Engineering gameplay is coming in 4.0 (early next year).
I have never heard this before.
CIG has gotten a lot better at managing expectations
Say what?
and only hyping up things they will actually be able to deliver on in the next few patches.
Even stuff they "deliver" recently has been scaled down and stripped down features of what was once promised or shown.
They were terrible at this in the beginning and really burned some people (hence the erroneous belief that the game is a scam).
They still are terrible at management expectations even of current gameplay features. Nothing has changed. If anything, their answer was to provide less communication.
That said, yeah, a lot of star citizen players pine for the future.
"Future" being the actual core basic premise of the game that was promised at the beginning?
The current state of the game is fun but man, if they ever get there.
It actually is fun. But it's not a game. It is still a pretty glitchy alpha shell of an actual game with so many core features broken, missing, or removed. The state of this alpha would make the released Cyberpunk 2077 look like a masterpiece at launch.
The issue is that CIG wants to get Squadron 42 out next year
"Wants" lol. And its always next year.
and has moved a lot of teams to get that finished.
Multiple times. This is a neverending saga. And keep in mind, this is what they say. And yet we never see an excelleration of that progress. It's always "coming" and "we're putting more teams to work on it."
Once its done all those teams move back to the PU and development will pick up big time.
Again, tale as old as time on this.
And this is why I return to the alpha once every few months because people speak like you do. I play it for 8-10 hours and realize its new paint on old problems. Or old problems showing up in new ways.
