BobTheDuck
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Right now none of us know much about the phone. The idea was that Nika would have the ability to browse things like Aurora, presumably Venus as well and find out extra things, like seeing Elsa on Aurora. That was a way to introduce the idea of using the apps anyway. The phone aspect - Ocean mentioned in a devlog ages ago that Nika would get invoted placed by text or people would ask him things that way, I assume that text messages and things like aurora will be interactive, but I doubt they'll be part of a free roam. We can already see the intent of text/group chat in season 1, but I guess in season 2 it's up to us whether we notice the phone or not.Cool I'm not a fan of free roaming either but it was hard not to start asking myself such questions when I started wondering what the phone function should look like. Usually in other games it is activated during free roaming so
- Will we have access to it at any time?
- Only at specific moments in the plot when we get a render in which Nika has to check something on his phone
- Or there will be more moments like in the book club which Bob mentioned for example during the opening of the bar we will get four windows with people to choose from to talk to and that's when the phone icon will become active
What I wonder the most is whether it will simply be supported by the story and before you open the phone functions you simply have to see a render in which Nika is holding the phone in his hand or it will simply be a permanent icon in the upper side corner that you can always activate
As Ocean's already done that kind of choice with Nami and Sasha, I imagine he'll do something similar where there are different branches to an event. My guess is that he'll likely limit the branches so maybe you can do multiple, but maybe you can only do the one you choose. It'll certainly be interesting when we find out. My guess is that when Ocean starts implementing some of these things (rathert han setting up and churning through renders, looking for music for cinematics, vetting the work of people he's now hiring etc) he'll probably be keen to show patrons, so we'll likely see how some of it works before release. My guess is that right now, there's nothing to show of the phone or apps yet.