Star Citizen Squadron 42 Delayed [Oct 10, 2016, 10:10 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, 19:33
Oct 11, 2016, 19:33
CJ_Parker wrote on Oct 11, 2016, 17:20:That's because it simply wasn't ready for release. Look at the original Star Marine footage and you can see that the movement is extremely janky, the weapons bounced around all over the place and it wasn't well optimised. Compare that to the latest footage we have and the difference is night and day. CIG had outsourced development to Illfonic and that resulted in a lot of problems, including the Gold Horizon level being built to the wrong scale. Now it's been developed in-house and the results show.
Maybe because people have previously watched presentations like the Star Marine reveal in 2014 and absolutely none of what was shown in that demo is in the game today even though Roberts said it would be out in early 2015? (yeah, I know, it's all Illfonic's fault, of course)
CJ_Parker wrote on Oct 11, 2016, 17:20:I'm talking about Star Citizen, not Squadron 42 as that hasn't been released yet. Star Marine wasn't shown at CitizenCon last year, though the updated version is expected in the next month or two.
And you are crazy to claim that what was shown at CitCon last year is in the game now (hint: A huge chunk of CitCon last year was the S42 reveal and S42 won't be out this year and most likely not even anywhere early 2017 either... if 2017 at all). It isn't. Or at least not nearly at the quality (FIDELITEEEEHHHH!!!!11) and stability they have shown in all of their fabricated, fake, scripted demos.
Virtually everything they have shown off at shows and conventions these past four years is either a total no-show like Star Marine or has never arrived in the game at the quality (FIDELITEEEEHHHH!!!!11
The latest footage of the game is excellent. It wasn't long ago the critics were saying it wasn't possible to make the game that Chris Roberts pitched and that the funding would run out before. Now they're attacking the delays because it's the only thing they've got left. At the end of the day I care about CIG making a decent game and that's exactly what they're doing - I can cope with delays if the end product justifies it.
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