

While bounty hunting isn’t a core gameplay mechanic, the features it depends on probably are.Īccording to the roadmap, the work to “Designing, implementing, and iterating on Chapter 01 of Squadron 42’s single-player campaign” will begin in January 2021. In other words, CIG is still working to integrate what we typically view as core gameplay mechanics.


Once you go past the quarter in front of us though, that predictability and confidence for delivery will begin to degrade. You could say at that point that we have a ~90% degree of confidence that this deliverable will make its indicated release quarter. Our desire is to show you four quarters of releases, but one critical takeaway is that only the immediate quarter in front of us has a chance to have a release view that will be hardened, as the deliverables that appear on the card for the quarter in front of us will have passed Go/No Go gates or be close enough to completion that we can predict their delivery with a high degree of confidence. In his discussion of the new roadmap, CIG founder and CEO Chris Roberts gave readers some specific guidelines for how much they should rely on the roadmap for accuracy:

Earlier this year, Cloud Imperium Games, makers of Star Citizen, declared that it would publish a new roadmap, laying out both recently completed work and showcasing new goals to be completed over the coming year.
