With the Progress tracker still M.I.A. these monthly reports are more important than ever and often have some juicy little details buried in them, picking it apart and giving your thoughts are why we clicked on it If people want a short summary (that often misses important details) they should probably check out noobifier. Keep 'em long, keep 'em coming.
I think based on the "Letter from the Chairmen" we can guess why the Progress-Tracker is taking so long (which is a shame because I too think it had VERY IMPORTANT information): They are right now planning what all the teams will be working on AFTER 4.0 which means they need a good idea of what a "Road to 1.0" looks like and what needs to be done first. Only then can they update the Progress-Tracker. This means they need to plan development roughly for the next few years and need to plan it more detailed for probably at least a year in addition to also creating all the new teams based on the devs that have now transitioned from SQ42 to SC as right now many of them simply worked on their SQ42 and how to port them to SC but after that they all need appropriate work that they are qualified for. Honestly, I don't want to be the person who needs to come up with this Progress-Tracker update 😅
Why is CIG still sending out SQ42 monthly reports? Chris himself said it was feature complete so all thats left is bug fixing and final polishing. With the amount of new AI features added each month has me raising my eyebrows questioning if SQ42 is actually “complete”. If anything probably just a lie to reassure the growing impatience in the community.
As Lawless said, the reports tell you what they are polishing. Technically a lot of the polishing started last summer, definitely around June and July where a lot of features were closed out and moved into beta testing. If you check the latest SQ42 monthly report, it's mostly bug fixing AI, smoothing out animations, making certain segments connect more seamlessly, and adding in some mo-cap and features to dress up some levels/scenes.
Generally, it is NOT just fixing and final polishing. There is also some content still missing (they are right now playing the levels and adding content wherever they think it is still lacking in content). That was also what they said at CitCon. Feature-Complete, not Content-Complete When it comes to the AI Features and stuff that they are still writing in those reports it mainly is optimisation and fixing of already made features. For example last month they worked a lot at trolleys which were already made quite some time ago, they actually were in the reports a lot while they were developed, but now they are polishing it. You can imagine that there can be a lot of bugs and weird physics with AI pushing trolleys. Generally I would say the SQ42 Monthly reports have already changed a bit since before "Feature Complete": For one, they are now MUCH SMALLER which reflects both the smaller team and that they don't work on features anymore but just content and polishing. What also has become much more is the mention of "In Chapter X ..." which at this point most sentences start with. That is also very much what should happen at feature complete. They are no longer working with features in general but most of the time on the Chapters themselves. What I will say is that we already knew there would still be a bit of "Feature Work" going on (and I really hope they don't start feature-creep again but only finish out those last few aspects). The once I realised are: - AI working together with Maelstrom so that they don't "hide" behind already destroyed cover - We know they want to add RTGI into the engine before shipping SQ42 which currently is not complete yet but that is developed more for the engine than for any specific game They also apparently have some tweaking for AI that they find works better in dedicated test-rooms which could be considered "feature-work" but I can also understand the reasoning for it being only polishing (the AI systems are developed, they just need to fine-tune it in these test-rooms and find bugs that are harder to replicated in actual gameplay) In the end I always find these written reports good because we know what they are working on right now but very hard to get a complete picture over time. Just as an example: Last month they talked about bringing Chapter 1 to "Release-Ready" state, this month they hardly talked about it at all with only some smaller stuff being tweaked in that Chapter. Does this mean it is now "Release-Ready" and only will get changes that are made to all Chapters or are they simply taking a break while they work on other parts of other chapters. From a letter that is really hard to know. That's why the Progress-Tracker is important but obviously they are right now planning what all the teams will be working on AFTER 4.0 which means they need a good idea of what a "Road to 1.0" looks like and what needs to be done first. Only then can they update the Progress-Tracker At the end of the day, I think CIG personally created the expectation within the community that at this years CitCon we will get at least a Release-Window announced for SQ42 and if they don't do that they will have to tell us why. So, I personally will wait until CitCon with all questions concerning SQ42. It might even be that they are intentionally holding back some information because they do want to have something good for CitCon this year. For example, I actually don't know if they would write in a Monthly Report "Chapter 1 is now Release-Ready" or if they would simply wait for such announcements for CitCon. We didn't know last year they now saw SQ42 as "Feature Complete" before CitCon, even though I doubt they went "Feature Complete" exactly when CitCon started
You make the videos andi'll watch it but long videos like this are dull for me as they so often have tiny incremental things. I enjoyed the zeus video though. Would also like more ship videos as i enjoy those
@@LawlessBaron no brother, after sq 42 they want to start the work on sq42 part II. its hopefully just a money dump to finance sandys actress career lol
With the Progress tracker still M.I.A. these monthly reports are more important than ever and often have some juicy little details buried in them, picking it apart and giving your thoughts are why we clicked on it If people want a short summary (that often misses important details) they should probably check out noobifier. Keep 'em long, keep 'em coming.
Civvies do that indeed :D picking up guns and rushing the player. Did a few drug lab missions and those have the workers there.
Love the honestly in the first few seconds
Thanks man much love, a break definitely isn't a bad thing i'm getting back in after almost a year
I think based on the "Letter from the Chairmen" we can guess why the Progress-Tracker is taking so long (which is a shame because I too think it had VERY IMPORTANT information):
They are right now planning what all the teams will be working on AFTER 4.0 which means they need a good idea of what a "Road to 1.0" looks like and what needs to be done first. Only then can they update the Progress-Tracker. This means they need to plan development roughly for the next few years and need to plan it more detailed for probably at least a year in addition to also creating all the new teams based on the devs that have now transitioned from SQ42 to SC as right now many of them simply worked on their SQ42 and how to port them to SC but after that they all need appropriate work that they are qualified for.
Honestly, I don't want to be the person who needs to come up with this Progress-Tracker update 😅
Why is CIG still sending out SQ42 monthly reports? Chris himself said it was feature complete so all thats left is bug fixing and final polishing.
With the amount of new AI features added each month has me raising my eyebrows questioning if SQ42 is actually “complete”. If anything probably just a lie to reassure the growing impatience in the community.
Well the reports contain the information for the "Polishing"
As Lawless said, the reports tell you what they are polishing. Technically a lot of the polishing started last summer, definitely around June and July where a lot of features were closed out and moved into beta testing. If you check the latest SQ42 monthly report, it's mostly bug fixing AI, smoothing out animations, making certain segments connect more seamlessly, and adding in some mo-cap and features to dress up some levels/scenes.
Generally, it is NOT just fixing and final polishing. There is also some content still missing (they are right now playing the levels and adding content wherever they think it is still lacking in content).
That was also what they said at CitCon. Feature-Complete, not Content-Complete
When it comes to the AI Features and stuff that they are still writing in those reports it mainly is optimisation and fixing of already made features. For example last month they worked a lot at trolleys which were already made quite some time ago, they actually were in the reports a lot while they were developed, but now they are polishing it. You can imagine that there can be a lot of bugs and weird physics with AI pushing trolleys.
Generally I would say the SQ42 Monthly reports have already changed a bit since before "Feature Complete": For one, they are now MUCH SMALLER which reflects both the smaller team and that they don't work on features anymore but just content and polishing. What also has become much more is the mention of "In Chapter X ..." which at this point most sentences start with. That is also very much what should happen at feature complete. They are no longer working with features in general but most of the time on the Chapters themselves.
What I will say is that we already knew there would still be a bit of "Feature Work" going on (and I really hope they don't start feature-creep again but only finish out those last few aspects). The once I realised are:
- AI working together with Maelstrom so that they don't "hide" behind already destroyed cover
- We know they want to add RTGI into the engine before shipping SQ42 which currently is not complete yet but that is developed more for the engine than for any specific game
They also apparently have some tweaking for AI that they find works better in dedicated test-rooms which could be considered "feature-work" but I can also understand the reasoning for it being only polishing (the AI systems are developed, they just need to fine-tune it in these test-rooms and find bugs that are harder to replicated in actual gameplay)
In the end I always find these written reports good because we know what they are working on right now but very hard to get a complete picture over time. Just as an example: Last month they talked about bringing Chapter 1 to "Release-Ready" state, this month they hardly talked about it at all with only some smaller stuff being tweaked in that Chapter. Does this mean it is now "Release-Ready" and only will get changes that are made to all Chapters or are they simply taking a break while they work on other parts of other chapters. From a letter that is really hard to know.
That's why the Progress-Tracker is important but obviously they are right now planning what all the teams will be working on AFTER 4.0 which means they need a good idea of what a "Road to 1.0" looks like and what needs to be done first. Only then can they update the Progress-Tracker
At the end of the day, I think CIG personally created the expectation within the community that at this years CitCon we will get at least a Release-Window announced for SQ42 and if they don't do that they will have to tell us why. So, I personally will wait until CitCon with all questions concerning SQ42.
It might even be that they are intentionally holding back some information because they do want to have something good for CitCon this year. For example, I actually don't know if they would write in a Monthly Report "Chapter 1 is now Release-Ready" or if they would simply wait for such announcements for CitCon. We didn't know last year they now saw SQ42 as "Feature Complete" before CitCon, even though I doubt they went "Feature Complete" exactly when CitCon started
Considering it’s taken them this long to get a 3.23 hot fix out I’m having my doubts about a 2024 4.0 release.
So much talk without any progress to be seen and the PU running abysmally bad :)
Time Padawan time
Just 2 more years 😅
Actually those unguned guys are not civilians 😂 but it's been in the game for a while 😉
Yeah i haven't committed crime in this way in a long time so it was a surprise
You make the videos andi'll watch it but long videos like this are dull for me as they so often have tiny incremental things.
I enjoyed the zeus video though. Would also like more ship videos as i enjoy those
Yeah man 100% everyone is different, thanks foe letting us know
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4.0 2025
More lies and misery. I legit do not see how this game becomes a real MMO. Legit you can not bring a 100 person org into a server. This is not a MMO.
That's what server meshing is for.
no please no sq42 reports. i mean u do a good job but dem CIG people tease us enough a bout the imminent release since 10+ years
I feel you, the sooner we have sq42 the better
@@LawlessBaron no brother, after sq 42 they want to start the work on sq42 part II. its hopefully just a money dump to finance sandys actress career lol
Most people want to hear about the whole project, if you don't want to hear about SQ42, then don't watch the videos.