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!
theyarecomingforyou wrote on Oct 15, 2016, 17:54:Peeeling wrote on Oct 15, 2016, 09:22:That's your opinion. I disagree.
Elite is not a finished game. It's every bit as much a work in progress as SC. The difference is that it's been developed in a sensible manner, so what you get right now is a solid, joined-up experience that could pass for a complete, albeit rather insubstantial game. To say that SC is being developed in a better way because you prefer their specific flight/combat system is silly. I'm not claiming the Elite devs are making better design decisions. I'm saying they're making infinitely better development and scheduling decisions.
Well, given that only one of us has been developing games for a living for the last 22 years, I know which opinion I'M going to be listening to.
Elite: Dangerous has been released. Star Citizen is in alpha. Elite is being expanded upon but you can't pretend it hasn't been released - it was released two years ago. I own both games, so don't pretend I'm not familiar with them.
Juggling semantics is the white flag of internet surrender. Both Elite and Star Citizen are, as of now, available to the public to play for a roughly similar price and after a roughly equivalent dev time. Yes, absolutely, Elite deserves to be called 'released', since it is a playable product in its current form, while Star Citizen is not. But it's deliberately disingenuous of you to describe it as 'complete' when so many features are still in the pipeline. When Elite was first 'released' there was no planetside gameplay - now there is. There's no multi-crew - soon there will be. It's every much as bit a work in progress as SC - it's just hugely further along on a fraction of the budget. I mean, seriously: is that what counts as a victory in your mind? That SC has managed to spend ten times the money making something that can't even be called 'released'?
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