Derek Smart · @dsmart
10th Oct 2015 from TwitLonger
Star Citizen At CitizenCon Smoke & Mirrors
CitCon is going to be more smoke and mirrors. Just like GAMESCOM and every event before it. They have nothing tangible to show. If they did, all the stuff they have recently shown, would be in backers hands by now and in decent form. In fact, you heard it here first:
They are going to parade all the A-List actors - all of whom cost a ton of money - for SQ42. This despite the fact that the stand-alone game is reported to be almost fifteen months away from completion.
1) They are going to show the opening cut-scene sequence for SQ42 with Gary Oldman giving his speech, someone flying and landing, NPCs waving etc.
2) They are going to show Star Marine. Again. It's still a mess - and nowhere ready for production release. Reports tell me that if it gets released before year end, it would be a miracle.
3) They are going to show multi-crew. Again. Problem now is that, as of the last report I got, it doesn't run smoothly at all. And so they are now running the demo on super computers with 16 cores, loads of memory etc. Again, not production release ready.
4) And a new ship. Rumored to be the Vindicator fighter priced at $175 (UPDATE: This price has been increased I've heard)
There is nothing new being released to backers, other than another AC patch apparently.