Chin posted:

They put together a video explaining how schedules are made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOjXfNnhxf0

Mr Fronts posted:

I hope "Fist Combat" encompasses a wide variety of activities. It could provide an inevitable consequence of piracy.

Sarsapariller posted:

Ahahaha, this is a complete goddamn abomination and I love it. No project manager would ever sign off on this horseshit. What does a horizontal row mean? I mean in one row you've got weapons, "item 2.0", in-game chat use, and ship to ship refuel system. So a row can't possibly represent a single team or a series of deliverables that have to be done in sequence. It kind of looks like they just told everyone "In order to put out a minimum viable product, please list all of the work you'd have to have finished" and then crammed all of that end-to-end on a "Chart" with no regard for actual timelines or whether or not any piece of it was dependent on any other. Not only is it poorly designed and visually confusing, with bars apparently scattered randomly up and down the chart but it assumes massively parallel work flows that just aren't loving possible. Some highlights:

• "Network/Backend" has as many as eight simultaneous priorities in May alone. And it's not small stuff! "Server Migration" and "Network Bind/Unbind" and "New Message Queue" and "Physics Serialization" are all going out at the same time. Well! I'm sure your database won't be a right clusterfuck after you do all of those simultaneously through different people in the span of a couple of weeks.
  
  
• "Fist Combat" is on a different track from "Throwable Weapons" which is apparently happening in parallel with "Knife Melee." "Takedowns (Front, Side, Rear)" are happening simultaneous with "Knockdown/Knockback." So that's at least 5 separate takes on how players are going to do physical damage to each other, all in the space of a loving month, all scattered willy-nilly around the chart. No reason to put those back to back or maybe even combine them into one cohesive system! Nope!
  
  
• It sure is a good thing that basically everything is going to be done by May! I was a little worried because we hadn't seen one bit of planetary tools, or solar system tools, or object container: load and unload, but it turns out they've just been working on them all at once, this whole time, for five years, and they'll all be finished in the next month! What a nice and satisfying unit of time- just far enough out to be a little vague, but close enough to feel like real progress is happening. It's definitely not a massively telling visual representation of your own project managers lying to you about when poo poo will get done. It's just that literally everything they've ever worked on is about four weeks from completion, right now. Whew!
  
  
• They promised us a ship pipeline and boy are they set to loving deliver! Look at that, as many as 12 simultaneous ship projects at once! They're finishing an average of four a month, every month, for the next 8 months! Half of these ships are marked as finished before things like Ship To Ship Refuel or Cargo System or Player Manned Turrets are done! How the gently caress are you going to deliver rovers years before you have your planets?
  
  
• Also, on ships: I'm really enjoying how individual variants are assigned different tracks with randomized completion lengths. See how many times you can find the words "Cutlass" and "Freelancer" on that chart, ships that have been in the game for 3+ years. It's weird, I don't see the Javelin that they just put out a 30 minute video about on there at all! Or the Idris! Or the Bengal carrier! In fact it looks like it's mostly
  variants of existing small craft from here to 2018.
  
  
• Also also on ships: glad to know that they're done selling ships forever, since apparently they have not made any time for new ship concepts or development on this chart.
  
  
• I'm loving the loving time they assign to some of this stuff. Tell me more about how "Game Persistence" is apparently a two week project but your "Omnisky Laser Cannon" art or whatever the gently caress is going to take six goddamn months of work?!?
  
  
• "Inventory System UI" apparently starts a full month before, and takes twice as long as, "Inventory System Gamecode." Okay!
  
  
• "In-Game Chat To Use Spectrum" apparently starts months before, and takes longer than, "Spectrum Integration In Game." Sure am glad this schedule passed a rigorous review process!
  

Yes, this is definitely a fully realized diagram and not the last-minute throwing together of about 5 overwhelmingly untruthful department reports from completely buried project leads. Given the last 5 years of delivering 1 to 2 minor changes per month, I am completely unsurprised that they found yet another way to promise that literally everything is right around the loving corner. I look forward to the celebratory ship sale.

D_Smart posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/851134582061756417

Tarquinn posted:

Sooo.... how about that?


Guess the Apocalypse was stopped by Beet banning the good doctor.

Thanks Beet.

quote:

Star Citizen update 3.0 is aiming to launch at the end of June, Roberts said. At that time, there will be three moons available to land on: Cellin, Yela, and Dayman. Later on, "all the main landing zones for Stanton" will be added, which is a little later than expected.

"We had originally hoped to deliver most of the Stanton Landing Zones with the first release of Planetary Tech, but that proved optimistic once the talented team at Behaviour, who had built ArcCorp, Levski, Grim HEX, and had begun work on the remaining landing zones of Stanton, moved off Star Citizen and onto another Behaviour project in December," Roberts said.

stardagger in Gamespot's comments posted:

I would have been happy with another X-Wing game. I just hope Battlefront keeps growing and somehow starts taking seriously its space fight part (Since I do not know when SC will be released)

I have spent in SC more than 250€, with so much hope, really, but all that hope is turned into something dark now. Had I know it would take this long I wouldn't have done it. And every time I hear Mr Roberts saying there is another delay and immediately after talking about the scope/ ambition of the game as a justification ... it just makes me feel so bad. I cannot live on promises. Life is also here and now.

PST posted:

I've been a PM for about 8 years now, primarily working in large financial institutions on long-term project rollouts, mergers and risk-managed projects (brexit has taken up a good chunk of my time for the last year as I did spin the bottle on where they're moving 6k employees)

That gantt chart is a loving abombination. It's some bastardised cross of a chart that's meant to be used internally, and some bullshit 'this is what we're doing' to make it appear super-organised.

I'd like to say that there's no way any PM would create that, but i've encountered enough bullshit artists to be sure that RSI are absolutely using that, and then confused when they find out 2 weeks late that they're overdue on something another team needed.

drat Dirty Ape posted:

I may not be up to date on Star Citizen stuff but people eagerly awaiting any kind of accurate schedule from Christ Roberts is just .

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I'd eagerly await an accurate schedule and so would you. drat but I'd love to see this abomination by the end of june

Crazy_BlackParrot posted:

females yet?

Crazy_BlackParrot posted:

females yet?

his nibs posted:

Sound reasoning

his nibs posted:

Sound reasoning

Sarsapariller posted:

Tarquinn posted:

Beet banning the good doctor.

ComfyPants posted:

Sandworms sold separately.