cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18419302
Guests:
- Leo Vansteenkiste, Principal VFX Programmer
- Edward Fuller, Senior Principal Systems Designer
- Guillaume Gardella, Senior VFX Artist I
- Francesco Litrico, VFX Programmer III
TL;DW:
- 4.0 will only have fire inside ships.
- Fires start based on:
- Damage (when ship item HP reaches 0).
- When items with high level of wear misfire (random chance).
- Weapon impact.
- Warming the ship room to high enough temperature by opening the door on a warm planet for example (technically possible, there’s no planet hot enough for that to happen).
- Bringing already burning items into a ship.
- Fire propagation is based on fuel (surface), oxygen and temperature.
- Every surface material has different properties that affect how quickly it burns.
- Other objects like cargo or ship components can also catch on fire. Player can’t (but will take damage).
- Fire will burn the oxygen to a point of asphyxiation.
- Plenty of footage of using fire extinguisher.
- Fire can restart if you don’t put it out properly.
- Fire extinguishers have limited amount of “ammo”, you need to put them back to their storage stations to refill them. Recharge will not work if life support system is down.
- Fires can be put out by removing oxygen from a burning room (turning of life support, opening doors in space).
- Visual damage caused by fires has to be fixed at a proper repair location (station), manual repairs can only fix the functionality of destroyed items.
Not sure how much this will fuck us up. Tier 0 is always difficult to handle if its as powerful as completely destroying ships. But its good to see, that after all these years we finally have fire. The consideration of desync between gives a small dose of hope.
I’m still of the opinion that “thing <put any upcoming feature here> doesn’t exist until it’s on live servers” but it does look interesting. I just hope they’ll give it enough time for proper player testing so it doesn’t end up as a broken mess. Not that I need to worry about it considering ships I tend to fly but still.
To be honest: I dont care about dates anymore. They show what they have and and the whole fire stuff looks like something we could see the next patch. Their fear that it will break the game if this would implemented everywhere does show it is working somehow and they are not sure, how good it is (if rest stops could be burning down, this would be rather annoying to say the least).
So I dont really care if we see this in the current year or in the next :)
Yeah, that’s why they’re going with just ship interiors for now - they still need to figure out how it’ll work in other spaces. It might be rather difficult to translate it to (populated) locations since they’d either need firefighter NPCs that actually work or implement a fire suppression system which will end with people demanding one for ships (some already do).
They have their work cut out for them with this one.