Star Citizen developer CIG is struggling to place collectively a roadmap for the long-in-development Squadron 42 story marketing campaign.
Motivated by a Reddit post from disgruntled Star Citizen backers, developer Cloud Imperium has responded to fan requests concerning extra common updates about Squadron 42.
Squadron 42 is the single-player, A-lister-star-lead story campaign, which – like the principle game – was announced years ago however has but to be completed. The most up-to-date improvement roadmap had the Squadron 42 beta pegged for the third quarter of this yr.
In March, following a scarcity of standard updates, CIG told players it would share extra Squadron 42 information as a part of its varied developer updates and AMAs, however the developer solely included some updates in newsletters despatched to backers, not the broader neighborhood. The common silence on this a part of the game in comparison with the remaining made followers uneasy.
This week’s developer response, the group’s manner of alleviating issues, is sort of a factor to behold. Bordering on parody, the weblog publish may be very detailed however doesn’t find yourself saying a lot. The publish successfully boils all the way down to revealing a four-step course of that’s meant to steer into the formation of the particular up to date roadmap. Sort of like roadmaps for the roadmap.
In it, CIG explains that it had initially supposed to supply a brand new present referred to as The Briefing Room, that will be fast to supply and supply an environment friendly manner of updating gamers on Squadron 42 progress.
“We planned for this to be a semi-regular show, with its cadence depending on how well the content was received and how disruptive (or not) this first episode would be to our dev team,” the publish reads.
Unfortunately – or maybe paradoxically – the curse of function creep caught up with The Briefing Room earlier than the primary episode even debuted, inflicting the group to reexamine all the presentation, leading to that delay.
“What we discovered after the whole piece was finished and getting ready for publish was that our approach resulted in an underwhelming show,” it went on.
“Not only did the episode have major audio issues due to [working from home] recording, but it lacked visuals to support the talking, and we truly prefer to show rather than tell. Ultimately, we decided that it wasn’t good enough to show, even for a ‘scrappy’ video that was not meant to be a marketing sizzle trailer.”
That video remains to be being labored on, and CIG reckons it would drop “in the next few weeks.” The roadmap, too, is being up to date to replicate the present schedule but it surely received’t merely be printed in some unspecified time in the future. Instead, CIG plans to launch a number of communications that culminate with the reveal of the total roadmap.
- Give an evidence of the targets of our new Roadmap and what to anticipate from it.
- Show a tough mockup of the proposed new Roadmap.
- Share a piece in progress model of the Roadmap for at the least one in all our core groups.
- And then lastly transition to this new Roadmap.
Squadron 42 was initially set for launch in 2016.
