Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42
The news that Star Citizen studio CIG forced developers to give up two weekends in order to make CitizenCon happen – followed by a suspiciously timed internal email that gave employees an extra day off – appears to have emboldened current and former developers at CIG to open up more about life in the studio: […]18 May 2023Whatever happened to Star Citizen’s Squadron 42? Well, you can’t buy it right nowMassivelyOp ︎17 May 2023Star Citizen alpha 3.19 launches with mining and salvage updates, new tutorial, and new PvP eventMassivelyOp ︎17 May 2023Star Citizen patch 3.19 is the perfect place to startPCGamesN ︎15 May 2023Star Citizen continues to move alpha 3.19 through public testing and shows off its latest in-game tutorialMassivelyOp ︎12 May 2023Star Citizen Live talks up a new ship manufacturer and alpha 3.20’s new derelict settlementsMassivelyOp ︎10 May 2023Squadron 42 Monthly Report: April 2023Official ︎08 May 2023Star Citizen confirms its next free fly event for May 19, talks alpha 3.19’s mining and salvage updatesMassivelyOp ︎05 May 2023Star Citizen shows off development progress on its next indoor kart racetrackMassivelyOp ︎04 May 2023Star Citizen marks dev progress on ships, game engine bugs, and missions in its April reportMassivelyOp ︎03 May 2023Star Citizen Monthly Report: April 2023Official ︎28 Apr 2023Star Citizen casts another spotlight on alpha 3.19’s updates to LorvilleMassivelyOp ︎24 Apr 2023Star Citizen discusses design, development, and plans for mission content in latest livestreamMassivelyOp ︎21 Apr 2023Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.2 as players express surprise at a partial wipe and outline several build bugsMassivelyOp ︎13 Apr 2023Star Citizen is free this week to help dev “fix problems more quickly”PCGamesN ︎13 Apr 2023Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.1, prepares for a free fly event, and recounts March’s dev progressMassivelyOp ︎12 Apr 2023Squadron 42 Monthly Report: March 2023Official ︎12 Apr 2023Star Citizen continues to promise alpha 3.18.1 fixes ‘shortly’ while more testing tools are developedMassivelyOp ︎05 Apr 2023Star Citizen Monthly Report: March 2023Official ︎04 Apr 2023Star Citizen’s forums and launcher are crashing once more as the multiweek PU partial outage stretches onMassivelyOp ︎03 Apr 2023Star Citizen offers multiple previews of in-development AI behavior updates in livestreamMassivelyOp ︎31 Mar 2023Inside Star Citizen runs down new vehicles, prettier skies, dev tools, and functional coffee machinesMassivelyOp ︎30 Mar 2023Star Citizen ramps up its timetable to release 3.18 patches in order to deliver alpha 3.19 on scheduleMassivelyOp ︎29 Mar 2023Star Citizen aims to have alpha 3.18.1 released to the Persistent Universe this weekMassivelyOp ︎25 Mar 2023Star Citizen continues working on an error code as alpha 3.18.1 arrives to PTU for weekend testingMassivelyOp ︎24 Mar 2023Star Citizen talks up the future of tractor beams while fixes for alpha 3.18 continue to inch alongMassivelyOp ︎21 Mar 2023Star Citizen focuses on deploying alpha 3.18.1 patch as a fix for the game’s ongoing issuesMassivelyOp ︎19 Mar 2023Star Citizen discusses in-development engineer role as patch problems continueMassivelyOp ︎17 Mar 2023Star Citizen offers a statement about 3.18 downtime before discussing 3.19 mission updatesMassivelyOp ︎16 Mar 2023Star Citizen’s partial outage continues, but CIG notes new infrastructure is ‘trending in the right direction’MassivelyOp ︎14 Mar 2023Star Citizen apologizes for its messy alpha 3.18 launch as the game progresses to a partial outage stateMassivelyOp ︎13 Mar 2023Star Citizen remains offline as issues related to alpha 3.18 escalate the problem to a ‘major outage’MassivelyOp ︎12 Mar 2023Star Citizen’s alpha 3.18 craters its initial launch, causing players to riot across the internetMassivelyOp ︎11 Mar 2023Star Citizen enters alpha 3.18 with more persistence, a new graphics renderer, and more ships and locationsMassivelyOp ︎11 Mar 2023Star Citizen patch 3.18, the space game’s biggest update yet, out nowPCGamesN ︎10 Mar 2023Star Citizen shares initial details of alpha 4.0’s engineer multi-crew role in latest videoMassivelyOp ︎