Dear Players,
As you may have already noticed, Space Reign is quite a complex game (especially development-wise for our 2-man team) with several different ways and perspectives when commanding your fleet:
- First-person direct control for small ships
- RTS-like fleet command
- Upcoming Third-person direct control for large ships
With the large ship direct control on the roadmap and some initial experimentation with its third-person view already done, we thought of an alternative way to connect these experiences - making the direct control of any ship from the third-person perspective as the new default , including small ships like fighters and drones, which would consequently also bring a lot of benefits, such as:
- One default ship perspective for all ship types - easier to comprehend and navigate around when switching between different ship types
- Faster implementation of new ships (no need to make a cockpit first before they are added to the game)
- All ships already in the game could potentially be playable, regardless of having a cockpit model for them ready or not (e.g. Low-cost ships used by the Marshall Gang)
What would happen to the Cockpits?
First person cockpit perspective for small ships would still be an option, but implementing new cockpit models for new small ships would not be a development priority while working on additional features and content. New cockpit models could also be chosen via community polls - making sure that they get implemented for the ships preferred by the community first.
This poll and its results do not change the current course of the development, we just want to know what the community thinks first before committing to any possible changes.
VOTE HERE:
https://forms.gle/e1QpQ8NRvE45Suy8A
Thank you for your answers.
Adam & Daniel