Voyagers

Details

Amount

1

Optional

No

Team Icons

Rendezvous

No

Stage Index

4

Target Name

Stage Control

No

Team Overrides

Milestone Index

5

Public Subtitle

Our Journey Continues · Phase 5 · Milestone 6

Reward Description

Seasonal Commentary

Voyagers was one of our most challenging updates to develop. Having multi-crew star ships you could walk around in, in multiplayer, while travelling at light speed is a very hard problem. Retrofitting it to an existing game is even harder. From when it was first working though, you could just tell how incredible it would feel. Effectively we were using the base building system to create the ships, then flying those ships through space with networked players inside, sometimes on different gaming platforms, warping between systems together. We had some fantastic bugs in the weeks before launch. Planetary base parts were taking off and flying into space! Our IK system was warping players legs between ships like a scene from a Cronenberg film. Players would warp their ship full of friends to new systems, and accidentally scatter them stranded throughout space. The team worked incredibly hard to solve all these issues, and more - and the reception when we released was genuinely unexpected. We saw the highest number of players since launch! We couldn't believe some of the wild creativity we were seeing from players. Meticulous reproductions of favourite classic sci-fi ships, but also using unusual base parts to create flying forests and galleons and ships with eyes and limbs. It made all that challenge worth it!

Seasonal Commentary Title

Voyagers