Star Citizen Squadron 42 Delayed [Oct 10, 2016, 09:10 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Squadron 42 campaign for Star Citizen is delayed until 2017,
reports Kotaku UK, saying the news was revealed during a livestream from
CitizenCon. The first chapter of the single-player side of the space simulator
was most recently supposed to come to backers this year, but this news confirms
rumors of a delay that surfaced
last month. On the bright
side,
Eurogamer notes that Cloud Imperium Games released a new video showing off
how planets will be procedurally generated in the game, along with other
tidbits, including a sandworm, though they don't specify whether this is showing
us Beetleguise or Dune. Back to the delay, the Kotaku UK story offers two
slides with details on the state of the project, and here is what those say:
S42 Primary Tech Hurdles
Content
Most of our base technology is now complete
Still in Progress:
Subsumption
- Pathfinding Logic
- Full Animation Integration
- Improved Combat Logic
- Mission System Integration
- Enhanced Fight AI
Object Container Streaming
CPU and GPU Optimizations
S42 Status Update
Content
- All chapters and gameplay features at grey-box or better
- Taking one chapter to final ship quality - flushes out any technical, integration and polish issues.
- Building Technology & Systems for the long term and the whole SC universe - no short cuts!
Re: Star Citizen Squadron 42 Delayed
Oct 11, 2016, 16:11
Oct 11, 2016, 16:11
Peeeling wrote on Oct 11, 2016, 09:01:1) The original Kickstarter target was $500,000 and so far it's raised over $127,000,000. That inevitably has meant that the scope of the game has expanded. Procedural planets were a stretch goal from the $41,000,000 mark and their implementation has been much quicker than expected, making them a sensible addition to the game. Expanding the scope of the game isn't 'doing something wrong'.
"They've completely retooled it"
They do that a lot. And whenever it happens it's for one of two reasons:
1. They've just spent a whole bunch of time and money doing something wrong.
2. Chris has been to an expo and seen something cool.
2) CIG shows off the content it has been working on. The content they revealed at CitizenCon last year is now playable and it won't be long until we'll be able to play what was shown off the other day. If you'd been following the game at all you'd know that CIG regularly shows off new content in their weekly Around The Verse series - for instance, they showed off damage states and planetary wrecks.
I don't know how anyone can watch the latest presentation and question the direction of the game. Procedural planets absolutely should be in Squadron 42 and will make it a better game - unfortunately that's going to mean it will take longer to come out. In the mean time we'll have 3.0 and subsequent releases to enjoy and the community will get to influence the development and balancing of new features. Unlike other games the community has a huge influence over the development of the game and CIG responds.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
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