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Tuesday's Stream:
[video=youtube_share;wmpRiR1u6t4]https://youtu.be/wmpRiR1u6t4[/video]

It's time. Already almost 3k watching.


Play-by-play
In-game lore name for crew appearance - Holo-Me. Brace yourselves.

Options for Helmet: Always on/Emergencies Only

Beards confirmed. Pink hair confirmed! Facial scars, age and face slider. CYBORG EYES.

Hair length is limited. Looks to max at about shoulder length, maybe a bit less.

Make sure to Vote to make Ed a default.
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(I think the nose is a bit too big on this Holo-Me)

Also you got to see some modified suit colors, pretty nice.


External Camera

You can move your ship and fire weapons while in the external camera.

You can move your ship and fire weapons while in the external camera.

There are preset camera positions. The new camera mode is internal and external.

Dolphin: Confirmed.

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New:
Megaships.Inaudible Squealing

Huge, moving carriers and ships, some of which have docking capabilities. You can't pilot them, but they're a new, huge awesome thing you can interact with.

Thursday's Stream
[video=youtube_share;lEeVParEpeg]https://youtu.be/lEeVParEpeg[/video]

Almost 5k Watching already! All aboard the Hype-9! (I should make a picture for that)

Check out the changes to the chat on the left, and the ship name, Rancorous Bison, on the right. Ship names are confirmed to be coming, but maybe not in 2.3.
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And the new appearance of the chat panel, showing the Holo-Me. NPC's are generic black helmet.
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Screenie of Crewfinder:
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It's organized by what you want to do. Multi-crew does a good job of stopping somebody who joins just doing a crime and leaving you hanging, heyyy. Matchmaking has sets and tracks the expected activities you and your crew are going to partake in.

Player History tab, tracks your interactions and makes it easier to add friends and block recent players.
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Here's the Multi-Crew interface:
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And the MC session screen, from transactions:
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The extra pip you get from Multi-crew does not go over the max of 4, and the individual MC member manages their individual pip.

A peek at the gunner view's camera:
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Also, they're revisiting the balancing of the Shield Booster stacking in the new beta.

And new ships kits are coming. By the excitement, I'm guessing probably for superior Federation ships. (give me the Corvette ship kit, take my money)
 
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I'm pumped about the mega-ships, ever since reading Lave Revolution. They've had their eye on this for a while.

And this didn't even touch on the multi-crew, which is the big part.

Gotta update the questions thread for answers we got.
 
I'm about to dump salt all over this thread.

I kid. But for real though, most of it looked good. A bit disappointed that it's ANOTHER passenger ship...

Mega ships look like they could add some interesting aspects to the game, perhaps easier galaxy wide colonization and long range transport? It would be nice to dock inside of a mega ship, mega ship jumps, and boom I'm in Colonia.
 
Fishers Rest is a great tribute, if it's meant to be one. All I could see was an Orbis with Outpost style landing pads though.

Can't wait for the Holo-Me but argh mircotranactions! And I can't have long flowing majestic blue anime hair!

But all in all, hype hype hype. And I can't wait to see Multi Crew in actions.

Also PLACEHOLDER SHIP NAME :)
 

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argh!, can't watch either, I'm at work. The dolphin looks cool though. What is Holo-Me?
 
I was so hoping for a better external camera and look what we get!!!!!! so awesome!!!!
Being able to controll the ship in ext. camera, imagine the clips you can make, canyon racing anyone?

At least the complaints about the ship paints being useless because you hardly ever see the outside of your ship are obsolete now.

The Holo Me is gonna be a lot of fun to tinker around with!!

And Thursday there will be even more...........
 
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