cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18182379

Guests:

• Kaan Cakir, Lead Level Designer
• Stephane Charre, Environment Artist II
• James Kay, Lead Content Designer
• Assistant Environment Art Director
• William Weissbaum, Assistant Narrative Director
• Antoine Fauville, Senior Level Designer
• John Lang, Level Designer II
• Kristofor McMahan, Associate Design Director

TL;DW:

• Pyro has 12 space stations in total.
• Pyro space stations are bigger than the ones in Stanton.
• Rough & Ready gang own majority of Rest & Refuel stations in Pyro.
• Ruined Station (one from Citizen Con) has been expanded.
• Hangars will have direct access to the Cargo Deck.
• Hangars in Pyro will have external freight elevators to allow for (un)loading of ships like Hull-C.
• "Win station will have something called Ghost Arena".
• Contested Zones are like MMO dungeons
  • Open space with loot.
  • Easily accessible directly from the "normal" part of the station.
  • Some routes are hidden behind puzzles, traps and key cards.
  • Various levels of difficulty, various rewards.
  • These are free-for-all zones.
  • NPCs there are not linked to missions and will respawn on a timer.
  • There will be Kopions running around, maybe more in the future.
  • Boss fights are also planned, not confirmed for 4.0.
• Social parts of space stations are still green zones, no combat allowed.
• They showed clips with light-enhancement scopes.
• Asteroid Clusters are very different to the ones in Stanton.
• Asteroid Bases can be abandoned, used for missions etc. They also have loot, obviously.