I think a 2-year goal is pretty ambitious for a 1.0 release. But I do think that having the entire team finally focused on SC will vastly improve the game at a much faster pace. Basically SC has been developed and maintained by a skeleton crew up to this point.
Keep in mind, this is all not official from CIG. So if you expect them to release it and they didnt make it in q4 2025 and you feel dissapointed.. its your own diong. not CIGs
" Basically SC has been developed and maintained by a skeleton crew up to this point." Squadron 42 was suppose to be released in 2014 according to CIG.... ten years later and still no SQ42. This company is good at making $1500 3D model ships but not so much at keeping promises.
@@machoalright i was just thinking this, people are going to exaggerate this leak and turn it into a "promise CIG made" ..the way people get their opinions from rumors about SC now days this is likely to happen.
I just don't believe it. I don't believe that server meshing is coming this year. I don't believe that there can be a release next year. I just physically cannot believe it.
yeah, I don't believe it either. I bought in 7 years ago thinking it was just about to be released. I pity those that bought in at 2012. I just got finished playing Starfield and it was just a buggy broken mess. In fact I abandoned it before finishing it. I hate to think what sort of state SQ42 will be in considering their reputation for bugs.
@@AbstractHexagon no they can continue to sell ships, it’s not like there some weird rule for video game companies saying once product is released you can’t sell in game items. They’ll continue to sell and make new ships for the entire lifecycle of the game.
Not a chance. What we saw at Citcon, where it was said that most of it should make it into Star Citizen Verse this year, has to make it into Verse by the end of the year. However, we have all had the experience that some things have been postponed in every patch. In addition, we are still missing a lot of things that have not even been mentioned yet, such as ship armour, subtargeting, orga functions, a deeper reputation system, Banus, Tevarin and also extraterrestrial creatures. When dynamic server meshing is up and running at some point, there will also be all the stories with blades, NPC missions and also NPCs to hire as gunners, miners, etc. With every point I list here, I can think of three more points that are still missing. So no, Star Citizen Release is still too far away. The development journey here will take even longer and I have no problem with that because I can understand why it will take even longer. But to say here that SC 1.0 could come in the next 2 years is something that splits the community again and 2 years later there's a lot of moaning because the game hasn't been released yet.
I get what you're saying, but the difference between what we were told at this CitCon compared to previous events is evidence. We've now seen plenty of these systems working, even in a lab setting. That's different to all other times where grand promises have been made. We always should take info with a grain of salt, but we can give CIG more credit now since we've got evidence of what they're going to deliver. Cautious optimism, always.
@@CrusstySculpture Yes, most of what we saw at CitCon will be done by the end of 2024. That's true... and yet there are still many other things that have nothing to do with Squadron 42 but are needed for Star Citizen. The NPC gameplay alone, where you can hire NPCs, will take some time until the system has been integrated for all gameplays such as NPC gunners, miners, salvagers, etc. Just the lack of modularity with so many ships like the Carrack, Caterpillar, Retaliator where we are still missing the other variant and so on. On the subject of modularity, I also immediately think of the Endeavour, where the different modules bring different gameplays with them, such as the farming module. Honestly, the more I write, the more I can think of points that are still missing and that is not feasible in 1-2 years. That's why I think this rumour of a 2025 Star Citizen release is impossible, especially as Squadron 42 has to be released before then! Yes, CitCon has pushed my optimism, but I'm not exaggerating with my wishes, I'm staying realistic.
Nothing that was shown this year at CitCon was shown as demo or Work In Progress version ( other then the new base/Undergrd Mission and the Housing) everything else is working and implemented in SQ 42 and has been for more then a Year now. Don''t confuse the PU with SQ 42 which was supposed to release in 2016. They have just been adding stuff to an already Feature completed Game.
Given how many employees CIG has, there is a very real chance of this happening. Frankly, they cannot afford to employ that many people without getting these games live. They will either need to lay people off or earn more than $100,000,000 a year. And we've already proven we are up for more more pledging than the 3 year average as of late.
@@idnCurrently they do earn more than 100 million dollar a year because even early access plays amazing despite it being a buggy mess, because you can clearly potential and level of passion and detail. So yeah, no need to fire a thousand developers (yet) and besides what they really need is a good SQ42 release.
That report said all its sources considered these timelines extremely optimistic and unrealistic. Basically it said that SC is "2 years away", something we've heard every year since at ieast 2016. I wish it was true, but I'll believe it when I can actually play it on PU.
The perceived meaning of a "1.0 release" is vastly different than what is listed at 3:22. Assuming they can get Pyro out and working within the next year, I think 2 full years for those goals is quite achievable. This to me is still not truly a 1.0 release and is MUCH more of the initial beta release. They still have sooo many big pieces of tech ahead of them, a wide array of ships, all those extra systems and more before they can honestly call it a full release.
I can buy server meshing by EOY. I also think CIG is really going to try for 1.0 in 2025, but I think they'll miss that deadline. Hopefully the renewed focus means lots of new content for the PU over that time though.
I can understand both side of the late 2025 release date where some think that it would be great, while others are very skeptical. I feel like both are a fair reason because of all the things that they have promised or have to work on, but to be honest, they have shown some physicalized gameplay of what these things are, not just some paragraphs about what’s coming, really watchable proof which is something that shows they are putting in work. While I think 2025 is a long shot for what still needs to come and be improved, but with the size of their team, and the progress we have seen, i don’t doubt the possibility of it anymore.
I remember back when I was 11 and I thought in 5 years this game is gonna be amazing. I'm now 22 and I will never believe that it is releasing until after it already has.
This! My eyes rolled the second I seen the title. This idea will spread as fact, and the drama continues, fueled by the community. Let the irony and hypocrisy begin. A lack of wisdom here, and couldn't like the video. Tell me again how we like fake news.
Server meshing is the defining technology of this game. Meshing helps to solve the issue of multiple "shards." It should help alleviate server performance issues and 30k. It can also be the very technology that actually will enable instancing to be viable within the PU.
By the time SC actually releases, server meshing or equivalent tech will have already been released by other companies. They might have been the first to announce such a tech, but it's doubtful they'll be first to market with it.
@@asmosisyup2557 *"They might have been the first to announce such a tech, but it's doubtful they'll be first to market with it."* We'll see. Server meshing has been announced at least 6 years ago. No one has "brought it to market" yet. We don't know if other companies a) even see a need for it big enough to put a boatload of devs on it and b) how far along they'd be and c) if it's even a comparable solution (server meshing can both be done with static sized instances and dynamically sized ones. The latter is what SC needs, but it's also a lot more challenging than the already challenging server meshing is to begin with).
Those other companies better have started hiring teams of engineers and technicians Years ago to start patenting and inventing the tech. - thats the reason it only existed in reseach papers and tech proposals all these years. There are a a Few technologies that have to be invented to get to Dynamic Server Meshing - or 'equivalent tech'. CIG has the patents and invented all of the 'X' in those research papers that had to be figured out to achieve it. Thats why it only existed on paper for so long.. The large corporations, industry or tech institutes were not going to spend - time and money, when you cant even come up with an estimate of how long or how much it will cost - or if its even possible to solve the missing technology solutions that have to be invented first, before you can even think about Dynamically meshing servers on demand@@asmosisyup2557
i think what ppl arent realising is that if sq42 is done, all these devs have been working on complete features and are now working on PU. There main task now is going to be porting all those complete features over to the PU with the knowledge of how it works fresh in their minds. I think 2026/7 is more realistic but i do believe there will be massive progression seen this year now. SQ42 is going bring polished ship mechanics, ui, gunplay, ai and lots of other things that will make the PU feel so much smoother.
A partially instanced main questline narrative experience is music to my ears. The use of instancing for enabling greater content scope and accessibility outside of the "open environment" is also very good music to my ears. This will enable them to build far more environments and for them to be far more granular and specifically designed for that particular instanced content, without having to always prioritize the open environment flow over all other considerations. They're already pretty good at crafting level design for an open environment, and we've seen from SQ42 they're *excellent* at crafting narrative, linear level design content. I am extremely enthused for the integration of that SQ42-quality level design into SC, beneath the "open environment" skin.
if we get half of this in the next 2 years I'll be happy. There's never been a better time to join and 100s of devs moving from SQ42 to SC will do nothing but help the experience in a major way even if they don't meet these timelines. I'm so hyped for 2024!!
If you think about it, for a game of this scope, it's not far off from AAA companies like R* and Bethesda especially when you consider the jump off point. The company was just a startup in 2012. Had the growing pains of a startup til 2016. Finally found its footing and had multiple studios by 2018. Now, over 10 years later, may release in 1.0 which is basically Beta for SC lol. Most of the money spent was just creating the company and finding a way to continue to fund the beast.
a lot of people forget that SC did not had the required tech and th game engine required before 2018, we ar talking about 64bit, procedure generated planets/bioms, physics , even today they ar still working on other essential tech like server meshing
I could believe that for Squadron 42 as that isn't monetized but SC isn't likely to release while it's making so much due to being in EA. That said, i fully think they *could* get the game out the door in 2 years and would have an internal roadmap in place for that, but it's not the roadmap that development is actually following. It's the backup plan for when things start to cool off (which doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon).
Heard it here 1st: The 5 systems will be Stanton, Pyro, Nyx, Odin and Vega. If Stanton isn't included as one of the "New" systems my guess Oberon being the 5th system seeing as Chapter 1 of Squadron42 should be ending at Operation Mandrake. If Vega and Oberon are just going to be used for Squadron42 only my bet is on the Magnus system.
Well, there are already Terra and Magnus systems teased in SC live along with Pyro, with unusable jump point locations already placed in the game, potentiall apart of the new systems theyre talking about?
Took a look at the Star map, and I see Vega and Oberon as extremely unlikely unless there’s more than five systems coming, or if Odin is not a thing. Remember that any system added will need to connect directly to an existing system. See Stanton to Pyro, Pyro to Nyx, and Nyx to Odin. None of those connect directly to Vega. The closest is Nyx, and even that requires Brennen. So if your assumption is accurate, that not possible. More likely is that we get Brennen instead of Odin. They could also pull a switcheroo and move from Stanton to Magnus or even Terra, but I find that less likely. If I was CIG, I would want to cover as much variety as possible, and by extension, get as far away from Stanton as possible.
>The 5 systems will be Stanton, Pyro, Nyx, Odin and Vega. LOL. They can't release Pyro for a four years now. Four years they try to release ONE planet system. There is something completely wrong with they planet system making process.
No way they'll manage all this in the next year or two. I mean they still haven't been able to fix the NPCs from standing on chairs, black hole elevators, clunky inventory, old gen buggy map and so much more. Version 1.0 is at least 4 years away.
Saying 1.0 implies a complete game, not alpha or beta. I think we all have a greater chance of being abducted by aliens and taken to a system like Pyro than actually seeing SC go from alpha to 1.0 with 5 systems, base building etc.. in the next 2 years.
While a 4 year goal for 1.0 release might be more realistic in some ways, I would be more concerned if that was their internal goal. Everything in this leak is things we know they are working on and if everything goes smoothly then two years is probably not that unrelaistic. Challenges will arise though and lots of aspects for features that haven't been thoroughly thought out will need to be adressed. As an example, we got vehicle tractor beams, but in practice they aren't fullfilling their role in the envisioned manner and will need some more iteration before 1.0. Same with structural salvage and so on. But basicly everything will continue to be iterated on even after release so what baseline they want for a beta and 1.0 remains to be seen.
I think a more realistic timeline would be to double the timeline they are working toward. I can see the Q1 getting as much of SQ 42 features out so we can help polish and debug them for a SQ 42 release. The rest can be doubled because SC seems to be release new feature and have to have the next patch focus on fixing all of the said bugs on new feature. Once server meshing is in and stable I can see them looking to a 1.0 release but I don’t see that any sooner than 4-5 years out. You want a 1.0 release to be stable and all the current in game features functional. Right now some gameplay loops like the Hull C cargo hauling are completely broken.
I really hope player bases will not PVP raidable. I don't have the time to put up with a rust base in star citizen. I hope it remains a casual immersive game that we can just hop on for a few hours a week and enjoy what we want to do in the verse.
Love the look of the ground landing pad that seems to be a personal home. love the idea of owning a small plot to store all my things and use as a home.
My only gripe is the small amount of direction the gams gives you when starting. I felt so lost, definitely overwhelming for beginners, impressive game though!
That's pretty common for a lot of these space sim games tbh. Elite Dangerous has the same problem, as does X4 and even something much smaller in scope like Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. They all just kind of chuck you in and go "figure it out". I haven't played SC, but have played the three I mentioned.
It makes a certain amount of sense to try to have SC launch a year or two after Squadron 42 (if it does well). I don't know that it's an unrealistic target date if they stick to the goals they set for a launch back in 2018. At this point the only things left on their list are Server Meshing and Org Tools. Server Meshing is in testing now and the first version should be out later this year. That gives another year for dynamic server meshing. Org tools aren't something that are dependent on other features, so we should be scanning the progress tracker for new cards in the coming months for things related to that.
i am happy for this. I was worried they would target this fall, but we as the community have not had time to help them polish either the FPS combat or the new proper master modes flight combat. We need both these to be in an amazing state before that singleplayer can launch. If they plan for a 2025 launch, then 2024 can focus on getting combat in our hands so that we can help them get it polished for launch.
Honestly the people calling this game a scam are going to eat their words. I think this timeline should still be doubted, but the game has been steadily improving year on year and it is a genuine marvel the first time you enter the universe. Regardless of how true this timeline is, moving that many devs across makes me very excited
I'm playing myself. Didn,'t play the last two years and relogged back this christmas time. Sorry but I didn't see much progress in those 2 years. Still the same bugs it had two years ago. So I don't see 'improving'.
Sht..ive been following for a few years / playing for just over a year. It would take a paragraph to list all the additions and improvements that came in over that year@@eulenmongol
I've never played SC, mostly because I'm not interested in being a guinea pig... but I never thought the game was a scam. I believe the people behind it genuinely want to deliver on all of their promises. But I think it's pretty evident that there were a lot of issues with scoping and project management on this game. AAA games do take between 6-10 years to develop these days, so the development time on this game honestly is not unreasonable. 12 years for a game like SC isn't even really outlandish. But what has been unreasonable is that they kept overestimating how quickly they could deliver things. I think if they were just honest from the start with "Yeah, this is ambitious, it's going to take a long time, but you can play it while we make it", everything would have been fine. Again, I dont' think it's a scam. Far from it... but the project has had a lot of issues with their project management and PR.
@@adamleblanc5294 Sure, that's just sensible purchase making. I decided that I'd seen enough to put 40 bucks down years ago and haven't regretted a cent of that. However, online discourse was not "lets wait and see" it was "lmao scam citizen". I have a funny feeling in a few years everyone will be claiming they knew it would be good
My guess is 2-4yrs out still to be optimistic (Q1 2026 earliest for 1.0; but probably closer to mid-summer or early fall). 3-5y is the safer projection; and 5-7+ if things really hit the fan (anything from catastrophic bugs/data loss, to literally WW3)
I thought that S42 would only be released by end of 2025. Which would make sense that by end 2025 they would have the PU at 1.0(release version). But they will still do a lot of development, prob forever ongoing for the PU. Might even release solar systems as big events through the years. Thereby building and fleshing out the verse.
I would assume they are going to carry on hiring more staff within 2 years. This will also rely on Sq42 coming out this year which would put a few hundred more devs on SC. don't think it's possible but with the manpower, I believe they will knock some crazy massive milestones out of the way and bring a lot more ships into the game. 1.0 does not mean they will stop there though it's just a version number nothing to worry about development will go on as normal.
They had almost 500 employees back when the Stanton planets moons were being built - now adding Turbulent to CIG the staff is up to 1,300 but they will grow to 2,000 just in the Manchester HQ
something I think is needed it some realistic sound engine for voice chat and stuff. I only recently realized just how important correct, accurate, and realistic sounds are for immersion.
Not implausible. They are releasing ton and have pyro and Odin done with others close. Server meshing is coming this year and that gives them a year to perfect it which makes the whole game work. I believe they have a lot of other worlds and areas already developed and just waiting for server meshing to release.
This is the ABSOLUTE most optimistic time frame possible, but even disregarding most of the core gameplay stuff already mentioned in other comments we still only have one system.
Man, I'd love to see how. I can't even get it to remember my joystick binds from play sessions to play session and I can't even show my friend the game because we both keep spawning in without heads and missing our items and then our ships blow up for no reason. Before this update, maybe, but not after the recent one.
I think 3.23 is going to be the deciding factor on how realistic the whole roadmap is. If we get at least 50% of the SQ42 features in that patch then it proves that pace is possible.
@@karmabad6287 i mean, based o. Their roadmap, this is actually a negitive goal. Seeing that teams are moving and development is being prioritized. Idk, but it seems reasonable
Technically when it comes to the goal of a hundred star systems it's still not possible. At 1 system per month thats 10 years and at 1 system per year that's a hundred years. Either way you slice it you're looking at a few decades worth of development in order to finish Star Citizen.
@Nightcore_Paradise 1.0 as stated isn't planned to launch with all 100. Your estimations are also incorrect. Keep in mind that SC's systems are not all the same. Some are full of meaningless lifeless rocks you can mine on or terraform, and very few such as terra have cities and life throughout. With planet tech V5 its going to be so fricken easy to generate planets, I am not the least bit concerned. Really, very few systems need the dev team concerned over detail. Basically, every system is different, and most of them are baren. CIG has many devs they can allocate to these systems, and they have tools that make them easy to complete. Keep in mind every stat on dev time for a system we have seen in 2023 is meaningless as they don't represent the same pool of resources and time that 2024 sc has and is gaining.
Chiming in as a follow-up on 3/18/24: the Q1 3.23 patch released to the Evocati yesterday is *indeed* a massive patch with tons of new stuff, much of it clearly coming over from SQ42 like Master Modes, plus engineering gameplay is coming in the testing channel in Arena Commander. Also the Evocati are testing static server meshing & the replication layer with the early results showcasing a greatly increased server cap. It's really extraordinary. This first Evo test release version doesn't contain all of the planned features, and there's definitely going to be a 3.23.1 for the upcoming Invictus event... but even if it was *just* these first items to be tested then it would still be one of the largest and most transformative patches in years. I'm hoping that LevelCap will revisit this video at the end of 2024 and essentially "react" to it and describe how accurate the leaks were, what didn't get released, and what else came out that *wasn't* in the leaks. Anyway, great video as always, thanks!
I knew it was 2 years away! But seriously, it'll be awesome if they can pull it off. Its good to shoot for the moon. Starting with 5 systems should provide sufficient gameplay to keep us busy until more systems and more gameplay features are added, hopefully on a regular/quarterly basis.
@@yous2244 sounds like you have 8 year desync, did you try reconnecting the hopium cable to another port on your computer? Anyway, I'd suggest making friends and playing with them. Released or not, SC is more fun with friends.
I think one thing to note is that the devs moving over have experience with the engine so they should be hitting the ground running when compared to when CIG just hire more people
As a Kickstarter backer, Star Citizen has been reported as only 2 years away for almost a decade now. And Squadron 42 was always meant to come out first with the MMO Star Citizen at least a year* after that. *In Roberts Time.
I love the game like no other game and even bought a new PC due to SC but... there are still so many bugs that I really cannot see how it could be released this year.
Lol as though the devs know the release schedule nevermind star citizen leaks hahaha. 200 ships to get engineering, atmospheric flight tuning, maelstorm pass, master modes, components and cargo grid, storage gold pass,... Etc etc. no shot man! There is no way that is like one ship completely gold pass every 3 days starting now 😂
Man, idk how i feel about raids being instanced, personal hangars, sure, thats their whole point, but raids happen on planets.... even if they dont have a loading screen having them be an instance feels off
it really doenn't. reduces server load, reduces client load, creates a safe environment for ppl to just have fun in, and can still be done seamlessly through say an elevator.
well i think the came should deliver with 4.0 series as when server meshing is complete it should go live but we dont know if 4.0 series may go to 4.35 till server meshing is done. my favorite part of 4.0 is its the gold standard series where they will deliver the 600i and all those ships that havent seen an update in years
I would expect it to go into beta for a minimum of 6 months before being roled out in a polished release. A year in beta would probably be more likely.
Firstly, a two year timeline for anything Star Citizen related is wildly ambitious. While I want to have hope, realistically speaking we all know how notorious CIG is for making a deadline and then missing it by a long shot. Second, they absolutely should not add base building until more planets are added. At current, the limited number of planets and moons would make for an awkward time claiming land. For example, say I wanted to illegally set up a very small outpost hidden in a forest. How many other people might have the same idea? With millions of Star Citizen players, land claims would be taken up way quicker than people think.
I`ll believe it when the full version is installed on my drive :) Dont get me wrong, latest statment that Squadron 42 is almost ready gave me hope, but still i dont want to get hyped too fast.
My guess is a mid 2026 to early 2027 1.0 release, which is still pretty good, Ive waited this long, Ive already come to accept that SC is one of if not he biggest and most ambitious games ever, so I can understand the amount of time its taking.
I really am hyped for any 1.0 release (even if i think its more like 3-4 years away not 2) but even still SC right now is kinda like space day-z and SC at launch will be completely different and while i think thats 100% for the better, I will miss OG star citizen.
Its hard to see the whole project from our side. Of course we are not convinced all this can be done in two years but we have to keep in mind how many are working on this game and know there are a lot of them that have been working on these other features already for years. You said you would link to the information but there is no links...;(
i think if they go all in with all their resources they can hit the mark , they are close with their server meshing tech and their engine , and assets are just assets no insane time sink there , however as always in games now a days , be thankfull if you can hit 30 fps , so give it +1 year for performance improvements
I love how people come here stating that 4-5 years it's more realistic like they know whats on 1.0 or how development can increase after meshing, rastar tool, master modes and all the things we getting in 2024
I find my self trying to help the new player, almost every day I play via global chat. This new players don't really understand the magnitude of the Verse and the complexities related . Star citizen is more than a game. I think it will be good to give new players, all the major websites very accessible from inside the launcher, erkul, SC redmonster, and others, a very easy access to teach new players how is done and what is were etc...
1.0 in 2025 is infinitely more ambitious than SQ42 in 2024. Though with that said, we should also be aware that the sheer volume of developers working directly on the verse has increased so much it's only logical to assume content will ramp up like we've never experienced thus far.
It's interesting to think about the possibility of having 5 systems within two years, but with the new technologies and improved workforce, I can definitely see Nyx And Magnus launched much quicker than Pyro- As they are smaller and all of the new tech will have been tested by that time.
Can say goodbye to any chance of hunting player bounties if they start putting in a ton of instanced content, it's hard enough to catch anyone with just the safe zones around bases
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GTA 6 and Star Citizen getting released in 2025 would be the end of my social life
burh that what i was thinking 😂😂
I doubt the online experience in GTA 6 is going to be any different than what we're having in GTA 5,
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Star citizen is already released though lol
it will there will be no flying missile bikes@@Dumb-Comment
a leak is a grain of salt. A leak about the Star Citizen release date is a massive bucket of salt
I remember when this thing was meant to be in beta by October of 2020.
@@wiser3754 you dreamed it because it never happened nor was never announced.
@@seveneternal7988 it was on a roadmap.
I remember the owner “sold” the IP to his own company for millions of donor money, aka: a scam.
@@seveneternal7988Remember when the game was supposed to be released in December of 2016?
I think a 2-year goal is pretty ambitious for a 1.0 release. But I do think that having the entire team finally focused on SC will vastly improve the game at a much faster pace. Basically SC has been developed and maintained by a skeleton crew up to this point.
Keep in mind, this is all not official from CIG. So if you expect them to release it and they didnt make it in q4 2025 and you feel dissapointed.. its your own diong. not CIGs
There is several sequels to SQ42 so the whole team is NEVER going to focus on SC.
" Basically SC has been developed and maintained by a skeleton crew up to this point."
Squadron 42 was suppose to be released in 2014 according to CIG.... ten years later and still no SQ42. This company is good at making $1500 3D model ships but not so much at keeping promises.
I think it could enter some kind of early access beta that doesn't wipe in 2 years time.
@@machoalright i was just thinking this, people are going to exaggerate this leak and turn it into a "promise CIG made" ..the way people get their opinions from rumors about SC now days this is likely to happen.
I just don't believe it. I don't believe that server meshing is coming this year. I don't believe that there can be a release next year. I just physically cannot believe it.
Neither do I. I will believe it when I see it lol
yeah, I don't believe it either. I bought in 7 years ago thinking it was just about to be released. I pity those that bought in at 2012. I just got finished playing Starfield and it was just a buggy broken mess. In fact I abandoned it before finishing it. I hate to think what sort of state SQ42 will be in considering their reputation for bugs.
They won't kill the golden goose so easily. If they release the game, they have to stop selling ships.
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Nonsense argument.
@@AbstractHexagon no they can continue to sell ships, it’s not like there some weird rule for video game companies saying once product is released you can’t sell in game items. They’ll continue to sell and make new ships for the entire lifecycle of the game.
Not a chance.
What we saw at Citcon, where it was said that most of it should make it into Star Citizen Verse this year, has to make it into Verse by the end of the year. However, we have all had the experience that some things have been postponed in every patch.
In addition, we are still missing a lot of things that have not even been mentioned yet, such as ship armour, subtargeting, orga functions, a deeper reputation system, Banus, Tevarin and also extraterrestrial creatures.
When dynamic server meshing is up and running at some point, there will also be all the stories with blades, NPC missions and also NPCs to hire as gunners, miners, etc.
With every point I list here, I can think of three more points that are still missing.
So no, Star Citizen Release is still too far away. The development journey here will take even longer and I have no problem with that because I can understand why it will take even longer.
But to say here that SC 1.0 could come in the next 2 years is something that splits the community again and 2 years later there's a lot of moaning because the game hasn't been released yet.
I get what you're saying, but the difference between what we were told at this CitCon compared to previous events is evidence. We've now seen plenty of these systems working, even in a lab setting. That's different to all other times where grand promises have been made.
We always should take info with a grain of salt, but we can give CIG more credit now since we've got evidence of what they're going to deliver.
Cautious optimism, always.
@@CrusstySculpture Yes, most of what we saw at CitCon will be done by the end of 2024. That's true... and yet there are still many other things that have nothing to do with Squadron 42 but are needed for Star Citizen. The NPC gameplay alone, where you can hire NPCs, will take some time until the system has been integrated for all gameplays such as NPC gunners, miners, salvagers, etc.
Just the lack of modularity with so many ships like the Carrack, Caterpillar, Retaliator where we are still missing the other variant and so on.
On the subject of modularity, I also immediately think of the Endeavour, where the different modules bring different gameplays with them, such as the farming module.
Honestly, the more I write, the more I can think of points that are still missing and that is not feasible in 1-2 years. That's why I think this rumour of a 2025 Star Citizen release is impossible, especially as Squadron 42 has to be released before then!
Yes, CitCon has pushed my optimism, but I'm not exaggerating with my wishes, I'm staying realistic.
Nothing that was shown this year at CitCon was shown as demo or Work In Progress version ( other then the new base/Undergrd Mission and the Housing) everything else is working and implemented in SQ 42 and has been for more then a Year now. Don''t confuse the PU with SQ 42 which was supposed to release in 2016. They have just been adding stuff to an already Feature completed Game.
Given how many employees CIG has, there is a very real chance of this happening. Frankly, they cannot afford to employ that many people without getting these games live. They will either need to lay people off or earn more than $100,000,000 a year. And we've already proven we are up for more more pledging than the 3 year average as of late.
@@idnCurrently they do earn more than 100 million dollar a year because even early access plays amazing despite it being a buggy mess, because you can clearly potential and level of passion and detail. So yeah, no need to fire a thousand developers (yet) and besides what they really need is a good SQ42 release.
That report said all its sources considered these timelines extremely optimistic and unrealistic. Basically it said that SC is "2 years away", something we've heard every year since at ieast 2016.
I wish it was true, but I'll believe it when I can actually play it on PU.
Squadron won't play in the PU, it'll be standalone
No one has ever said that SC is 2 years away. That's been the running joke with Squadron 42.
Squadron 42 in 2025 I can believe.
Star Citizen in 2025 is a bit of a stretch, the PU still has ways to go before an actual 1.0 is implemented
The perceived meaning of a "1.0 release" is vastly different than what is listed at 3:22. Assuming they can get Pyro out and working within the next year, I think 2 full years for those goals is quite achievable. This to me is still not truly a 1.0 release and is MUCH more of the initial beta release. They still have sooo many big pieces of tech ahead of them, a wide array of ships, all those extra systems and more before they can honestly call it a full release.
I can buy server meshing by EOY. I also think CIG is really going to try for 1.0 in 2025, but I think they'll miss that deadline. Hopefully the renewed focus means lots of new content for the PU over that time though.
1.0? we're on 3.22 right now lol
@@rausmusic4396 yeah, They're numbering it as 1.0 of release. This is 3.22 of the alpha lol
@@rausmusic4396 We're on alpha 3.22, the emphasis is on the word "ALPHA".
It's a scam.
@@michelians1148 "Ackchually it's a scam guys 🤓 stop having fun, issa scam 🤓"
I can understand both side of the late 2025 release date where some think that it would be great, while others are very skeptical.
I feel like both are a fair reason because of all the things that they have promised or have to work on, but to be honest, they have shown some physicalized gameplay of what these things are, not just some paragraphs about what’s coming, really watchable proof which is something that shows they are putting in work.
While I think 2025 is a long shot for what still needs to come and be improved, but with the size of their team, and the progress we have seen, i don’t doubt the possibility of it anymore.
I remember back when I was 11 and I thought in 5 years this game is gonna be amazing. I'm now 22 and I will never believe that it is releasing until after it already has.
I can't wait til we get mad at Roberts for missing a release date he never revealed.
This!
My eyes rolled the second I seen the title.
This idea will spread as fact, and the drama continues, fueled by the community.
Let the irony and hypocrisy begin.
A lack of wisdom here, and couldn't like the video.
Tell me again how we like fake news.
Server meshing is the defining technology of this game. Meshing helps to solve the issue of multiple "shards." It should help alleviate server performance issues and 30k. It can also be the very technology that actually will enable instancing to be viable within the PU.
Yeah, server meshing has been the single big road block for SC since like, 2017 (I think)
By the time SC actually releases, server meshing or equivalent tech will have already been released by other companies. They might have been the first to announce such a tech, but it's doubtful they'll be first to market with it.
@@asmosisyup2557 *"They might have been the first to announce such a tech, but it's doubtful they'll be first to market with it."*
We'll see. Server meshing has been announced at least 6 years ago. No one has "brought it to market" yet. We don't know if other companies a) even see a need for it big enough to put a boatload of devs on it and b) how far along they'd be and c) if it's even a comparable solution (server meshing can both be done with static sized instances and dynamically sized ones. The latter is what SC needs, but it's also a lot more challenging than the already challenging server meshing is to begin with).
Those other companies better have started hiring teams of engineers and technicians Years ago to start patenting and inventing the tech. - thats the reason it only existed in reseach papers and tech proposals all these years. There are a a Few technologies that have to be invented to get to Dynamic Server Meshing - or 'equivalent tech'. CIG has the patents and invented all of the 'X' in those research papers that had to be figured out to achieve it.
Thats why it only existed on paper for so long.. The large corporations, industry or tech institutes were not going to spend - time and money, when you cant even come up with an estimate of how long or how much it will cost - or if its even possible to solve the missing technology solutions that have to be invented first, before you can even think about Dynamically meshing servers on demand@@asmosisyup2557
With Squadron 42 being pretty much done, I am not surprised to see or hear about huge leaps in progression for the PU
i think what ppl arent realising is that if sq42 is done, all these devs have been working on complete features and are now working on PU. There main task now is going to be porting all those complete features over to the PU with the knowledge of how it works fresh in their minds. I think 2026/7 is more realistic but i do believe there will be massive progression seen this year now. SQ42 is going bring polished ship mechanics, ui, gunplay, ai and lots of other things that will make the PU feel so much smoother.
A partially instanced main questline narrative experience is music to my ears. The use of instancing for enabling greater content scope and accessibility outside of the "open environment" is also very good music to my ears. This will enable them to build far more environments and for them to be far more granular and specifically designed for that particular instanced content, without having to always prioritize the open environment flow over all other considerations. They're already pretty good at crafting level design for an open environment, and we've seen from SQ42 they're *excellent* at crafting narrative, linear level design content. I am extremely enthused for the integration of that SQ42-quality level design into SC, beneath the "open environment" skin.
if we get half of this in the next 2 years I'll be happy. There's never been a better time to join and 100s of devs moving from SQ42 to SC will do nothing but help the experience in a major way even if they don't meet these timelines. I'm so hyped for 2024!!
something tells me, that all this progress will be kind of exponential. (many devs moved back to SC since the last citizencon)
We makin it outta Stanton with this one boyz
If you think about it, for a game of this scope, it's not far off from AAA companies like R* and Bethesda especially when you consider the jump off point. The company was just a startup in 2012. Had the growing pains of a startup til 2016. Finally found its footing and had multiple studios by 2018. Now, over 10 years later, may release in 1.0 which is basically Beta for SC lol.
Most of the money spent was just creating the company and finding a way to continue to fund the beast.
a lot of people forget that SC did not had the required tech and th game engine required before 2018, we ar talking about 64bit, procedure generated planets/bioms, physics , even today they ar still working on other essential tech like server meshing
took ten years to make hl2 :P
I could believe that for Squadron 42 as that isn't monetized but SC isn't likely to release while it's making so much due to being in EA. That said, i fully think they *could* get the game out the door in 2 years and would have an internal roadmap in place for that, but it's not the roadmap that development is actually following. It's the backup plan for when things start to cool off (which doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon).
Heard it here 1st: The 5 systems will be Stanton, Pyro, Nyx, Odin and Vega. If Stanton isn't included as one of the "New" systems my guess Oberon being the 5th system seeing as Chapter 1 of Squadron42 should be ending at Operation Mandrake.
If Vega and Oberon are just going to be used for Squadron42 only my bet is on the Magnus system.
Well, there are already Terra and Magnus systems teased in SC live along with Pyro, with unusable jump point locations already placed in the game, potentiall apart of the new systems theyre talking about?
AstroPub viewer here
Took a look at the Star map, and I see Vega and Oberon as extremely unlikely unless there’s more than five systems coming, or if Odin is not a thing. Remember that any system added will need to connect directly to an existing system. See Stanton to Pyro, Pyro to Nyx, and Nyx to Odin. None of those connect directly to Vega. The closest is Nyx, and even that requires Brennen. So if your assumption is accurate, that not possible. More likely is that we get Brennen instead of Odin.
They could also pull a switcheroo and move from Stanton to Magnus or even Terra, but I find that less likely. If I was CIG, I would want to cover as much variety as possible, and by extension, get as far away from Stanton as possible.
@@aguspuig6615 what's that?
>The 5 systems will be Stanton, Pyro, Nyx, Odin and Vega.
LOL. They can't release Pyro for a four years now. Four years they try to release ONE planet system. There is something completely wrong with they planet system making process.
No way they'll manage all this in the next year or two. I mean they still haven't been able to fix the NPCs from standing on chairs, black hole elevators, clunky inventory, old gen buggy map and so much more. Version 1.0 is at least 4 years away.
I wonder what will happen first: SpaceX on Mars or Star Citizen full official release
Definitely SpaceX on Mars
First contact with sentient alien race
Saying 1.0 implies a complete game, not alpha or beta. I think we all have a greater chance of being abducted by aliens and taken to a system like Pyro than actually seeing SC go from alpha to 1.0 with 5 systems, base building etc.. in the next 2 years.
Instancing can also reduce server load when you're on a shard for that instance.
While a 4 year goal for 1.0 release might be more realistic in some ways, I would be more concerned if that was their internal goal. Everything in this leak is things we know they are working on and if everything goes smoothly then two years is probably not that unrelaistic. Challenges will arise though and lots of aspects for features that haven't been thoroughly thought out will need to be adressed.
As an example, we got vehicle tractor beams, but in practice they aren't fullfilling their role in the envisioned manner and will need some more iteration before 1.0. Same with structural salvage and so on. But basicly everything will continue to be iterated on even after release so what baseline they want for a beta and 1.0 remains to be seen.
Thanks for update, good luck with your space game.
I think a more realistic timeline would be to double the timeline they are working toward. I can see the Q1 getting as much of SQ 42 features out so we can help polish and debug them for a SQ 42 release. The rest can be doubled because SC seems to be release new feature and have to have the next patch focus on fixing all of the said bugs on new feature. Once server meshing is in and stable I can see them looking to a 1.0 release but I don’t see that any sooner than 4-5 years out. You want a 1.0 release to be stable and all the current in game features functional. Right now some gameplay loops like the Hull C cargo hauling are completely broken.
I really hope player bases will not PVP raidable. I don't have the time to put up with a rust base in star citizen. I hope it remains a casual immersive game that we can just hop on for a few hours a week and enjoy what we want to do in the verse.
Sorry but they have no plans for PVE server, however i do agree with you.
If you put up a base - put it up in 'highsec' - instead of the lawless outlands.
Love the look of the ground landing pad that seems to be a personal home. love the idea of owning a small plot to store all my things and use as a home.
My only gripe is the small amount of direction the gams gives you when starting. I felt so lost, definitely overwhelming for beginners, impressive game though!
That's pretty common for a lot of these space sim games tbh. Elite Dangerous has the same problem, as does X4 and even something much smaller in scope like Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. They all just kind of chuck you in and go "figure it out". I haven't played SC, but have played the three I mentioned.
It makes a certain amount of sense to try to have SC launch a year or two after Squadron 42 (if it does well).
I don't know that it's an unrealistic target date if they stick to the goals they set for a launch back in 2018. At this point the only things left on their list are Server Meshing and Org Tools. Server Meshing is in testing now and the first version should be out later this year. That gives another year for dynamic server meshing. Org tools aren't something that are dependent on other features, so we should be scanning the progress tracker for new cards in the coming months for things related to that.
i am happy for this. I was worried they would target this fall, but we as the community have not had time to help them polish either the FPS combat or the new proper master modes flight combat. We need both these to be in an amazing state before that singleplayer can launch. If they plan for a 2025 launch, then 2024 can focus on getting combat in our hands so that we can help them get it polished for launch.
Honestly the people calling this game a scam are going to eat their words. I think this timeline should still be doubted, but the game has been steadily improving year on year and it is a genuine marvel the first time you enter the universe. Regardless of how true this timeline is, moving that many devs across makes me very excited
I'm playing myself. Didn,'t play the last two years and relogged back this christmas time. Sorry but I didn't see much progress in those 2 years. Still the same bugs it had two years ago. So I don't see 'improving'.
Sht..ive been following for a few years / playing for just over a year. It would take a paragraph to list all the additions and improvements that came in over that year@@eulenmongol
@@eulenmongolIf you can't see the progress then you're not looking. Like at all
I've never played SC, mostly because I'm not interested in being a guinea pig... but I never thought the game was a scam. I believe the people behind it genuinely want to deliver on all of their promises. But I think it's pretty evident that there were a lot of issues with scoping and project management on this game. AAA games do take between 6-10 years to develop these days, so the development time on this game honestly is not unreasonable. 12 years for a game like SC isn't even really outlandish. But what has been unreasonable is that they kept overestimating how quickly they could deliver things. I think if they were just honest from the start with "Yeah, this is ambitious, it's going to take a long time, but you can play it while we make it", everything would have been fine.
Again, I dont' think it's a scam. Far from it... but the project has had a lot of issues with their project management and PR.
@@adamleblanc5294 Sure, that's just sensible purchase making. I decided that I'd seen enough to put 40 bucks down years ago and haven't regretted a cent of that. However, online discourse was not "lets wait and see" it was "lmao scam citizen". I have a funny feeling in a few years everyone will be claiming they knew it would be good
My guess is 2-4yrs out still to be optimistic (Q1 2026 earliest for 1.0; but probably closer to mid-summer or early fall). 3-5y is the safer projection; and 5-7+ if things really hit the fan (anything from catastrophic bugs/data loss, to literally WW3)
I thought that S42 would only be released by end of 2025. Which would make sense that by end 2025 they would have the PU at 1.0(release version). But they will still do a lot of development, prob forever ongoing for the PU. Might even release solar systems as big events through the years. Thereby building and fleshing out the verse.
I would assume they are going to carry on hiring more staff within 2 years. This will also rely on Sq42 coming out this year which would put a few hundred more devs on SC. don't think it's possible but with the manpower, I believe they will knock some crazy massive milestones out of the way and bring a lot more ships into the game. 1.0 does not mean they will stop there though it's just a version number nothing to worry about development will go on as normal.
i think they made like 150million in 2023 so they have tons of money to burn to speed things up..
I think they got enough man power already with over 1100 devs currently.
They had almost 500 employees back when the Stanton planets moons were being built - now adding Turbulent to CIG the staff is up to 1,300 but they will grow to 2,000 just in the Manchester HQ
something I think is needed it some realistic sound engine for voice chat and stuff. I only recently realized just how important correct, accurate, and realistic sounds are for immersion.
Look the resonance panel of the citizencon they cover it
That landing pad that the Corsair landed on is so much cooler than anything we have now.
Not implausible. They are releasing ton and have pyro and Odin done with others close. Server meshing is coming this year and that gives them a year to perfect it which makes the whole game work. I believe they have a lot of other worlds and areas already developed and just waiting for server meshing to release.
i cant find the link in the description?! Did it got removed?
If this is true then it's quite welcome news. A late 2025 release date SC is fine providing they release S42 sometime this year.
I think Squadron will be 25. SC 25 is crazy
@@TKanal3 18 month polish ur lookig at 26 not 25
This is the ABSOLUTE most optimistic time frame possible, but even disregarding most of the core gameplay stuff already mentioned in other comments we still only have one system.
Man, I'd love to see how. I can't even get it to remember my joystick binds from play sessions to play session and I can't even show my friend the game because we both keep spawning in without heads and missing our items and then our ships blow up for no reason. Before this update, maybe, but not after the recent one.
I think 3.23 is going to be the deciding factor on how realistic the whole roadmap is. If we get at least 50% of the SQ42 features in that patch then it proves that pace is possible.
50% of the content in 3.23! That's pretty ambitious and doubtful. My guess for what it's worth would be maybe 15%-20% if we're really lucky.
@@karmabad6287 i mean, based o. Their roadmap, this is actually a negitive goal. Seeing that teams are moving and development is being prioritized. Idk, but it seems reasonable
Technically when it comes to the goal of a hundred star systems it's still not possible. At 1 system per month thats 10 years and at 1 system per year that's a hundred years. Either way you slice it you're looking at a few decades worth of development in order to finish Star Citizen.
@Nightcore_Paradise 1.0 as stated isn't planned to launch with all 100. Your estimations are also incorrect.
Keep in mind that SC's systems are not all the same. Some are full of meaningless lifeless rocks you can mine on or terraform, and very few such as terra have cities and life throughout. With planet tech V5 its going to be so fricken easy to generate planets, I am not the least bit concerned. Really, very few systems need the dev team concerned over detail.
Basically, every system is different, and most of them are baren. CIG has many devs they can allocate to these systems, and they have tools that make them easy to complete. Keep in mind every stat on dev time for a system we have seen in 2023 is meaningless as they don't represent the same pool of resources and time that 2024 sc has and is gaining.
Chiming in as a follow-up on 3/18/24: the Q1 3.23 patch released to the Evocati yesterday is *indeed* a massive patch with tons of new stuff, much of it clearly coming over from SQ42 like Master Modes, plus engineering gameplay is coming in the testing channel in Arena Commander. Also the Evocati are testing static server meshing & the replication layer with the early results showcasing a greatly increased server cap. It's really extraordinary.
This first Evo test release version doesn't contain all of the planned features, and there's definitely going to be a 3.23.1 for the upcoming Invictus event... but even if it was *just* these first items to be tested then it would still be one of the largest and most transformative patches in years.
I'm hoping that LevelCap will revisit this video at the end of 2024 and essentially "react" to it and describe how accurate the leaks were, what didn't get released, and what else came out that *wasn't* in the leaks.
Anyway, great video as always, thanks!
I knew it was 2 years away! But seriously, it'll be awesome if they can pull it off. Its good to shoot for the moon. Starting with 5 systems should provide sufficient gameplay to keep us busy until more systems and more gameplay features are added, hopefully on a regular/quarterly basis.
It's definitely not 2 years away, it's at least ten years away
@@yous2244 sounds like you have 8 year desync, did you try reconnecting the hopium cable to another port on your computer? Anyway, I'd suggest making friends and playing with them. Released or not, SC is more fun with friends.
This thing is a scam, they will never release it
I think one thing to note is that the devs moving over have experience with the engine so they should be hitting the ground running when compared to when CIG just hire more people
As a Kickstarter backer, Star Citizen has been reported as only 2 years away for almost a decade now.
And Squadron 42 was always meant to come out first with the MMO Star Citizen at least a year* after that.
*In Roberts Time.
Omg, this is great news, see you guys in 2028 !!!
"10 times the activities." I am looking forward to skiing and snowboarding in the mountains of Microtech.
according to a leak , they should have released 12 years ago .Cig is known for not meeting deadlines and false advertisement.
This would be awesome! hoping they go hard this year
I love the game like no other game and even bought a new PC due to SC but... there are still so many bugs that I really cannot see how it could be released this year.
Lol as though the devs know the release schedule nevermind star citizen leaks hahaha. 200 ships to get engineering, atmospheric flight tuning, maelstorm pass, master modes, components and cargo grid, storage gold pass,... Etc etc. no shot man! There is no way that is like one ship completely gold pass every 3 days starting now 😂
gta 6 and space gta in the same year sound pretty lit honestly
What's the song at the beginning of the video? Please tell me
I doubt it, although i guess it might make sense as that sounds like the rough time SQ42 might come out.
Man, idk how i feel about raids being instanced, personal hangars, sure, thats their whole point, but raids happen on planets.... even if they dont have a loading screen having them be an instance feels off
If SoO is anything to go by it’s probably for the best to instance that disaster off lol
it really doenn't. reduces server load, reduces client load, creates a safe environment for ppl to just have fun in, and can still be done seamlessly through say an elevator.
Any news for vr support this game is so sick!
well i think the came should deliver with 4.0 series as when server meshing is complete it should go live but we dont know if 4.0 series may go to 4.35 till server meshing is done.
my favorite part of 4.0 is its the gold standard series where they will deliver the 600i and all those ships that havent seen an update in years
I would expect it to go into beta for a minimum of 6 months before being roled out in a polished release. A year in beta would probably be more likely.
Firstly, a two year timeline for anything Star Citizen related is wildly ambitious. While I want to have hope, realistically speaking we all know how notorious CIG is for making a deadline and then missing it by a long shot.
Second, they absolutely should not add base building until more planets are added. At current, the limited number of planets and moons would make for an awkward time claiming land. For example, say I wanted to illegally set up a very small outpost hidden in a forest. How many other people might have the same idea? With millions of Star Citizen players, land claims would be taken up way quicker than people think.
I hope not too many things are instanced, the fact that it is not instanced is one of the things I like the most about the game
2012: Star Citizen releasing in 2016!!!!!!!
X to doubt. SQ42 I can see 2026 or 2027 by their track record if its truly in polishing.
I`ll believe it when the full version is installed on my drive :) Dont get me wrong, latest statment that Squadron 42 is almost ready gave me hope, but still i dont want to get hyped too fast.
Technically Arena Commander and Theatres of War are in verse instances for single players and matched group players.
Is there a link to the full document?
Yea, I hope this is true. Like the instance idea for the game. 5 systems is good for a 1.0 ( I initially said 10). We will see.
Since this is an internal release date, im taking it with a big grain of salt.
But we'll see how it goes over the next two years.
Don't hear much about starfield anymore
what's that? a bigger, blander version of the outer wilds?
Not even the modders have anything nice to say
Because it's not relevant anymore.
Modders: Well, let's head back to skyrim!
@@JamestheKilljoytrue i’ve seen an article say that Starfield is hopeless or something like that
Mate can you do a video about the new MSI gaming monitor with AI integreted "cheats"???? I would love yo hear your take on that
Star Citizen and GTA VI getting released in 2025 might mark the biggest year for video games of all time. Would be absolutely insane!
They have been saying this game would release 2 years from now, every 2 years, for the last 10 years.
Bro I assumed they were 2 years or less out because the packs they sell changed from 120 month insurance to 24 month insurance
My guess is a mid 2026 to early 2027 1.0 release, which is still pretty good, Ive waited this long, Ive already come to accept that SC is one of if not he biggest and most ambitious games ever, so I can understand the amount of time its taking.
A decade of early access has me wondering if they were just waiting for technology to catch up with their vision and ambition
I really am hyped for any 1.0 release (even if i think its more like 3-4 years away not 2) but even still SC right now is kinda like space day-z and SC at launch will be completely different and while i think thats 100% for the better, I will miss OG star citizen.
just because we've been burned or mislead before i'll embrace the mindset of "i will believe it when i see it".
Where is the Link btw the inivtation isn`t working (For the Leak Server ) is CIG stopping the Progress of the info ?
Its hard to see the whole project from our side. Of course we are not convinced all this can be done in two years but we have to keep in mind how many are working on this game and know there are a lot of them that have been working on these other features already for years.
You said you would link to the information but there is no links...;(
Squadron 42... maybe. They said at Citizencon that it is feature complete so they are in the polish phase. Star Citizen, is still 27 years away.
i think if they go all in with all their resources they can hit the mark , they are close with their server meshing tech and their engine , and assets are just assets no insane time sink there , however as always in games now a days , be thankfull if you can hit 30 fps , so give it +1 year for performance improvements
I love how people come here stating that 4-5 years it's more realistic like they know whats on 1.0 or how development can increase after meshing, rastar tool, master modes and all the things we getting in 2024
I find my self trying to help the new player, almost every day I play via global chat. This new players don't really understand the magnitude of the Verse and the complexities related . Star citizen is more than a game.
I think it will be good to give new players, all the major websites very accessible from inside the launcher, erkul, SC redmonster, and others, a very easy access to teach new players how is done and what is were etc...
thought base building was starting development Q1 i highly doubt anything will be in the next patch.
1.0 in 2025 is infinitely more ambitious than SQ42 in 2024. Though with that said, we should also be aware that the sheer volume of developers working directly on the verse has increased so much it's only logical to assume content will ramp up like we've never experienced thus far.
I don’t believe the release date until I see an official announcement
They could come out and say it releases tomorrow and I STILL wouldn't believe it... not till it's in my PC
I could believe SQ42 in 2025 but not Star Citizen.
Yeah I entertained the thought of a release date the first 12 times. Not anymore. I will believe it when I am playing the launch build.
In other news I hear fusion power is around the corner as well
It's interesting to think about the possibility of having 5 systems within two years, but with the new technologies and improved workforce, I can definitely see Nyx And Magnus launched much quicker than Pyro- As they are smaller and all of the new tech will have been tested by that time.
These update videos are a reminder I own the game. Waiting for 1.0
I will believe a release date for SC about 6 months AFTER it is out.
Interestingly no one talks about it on Reddit. Probably because no one believes the 1.0 prediction one bit.
It's more beliavble now than ever due to stuff coming together. Either way, it is
going to be good!
Can say goodbye to any chance of hunting player bounties if they start putting in a ton of instanced content, it's hard enough to catch anyone with just the safe zones around bases
Wow. You have to be someone confident. I like it.
If 1.0 is released Q4 2025, then this next IAE might be the last opportunity to pledge for ships before they take them off the store, right?