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Star Citizen - Squadron 42 Update
Erillion
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From the RSI/CIG Weekly Newsletter October 13th, 2017
"....Squadron 42 will be the focus of our Holiday Livestream in December, where we will preview some gameplay and share our roadmap for its completion.
Our single player campaign, Squadron 42, shares a large amount of technology and content with Star Citizen and both games fuel each other. Technology built for Squadron 42 allows for a better experience in Star Citizen and technology for Star Citizen opens up opportunities that take Squadron 42 to another level. Subsumption is an example of technology that is critical for both Star Citizen and Squadron 42. The Item 2.0 refactor and the Player Interaction Mode were essential for Star Citizen and it is now allowing new and varied gameplay in Squadron 42. Planet Tech, the Zone System and 64-bit precision allows us to expand the playscape for Squadron 42 to solar system scale.
We have a large team working on Squadron 42 and we’ve been making good progress towards achieving my goal to take the Wing Commander style narrative experience to the next level with first person gameplay that moves between foot, vehicles and incredible locations all rendered with a fluidity and quality that you normally only see in pre-rendered cinematic scenes. I am confident it is going to be worth the wait; a game that can hold its own with any other AAA story game.
I am excited to show you some of this in December. And until then I’ll see you at CitizenCon!
Chris Roberts"
http://mailchi.mp/cloudimperiumgames/meet-the-defender-of-the-banu-140549?e=d765129d31
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"....Squadron 42 will be the focus of our Holiday Livestream in December, where we will preview some gameplay and share our roadmap for its completion.
Our single player campaign, Squadron 42, shares a large amount of technology and content with Star Citizen and both games fuel each other. Technology built for Squadron 42 allows for a better experience in Star Citizen and technology for Star Citizen opens up opportunities that take Squadron 42 to another level. Subsumption is an example of technology that is critical for both Star Citizen and Squadron 42. The Item 2.0 refactor and the Player Interaction Mode were essential for Star Citizen and it is now allowing new and varied gameplay in Squadron 42. Planet Tech, the Zone System and 64-bit precision allows us to expand the playscape for Squadron 42 to solar system scale.
We have a large team working on Squadron 42 and we’ve been making good progress towards achieving my goal to take the Wing Commander style narrative experience to the next level with first person gameplay that moves between foot, vehicles and incredible locations all rendered with a fluidity and quality that you normally only see in pre-rendered cinematic scenes. I am confident it is going to be worth the wait; a game that can hold its own with any other AAA story game.
I am excited to show you some of this in December. And until then I’ll see you at CitizenCon!
Chris Roberts"
http://mailchi.mp/cloudimperiumgames/meet-the-defender-of-the-banu-140549?e=d765129d31
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Comments
Where does this put the release date?
Which would be a disappointment. Many people I know expected a SQ42 announcement in Frankfurt.
Do i detect Erin Roberts - SQ42 mastermind - behind this ? "We go live when we are ready...", curbing his brothers ambitions for CitizenCon down to a more realistic level ....
Seems like CitizenCon focusses on Alpha 3.0 and i would expect a "we go live for all with 3.0" announcement there.
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--> "....and share our roadmap for its completion."
Yes, quite a reserved statement. That is why I think this sounds more like Erin Roberts, not Chris Roberts. Has a factual, realistic undertone, less of an exuberant tone.
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I'd seen it confirmed that the holiday livestream will be focusing on SQ42 rather than CitizenCon https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/769nm0/squadron_42_will_be_the_focus_of_our_holiday/
CitCon details are here https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/citcon-featured-content/16174-CitizenCon-2947-Details
a) They've got so much other exciting stuff they want to show at CitizenCon, or
b) They can't show anything exciting about SQ42 during CitizenCon?
I can't bring myself to believe into the first alternative.
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Managing people's expectations is half the game, which would not be a problem if they were not at the same time constantly trying to create a hype to keep money flowing. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
But right now they seem to be saving some SQ42 hype to not tap it at the same time as SC 3.0 hype. Would be wasted hype, if you still need to keep things boiling for a few more years.
The incorporation of new technology and features requires a rework of existing technology and features as well as a rework the script to incorporate all these new features.
Expectation management is a strange notion to hear from CIG.
From a promotional perspective it makes no sense to talk about 3.0 and SQ42 at the same time.
Talking about the two at different times is worth far more free publicity $$$s.
If they have something other really impressive during CitizenCon, then it won't say anything about SQ 42's state. If they don't have something really good in CitizenCon, then it would tell us that they've got nothing impressive they are able to show SQ42 included.
Sharing the roadmap to completion sounds more like a list of outstanding features and tasks and the order they'll be worked on.
Perhaps I've been jaded by CUs endless map to beta with no actual dates.
I guess we'll find out soon.
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They've got a long history of making estimates like Star Citizen release in 2014, first episode of Squadron 42 release in 2015, Star Citizen release in 2016, Alpha 3.0 release in 2016, etc. At this point an estimation from them isn't worth anything.
If they'd provide a firm release date instead of estimate it would be different, but if they were going to do something like that then I think they'd try everything in their power to make it main feature of CitizenCon. Roadmap is just fancy word for yet another plan.
I am happy to wait until its done, but to pretend anything from CIG with the words 'Roadmap' or 'Schedule' has as much value as solar panels on the dark side of the moon is laughable....probably more so then my weak jokes.
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Just because WE cannot see that side does not stop the sun shining on it most of the time ;-)
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Not sure using solar panels is a good idea, if I remember right most if not all the company's that came to the for front a few years back went brankrupt and the higher ups ran with the tax payers money in the solar panel industry. Not saying CIG would or anyone else.
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Frank 'Spankybus' Mignone
www.spankybus.com
-3d Artist & Compositor
-Writer
-Professional Amature
If the sun does not shine, they get a lot of reflected light from Earth.
You can also place them in a crater near the pole on the dark side. 100 % illumination.
Like SQ42 ... do it the smart way ... and it works. 100 % of the time. At optimal performance. Even if it takes some time to get there. Like the solar panels on the lunar poles on the rim of a dark side crater.
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Which means Dark side of the Moon is never visible from Earth and never gets any light reflected from Earth either.