Roadmap Roundup

Hi everyone,

Each and every week, we accompany the Roadmap update with a brief explanatory note to give you insight into the decision-making that led to any changes. This is part of an effort to make our communications more transparent, more specific, and more insightful for all of you who help to make Star Citizen and Squadron 42 possible.

With that, let’s dive into this week’s roundup!

-CIG Community Team

Notable Changes for December 6th, 2019

The following cards on the PU Roadmap have been moved into polish:



New Babbage Landing Zone – Exterior

Rest Stop Space Station: Interior Variants

microTech Planet

Vehicle Look Ahead Camera

Vehicle Third Person Camera

FPS : Close Combat

: Close Combat Law System v2: Fines

Mining Heads

Rescue Hijacked 890 Jump

Restricted Area Rework

Advanced Gunship Defensive Maneuvers

Apocalypse Arms Animus Missile Launcher

Behring P6-LR Ballistic Sniper Rifle

Planet Tech V4



PU – Restricted Areas

Following review, we’ve determined Restricted Areas will require more time to work out a few implementation issues and has been moved to Alpha 3.9.

PU – Planetary Weather Effects

Planetary Weather Effects has been added to Alpha 3.8 and has been set to polishing. This card introduces the first iteration of snow, dust, and sand storm effects on planets, as well as a variety of accompanying effects, including impacts to atmospheric flight. Some elements of weather seen at CitizenCon, alongside dynamic weather tech, will be added to the Roadmap separately in the future.

PU – Server-side Object Container Streaming (SOCS)

Server-side Object Container Streaming has been added to Alpha 3.8 and has been set to polishing. SOCS is core technology which allows us to stream in and out Object Containers and other entities on the server contextually, based on the players connected to said server. By only loading Object Containers when they are required, fewer entities are loaded on the server at any one time, resulting in reduced server load per instance.

PU – microTech Collection

Because the stores where you will be able to purchase this collection will be in New Babbage, the microTech Collection has been shifted back to Alpha 3.9 to correspond with the release of the landing zone.

The following cards on the SQ42 Roadmap have been moved into completed:



FPS : Close Combat

: Close Combat Flight Gunships



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