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 12, 2016, 06:38
Oct 12, 2016, 06:38
CJ_Parker wrote on Oct 11, 2016, 19:53:I've been around here since the beginning and the critics attacking every aspect of the game - some claimed it was a PR presentation and would never be playable (debunked); some claimed the multi-crew technology could never be achieved (debunked), some claimed procedural planets was just a pipedream (debunked), some claimed the funds would dry up and leave backers with nothing (debunked).theyarecomingforyou wrote on Oct 11, 2016, 19:33:
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.
Please stop repeating this retarded lie.
What the so called "critics" are claiming is not possible (and it won't be) is the vision of the full PU, i.e. that ~100+ people per instance (or whatever number of people you deem essential for this to be called as MMO) will be sharing this universe at the advertised fidelity and CIG has shown absolutely NOTHING in that regard.
CJ_Parker wrote on Oct 11, 2016, 19:53:The new netcode, StarNetwork, is going to be released with 3.0. That will form the basis for large connected instance. Just because 4.0 is a long way away doesn't mean the game will be limited to just 24 players, as the plan is for a sever mesh that will allow everyone to share the same space except for when there are too many players for a particular server where it will then instance things. We don't know if server meshing will be in from the start or come later, so your claim that it will be 4.0 at the earliest is pure speculation.
Remember: They have confirmed this CitCon that "travel to multiple star systems" won't be out before 4.0 (early 2018? mid 2018?). This means that the entire MMO infrastructure (multiple instances etc.) has also been delayed to AT LEAST 4.0. Until then we'll be stuck in Stanton, a single star system and a single instance with 24 players max... unless maybe they raise it to a whopping 32 players(?) ... wow ... a real MMO that is!
Every technical hurdle that has been attempted - 64bit precision, multi-crew ships, local physics grids, procedural tech, unifying the first and third person animations - has been achieved and there's no reason to think the same won't be true of the netcode. Don't forget that CIG isn't promising 200 player instances - it's aiming for 50 players, with any more being a bonus. Everything else is being done by server meshing, which simply transfers players from one server to another as they move around - if there are too many players in an area then it becomes instanced, with friends playing together being kept together where possible.
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