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Star Citizen Arena Commander V.8 delayed due to major bugs [Update]
Cloud Imperium Games had hoped to launch Star Citizen's Arena Commander V.8 today, but unfortunately, those plans have been sucked into a black hole. Creator Chris Roberts has announced a delay in the dogfighting system, citing critical game-breaking issues that must be address before any further updates can be released.
Update: Today's bug update has been posted, revealing just how much has yet to be fixed before the new update can go live. Thanks for the tip, BlackCat9!
Original story: Cloud Imperium Games had hoped to launch Star Citizen's Arena Commander V.8 today, but unfortunately, those plans have been sucked into a black hole. Creator Chris Roberts has announced a delay in the dogfighting system, citing critical game-breaking issues that must be address before any further updates can be released.
"It would be foolish to release an unstable build, even if pre-alpha for the sake of meeting an internal deadline," Roberts said on the Star Citizen website. "This is the power of the crowdfunding that made Star Citizen possible: a publisher would make us ship tomorrow regardless of the current build quality... but as you are all focused on quality rather than a financial return for shareholders we are able to take a few more days to deliver something that is stable. I know that's not the news you wanted to hear tonight. No-one would like to see the community get their hands on Arena Commander more than I would."
In the spirit of transparency, Roberts revealed a full list of bugs currently plaguing the current Arena Commander V.8 build in the update post. Several of these issues include crashes, multiplayer desyncing, and vanishing textures.
Roberts adds that the build is close to a final release, but has not divulged an official date.
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replyOzzie Mejia posted a new article, Star Citizen Arena Commander V.8 delayed due to major bugs.
Cloud Imperium Games had hoped to launch Star Citizen's Arena Commander V.8 today, but unfortunately, those plans have been sucked into a black hole. Creator Chris Roberts has announced a delay in the dogfighting system, citing critical game-breaking issues that must be address before any further updates can be released.-
Daikatana. Duke Nukem Forever. Star Citiizen. Every generation has at least one.
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Daikatana did make us it's bitch.
DNF was perpetual development hell, and Gearbox made us it's bitch.
Star Citizen the jury is still out. If anything they are guilty of being too aggressive. It's not like nothing has been released. We receive a plethora of updates, some ships have been released in the hangar, and at one point you could even adjust some files and fly around in the ships.-
and I just made myself my own bitch with the improper use of '
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Lol it's been 1 year. Didn't dnf languish for 7 or so?
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Not only that, but the DFM is probably the closest thing they'll do to an alpha release. You'd be forgiven for thinking that it was the official release considering the amount of drama that this has caused.
Honestly, the development is probably closer to TF2 than DNF at the moment. A delay in game development is only bad if the game is still awful after the delay - no-one complains about the TF2 delay because the end result was worth it.-
TF2 wasn't delayed in the strictest sense. They found it wasn't fun, rebooted it, rebooted it again, and then released it its current iteration.
Star Citizen is just suffering from normal development delays. We're only hearing about it because the devs have been extremely open about releasing unfinished work. Consumers aren't accustomed to seeing how difficult game development is, especially on a hugely ambitious and complex project like Star Citizen.
Ask Blizzard how Titan is going.
This shit is really hard to pull off.-
Those are actually some really good points. I probably got a bit over-excited with my comparison of Star Citizen to TF2. And you're right - this is really all normal delay type stuff, we're just able to see it clearly because CIG wants us to know and share in this crazy journey. And, to be fair, CIG have been really good with their communication about Star Citizen (especially recently).
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They've publicly spoken about it many times. Here's an example: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/23/gabe-on-ricochet-2-delay-but-he-doesnt-mean-ricochet/
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Valve always does deliver, but they could have decided on something new and not say anything about Half Life.
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No. SC is just extremely transparent with its dev process. I am absolutely certain games like HL2, Skyrim and WoW had just the same issues, they just kept them away from the plebs' ignorant eyes. CIG updates very frequently, they are doing a fuckton of work.
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Story updated. Thanks!
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Fucking lol
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With that much coke you'd think they'd finished the sequel by now!
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"Bugs, bugs.. I see bugs crawling everywhere!!"
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