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Star Citizen’s revised Squadron 42 roadmap now has its own roadmapCrack open your travel atlas
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Eight years and a few hundreds of millions of dollars in crowdfunding into development, andStar Citizen’s star-studdedSquadron 42campaign is still nowhere on our scanners. After plans for more regular updates seemed to fizzle out, Cloud Imperium today filed the paperwork to acquire planning permission to post an entirely new development roadmap for the revised roadmap they announced earlier this year.
The singleplayer portion of the multi-prongedStar Citizenpackage,Squadron 42was pitched as a Wing Commander styled campaign with a heavyweight cast including Mark Hamill and Gary Oldman. Cloud Imperium initially envisioned it coming out in 2016 - but here we are, four years of release date pushbacks later, with no sign of a launch anytime soon.
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Earlier this year, Cloud Imperium postedan updateassuring backers that the team was looking at better ways to keep them update. The then-current roadmap wasn’t working out, so the devs would be sharing more accurate progress updates drawn from their own production tools, alongside a series of “regular video check-ins” that’d be more slapdash and easier to pump out than their usual heavily-produced update vids.
Of course, that was in March - and as we approach August, it seems the Star Citizen forums are awash with threads asking where their updates are. This prompted anew statementfrom CIG, explaining that while the revised roadmap is still very much in the works, tracking its release will itself require a whole new roadmap (thanks,Kotaku).
“In the immediate future, we plan to deliver the following communications:
That first Briefing Room is likely still coming in a few weeks - though not as “scrappy” as once planned - along with a collection of other updates. Stage one of that four-step plan should also come into effect “pretty soon”. But it’s hard not to see the production issues around dev updates and a quickfire video as reflective of the problems with Squadron 42 (and Star Citizen) as a whole.
Last August,Eurogamer reportedthat Squadron 42’s release date had been pushed back to Q3 2020. The way things stand, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that holding out.
