On this week’s Star Citizen:Â Around the Verse, you can safely skip to about 19:30 and peel your eyes wide open. Not that the rest isn’t interesting — there’s a series of interviews with Foundry 42 devs working on the new landing system and a hard look at the Argo multiperson utility vehicle — but the star of this episode is the deep-dive into the “catastrophic damage of capital ships” toward the end.
“[W]hen I went around a lot of the different departments and I spoke to them about the catastrophic damage, the default thought that comes to everyone’s head is it’s on fire,” Cloud Imperium’s Nathan Dearsley says. “Everything is burning to ashes and no one can escape or get out or get in and that’s great but if you study real world reference such as aircraft carriers, big ships in the ocean, oil rigs, they have very advanced fire retardant systems. [That] opens up opportunity to have a lot of wet surfaces [and we can] play with very kind of clever lighting techniques to […] push a mood that we’re after, which is dark, dead, slow. […]. The environment that you’re used to should now be working against you, so these are the things we’re trying to create.”
Watch on!
