Cloud Imperium Games

We'll see.

This is something I was talking about on stream the other day, um, where we were having a back and forth about the, the ways that CIG tells people the state of the game, um, and, and how much they owe people to, to explain things, to make it easier for people getting into it.

You know, they can put all of these kind of disclaimers around that it's in alpha, but maybe not be super, uh, detailed about, like, what specific problems are, "Oh, your inventory might not work.

Oh, you, you might crash out of the game.

Yes.

No, I would agree with that.

It's, um, it's a fascinating conundrum CIG have, uh, have got themselves in, and, uh, their path from here is interesting because, yeah, the t- just purely the time and the money and the, the repeated statements over the years, it, it just...

I, it's just fascinating the state of the community right now, and I think it's, I think again I saw a post on Reddit, uh, people, somebody saying, "Is this the most negative it's ever been again?" And like feels like there's one of those posts every day, and it-

Like, we're still there.

And I know CIG sometimes markets Star Citizen as more than that.

But we know it still is an alpha.

And we see it every time we log in.

Hello, everyone.

Every two weeks is a roadmap roundup.

CIG community.

You're actually going to read it.

I do...

I'm trying to break into some content creation stuff, but mostly started out just by kind of planning events in Star Citizen and trying to kind of fill a niche and a void that I thought was severely lacking, which was large-scale events that basically cater to players and... not kind of CIG scripted stuff, like the kind of stuff that I envisioned Chris Roberts thinking about when he thinks of kind of open sandbox, large scale universe players doing things together.

And

I

I think that if there is wind, it should be harder to fly.

And the whole heat system and control surfaces should be putting wear and tear on your maneuvering thrusters.

And then I think CIG should make it very clear when there is wind so you can detect when that's going on and make it so that there's not, like, wind is not that common.

because i agree like there needs to be risk of of flying being not the best solution with these kinds of things

Like, we give, you know, a lot of these...

These companies, Cloud Imperium Games are the guys making Star Citizen.

But we give these people money on the hope that you can fulfill like a dream or an idea of a game or an idea of an experience.

And then hopefully it comes together.

I alluded to it a little bit on the last episode, but this is it.

I truly think that whatever progress CIG is going to make towards Star Citizen, it's going to happen this month, maybe a little bit into October.

But if you think about it, here's September, a little bit into October.

October is about Squadron 42, and Squadron 42 is going to take the news from here.

Really think about it, whether you're interested in Squadron 42 or not, if you're 100 percent into Star Citizen, it's I mean, I don't know.

I don't know what else to say.

It's going to completely supersaturate the attention of CIG.

So they're going to announce everything.

Pop into the Discord, join the couch every week.

People pop on and give us their thoughts about CIG, Star Citizen, and the real game.

Squadron 42.

The real project that everybody's excited about.

Where he outlined the obvious delay of Squadron 42 until quarter to 2027.

I don't know how we feel about that, everybody.

But the second big tidbit there was 55% of CIG staff is currently working on Squadron 42.

What does this information make you feel? What does this make you think? I don't believe that, honestly.

It's a good idea.

Scar said, it's a good idea, and it makes me think I'd like to see CIG selling a fixed design as a paint, but then letting the player choose the color scheme themselves.

This would allow monetization while still leaving some freedom to the players.

Then Trader Jeff said, crazy idea, and I kind of like it.

I was thinking maybe next year, but it might be later on, probably depending on how people like to play tests and all that, so we'll see.

But we also have another delay, Cloud Imperium.

of star citizen fame

yeah

Apropos of nothing, they said they're delaying Squadron 42 out of 2026 to avoid launching into the attention buzzsaw of GTA 6, which is like, buddy, nobody thought you were coming out around GTA 6.

Yeah.

At this point, unless you're directly still giving money to Cloud Imperium, nobody cares about this anymore.

Right.