Is the plan to release Squadron 42 and the Persistent Universe at the same time, or will one come out before the other?asked by Bess
TL;DRThey want to release Squadron 42, or part of it, before the Persistent Universe is finished, possibly episodically in polished batches of missions, though this thinking is still in process.
Good question. I mean, from our standpoint, I think we want to give you Squadron 42, or at least part of it, before the Persistent Universe is finished, so to speak. And we're kind of toying around with how we can do this with Squadron 42 in a way that sort of falls into the methodology we're using, our sort of development methodology, because I think giving you the whole Squadron 42 as just an alpha may not work as well, because it's a story, so it needs to be fairly polished as far as that goes. So one of our thoughts is to take Squadron 42 and sort of release it episodically. So before the game is fully finished, you play the first X number of missions that are nice and well done and polished, and then the next X number of missions a month later, and so on until you've worked your way through Squadron 42, which would lead you up to the sort of beta of the Persistent Universe. So that's currently our thinking. It's still in process right now. But we'll see. But when the game is finished properly, obviously Squadron 42 and the Persistent Universe, Star Citizen, would all be sort of in as part of the package.