Out of Pod Experience

Thats the thing though. The stuff that is being added is not in the original design. and even if it is, its still way past what they can do, you can already see they have back end issues, and as its going to be a ******* mmo, you need your back end to work...

Mark my words... CR would be STUPID to announce the FPS mod is scrapped. utterly stupid. His best bet if it is scrapped is to keep with the 'it son hold for now' line while he does the rest. Because the moment he says 'sorry guys we are scrapping the FPS module' his house of cards will come tumbling down.

Ugh. I hate having to read people's piles of words in search of their intended meaning or a solid statement.

WoD crew had to develop more like three games. It doesn't matter who the team is, if they are jerked around until they fail, then yeah they will fail.

SC has bitten off a lot, but I think they will be able to chew it, as long as they're working on one game.

But I have a feeling you are just convinced of the vague similarities in your head between WoD and SC.

Not to mention that you succeed when your engine does what it's supposed to do. If nobody knows what it's supposed to do ("more psssssh!"), failure is the only option.

I also won't mention that the engine that Atlanta forked for development was, well, perhaps less than optimal for its intended use. It wasn't even optimal for EVE.

Yes, project that was declared as success and rightly so was cancelled on the phase of implamentation. How that sounds? More fitting question: why it was cancelled despite being succes in testing concept phase? I answered it there. I dont know better answer than moniez and the burning wound after subs drop.

It is ages from implementation still if they would try. Testing was made in engine other than EVE engine.

Sorry, haven't checked this thread (or first page) for a couple days, missed the last few posts there anyway. Yeah, it's linked in the main article the OP posted. Specifically here: http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/30/8871167/star-citizens-fps-module-delayed-indefinitely

Excerpt:
"Chris Roberts' Star Citizen, the spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series and unprecedented crowdfunding success, has encountered serious technical and gameplay issues that will indefinitely delay one of the game's key modules, a first-person shooter called Star Marine."

Well like I said back then, they really should have built it from the UnrealED. I think that engine would have been ideal for WoD. Not only great eye candy that they would likely achieve as they were already trying for with a certain look, but a good platform to build something a little more tactical as close quarters combat should be and as WoD seemed to be more in tune with.

As for WoD, I think it's IP is a little damaged currently, for producing an mmo of it anyway. Maybe someday after CCP finished production on Valkyrie and if/when ever Legion. If both those actually fall into some decent level of success, who knows, it could happen. If not, well there is always the mobile market for games that the IP could maybe do well in.

Development isn't generally performed as a single unit, but compartmentalized, at least on larger projects. There is always developers that shuffle around to different departments or even to other game projects within the company. From what was said back when, the core developers were more so complaining about having to constantly redo things. Remember? Needs more Psssssshhhhh! I guess if I try to break it all down, it would be too much to read. You want one liner?
It was broken and could not hit their performance target, much like WiS.

SC FPS may be on hold/cancelled, but on the bright side, SC fans now have a $400 digital jumbo jet that serves no purpose and can not be used in the existing game. And wowee, check out all those rows of passenger seats. And cafeteria tables. Exciting.

Wow. EP leaves after less than a year in the position. Maybe he's got a reputation to look after?

Apparently Dave Hobbins left a while back too. His ship designs were some of the better ones I think. Kind of a bummer, I liked the rare occasion when they would show him working or have him talk about concept art.

"We are denfinatly commited to making WoD"

or

"Star the FPS module will be out in march"

Honestly, untill its shipped i'll believe it when i see it. OFC a dev is not going to come out and say that the FPS part is cancled. Because as i said already, that would be suicide on CR's part.

It might be that it will come out, it might be that it won;t. Fact remains, they DO have feature creep, they are spending too much time polishing, even CR said so about arena commander, They have prolly bitten off more then they can chew, but even int hat senario, with unlimited time and money you can chew it. i still think it will fail, we will see