps and I guess like um
3913s	like the map for Club is going to be
3916s	probably like a fire escape plan
3919s	um that's been like taken off the wall
3921s	and uh
3923s	it's kind of been marked by like the law
3925s	enforcement that were there like
3929s	where possible like bodies were or
3931s	something
3932s	yep for sure
3934s	that sounds amazing
3937s	yeah like things like uh reporter are
3942s	probably going to be a bit more vague
3944s	like it's just a drawing
3946s	like you don't get all the details of
3948s	the inside of the warehouse you just see
3950s	like a big Square it's just what it says
3952s	Warehouse you don't know what's in it
3955s	yeah because exactly they're not going
3957s	to have that plotted out
3958s	necessarily but you might get some
3960s	information through the form of yeah
3962s	like CCTV or other things that they have
3964s	access to
3965s	um which is really cool so there's a few
3967s	ways we're looking into it and how it
3968s	could be really really neat to to show
3970s	this stuff off and in a like diegetic
3972s	way almost you know
3974s	getting a photo of the fire plan instead
3976s	of just having it as like a PD like you
3977s	could even have a PDF actually but
3979s	getting a photo of the file the the fire
3981s	escape plan instead of like just some
3983s	like 2D image that you can like go
3984s	around is pretty cool if we get it right
3986s	and a few other things like that so
3990s	I got faith
3992s	yeah
3993s	what's that saying I was going to say
3995s	can I like post uh sort of what I've
3998s	done so far the one you the one you sent
3999s	me or the uh neon and the agency one or
4003s	it's like the newspaper equipment
4005s	oh yeah absolutely yeah of course yep if
4007s	you uh drop it in ama questions sorry
4009s	Amy discussion I will uh pin it so
4011s	people know where to look for it
4012s	awesome thank you
4014s	I could actually put in the uh mini Dev
4017s	update
4020s	new channel I am a Dev updates
4026s	foreign
4034s	it's really high definition so I don't
4037s	want to take just a screenshot
4041s	blurry I guess
4052s	hello
4054s	hello
4062s	um
4062s	we'll keep going we can always Circle
4064s	back to that just to like comment on it
4066s	um actually a question for uh
4068s	specifically for Zach let's come up I
4071s	have more than one surprisingly
4073s	um a couple people are are asking
4076s	um
4078s	where where did you start with uh
4081s	would you start with sound sound design
4083s	and you got any tips for anybody looking
4085s	to kind of push into either sound design
4087s	for video games or just sound design in
4089s	general
4090s	this is a very intense question but I'll
4093s	try to cut it down as much as I can
4096s	um so all I'm going to say is that covid
4098s	really destroyed the line between kind
4101s	of like one day you're like a bedroom
4104s	sound designer producer and then the
4106s	next day you're like in the AAA space
4110s	um
4110s	beforehand it was a lot of smaller
4112s	projects and it was pretty like I was
4114s	not really dealing with the sound design
4116s	aspect it was more so the music aspect
4119s	and that was just there's a short film
4121s	that was uh shot in South Korea
4123s	and there's a Nui Blanche project for
4126s	and that's like a little thing that we
4127s	do in Toronto um one night where you get
4130s	you get a lot of artists who come down
4131s	and they showcase their their pieces
4133s	that they've been working on
4135s	um
4136s	but nothing really of this scope and
4139s	definitely nothing where the
4140s	collaboration is pretty much constant so
4143s	the start was literally one day you know
4146s	you make a a track and someone notices
4148s	it and then you're chatting with the
4150s	right people and it it really fell
4152s	together that fast
4154s	um and then from there it was just like
4156s	okay so I've got to really pick up my
4158s	socks now I've got to learn about
4160s	um like for example uh
4163s	I know I was just so curious about the
4165s	entire process and and we have like a
4168s	lot of open-ended access
4170s	um in the in the void
4172s	top secret Discord server where we can
4174s	kind of see what what everyone's working
4175s	on and then from there it's like okay so
4177s	they're working on this I'll start
4179s	working on this and and it's honestly
4181s	just it's a learning process the whole
4183s	way through like Mark couldn't have said
4184s	it any better earlier
4185s	um so how to get started on that
4187s	well basically it's just you've got to
4190s	be able to kind of develop your own uh
4193s	system that works for you and you've got
4195s	to tell yourself okay
4196s	like this person might be doing
4198s	something like how do I emulate it but
4200s	at the end of the day you want to make
4202s	your own stuff that that people
4204s	kind of want to they kind of want to
4208s	um emulate off of you and that's it's
4211s	kind of a I hate being this vague with
4213s	the question but it's really the best
4215s	way I can voice it is just do you do
4217s	your own thing and keep working at it
4220s	um
4221s	and also be sure to just kind of like
4224s	when you're playing games like if if you
4227s	like a sound effect for example if you
4229s	like a music track like maybe try to
4231s	like uh
4233s	I feel like I'm going off on a tantric
4235s	here
4236s	um
4237s	essentially you just really want to like
4240s	keep practicing keep keep doing the
4241s	thing that you love doing
4243s	um you don't have to be a master at
4244s	everything
4245s	but if you really like pinpoint that one
4247s	thing that you're really good at and
4249s	just keep kind of
4251s	working at that you really can get
4253s	somewhere as long as you stay focused
4255s	and you keep yourself on a good timeline
4256s	with you know the kind of stuff that you
4259s	like doing
4261s	I'm sure you can relate with this as
4263s	well Zach when when I kind of say like
4265s	one of the one of the best kind of
4266s	devices I can give um to kind of go on
4268s	with that um is yeah like like as I said
4271s	like even when you're just like playing
4273s	games or you're going for a walk or
4275s	you're traveling or whatever you're
4276s	doing the thing that makes like the
4279s	difference between sort of like a good
4281s	artist and a really really really good
4283s	artist is building that sort of like
4285s	mental library that you can sort of like
4287s	pull from and you're not just looking at
4290s	stuff but you're observing stuff and
4292s	you're seeing how it works and you're
4293s	pulling it apart in your head and you're
4294s	you're learning just kind of like from a
4296s	day-to-day stuff
4298s	um and I imagine you do that as well a
4299s	lot Zach when it comes to like you know
4301s	taking inspiration from everything
4303s	around you I was going to say well Mark
4305s	is also he's a he's definitely seasoned
4307s	vet of the industry and that's why I'm
4309s	having trouble you can hear me kind of
4310s	stumbling over my words I'm just trying
4312s	to like uh finally voice what's what's
4314s	that day-to-day thing that that uh that
4317s	it's like when you're working with sound
4319s	but uh yeah completely mental Library
4321s	like what does this sound sound like at
4323s	this distance
4325s	um how do I build the music so that it's
4327s	more tense in this area of the game and
4328s	then also the other thing is when I
4329s	first started with void uh I really did
4332s	not have a good concept of blueprints
4334s	and um it's like kind of a very
4337s	primitive language in ue4 to get things
4341s	to trigger or or just work in a very
4344s	basic sense so learning that alongside
4347s	with kind of building the skills that I
4349s	need to make the music and the sound
4352s	just as good as it can be for already or
4354s	not that's that was like a pretty
4355s	challenging thing to kind of uh build on
4358s	so
4361s	but there's a few um things that that
4364s	come on from there as well Zach it goes
4367s	to all um areas of work it's it's
4369s	attitude and attitude you just got to
4371s	get in there give it a go and learn and
4372s	learn and learn so Sterling and some of
4374s	the other Founders have never made a
4376s	game I know uh because one of the
4378s	founders is my younger brother
4380s	um and he I remember when he said to me
4381s	I'm going to make a game that's it it's
4383s	actually pretty hard to make a game
4385s	that's well I've never made a game and
4387s	seven years later we have ready or not
4389s	he taught himself to program he just
4391s	learned what he needed to learn to get
4393s	the job done and so attitude aptitude
4395s	and some resilience and you can learn
4397s	yeah 100 I I I do visiting lectures
4401s	around various different universities
4402s	and things like that and one of the
4404s	things one of the mantras that I not
4406s	only live by but one of the ones that I
4407s	try and propagate to everyone is fail
4409s	faster like just the idea of okay I
4412s	don't know how to do something you can
4414s	sit and think about it and read upon it
4416s	and learn about it as much as you want
4417s	but until you're actually like Hands-On
4420s	trying stuff throwing stuff in the
4422s	engine seeing what works seeing what
4423s	doesn't work picking it apart like just
4425s	getting getting your hands dirty and
4428s	learning like what doesn't work faster
4431s	is how you then learn from your mistakes
4433s	and just get better so yeah failing
4435s	faster is a wonderful Mantra that I I
4437s	really do live by I mean it's a lot
4441s	better to know what doesn't work than
4442s	what does because then you can more
4444s	easily Focus yourself down
4446s	yeah I mean you know I've said this
4449s	before on the other AMA um but like half
4451s	of what making games is isn't knowing
4453s	how to how to make a game it's how not
4456s	to make a game
4458s	I I agree I mean I I think that probably
4462s	the best way I can like wrap it up
4464s	um is just by saying the tools that we
4466s	use in the game right now those are like
4468s	you can download fmod right now and pop
4471s	it into a Unity or Unreal Engine 4
4473s	project and then from there like like if
4476s	you've got any questions feel free to
4477s	tag me I'm really open to just answering
4479s	like uh fmod questions or anything uh
4482s	not with unity it's a little bit tougher
4484s	to kind of like
4486s	um spell it out just because I haven't
4488s	used Unity with fmod as much
4490s	but um you really like it's it's the
4493s	exact same way that I learned it's just
4494s	like trial and error and and if this
4496s	works okay awesome and if it doesn't
4498s	it's like okay drawing board let's try
4499s	this again
4501s	it's a very iterative iterative
4503s	environment
4507s	all right that that that should uh that
4510s	should nice and thoroughly answer those
4511s	uh those questions that we're waiting
4512s	for you
4514s	um
4515s	and I guess here's uh here's a good one
4517s	actually uh we can we'll we'll start
4519s	from the from the top with Ollie and
4521s	work our way down
4522s	um is there anything that uh you're
4526s	working on that you can talk about
4528s	that you're excited to either finally
4532s	launch or finally have the chance to
4534s	talk about and then we'll uh we'll start
4536s	with Ollie and work our way down the uh
4538s	the list here
4540s	um I think the big one for me is what I
4542s	I
4543s	um that's gonna be like a huge mountain
4545s	um to overcome
4548s	um I don't really have anything like
4550s	major planned besides that
4554s	um yeah just just what I I just getting
4556s	that
4557s	um
4559s	you know improve basically over what we
4560s	have now right now
4563s	um yeah that's all short and sweet uh
4567s	Sterling what do you got
4569s	I've literally been like gas bagging
4571s	about all these plants for the last hour
4573s	and a half oh yeah so what I'm looking
4576s	forward to is having everyone be like
4577s	why the [ __ ] did you just tell everybody
4579s	all of our plans I'd be like I don't
4581s	know sorry I got excited
4583s	um
4583s	no uh I I
4586s	don't know I I honestly am going to join
4589s	early this one I'm excited for the SWAT
4590s	AI
4591s	um I really am I think that'll be really
4593s	cool we've got some super cool plans for
4595s	this audio so no plans things have
4597s	already been executed but uh yeah yeah
4600s	basically for the next few months that's
4602s	the only thing I'll be working on like
4604s	besides some other small things but
4615s	because that's like really really cool
4617s	AI it's really unique and interesting
4619s	and then you're like yeah what the [ __ ]
4620s	did I do that how the hell did they do
4621s	that and then with and with maps too you
4623s	play maps and then you could you just
4624s	generate all the logic and it was done
4628s	um it doesn't work everywhere though
4629s	that that shoot house uh the shootouts
4631s	level the one you're testing it is awful
4633s	in the street that's a little so it's
4634s	not always perfect
4635s	um but it's super cool they get lost
4637s	sometimes like they don't like operate
4639s	like as well
4641s	I mean and we're not really trying to
4642s	make
4643s	that's what I we're just trying like
4644s	SWAT three aisles yeah we're trying to
4646s	we're trying to do something better than
4648s	that so that's that's the idea but um
4650s	yeah um came for that too
4653s	all right I could probably jump in on
4656s	this yeah um
4658s	so I know one of the things
4660s	um Navarro was actually really
4661s	interested in getting some
4663s	realistic weapon Reflections just stuff
4666s	that bounces off the environment
4668s	um now the other thing is like we really
4670s	wanted to use a more out of the box
4673s	solution something like an Oculus
4675s	Plug-In or a resonance audio or steam
4677s	audio unfortunately we we did we tested
4680s	all of these we ran them through the
4682s	gauntlet and it's just uh someone that
4683s	would break within 10 minutes or we
4685s	wouldn't be able to use all the key
4686s	features or they were just too expensive
4689s	which means that we do have to develop a
4691s	custom solution
4693s	so it's a little bit more work and
4694s	having to steal someone from coding
4696s	um while they already have their
4698s	plateful is it's a balancing act but I
4700s	think we'll we'll get it sorted out
4703s	um yeah every plugin we tried is always
4705s	just that one thing that's just wrong
4707s	with it and we just can't use it's
4708s	pretty annoying it kills us like it
4711s	really kills us because steam audio has
4712s	some absolutely crazy stuff and I know
4715s	um there's been I know someone posted a
4717s	demo video where you're walking around
4718s	you can hear the sound really bending
4720s	around the corners and it's just it
4721s	kills me it kills me too but uh no so
4724s	there's there's working on something
4726s	like that
4727s	um I know footsteps has also been a
4730s	thing as well where you can hear
4731s	footsteps through multiple floors of a
4733s	building
4734s	um it's it's I wish it was an easier
4736s	solution to kind of figure out but it's
4738s	a little it's still pretty intense so
4739s	we're still working on making sure that
4742s	you know you're not going to hear uh
4743s	terrorists like two floors up on
4745s	hospital for example
4747s	um and we're also replacing I know one
4750s	of the default footstep sounds was kind
4752s	of janky so we're getting that swapped
4754s	out as we speak
4756s	but uh no it's pretty much just uh
4759s	advancing on what we're already doing so
4761s	just making sure things are more
4762s	detailed uh really getting that kind of
4764s	special sound locked in uh but yeah it's
4768s	improving that's basically what the
4770s	sound team's at right now
4775s	awesome
4777s	all right uh Mark you got anything nice
4781s	and shiny for us
4783s	yeah I mean I'm not gonna say too much
4784s	because obviously spoilers be spoilers
4786s	um one thing that I you know I will just
4788s	say as a kind of blanket statement is
4790s	and I I'm incredibly grateful that
4792s	working on this game I have so much
4794s	creative control with what sort of like
4797s	the levels look like I I really feel
4799s	like I get to basically just go
4801s	completely nuts from a creative
4803s	standpoint
4804s	um and yeah like the the next couple of
4808s	maps um sort of that we're working at
4810s	the moment
4811s	um it's it's definitely pushed my
4814s	boundaries like is it like as an artist
4816s	like I'm feeling like I get to be a lot
4818s	more creatively involved um with
4820s	different sort of like things I would
4822s	have not necessarily done before and I'm
4824s	playing with different Avenues of
4825s	Storytelling
4827s	um so yeah like the next couple of maths
4828s	is going to be incredibly story Rich
4830s	um I've also you know done
4833s	um a little bit more design work um on
4835s	this next map which is uh something I'm
4837s	not you know super confident with
4838s	obviously we have dedicated gameplay
4840s	designers
4841s	um who primarily do the blockouts but
4843s	I've doubled in that a little bit as
4845s	well so you know I'm always excited
4847s	about all the new maps coming out
4849s	um because yeah like every new map for
4851s	me is a new challenge and I get to just
4852s	be completely creatively you know free
4855s	with it which is awesome
4857s	um it's Sterling already made a point of
4858s	mentioning the the new station
4860s	beforehand so I can kind of kind of go
4862s	with that that for us
4864s	um of me especially it it it it's such a
4868s	staple of what the game kind of like
4872s	is from from a
4874s	um
4875s	to put it a different way it's like it's
4877s	the lobby it's where you spend most of
4879s	time it's gonna be you know where
4880s	there's so much like story driven
4882s	aspects of the game everyone's going to
4884s	be in there as you're loading the levels
4886s	it's so important to us that we get the
4888s	lobby right
4889s	um so I'm really excited to basically
4891s	give the the lobby like a whole new
4894s	Fresh coat of pants
4896s	um and you know completely different
4897s	design different atmosphere and you know
4899s	take a lot more of the boxes that we
4902s	wanted to do in the previous one and
4903s	expand it out further into all these
4905s	other kind of different Avenues
4907s	and it's funny that Mark Mark mentions
4909s	the lobby um the new Lobby music that we
4912s	have now was was kind of like a very I
4915s	guess early blueprint of like how the
4917s	music's gonna shift when you move around
4919s	so you go to this one area and it's
4920s	gonna go into something else and then
4922s	somewhere else and you get all these
4924s	different layers coming in so
4927s	official yeah
4929s	it's gonna be pretty sweet I I the uh
4931s	yeah the station is the lobby the new
4933s	Lobby is going to be pretty exciting
4934s	because the other one we had was like
4936s	the one that you guys played now even if
4938s	we gave it a bit of an update with some
4939s	more detail which is kind of showing
4942s	that it's falling apart they have to
4943s	move right
4944s	um
4945s	honestly a lot of that stuff
4948s	um you know we had this gray box and
4950s	it's like three stories you know it's
4951s	three floors and it's it's really cool
4953s	it was made painstakingly made by one of
4955s	our designers and
4957s	um
4958s	uh it you know you can't really it
4961s	doesn't really work for a current
4962s	gameplay so we needed to make something
4963s	more catered
4967s	so uh
4969s	Sam you got any uh
4971s	shiny art pieces that you're you've been
4973s	working on that you want to talk about
4976s	oh yeah like I'm really excited for a
4980s	new hotel and
4983s	um the new uh sort of
4986s	revamp against
4989s	which one the polar event
4992s	the farm one they're called oh oh yeah
4994s	Pizza yeah
4996s	um
4997s	yeah like I guess I'm gonna start
5001s	um working on a new piece for the farm
5003s	sort of
5005s	just a general look of the outside of
5008s	the building
5009s	um
5010s	well
5011s	I'm also kind of working on the interior
5014s	of the hotel just working along with one
5018s	of our
5019s	concept artists pixel you can see on the
5022s	right hand side
5025s	um he's been really awesome like his
5028s	work is amazing
5029s	yeah
5031s	I'm just really excited to work on all
5034s	these new levels
5039s	good answer
5041s	alrighty and then last but most
5044s	certainly not least Steve do you got
5046s	anything you wanna
5048s	you you want to talk yeah yeah just
5050s	retouching on um what I've already
5051s	discussed around improvements so the mod
5053s	modding scene
5055s	um so I've been making engine
5057s	modifications to make that better safe
5058s	modes and the likes to give a better
5060s	experience to our players especially the
5062s	people who are
5063s	less accustomed to modding but uh um I
5066s	guess diving into mod via the Modio
5068s	button we're finding a few issues with
5071s	with mods not working correctly so just
5073s	trying to improve that experience and
5074s	then also improve the experience for our
5076s	models as well so that's will be what
5079s	I'm taking on
5082s	very nice
5084s	um one more thing I forgot to mention um
5086s	the World building animations I wanna uh
5090s	I'm excited to get that like working
5091s	again because right now it's broken in
5093s	this uh the latest update
5096s	um the idea is that to have them spawn
5097s	in like on uh GameStop
5100s	and uh you just see them like
5102s	automatically
5104s	doing their World building animations on
5106s	a loop and um
5108s	like once they are loaded they just uh
5111s	exit that state and then just go about
5113s	the normal like suspect Behavior
5115s	that's yeah that's another thing uh
5117s	forgot to mention
5119s	Ed
5122s	sorry I was going to say uh really
5124s	upsetting too because we had the suspect
5126s	pissing sound arranged everything and
5128s	now it's uh
5132s	it's like we've got live stream heavy
5134s	stream got all of it
5136s	oh yes fully let's go let's go is that
5141s	guy did Zach had to drink eight bottles
5142s	of water and then he was just waiting
5144s	around all day
5152s	yeah somebody just said in discussion
5153s	RTX piss I guess that's what we're
5155s	talking about now yeah yeah exactly
5158s	we're very trusting person yeah hey man
5159s	ray traced audio that's the future so
5161s	you never know
5164s	um all right actually this is a really
5167s	good one
5168s	um something more uh more around the
5171s	story of Ready or Not
5173s	um so far the sub the uh suspects that
5176s	we have had have been
5178s	uh that can be commonly described as
5180s	plainly evil
5183s	um you've had terrorists you've had
5185s	human traffickers pedophiles all that
5188s	stuff but what about
5191s	um suspects where
5194s	uh their motivation seems a lot more
5196s	gray see uh law-abiding citizen or uh
5200s	like a vigilante group who
5203s	you know is is very much breaking the
5205s	law but they're not bad people
5209s	yeah no that's a great that's a great
5212s	question and honestly that's a big thing
5213s	for us right now is that everyone's evil
5216s	and there's actually a lot of a lot of
5217s	people in the world who are just like
5218s	it's almost too too much but you know we
5221s	have to do it to serve the gameplay in a
5223s	sense but we do have
5225s	um
5226s	this is the only
5228s	um the guest suspects are not like
5229s	purely evil yeah arguably just well yeah
5232s	I think they're just drug they're uh
5235s	traditionally evil they're uh you know
5236s	gangers holding up a a uh station that
5240s	has already shot people
5242s	yeah we have um we have plans though for
5244s	some some more gray area kind of stuff
5248s	um we've got beachfront which does have
5251s	that uh
5252s	it's it's almost like I think we want to
5255s	branch in a little bit more we kind of
5256s	experimented that with Valley um not
5258s	with Amos Vol but with the Bolton
5259s	security agents and the idea that it's
5262s	so bad in the city and it's so awful
5264s	everywhere right now and we probably say
5266s	in the world like you can't go anywhere
5268s	they're kind of Trapped in this like
5270s	decaying kind of City this like City
5272s	that's falling apart
5274s	um it's gotten to that point where you
5276s	know there's just like
5279s	there's nowhere for them to go and they
5281s	need to support their families and
5282s	Amazon is paying a very high price and
5285s	they just they have they have something
5287s	they need to do they have bills to pay
5288s	so to speak even if it is selling their
5290s	soul and that's not something that we're
5292s	you know in this world that people don't
5293s	do people absolutely sell themselves to
5295s	do things especially for money
5297s	um does that make you evil maybe not I
5298s	don't know out of necessity sometimes
5300s	things just have to be done I think um
5302s	Amos Vol is not that person I'm talking
5305s	about obviously the agents that work for
5306s	him at least the ones that aren't
5308s	necessarily aware of what happens
5311s	um
5312s	you know so I think that's kind of EX
5315s	that's kind of walking into that
5316s	territory a bit but they're still
5318s	essentially letting this thing happen
5320s	you could argue they're evil people
5321s	um but there are in the game there will
5323s	be characters that are almost having to
5326s	do this kind of stuff
5327s	um out of necessity uh uh you know
5331s	because they've got sick family members
5333s	um and they can't afford you know
5334s	medical care or they
5337s	um you know they've never seen this kind
5338s	of money like that that some of these
5340s	people will be making in this world
5341s	would be things that they've probably
5342s	never seen before and it kind of changes
5343s	their their motivations so there are a
5346s	lot of things that we'd be looking at
5347s	doing I think in that world and
5349s	um and making it more uh tangible
5352s	because yeah a lot of the people are
5353s	just evil but again
5356s	um for the gameplay it can be quite hard
5359s	to to rationalize
5361s	people not just giving up immediately
5363s	when you're faced with like an arm SWAT
5365s	team because that's the reality of the
5367s	situation but if you play a game like
5368s	that play a map like that and they just
5370s	give up immediately and you you probably
5371s	won't play that again you probably want
5373s	to play where it's more difficult so
5374s	there are a few ways we want to remedy
5376s	that
5377s	um be it with a mission type
5379s	um such as like a cert uh a um what's it
5382s	called warrant service uh Mission type
5385s	or something like that potentially
5388s	um
5388s	you know so maybe that would be the
5390s	Avenue we take where there's like a
5392s	super easy mode so to speak
5394s	um things like that it would probably be
5396s	the way to go I think but we'll see
5398s	where we'll see where it goes okay I'm
5400s	working on a map at the moment
5402s	um yeah I wouldn't necessarily say that
5405s	the the antagonists are evil but the
5409s	moral is is very questionable and I can
5411s	definitely see the player having some
5413s	kind of like visceral reaction being
5414s	like ah do I like yeah they're doing
5418s	wrong but like maybe kind of think
5419s	they're in the right so yeah like that
5422s	would be a fun one to try and address
5423s	for sure yeah I mean there are yeah you
5426s	could even argue Ridgeline um I mean he
5428s	did kill five police officers four
5430s	police officers but
5432s	um
5433s	you know was this all in because he's
5435s	you know almost having an episode and he
5438s	is a dangerous person but he's not
5440s	necessarily it's not necessarily his
5441s	fault he's you know he's a
5445s	you know it depends on what avenue you
5447s	take you know you see a victim of like a
5450s	society The Strand him or has he been
5451s	experimented on by certain groups what
5454s	exactly is it that's happened to this
5456s	guy and just how [ __ ] nuts is he and
5459s	and why you know so I think that there
5461s	are already a few gray area levels that
5463s	we have
5465s	um but you know that's just because it's
5468s	it's more interesting that's having this
5470s	guy who's a bad guy and he's just evil
5472s	um so yeah
5474s	okay
5476s	um
5476s	all right we're actually having a lot of
5478s	questions here kind of skirting around
5480s	the same rough subject
5482s	um will there ever be any changes to uh
5486s	say what a
5488s	uh what a five-man SWAT team can bring
5491s	out
5492s	um like there's uh say
5495s	an addition of a taser to your main
5498s	inside like transferring it to Tactical
5501s	or even eliminating the amount of sort
5505s	of like limiting the amount of equipment
5507s	that can be brought out like there can
5508s	only be one Shield or one battering ram
5510s	or one
5512s	uh breaking shotguns stuff like that
5515s	yeah
5516s	yeah there are plans we're gonna get
5518s	we're going to move the taser to the
5520s	um tactical slot so that won't be a
5522s	pistol anymore so you will be able to
5524s	have a pistol and the taser
5526s	um you won't be able to have a taser and
5527s	a taser but you can have a pistol on the
5529s	taser so that'll be coming in
5531s	um I'm still limiting other things
5533s	like forever
5536s	yeah
5538s	I don't know yeah more than that I think
5541s	we need to move it out it's useless here
5543s	like people want to have a pistol so
5544s	they can defend themselves and they want
5546s	to have the taser it's like yes that
5547s	makes sense yes thank you very much
5550s	a lot of the community right now
5553s	yeah no that's definitely something that
5555s	we're like oh [ __ ] we need to get around
5556s	to that but to the
5558s	um overall
5560s	the overall idea um behind like you know
5562s	limiting the amount of uh tools is
5565s	something that yeah no absolutely it
5567s	could be done um I haven't really looked
5569s	into it too much but I can definitely
5570s	see like you know you're having like
5571s	everyone with a shield it could be a bit
5574s	you know op I guess potentially yeah and
5578s	boring you know it's not it's cool for
5580s	about five minutes and then it's just
5581s	like oh this sucks but also the freedom
5583s	of it can also be really cool it really
5585s	depends where you want to go with it so
5592s	all righty
5595s	um what else what else uh I know it has
5598s	been mentioned uh before in a few places
5600s	but
5601s	um it doesn't seem like everybody's
5603s	gotten the memo on it
5605s	um what is the state of power for maps
5610s	like being able to turn them off and
5611s	have more applicable use of nods
5615s	I'm lucky when I said
5617s	uh yeah it's
5619s	unfortunately it's kind of the way that
5620s	we've built our game
5622s	um and it's kind of like a limitation of
5623s	unreal foe um more than anything like if
5626s	we were to set out from the very
5628s	beginning and Implement like these
5631s	systems as we were making the maps then
5633s	it could be kind of one of those things
5635s	but it's such that would that would have
5637s	had to have been such a core game
5640s	mechanic from the outright
5642s	um and then we would have had to build
5644s	everything around that for it to work
5646s	it's not really one of those things that
5647s	you can slide in now I'm not saying it
5650s	couldn't be done
5652s	um but I also don't really see the point
5654s	in for instance introducing it for one
5656s	level and then not having that option on
5659s	on any of the other levels
5661s	um
5661s	it yeah it's it's more like a like a
5664s	just a limitation
5665s	um
5666s	maybe maybe wrong too when we all go to
5669s	Unreal five and we can have fully
5671s	Dynamic lights and you know so forth and
5673s	so on
5674s	um possibly but I I think realistically
5677s	speaking probably not
5679s	yeah okay yeah it's some models have
5681s	done some map makers have made
5683s	um plus you can like go turn off the
5685s	breaker you could switch off the breaker
5687s	uh for um you know audio we already have
5691s	in some levels we shoot our lights uh
5693s	which is really really cool and uh yeah
5695s	no it's definitely doable
5696s	um it's also just one of those things
5698s	where it's like yeah if we did it on one
5700s	level we realistically should implement
5702s	it on all the other levels
5704s	um just for that kind of like visual
5705s	language just kind of makes sense from a
5707s	gameplay perspective
5709s	um well that's planned enough so yeah
5712s	yeah it's not really like a core
5714s	gameplay mechanic that we've lent into
5717s	no no so we probably won't end up doing
5719s	anything like that um all right we won't
5721s	also for AI um they always have to see
5724s	in the dark that's just another issue we
5726s	have to plan around yeah yeah all of a
5728s	sudden you go like well if you're in the
5730s	dark you shoot an AI you know nothing
5731s	yeah it's
5733s	uh it could be really cool but and we
5735s	might write we might make something like
5737s	that I know because we do have dark and
5738s	light spots in the game but it's a lot
5740s	easier to gauge that when it's all baked
5742s	um when it's done with the bait what do
5744s	you do you know
5746s	um you would actually uh brought up a
5748s	point that I was going to
5750s	um modders have so that certain maps are
5753s	able to be launched in day and night
5755s	mode
5756s	um like the map Farm used to be a night
5759s	map are we going to be able to have the
5762s	option to swap between day or night on
5764s	certain Maps
5765s	probably not no um and again it's one of
5768s	those limitations where like it is
5770s	definitely definitely doable but it kind
5772s	of means you're then juggling two
5774s	identical Maps
5775s	um there are systems within unreal for
5777s	uh where you you can effectively have
5780s	two big scenarios but we've just got too
5783s	much going on when it comes to like the
5786s	other levels and everything else going
5787s	on so I think I think focusing on just
5790s	making a really solid the one version of
5794s	the level that is like custom tailored
5797s	to everything that we want it to be
5799s	rather than trying to juggle two
5801s	versions of it which is gonna cause more
5804s	problems you know obviously light and
5807s	Shadow is such a
5809s	um a core sort of like not a gameplay
5811s	mechanic but it's so important for the
5812s	player and the AI to you know be able to
5814s	see each other all the time it's hard to
5817s	then juggle two versions of that and get
5819s	it working right so
5821s	um it like Farm started off in day and
5824s	then it went tonight and then yeah it
5825s	went back today that well that was more
5827s	like an art art decision than anything
5829s	like we would we were trying to figure
5830s	out what
5832s	um lighting scenario worked best for the
5834s	map and it's not the first like Farm's
5836s	not the only one we've done that like
5837s	there's definitely been other levels
5838s	where you know from an art perspective
5841s	we've been like okay you know let's
5842s	let's try this map in rain and see what
5844s	it looks like and we've got oh yeah this
5846s	looks better in rain so we've just kind
5847s	of gone with that um agency was like
5849s	that as well like it wasn't always kind
5851s	of like
5852s	um uh like like rainy and overcast it's
5855s	it's starting off like very Sunset um at
5857s	the very beginning
5858s	um in the sale of data center like that
5860s	it was it started off as like a like a
5862s	like a night map and then we found
5864s	bringing that kind of like early morning
5866s	um you know Sun just cropping up over
5869s	the hills it it gave it more of a unique
5873s	feel and that's kind of what I'm trying
5875s	to capture when I'm making the
5876s	environments is that I want every map to
5878s	really feel unique like like
5881s	rather than having okay
5883s	this once a day and the same ones at
5886s	night and it just kind of looks like
5887s	another one of the night Maps like I
5888s	really want every map to look and feel
5889s	unique yeah okay
5894s	um all right moving swiftly along
5898s	um
5899s	oh another another sound question uh
5901s	full soundtrack when
5904s	all soundtrack when well back in the
5907s	early
5908s	the finals specifically no [ __ ] vinyl
5912s	oh man honestly like it's it's
5916s	definitely a lot of considerations to
5917s	make
5918s	um
5919s	I know when I was first doing the
5921s	soundtrack A lot of it was literally
5923s	just rendered out into one track and
5925s	then um depending on what happened it
5927s	would kind of like shift to that section
5929s	but of course
5931s	you have the the issue where like
5933s	something like the
5934s	um the dealer track for example it
5936s	always goes to like one of two uh
5938s	different combat themes and you always
5940s	like there's a very clear start and end
5943s	to it but with the the newer tracks now
5945s	it's all rendered out into separate
5946s	layers so you can get some crazy stuff
5948s	going on with that said it kind of takes
5951s	a little bit more time to arrange it so
5953s	still thinking about how to to best get
5955s	everything into a single track for like
5958s	a a very linear listening experience and
5961s	get that out to you guys in soundtrack
5963s	form but soundtrack when probably closer
5965s	to release
5968s	yeah most definitely yeah yeah something
5971s	we want to do though
5972s	okay so it's it's sort of like um what
5976s	is it the the big Hub up around uh boom
5978s	Eternal soundtrack and Mick Gordon going
5980s	no you're not you're not actually
5982s	assembling it right stop it it's uh well
5985s	yeah that that's a little bit more
5986s	complicated because there's some more
5988s	like I'm not gonna get into it no I I
5989s	don't want to get sued by Becca like
5991s	he's gonna come after me but uh let's
5994s	make the litigious one nice
5996s	but not um honestly void's been they're
6000s	very like it's very open-ended so I
6002s	don't feel like there's any limitations
6003s	when it comes to the soundtrack
6006s	um and obviously with that
6007s	open-endedness uh making decisions that
6011s	it becomes challenging to kind of like
6013s	tell myself what's the best way to do
6014s	this but at the end of the day closer to
6017s	release and if vinyl does come along
6018s	vinyl comes along that would be really
6020s	exciting
6022s	um but yeah I'll run Vine will be sick
6024s	yeah
6027s	um actually that that leads us into
6029s	another question uh on on the note of
6032s	the Ron final uh Ron merchwin
6036s	concern but literally soon we're looking
6039s	at it's hard it's hard getting a good
6041s	merch mate we don't want to give you
6042s	guys shitty stuff
6044s	um but yes it's being planned
6046s	um and it's being researched it's been
6048s	researched for a couple
6049s	I mean a couple months we've we've made
6051s	merch like small runs of merch for the
6053s	team
6054s	um but it's a different thing when it's
6056s	like constantly accessible merch or you
6058s	do like limited print runs but oh yeah
6060s	it depends on how and and what we want
6062s	to do I mean like the easiest front
6064s	shirt is just a black shirt with the
6066s	logo but you want it to be like a nice
6068s	material like you know like 100 cotton
6070s	or like you know whatever it is that
6073s	you're looking for let's get some let's
6075s	get some uh what do you call rash guards
6077s	made for those who want to do Jiu Jitsu
6078s	with their [ __ ] they're ready let's
6081s	do it ready at rash guards
6083s	um but uh no no I I think um we've got a
6086s	few things that that will be dropping
6088s	relatively soon which I think would be
6090s	really cool
6091s	um and nothing to you know nothing too
6093s	goofy I don't want that I mean I'm
6096s	wearing mine right now by the way but I
6097s	can't turn my camera on unfortunately oh
6100s	hell since since you've mentioned it I
6102s	can talk about it now um we've uh we've
6104s	been discussing in the top end a lot of
6106s	a lot of interesting stuff
6109s	um some people are very heavy talked
6110s	about in discussion chat
6112s	um a different a different pattern of
6115s	mouse pad maybe some matches you know
6117s	some some you know some some cool stuff
6119s	that you know would actually be useful
6121s	in day to day
6123s	yeah run mug let's go
6125s	yeah for sure the Run might be sick run
6128s	mug with a uh Sterling's profile picture
6130s	on it no I'm seriously I think you might
6133s	have some trouble talking to uh
6136s	I think protein would be important if we
6138s	uh should post it out enough
6142s	yeah maybe maybe not yeah
6146s	um no if it's uh yeah that would be cool
6148s	I think I think we've got a lot of
6150s	things that we could potentially release
6151s	it could be a lot of fun
6153s	um a lot of cool little shirts patches
6154s	are definitely the type of list that
6156s	would be really sweet just have like
6157s	some velcro patches and [ __ ] yeah
6161s	alrighty
6163s	um we got we got a lot we got a lot I'm
6166s	trying to pass through I'm gonna dip it
6167s	about 15 just so you guys know
6170s	uh actually 15 minutes is about the end
6172s	of our uh end of our lot of time anyway
6174s	I think I think two hours is more than
6176s	enough for for questions
6177s	yeah we could do like a rapid fire at
6181s	the end here just kind of like bang off
6182s	a bunch of questions yep okay
6185s	um
6186s	I guess we'll we'll start that in in a
6188s	couple minutes use the the exact last 15
6190s	minutes as our rapid fire
6193s	um any ideas for uh when campaign mode
6197s	or scenarios drop
6199s	if they end up dropping in in a form
6202s	that would be uh you know common use uh
6206s	are there any uh bad guy missions
6209s	well sorry uh have you guys thought
6210s	about any bad guy missions
6212s	put a bag emissions uh either you you
6215s	you are wonder you you are mlo you are a
6219s	suspect but you're doing it for oh
6221s	you're doing it for reasons
6234s	um
6235s	and uh as to the commander mode which is
6238s	what we'll start thinking of it like
6240s	that we'll call it commandment
6241s	um well like yeah you're going to court
6242s	campaign but it's not linear uh well
6245s	kind of it's um we don't have any date
6249s	set yet um ideally we get it done this
6252s	year though uh that would be the plan
6253s	for us
6254s	um but we'll have to see how much it
6257s	takes because it's quite complex you
6259s	know you've got to get the sweater done
6260s	you've got to get a bunch of other stuff
6260s	done
6262s	um that's the that's the trick for the
6264s	commander mode you have to there's a lot
6266s	of moving parts for that
6268s	okay
6270s	um I guess let's uh let's open that
6272s	rapid fire
6274s	um will HRT get unique voice lines
6278s	oh
6279s	um
6280s	I was gonna say
6281s	um it's I would definitely say Yes um
6283s	again we we do have a we've got a
6285s	dedicated voice director now and he has
6287s	been absolutely essential and getting I
6290s	think we got like over 30 new voices or
6293s	something for the update and I don't
6294s	even know if for Adam anyway and I don't
6296s	even know if all of them got to a
6297s	character but uh yes definitely I I know
6301s	that we want to do HRT voice lines
6304s	um and I will kind of Go off into the uh
6307s	SWAT AI voices thing too
6310s	um because it's a very
6313s	I guess there's a lot of kind of coding
6315s	and and sound and voice collaboration
6317s	here
6318s	um I'm not 100 if the new swap voices uh
6321s	will get pushed with the Swati update
6324s	but we're definitely we definitely want
6325s	to get some discussions going to to make
6327s	sure that we have a good overview of all
6330s	the things we're going to need to to
6331s	Future proof voices and to make sure
6333s	that
6334s	um when you have a command and you give
6335s	a command it's not going to be like
6338s	a legacy voice that plays or like chem
6340s	light out for example I'm like oh yeah
6343s	yeah yeah exactly so uh that's that's
6345s	probably where I'll leave that answer at
6349s	moving on quickly uh More Steam
6351s	achievements when
6353s	uh when the game is in full release when
6356s	we get out of Early Access which is
6357s	ideally you know a good time frame yeah
6360s	we need to finish the game first yeah
6362s	but we will do that we'll have a lot I
6363s	think we'll have a lot there's a lot of
6364s	cool little things so we want to do some
6366s	goofy ones too that you're like you know
6367s	this is like secret achievements are
6369s	always cool so um yeah definitely got a
6371s	few that we got planned oh exactly all
6374s	right any uh any plans for randomized
6377s	layouts
6380s	you mean procedural generation
6382s	of a level
6383s	no not personable generation more like
6386s	um
6387s	kind of like how it is when you select
6389s	certain
6390s	um certain modes and certain sections of
6393s	the map are either open or closed but
6395s	like
6396s	uh when when you select the same mode
6399s	like a certain door is now law is now um
6402s	like completely inaccessible and you got
6404s	to go a different way or you know yeah
6406s	so probably not to that degree because
6409s	there is well it depends like we could
6411s	kind of have it with like just randomly
6413s	those are opened or some are locked yeah
6417s	like actual like blocking off an area
6421s	Zero Hour like yeah like generated
6424s	um stuff that they do which is really
6426s	cool
6427s	um we may not again because our level
6429s	has backlighting it can be a bit weird
6431s	to have that kind of like floating
6433s	object in the middle of the scene and we
6434s	generate our levels so you'd have to
6436s	yeah yeah I would end up walking into
6438s	barricades and stuff but there are some
6441s	plans for I saw a question about this
6442s	before it was about barricades
6444s	um there are we're just talking a bit
6447s	about it now and how maybe barricades
6449s	could work and then how you circumvent
6450s	barricades and how you plan for them and
6452s	that would kind of be our way of adding
6455s	a bit more
6456s	um it's not just a locked door at that
6457s	point it's a door you cannot get through
6458s	without a specific thing so or you have
6460s	to go around it or an AI does it that
6463s	gets initially open doors closed all of
6465s	a sudden there's a [ __ ] bed in front
6467s	of it that kind of stuff
6469s	um would be really cool and it could be
6471s	something that we look into
6473s	um so yes that's probably about as far
6475s	as we go with like randomized stuff
6478s	um yeah at least for now I I can't
6480s	imagine it being very like conducive for
6483s	us to like rewrite the way that we
6484s	generate AI to do it live
6486s	um you don't know with a lot of issues
6487s	all right
6490s	um any plans for maps that require
6491s	multiple squads
6495s	um
6496s	you mean like
6499s	more than five people yeah more than
6501s	five people
6503s	um because
6504s	um it gets into like performance as well
6506s	like
6507s	just you can't have too many uh
6510s	characters in a level
6512s	um yeah yeah I I think probably not like
6514s	who knows we can try everything no I
6517s	think who knows the answer to that one
6518s	for now
6519s	um yeah that's that's very fair uh
6521s	there's some internal debate about the
6522s	amount it's purely because of
6524s	performance though right now
6525s	um so
6527s	yeah all right
6529s	um that was a good one oh any more plans
6533s	for very small Maps like more uh more
6536s	Ridgeline or maybe a little bigger
6539s	yeah
6540s	oh sorry about feeling good no no by all
6543s	means that's it you go uh yeah I mean
6547s	it's cool yeah like like we we
6548s	definitely player with different um
6550s	different scales different layouts
6551s	different uh you know amounts of flaws
6553s	per level like this one thing that I
6556s	would say that we we like doing is range
6559s	so yeah expect a few smaller Maps expect
6561s	a few more mid-sized levels of different
6563s	you know different shapes and sizes and
6564s	yeah
6565s	yep for sure
6567s	what will CQB oriented stuff too I mean
6570s	there's a lot of the game is so you can
6571s	be ready but you know
6573s	strictly
6575s	um oh this one I've seen the ask a
6577s	surprising amount any plans for voice
6580s	recognition for a single player in uh
6582s	for AI commands
6584s	this would be
6586s	so at one stage we did have an early
6589s	iteration of it I I didn't get to see it
6591s	when it was in
6592s	um or I don't even know if it was at a
6594s	phase where it was too usable but um
6598s	it's on the road it's on the like
6600s	internal roadmap I I wouldn't say it's a
6603s	priority but I would say it would be
6605s	pretty interesting to add I know there's
6607s	a mod floating around out there that
6608s	uses a third-party tool
6611s	um
6611s	but I again Never Say Never I it's it's
6614s	a little vague but it'd be cool to get
6617s	it added in so
6620s	right so yeah it's gonna be fun for that
6622s	yeah
6625s	yeah I was gonna say like it's gonna be
6627s	that's gonna definitely gonna be like a
6628s	collaborative uh coding and sound task
6631s	so it's going to be intense
6635s	um so despite the size of a lot of the
6638s	maps as it stands and how
6640s	besides farm and I believe
6644s	farm and dealership
6646s	um
6647s	will there be a option for scope for the
6650s	magnified Scopes and say the sa 58 to
6653s	actually be able to be magnified instead
6655s	of just looking through it at a 1X
6660s	so uh well could you just repeat that
6663s	again sorry uh basically will you ever
6667s	be able to up the magnification on the
6669s	lpvo optics oh variables oh
6673s	um
6674s	yes yes you should be able to otherwise
6677s	what's the point
6678s	um yeah absolutely yeah the idea of the
6680s	LPGA was to be able to make a variable
6682s	um kind of like lay the play the zoom
6684s	with it
6685s	um but honestly that might be a while
6686s	till we get to that that might be one of
6688s	like the last things we do uh which
6690s	means we probably shouldn't have added
6691s	the lpvo but you know
6693s	um like now but yes yes it'll be yeah
6697s	it's kind of cool it's yeah it's
6699s	something that we'll we definitely have
6700s	planned and something we'd like to do
6702s	um in a reasonable amount of time but
6704s	yeah we've got other things to do first
6705s	I think
6707s	um yeah all right
6710s	um oh a smaller feature
6712s	um any idea any um
6715s	any talk about a shoulder tap mechanic
6720s	um
6724s	um I think Mark uh yeah
6729s	like a little thing with the shoulder
6732s	tip yeah
6733s	yeah it was it was just like super early
6736s	days like we were just like talking
6738s	about it I think it literally came from
6740s	like us talking in the public games call
6742s	me we're just like yeah this is really
6743s	cool
6744s	um and yeah like I did I did a very very
6746s	quick like knock-up of what it could
6749s	potentially look like because that's the
6751s	biggest hurdle is communicating that to
6754s	the player in a first person perspective
6757s	um and yeah like we've got some ideas
6759s	um it's obviously not implemented or
6760s	anything like that but it was it was
6762s	definitely toyed with
6764s	yeah the thing with um shoulder tap is
6766s	that it's it's a non-verbal
6768s	communication strategy that you use in
6770s	like areas where you don't want to alert
6771s	people but uh you know it's a video game
6774s	and we have this crazy thing called
6775s	Discord or you know just any kind of
6778s	chatting method where yeah that isn't
6780s	required so you end up with this like
6782s	feature with a key that you need to
6783s	assign or something that all of a sudden
6785s	unless it was part of a greater scheme
6786s	of like walk up the player hold down use
6789s	key you can swap mags with them or
6791s	whatever or check their you know if we
6794s	were going to go down like a more
6795s	in-depth like medical route check you
6797s	know things like that
6799s	um maybe but uh yeah shoulder tap or
6804s	something we've talked about experiments
6805s	with it may not see its way and purely
6807s	because of the fact that there is this
6809s	like it's very Niche but then again so
6812s	is like the idea of weapon lowering and
6815s	then also like being able to move
6816s	quickly like the idea of like just
6818s	weapon line being in the game it's quite
6819s	Niche uh so um it's not necessarily
6821s	something that we wouldn't do but there
6824s	there is very little use for it I think
6826s	a lot of the time
6828s	so so it really depends but it's a good
6830s	question because it'd be really cool
6831s	especially it was like really diegetic
6833s	like you feel like you hear the whole
6836s	like like that
6837s	maybe inside your screen kind of moves a
6839s	little bit you know get the shake I
6840s	think it'd be sweet it'd be kind of cool
6842s	to see that in gameplay so it might be
6845s	something we add as like an Unbound
6846s	feature or maybe it's part of a greater
6848s	like real like Drop it might be I I see
6850s	something like that as if we do it a
6852s	Post Release drop because I do think it
6854s	would be really cool there's a lot of
6855s	little things that would be awesome like
6856s	hand signals would be really cool as
6857s	well again you could be like oh we have
6859s	disco your net hand signal it's like
6861s	well what if someone wants to make like
6862s	a little machinimo what if someone wants
6863s	to like record some cool gameplay or
6865s	what if someone just wants to do a
6866s	non-verbal run which people have done
6868s	shoulder tapping is pretty important for
6870s	that I know like um uh control pairs has
6873s	done that 68's done that uh you know a
6876s	lot of people have done these runs
6877s	Karma's done that like these runs were
6879s	non-verbal and they're really cool to
6881s	see would be accentuated by like a
6883s	shoulder tap
6884s	um and yeah that would be pretty sweet I
6887s	reckon all right
6889s	um
6890s	any possibility of
6893s	um compliant civilian commands uh for
6896s	instance uh wow words for example asking
6899s	them to come towards you if if they have
6901s	already gotten on the gotten on the
6903s	ground and are compliant
6905s	yeah yeah that's fine yeah that's
6907s	planned
6908s	probably bundled in with the uh SWAT AI
6911s	update when that comes uh yeah
6915s	all right and here we are in the last
6917s	five minutes
6919s	um is there anything that either hasn't
6921s	been asked or that you guys would like
6923s	to you know have known or just want to
6926s	mention before we uh sign off for the
6927s	day
6930s	um yeah everyone else go ahead before I
6932s	guess back I just see a few questions oh
6935s	sorry I'm sorry I was gonna see you go
6938s	seriously you are my favorite dick but
6941s	um
6942s	um I did see some a few questions about
6943s	unreal five and we don't have any
6945s	immediate plans to upgrade to Unreal
6948s	five at the moment so we'll be sticking
6949s	with 4.27 for the foreseeable future
6955s	um
6957s	uh again thank you to everyone who stuck
6960s	around for this this uh q a because
6963s	again without you guys we wouldn't be
6965s	doing much right now so the fact that
6966s	you've really stuck around and you've
6968s	given all the feedback and you've been
6970s	playing the game and really enjoying it
6971s	that really means a lot to all of us big
6973s	time
6975s	so
6978s	um
6980s	I think uh
6982s	one of the things that I'm excited for a
6984s	setting actually would probably be the
6986s	um more World building content so you
6989s	guys here around the station you'll see
6990s	a lot of like these little voice
6991s	recordings there on like they're on
6993s	tapes they're on other things in agency
6995s	you can actually go and turn off that
6996s	radio and start the music playing
6998s	um these are our forays into more
7001s	content that will be rolled into the
7003s	station but also as in like you can
7005s	collect almost I won't say anything else
7007s	uh things will be rolled into the
7009s	station but also things that help expand
7012s	the World building Valley was our first
7014s	real
7015s	growth into that you had
7018s	um the notes everywhere
7020s	um but we really couldn't have notes on
7022s	every single level like that it doesn't
7023s	make sense so Ridgeline we introduced
7025s	and there's eight I think eight red Zach
7026s	or is it seven
7028s	um
7029s	which I had seven I think seven so seven
7033s	voice recordings on Ridgeline with uh
7034s	Gerard talking about things and they
7036s	actually Point towards the greatest
7038s	story that we've written for him
7040s	um that the actual content in this world
7042s	we try and fit it all into the level
7043s	itself
7045s	um and then you go around look at
7046s	magazines look at other things you might
7047s	get some more information look at some
7049s	graffiti you might get even some more
7050s	you might be able to figure out a fair
7051s	chunk of potentially some MLA storyline
7054s	um just by being a little bit more
7055s	attentive towards Richline and some
7056s	other levels and some newspapers and
7058s	magazines but the the way that we're
7060s	trying to build our world building is to
7061s	create that web you know it's it's less
7064s	like a linear thread and it's more like
7065s	this big kind of like Circle that you
7067s	can kind of then go oh this is the whole
7068s	world I get it now
7070s	um it's like law diving really getting
7072s	into that law uh and Mark's Been
7074s	instrumental in that sex instrumental on
7076s	that so it's um a Dan era a vo um
7079s	director so
7081s	yeah that's one thing that I really
7082s	really love doing as well is like
7085s	one of the more fun things about playing
7088s	the games obviously is not just the core
7090s	gameplay mechanics of reading houses and
7092s	stuff like that but it's that
7093s	investigation of the scenes and you know
7096s	not everything that's happening in the
7098s	world is spelled out to you like it's up
7100s	to the player to to look and find and
7102s	explore and piece it all together
7104s	themselves so we're definitely leaning
7106s	into a lot more of that storytelling
7107s	within the environments within the audio
7110s	um with basically whatever we can do to
7112s	to make it feel like Las Vegas is a real
7115s	lived in place and to take it just past
7117s	the levels and really take it into the
7120s	broader sense of the the city itself for
7123s	sure yeah and that's like that's it's
7126s	critical for us to do that and we got
7128s	some more like a lot of the new levels
7130s	of release need more World building
7132s	content and that's the plan for us is to
7133s	kind of roll that out in a future update
7137s	um and keep it going like that ideally
7139s	our updates are a little bit tighter
7140s	together as well but with like not as
7141s	much content so we'll kind of get keep
7143s	people paying attention instead of like
7146s	two six months apart updates
7149s	um you know it's yeah so there's a few
7152s	things that we're doing there which is
7153s	it's going to be cool I think it's gonna
7154s	be really exciting to have all this kind
7155s	of stuff
7157s	um I don't have anything to add to that
7159s	I was just going to say um going off of
7161s	Sterling's comment uh I know some of the
7163s	sound too we we actually we're still
7165s	fleshing it out for some of the levels
7166s	like importer and hospitals so
7169s	um that's also being
7171s	kind of
7173s	just just basically just layering stuff
7175s	up making it more immersive when you
7177s	walk into the level so we are still
7178s	adding sound to existing levels as well
7181s	yeah
7183s	um I'll touch on two more things and
7185s	then I'll be done which is just a a
7187s	video that someone posted about which is
7188s	really cool one I think it was on the
7189s	Reddit it probably was around here as
7191s	well
7192s	um there was some suggestions to improve
7194s	AI you know some of the stuff like oh
7195s	they should like civilians stay behind
7197s	cover suspects should say behind cover
7199s	um things like that we will continue to
7201s	look at and work on um sometimes we've
7204s	tried obviously a lot of these things we
7205s	have actually tried and then we've gone
7206s	well that won't work for now because
7208s	maybe it takes too long for them to exit
7209s	cover and you can just walk up to them
7211s	and pop them in the head and then it
7212s	necessitates you know a new system to
7216s	help them aim at you while you're
7217s	getting closer and or start shooting at
7219s	you beforehand that we don't have the
7220s	time to implement there are a few things
7222s	that we will be looking at the World
7223s	building that early mentioned is a big
7225s	one
7225s	um just to make people seem more alive
7227s	but a lot of the stuff you won't see you
7229s	know you don't like the combat stuff's
7230s	pretty critical
7232s	um and a lot of it you wouldn't see
7233s	otherwise so
7235s	we'll keep working on this kind of stuff
7237s	um and
7239s	uh hopefully you guys enjoy it and um
7241s	when modding you know when the SDK is
7244s	finished and after we've interfaced with
7246s	a lot of modders it'll be really cool to
7248s	see what people do with the systems that
7250s	have been written
7251s	um because it's just so robust and it
7253s	can allow for a lot of things and again
7255s	it's the whole thing of the community
7256s	sometimes will do things better than you
7258s	can because they've got the the salt for
7260s	their self focus their sole purpose is
7262s	to just like I need to I want to make
7263s	this AI like a specific guy in the
7266s	specific level just like incredibly
7268s	unpredictable but you do this one chain
7271s	of events and then you can you know get
7273s	him to surrender like [ __ ] like that is
7274s	is totally doable with the system and
7276s	really really cool to see
7278s	um so yeah there's a lot of really sweet
7280s	stuff that we've got planned and
7281s	hopefully we get around to it you know
7282s	the idea is to make this is like meant
7284s	to be the ultimate shooter the ultimate
7286s	tactical shooter and really really drive
7289s	that home for players I think
7292s	um and there are a lot of great tackle
7293s	Shooters out there you know there are a
7295s	lot and a lot coming up which are really
7296s	cool too I'm excited for a lot of them
7298s	um so yeah
7301s	um I see a question about uh sniper
7303s	teams are we gonna Implement that stuff
7306s	um
7307s	a similar software where you just like
7310s	control a sniper and
7313s	we might take control of them we may but
7315s	we also may not it may be something that
7317s	happens Zoom little ladders and drones
7319s	might be something that we add in an
7320s	expansion pack or a DLC yeah
7322s	um okay and again every time you drop an
7325s	expansion it's more tools for modding as
7326s	well which was cool so that could also
7328s	be an experiment for us yeah
7333s	alrighty
7335s	so we're at the uh at the end of our uh
7338s	two hours it's been a lot of information
7340s	a lot of uh cool cool bits shared and a
7343s	lot of uh nice interaction with the
7345s	community and all the chats but uh
7349s	Ollie Sterling Zach Sam Steve and mark
7352s	thank you very much for uh for your time
7357s	no I gotta send the thanks right back to
7358s	you and right back to the community
7360s	because you guys keep the dream alive
7362s	every day yeah thanks everyone it's a
7364s	genuine pleasure being a part of this it
7365s	really is
7367s	yes thanks guys all right and for those
7372s	uh for those waiting for it there will
7373s	be a VOD uploaded within the hour uh as
7377s	long as nothing goes horribly wrong so
7379s	uh yeah we'll have that up for you guys
7381s	and I will make an announcement in NDA
7383s	when we are good to go
7385s	awesome okay I'll Stick Around the chat
7387s	as well um if you guys have any
7389s	questions I'll probably stick around for
7390s	another half an hour hour or so just and
7393s	just kind of answer where I can so feel
7395s	free to ask away and tag me and whenever
7397s	it's up to you yeah same I'll stick
7398s	around as well are you sure Zach it's
7401s	1205 p.m on a Sunday not coming for a
7403s	beer
7406s	it's dinner time here I uh I got it at
7409s	the same time Kenny these moose
7414s	yeah I'll see you there
7417s	no uh yeah honestly though uh yeah
7420s	Kaminsky thanks for setting this all up
7422s	and um the mud team for you know helping
7424s	organize everything and um and
7427s	moderating this discussion of course and
7428s	everyone here thanks guys for jumping in
7430s	and listening 166 people still saying to
7432s	hear me ramble is awesome so and and the
7435s	rest of this team here like everyone's
7437s	like really they like engaging with you
7439s	guys a lot it's really cool it's really
7441s	cool
7442s	um to have a team that enjoys engaging
7443s	with the community as much as this team
7445s	does uh it can be quite scary sometimes
7447s	you know um because it's hard to it's
7450s	it's quite a gap to bridge between the
7452s	community and the uh the team
7455s	um because you can't necessarily see
7456s	every single angle of development this
7458s	isn't like open development where you
7459s	know everyone can come in and chip in
7460s	it's not how it works
7462s	um you know you can't have 10 000 chefs
7466s	you know so to speak so it's it's really
7469s	cool to have these little chats with you
7470s	guys and get a bit of um you know voice
7473s	time so thanks everyone thanks for
7475s	jumping in and I hope some of the stuff
7477s	we talked about has made you really
7478s	excited for what we have in store and um
7481s	you know give us some confidence that
7482s	we're not just sitting around going ah
7484s	[ __ ] it we've done it the game's done
7486s	we've we're good you know we we you know
7489s	we're ready we're done let's get the
7491s	[ __ ] out of here let's just chill on an
7492s	island like that's not the plan the plan
7494s	is to keep working on ready or not the
7496s	plan is to enjoy
7497s	um the the relaxed production of like
7500s	being not tied to anyone you know not
7503s	having to be anyone's like
7504s	you know like like answering to anybody
7507s	you know you can't even charge your own
7508s	destiny at this point and it's really
7510s	cool to to be able to have that kind of
7511s	ability so yeah and and I think everyone
7514s	here it feels the same way when it comes
7516s	to even their own roles
7518s	you really are free uh void so that's
7520s	kind of cool I think for us 100
7522s	absolutely yeah all right awesome
7527s	thank you
7532s	all right and uh with that good night
7535s	everybody
7536s	yep good morning two of my Australian
7538s	fellas oh folks 10 am here good morning
7542s	good morning all right good night from
7545s	the UK see ya

[2023] Ready or Not - Developer AMA - NDA Discord

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