Just wanted to drop a few lines to clear some things up regarding the screenshot that was released and has dominated the discussion this week.
When we first started to see mentions of Droideka the instant answer from us was "no", which at the time we believed to be 100% correct.
This is because we currently have no active plans for a Droideka, nor do we have any assets within our active development version of the game. While we saw the similarities, we believed it could have been a crashed speeder or environmental clutter.
This is why we came out and said that it wasn't. We wanted to react quick, and to communicate but more importantly, we didn't want you to think something was coming that wasn't. This is why we confirmed that it wasn't one.
Because we have the ability to reload the scene (think of it like opening a save point in a level) a screenshot was created in, we did some additional investigation. It was during this investigation that we found an old, unused and partially built asset of a Droideka. The asset itself is nothing more than a static model. It has zero integration into the game, meaning it is currently missing, rigging, animation, VFX, audio, abilities, UI and more.
While the screenshot was created recently, it was done so on a version of the game that contained some unused assets. Moving forward we will be taking steps to ensure this does not happen again.
During development multiple assets and ideas are explored and while some do make it into the final game, others do not.
