Screenshot: Squadron 42
While the broader world has accepted that Star Citizen (and its singleplayer spin-off Squadron 42 project) are possibly never ever coming out, those who paid for the video game back in 2012– and have either paid or kept paying since– are growing significantly unhappy at developer Cloud Imperium Games absence of evident development and interaction.
The latest bout of fan unrest issues Squadron 42, a video game as soon as due in 2016, specifically. In March, CIG launched an advancement roadmap assuring more regular updates on the video game, saying “weve found that the format in which weve tried to envision our progress linearly does not match the method were taking in the development of Squadron 42”, which “We wish to be clear: progress on Squadron 42 is occurring and were broadly pleased with that development. We understand that our roadmap is not showing that development.”
Its now nearly August, and fans have not seen or heard a thing, triggering Reddit posts and threads on the video games own forums grumbling about this, and asking, in some cases in less courteous terms than this, whats up.
In response, CIG released a brand-new statement that states … theyre now working on a brand-new roadmap, however that its not ready, which “because that is still extremely much in advancement, we cant share as much about it as [we] would like”. Hilariously, the statement end up with:
While its not quite all set, its presently leading concern on the web teams current tasks. In the instant future, we plan to provide the following communications:
Please note that last month Star Citizens funding drive, which began in 2012, passed the $300 million mark. And that in 2018 I wrote a post about Squadron 42 which ended with Cloud Imperium stating “we will publish the full roadmap to Squadron 42s release in December”.
Give a description of the goals of our brand-new Roadmap and what to expect from it
Show a rough mockup of the proposed brand-new Roadmap
Share an operate in progress version of the Roadmap for at least one of our core teams
And then lastly transition to this brand-new Roadmap
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The newest bout of fan unrest issues Squadron 42, a video game as soon as due in 2016, specifically. In March, CIG launched an advancement roadmap guaranteeing more routine updates on the game, stating “weve found that the format in which weve tried to visualize our progress linearly does not match the technique were taking in the advancement of Squadron 42”, and that “We want to be clear: development on Squadron 42 is happening and were broadly delighted with that development. We understand that our roadmap is not showing that progress.”
