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Star Citizen Releases New Roadmap for Squadron 42 | MMORPG.com
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Star Citizen Releases New Roadmap for Squadron 42 | MMORPG.com
The team behind Star Citizen have published a new roadmap for the game and Squadron 42.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
The ones to be banned should be naysayers and they fake prophecies of Doom proven wrong at every quarter.
MMORPG are doing their job: provide information about MMO's including those in development.
What we learned from this roadmap (which is partial and will be completed with all teams tasks next month) and Letter of the Chairman: CIG is working hard to deliver and have been rewarded in 2020 by +200.000 backers and overall more time spent in SC than ever.
That is fine not to join any Alpha or crowdfunded model, many never do. It is another to not be educated about game development and finance, happy to stay uneducated while throwing non sense comment like scam or ponzi scheme.
That said, Merry Christmas to all. There are games for every one, released or in development
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
But he got lost trying to follow it.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
I find it hard to believe that this ponzi scheme will ever produce a tangible product. More than a decade of dreams being promised. Quit sending them money.
Ban fanboys who defend this bullshit....how about that? For the record I invested money in BOTH of these games so I will criticize them all I want. You can just get over it.
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/17936-Letter-From-The-Chairman
The new Roadmap is not meant to give people an early estimate on when Squadron 42 will be completed. We made a conscious decision to only show the Squadron 42 work concurrently with the Star Citizen work over the Roadmap’s four-quarter window. This is because it is too early to discuss release or finish dates on Squadron 42.
As I said earlier this year, Squadron 42 will be done when it is done, and will not be released just to make a date, but instead only when all the technology and content is finished, the game is polished, and it plays great. I am not willing to compromise the development of a game I believe in with all my heart and soul, and I feel it would be a huge disservice to all the team members that have poured so much love and hard work into Squadron 42 if we rushed it out or cut corners to put it in the hands of everyone who is clamoring for it. Over the past few years, I’ve seen more than a few eagerly awaited titles release before they were bug free and fully polished. This holiday season is no exception. This is just another reminder to me of why I am so lucky to have such a supportive community, as well as a development model that is funded by people that care about the best game possible, and not about making their quarterly numbers or the big holiday shopping season.
For most games it is typical to not even announce the project until about 12 months out and only start building awareness with marketing 6 months before launch. The issues with showing gameplay, locations or assets on a narratively driven game this early are twofold. First, a marketing campaign can only last so long and second, there is only so much of the gameplay that we can show before release as we want you to experience a really engrossing story. If we show the non-spoiler gameplay now, that’s prime footage and gameplay that could have been used closer to release. It is better to treat Squadron 42 like a beautifully wrapped present under the tree that you are excited to open on Christmas Day, not knowing exactly what is inside, other than that it’s going to be great.
Because of this I have decided that it is best to not show Squadron 42 gameplay publicly, nor discuss any release date until we are closer to the home stretch and have high confidence in the remaining time needed to finish the game to the quality we want.
The planned Squadron 42 specific update show, the Briefing Room is not dead; it will just go on hiatus until we are closer to release and it comes back as a part of an overall plan to build excitement as we show all the amazing features and details players will experience in Squadron 42. This does not mean we will stop communicating our progress on Squadron 42. We will continue with our monthly reports for Squadron 42, and we will also share our current development progress in our New Roadmap.
I will say that the Squadron 42 team has really stepped up this year; It’s been a pleasure seeing how responsive and agile everyone has been, and just how much the team cares about making things great, despite the challenges of working remotely. All of us, including myself, are in close-out mode and I can’t wait for you all to experience the sprawling sci-fi epic that Squadron 42 is.
In the meantime, Star Citizen is the best visibility into the gameplay and technical progress we make; you can download a new update every three months with new features and content, as well as advances in tech. We have weekly video shows that go behind the scenes in the creation of these features and content, and we welcome feedback and player input in how to improve things. A lot of the core gameplay of Star Citizen, especially the flight and on-foot combat, will be the same between both games. Squadron 42 will have a much higher level of bespoke locations and assets and a more crafted feel; combined with a cinematic quality and characters played by famous actors delivering performances that take you on a rollercoaster narrative experience that will rival the biggest sci-fi event films.
My hope is that you’ll be so engaged in Star Citizen that Squadron 42 will be here before you know it.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
No idea when it might release since the roadmap doesn't extend further than that.
As I've said previously, as long as the money keeps rolling in there's no real incentive for Chis to ship, and with his perfectionist nature believe me, he won't.
He literally confirms it in the above passage, he hopes folks will continue dinking around in the SC never ending Alpha ad infinitum.
Or would that be ad nauseum.
Merry Christmas
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Caspien used to call them "State of Elyria" updates. CR calls them Roadmaps. Their greatest use would be to print them out and wipe your ass with them.
And this is coming from a "Golden Ticket" holding fan who hopped on the bandwagon before there was even a wagon.
This shit is useless.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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This is clearly a legit scam to milk their supporters. I won't bother responding to a fanboy ever again. It's like talking to a flat earther.
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To anyone out there on the fence and doesn't want to play a buggy mess, don't buy the game, wait till release and save yourself the vitriol you see swelling in many of these posts by backers who just don't have the same vision or patience as many of us that are supporting the game in a number of ways to ensure its development and delivery.
Had to cut out all of the irrelevant SC information in your post, please try to stay on topic.
Beta in Q3, 2020, right? What's the new road map say about that?
Merry Christmas
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I feel like I'm going to die before these two games are actually finished. Or if not me, then the actors playing roles in them.