Crumb did an interview with Galactic War Report regarding the new game mode and some of the behind the scenes improvement. It's a really great interview giving some peak behind the curtains at what they've been working on. A really fleshed out Road Ahead, if you will.I would like to say thank you to CG and Crumb for doing this interview. This is exactly the type of informative communication lot of the playerbase has been asking for. I wish the playerbase and CG can get to a healthy place communication wise where not every dev communication is picked apart like an appellate brief and treated as written in stone and where the devs (and whoever else is involved as a stakeholder) can feel empowered to be open and engaging with the community, both in quality and quantity. Thank you again.Galactic War Report is available here:. https://radiofreetatooine.com/galactic-war-report-episode-205-the-road-ahead-with-sbcrumb/Partial written transcript is available on reddit, thanks to mike10003. But I would encourage everyone interested to give the original podcast a listen. GWR is great content.https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/hgvp7k/sbcrumb_interview_the_road_ahead_on_the_galactic/

It does beg the question. Why not post it here?

Nothing about the cheating? Awkward...

GWR is not that great, I have listened to several podcasts and most of it is neither informative nor entertaining.However, if Crumb continues to use GWR as a place to communicate to the community, GWR absolutely needs to step up its marketing game and that’s really not that difficult to do.

"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.- The tool is intended to help create lot of events per month (as many as 30 per month). So no more days with only training droid sim- They worked on a larger unity infrastructure upgrade, allowing them to streamline the development process, rather than trying to merge content produced from multiple programs (which probably hints that the game is unlikely to shut down any time soon)- The unity engine upgrade is also supposed to help with better graphics- There's no lock on used characters or limit on attempts. You can have multiple comps with toon overlap, play once, play a thousand times, it gives you a lot of freedom on how you engage with the mode. It also gives tremendous theorycrafting flexibility because you are not burning limited number of attempts or concerned with using up a toon like in a raid. And unlike AB where you are limited by factions, it totally opens up your entire roster for theorycrafting. And because it's solo content, you're not trying to squeeze in something within a narrow window with your guild. I think that's pretty exciting.And these are just from the transcribed portion (as to avoid me misremembering something).

"bearrock;c-2136704" wrote:"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.- The tool is intended to help create lot of events per month (as many as 30 per month). So no more days with only training droid sim- They worked on a larger unity infrastructure upgrade, allowing them to streamline the development process, rather than trying to merge content produced from multiple programs (which probably hints that the game is unlikely to shut down any time soon)- The unity engine upgrade is also supposed to help with better graphics- There's no lock on used characters or limit on attempts. You can have multiple comps with toon overlap, play once, play a thousand times, it gives you a lot of freedom on how you engage with the mode. It also gives tremendous theorycrafting flexibility because you are not burning limited number of attempts or concerned with using up a toon like in a raid. And unlike AB where you are limited by factions, it totally opens up your entire roster for theorycrafting. And because it's solo content, you're not trying to squeeze in something within a narrow window with your guild. I think that's pretty exciting.And these are just from the transcribed portion (as to avoid me misremembering something).I got all of this from the RA itself and previous communication.Nothing new here at all.

More information on new mode at Galactic War Report

61 Replies

mickyluv_442
6 years ago
It does beg the question. Why not post it here?
JStenholt97
6 years ago
Nothing about the cheating? Awkward...
ZapZapZipZap
6 years ago
GWR is not that great, I have listened to several podcasts and most of it is neither informative nor entertaining.

However, if Crumb continues to use GWR as a place to communicate to the community, GWR absolutely needs to step up its marketing game and that’s really not that difficult to do.
ZapZapZipZap
6 years ago
I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.
slbr80
6 years ago
"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:
I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.

- The tool is intended to help create lot of events per month (as many as 30 per month). So no more days with only training droid sim

- They worked on a larger unity infrastructure upgrade, allowing them to streamline the development process, rather than trying to merge content produced from multiple programs (which probably hints that the game is unlikely to shut down any time soon)

- The unity engine upgrade is also supposed to help with better graphics

- There's no lock on used characters or limit on attempts. You can have multiple comps with toon overlap, play once, play a thousand times, it gives you a lot of freedom on how you engage with the mode. It also gives tremendous theorycrafting flexibility because you are not burning limited number of attempts or concerned with using up a toon like in a raid. And unlike AB where you are limited by factions, it totally opens up your entire roster for theorycrafting. And because it's solo content, you're not trying to squeeze in something within a narrow window with your guild. I think that's pretty exciting.

And these are just from the transcribed portion (as to avoid me misremembering something).
ZapZapZipZap
6 years ago
"bearrock;c-2136704" wrote:
"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:
I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.

- The tool is intended to help create lot of events per month (as many as 30 per month). So no more days with only training droid sim

- They worked on a larger unity infrastructure upgrade, allowing them to streamline the development process, rather than trying to merge content produced from multiple programs (which probably hints that the game is unlikely to shut down any time soon)

- The unity engine upgrade is also supposed to help with better graphics

- There's no lock on used characters or limit on attempts. You can have multiple comps with toon overlap, play once, play a thousand times, it gives you a lot of freedom on how you engage with the mode. It also gives tremendous theorycrafting flexibility because you are not burning limited number of attempts or concerned with using up a toon like in a raid. And unlike AB where you are limited by factions, it totally opens up your entire roster for theorycrafting. And because it's solo content, you're not trying to squeeze in something within a narrow window with your guild. I think that's pretty exciting.

And these are just from the transcribed portion (as to avoid me misremembering something).

I got all of this from the RA itself and previous communication.

Nothing new here at all.
slbr80
6 years ago
"ZAP;c-2136706" wrote:
"bearrock;c-2136704" wrote:
"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:
I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.

- The tool is intended to help create lot of events per month (as many as 30 per month). So no more days with only training droid sim

- They worked on a larger unity infrastructure upgrade, allowing them to streamline the development process, rather than trying to merge content produced from multiple programs (which probably hints that the game is unlikely to shut down any time soon)

- The unity engine upgrade is also supposed to help with better graphics

- There's no lock on used characters or limit on attempts. You can have multiple comps with toon overlap, play once, play a thousand times, it gives you a lot of freedom on how you engage with the mode. It also gives tremendous theorycrafting flexibility because you are not burning limited number of attempts or concerned with using up a toon like in a raid. And unlike AB where you are limited by factions, it totally opens up your entire roster for theorycrafting. And because it's solo content, you're not trying to squeeze in something within a narrow window with your guild. I think that's pretty exciting.

And these are just from the transcribed portion (as to avoid me misremembering something).

I got all of this from the RA itself and previous communication.

Nothing new here at all.

I felt like there was more clarity given regarding broad parameters discussed before, but if you didn't find it useful or interesting, there's nothing much I can say *shrug*.
NotRealUltra
Legend
6 years ago
"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:
I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.
GWR reached out to crumb on Friday after people started rumors of Crumb joining GWR so they went ahead and asked Crumb if he wants to and he said yes

It was all last minute and unplanned
NotRealUltra
Legend
6 years ago
"ZAP;c-2136706" wrote:
"bearrock;c-2136704" wrote:
"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:
I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.

- The tool is intended to help create lot of events per month (as many as 30 per month). So no more days with only training droid sim

- They worked on a larger unity infrastructure upgrade, allowing them to streamline the development process, rather than trying to merge content produced from multiple programs (which probably hints that the game is unlikely to shut down any time soon)

- The unity engine upgrade is also supposed to help with better graphics

- There's no lock on used characters or limit on attempts. You can have multiple comps with toon overlap, play once, play a thousand times, it gives you a lot of freedom on how you engage with the mode. It also gives tremendous theorycrafting flexibility because you are not burning limited number of attempts or concerned with using up a toon like in a raid. And unlike AB where you are limited by factions, it totally opens up your entire roster for theorycrafting. And because it's solo content, you're not trying to squeeze in something within a narrow window with your guild. I think that's pretty exciting.

And these are just from the transcribed portion (as to avoid me misremembering something).

I got all of this from the RA itself and previous communication.

Nothing new here at all.

What part of RA / Previous conversations went into Unity and tools that let them craft as many as 30 events per month?
ZapZapZipZap
6 years ago
"Ultra;c-2136716" wrote:
"ZAP;c-2136706" wrote:
"bearrock;c-2136704" wrote:
"ZAP;c-2136700" wrote:
I’d honestly like to hear from GWR listeners or fans or anyone for that matter to tell us what new or interesting info was given by crumb in that podcast.

- The tool is intended to help create lot of events per month (as many as 30 per month). So no more days with only training droid sim

- They worked on a larger unity infrastructure upgrade, allowing them to streamline the development process, rather than trying to merge content produced from multiple programs (which probably hints that the game is unlikely to shut down any time soon)

- The unity engine upgrade is also supposed to help with better graphics

- There's no lock on used characters or limit on attempts. You can have multiple comps with toon overlap, play once, play a thousand times, it gives you a lot of freedom on how you engage with the mode. It also gives tremendous theorycrafting flexibility because you are not burning limited number of attempts or concerned with using up a toon like in a raid. And unlike AB where you are limited by factions, it totally opens up your entire roster for theorycrafting. And because it's solo content, you're not trying to squeeze in something within a narrow window with your guild. I think that's pretty exciting.

And these are just from the transcribed portion (as to avoid me misremembering something).

I got all of this from the RA itself and previous communication.

Nothing new here at all.

What part of RA / Previous conversations went into Unity and tools that let them craft as many as 30 events per month?

I assumed that’s precisely what they were working on the last 6 months based on the last 2 Q&As and other comms.

Do I really need to post and quote where CG said they were working on tools to be able to produce content faster?

Was that news to you?