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Right - I'm bored (and in between builds), so it's time for a Star Citizen thread that I've been curating this past weekend.

First, remember my last thread about the travesty that was the 3.9 release and the controversy that it caused? Catch up here:

Well shortly before that one, I also touched on the whole Theaters Of War debacle (from Nov 2019) and which was almost ready and totally coming in early 2020.

Well, apparently even after they canned it, now we find out that it's back on the shiny objects menu. In case you missed the news on this Battlefield (not to be confused with Battle Royale) mod, you can read more about it here.

polygon.com/pc/2019/11/24/…
So their own elite test (who don't actually, you know, test anything) backers known as Evocati (I didn't make that up, it's totally a thing) who happen to get first dibs at all the hilarity, are so pissed that they've started leaking details about it - complete with videos.
What you are about to see - in all its glory - is from a project that has blown through over $350m and have yet to release a single completed work product.

8 mins of gameplay.

reddit.com/r/starcitizen/…
Oh there's more...much more.

streamable.com/u8p3q1

streamable.com/r7xa08

streamable.com/79j0q3
Yes - 9 yrs + $350M later, they’re nowhere near creating an MMO (currently at 50 client sessions), but they put resources into a 20 v 20 Battlefield clone that looks and plays terribly.
They did this same thing with Arena Commander and Star Marine - both of which were subsequently abandoned by both the backers and CIG while remaining riddles with bugs & performance issues.

But yeah, they’re totally making an MMO game though.
This frequent player/backer had this to say about this latest fiasco.

imgur.com/tSUswHM
Another backer queried one of the CIG devs about why this was a thing. The responses are shocking to say the least.

imgur.com/jE7Su6L

In case you missed it: yes - apparently they spent **18 months** working on this ToW mod.
Meanwhile, back at the "hate" sub, they're having a field day. Do stay for the comments.

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But wait - there's more!!
Amid the 3.9 fiasco and the ToW leaks, CIG are gearing for yet another backer fundraising drive because, you know, $350m is never enough.

So they announced this. Invictus Launch Week

robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/tran…
Complete with snazzy trailer...voiced by...a kid?

But never mind all that; this is the real hilarity. See that fighter in the trailer? That's an F8, which barely a handful of waves have. The same one they said backers could never get outside of SQ42 and which only Concierge 10K+ backers got for free.

starcitizen.fandom.com/wiki/F8_Lightn…
Oh right, you have no idea what a concierge backer is, do you? Get up to speed then.

starcitizen.tools/Concierge

For the low price of $1K to $25K, in real $$$, you too can be an uppity concierge backer
So what we're gearing up for now is the inevitable sale of that F8 - which they said was exclusive to SQ42 and which only some concierge got as a freebie thank you. Yes - a vastly superior fighter as a perk and which further solidifies the games' P2W premise.
In what has become the latest lol riot, CIG released the latest roadmap. They literally had NO progress to report. For 2 weeks. 500+ person project. Nada.

robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/commu…

"There are no notable changes to the Roadmap this week."
Over at the water cooler, I'm still getting fan mail; which is a change from the hate mail I tend to get. So that's good.

imgur.com/wE0LKmS

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So that's where things are now (oh and 3.9.x is still massively broken. So there's that) at this point. Stay tuned for the next fiasco which is on track to hit in the coming days.

ps. Meanwhile, one of the cool aid figure heads...

i.redd.it/b9usfdnpfdz41.…
BONUS:

"Imagine being 9 years into working with Cry Engine and unable to make an FPS module on a single map"

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It's Fri and I'm in between builds, emails, and general weekend fuckery which I've mostly been ignoring all week. So here's a little diversion based on this earlier tweet.



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1st, let me start by saying that in the 8 yrs since I backed Star Citizen, I have yet to come across a *single* gamer who wants to see it fail. Not one. Not even in 2015 when I wrote that first blog about why I felt it was destined to fail due to Chris Roberts inflating its scope
Most of the angst can be summarized into the following categories of gamer backers who:

1) want out via refunds (most didn't get one)
2) want to see it to the end, but are still disgruntled
3) think they're part of "something" else
4) just want to lol at the ensuing train wreck
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My social media DMs are blowing up again. There must be a new Star Citizen fiasco brewing. And yes, there totally is. And yes it's about the badly broken 3.9 build which CIG shockingly released to live servers yesterday against the advisory from their own wave of testers.
In case you missed the latest scope creep fiasco, you can catch up on this thread.

Having shoved yet another massive scope creep feature into the game, and which literally broke everything you could possibly imagine, CIG made the decision to release it anyway. Why? Because they have a ship they want to sell for $395 - $440. Yup

robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/tran…
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Yesterday I was on a stream with @RobinAtTheHouse, @FocusBreak and crew. Among other things, we touched on the issue of scope creep in Star Citizen.

Let me take this opportunity to explain how scope creep has killed MANY a game project over the years.

Every. Single. Time

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First, let me use the latest unfolding fiasco that is the Star Citizen "prison gameplay" as example.

This video by one of the faithful, @SaltEMike, shows this new feature; and is the best one yet. He did an excellent job with it.

Like so many “features” before it, this “prison gameplay” came out of nowhere.

This was the dev roadmap as of Oct 25, 2019. No word about prison gameplay.

i.imgur.com/5uFDsmY.jpg

This was the dev roadmap as of Nov 8th, 2019

i.imgur.com/pSxSBVb.jpg
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