I’m sure some people will be amazed! This is what Star Citizen’s current roadmap should look like.
Around 12 months! Then the time has come: Squadron 42, Star Citizen’s standalone single-player mode, is finally coming out after what feels like an eternity. At least that’s what he wants Newsblog Pipeline have experienced.
We take you on a journey to appointmentswhich means the world to fans of Chris Robert’s mega project.
Danger! Everything you read here is based on a leak. Although there are valid indications of the reliability of the sources, they are still not official information. Furthermore, even if: All of these appointments can be canceled at any time – as happened many times during the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42.
2025 – The year of truth for Star Citizen?
First of all: Where does the information come from?
What’s in the leak?
In summary, according to the unofficial information, we still have to be patient in 2024. Squadron 42 is scheduled to appear in the first quarter of 2025 and Star Citizen 1.0 at the end of 2025.
New focus: After Squadron 42 enjoyed internal priority for a long time, more personnel are currently moving over to Star Citizen. According to the latest official statements, the former is well advanced and fine-tuning will probably follow in 2024.
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Star Citizen finally feels like a real game!
Story in Star Citizen: According to the leak, the online MMO experience will also have a story part. The players even experience this parti ally instantiated. In principle, this should be a kind of mini-Squadron 42 and last a good ten to 20 hours. It serves as an introduction to the space epic’s intended massive, open universe.
Ten times as much content: Star Citizen 1.0 should easily exceed the current content in terms of quantity by a factor of ten. In addition to Stanton and Pyro, three other systems are said to form the start of the universe. Ultimately, Cloud Imperium Games is aiming to launch Star Citizen with five fully-fledged star systems.
What does that mean? – Assessment of an expert
We asked Velios, a Star Citizen expert from our community, for an estimate: At the beginning he emphasizes: This is merely an internal plan for guidance, not a promise or public statement.
- He thinks the plan to have ten times the content in online games compared to today is a bit too optimistic.
- 1.0 is by no means meant to be a finished game.
Star Citizen as such will never be finished, but will continue to be developed.
What is scheduled to appear at the end of 2025 is planned as a starting point that contains all core technologies. What is currently missing here is the server meshing and the follow-upQuanta
(roughly speaking the economic simulation).Therefore, one can definitely judge this with skepticism.
However, according to him, we can expect a lot more content and technology this year than we are currently used to. He therefore remains with a large portion of optimism:
2024 will be extremely exciting and then we’ll see what happens in 2025.
Since we have had to put in an immense amount of moderation effort in the comments section when reporting on Star Citizen in the past, we are moving the discussion about this article to the GameStar forum. You can discuss there as usual, you can access the thread here.
Nonetheless: Even if this leak reads promisingly and the official news from this year’s CitizenCon also sounds promising, caution remains necessary. Because the hype surrounding Star Citizen has already led to a lot of anger and frustration in the past.
Our tip: Have fun with what’s available to play now, look forward to more, but don’t overload your wallet or your expectations. Maybe in just over a year we’ll all be a lot smarter and immerse ourselves in what Squadron 42 has become.
