rockpaper shotgun interview

[tazong]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...m/#more-107061

katscan - finally you can stop going on about your favourite subject for all our sakes lol

[mstorey]

Great interview. I think it covered half the questions on these here boards. Can't wait for this game!

[DazzD]

Twas a very good interview that answered a hell of a lot of questions. It sounds like Jake had prepared for the onslaught before it even started was good tho.

[metalcallous]

I don’t know that I’ve ever talked about this before, but in our game the aliens don’t leave their weapons behind. When they die their weapons self-destruct but if you capture those aliens, then the weapons don’t self-destruct, and then you can research those. Not only is it critical to say ‘look, we want to know,’ you can find out a lot of things by having a friendly chat with these guys, but part of it is crucial to player progression, because if you really want to get your hands on some of the great weapons you’re going to have to send some poor bastard in at close range with what we call the Arc Thrower. I never liked the small stun launcher in the original, I always liked that real terrible moment of ‘get in there with the stun rod’ and that’s basically what we have, we call it the Arc Thrower but it’s basically ‘get in there and pray to God when you pull this thing out that the alien falls over’.

I don't know why exactly, but I laughed out loud over this paragraph

[JuustoQ]

Oh, things are shaping up nicely. Very nicely.

[ShredZ]

I like how he starts "I dont know if I ever talked about this before..."

Ya right! You definitely know you haven't told us jack about the game yet :P

Everything we know so far is only about the first few hours into the game, after that we're in the dark... err fog of war.

[DP1982SK]

I haven't seen "Katscan" for a while... Is it safe to assume that he is still drunk after the night of joy following the read of the article?

[Nosmirc]

I like how he starts "I dont know if I ever talked about this before..."

Ya right! You definitely know you haven't told us jack about the game yet :P

Everything we know so far is only about the first few hours into the game, after that we're in the dark... err fog of war.

And that's just fine. As long as they cover the basics of the game, I'm ok with a lot of it being left in the dark. At this point, the only other thing I'd be interested in seeing would be how interceptions are handled, and maybe a little bit more meat on how the base operates, and the whole interacting with nations. But things like tech trees and aliens? I'm ok with not seeing until launch.