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These took a good deal of research, like you guys say here there is a lot of contradicting information so we had to go straight to the top on order to get them right.

She extends her hand and does a force pull to get it, if you play with audio its even more noticeable. It was a nod to the end sequence of the movie.

After the ultimate it just phases out.

Selfishly speaking Im glad this hasn't changed much, if at all, since I left. It’s a good mode, it was fun to create and figure out how to make it flexible so it can actually provide different kinds of experiences and encourage different team builds.

Im definitely excited to play it, this is something we had been talking about internally for a long time and its a mode the game can build on for future stuff as well.

You’re thinking too hard

I don't mean to ignore you, because you are being polite, but youre asking the kind of question I can't answer casually. Lots of it has to do with me detailing our content production pipeline which I have no interest in divulging (for many reasons, some obvious, some not) and lots of it has to do with the amount of typing it would take to explain it in general terms. Unfortunately, I'm in the middle of my move to Spain and I cant commit to either.

The one reason I commented in the first place is because I get that when people say "content" they mean "new raid" or "new galactic war" or "whatever mode they like from game x", sure, but some users (bait trolls aside) take it to such an extreme where they make themselves believe that creating a new character plus the marquee event that goes with it = zero effort and, well, that's something that needs to be cleared up.

Doesn't matter if it’s not considered new content or not, its the same amount of work for the art team.

I mean, call it what you want but its still the same amount of work for the team. Its not like theres a “make character” button we can hit.

I don't see her getting a rework anytime soon, to be honest. Not cause the people in charge wouldn't want to, cause my guess is they would agree but touchups are usually tied to related content releases.

If and when more OR content comes out (I have no info or knowledge of that so Im not hinting at anything) then theres a chance. Otherwise, Im not seeing it.

Cant say it didn't help when I used the “plus we already have the models done” hook. It was a good opportunity to get a fun character in the mix, we need more of those.

Glad this finally got announced! I'll take some credit cause this character was one of my ideas, thought the mix of two characters would make for a pretty fun character both kit wise and art wise.

Well I am curious about how they're handling the art questions since I was the one handling all of that, haha. I made sure the last Q&A happened before I left so I could handle all the GL art questions and not leave them for the next guy.

I hate myself (slightly) for noticing each time this pops up that its the wrong art for that event

I dont mind too much, since thats one of my pieces, but still

I'm sure it could be done but I don't think theres such strong demand that would warrant the amount of work involved.

That wasn't even the intention, but its best to futureproof your topology just in case the possibility opens up in the future. Adding the bones necessary for a facial rig would create too many draw calls and blow up the tech budget (nevermind the time required to animate it). However, I wanted the facial features to be modeled in so the face wouldn't warp in 3/4 view like the old models do, plus, the more topology you have, the better the light reacts to the model (which is a whole other long winded discussion that I wont get into right now)

Hey my contributions to the Q&A's were pretty juicy too, so feel free to find them and give them a read :)

Depends, remember, I don't work there ;)

Cinematics should get a nice upgrade once the tools are ready, thats something we were looking forward to. As for the rest ... it depends on what they decide and its not very player facing. A big internal focus on the design side was “making new content is more time consuming than it should be, we need to invest in ways to make more meaningful content faster” and this is a step towards fixing that.

Updating your engine is not a new system. Unreal 4 to 5 is a new system but thats not what this Unity update is about.

Lets go a bit deeper here, since I miss pontificating about ART.

Let me introduce you to the term “budget” which is an industry standard and we made the mistake of using it once to describe something in the game, making everyone feel like we were talking about $$$. When you make a game you have “x” amount of space and time to put stuff in, if you go over, things break, run slowly, cause delays, game wont even start, etc. Thats called your budget. What determines that budget? Your hardware, your dev team and your engine, pretty much in that order. SWGOH runs on very old devices that cant really do much so it puts a hard cap on the budget, those are called min spec devices and they're the biggest reason why an old game cant have all this fancy tech sh*t new games do have, because new games typically care very little about the min spec the 5 year old c...

Worth noting that art wise this update allows for a couple of new tools that make life easier for the art production pipeline, theres not much there thats player facing though.

Its not like suddenly the character models can be 12,000 polygons like in MSF, thats not a thing. Keeping an engine up-to-date is difficult because it always breaks everything so you need to put a lot of time aside because you just don't know what will or wont be compatible between versions and thats what stops most games from jumping to the latest update. Basically the bigger the jump the bigger the risk stuff breaks. This happens to all games though, other companies just don't bother telling you about it ;)

My favorites where the ones for Sion when pain becomes madness and the skull starts screaming. That one was all me and I was not expecting to get it approved like, at all lol