Star Citizen’s three.zero replace has been delayed

The delay was revealed within the newest production update and has since been addressed, following a unfavourable fan response, by the appropriately-nicknamed group supervisor Will “Soulcrusher” Leverett on the forums. 

“The scope of 3.0 is not insignificant,” Leverett says. “It introduces a level of tech and infrastructure that’s an order of magnitude larger and more complex than all of our previous versions combined. There are thousands of new assets, millions of entities to manage, new UI, new features, multiple new backend services, etc. all being introduced in 3.0.”

Cloud Imperium confirmed off a few of what’s coming in a current Around the Verse video, and it certain did look spectacular. 

“Integrating all of this has revealed to be MUCH more of a bug fixing project than anticipated, which obviously reshapes those estimates and changes those dates,” he continues. “Hammering in a level of polish that we’ve not aimed for before requires an additional adjustment of dates.”

Leverett says there’s no malice within the delay, however the replace has slowly elevated in scope since its announcement, thus growing the workload.