Inside Star Citizen: Alpha 4.0 - Engineering

Guests:

• Bastien Cruette, Systems Designer II
• Thorsten Leimann, Lead Systems Designer
• Guilleremo Bilbao, Gameplay Programmer III

TL;DW:

• Resource Network will be used everywhere its possible (ships, land vehicles, outposts and space stations).
• Resource Network is a replacement for the old Pipe System.
• New system will allow for things like new types of Hydrogen fuel which affect thrusters in different ways.
• New components coming with engineering:
  • Fuses
  • Life Support Generator
• Engineering will be a start of moving away from ship HP pool and towards physicalized component HP.
• Life Support system consists of:
  • Temperature
  • Atmosphere composition
  • Pressure inside a room
• Components misfires might cause additional damage, make them stop working (temporarily of permanently), starting a fire or blowing up the whole ship (generators).
• Initial release will have a limited number of misfires.
• Damage penetration will be a temporary, simplified version of what will come with the physicalized damage. Certain types of weapons will penetrate the hull of a ship and damage components inside.
• Damage penetration depends on weapon and ship armor.
• We'll be able to repair fully destroyed components but not to 100% HP - that will require repairing the ship at LZ.
• Only size 1-2 components can be replaced with a tractor beam.
• Engineering screen shows:
  • Location of each component.
  • Connection between them.
  • Component status (HP).
  • Life support and Cooling status.
  • Component temperature.
  • Notifications about issues.
• Fuel displayed on the engineering screen "will be relevant in the future".
• You can lock the engineering UI to prevent changes from any other MFDs besides the engineering station.
• Power Management presets will be a thing. They are locally stored and can be loaded on someone else's ship (the same type).
• Doctor Benny (TARDIS) montage at the end.

This is the last ISC until Citizen Con.