CitizenCon 2023: 12 Months of Future Content Delivery in One List

Author:

Grag

Date published:

23/10/2023

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CitizenCon 2023 was amazing!

The Intention was to deliver everything presented (excluding Squadron 42) within the coming 12 months (starting with the Q4 2023 release till Q4 2024).

With the following list, organized by presentation sections, I want to keep track of what major feature got delivered and if CIG can keep the plan of 12 months.

Here is how you read the list

Game feature unreleased:

[Game feature]

Game feature released on LIVE servers into the PU:

[Game feature]

In the list of major features, items marked in red are yet to be released, while those in green have already been released.

You think I have missed an important feature? If so, you can contact me on discord or write a reply under this post.

Please note that there are some features I consider too insignificant to include in this list.

This list will not be updated anymore. Please visit the official Roadmap for more up-to-date information.

By December 2024, only 29 out of 56 listed features had been released. CIG was unable to achieve its goal of delivering all features within a year.

The biggest features at a glance

RED means unreleased and GREEN means released.

Static Server Meshing

Starsystem Pyro

Mastermodes

FPS HUD and UI

Personal hangars

Engineering

Basebuilding

Shaping the ‘Verse – The Future of StarEngine

New Quantum-Travel effect
Fire Simulation and attached gameplay
New water simulation and deformation
Maelstrom (physically based destruction system)
Ground fog, follows terrain and scatters light
Cloud Improvements with light shafts
Temporal upscaling (CIG TSR, AMD FSR2, Nvidia DLSS 2)
Vulkan implementation
Raytraced GI
StarCloth (character cloth simulation)
StarHair (character hair simulation)
New audio simulation (Realistic mode)
Static server meshing

Fix It and Fly It

Resource Management (Engineering gameplay)

Navigating the Universe

New HUD
New Mobiglas
FPS repair gameplay
FPS scanning
3D minimap downloadable to mobiglas
Unified Starmap (seamless transition from local map to stars)
Path routing with pins
Datarunning (Share/sell markers)

Character Advancement

Frontier clothing
Rough & Ready Gang
Headhunters Gang
Player hygiene gameplay
New hair types
New character heads
New character creator with sculpting mode

Life in the First Person

Zero-G EVA experience update
Player traversal updates (prone, ladder, slide)
Radiation
Inner thought updates
Player animated interactions
Kiosk and terminal update
Looting screen update
FPS Takedowns
FPS Radar ping
Weapon wear
Weapon scope improvements

Taking Flight

Immersion in the Cockpit (relaxed state, interaction prompts)
Complete Ship HUD rework
Ship-to-helmet MFD casting
New configuration profiles for different situations
Master Modes (Nav Mode, SCM Mode)
Quantum boosting
Position sub targeting/painting for gimbals
Control Surfaces

Living on the Edge

New settlements with local missions
Reputation and access to areas (Good, neutral, bad)

Destination: Adventure

Distribution Centers
Raids
New hauler gameplay (perks & rewards)
Container attributes
Freight Elevators
Personal hangars
Basebuilding (with landclaims)

28 responses to “CitizenCon 2023: 12 Months of Future Content Delivery in One List”

  1. kook Avatar
    kook

    Good job bro, thumbs up from Algeria

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      Thank you!

      Reply
  2. Teem Avatar
    Teem

    Fantastic – really useful. Could you please also add an additional ‘column’ – to display the promised / suggested delivery date for each feature? For example, I’m thinking specifically of several features which the devs said, on-stage, would be “available in 3.21”, etc. Thanks!

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      I would assume that will explode the scope of this list. 😀

      Since I’m not CIG who can stretch the scope into oblivion, I want to keep the list simple and clear.

      Reply
  3. ZenBones Avatar
    ZenBones

    Awesome, looks great! I would suggest maybe also having yellow checkmarks (or whatever) for things that get released to the PTU or preview servers, but not to Live yet. Some features may be in testing for a while, but still available for us to see, technically.

    Reply
  4. Marius Avatar
    Marius

    1 out 56 woo!!

    Reply
  5. Marius Avatar
    Marius

    Wow, almost halfway through the year and they’ve almost got half of the features in. That’s honestly already better than I expected, even if there’s only one more update they might actually manage at least 75% of the promises. That’d be a pretty good performance considering their track record, lol.

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      I guess the very big ones are still in the air, like server meshing with Pyro or Basebuilding. I’m quite confident that they can deliver at least 80% of it.

      Reply
      1. Marius Avatar
        Marius

        Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see if they can get those big ones out this year! I kinda doubt it, but at the very least I do think they’ll get the majority of the list within 2024 at this rate.

        Reply
  6. Backer Avatar
    Backer

    FYI Base Building is not planned for 2024, they only said they were going to start designing it on Q1 2024. Everything related to base building can be removed from this list.

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      It was. Basebuilding is planned for 2024.

      Reply
  7. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Take Base Building off the list, it was never planned for this year. Listen to the presentation again if need be, but it wasn’t announced for scheduled release and I am tired of people lying about it

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      Again, it was. Basebuilding is planned for 2024.

      Reply
  8. Daniel Bronner Avatar
    Daniel Bronner

    Take Base Building off the list, it was never planned for this year. Listen to the presentation again if need be, but it wasn’t announced for scheduled release and I am tired of people lying about it

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      Stop spamming the comment section. It was planned. Basebuilding is planned for 2024.

      Reply
  9. Cbo Avatar
    Cbo

    I do not think they ever said base building was coming out this year. They said they were going to start to the development. But the rest look right. Good work on the site. I was looking for something like this.

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      They did. Active development on it started already in the beginning of this year.

      Reply
      1. Stan Avatar
        Stan

        as it’s development is ending early 2025, u should probably add a new category where it says “unkept promise”

        Reply
        1. Grag Avatar
          Grag

          That’s a good idea!

          However, those aren’t promises, but rather planned features. Means they want to deliver them all unil Q4, but they also expect, that some will be delayed.

          Reply
  10. veger2001 Avatar
    veger2001

    Thank you 👍

    Reply
  11. veger2001 Avatar
    veger2001

    Thank you 👍

    Reply
  12. URTheProblem Avatar
    URTheProblem

    Pipe Dream. They have you hook, line and sinker. Keep on dreaming while giving them YOUR money. It’s an impossible project and they aren’t skilled enough to break the laws of physics (there aren’t enough resources and able enough coders in the world to achieve their vision)

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      What a weird thing to comment on a random blog on the internet.

      Reply
  13. ZOM Avatar
    ZOM

    Thanks for this.

    Readability/UX of this list could be improved by left-aligning (Rag Right) the text (you could still centre it on the page/centre the div/table it’s in).

    Reply
    1. Grag Avatar
      Grag

      Thanks for the feedback! I will see what I can do. 🙂

      Reply
  14. xXDickTwisterXx Avatar
    xXDickTwisterXx

    Love u

    Reply
  15. Fred Avatar
    Fred

    “Zero-G EVA experience update”

    This was intended to come in three parts. The first parts have already been delivered. Have the other two parts been delivered? I’m unsure if this should be ticked green. It might be a fair bit more to deliver on for what they talked about at CitCon.

    Reply
  16. QuaddrupleA Avatar
    QuaddrupleA

    So the 12 month are over, and the 2024 citcon has brought new (thin air) promises, while there is still so much left on the map from 2023. Things like the starmap only got a graphical update but the underlying code is still the same old mess.
    Disappointing but not as bad as i expected, from a company like cig.

    Reply

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