Splitstream #3 - Weapon Design Developer Livestream | Splitgate 2 | Splitgate Dev Tracker

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896s	hello everyone and welcome back to
898s	another split stream not to be confused
900s	with the splitstream power weapon in
902s	splitgate 2 that is the third time I've
904s	said that joke and it's three times as
906s	funny as the first time I said it uh if
908s	you have not been here before this is
910s	our third split stream last week we went
912s	ahead and discussed level design with
913s	Garrett billian and the week before that
915s	was game design with Derek Jones if You'
917s	have not seen either of those and that
919s	interests you the videos are available
920s	at the split2 twitch channel in the vods
922s	section this week however we are talking
924s	about weapon design I'm Jesse Griffin
927s	Burg and I'm joined with Ian PR CEO and
929s	1047 co-founder and Justin lamperski one
933s	of our lead weapon designers so guys if
935s	you want to do a quick introduction and
937s	we can go ahead and Dive Right
939s	In yeah I'll start I've inted myself
942s	many times but I'm Ian PR CEO co-founder
945s	H also creative director for splitgate
947s	one and now splitgate 2 um but uh I'm
951s	excited uh for Justin to introduce
952s	himself I think I've talked about you
954s	Justin in a couple interviews before
956s	about how yeah we got the lead weapon
958s	artist from Cod
960s	um but uh I'll let you introduce
963s	yourself yeah so he's stole my thunder
965s	but yeah my name's Justin lerski I'm the
967s	lead weapons artist here at 1047 um yeah
970s	I come with like 20 years of experience
972s	working in games uh I have a crew of
975s	amazing artists that work under me I'll
977s	shout them out real quick Barkin Casey
979s	demitro Maka Omar sum Mo the and Valerio
983s	all superstars here and uh yeah it's
985s	been uh it's been a great experience
987s	working here so far
989s	great thank you Justin and yeah the the
992s	team does amazing work so let's go ahead
995s	and kick off uh the discussion today
996s	with the philosophy behind our weapon
998s	designs uh you know everybody knows a
1001s	lot of weapons from splitgate you know
1003s	the very well beloved BFB we have the
1005s	first rifle um what was uh I mean we
1009s	have a lot coming down as well that
1010s	people have not seen yet um but I want
1012s	to talk about you know Concepts and
1014s	similarities between splitgate and
1016s	splitgate 2 um and you know kind of the
1019s	the dynamic on how we focus more so on
1022s	more in-depth Weaponry Ian says a lot of
1025s	the time that weapons are the most
1026s	important thing in our game uh you know
1028s	we love that we love our weapons audio
1030s	team does a lot the effect does a lot so
1032s	yeah let's just dive into to philosophy
1035s	um yeah I'll uh I'll start I mean I'll
1038s	say uh like you said I mean weapons are
1042s	the most important part of the game like
1043s	it is definitely by far the thing we
1045s	spend the most time just nitpicking the
1047s	crap out of every little detail on that
1050s	gun um I'd say from an artistic point of
1052s	view I mean Justin can probably say more
1055s	but it's it's where do I want the
1057s	scratches right like oh where do I want
1059s	the stripes where do I you know all of
1061s	that stuff how do I make the show the
1063s	the scope a little shinier um I know we
1065s	even talked about like there were like
1068s	let me remove this little thing that
1070s	sticks out slightly it's distracting so
1072s	like all of those little details on the
1074s	art side to you know the animation of
1078s	just feeling snap happy and Powerful to
1080s	the audio kind of conveying I'll say the
1083s	audio is really tricky because you have
1085s	you know obviously most important thing
1087s	is how do you make the gun just feel
1089s	good fun to shoot fun to click but then
1092s	on top of that it's like all right well
1093s	like it has to stand out from all the
1096s	other guns and now with Spate 2 we have
1098s	so many different weapons this time
1099s	around there's the different carbines
1102s	the different ARS SMGs all these
1103s	different weapons that have to kind of
1105s	stay in their Lane and appropriate
1109s	appropriately feel powerful enough but
1111s	not too powerful and then you know you
1113s	get into this like oh well this AR it
1115s	has to be more powerful sounding than
1117s	that AR but it has to sound weaker than
1120s	the s or you know whatever you get the
1122s	point so it really just becomes very
1124s	complicated very quickly I think our
1126s	fallback is just make it feel really
1128s	freaking fun and uh and if it does then
1132s	sometimes we bend the rules a little bit
1134s	but uh we try to kind of stay in our
1135s	lane you know we have the three
1137s	different classes Each of which has a
1139s	slightly different personality to it um
1142s	visually animation wise audio wise um
1146s	and we kind of have each of those
1148s	defined Styles um and I guess the last
1151s	thing I'll say in terms of like from a
1152s	game design on weapons philosophy uh
1155s	again fun is always first like we want
1157s	to have variety we want to have guns
1159s	that just are fun to use um but we also
1162s	want to just stay true to split gate um
1164s	you know even when we started developing
1165s	splitgate too we got a lot of people in
1167s	the company love Call of Duty Dy love
1170s	Battlefield a lot of people saying oh
1172s	well what if we did like an ads type of
1175s	shooter and we were very uh adamant
1177s	about like no we gotta stick to you know
1180s	the true split gate one gun play very
1183s	reminiscent of Halo of course you know
1185s	me I love Halo 2 Halo 3 um but uh it's
1189s	got to be a hip fire shooter accuracy
1191s	from the hip versus zoomed in's got to
1193s	be the same that's very very critical um
1196s	so you know kind of spewing random stuff
1200s	but you you get a little bit of an idea
1202s	I I mean I'm curious to hear your
1203s	thoughts Justin on you know you're the
1205s	one who actually makes these things look
1206s	cool um but I'm more of like a feel cool
1210s	you're a look cool so how do you make
1211s	them look so cool Justin is also just
1215s	cool totally thank you thank you so much
1217s	for that um I paid him to say that um
1221s	yeah so I think just from like my
1224s	ownership standpoint of it is uh you
1226s	know we work closely with Sam white and
1228s	his crew in concept and you know we're
1231s	always bouncing ideas off each other to
1233s	make these things look as cool as
1234s	possible there'll often be times where
1236s	they'll have really good advice for what
1239s	we could do to make it look better and
1241s	and vice versa so we go at it like as a
1243s	team collabor collaboration Sor to I'll
1246s	just chime in Justin because I think a
1248s	lot of people outside of the gaming
1249s	industry probably don't know what how do
1251s	you make a gun right it's it's not just
1254s	okay Justin go make the gun right
1255s	there's a pipeline could you explain
1257s	that a little bit with how there's
1259s	concept and a 3D yeah absolutely so um
1263s	primarily it all starts with Concept
1264s	right when we get together powow throw
1267s	ideas uh Sam's team kind of has
1269s	ownership over that a lot of that uh
1271s	stuff but we we have consider uh we have
1274s	voices uh on each side to come together
1277s	um there's usually a general philosophy
1279s	like if it's a Meridian weapon it's
1280s	going to be relatively Tech heavy um
1283s	feel kind of like future-based shoot
1285s	energy projectiles as opposed to kinetic
1288s	uh bullets or something like that um so
1291s	once that gets finalized and approved it
1293s	goes through our Direction approvals uh
1296s	multiple concept passes color passes
1298s	until we have something that we can
1299s	really say Okay everyone's super happy
1301s	with this that's where we kind of take
1303s	over we grab the models uh whatever's
1306s	there and we start to kind of make that
1309s	into a final asset that you'll see in
1311s	game so it goes through pretty standard
1314s	AAA workflow at this point which is you
1316s	know a blockout phase a low poly a high
1319s	B poly UVS baking and then into
1321s	materials where we paint all that
1323s	surface detail um all of these are done
1326s	uh each individually uniquely by hand um
1329s	so you know we uh really try to get
1334s	character and um a real unique bespoke
1337s	feeling per factions uh um you know uh
1341s	look because there's three kind of
1342s	distinct looks and the way these things
1344s	go and the archetypes follow each one of
1346s	those things and so the materials have
1348s	to follow them as
1350s	well yeah and the tldr is we have one
1353s	team of concept artists those are like
1356s	the idea people the creative people so
1358s	you can think of them as just they're
1360s	they're not making things that actually
1361s	go into the game they're making things
1364s	that just look really cool on paper
1366s	Justin's job is to make that come to
1368s	life right so Sam white our amazing lead
1372s	concept artist takes creates this idea
1375s	from nothing somehow it's in his brain
1377s	and he makes a really cool looking idea
1379s	for a gun Justin says okay I'm going to
1382s	take that idea and I'm going to give it
1384s	all the details I'm going to make it 3D
1386s	so that it works in our game so that
1388s	it's got scratches and details and
1390s	textures and all of this stuff so that
1392s	it looks beautiful with the lighting in
1395s	first
1397s	person and then it hands off to the
1399s	animation team and they make it move
1402s	right and then we hand it off to the VFX
1403s	team and they make it spark and then you
1405s	hand it off to the audio team and they
1407s	make it sound cool
1409s	more or less that's kind of an
1410s	oversimplification tldr that's perfect
1412s	way to right that's great tldr yeah uh I
1416s	think I have a number in my head uh
1418s	Justin how many weeks does it take to go
1420s	from concept to a shippable quality of a
1422s	weapon do you have that off hand I think
1424s	I know the number but figured I'll ask
1426s	you yeah depending on the size of the
1428s	weapon it's it's in between four to five
1429s	weeks usually for about uh concept to
1431s	final um you know massive weapons like a
1434s	something might take a touch longer but
1436s	that's generally like our average um so
1439s	we're trying to hit each one of those
1440s	steps I was outlining in about a week um
1444s	and if we can do that we can um we can
1447s	crank stuff out in a relatively good
1449s	fashion stay on task and um and make
1452s	them that just seems to fit us well for
1454s	the quality bar we're trying to
1456s	hit no that's that's awesome thank you
1459s	for that uh yeah you know Ian you talked
1461s	earlier about you know bringing the fun
1463s	and whatnot uh I remember when we were
1465s	just starting splitgate to you know you
1468s	got all of us together and we broke off
1470s	into teams for an online whiteboard and
1473s	you said you guys write down your best
1474s	ideas for weapons and you know we took
1477s	some of that and made weapons out of
1479s	them some have yet to be seen uh you
1481s	know it was a really fun thing and some
1484s	of us all had the same weapon idea and
1486s	it was like okay like clearly this is
1488s	something that we should focus on so
1490s	it's yeah we definitely bring the fun
1492s	into it for sure I'm going to leak uh
1495s	something this is not the official name
1497s	for the gun so I'm just going to leak
1499s	the kind of internal name and then
1500s	people can try to speculate what they
1503s	actually think this gun is but we have a
1504s	gun that was actually created at a
1506s	company offsite where we we split off
1509s	into teams and we tried to balance it so
1512s	we had marketing and art and engineering
1514s	and everybody kind of split off into
1516s	teams and it was all right go make a gun
1518s	come up with a creative idea right and
1521s	and I think with weapons like we want to
1522s	have a balance right we want to have
1523s	some stuff that's like very traditional
1526s	standard assault rifle pointand click
1529s	super easy to use and we want to have a
1530s	lot of guns that are true to split gay1
1532s	like the Aros carbine is very
1534s	specifically designed to feel and look
1538s	like splick 81's carbine um but then you
1540s	have variety right anyway this one gun
1543s	that uh we had a bunch of people come up
1545s	with at the offsite that we have not yet
1547s	revealed is called the Pepe gun and uh
1550s	you can kind of speculate on what you
1552s	think the PP stands for but uh it's a
1556s	it's a really fun it's a powerway I'll
1559s	say that as well um yeah and we got
1561s	other other weapons I like the P gun
1564s	it's a good other weapons that maybe
1565s	have letters associated with them but
1568s	we'll see we'll see no that's that's
1571s	awesome yeah uh Justin you mentioned a
1574s	little bit in regards to like diversity
1576s	between factions and whatnot um I was
1578s	going to delve in a little bit more on
1579s	that um you know I'm sure our players
1582s	and those who have seen gameplay are
1583s	familiar with the three factions we have
1586s	each faction is very you know
1587s	distinguished you can tell if you're on
1589s	a sbras map versus an Aros map with the
1592s	color schemes and whatnot uh how did you
1594s	go about sort of differentiating those
1597s	you know weapon wise you mentioned uh
1600s	there's energy sounding for the Meridian
1602s	weapons versus like kinetic standard
1604s	sounds for AOS um did you have to dive
1607s	in really deep to find uh I guess the
1610s	right way to define these factions in
1612s	Weaponry um and you know who did you
1614s	collab with uh you know my thought goes
1616s	to David for animation uh obviously Ian
1619s	venzo uh give me a little bit on you
1621s	know your thought process
1623s	there yeah well when I came on about a
1626s	year I'm a little over a year old here
1628s	um a lot of the faction design was was
1631s	starting to be really solidified um and
1634s	so for sbras you have you know your
1636s	three types sbras Aros Meridian um the
1639s	sbras are more you know they follow
1642s	these kind of it's not rules per se but
1644s	they're just kind of archetypes for
1645s	their things but they're more like your
1647s	chunkier shapes your heavier stronger
1649s	things more militaristic probably the
1651s	most militaristic feeling um you know
1654s	think of like a an AK you're firing in a
1656s	big AK or something like it it's meaty
1658s	it's it's clangy you know it jumps a lot
1661s	it's it's kind of like that kind of
1662s	approach for AAS you know the the the
1665s	idea is to keep it sleek and sporty and
1667s	kind of aerodynamic you know you'll
1669s	you'll notice on a lot of the weapons
1670s	they have a shell across them it's kind
1672s	of like you know a nod to aerodynamics
1674s	being fast um and they're Built For
1677s	Speed um I remember too on AOS a lot of
1680s	like inspiration from bike parts yes
1684s	yeah yeah yeah that's a good call out um
1688s	yeah and the the Meridian are just your
1690s	your heaviest Tech so it's like they're
1692s	I believe they're Venus based uh group
1695s	and so they're they're they rely on
1698s	energy um they're kind of the support
1700s	role you know as you saw like they see
1702s	through walls they can you know hack and
1704s	do things like that to kind of like let
1705s	them visualize things so they're that's
1708s	kind of like their approach so you'll
1709s	just notice their weapons feel they
1711s	might have the most um uh visual amount
1715s	of things going on you know like on them
1717s	like to just say like hey there's a lot
1719s	going on in this weapon whereas like an
1721s	arrow shell is going to kind of take up
1722s	a lot of that space But meridians got a
1725s	lot of techy details grebles whatever
1727s	you want to call them so the tldr is
1729s	like yeah they're they look like they're
1731s	Tech heavy kind of approach on their
1736s	weapons yeah and G to be jumping off of
1739s	that a little bit um you know continuing
1741s	on with our theme of weapon design uh if
1745s	you were not able to tune in to our
1747s	first stream where we talked about game
1749s	design uh we had mentioned time to kill
1751s	uh we got a good amount of feedback on
1753s	that and we've implemented time to kill
1755s	changes we've had since then One
1757s	external play test uh we got a thumbs up
1759s	on that uh so it's great to see that
1761s	positive change uh and you know one
1763s	thing that comes down to for balancing
1765s	is you know not only does it have to
1767s	feel right for or the player for the
1769s	amount of time it takes to kill but also
1771s	it has to match like the weapons
1773s	animation and audio and so these changes
1775s	that we made they really compliment with
1777s	one another uh extremely well uh and it
1779s	feels very satisfying to continue to use
1781s	the Weaponry every single time and I'll
1784s	add a tldr again but like basically at
1787s	the uh at the alpha the guy you know the
1789s	first playable Alpha um we were a little
1792s	bit faster than Spate one's time to kill
1795s	we tested we got feedback from a lot of
1797s	people in the community saying hey this
1798s	is feels too fast not everybody but a
1800s	lot of people um saying you know we
1803s	prefer Spate one's time to kill and so
1805s	that's basically exactly what we did um
1807s	you know we did a huge weapon balancing
1809s	pass every single gun was touched uh to
1812s	essentially match the Spate one time to
1814s	kill so we basically started with let's
1817s	take the Aros carbine which is meant to
1819s	feel like the splitgate carbine let's
1821s	sync it up as closely as possible to
1824s	just what what were the values in splick
1826s	81 okay cool that worked really well
1828s	let's copy that and then let's balance
1831s	around that and we did a play test uh
1833s	you know a few weeks ago with some
1834s	external players a lot of core community
1837s	members and um had a survey at the end
1840s	where we asked you know how'd you feel
1842s	about the time to kill was it too long
1843s	too short just right and overwhelming
1845s	majority of people said Yep this feels
1847s	exactly like what we want so not
1849s	everyone you you're never going to
1851s	please everyone some people want Cod
1852s	some people want Halo um but we feel
1854s	like we got a really nice sweet spot
1856s	with where we're at
1859s	yeah I don't I don't have a ton to add
1860s	there just that um you know we get we
1863s	play the play test every week so these
1865s	things are kind of like you know just
1867s	part of the design it's good that I
1869s	think it's really cool that you know Ian
1871s	does kind of an outside group outside of
1874s	our own uh company to get kind of
1876s	feedback on some more core Community
1878s	people that could have a completely
1880s	different opinion than a guy like me who
1882s	he mentioned is more of a Cod player
1885s	right and I'm like why can't I kill this
1886s	guy in two shots but um it's just not
1889s	how that is but it doesn't mean it's
1890s	less fun it's just a different way to
1892s	approach the game right so I think
1894s	that's a interesting way to take on that
1897s	yeah yeah well well said uh yeah and
1900s	I'll I'll add like with everything I'm a
1903s	huge believer in play testing internally
1905s	and externally and so we test as a
1907s	company whole company tests twice a week
1910s	whether you're an artist engineer design
1912s	marketing whatever it is we test twice a
1915s	week we do our own internal surveys to
1917s	see hey do we think we're trending in
1918s	the right direction and then of course
1920s	when we feel like yeah we we think we're
1922s	making good moves then we put it to the
1924s	test with with you guys with the
1926s	community and um get your feedback
1929s	so actually I'll uh say one thing we've
1931s	been testing uh which is sort of weapon
1934s	related more gameplay but is meleeing um
1938s	you know we've kind of gone back and
1939s	forth do we like 45 damage do we like 50
1942s	damage um so we've been testing 50
1945s	damage internally um still you know a
1948s	lot of people it's a it's a big change
1950s	right it's only five damage but it's the
1951s	difference between two punches or three
1954s	and um so I can't see the chat so I'm
1957s	curious what people think but uh we're
1959s	going to definitely be looking for
1961s	feedback related to that very soon say
1963s	three chat please I'm a two guy Justin's
1966s	a three guy uh but I won't say my number
1970s	then we'll keep it 50/50 keep it even
1972s	Jess's gonna say four how did you know
1975s	how did you know that would be terrible
1978s	a brawler yeah exactly yeah so gonna be
1982s	diving in a little bit more uh might
1984s	throw you a curveball here Justin uh I
1986s	wanted to just talk about how the
1988s	weapons feel different you know when you
1991s	reload an AOS weapon it's very fast it's
1993s	very Flash and very sporty like we
1995s	discussed versus you know a sabras
1997s	weapon uh the Trailblazer assault rifle
1999s	it feels heavy the warden carbine feels
2001s	heavy what was the process going about
2003s	working alongside David and the
2005s	animation team in order to really show
2007s	that difference in the faction
2009s	Weaponry I can probably take this I mean
2012s	you can take it if you want you should
2013s	probably take you could take it yeah I
2015s	I'm just I work with Dave very closely I
2017s	was on a call with him right before this
2018s	um thanks but um you know I think when
2022s	we started with the feel I think
2025s	animation is kind of the biggest I guess
2027s	it's all really but animation is where
2029s	it starts right audio is kind of
2031s	supporting the animation bfx support the
2033s	animation um but I think in terms of
2036s	feel like
2038s	even without a good sound like the gunun
2040s	should feel Snappy just looking at it um
2043s	so that's kind of step one once Justin
2044s	does his job and brings the weapon to
2047s	life and makes it look beautiful and
2048s	detailed now it's like all right we got
2050s	to make this thing feel very good and
2052s	snappy um in terms of style you know
2056s	split gate 2 is a sport right this is
2058s	not a war this is a sport of the future
2061s	Formula
2062s	1 meets you know Spartan meets Gladiator
2066s	right um and so we kind of started I'm a
2069s	big basketball player I played
2071s	basketball in college and love the
2072s	sports and so we kind of started with
2075s	you know how would NBA athletes reload
2079s	these weapons right it would be
2080s	different probably per faction right so
2084s	they're all athletes but if sabras is
2086s	kind of the big brawler heavy that's
2089s	kind of like LeBron James right how
2090s	would LeBron reload a weapon if he was
2093s	playing the sport of the future well
2094s	he's probably punching that mag in he's
2096s	just jamming it in right how would Steph
2099s	Curry do it though right AOS right when
2101s	we set out to create bolt Steph Curry
2104s	was our inspiration it's flashy right
2106s	it's a little bit show offy confident
2109s	but not cocky um that was kind of the
2111s	inspiration for Aeros and so that's why
2113s	you start to see stuff like flipping the
2115s	mag before you put it in just having fun
2117s	with it not afraid to just you know
2119s	whatever twirl it uh and then Meridian
2121s	is like your Ray Allen you're
2123s	Sharpshooter Ultra efficient you know no
2126s	[ __ ] no Twirls no jamming it in it's
2129s	just tactical um and so that was kind of
2131s	the initial vision and obviously you
2134s	know you have these rules and sometimes
2136s	you bend them sometimes you break them
2138s	um because ultimately like the fallback
2140s	is like the rules are really guidelines
2142s	but does it feel fun that's kind of the
2144s	most important thing and we're not
2146s	afraid to break the rules if it makes a
2149s	gun more fun um but that was how we
2152s	started uh and I think we've mostly hit
2154s	that like even the arrow shotgun that we
2156s	revealed recently um you know he flips
2159s	he kind of spins the mag in his hand for
2162s	putting it back in um obviously It's
2165s	Tricky though right because gameplay has
2167s	to come first and you do these cool
2170s	things and sometimes it's like well hey
2172s	reload the damn gun because I'm getting
2174s	shot at uh and so we did just take a
2176s	pass um this was some of the feedback we
2179s	got from the alpha was some of the
2180s	reloads feel like they take too long uh
2183s	and I think we actually ended up
2184s	speeding up I want to say every single
2186s	gun in the game by at least 10% and in
2189s	some cases 20 to 30% um but uh yeah that
2195s	was a big pass we just went through
2196s	everything and said hey speed it up
2198s	speed it up speed it up um but uh we
2201s	still want to preserve that fun and I
2203s	think we've hit that good balance uh and
2205s	actually if you look at like the actual
2206s	values behind it all Aeros guns take the
2209s	exact same amount of time to reload as
2211s	any other weapon so it's not actually
2213s	taking longer it just visually you're
2215s	doing more in that time you know instead
2217s	of doing this you're doing this um but
2221s	yeah that was kind of our philosophy
2223s	there yeah thanks Ian no that's a that's
2225s	a great breakdown uh the last bit I have
2229s	here is discussing a little bit more on
2230s	power weapons versus non-power weapons
2232s	uh one thing I want to add is you know
2234s	you talked about uh having the fun and
2236s	you also mentioned feedback on reloads
2238s	uh we have now of course added the
2240s	ability one thing we saw a lot in
2241s	feedback was sprinting and reloading um
2244s	you know why can't I do this uh you know
2246s	we have made that change uh so which is
2248s	always super exciting uh I know a lot of
2250s	people are happy about that um and yeah
2253s	in regards to power weapons we did
2256s	recently release uh you know a quick
2257s	video of the deadbolt sabras sniper
2259s	rifle uh I think the stream has been
2261s	showing it but if not it is available on
2263s	our Twitter page exclamation point
2264s	Twitter uh got some fun music there as
2266s	well uh really clean looking sniper
2268s	rifle um so have we shown it in first
2271s	person yet do you know I do not think we
2273s	have I think it's just I think it's just
2275s	the intro video but man does it look
2277s	good no you got to see it in first I
2279s	mean it looks great but you got to see
2281s	it in first person because that thing is
2283s	freaking juicy like shooting it I mean
2286s	you see the whole Barrel kick back like
2288s	that there's like it's kind of inspired
2290s	by like the split G one audio but with
2292s	an extra layer on top of just like that
2294s	metal on metal piercing sound and I mean
2298s	I'm just I think it's like the best I
2301s	mean bold statement I think it's the
2303s	best sniper I've ever felt in a video
2305s	game to me at least I'd have to agree oh
2308s	yeah it is actually and it is they're
2310s	showing it on first person on the stream
2312s	which is really cool so um perfect I
2316s	mean I know Ian love this loves this gun
2317s	because he shoots me in the face with it
2319s	on a weekly basis um but it's okay
2321s	because I kill him with the charge
2322s	shotgun enough um yeah no it's great
2326s	because like I think with the like
2328s	getting into the power weapons like
2331s	they give you this like Delta in between
2335s	the regular guns where they can really
2337s	turn the tide the battle if you can grab
2339s	them um and so they can give you an
2341s	advantage a huge Advantage if you're
2343s	good with them and they're they're super
2345s	satisfying to use we have other ones too
2347s	like that aren't released but there's
2349s	some really fun ones in there that like
2352s	are just like you just kind of go yes
2354s	like when you're playing it because it
2355s	it feels really good to play yeah and uh
2359s	I'll just add I'm I I love that we have
2361s	power weapons I mean I think you know is
2363s	definitely one of the things we
2364s	absolutely wanted to preserve from SPL
2366s	A1 even with adding Lo outs right I mean
2368s	I think the nice thing about loadouts is
2370s	it just gives you so much more weapon
2371s	variety um but you lose a lot when you
2375s	play other games with loadouts that
2377s	don't have power weapons because it's
2378s	like everything has to be balanced and
2380s	that's really limiting um and that's why
2382s	we kind of wanted to keep it contained
2384s	you know we have a certain number of
2386s	weapons per class only a certain number
2388s	you know I think we have like five
2390s	attachments um so we have enough to give
2392s	you that variety but still kind of flex
2394s	our muscles to go all out for for power
2397s	weapons that's where like you know it
2399s	can you can go crazy it doesn't have to
2400s	be perfectly balanced um but uh we got a
2404s	lot of really fun power weapons coming
2406s	so some fan favorites some brand new
2409s	like the PE gun the peee gun yeah I was
2412s	just gonna say something I love about
2413s	our power weapons is that we have a lot
2415s	of like alt fires with them yeah um and
2418s	I think that's definitely something
2419s	that's very unique to you know the
2421s	shooter world when it comes to uh to
2423s	power weapons right the AOS SMG uh the
2426s	split stream uh you know you can split
2428s	it in two or use it as one um you know
2430s	the pp gun same sort of idea there with
2433s	an ALT fire uh you know tons of these
2436s	tons of these unique weapons are you
2439s	know just super fun and super great um
2442s	so yeah the power weapons are are
2444s	definitely a big part of what we enjoy
2445s	working here on on the weapons for sure
2448s	audio loves it VFX loves it everything
2450s	like that yeah they get to flex so they
2453s	do get to flex yeah I was just in an
2455s	audio sync uh we were walk working on a
2457s	on a sbras pistol uh just a pistol but I
2460s	think you're going to love the changes
2461s	Ian so uh tomorrow you can take a look
2464s	at it and I think you're going to love
2465s	it
2467s	so all right well uh unless there's
2470s	anything else you two want to take a
2472s	couple minutes to chat about we can
2473s	probably answer some questions unless
2475s	there's again anything you guys want to
2477s	jump off of right
2479s	now I'm good perfect cool we'll take uh
2483s	you know three maybe four questions uh
2485s	between you know the socials that we're
2487s	streaming to
2488s	uh while it is only a short amount of
2490s	questions being answered if you do not
2491s	know uh to the viewers we are doing a
2494s	Discord uh Q&A tomorrow as well uh so
2497s	we're going to be answering a lot more
2498s	questions there so you know we'll take a
2500s	look today at the chat call some of the
2502s	questions out and uh please RSVP for
2505s	that invitation uh in our Discord
2507s	exclamation point social exclamation
2509s	point socials for our Twitter Discord
2511s	that sort of thing uh definitely
2512s	something that we always look forward to
2514s	is community engagement that's something
2516s	that we've been you know striving back
2517s	towards and will continue to do so uh
2521s	with that we can go ahead and pull up
2523s	the chat you two and we can answer a
2525s	couple of questions
2531s	here I'm letting you uh yeah I'm
2533s	scrolling through right now uh we got a
2536s	lot of comments about um you know the
2537s	reflection on the scope for the sasic
2539s	sniper looks great uh that sort of thing
2542s	so that was actually a nice ad since the
2545s	uh Alpha that Justin went through all
2547s	the that had Scopes and gave it a little
2549s	bit of love so yeah that was direct
2553s	feedback with interesting story from the
2555s	alpha playing with my some of my friends
2557s	who are in the industry and they're like
2558s	you know these are guns look amazing
2560s	except the Scopes and Ian called it out
2562s	too and I was like you're right so we
2564s	went in and I just started to do them
2566s	and now it's like it just really adds
2569s	like a I don't know believability to it
2571s	and grounds it really well
2574s	yeah all right I have a couple here that
2577s	have uh caught my eye um will splitgate
2580s	two have more or less weapons than
2582s	splitgate one way more way more insanely
2586s	more more than twice more than three
2588s	times maybe that might be right that
2591s	might be right I think it's more than 3x
2595s	certainly it's more than double
2597s	certainly more than double easily
2599s	easily another one that spotted me uh
2602s	maybe more so a design question is there
2604s	a reason why the assault rifle went from
2606s	an ads on AIM to just a small Zoom
2609s	between splitgate and splitgate
2612s	2 uh yes there is actually
2616s	um so uh okay let me I'm just trying to
2620s	remember so I think what we did we we
2622s	wanted to make the gun archetypes a
2625s	little more just easy to understand and
2628s	so when we were going through like a
2630s	Carbine versus an AR versus an SMG
2633s	versus a whatever BR right we s went
2637s	through and like okay like how can we
2639s	make it really obvious when you see that
2641s	gun on the ground oh that's that's a
2644s	long range gun that's a carbine um and
2647s	ARS are a little tricky because it's
2649s	sort of that right in the middle where
2651s	it's medium range right like it's it's
2653s	automatic you can shoot people up close
2656s	you can shoot people from relatively far
2658s	but it doesn't have the range of like a
2660s	carbine or BR um but it certainly has
2662s	more range than an
2664s	SMG um and so anyway we ended up just
2667s	deciding you know let's only put scopes
2670s	on carbines and vs because that kind of
2672s	tells the player like hey this is a
2674s	longrange weapon and we were really 5050
2678s	on ARS but decided to kind of lean
2680s	towards you know let's do no scopes um
2683s	because it's kind of already obvious the
2685s	difference between an AR and an SMG
2686s	because the size is so different and so
2689s	we felt like okay if we're trying to
2691s	convey
2692s	mid-range don't give it a scope but make
2694s	it bigger and it's kind of easy to
2697s	understand what the archetype is and
2699s	then by adding smart link right I don't
2702s	know if we have an official term for it
2703s	but every gun you can now zoom in with
2705s	which you couldn't do incate one and
2708s	that was kind of feedback of just it
2710s	felt it didn't feel good on certain guns
2712s	you know you get used to you click right
2715s	mouse or left trigger and you zoom um it
2719s	just doesn't feel good to do that on an
2721s	SMG in splick 81 and be like well how
2723s	come this button doesn't do anything um
2726s	so that's how we ended up with with
2730s	that I have a question for you Ian and
2732s	I'm sure I know the answer but what is
2734s	your personal favorite weapon that we've
2736s	shown to uh to the player base I would
2740s	have said the sabras carbine before but
2742s	I I honestly I'd say like the saass snip
2744s	this not sabras the sniper there's only
2746s	one sniper but uh the sniper is my
2749s	favorite gun in the game like I think it
2750s	just in terms of feel it's obviously a
2753s	power weapon um it's just I think it's
2758s	A+ 10 out of 10 like the audio that Noah
2761s	did is perfect the animation that Dave
2764s	and Parker did is perfect the V effects
2766s	that gerro did are perfect like it's
2768s	just the model itself that I don't know
2771s	did you do that one Justin or who on the
2772s	team demitro it's perfect like I'm just
2776s	like I would not change anything about
2777s	this gun I love it
2781s	so that's great um and let's see we have
2785s	time I think for one more
2787s	um there's one question how Jesse
2790s	doesn't ask me my favorite weapon I mean
2791s	geez yeah come on Jessie well I that's
2794s	fair Justin what is your favorite weapon
2795s	I knew it was the the warden carbine uh
2798s	the sniper you know I can absolutely see
2800s	that following suit uh Justin what is
2802s	your favorite
2803s	weapon uh I would have to say that uh
2806s	probably just based on the way this
2807s	thing feels and sound the Meridian burst
2809s	rifle is just like nice so fun to use it
2813s	just sounds so good I think like sounds
2815s	with the weapons like basically make
2818s	them feel as satisfying as possible and
2820s	like that one's like got the to me
2822s	that's that's the best yeah sounds so
2824s	great one yeah and it looks gorgeous
2828s	so it does look gorgeous
2831s	absolutely all right well I think that
2834s	we'll probably go ahead and wrap up the
2836s	stream and uh you know the very small
2838s	very quick Q&A uh once again uh we are
2841s	doing that full-fledged Q&A tomorrow in
2843s	our Discord again exclamation point
2845s	socials in the chat uh for our Twitter
2847s	All That Jazz um and yeah with that be
2852s	sure to you know wish list our game on
2854s	Steam we're very interested to see how
2855s	excited you are for splitgate uh we know
2857s	a lot of you have yet to be able to play
2859s	the game and we are more than excited
2861s	for you to be able to have that chance
2863s	uh when the time is right and once again
2866s	Justin Ian thank you guys for your time
2867s	it's
2868s	appreciated thank you guys thanks Justin
2871s	thank you thank you guys both thank you
2873s	I'll end with uh we're definitely going
2875s	to start trying to show more faces from
2877s	the team um so thanks Justin for for
2880s	doing this but you know you can expect
2883s	more people from 1047 to show their
2885s	beautiful faces so we want to talk to
2887s	you guys and uh really appreciate all
2889s	the feedback Keep It
2892s	Coming great

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