That is "I didn't have a frickin clue when I started, but people sure gave me lots of money because i said i did"
So, once again, i've got this idea for a game. It will be an everything game! Promise!
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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That is "I didn't have a frickin clue when I started, but people sure gave me lots of money because i said i did"
So, once again, i've got this idea for a game. It will be an everything game! Promise!
I just snagged some notes on the bits I found funniest:
The year ahead:
And what a year it is shaping up to be!
On Squadron 42 that is taking the game from Feature Complete to Content Complete, ensuring the game has the necessary polish and feels worthy of being the spiritual successor to Wing Commander. To this end the team is hard at work, heads down, driving towards the finish line. I am incredibly excited about how the game is shaping up and we will have more to share with you at this year’s CitizenCon, which will be held in Manchester, England.
On the Star Citizen front, the teams are preparing to deliver Server Meshing and expanding the universe of Star Citizen to multiple Star Systems.
Server meshing over-blow:
...a little ahead of the historic date of April 10th, we had our own First Jump Day celebration on Star Citizen’s Tech Preview Channel this weekend! ...we opened our first functioning Jump Gates, and allowed players to test travelling between our 2 systems for the first time in our history! Players were able to travel between Stanton and Pyro via wormholes, with each system streaming in and out seamlessly. For those of you interested, our ‘verse’s own Nick Croshaw honor goes to an Evocati member called “MrTrash,” who we believe was the first in the community to successfully jump! During the test, it is worth highlighting that we also achieved 350 concurrent players in a single shard (e.g. a Replication Layer with two connected servers), setting a new record for concurrent players in a single instance in Star Citizen!
After many hard years of work towards a goal many thought was impossible, we are on the cusp of delivering one of the final pieces of technology that will enable a connected, shared universe that thousands of people can experience together at the same time. [my bold]
Benoit gets a spot:
One of my first initiatives as CTO was establishing the Technology Preview channel. It's a space where developers can fearlessly test large technology changes with players way before they go live, fostering the spirit of open development with our community.
In 2024, our Server Meshing journey is hitting its stride after years of dedication. We're closing in on the original vision we set out to achieve.
... We're charging full steam ahead towards launching our first multi-server mesh in 4.0. For this, multiple servers work together to simulate parts of the universe. As a player, this will enable you to visit Pyro through the Jump Gate, where the jump tunnels transition seamlessly between game servers. Game shards will also host more players [my bold] so you should encounter more friends (or foes) along the way.
... get ready for more Technical Preview tests with various mesh configurations: multiple game servers per solar system and seamless transitions without gates. We're talking about layouts where servers are dedicated to entire planets and moons, others focused solely on Landing Zones or other key locations, with plenty of higher player count experiments.
Chris on SQ42->SC pipelines opening...and SC 1.0...
...towards the end of last year we decided to re-organize the Star Citizen and Squadron 42 teams to be more integrated, to facilitate bringing several years’ worth of feature work and polish to Star Citizen, and finally set our sail out for Star Citizen’s own finish line.
... Much like we planned out Squadron 42’s drive to Feature Complete and the upcoming Content Complete status, we spent significant time looking at what Star Citizen 1.0 means and what it would take to get there.
To facilitate this, I am pleased to share that our very own Rich Tyrer will be taking on a new role as Senior Game Director, overseeing both the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42 alongside me.
Tyrer reveals his secret roadmap:
Chris and I have overseen the creation of a roadmap that takes us all the way up to 1.0 and outlines all the features and content we need, and just as crucially, the ones that will come post full release.
[Teams resuffled, blah blah] so you should expect to see large updates each quarter with many changes to systems that have not been touched in a long time like Economy, Insurance, etc., alongside a whole suite of quality-of-life improvements to things like Inventory, Missions, mobiGlas, etc. coupled with totally brand-new features and content.
Chris on revealing the roadmap, and his LA -> Austin move+ admitting downsizing LA:
As that roadmap comes together and becomes validated, we look forward to sharing with you both its vision and executional plan later this year.
From a personal standpoint I have moved to Austin, Texas from Los Angeles [my bold] to be closer in time zone to our main development operations in Manchester, Frankfurt, and Montreal. I am spending significant time at our largest studio in Manchester with almost 600 staff, as I sit with Rich and the teams, working towards completion on Squadron 42 and Star Citizen.
As part of [bringing SQ42 features to SC at an accelerated rate], we made the difficult decision to ask the Los Angeles development team, which had increasingly been providing support for the main development teams based in Manchester, to relocate to join other teams, primarily in Manchester, but also in Austin and Montreal. Los Angeles, while shrinking, will still be an important office for the company, but one focusing on a business support role with Marketing, Finance, Legal and HR. As part of this reorganization, we sadly waved goodbye to the Persistent Universe Live Director, Todd Papy as he had moved back to the US from the UK last year for family reasons, and after much soul searching, I determined that we cannot afford to have this role remote from the main team in Manchester for a good portion of the year.
The journey is longer and more difficult than I anticipated 11 ½ years ago, [
In a marathon, they say the last mile is the hardest, but to quote the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, “What we do now echoes in eternity!” [
You were there for the iconic helmet flip and the opening of the hangar doors for the first time in Alpha 0.8.... And beyond this Star Citizen 1.0 twinkles on the horizon! The future has never been so bright!
But yeah, TLDR:
- More 'Coming this year!' / [this year +1] claims.
- Various downsizings and departures acknowledged (if not all).
- The SC 1.0 push mentioned by Pipeline does seem to be the plan.
- More 'see what sticks' Technical Preview experimentation to come on the Server Meshing front.
- SQ42 features flying into the PU at an accelerated rate... again...
Pretty much business as usual. Missteps sold as dynamic leaps forward. Great things on the horizon...
Can't wait for the faithful videos on this as to why its all good.
He lives in Austin but spends "significant time" in Manchester? That's quite the commute. Does Chris have his own jet, yet?
All the important rockstars do.
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He lives in Austin but spends "significant time" in Manchester? That's quite the commute. Does Chris have his own jet, yet?
All the important rockstars do.
He travels by yacht. To be closer to Bahamas time.
Well, you see, there was option 1, which was promise and deliver on a limited scope, which would produce a decent game... or promise the moon which would result in lots of cash but no actual product.
Viajero
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Guessing here but it looks like he may have got a "garden leave" like the Ben Lesnick one.
Let's hope he hasn't been assigned to work on a CIG / Boeing partnered project...
Chris Roberts 2014 "Thanks for voting on some forum that I must take all the money and time to get my vision JUST right"
Community "Yes apparently that is what we all universally voted for in some poll that never said any such thing. Take all the time Chris. Don't rush get it right"
Chris Roberts 2024 "Behold! Two star systems with 100 max players you can switch between via some hyperspace animation. Some tech demo moons to land on. Caves to move around in...um....mining tier 0. Some npcs that stand on seats and a train system thingy to ride on. It crashes to desktop a fair bit and the uninstaller doesn't work. Truly everything i dreamed. Well worth more than than half a billion dollars and completely not rushed.
Viajero
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Indeed.
Also from the letter:
This confirms that CIG is not intending to "commercially" release SC with all the content sold for money so far since 2012, it is preparing the community for just an arbitrary subset of that. If CIG intended to deliver all sold complete content so far since 2012 they would have said so instead of the underlined.
Not a surprise as many of us already saw that coming eons ago. It´s going to be a "rushed" (can we say that for 12+ years?), severely incomplete and probably still significantly broken and buggy thing. In the end the fact they owe $120m to the Calders is making them rush it all in. No publishers and not beholden to investors at all indeed.
Most impressive, Mr Roberts, most impressive.
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Sent to a gulag on Saddleworth Moor. He knows too much.
As a Battletech fan, I just pictured "garden leave" as Chris Roberts inviting them to "use the garden."
After how things went at Digital Anvil, anyone with any level of critical thinking capabilities knew he is COMPLETELY lacking those faculties.
Still early days though.
So before Chris rudely said his same old bobbins, I was looking at their latest, greatest SQ42 addition for the PU:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1CEaBIPsVo&t=675s
Signed off by Chris himself, the latest face rework v4.5 has finally introduced Building Blocks. And silly hair colours. And an actual way to save your character.
Truly, gaming is blessed.
(I couldn't help but notice that all the guys who made / presented it were yet again student hires, to a dev. Sure hope it won't need another rework
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Signed off by Chris himself, the latest face rework v4.5 has finally introduced Building Blocks. And silly hair colours. And an actual way to save your character.
Truly, gaming is blessed.
(I couldn't help but notice that all the guys who made / presented it were yet again student hires, to a dev. Sure hope it won't need another rework
)Lol
"How can I be critical of them doing the things I wished they did in 2015?"
Umm, pretty easily
(Especially when you've just noted that they haven't done those things yet.. and that their projections are not to be trusted...)