Can the player duel wield melee weapons? Or will it be 1 ranged 1 melee?
@Nocturnal_Stillness
You’re limited to one ranged weapon and one melee weapon. I considered allowing dual-wielding early on, but it introduced too many variables, so it was cut.
Fair enough I understand that well. I shall still have my pilot be a melee specialist and look forward to gutting some empire scum 
One more question will there be any fights outside your Armature? Or would that be a spoiler?
@Nocturnal_Stillness
If I say that’s a spoiler, people might take that as a tacit “yes”, so I might as well say that yes, there is at least one fight outside the cockpit, though it’s probably not what most people are expecting.
So, what made you decide to write a mecha COG?
@Sneaks
Nothing in particular. Mecha anime has always kind of been a peripheral interest of mine (I also build gunpla when I have the time) and it was one of the three outlines (along with “Envoy of the Solarii” and “Choice of the Castellan”) I sent to CoG last year. This was the one they chose.
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Well now you have my curiosity. What were Choice of the Castellan and Envoy of the Solarii going to entail or are you keeping them under wraps in case CoG asks you to do another project?
@Iggles
I’ve described them briefly before. “Choice of the Castellan” was a non-linear, modular story around ruling your own castle as a lord in a low-fantasy realm. “Envoy of the Solarii” was a sci-fi story about making first contact with two recently space-faring races as the representative of a powerful alliance of human worlds.
I remember you mention it a bit long time ago. I’m very interested in “Choice of The Castellan” hopefully you work on it someday
Yes choice of castellan would be Wroth good price if u made it to the detail show in sabre of infinite and well no Doubt be show in this up coming game
The social consequences of first-contact and how @Cataphrak intends to explore it interests me a lot.
I’ll probably be sending in refined versions of those pre-pitches again when I finish up Guns of Infinity.
Until then, we should probably steer this back on topic.
What’s the MC’s background?
@WulfyK
As mentioned before, much of it is up to what the player chooses, but there are four constants:
1: the player character was born on one of the oldest and best-settled of the CoDEC colonies.
2: the player character is somewhere in his or her late 20s.
3: the player character joined CoDEC in the first days of the rebellion.
4: the player character is a damn good pilot.
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But was the MC in the Empire’s service befor the rebellioj begun? Or was s/he a freelance pilot?
@WulfyK
I’ve actually left much of the player character’s background intentionally blank, so the player can fill it in themselves.
Will our MC have any family to speak of?
@Iggles
They exist, but I’ve kept details minimal, so once again, the players can fill in the blanks themselves.
So the RO will mean that s/he’ll be cheating on a partner with a fellow pilot?
@WulfyK
Not really. The assumption is made (as it is always in CoGs with romances) that the player character starts the game single. By “family”, I mean parents and siblings.