Star Citizen Server Meshing, Pyro Delayed and I'm Losing Hope

Star Citizen 4.0 is getting pushed to the end of the year, and things aren't looking great. I hope things can turn around.

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[hanzo]

They actually fooled me this time. Despite delays being the status quo I really thought due to the Squadron folks coming over things would speed up and they'd likely hit their goals. How foolish of me.

[Drelam]

A real sense of urgency is something CIG really needs.

[OPossum]

Have you ever heard them talk about netcode? Nobody talks about the lagfest it is. And as long as everyone jumps on new features like hungry vultures nothing will change. Talk about server response, talk about ping, talk about server meshing. Ask questions about the zero ping local server meshing demo you saw. Talk about how that has nothing to do with reality where people have a ping of 100. As long as this is not adressed they will continue pushing new broken features and it will always be a lagfest. Starcitizen is written for nice pictures, not written for good networking.

[lordofthecritics]

It's ok guys.

Pyro will be out by 2016.

[solace]

Yknow 3 years ago I made a joke that patch 4.0 was still not out by 2025 and holy shit it's actually gonna happen

[zathrusii]

I haven't lost hope but I have given up caring. I just don't think about Star Citizen anymore, maybe something pops up on my homepage, maybe I watch it, more often not. CIG isn't getting another penny until an actual game (Squadron 42 or otherwise) actually materialises.

[thenegociater]

As some people said early this year, there are no more plausible excuses. No one can reasonably cope with the lack of progress anymore.

[bobstark]

Once you realize the name of CIG's game is manipulation, it all starts to make sense. In 2019, Chris Roberts announced that Pyro/4.0 would be released in 2020, fully knowing that most of Pyro, the jump gates, server meshing, Pyro's crime system, factions etc hadn't even been created yet. But they needed people to believe it was to keep their momentum.

Last year was a bad year for CIG with 3.18 and a subsequent drop in sales. They needed a phenomenal hype fest. Queue 2023 CitizenCon with its bold proclamations. Once again, backers lost their calm and thought, "It's finally happening!". Shiny and new concept ships were sold and the backers were left waiting for months and months.

It's not going to change. This is how they do business. They've been doing it for years. As long as backers keep giving them money, they will keep stringing them along and filling their heads with hopes of change and a game they've been waiting to play for years.

[LordRydag]

There’s no defending cig anymore. They took too long. They still prioritise unnecessary shit over stuff people have been waiting for for 5 years. They constantly fail to meet their own extremely minimal expectations. They burn out the good will of their players.

The natural life cycle of star citizen is going to come and go before the game is even finished.

[henryvaneyk]

At this rate Chris Roberts will be dead by the time SC goes into Beta. Still waiting for 3.24, which was promised 3 months ago.

[JFrombaugh]

You know it’s getting bad when even Morphologis is starting to lose faith. 😢

[Trilobiteer]

When I first supported this game back in 2013 I had not yet completed my university degree nor entered my chosen career, now I'm about to receive my 10-year long service leave and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date, at least my children will get some inheritance I suppose...

[MakilHeru]

Jared Huckabee actually promised in December 2023 before the New Years break that 2024 was supposed to be a "watershed" year for Star Citizen. He hyped us up promising a great year for the game. And we just haven't gotten it.

[BGIANAKy]

To add. The game is also pretty dead. Servers are empty. Our orgs discord used to be booming and events were 20-40 people. Now there’s like 2-3 people at most. It’s wild.

[Alpha]

My attitude towards SC has basically become what medieval cities' inhabitants felt towards cathedrals in construction. I'm sure it'll be glorious once completed, but I don't know if I'll be around to see it.

[Sabbreather]

I feel like CIG literally doesn't care until it effects their bottom line, money. Been following this game for years myself and this is the lowest I have ever felt about this game. Somehow 3.24 feels like a bit of a step back in some aspects. The constant pushing of new ship variants and new ships at all at this point is starting to feel real dirty now.

[jacobkrausch]

Just wanted to leave a comment to say that I don’t think you are a “Bad YouTuber”. I don’t have your channel’s stats, but what I do know is that you have have many things that make a very enjoyable channel. Engaging editing, pleasing voice, clear passion. These are all things that will bring you success in the YouTube ecosystem. Sadly, I think star citizen is what might be holding you back. But I don’t know you, so I can’t tell you what you should make content about. But I know talent when I see it. Blessings on your endeavors!

[irdudefpv]

Imagine if you will. You enter a restaurant and after sitting down at a table you order a plate of Lasagna from the menu. After waiting for the Lasagna for 12 years the waiter brings you a plate of raw broccoli. When you complain to the waiter that you didn’t order broccoli the person at the table next to starts calling you names for expressing your dissatisfaction with their product and the time it took to get it to your table. How would you feel in this scenario?

Star Citizen is the restaurant, and they require you to prepay. Give that some objective thought.

[whisky]

This has to be one seriously mismanaged company.

A team could put an actual rover on another planet with this much time and resources.

[QueenoftheStarrySky-tfro]

This is exactly what this project needs. Instead of constant atmosphere of allowance for infinite dev time.