Hello Citizens! Another week, another week in review!
This week was a pretty slow week up until Friday’s Reverse the ‘Verse, but we got a veritable bevy of good information during RtV. Check out the top five tidbits of the week, and the full rundowns below!
- 2.2 PTU next week possibly, features should include: Flyable ship: Sabre; Hangar ready ship: Xi’an Scout, Crusader Reputation system, New EVA system, Powerplant and coolers introduced, Crusader layout changes, many behind the scenes fixes
- Almost everyone at CIG knows that the holotable and party system are bad.
- Working on a schedule for persistence with Turbulent.
- HOTAS is currently undergoing discussion regarding quality and where the happy medium is.
- Drake Interplanetary has two ships beginning development soon. You read that right, TWO. Buccaneer and Dragonfly, check the forums to see ideas of what it will be like.
- Almost everyone at CIG knows that the holotable and party system are bad.
- Best way to help with bug catching is to use the Issue Council, and to be clear and concise in your descriptions.
- 2.2 is almost ready, getting ready for a PTU release, just waiting on internal QA.
- The Package Split has happened. SQ42 packages will launch alongside 2.2.
- Star Citizen was featured on the BBC series ‘Click’ with footage shot in LA and UK
- Work continues on Caterpillar concepts, Gurmukh is working on additional ones.
- Talking with Turbulent about the part they will play in Persistence
- Working on a schedule for persistence with Turbulent.
- Chris and Erin were in Frankfurt, so there was a lot of high-level planning done this week.
- 2.2 PTU next week possibly, features should include: Flyable ship: Sabre; Hangar ready ship: Xi’an Scout, Crusader Reputation system, New EVA system, Powerplant and coolers introduced, Crusader layout changes, many behind the scenes fixes
- PTU invites will go in waves. Will Everett will make a post explaining the wave system.
- Drake Interplanetary has two ships beginning development soon. You read that right, TWO. Buccaneer and Dragonfly, check the forums to see ideas of what it will be like.
- RSI will be making the new corvette which currently has the name Polaris with a hull roughly 100-110 meters long.
- Shields and more will be added to the component system hopefully in 2.3.
- HOTAS is currently undergoing discussion regarding quality and where the happy medium is.
- Reliant is close still, just hooking everything up for it’s hangar ready state
- Sabre and Xi’an scout will be for sale when both go live, not PTU.
- Starfarer is still being worked on, wont be in 2.2, stay tuned.