Inside Star Citizen: Flight of the Talon | Fall 2020
Summed up:
- Talon & Talon Shrike
- Light fighter
- Agility over raw firepower durability
- Talon is gun focused
- Talon Shrike is missile focused
- Has animations that mimic how birds act
- Landing gear animation reminds you of a bird
- Player enters from the front and chair comes out, and down to the ground
- Has the same display as the Prowler with the screens
- Ejection capability
- Ejection pod ejects with you then moves away from you
- Iridescent skin
- FPS Weapons
- Behring FS-9 Light Machine Gun
- Testing for more realistic muzzle flash
- Gemini A03 Sniper Rifle
- Shroud of the Avatar Crossbow
- In concept
- Weapons concept team just completed a new pass
- Carbon fiber skin
- Aegis Gladius
- Adding physical components to the ship
- Aegis Redeemer
- White box
- Living area and remote turret areas
- SDF Shield Tech Testing
- In testing
- Used Javelin for testing
- Environments
- Polishing planet surface assets for 3.12
- Demoed ship derelicts
- Ocean buoyancy
- Working on per entity buoyancy
- Mentioned underwater exploration, advanced traversal for resources and recovery missions, and more
- Touch Bending
- Update on how entities like grass react to players as they move against them
- Mentioned that they have to make it work for not only players but creatures as well
- Homesteads
- Demoed early internal white box layout for communal module
- Exploring ideas like storm shutters and vertical traversal options
- Still in exploration phase, Homesteads have not entered production yet
Here is the simplified TheNOOBIFIER1337 video:
