Motion and/or Merge?

[ATMLVE]

Will there be any components in the game that allow pieces of a ship to move, such as motors or pistons? But more specifically, will there be anything like merge blocks, something that allows two separate ships to merge into one?

[Dominar]

The game engine Dual Universe is using (Or is it the scripting language Lua? Not sure..) allows for moving parts and physics. So, there is no doubt it is possible for rotors and such to become a thing in the (probably far) future. The question is whether or not the devs will look into it, which I suspect they already have and have either set the idea aside for now, or canned it all together.

[Violet]

I don't think so, JC mentioned that it might be in the game at some point but its not the focus and there are a lot of technical problems with allowing things like pistons.

[ATMLVE]

What about at least merge elements then?

[Ripper]

NQ has already indicated that if someone wanted to, they could create a "Mech".

 

This would imply articulated motion.

I would also believe wheels and tracks will be created as well.

[TheRealBeowulf]

Hi!

 

Nyzaltar talked about this in The Q&A (Q&A 5):

 

https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/841-ask-us-anything-event/

 

There is also some concept art available about so called anchor units, which may be early concepts of rotors and pistons and docking / merge elements:

 

http://dualuniverse.gamepedia.com/Anchor_Units

 

I also asked the devs about that topic (especially about docking and merging units and about "inter-construct" scripting) in the kickstarter comments and had a little discussion with another user. The reply we got from Novaquark was the following:

 

"...Guys, keep in mind these are advanced possible game features. And we are nowhere near this stage. We have Autopilot/Docking gameplay as a stretch goal, but it's not among the first ones..."

 

As you can see, those things are planned, but nowhere near a point where we can talk about details.

 

Greetings

 

TheRealBeowulf