Quarto
Unknown Enemy
After a few dismal months of virtually no progress, we've finally done enough to put up another news update:
BTW, even though we only talk about the new frigate in the update, that doesn't mean this is the only progress we've made. Missions are also advancing (...slowly. Exruciatingly slowly). Above all, though, we're making progress with episode 5 - that's what I personally am currently focussed on. It seems that with the previous episodes, the thing that always held us up at the end was the voiceover recording. So, what I'm trying to do right now is to prepare everything so that the episode 4 and 5 voiceovers can be all recorded at the same time, to reduce the time gap between the last two episodes. Now, of course the main reason for ep.4 taking so long isn't the fact that we're doing ep.5 pre-production stuff at the moment, but rather the fact that we've simply had far too little time for Standoff this year - but hopefully it'll be some small comfort for everyone to know that waiting longer for episode 4 will at least allow episode 5 to come out much faster.
Eder said:Well, as you can see, our efforts to turn Standstill back into Standoff continue. As I'm sure is fairly obvious from the lack of updates, we haven't been doing too well in the progress department lately :-P. However - fingers crossed - things are now starting to pick up once again. It's clear enough by now that we won't be able to release even Episode 4 this year. Still, we're more or less certain that at least next year, you will see both remaining episodes before Christmas.
Anyway, one very neat bit of progress to report is a new capship - a frigate, no less. This actually posed something of a problem, since there's no visual references for the frigates in Fleet Action. Still, Quarto kept on whining about how they have frigates in Fleet Action and we don't, and besides that, we could use a light capship that only takes a single torpedo to kill, so finally I had to make something :-P. The ship is based on the Kilrathi transport from Armada - as anyone who's watched Academy knows, the Kilrathi are big fans of using the same basic shape for multiple different ship classes, and we figured this would work better than pulling a completely new ship model out of thin air. Anyway, we've added five new screenshots showing off the frigate, and we've also added its profile to the ships page.
Finally, we've added a new character profile to the characters page - it's everything you wanted to know about Trigger, but were afraid to... well,actually I suppose nobody really wanted to know anything about Trigger. Still, he's up there :-P.
BTW, even though we only talk about the new frigate in the update, that doesn't mean this is the only progress we've made. Missions are also advancing (...slowly. Exruciatingly slowly). Above all, though, we're making progress with episode 5 - that's what I personally am currently focussed on. It seems that with the previous episodes, the thing that always held us up at the end was the voiceover recording. So, what I'm trying to do right now is to prepare everything so that the episode 4 and 5 voiceovers can be all recorded at the same time, to reduce the time gap between the last two episodes. Now, of course the main reason for ep.4 taking so long isn't the fact that we're doing ep.5 pre-production stuff at the moment, but rather the fact that we've simply had far too little time for Standoff this year - but hopefully it'll be some small comfort for everyone to know that waiting longer for episode 4 will at least allow episode 5 to come out much faster.