Website update, June 12th.

Eder

Mr. Standoff
This week, we even have a new screenshot!
Incoming voiceovers

That sure is a heck of a lot of bugs we saw squished this past week. More importantly, just days after completing the scripts for the new cutscenes, we've already received most of the voiceovers. That's one thing we've learned over the years - modders, take note! Get *all* the writing done *first*. Don't even think about looking for actors until you've written every single line. There's always this urge to assign roles as soon as you can, just to see some progress. Resist that urge. Send an actor all his lines all at once, and he'll get back to you after a few days with everything you wanted. But if you send him a few lines, write some more, contact him half a year later with another few scenes... well, he might have time, or he might not. He might not even be around any more. We've been lucky enough not to have this problem with these extra scenes, but over the years we could have avoided a lot of trouble had we stuck to that rule. Of course, that might have also made episodic releases more difficult... :p

The graphical upgrades are continuing too. Most of our efforts have been devoted to spaceflight, but some other things have also been getting improved. In particular, we've completely redone the ready room screen on the Lionheart - the old one never really looked too great :p. You can check out the new one on the screenshots page.

 
Ooh, very nice improvement for the Lionheart indeed.

Regarding voice-overs, from a practical point of view, I think it also makes sense for an actor or actress to record his/her lines in one sitting. Too many recording sessions, and subtle differences in tone can start to creep in, which then become noticeable as lines are played back one after the other.

Regardless, I think everyone has done an outstanding job in that department. I've never liked the sound of hearing my own voice on electronic recording, but the ones who have contributed to this and other projects are a real treat to hear.
 
Yeah, people will no longer have to sit through any part of the storyline in order to blow stuff up. :p
 
Even you haven't, man :p Next package we should finally have all of the improvements in place for all the Confed fighters (the final look, that you only saw in a Stiletto screenshot I sent you once, I believe).
 
Nice. Has plenty of design elements faintly reminiscent of the Claw or the Concordia to give it a good TCN feel.
 
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