HCl's Multiplayer patch Questions

[Fatcat]

Since it won't be too long until HCl releases his multiplayer patch for Prophecy, i've come up with a few questions which I hope either he or someone else related to the project could answer:

-Does this multiplayer patch work with Prophecy Gold or only original Prophecy?
-Will you be able to use the Prophecy Ship Switcher to fly other precoded ships like the Excalibur or Thunderbolt?
-Will there be microphone Team chat, so we can yell obscenities at eachother?
-Will ships from Standoff and Unknown Enemy be compatible as well?
-Is the multiplayer feature designed for the hi-res Prophecy Patch?

 

[ChrisReid]

-Does this multiplayer patch work with Prophecy Gold or only original Prophecy?

There's no difference.

-Will you be able to use the Prophecy Ship Switcher to fly other precoded ships like the Excalibur or Thunderbolt?

In theory you could, but there will be protections to prevent unauthorized ships, since otherwise it would allow cheating.

-Will there be microphone Team chat, so we can yell obscenities at eachother?

No, definitely not. There are plenty of ways to talk to people online, and it's be a waste of HCl's time to duplicate those efforts by building it into the game. And if it's just going to be a bunch of jerks screaming obscenities, I certainly wouldn't enable such a feature.

-Will ships from Standoff and Unknown Enemy be compatible as well?

This one has been answered in every other thread on the matter. Secret Ops and Standoff versions will be done later, but they're not a consideration right now.

-Is the multiplayer feature designed for the hi-res Prophecy Patch?

The new high res and multiplayer patches will be incorporated into the same package.

 

[PopsiclePete]

-Will there be microphone Team chat, so we can yell obscenities at eachother?

There is no reason it should be built-in the patch. if you wanna use microphones to talk with teammates and/or enemies you could simply use TeamSpeak.

-Will ships from Standoff and Unknown Enemy be compatible as well?

We intend to use the MP patch in Standoff someday. It has to be completed first, then ported to Secret Ops (Standoff's EXE is based on SO). We also intend to carefully desing the MP aspect of Standoff, not just trowing it in just for the sake of it.. so it most likely mean it'll wait until the main campaing is done.