What happened with the new quantum travel experience that we saw at CitizenCon 2953, so two years ago?
TL;DRThe CitizenCon quantum travel demo was real Squadron 42 gameplay, but the design has since changed, with quantum boosting now planned for the slower speed range that Nav Mode used to cover.
Okay, so at this point the quantum experience that you saw there was exactly how it was at that time in Squadron 42. That design has changed a bit since then, also with the requirements of the other flight model changes that we're currently doing. So in general there's three parts to the new flight model: the quantum experience, the updated space flight model and the control surfaces. And all of these got changed and expanded based on the requirements that we saw. And right now, what we back then described as quantum boosting has changed a little bit. So quantum boosting will be used for the slow speed range that you used to do Nav Mode with, right? So there's basically three speed ranges that you need in Star Citizen. One is to go from, let's say, one POI to another or between planets or something like this, where we're talking millions of kilometers, right? Then you need the range in which you're navigating within these spaces. So let's say you have a bubble of 300 kilometers or so in size. You need to navigate in between there, but you don't want to fly with your SCM speeds, right? So for that, quantum boosting will be used. And then there's the normal SCM speed region, so basically the thruster-based flying, which will still be limited to, I don't know, maybe 300 meters per second or so.
Caveman Crafting in the Twitch chat says, "In other words, that quantum video was marketing fluff." No, it was not. He literally just said it's exactly how it was in Squadron at the time it was recorded.
It was real gameplay. You can actually see that it was real gameplay because on stage our left stick broke, and you can see that in the video because the velocity meter on the left side is constantly twitching because the stick broke. It was all real.