Squadron 42 & Roadmap Update

Zyloh writes: "Hi everyone,

When we realized that our old Roadmap didn’t represent our development progress very well, we started exploring options for how to build something more informational that fit how we develop games. Our original message about this was in one of March’s Roadmap Roundups, and we followed up with hints about this in our Squadron 42-focused Calling All Devs on March 13.

We mentioned then that we are happy with Squadron 42 development and committed to a few things I’d like to bring up again. We talked about injecting more Squadron 42 content into our regularly scheduled releases, which is why you may have noticed things like the Squadron 42 themed episode of Calling All Devs, or the Inside Star Citizen updates on Vanduul ships, gas tech, a deeper look at the Aciedo Comm Array, and other related content. This was all alongside our monthly Squadron 42 Reports (March, April, May, June). One of the important elements to messaging Squadron 42 updates has also been to raise awareness that work completed for Star Citizen is also work done for Squadron 42. The only content that’s exclusively SQ42 are people, places and plot – and we don’t want to spoil those."

[Hakuoro]

Wait people actually thought this game would have a release... haha too funny...

Anyways would you like to browse our online showroom where we can sell you ships for thousands of dollars?

[RaidenBlack]

Star Citizen is the MMO Space Trading Combat Simulator.
Squadron 42 is the story-based single-player game set in the Star Citizen universe.

[Hakuoro]

Ok, well I'm sure that justifies everything that's gone on with the game...

[LordoftheCritics]

So you're saying they can scam twice?

From the article what I got is that the roadmap itself has a release date. This is some next level stuff.

[Eonjay]

The funny thing is that they burned through the massive quarter billion plus money they got from gamers and they never actually released a finished product.

@LordoftheCritics

What a freaking dumpster fire 🔥

[thorstein]

@LordoftheCritics

That roadmap will release IF Cloud imperium reach a stretch goal on their Kickstarter.

[morganfell]

"What a freaking dumpster fire "

There is hardly a better example.

Squadron 42. When perfect is the enemy of good enough...and even a foe of great.

This sounds like they plan on doing this forever under the guise of "Our supporters want something like they have never seen" and there are some there at RSI and CI that may actually believe this. Yet with each passing month new tech arrives that begins to bury everything they have done. They will eventually reach a point, and they may very well be there, where in quite short order a different company can stomp on everything they have offered for a sliver of the time and cost. Then what will you have? A $300 Million plus pile of code that is being outclassed, outgunned, and outmaneuvered at every turn.

Cutting edge is a very time dependent descriptor and it has a finite shelf life.

[notachance]

it's widely publicized that cloud imperium has mismanagement issues, there are a lot of interviews with people related to the projects. How people still have hopes for this game is beyond me.

just a quick google search shows the $200mil++ fund is nearly burned through, while they still have a long long way to go until they finished the promised features (if ever)

[sprinterboy]

It'll get cancelled one day, but because of all the work they've done it will be classed as legal what they've done and they'll all walk away from the last 10 years with bucket loads of cash they paid themselves with there yearly salaries?
Its actually a really dumb thing to do but others would say its clever, I wish I had of thought of that?
Seriously how many of the kickstarter/crowd funding projects have you actually seen get released? Like 1% and they've been shite.

[monkey602]

Hollow Knight
Banner saga
Divinity Original sin
Shovel Knight
Darkest Dungeon
Wasteland 2
Superhot
Undertale
Ftl
Pillars of eternity
Shenmue 3
Night in the woods
Mighty No.9

Theres no shortage of crowd funded games out there

[abstractel]

Curious what salary Chris Robert gave himself.

[I_am_Batman]

With next-gen around the corner and new engines like UE5 making asset streaming much easier, I wouldn't be surprised if we'll see a similarly ambitious game realized before Star Citizen ever gets finished.

[Tapani]

This is how all scams will unravel, slowly, and surely, and suddenly there's just no communication. I bet there's a full panic mode and people will start leaving soon. But it all depends on how much money flows in, and how it is distributed, and how it is all put in the books. I bet if authorities walked in the office right now and took a look at the latest build, they'd realize this is never going to be ready, and is very, very far from it.

[S2Killinit]

Panic mode edition?

[UltraNova]

Coming up in Q2 20-never.

[Stanjara]

Scam

[Blank]

Man this is sad that not even the roadmap can be shown to the public. Especially those that paid hundred PLUS dollars in digital items plus the game. I hope that those that backed this in good faith eventually get whats theirs and laugh at the others. As a person that sat back and waited but with high interest at this dream, I am happy I didn't pull the trigger and I say this as a person that is heavily interested in this vision. I will opt for the basic package whenever this releases.

[Limitedtimestruggle]

The hype is long gone, and I am glad I NEVER spent one cent into this crowdfunding.

[iQuasar]

Those of us old enough to remember the Phantom console knew what was in the pot when Roberts pitched this shit years ago.

FYI for the younglings in here. A little history homework.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

[Limitedtimestruggle]

Ah man..The Phantom! Oh I remember alright :p

[lonewolf10]

I have not been critical of this game (Squadron 42 anyway) but this is just taking the biscuit:

What’s even funnier here is that since March 2020, the team has been working on a new roadmap that it cannot share yet. Let this sink in; the studio has been working on a roadmap – which is still unfinished – for four months. I mean, this gets a bit ridiculous at this point.

[Nodoze]

A fool and their money are soon parted. Only money launderers and fools are giving these guys money.

This will go down as the biggest scam in gaming history.

Wonder if they applied for PPP govt loans. I sure hope so. That way the gov can get a MUCH closer look into this company.

[JeffGUNZ]

I was always interested in this game. I am relatively new to PC gaming and heard a lot of things about this game. Then I did some research and it seemed so shady I wasn't going to throw a penny at them. Glad I didn't, this is a disaster at this point.

[Miacosa]

I hope this works out for everyone, but it seems that without a strict guiding force the "creative process" on this game will never end. People keep feeding money into its development and has a result there is no urgency from the Devs to wrap things up into a Version One release. Instead there is feature creep, remember when this was just one space flight simulator game.

[jbull]

In other news I've this pyramid scheme if you can continually contribute too for.....

[BlackTar187]

LOL Mark Hamill is a D-bag so it couldn't have been linked to a more deserving person.

[Master of Unlocking]

How so, may I ask? Do you know him personally?

[Ron_Danger]

He tried to hunt down Jackie Daytona.

[ShadowWolf712]

People laid down thousands just to get to flex their PCMR status only to wind up having to lay down another thousand just to beef up their PCs to still run this at Ultra when it drops.

I kinda feel bad for 'em. This is ridiculous levels of mismanagement.

[drunkenspy007]

they already have people's money and never even had to release the game

[Juiceid]

I’d like to see the employee parking lot, assuming there is one. Add up the dollar value of the cars and you’ll know where the money went.

[iQuasar]

Google maps quickie search shows
3 Range Rovers
1 Tesla
1 Audi
1 Mustang GT
1 Ford Focus ST

Average price I think of most of those cars is $35-60k. Range rovers closer to 90k.
Here I am struggling to pay for a $22K car.

[Juiceid]

Lol, nice work detective!

[-Gespenst-]

Imagine having 300 million+ dollars and making what is essentially a generic space marine game. Imagine the amazing things that could have been made and / or done with that money.

[FPSFox]

I'm surprised the regular defenders of this game aren't really in the comments.

A lot of delusional people are gonna' get slapped hard by reality when this game is inevitably cancelled. When you have 300+ million and 8 or so years of development time, you should have a finished game. I don't care how ambitious it is. If 300+ million and 8 years can't create it, then it's simply not realistic, or you've mismanaged the hell out of your time and money.

[iQuasar]

Oh they're lurking here all right. They just know they will get mobbed if they set foot in this comment thread. Just like how they mob others when they speak up in other SC threads. Just this time the news burns a little too close to home.

[ajax17]

I can't wait to play this on PS9

[Juiceid]

More like PSNein

[PCgamer98]

I love that they're just making a roadmap of the game's roadmap. Goes to show that this game has no direction at all, terrible management, and worse is that they're probably just making stuffs up as we go. And to think that this was a game that supposed to come out since 2016.