April 25th, 2023 Livestream
Q&A: Will we only have ground Vehicles to zoom around, will we have flying Vehicles?
This question was possibly duplicated with a more recent answer: October 31st, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Will we get Drones that we can ride & drive? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8t5Vbm4ay0
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Topics
- Features > Unplanned Features > Aerial Travel
- Mods > Mods vs. Features
- Features > Transportation > Vehicles
Transcript
all right here's a question that I don't know the answer to well we only have ground vehicle, to move around why isn't flying vehicles available when we have drones, and I think it's just been largely I think there's two fronts that were two sort of justifications that we've had for why we don't do it, the one is is it might just be op right like because traversing the world is supposed to be a challenge and if we just give you flying stuff then maybe that's too easy but who's to say that there are ways that you can balance that potentially right like who knows like so when we think of things like trains or hypertubes you have to set those networks up first right there's like a there's like a challenge you need to overcome and then you can use that Network in one specific way if you want to use it in other ways you need to do more work to to expand it but if you just have like a free flying vehicle that sort of undermines a lot of that and then a lot of that content like hypertubes and whatever just becomes irrelevant but I don't know there's there's like arguments two and four there because like you could argue that a lot of that stuff becomes irrelevant with later stuff anyway maybe it's okay for that to happen but anyway this brings us to the other thing which can also then be, I think there might be like a technical limitation as well where it's like if we give people the ability to fly quickly anywhere, how does that work with like level streaming and stuff but who knows if that's I don't know how much of a concern that is especially with like this sort of tech stuff that we should have with ue5 I don't know but these are some I some arguments, against it that I've heard in the past, but I think the biggest one is really that design one like- I think flying vehicles undermine a lot of the game as it is, but then there's the balance of yeah but that would just be cool I don't know if you like it QA site questions.satisfactorygame.com, suggested the team will consider it and they'll if you they say no and you still like it keep suggesting it and they'll consider it again, someone said where did I miss this someone said leave flying vehicles to, the mods or something and like maybe that's a good idea you know it's again there's always this this like thing where it's like, you know we don't mind mods modifying the gameplay experience but when people opt into Mods they accept that they're changing the experience right so then if the experience is like too easy too hard broken whatever if if that happens like they they know that it was them you did it right you did it you changed the game to be that way but when we're crafting experience that's supposed to be good for everyone so to speak, it becomes a bit trickier it's not so simple yeah I think someone said have the vehicles, fly Vehicles travel slowly half the speed of land Vehicles okay phone actually seriously I and I can't I'm sorry guys but I can't I can't put it on silent today we just have to deal with the the odd Bings here and there, flying vehicle is half the speed of a tractor then no one would use it I mean it would just be too slow right but I don't know maybe it could be cool yeah go the breath of the wild route with the vehicles make it very late post game available that it's okay to break the game yeah that's one good that's one potential like approach for sure at the point where you've you've experienced everything and played through everything and then maybe it's maybe it's fine to just goof around with like weird features right