To clarify, every button doesn't get a bespoke animation. Base animations are blended with IK solutions to produce a dynamic animation as needed.

The fact that cap ships alone are big enough to be their own map in any other game is a testiment to the amount of love put into this game

I've known and learned about all these mechanics since joining SC back in 2020, but It's crazy hearing them all listed within this video of everything we're still waiting for. It sounds overwhelming but if we can get some of the big ones in first like engineering, that should hold us off as the next dose of copium while wait for the others.

The commitment to how each part mechanically moves in the ship, is both astonishing, and infuriating based on how well it works.

This feels like 15 years of work

I play games since 1979 and Star Citizen is everything I dreamed of for a long time. :)

The ships are basically the most detailed game assets ever made.. and yet they are going to get better and better over time!

Great video, LevelCap. Very informative, high production value and timely given IAE coming up.

12:00 There's ONE thing no one is mentioning. CIG took the time to build some seriously powerful tools. They took the time to teach every one how to use them. And now that a good amount of dev are switching from SQ42 to PU, things should move FAST! I'm saying that, being a software engineer myself (just for the trolls).

We have come a long way from the days of me just having a hanger to walk around my freelancer Dur. Remember when the entrance was part of the front landing gear? haha. Another banger Vid Cap!

I was in 6th grade when I first became aware of star citizen. I thought it was awesome, and started following development of it on and off. I can remember a time when the constellation was the biggest ship in the game. I am now a college graduate, a firefighter, and working on getting my rn, and the game is still in alpha testing. That said, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, the absolute strides this thing has made are insane. I just hope I get the chance to play a fully realized version of it someday. Ideally before I'm 40.

I love that ambition. I have from the beginning. I wish I could play the finalized vision now. But I will, whenever it releases. And for now. I'm looking forward to SQ42 to scratch that itch.

I hope they focus on the utility vehicle now and get that game mechanic working. These being; rearming, refueling (they need to do the refueling cap ships), repairing, drones, cargo loading vehicles and tractor beams (they are working on the beams which is cool), armor storage as well as food, water and hygiene restocking of ships. They should focus on these and get them implemented before building up new ships in those prospective categories. This would possibly help stop all of the reworks when new mechanics are implemented.

Looking forward to when it's not expected and normal practice to claim your ship every play session (or multiple times). TTK needs to be reaaally long compared to now, in order for the larger ships to feel like "Home".

Merchantman i hope i get mine before i die

They need a landing guide, something like what ED does, so we don't need to use third person view to land. Just use the target screen for this when landing gear is lowered.

I was a little disappointed to not hear a peep about my Kraken at CC. But it was nice to hear the updates on my pioneer

This game is 10 years into development and this video is a good reminder that it's going to be another 10 years at least.

They recently said that the issues that stopped them getting modularity functional have been solved, so they are already working to implement different modules to ships. This was like a month or two ago i believe.

I can't wait to yell "What am I even PAYING you for!?" to my NPC's as they all stand on my table T-posing.

S42 launching, if done correctly, will raise a lot more of money, CIG will then focus the majority of the devs into PU while keeping a portion for DLCs and new chapters. Butwith more money to work with, I suppose that will significantly boost development time frames for the PU overall. The keystone is delivering a good Squadron 42 game raise money and use the standalone campaign as a self marketing asset for tue PU go grow even further.

What star citizen has already done with ships is nuts, and beyond anything else I can currently play. Everything else at this point is just a bonus going into bonkers-crazy territory, and I'm loving every second of it. No one even tries to do this. This is something super special, and I'm so glad to be here for it.

Can't wait for CIG to figure out hauling ships need drones equipped with tractor beams to actually work.

One major ship feature you forgot to mention is armor. Some ships like the Terapin and Carrack have movable armored panels that still have yet to be developed. Armor will be a vital key in ship combat as some ships will rely on shields and others will be less shielded and more heavily armored. They even mentioned armor in the Zeus MKII Q&A. Armor will also effect a ships mass, and in turn its maneuverability. Military ships will be more heavily armored and some will probably be impervious to the smaller guns in the game. Won’t do to have an Idris knocked out by a bunch of starter ships swarming it. So armor is another ship mechanic that probably should come sooner rather than later.

the backlog is just INSANE! good....we dont know, how fast things start to move, with many devs returning to the PU now, but still. i expect min. 3-5 more years until all stuff is in and WORKING!

RE: the custom animations, during CitizenCon, one of the panels discussed that a lot of the more general animations like button presses are dynamically driven. So for every similar button press, there's a "cockpit button press" animation with a dynamic skeleton that simply does some inverse kinematics to make that animation reach the right final location. Obviously there are still a TON of bespoke animations and different animation archetypes, but they only have to produce each archetype once and then crashtest the IK system to make sure it can handle all the edge cases. Still a lot of work, but not quite hand keying every single button press.

Big things(literally with cap ships😂) are coming in the next for ships. Will be an exciting year to see.

I am sure the drone tech is tied directly to the AI blades and AI crew. I think all of those features will be grouped together at some point to worked on at the same time. I am also pretty sure if I worked there, the AI blades would be first out to test basics first since all they would have to do is properly operate a turret or 2. I also think the AI crew will have to work first before we get the Capital ships. And would likely need at least the ability to travel between a few systems first as just giving players a capital or even some of the sub-cap ships would be OP in the current game for a lot of missions.

The future of star citizen looks brighter than never before

Here's to hoping that one of those new ship teams is dedicated to reworks. It actually seems like a good way to train people up...

WOO Nightvision! big win!

Ships are cool. But If its a space sim there is other things like player/ org bases, apartments, companions, crew, pets that they could sell to fund the development aswell.

we're looking at 2030 for all this to be in-game and functional

A LONG while ago they discussed the physical interaction with buttons in the world for things like elevators, screens, etc and that they would not need custom animations but use some form of IK. I'm doubtful, I've never seen it done really well & never seen it at all with a unified 1st/3rd person rig. I think they frequently set the bar too high - not only do they want more features than any game conceived, they also want each of those features to be complex yet also high quality. It's no wonder that this game will probably take 2 decades to wrap (though I expect some "soft-launch" with a great product a few years before all the gameplay professions or ships are done).

When I was new to the game I left a comment on one of your Star Citizen vids, I think just asking for people to squad with. Someone anonymously gifted me a bunch of ingame currency and I was able to pick up some awesome ships. Most fun I've had in the game! All thanks to some random person that saw my comment

"The space ships" omg i was going to take a break until your video popped up, ahhhhhh

Personally I think they need to prioritize stuff people want the most. How many work hours are going to go into reworking all the ship MFDs and hud? How many people actually don’t like the current MFD system? They are putting resources towards things that are already fine when there are tons of other gameplay areas that would take much less work to bring up to speed

Re: Modularity. They've said it's first coming to the Tali. Probably the Galaxy next, since finishing out RSI is probably the current strategy, but yeah, it's coming to all the ships it was sold with. 600i, Cat, Carrack, etc. CIG doesn't generally cancel features: They just take a while to get them done. Lol.

Ever since wing commander 3 back on my pc that was a 486, to freelancer.. this game is so ambitious, and I love it! No shareholders or publishers rushing bad production. Just give it time; The amount of coding and work that is going into this is a game is truly incredibly!

Stunning detail

People don't realize just how long game development really takes. Most games have years of development before the first mention of them are made publicly. Cyberpunk was announced 10 years ago (and almost certainly began development before that), was released 2 years ago and arguably was only completed this year. Star Citizen Was announced 11 years ago, but with basically nothing done, and has gone on to become perhaps THE most detailed and complex game in history. Throw in the holy grail of real time server meshing, and I don't care how long it ultimately takes to be completed, I'm along for the whole ride. As an amateur coder, and a long time space sim enthusiast, I am in awe of what they have accomplished.

the reason I have hope for all this work is they're moving developers off SQ42 and onto the PU. If we can even get 30 or 40% of the people on SQ42 working full time on PU it should increase output to a level we've never seen.

It's crazy and you even forgot to mention to other additions that will require work for each ship: -Maelstrom destruction. Where every part of the ship that can break of needs to be defined, which is probably a TON of work for each ship -Ship maps: From CitizonCon they talked about a whitelist of which parts of a ship are shown on the map/engineering station. This will probably also be setup by an artist manually These two factors are the main reason why I don't believe that either Maelstrom nor the neu Star Map will make it into the game in 2024 (at least not the location maps, maybe they will release the star system maps seperatly)

Feel the wrath of 1000 passionate developers

Realistically we won't be playing 1.0 till the year 2030

I agree with the need for some type of landing assist while in first person. There used to be such a system in place while in first person view. There was a holographic viewer that showed your ship and landing directions, and for whatever reason it was taken out of the game.

44 now. I was 36 when I first pledged. I never had concern that I will not be alive when the game is fully released. After this video, I have genuine concern now.

The Defender needs some love. The guns don't work, it got no EMP to replace it's missing EMP missiles, none of the interior panels work. The gun racks have been notoriously buggy. Like many ships, the Defender is rendered unflyable by losing some of it's most fragile parts. It's special shield is still missing, but it got no armor or HP to compensate.

The thing is, I don't ever want a game I play to stop improving, to stop developing, to stop innovating and evolving. I don't ever see a 'Star Citizen 2' coming out. Because yeah, it may take another 20 years for us to see the real official launch of Star Citizen. But I don't care because even then, I'm going to be looking forward to the next 20 years after that. I hope they never stop designing new ships and vehicles, new weapons, giving us new locations and filling out the worlds, adding new missions and storylines. This is a game that can infinitely evolve, to the point that a single city could become its own game entirely. I've said it before, but imagine if just Loreville itself had as much or more content than the entirety of Cyberpunk. That's a future we could someday see. I dream of the day where if I want to get into mining, I have 50 different ships to choose from, all of different designs, specialties, where some cross over, and there is no one choice for what I want to do. And I don't care that it's 40 years away. I'll be here for as long as I can enjoying the ride. That being said, I won't hesitate to call out their BS either.

The Reliant Mako is for _you!_ Seriously, it's a content-creator's recording ship. No other purpose. The third person perspective we enjoy and abuse is fine for now, but later on it's very likely to hit the chopping board.

I think if they could surpass a certain point in development, it will survive and be propably one of the greatest games ever created.

I want to work for CIG LOL... This game is my life!

The "reporting" gameplay seems like something imagined before streaming took off. Like the times have changed so much that this idea is probably roleplaying only at this point. Obviously I could be wrong but we're going to have to wait a long long long time before CIG prioritizes the news van.

I think this coming year will be very telling for when we can expect the game to be "finalized". Seeing as we know that a large portion of S42 focused employees have now been moved over to Star Citizen, I think that the pacing of late 2023, and all of 2024 should give us a much clearer picture of how long things will really take to be "complete" either way it's an exciting future we have to look forward to.

4:34 I also see a couple of alternative time lines here. One in which we never get NPC crew at all, and one in which NPC crew are completely useless, and a total waste. I suppose there's also the darkest time line, where CIG goes belly up... but we don't talk about that time line.

When they come out with capital ships it better supports the opportunity to support the coolest scenes from scifi movies with bots. Like scrambling the fighter squadrons, tractor beaming and boarding ships and other things. They should have rank and file formations on demand too.

I just hope I live long enough to experienced the finished product. SC has had my attention for like a third of my life at this point lol.

New/upcoming/future ships, systems, feature, mechanics, gameloops, etc are all on a continuous timeline.. so there is no END. So just jump in, play what’s there today, and enjoy it for however many years you got left on Earth. Simple!

Levelcap is on his star citizen binge again

I’ve been a backer since 2016. Now I’m 41. I just hope I can see all that before I die. 😅

this is about as exciting as watching a Union road building crew winning a bid to fix a road in downtown Seattle.

Love it. Hate it. Run from it. Where does all that lead you? Back to SC. All roads will always end with you getting into SC. It's inevitable. See you in the verse! O7

a reporting ship. hmm. could be used to expand the lore, perhaps have owners of the ship work for specific in game news companies and go around gathering stories that could potentially make their way into in game news broadcasts or articles, and into the lore entries of the galactepedia. it would allow players to have a greater role in the lore building of the universe, perhaps recording a massive org to org battle, reporting on a high profile race event, investigating ship wrecks or pretty much any kind of in game event either player related or NPC related. I see alot of interesting possibilities with that and I hope they do allow for some sort of story gathering gameplay that makes it's way into the lore of the game.

I honestly do not mind continuous development. I want this game to keep on evolving with new features, functionality, and mechanics. The idea of ever calling this project done and finished makes no sense to me. I want this to be at the edge of tech in 30 years.

The potential for yet another price hike on spaceships is insane!

regarding the tractor beam out of all the ones I've seen the Taurus tractor beam that replaced the bottom turret has been the best placed

Man I can't for my vanguard screens to be interchangeable! Took them long enough. Now if only BUKs came back...

I'm new to the Star Citizen universe/journey or whatever you want to call it and have experienced a number of frustrating and annoying crashes or broken gameplay loops/mechanics BUT the level of detail in this game already is astonishing and I've had so many "Woah" or "holy fk" moments from the detail of the rivets and welding on a Cutter to having an unexpected sunrise on a moon whilst delivering a box. The number of places I have not yet seen and the number of activities I haven't even tried yet is astonishing but the key thing to me is that in a world where most of the AAA gaming market has no ambition and creates cookie cutter BS games, the ambition and scope in Star Citizen is..........well.........compelling. Maybe I'm blinded by the games potential but I now understand why people have invested in this game and continue to do so. I mean, where's the promise in a Ubisoft game? Where's the ambition? Where's the innovation? You have to look to the Indie games for that sort of thing and in that regard Star Citizen feels more "Indie" because it has lofty ambitions that it's striving to achieve. I'm not a long suffering investor in this game, so to speak, but I now understand wholehearted why people have stuck by this game through thick and thin. My last point also being that even if I stopped playing today I've probably still go more value out of this game than many other game that I've spent more money on.

I hope they soon go over older ships and give them 32scu snap capable grids. For at least one...

Chris is planning on handing down this development to his heirs I see 😊

I think we will see the ship team grow a lot over the next year. I would guess it will top at at over a hundred people. The key will be getting the new team in Montreal up to speed so they can start creating new teams there. They can go from one team to 5 teams.

Vanduul ships were not ever stated to be player flyable. Idris, javelin and possibly the bengal (found in verse instead of bought) are stated to be largest player operable ships for SC. Chances are all ships mentioned are done, but simply do not have MP balance.

As a massive fan of sci-if titles, I am hopeful for this game but am still waiting till a finished product is released. I am also sceptical of how large scale warfare will interact with some people having infinite free replacement ships while others have the logistical grind to maintain the effort, although with how long this has been in development, perhaps so few lifetime insurance ships will exist maybe they won’t be a factor. Again, glad to see development is continuing, enough people have already spent on this title that something has to come of it for their sake.

Someone thats never played SC here, can you be a space trucker in SC ??? Starfield left me wanting more in this aspect 😭

KZfaq unsubscribed me, I KNOW I was subbed before today. Fortunately I watch all of your videos, so you show on the home page.

Ooofft! Always both energising and daunting to catalogue how much is yet to come in this game. . .in just one catagory! XD I am concinced, without any doubt, that this game needs modding support, unlike anything else lol Yes I know its still in alpha. So we'd be limited to modding content mainly, and probably subject to curation. . . . But, even at that basic scale , modding will accelerate this games production WAY more than even reuniting all these SQ42 devs over to the PU xD

I really hope they take hard long look at the learning/reward curve for this game. This promises to be so complicated that it will be a full-time job to learn all the ins and outs. i hope they will allow "winging" it and make it possible, if not for an arcade-y playstyle, at least not get into each and every subsystem and tech system before playing the game. Elite Dangerous is good in this regard. I played hundreds of hours, and there was a lot I never bothered learning, some of it would be called basic by some. It was still playable. I doubt SC is as good, at least currently.

I really want Francis and Finley to stay where I placed them after I log off

I can't wait for the chance to encounter an entire large org doing their thing operating out of a single bengal carrier or something. That would highlight the amount of manpower it takes to operate and makes the UEE military look far more threatening with their several bengals.

Damn, there's a good time to be a fan of space game like this today. Its been a genre I feel have been so negated before Elite and SC came.

The amount of game play you'll get with just a ship like the Pioneer is absolutely insane. Let alone planet defense or assault, ground combat and all that's got invested in it. Has it taken a long time to get to this point? Yes. Has it been a buggy and some times unplayable ride? Also yes. But at the same time there has never been a game this ambitious. There's not a single other gam3 that's ever been made that has tried to incorporate all the things this game does, and certainly not in the same scope. So people can claim its a scam or whatever, but they can't deny that every single year the game gets better and better. I cant wait.

I wouldn't hold your breath on waiting to see Vanduul capitol ships in the PU anytime soon. Not until we see the Star Systems that boarder Vanduul/UEE space anyway. Which is a very long way off.

Star Citizen is a multi-generational game designed to be enjoyed throughout the entire lifetime of a Player, and then that enjoyment is continued by the Player's offspring : P

I belive that by the end of the next year, we will have really nice additions to the game. About 12 months from now this game will be vastly different.

I also wish along with their Q1 2024 Roadmap they would fully implemented the Ships and Vehicle Armors that was need pretty badly in-game for various reasons.

NPC AI are my most hyped feature, it will finally give me reason to buy bigger ships like the andromeda or argo mole

I'm sure that when SQ42 is done done, SC development will be much faster.

Yea, i have no idea why i want the Endeavor so badly seeing as how virtually no information is known about it except the few currently planned modules. But fuck i really want it. Probably to act as me and my Org's home away from home. self-sufficiency and all that.

They’ll get there guys, don’t worry. Just need another couple hundred million. Keep buying!

the master modes and component repair will be a nightmare ...

The amount of gameplay hours I've spent in this Alpha game... No other released game comes even close...

Maybe my grandkids will eventually get to play this ... huzza!

I hope when you press a hotkey for a function in your ship, the animation for pressing that button still plays.

I think SC would be insane if eventually the gameplay loop is: You start off with nothing, work your way up earning money and upgrading your character like in Starfield (Rpg elements). Then you can create your own faction with capital ships etc and have NPCs under your control. Basically having your own empire.

ships ships ships! moar! moar! MOAR!

Someday... my grandkids will get to play star citizen 1.0

technically aren't master modes and the new flight model two separate things? They might be rolled out together but I don't think I would lump flight model changes or updates under the master modes mechanics of switching ship states

Useful video. I didn't want to watch CitCon recaps. This is a nice format. I will sub to you for more of this on major announcements.

I have never seen a game blow through more than $1billion in pre-alpha before it even launches to the public, and for it to not even be ready after more than 10 years in development. -_-

I wouldn't love Star Citizen as I do if it was not crazy project it is. Space interrest is about being bold enough to travel the unknown. Just like the project itself :p