Wasn’t SQ42 supposed to be episodic? It would reduce the time for a release but the content drip will be infuriating I bet.
Yeah,the SQ42 everyone is waiting for info or a glimpse at is technically the first installment, Chapter 1.
I am flabbergasted that they can’t show a bit of a single mission in SQ42 after all this time.
That Spaceballs edit is genius, though. Star Citizen apparently powers their livestreams through pure cringe.
I watched part of that livestream. It was balls to the wall stupid.
Holy Crap, that was almost as big a trainwreck as that legendary LA channel’s New Year’s Eve meltdown/broadcast, which was almost 4 years ago!
The meltdowns over this have been fantastic.
It was originally, but that was before their funding surge. The Squadron 42 people are currently waiting for is a self-contained AAA game, not the first episode of a Telltale game.
That Spaceballs edit was awesome, but it was still too cringe-worthy to watch longer than a minute.
I’m glad my money are in safe hands.
Derek, Derek, Derek
2.6 is out today. is it worth it to get in at $60usd yet?
hahaha they switched game engines too. that won’t delay things i’m sure.
i suspect the actual release will be the latter.
well Lumberyard is based on the latest cryengine and I guess the delays already happened because this certainly doesn’t seem to be a recent thing they did.
This report is kind of misleading, since they moved to lumberyard, which is the CryEngine, which is what star citizen was already using.
But that still doesn’t make sense as RSI has had to do MAJOR changes to the CryEngine for what they’ve produced today, so the likelyhood they could just adopt Lumberyard would be fairly non-trivial.
Unless they are only taking very specific bits and pieces from Lumberyard that interact with AWS but I would imagine that would be throwing away most of what makes up Lumberyard.
EDit It’s also gauranteed they have a ton of custom tooling built up by now that even the editors and other tooling stuff is not useful to them.
If I had to guess, I’d suspect that the parts they are interested in are related to Amazon’s cloud infrastructure.
According to Venture beat this move to Lumberyard has been in the works for over a year.
Wow. That is… wow. I suppose their nearly total rewrite of the engine wasn’t so total or even that much of a rewrite.
As a side note, someone brought up a possible switch to Lumberyard in the official forums in February, and made a poll. 70% of the poll voters were against the change. Though apparently it was already happening, and backers only got to know now.
Every time I think CIG can’t make things worse, they surprise me. Huh.
Yeah, I’m not sure what to make of this engine change but I find the fact that they announced it two days before Christmas HILARIOUS.
The idea of random people on a game’s forum having valuable insight into this kind of decision is funny.
So the move to Lumberyard making this game even more awesome and even better than ever will mean that it will release 2020?
At this rate we will have real starships before this game launches.
No one said their insight was valuable on technical or even strategic terms, but that their concerns and doubts about a possible switch were never even contemplated or considered by a dev - their questions never answered or even considered in the slightest way. This decision was completely one-sided and kept in secret from backers. “The most open development ever done”? Yeah, right.