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3.0 Production Schedule Report

Our schedule for the next Star Citizen Alpha releases, up to date.

Welcome!

Below you will find the latest roadmap for the development of the Star Citizen Persistent Universe. While the bulk of this schedule outlines our tasks and estimates that you can expect to find in the upcoming 3.0.0 patch (as well as some of the tasks that we’ve already completed), we are also including projections for the remainder of the year so you can have some visibility into the upcoming Persistent Universe features and content. These are the very same schedules we update daily and circulate internally on our intra-studio hand-offs with a few exceptions: the individual developer names assigned to the tasks will be omitted (for obvious reasons), we’ll remove the JIRA details, and we’ll modify the technical wording to make it readable for a wider audience.

Also note, this schedule does not represent everything CIG is working on, but more the functionality and content we feel comfortable committing to at this time. Outside of the work on Squadron 42, we have a few research projects that, once validated, we would move into production and add to this schedule. Otherwise, when something changes, slips or is completed, you will know.

What you are seeing here is the result of our scheduling and planning process. We have a high level feature and content set that we want to achieve for Star Citizen and Squadron 42. The first step is to break these features into higher level tasks with which we populate Microsoft Project, JIRA and Shotgun (the three tools we use for project scheduling and tasking). Then, as we approach a task, Production works with the relevant developer(s) to make sure the task is broken up with enough detail to allow completion. Sometimes this means adjusting the initial task estimate, as things tend to come into a clearer focus when coming up on a task, but it almost always means breaking down the big task into a bunch of smaller tasks that have their own individual sub tasks that possibly are distributed to multiple developers.

Both tasks and sub-tasks get created in JIRA, linked under an Epic (which is a high level task or feature) and are then pulled into Microsoft Project to manage with granular detail providing us global visibility through Gantt charts and visual timelines. No developer works on a task unless it has been created in JIRA, prioritized and assigned by a lead or a member of the Production Team.

Then as the developers work on the tasks, Production will adjust the schedule and JIRA tickets to reflect the work being done.

In the schedule below, you will first find a master schedule that covers the broad departments/disciplines that are being developed. Each department will then have its own dedicated sub-schedule, briefly explaining the various features that are being developed and their current status.

CAVEATS

But also, we would like to establish some ground rules before proceeding:

I.Quality will always be our number one goal. We set out on this journey by looking at the gaming landscape and asking: can we do better? We continue to ask that question about everything we do. As a result, we will ALWAYS extend timelines or re-do features and content if we do not feel they are up to our standards. The freedom to fight for a new level of quality in game development is what crowd funding has allowed us, and we will continue to fight to make sure Star Citizen is the best possible game it can be.

II.The estimates we provide are just that: estimates. They are based on our knowledge and experience, but there are many aspects of game development that are impossible to predict because they literally cover uncharted territory. You will see the same estimates we use in our internal planning, but it is important to understand that in many cases (especially with groundbreaking engineering tasks) these estimates are often subject to change due to unforeseen complexity in implementing features.

III.The time expected for bug fixing and polishing is also very hard to estimate, increasingly so in online and multiplayer situations. The complexity and the difficulty in testing at a large scale make it harder to reproduce and isolate bugs in order to fix them. We base our estimates, again, on our experience, but we also know that it’s possible for a single bug to cause a delay of days or weeks when a hundred others might be fixed instantly.

IV.Internal schedules, the ones you will now be privy to, tend to have aggressive dates to help the team focus and scope their tasks, especially in the case of tech development. Every team, even a team blessed with the kind of support and freedom you have allowed us, needs target dates in order to focus and deliver their work.

V.This schedule doesn’t cover everything being worked on across Cloud Imperium Games, but is meant to highlight our aims for the remainder of the year on the Persistent Universe.

VI.This schedule doesn’t include every audio, vfx, tech art, etc. task. Those are detailed in our departmental sub-schedules.

VII.Although technology is shared between the two games, this does not reflect the Squadron 42 schedule. That will be released at a future date.

VIII.These aim dates are determined based on our current staff. Additional hiring will potentially allow us to bring in some dates below.

WELCOME TO THE PROCESS

The community has always been integral to Star Citizen, so we will be updating this page weekly to keep you informed about our development. We hope that this page will not only help explain our latest status, but also provide some explanations in the event that updates are delayed.

Last update : Aug 18th, 2017

Last update : Sep 1st, 2017

3.0.0 Overview

Bug Progress

This week, we have been busy at Gamescom in Cologne, showing one of the moons from 3.0 on the show floor to our fans and the press. The feedback has been great, as attendees have gotten their first chance to try out our planetary tech, which everyone will soon be playing once we release to Evocati , PTU and ultimately our public servers. In the meantime, our development teams have been back at home focusing on making that happen soon! Their focus has been to lower the ‘must-fix’ issues for 3.0 and this week they’ve been successful, lowering the total number of those issues from 77 to 67. That’s good news as we move ever closer to rolling out Alpha 3.0 to everyone.

Our Gamescom team is back from a successful showing of Star Citizen in Cologne. Thousands of people got to experience one of the moons of Alpha 3.0 firsthand in our show floor booth and many also got a chance to see more at the Gloria Theater in downtown Cologne Friday night. Essentially those attendees at the show were our first external “testers” for 3.0 and while they were busy having fun flying and adventuring around the new areas of Star Citizen, they also helped us identify more bugs in the game as we continue efforts to bring 3.0 to its live launch. As a result of all the “play testing” at Gamescom, our bug count has taken an upward swing this week as more issues were discovered during the demos in our booth. Last week the must-fix issues totaled 68 and this week saw a jump up to 94. While that seems like a large increase, it is very much a part of the burn-down process in game development. Also these bugs were discovered much quicker due to the sheer numbers of players who came through our booth (2,000 +). The process also showed us that the build isn’t quite ready for a wider test, just yet. Since Gamescom, the SC team has been hard at work to bring those numbers to a level where we can “go wider” with the Evocati, the PTU and the entire player base.

One other news of note. This week, we’ll be pulling down the various project timelines on our weekly dev schedule as our bug burn down numbers become even more critical to our launch and are much more of a driving force in our ultimate goal: getting 3.0 in your hands.

Remaining Must Fix Issues For Evocati:

What you see below is a numerical representation of issues the team are focusing on to close-out (Burndown) to get to an Evocati release candidate, so you can see the progress of work we’re doing on a week-by-week basis.

Bugs fixed in the last week

(Please note: This is an overview of fixes made this week and not a complete list.)

Crashes

Fixed a crash in CEffect_Particle::LoadEffectData

Fixed a crash in CDeviceBufferManager::Destroy

Fixed a crash in CZone::RemoveObject

Fixed a crash in CSkyLineComponent::InitializeStarMap

Fixed a crash in CTX::TaskDomain::RemoveRunnable

Fixed a crash in CrashHandler: CSCItemQuantumDrive::PrepForJump

Fixed a crash in CSCActorResultStateLadder::Exit

Fixed a crash in CInteractionPoint::GetLocalBounds

Fixed a crash in CFrontendController::RequestOpenFE

Fixed a crash in CNetwork::SyncWithGame

Fixed a crash in CRenderMesh::~CRenderMesh

Fixed a crash in CSkyLineComponent_WD::Enter

Fixed a crash in CZoneSystem::MoveToZoneData_Impl

Fixed a crash in CZone::UpdateObjectsBBox_ZonePartition

Fixed a crash in CXConsole::RegisterString

Fixed a crash in CrySystem.dll!JobManager::CJobManager::WaitOnSemaphore

Fixed a crash in QSortFilterProxyModel::parent

Fixed a crash in GASMathCtorFunction::Pow

Fixed a crash in CThrusterManager::clampToGrid

Fixed a crash in CPlayer::ShouldFilterOutHit

Fixed a crash in CFrontendController::SetCameraMode

Fixed an issue where setting the throttle power to 0 did not have an effect on the power to other systems.

Fixed an issue where closing the StarMap would cause the game to close.

Fixed an issue where there was no representation of the ship’s Hydrogen fuel level.

Fixed an issue where the button to confirm your Quantum Travel destination didn’t appear in the StarMap.

Fixed an issue where opening the Starmap via mobiGlas would cause mobiGlas to close

Fixed an issue where the player could not open the StarMap if the ship was in motion.

Fixed an issue where the targeting markers would not always show the focused target.

Quantum Travel

Fixed an issue where exiting the pilot seat after quantum travelling caused the player to teleport back to their starting point.

Fixed an issue where players would exit Quantum Travel, but not be facing their destination.

Stanton

Fixed an issue where players would spawn at Levski upon loading Star Marine.

Fixed an issue where the delivery mission types would display a “No Mission Entry is Active” message.

Fixed an issue where some cargo crates on the surface of Daymar appeared as semi-transparent.

Fixed an issue where elevators in the hangar at Levski would not respond.

Fixed an issue where shopkeeper animations did not match up with their props/surroundings.

Fixed an issue where AI ships had non-functioning weapons.

Fixed an issue where the shop counters were missing in Casaba and Live Fire.

Fixed an issue where dead bodies appeared in a “T-Pose” position.

Fixed an issue where players were able to use the shopping “Try On” feature with ship components.

Fixed an issue where players could not land at Levski.

Fixed an issue where players would spawn into the EZ Hab bed too far forwards.

Fixed an issue where players would not be able to spawn ships via the ASOP terminals.

Fixed an issue where mission markers would not appear in certain missions.

Fixed an issue where the player could be teleported into space and back again if they ejected while in a planet’s atmosphere.

Fixed an issue where a mission critical item was being spawned in the middle of an asteroid and was impossible to pick up.

Fixed an issue where the Levski elevators didn’t have buttons.

Arena Commander

Fixed an issue where players were unable to start a match due to players not being registered as “ready.”

Fixed an issue where vehicles would not load in a ‘flight ready’ state, which required the player to cycle the flight ready status.

Star Marine

Fixed an issue where some players would spawn in and be invisible.

Fixed an issue where the character would momentarily pose as if holding a weapon after jumping.

Vehicles

Fixed an issue where the player character would see other characters in incorrect positions when they were seated in the back of the Ursa rover.

Fixed an issue where the Rover would not take damage after falling from a great height as long as it landed on its wheels.

Fixed an issue where the landing gear deployment animation of the Aurora would repeat.

Fixed an issue where the Herald didn’t have any shields.

Fixed an issue where the landing gear of the Sabre was missing collision.

Fixed an issue where the Cutlass Black was missing external side doors.

Fixed an inclusion issue that caused the cockpit glass to display as a placeholder texture on the Reliant.

Game Code

Fixed an issue where Mission-related AI ships wouldn’t stop moving after its engines were destroyed.

Fixed an issue where using the ladder from the cargo bay of the Constellation would kill the player.

Fixed an issue where interaction objects were not correctly highlighted.

Fixed an issue where the game would use planetary gravity to orient the player when they’re in a ship.

Fixed an issue where the ESP mode was not functioning.

Fixed an issue where carried items would only be attached to one hand.

Fixed an issue where crossing a physics grid would cause the Armistice Zone status to update.

Audio

Network

Fixed an issue where Eckhart’s voice was too loud.

Fixed an issue where clients received a serialization error after a vehicle is destroyed.

Fixed an issue where there was no ambient noise at the Garage location in Levski.

Fixed a 30033 disconnection.

Fixed an issue where the mini elevator in the Constellation Aquila had no audio.

Fixed an issue where exiting the pilot seat of a ship after using certain nav points would cause the player to be teleported back to their journey origin.

Fixed an overly loud area ambiance that occurred inside a wrecked ship.

Fixed an issue where clients could take an excessively long time to connect.

Fixed an issue where the AI Vanduul ships in Vanduul Swarm would not move.

Fixed an issue where AI would cause an “Unable to Locate Helper” warning spamming the server logs.

Fixed an issue where all NPC’s would be “T-Posed” and stationary.

Misc

Fixed an issue where the particles emitted from the Scourge Railgun were blocky.

Fixed an issue where some clothing items were missing from NPC’s.

Fixed an issue where the character’s arm was being held too high when viewing the mobiGlas while in a pilot seat.

Fixed an issue where the wake up animation was offset when spawning in Grim HEX.

Fixed an issue where the shell effects from gatling guns would become attached to and follow the ship.

User Experience Polish Pass (On-going):

Improvement of Our Overall Framerate

We have decided to spend time increasing performance on the client and server side.

Player Count & General Stability

Currently, performance and stability drop sharply once the active players in a server reach 12-15 players.

Space Landscaping

We are working on some extra Graphics code for the GPU particle system to support the creation of new VFX to implement space dust at points around Stanton. This will continue to be iterated on to create some more elaborate assets.

Basic Ship Security

With the gameplay we’re adding in to 3.0.0, we’re conscious that there may be some other players that would love to kill you and take your ship. To help prevent this, we wanted to implement some basic security that will allow you to lock the ship, so only you have the ability to pass freely through its doors. Part of this work includes adding destruction for external ship doors to allow for the other half: basic breaching / boarding.

Rotating and Orbiting Planets

We are very keen to make the Stanton map feel more organic as a real environment and having the planets rotate and orbit will really help with this.

This will also introduce a proper day/night cycle when you’re on a planet surface which in turn opens up further gameplay possibilities.

Player Interaction System – User Experience Improvements

We want to give players the ability to more intuitively interact with items and objects within the game, but also find ways to indicate to the player what type of interaction they would be performing (pick up, start conversation, push button, etc).

Race Tracks on Planets

To give our planetary environments extra points of interest, and also an excuse to drive ground-based vehicles around at high speed, we thought the best way to do this was to build some rudimentary race tracks on the planets that would have been previously used by the research teams as a way to blow off steam and have fun.

Remaining work required for 3.0.0 Release

The following lists and charts show our progress towards releasing 3.0.0, with all remaining major tasks listed.

Tasks are either feature complete, or have an ETA for completion.

Some tasks may require further QA, bug-fixing and iteration.

Tasks that delay beyond our target dates might cause the release of 3.0.0 to be delayed, or might be excluded from 3.0.0 if appropriate to maintain the release date target.

3.0.0 work is separated into Subsections: Persistent Universe Content, FPS / Space Gameplay, Engineering, UI, AI, Graphics, Backend, Network, and Ships & Weapons.

The 3.0.0 Procedural Planet update marks a major advance in the Star Citizen Persistent Universe.

Planetary Update

Yela

Yela is the most frigid of the Crusader moons. Those bold (or careless) enough to step outside without a spacesuit will be killed instantly by its freezing temperatures. If the cold doesn’t kill you, then any of the treacherous crevasses that crisscross the planet might. Cyrovolcanos have been known to erupt unexpectedly from such crevasses, so be wary when flying at low altitudes. Despite all its danger, there is much beauty to be found on Yela, like the underwater caves hidden beneath the moon’s crust.

Cellin

Burning with volcanic activity, Cellin is the counter to her icy sister. Although the volcanoes have been dormant for hundreds of years, the surface is dotted with thermal geysers that erupt without notice. The largest of such geysers can destroy heavy vehicles. Highly corrosive clouds of gas are regularly released from the moon’s surface, creating low visibility and damaging anything caught outside.

Daymar

Daymar’s surface is like a harmonic blend of Yela and Cellin. It’s mountainous surface is reminiscent of Cellin’s volcanoes, while its craters share a warm likeness to Yela’s frozen crevasses. Known for its dense atmosphere, thick fog and a loose dirt surface makes travel difficult. Lightning storms can help illuminate the fog, just don’t get struck by their flash.

Persistent Universe Content

Moons

We are adding 3 new moons to the Crusader system; Yela, Cellin, and Daymar.

Feature Complete

Surface Outposts

The new moons will also have outposts on their surface to explore.

Feature Complete

Additional Surface Outposts

After a recent Director review of the moons, it was apparent that the moons felt a little unpopulated. To address this, we’ve added additional outposts to the moons to explore.

Surface Outposts Lighting

Feature Complete

Improved Lighting for Fog Tech

We have implemented a new fog system in the game to improve the overall feel in various environments such as ships and shops. In doing this, we need to convert the old fog volumes to this new system and do another sweep through existing lighting to ensure the new fog works with the lights correctly. This work is still being estimated due to cross-discipline dependencies.

ETA is TBD

We have started the task of relighting all the environments and ships to incorporate this new feature. However, due to the volume of work, it is likely to be an ongoing process and extend beyond 3.0.0, so we will relight everything we can up to the live release and then address whatever remains in a future patch.

Mission Givers

We’re introducing Miles Eckhart (first seen in the Gamescom video) and Ruto to provide missions to players.

We’re aiming to complete Ruto’s initial setup in Subsumption today, but there will be further support needed from both Gamecode Engineering and Graphics Engineering after this point.

ETA is 25th August

ETA is 8th September

Basic Derelict Ships

Feature Complete

Inhabited Derelict Ship Sites

Feature Complete

Debris Fields

Feature Complete

Delamar / Levski

We are adding the planet Delamar and the landing zone, Levski

Shop kiosk implementation – Code complete

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

Modular Room System for procedural generation of planetary outposts

Official Outpost Spawning System ready for mission designers

Integrated Outpost distribution to PlanetEd

Single outpost Object Preset

Cluster of Outposts

Crash site mission

Interface to hand place modules and save to Layer

Interface to teleport the camera to the closest outpost

Area boxes created by artists (all room sizes are now usable in the outpost procedural system)

Entrance Room system working (stairs and ramps are now available as initial rooms)

Rooftop Prop system working for Solar panel

Wall prop system working for additional prop variations

Material Wear/Dirt on props using Layer Blend done and actually working

Developed Outpost “feet” system

Set random rotation and offset caps on planet editor

Start documenting 3 possible map layouts looping system (using 2 or 4 meters metrics * system; using connection additional corridor pieces; using spline skinned corridors)

Support Aircon/solar panel system on outposts

Added color tinting to Outposts

Added color tinting interface to Planet Ed

Created material distinction for interior / exteriors

Group elements offset in Planet Object Preset to be able to offset landing pads

Moons

Surface Outposts

Additional Surface Outposts

Surface Outposts Lighting

Basic Derelict Ships

Inhabited Derelict Ship Sites

Debris Fields

Delamar / Levski

New Assets:

Heavy Marine Armor

Explorer Suit Armor

Cloth and Clothing simulation on various assets old and new

Updated helmet interiors and exterior for updated art, FOV tech and standardization

Armor converted to work within modular customization structure

Finalized delivery of ALL facial assets from 3lateral.

Finalized delivery of ALL facial assets from 3Lateral.

Ships:

New Skinning and Rigging tools for landing gear on ships.

Constellation Cargo Bay/Elevator extensions

Light Group entity optimization

Gameplay

Player Manned Turrets

Feature Complete

We are continuing to improve the player experience with turrets by identifying and addressing further items of polish from QA testing and through gameplay reviews with Directors.

Pick Up & Carry

As we’re introducing cargo with 3.0.0, players will be able to manually interact with their cargo to load and unload it properly on their ships.

Feature Complete

Item 2.0 Ship Conversion – Part 1

We are beginning the process of converting our available ships over to the Item 2.0 system. This will allow for greater player control of the ship and also allow for expanded gameplay.

Feature Complete

Item 2.0 Ship Conversion – Part 2

With Part 1 of this feature (the Engineering side) drawing to a close, and appearing to come in as estimated. We have been properly able to schedule out the Tech Design side of this.

Feature Complete. Bug fixing in progress.

Item 2.0

Operator Seats.

Operator seats replace existing vehicle seats as the new controllers of Item 2.0 based ships.

Feature Complete

Radar System

Feature Complete

Light Control System.

Feature Complete

Fuel / Refuel.

Feature Complete

Power Supply / Pipes.

Feature Complete

Quantum Drive.

Feature Complete

Insurance

Code Complete. Now supporting bugfixing.

Stamina

All 3.0.0 tasks complete. This feature will be developed further for future releases.

Doors & Airlocks

We are starting to update the doors and airlocks within the game to be more intelligent. This would mean that the door would ‘know’ if a room beyond them is depressurized and would stay shut for safety.

Feature Complete for 3.0.0. Bugfixing in progress.

Cargo

Code Complete. Now supporting bugfixing.

Commodities

Implementing items to represent units of commodity cargo.

Feature Complete

Kiosk Support

Code Complete. Now supporting bugfixing.

Atmospheric Entry Support

Feature Complete

Persistent Damage, Ammo and Missiles

Persistence ensures that your vehicle state is saved between sessions.

Feature Complete

Repair

Code Complete Bugfixing to follow as needed.

Inventory System Support

Code Complete. Bugfixing to follow as needed.

Rover and Dragonfly in Ships

Code Complete Bugfixing as needed

IFCS Performance Improvements

Changing the IFCS system to work in batch updates for performance improvements

Feature Complete

Hint System

We have decided to include a first iteration of in-game hints to help new players acclimate to the various complex gameplay mechanics in Star Citizen. This is a feature we have worked on in the background and until this week, were unsure if it would be ready in time for 3.0.0. As work on this has progressed better than expected, we have made the decision to include this feature for 3.0.0

Feature Complete for 3.0.0. Implementing, Bugfixing & polish in progress.

Cockpit Experience

The Cockpit Experience sprint team focused on improving the overall player experience in the cockpit by refining the cockpit geo, character placement, g-force/hit reactions, VFX, Audio, UI, as well as code support for things like camera shaking and hooking into ship health systems to display proper damage.

The Cockpit Experience sprint team focused on improving the overall player experience in the cockpit by refining the cockpit geometry, character placement, g-force/hit reactions, VFX, Audio, UI, as well as code support for things like camera shaking and hooking into ship health systems to display proper damage.

ETA is 5th September

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

Crusader Converted to Object Container Setup

With the transition to Object Containers, the Crusader map was completely re-designed. Each Point of Interest is now an object container laid out via the Solar System Editor. This is in preparation for Object Container streaming and seamless transitions from different POI’s and between Star Systems. Mission Flowgraphs are converted over to use Subsumption and the new Mission System.

Mega Map for Persistent Universe

Mega Map tech (also used in Crusader for seamless loading between different gamemodes) is now possible in the new PU map, which is setup in the Solar System Editor. This allows the utilization of Mega Map technology.

Revamp of Power Plants / Shield Generators / Coolers and the Heat & Power System for improved gameplay and conversion to Item 2.0

Player Manned Turrets

Pick Up & Carry

Item 2.0 Ship Conversion

Item 2.0

Operator Seats

Radar System

Light Control System

Fuel / Refuel

Power Supply / Pipes

Quantum Drive

Insurance

Stamina

Doors & Airlocks

Cargo

Commodities

Kiosk Support

Atmospheric Entry Support

Persistent Damage, Ammo, and Missiles

Repair

Inventory System Support

Rover and Dragonfly in Ships

IFCS Performance Improvements

Hint System

Core Tech

Planetary Tech

Feature Complete

Solar System Tool

Feature Complete

Entity Update Component Scheduler

Will allow lower priority entities (i.e. those further away from players) to be updated less frequently, which should improve the overall framerate and allow us to add more content to the universe.

Planned work for 3.0.0 is complete. This feature will extend past 3.0.0 as the work is ongoing, and continual improvements will be made in the run up to 3.0.0 release.

Entity Owner Manager

Code Complete. This now allows the backend team to properly hook into this system.

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

New Radar Databank

Subsumption Base Functionality

This is the initial release of the foundation technology that drives all of the AI, mission, dynamic content, and conversation logic. The mission content previously created with FlowGraph has been replaced and the implementation time to achieve a desired effect has been cut dramatically.

Various Performance improvements

Planetary Physics Grid to support orbiting and rotating planets

Multi-Function Display implementation for Item 2.0 Components on ships

IFCS improvements to support AI & Takeoff System

Unified Visor for seamless Ship 2.0 / FPS transition

HUD/Visor integration for new Radar Databank

Object Distribution

Terrain / Object blending for soft natural transition of objects intersecting with the ground

Video codec updated to Bink2, providing higher fidelity at lower bitrate

Vehicles no longer use Lua

This is a huge step forward on the code side.

Skeleton Extension support for Item Port Offset overrides per item

Numerous types of physics simulation for all Item 2.0 attachments including hair, weapons, grenades and more.

Destructible component for items, props and environment assets

Nested Physics Grids support for vehicle transportation inside large ships, i.e. DragonFly & Rover

Physics simulation gravity vector now respects planetary gravity

Modular loadouts rule sets and support for up to five loadouts

Animation driven facial audio implemented

Updated Spacebox Editor Python integration.

Zone culling on all character assets and layers, system complete and mesh markup complete supplemented with tools to easily support new assets.

Solar System Editor

A tool that will layout entire solar system with their astral objects (sun, planets moons) as well as space stations, etc.

New Light Controller for runtime light switches

New network message queue (current in QATR) to reduce network bandwidth and network thread time.

Light Entity Render node merging.

Dynamic Physics Grid to support sparse space areas vs. dense areas like space stations.

Highly optimized vertex and position format for all geometry

Texture memory usage reduced across the project

Unified material libraries for use across all departments

Comparing and finding all duplicated normal maps and albedo maps in the LayerBlend texture library

Clean up LayerBlend Material Libraries, Resolution Adjustments, Renames to Lower Case

Follow-ups on list of unused textures and materials

Massively improved LOD computation and average face sizes for ships

Shared hair assets (instead of bespoke asset per head) for character creation

Automated facial asset LODs, skinning algorithm per LOD updated.

Reworked mesh setup of facial assets for optimal performance and reduced drawcalls.

Unified helmet and character mesh into singular render proxy for better performance and visuals.

Various portal and culling improvements.

Improved Animation Data Base collection and build process for optimized animation data streaming also added external tools to manage this.

Deprecated thousands of legacy and test assets including animations, geometry, libraries and more for reduced build size.

Automatic Asset Error collection and tracking.

Reworked itemport layout for characters and character items

Updated all assets using HumanSkin to highly optimized HumanSkinv2 shader. This saves upwards of a 100 megs of texture memory per face.

Vastly improved memory allocator which allowed massive reduction in runtime allocation count

Several significant optimizations to entity update code

Planetary Tech

Solar System Tool

Entity Update Component Scheduler

Entity Owner Manager

Character Customization

Players will now be able to customize their characters’ heads, hair, eye color, and skin color.

This feature has been impacted due to the team helping support other bugfixing needs.

ETA is TBD

Vehicle Customizer App

This app will allow players to customize their ship via the ship customization screen, so edits can be done without locating the exact port on the ship.

During recent gameplay reviews with the directors, additional items of polish and general feature feedback has been received and incorporated into the schedule to achieve the desire

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3.0 Production Schedule Report
Our schedule for the next Star Citizen Alpha releases, up to date.
Welcome!

Below you will find the latest roadmap for the development of the Star Citizen Persistent Universe. While the bulk of this schedule outlines our tasks and estimates that you can expect to find in the upcoming 3.0.0 patch (as well as some of the tasks that we’ve already completed), we are also including projections for the remainder of the year so you can have some visibility into the upcoming Persistent Universe features and content. These are the very same schedules we update daily and circulate internally on our intra-studio hand-offs with a few exceptions: the individual developer names assigned to the tasks will be omitted (for obvious reasons), we’ll remove the JIRA details, and we’ll modify the technical wording to make it readable for a wider audience.

Also note, this schedule does not represent everything CIG is working on, but more the functionality and content we feel comfortable committing to at this time. Outside of the work on Squadron 42, we have a few research projects that, once validated, we would move into production and add to this schedule. Otherwise, when something changes, slips or is completed, you will know.

What you are seeing here is the result of our scheduling and planning process. We have a high level feature and content set that we want to achieve for Star Citizen and Squadron 42. The first step is to break these features into higher level tasks with which we populate Microsoft Project, JIRA and Shotgun (the three tools we use for project scheduling and tasking). Then, as we approach a task, Production works with the relevant developer(s) to make sure the task is broken up with enough detail to allow completion. Sometimes this means adjusting the initial task estimate, as things tend to come into a clearer focus when coming up on a task, but it almost always means breaking down the big task into a bunch of smaller tasks that have their own individual sub tasks that possibly are distributed to multiple developers.

Both tasks and sub-tasks get created in JIRA, linked under an Epic (which is a high level task or feature) and are then pulled into Microsoft Project to manage with granular detail providing us global visibility through Gantt charts and visual timelines. No developer works on a task unless it has been created in JIRA, prioritized and assigned by a lead or a member of the Production Team.

Then as the developers work on the tasks, Production will adjust the schedule and JIRA tickets to reflect the work being done.

In the schedule below, you will first find a master schedule that covers the broad departments/disciplines that are being developed. Each department will then have its own dedicated sub-schedule, briefly explaining the various features that are being developed and their current status.
CAVEATS

But also, we would like to establish some ground rules before proceeding:

I.Quality will always be our number one goal. We set out on this journey by looking at the gaming landscape and asking: can we do better? We continue to ask that question about everything we do. As a result, we will ALWAYS extend timelines or re-do features and content if we do not feel they are up to our standards. The freedom to fight for a new level of quality in game development is what crowd funding has allowed us, and we will continue to fight to make sure Star Citizen is the best possible game it can be.

II.The estimates we provide are just that: estimates. They are based on our knowledge and experience, but there are many aspects of game development that are impossible to predict because they literally cover uncharted territory. You will see the same estimates we use in our internal planning, but it is important to understand that in many cases (especially with groundbreaking engineering tasks) these estimates are often subject to change due to unforeseen complexity in implementing features.

III.The time expected for bug fixing and polishing is also very hard to estimate, increasingly so in online and multiplayer situations. The complexity and the difficulty in testing at a large scale make it harder to reproduce and isolate bugs in order to fix them. We base our estimates, again, on our experience, but we also know that it’s possible for a single bug to cause a delay of days or weeks when a hundred others might be fixed instantly.

IV.Internal schedules, the ones you will now be privy to, tend to have aggressive dates to help the team focus and scope their tasks, especially in the case of tech development. Every team, even a team blessed with the kind of support and freedom you have allowed us, needs target dates in order to focus and deliver their work.

V.This schedule doesn’t cover everything being worked on across Cloud Imperium Games, but is meant to highlight our aims for the remainder of the year on the Persistent Universe.

VI.This schedule doesn’t include every audio, vfx, tech art, etc. task. Those are detailed in our departmental sub-schedules.

VII.Although technology is shared between the two games, this does not reflect the Squadron 42 schedule. That will be released at a future date.

VIII.These aim dates are determined based on our current staff. Additional hiring will potentially allow us to bring in some dates below.
WELCOME TO THE PROCESS

The community has always been integral to Star Citizen, so we will be updating this page weekly to keep you informed about our development. We hope that this page will not only help explain our latest status, but also provide some explanations in the event that updates are delayed.

Last update : Aug 18th, 2017

3.0.0 Overview
Bug Progress

This week, we have been busy at Gamescom in Cologne, showing one of the moons from 3.0 on the show floor to our fans and the press. The feedback has been great, as attendees have gotten their first chance to try out our planetary tech, which everyone will soon be playing once we release to Evocati , PTU and ultimately our public servers. In the meantime, our development teams have been back at home focusing on making that happen soon! Their focus has been to lower the ‘must-fix’ issues for 3.0 and this week they’ve been successful, lowering the total number of those issues from 77 to 67. That’s good news as we move ever closer to rolling out Alpha 3.0 to everyone.
Remaining Must Fix Issues For Evocati:

What you see below is a numerical representation of issues the team are focusing on to close-out (Burndown) to get to an Evocati release candidate, so you can see the progress of work we’re doing on a week-by-week basis.
Bugs fixed in the last week

(Please note: This is an overview of fixes made this week and not a complete list.)
Crashes

    Fixed a crash in CEffect_Particle::LoadEffectData
    Fixed a crash in CZone::RemoveObject
    Fixed a crash in CTX::TaskDomain::RemoveRunnable
    Fixed a crash in CSCActorResultStateLadder::Exit
    Fixed a crash in CFrontendController::RequestOpenFE

UI

    Fixed an issue where setting the throttle power to 0 did not have an effect on the power to other systems.
    Fixed an issue where there was no representation of the ship’s Hydrogen fuel level.
    Fixed an issue where opening the Starmap via mobiGlas would cause mobiGlas to close

Quantum Travel

    Fixed an issue where exiting the pilot seat after quantum travelling caused the player to teleport back to their starting point.
    Fixed an issue where players would exit Quantum Travel, but not be facing their destination.

Stanton

    Fixed an issue where players would spawn at Levski upon loading Star Marine.
    Fixed an issue where some cargo crates on the surface of Daymar appeared as semi-transparent.
    Fixed an issue where shopkeeper animations did not match up with their props/surroundings.
    Fixed an issue where the shop counters were missing in Casaba and Live Fire.
    Fixed an issue where players were able to use the shopping “Try On” feature with ship components.
    Fixed an issue where players would spawn into the EZ Hab bed too far forwards.

Arena Commander

    Fixed an issue where players were unable to start a match due to players not being registered as “ready.”

Star Marine

    Fixed an issue where some players would spawn in and be invisible.
    Fixed an issue where the character would momentarily pose as if holding a weapon after jumping.

Vehicles

    Fixed an issue where the player character would see other characters in incorrect positions when they were seated in the back of the Ursa rover.
    Fixed an issue where the landing gear deployment animation of the Aurora would repeat.
    Fixed an issue where the landing gear of the Sabre was missing collision.

Game Code

    Fixed an issue where Mission-related AI ships wouldn’t stop moving after its engines were destroyed.
    Fixed an issue where interaction objects were not correctly highlighted.
    Fixed an issue where the ESP mode was not functioning.

Audio

    Fixed an issue where Eckhart’s voice was too loud.
    Fixed an issue where there was no ambient noise at the Garage location in Levski.
    Fixed an issue where the mini elevator in the Constellation Aquila had no audio.
    Fixed an overly loud area ambiance that occurred inside a wrecked ship.

Misc

    Fixed an issue where the particles emitted from the Scourge Railgun were blocky.
    Fixed an issue where the character’s arm was being held too high when viewing the mobiGlas while in a pilot seat.
    Fixed an issue where the shell effects from gatling guns would become attached to and follow the ship.

User Experience Polish Pass (On-going):
Improvement of Our Overall Framerate

    We have decided to spend time increasing performance on the client and server side.

Player Count & General Stability

    Currently, performance and stability drop sharply once the active players in a server reach 12-15 players.

Space Landscaping

    We are working on some extra Graphics code for the GPU particle system to support the creation of new VFX to implement space dust at points around Stanton. This will continue to be iterated on to create some more elaborate assets.

Basic Ship Security

    With the gameplay we’re adding in to 3.0.0, we’re conscious that there may be some other players that would love to kill you and take your ship. To help prevent this, we wanted to implement some basic security that will allow you to lock the ship, so only you have the ability to pass freely through its doors. Part of this work includes adding destruction for external ship doors to allow for the other half: basic breaching / boarding.

Rotating and Orbiting Planets

    We are very keen to make the Stanton map feel more organic as a real environment and having the planets rotate and orbit will really help with this.
    This will also introduce a proper day/night cycle when you’re on a planet surface which in turn opens up further gameplay possibilities.

Player Interaction System – User Experience Improvements

    We want to give players the ability to more intuitively interact with items and objects within the game, but also find ways to indicate to the player what type of interaction they would be performing (pick up, start conversation, push button, etc).

Race Tracks on Planets

    To give our planetary environments extra points of interest, and also an excuse to drive ground-based vehicles around at high speed, we thought the best way to do this was to build some rudimentary race tracks on the planets that would have been previously used by the research teams as a way to blow off steam and have fun.

Remaining work required for 3.0.0 Release

The following lists and charts show our progress towards releasing 3.0.0, with all remaining major tasks listed.

Tasks are either feature complete, or have an ETA for completion.

Some tasks may require further QA, bug-fixing and iteration.

Tasks that delay beyond our target dates might cause the release of 3.0.0 to be delayed, or might be excluded from 3.0.0 if appropriate to maintain the release date target.

3.0.0 work is separated into Subsections: Persistent Universe Content, FPS / Space Gameplay, Engineering, UI, AI, Graphics, Backend, Network, and Ships & Weapons.

The 3.0.0 Procedural Planet update marks a major advance in the Star Citizen Persistent Universe.


Planetary Update

Yela

Yela is the most frigid of the Crusader moons. Those bold (or careless) enough to step outside without a spacesuit will be killed instantly by its freezing temperatures. If the cold doesn’t kill you, then any of the treacherous crevasses that crisscross the planet might. Cyrovolcanos have been known to erupt unexpectedly from such crevasses, so be wary when flying at low altitudes. Despite all its danger, there is much beauty to be found on Yela, like the underwater caves hidden beneath the moon’s crust.

Cellin



Burning with volcanic activity, Cellin is the counter to her icy sister. Although the volcanoes have been dormant for hundreds of years, the surface is dotted with thermal geysers that erupt without notice. The largest of such geysers can destroy heavy vehicles. Highly corrosive clouds of gas are regularly released from the moon’s surface, creating low visibility and damaging anything caught outside.

Daymar

Daymar’s surface is like a harmonic blend of Yela and Cellin. It’s mountainous surface is reminiscent of Cellin’s volcanoes, while its craters share a warm likeness to Yela’s frozen crevasses. Known for its dense atmosphere, thick fog and a loose dirt surface makes travel difficult. Lightning storms can help illuminate the fog, just don’t get struck by their flash.

Persistent Universe Content

Moons

    We are adding 3 new moons to the Crusader system; Yela, Cellin, and Daymar.
    Feature Complete

Surface Outposts

    The new moons will also have outposts on their surface to explore.
    Feature Complete

Additional Surface Outposts

    After a recent Director review of the moons, it was apparent that the moons felt a little unpopulated. To address this, we’ve added additional outposts to the moons to explore.

Surface Outposts Lighting

    Feature Complete

Improved Lighting for Fog Tech

    We have implemented a new fog system in the game to improve the overall feel in various environments such as ships and shops. In doing this, we need to convert the old fog volumes to this new system and do another sweep through existing lighting to ensure the new fog works with the lights correctly. This work is still being estimated due to cross-discipline dependencies.
    ETA is TBD

Mission Givers

    We’re introducing Miles Eckhart (first seen in the Gamescom video) and Ruto to provide missions to players.
    We’re aiming to complete Ruto’s initial setup in Subsumption today, but there will be further support needed from both Gamecode Engineering and Graphics Engineering after this point.
    ETA is 25th August

Basic Derelict Ships

    Feature Complete

Inhabited Derelict Ship Sites

    Feature Complete

Debris Fields

    Feature Complete

Delamar / Levski

    We are adding the planet Delamar and the landing zone, Levski
    Shop kiosk implementation – Code complete

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    Modular Room System for procedural generation of planetary outposts
        Official Outpost Spawning System ready for mission designers
        Integrated Outpost distribution to PlanetEd
        Single outpost Object Preset
        Cluster of Outposts
        Crash site mission
        Interface to hand place modules and save to Layer
        Interface to teleport the camera to the closest outpost
        Area boxes created by artists (all room sizes are now usable in the outpost procedural system)
        Entrance Room system working (stairs and ramps are now available as initial rooms)
        Rooftop Prop system working for Solar panel
        Wall prop system working for additional prop variations
        Material Wear/Dirt on props using Layer Blend done and actually working
        Developed Outpost “feet” system
        Set random rotation and offset caps on planet editor
        Start documenting 3 possible map layouts looping system (using 2 or 4 meters metrics * system; using connection additional corridor pieces; using spline skinned corridors)
        Support Aircon/solar panel system on outposts
        Added color tinting to Outposts
        Added color tinting interface to Planet Ed
        Created material distinction for interior / exteriors
        Group elements offset in Planet Object Preset to be able to offset landing pads
    New Assets:
        Heavy Marine Armor
        Explorer Suit Armor
        Cloth and Clothing simulation on various assets old and new
        Updated helmet interiors and exterior for updated art, FOV tech and standardization
        Armor converted to work within modular customization structure
        Finalized delivery of ALL facial assets from 3lateral.
    Ships:
        New Skinning and Rigging tools for landing gear on ships.
        Constellation Cargo Bay/Elevator extensions
        Light Group entity optimization

Gameplay

Player Manned Turrets

    Feature Complete
    We are continuing to improve the player experience with turrets by identifying and addressing further items of polish from QA testing and through gameplay reviews with Directors.

Pick Up & Carry

    As we’re introducing cargo with 3.0.0, players will be able to manually interact with their cargo to load and unload it properly on their ships.
    Feature Complete

Item 2.0 Ship Conversion – Part 1

    We are beginning the process of converting our available ships over to the Item 2.0 system. This will allow for greater player control of the ship and also allow for expanded gameplay.
    Feature Complete

Item 2.0 Ship Conversion – Part 2

    With Part 1 of this feature (the Engineering side) drawing to a close, and appearing to come in as estimated. We have been properly able to schedule out the Tech Design side of this.
    Feature Complete. Bug fixing in progress.

Item 2.0

    Operator Seats.
        Operator seats replace existing vehicle seats as the new controllers of Item 2.0 based ships.
        Feature Complete
    Radar System
        Feature Complete
    Light Control System.
        Feature Complete
    Fuel / Refuel.
        Feature Complete
    Power Supply / Pipes.
        Feature Complete
    Quantum Drive.
        Feature Complete

Insurance

    Code Complete. Now supporting bugfixing.

Stamina

    All 3.0.0 tasks complete. This feature will be developed further for future releases.

Doors & Airlocks

    We are starting to update the doors and airlocks within the game to be more intelligent. This would mean that the door would ‘know’ if a room beyond them is depressurized and would stay shut for safety.
    Feature Complete for 3.0.0. Bugfixing in progress.

Cargo

    Code Complete. Now supporting bugfixing.

Commodities

    Implementing items to represent units of commodity cargo.
    Feature Complete

Kiosk Support

    Code Complete. Now supporting bugfixing.

Atmospheric Entry Support

    Feature Complete

Persistent Damage, Ammo and Missiles

    Persistence ensures that your vehicle state is saved between sessions.
    Feature Complete

Repair

    Code Complete Bugfixing to follow as needed.

Inventory System Support

    Code Complete. Bugfixing to follow as needed.

Rover and Dragonfly in Ships

    Code Complete Bugfixing as needed

IFCS Performance Improvements

    Changing the IFCS system to work in batch updates for performance improvements
    Feature Complete

Hint System

    We have decided to include a first iteration of in-game hints to help new players acclimate to the various complex gameplay mechanics in Star Citizen. This is a feature we have worked on in the background and until this week, were unsure if it would be ready in time for 3.0.0. As work on this has progressed better than expected, we have made the decision to include this feature for 3.0.0
    Feature Complete for 3.0.0. Implementing, Bugfixing & polish in progress.

Cockpit Experience

    The Cockpit Experience sprint team focused on improving the overall player experience in the cockpit by refining the cockpit geo, character placement, g-force/hit reactions, VFX, Audio, UI, as well as code support for things like camera shaking and hooking into ship health systems to display proper damage.
    ETA is 5th September

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    Crusader Converted to Object Container Setup
        With the transition to Object Containers, the Crusader map was completely re-designed. Each Point of Interest is now an object container laid out via the Solar System Editor. This is in preparation for Object Container streaming and seamless transitions from different POI’s and between Star Systems. Mission Flowgraphs are converted over to use Subsumption and the new Mission System.
    Mega Map for Persistent Universe
        Mega Map tech (also used in Crusader for seamless loading between different gamemodes) is now possible in the new PU map, which is setup in the Solar System Editor. This allows the utilization of Mega Map technology.
    Revamp of Power Plants / Shield Generators / Coolers and the Heat & Power System for improved gameplay and conversion to Item 2.0

Core Tech

Planetary Tech

    Feature Complete

Solar System Tool

    Feature Complete

Entity Update Component Scheduler

    Will allow lower priority entities (i.e. those further away from players) to be updated less frequently, which should improve the overall framerate and allow us to add more content to the universe.
    Planned work for 3.0.0 is complete. This feature will extend past 3.0.0 as the work is ongoing, and continual improvements will be made in the run up to 3.0.0 release.

Entity Owner Manager

    Code Complete. This now allows the backend team to properly hook into this system.

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    New Radar Databank
    Subsumption Base Functionality
        This is the initial release of the foundation technology that drives all of the AI, mission, dynamic content, and conversation logic. The mission content previously created with FlowGraph has been replaced and the implementation time to achieve a desired effect has been cut dramatically.
    Various Performance improvements
    Planetary Physics Grid to support orbiting and rotating planets
    Multi-Function Display implementation for Item 2.0 Components on ships
    IFCS improvements to support AI & Takeoff System
    Unified Visor for seamless Ship 2.0 / FPS transition
    HUD/Visor integration for new Radar Databank
    Object Distribution
    Terrain / Object blending for soft natural transition of objects intersecting with the ground
    Video codec updated to Bink2, providing higher fidelity at lower bitrate
    Vehicles no longer use Lua
        This is a huge step forward on the code side.
    Skeleton Extension support for Item Port Offset overrides per item
    Numerous types of physics simulation for all Item 2.0 attachments including hair, weapons, grenades and more.
    Destructible component for items, props and environment assets
    Nested Physics Grids support for vehicle transportation inside large ships, i.e. DragonFly & Rover
    Physics simulation gravity vector now respects planetary gravity
    Modular loadouts rule sets and support for up to five loadouts
    Animation driven facial audio implemented
    Updated Spacebox Editor Python integration.
    Zone culling on all character assets and layers, system complete and mesh markup complete supplemented with tools to easily support new assets.
    Solar System Editor
        A tool that will layout entire solar system with their astral objects (sun, planets moons) as well as space stations, etc.
    New Light Controller for runtime light switches
    New network message queue (current in QATR) to reduce network bandwidth and network thread time.
    Light Entity Render node merging.
    Dynamic Physics Grid to support sparse space areas vs. dense areas like space stations.
    Highly optimized vertex and position format for all geometry
    Texture memory usage reduced across the project
    Unified material libraries for use across all departments
        Comparing and finding all duplicated normal maps and albedo maps in the LayerBlend texture library
        Clean up LayerBlend Material Libraries, Resolution Adjustments, Renames to Lower Case
        Follow-ups on list of unused textures and materials
    Massively improved LOD computation and average face sizes for ships
    Shared hair assets (instead of bespoke asset per head) for character creation
    Automated facial asset LODs, skinning algorithm per LOD updated.
    Reworked mesh setup of facial assets for optimal performance and reduced drawcalls.
    Unified helmet and character mesh into singular render proxy for better performance and visuals.
    Various portal and culling improvements.
    Improved Animation Data Base collection and build process for optimized animation data streaming also added external tools to manage this.
    Deprecated thousands of legacy and test assets including animations, geometry, libraries and more for reduced build size.
    Automatic Asset Error collection and tracking.
    Reworked itemport layout for characters and character items
    Updated all assets using HumanSkin to highly optimized HumanSkinv2 shader. This saves upwards of a 100 megs of texture memory per face.
    Vastly improved memory allocator which allowed massive reduction in runtime allocation count
    Several significant optimizations to entity update code

UI

Kiosk UI

    Feature Complete

Item 2.0 Multi Function Displays

    Base Feature Complete
    Bugfixing and further polish is ongoing.

Field of View Slider

    Feature Complete

Character Customization

    Players will now be able to customize their characters’ heads, hair, eye color, and skin color.
    This feature has been impacted due to the team helping support other bugfixing needs.
    ETA is TBD

Personal Manager App

    This App will allow players to review their inventory and customize various aspects of their suit and weapons.
    Feature Complete Bug Fixing in progress.

Mission Manager App

    Feature Complete. Bug fixing in progress

Cargo Manifest App

    Code Complete. Bug fixing to follow.

Vehicle Customizer App

    This app will allow players to customize their ship via the ship customization screen, so edits can be done without locating the exact port on the ship.
    During recent gameplay reviews with the directors, additional items of polish and general feature feedback has been received and incorporated into the schedule to achieve the desired level of polish we require before releasing.
    ETA is 4th September

Ship Selector App & Insurance Claim

    This app would exist alongside the Ship Selection Terminals in the Persistent Universe, allowing players more freedom to spawn ships at designated locations.
    During recent gameplay reviews with the directors, additional items of polish and general feature feedback has been received and incorporated into the schedule to achieve the desired level of polish we require before releasing.
    ETA is 29th August

Heavy Armour for Star Marine

    Heavy armor will be enabled for selection within the Star Marine loadout customization menu.
    Feature Complete

Inventory System

    Code Complete. Bug fixing to follow.

Mission Board App

    Feature Complete. Bug fixing in progress.

StarMap App

    Feature Complete

UI Owner Component

    Feature Complete

mobiGlas Overhaul

    Feature Complete
    Bugfixing and further polish will continue throughout the remaining time of 3.0.0. Further improvements and iterations may be required for future releases.

Comms System UI

    We are adding the initial implementation of the Comms System in to 3.0.0 which will allow players to hail in order to request landing while at the various space stations in the PU.
    During recent gameplay reviews with the directors, additional items of polish and general feature feedback has been received and incorporated into the schedule to achieve the desired level of polish we require before releasing.
    ETA is 6th September

AI

Mission System

    The overall system that will be used to create mission flows when we start building missions like Patrol, Assassination, Smuggling, etc.
    Continuing to fix and polish bugs, but we are also working to implement an extra few missions that we did not previously think we could accomplish for 3.0.0.
    ETA is 1st September

AI Turrets

    Feature Complete
    We are continuing to improve the functionality of AI turrets by identifying and addressing further items of polish from QA testing and through gameplay reviews with Directors.

Graphics

Render to Texture

    Code Complete. Bugfixing will follow based on any issues found after the UI team has made progress implementing the RTT work.

Environment Probe

    This allows for bounced lighting and reflections to be updated dynamically and will result in better lighting visuals.
    This has been quite an in-depth task for the Graphics team whose work revealed a variety of unknown issues causing a delay.
    Feature Complete

Atmospheric Entry

    Feature Complete

Volumetric Fog

    Feature Complete

GPU Particle Foundation

    Feature Complete

Engine Trails & Contrails

    Feature Complete

Asteroid Physics

    Feature Complete

Exposure Improvements

    Feature Complete

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    RenderTarget refactor
        This saves over 50% of the video memory previously used for dynamic textures.
    Physically-based area lights
    Shadow map caching system
        This allows for many more shadow casting lights at once and avoids the need for baking shadows.
    Revamped decal rendering system which renders fully deferred, instanced decals with aggressive overdraw optimizations

Backend

Diffusion Subset for 3.0.0

    Diffusion is our second-generation cloud-oriented back-end service architecture. It dramatically simplifies the effort required to implement, maintain, and interact with services, while simultaneously providing major enhancements in the areas of scalability and redundancy.
    Feature Complete

Solar System Shop Service

    Feature Complete

Solar System Mission Service V1 “Mission Broker”

    Feature Complete

Network

New Message Queue

    Feature Complete

Physics Serialization

    Code Complete. Bug fixing in progress.

Persistent Data Refactor

    Code Complete for 3.0.0

Ships & Weapons

Drake Dragonfly

    Feature Complete. Some code bugs remain

Drake Cutlass Black

    Feature Complete

RSI Constellation Aquila

    Feature Complete. Some code bugs remain

RSI Ursa Rover

    Feature Complete

MISC Prospector

    Feature Complete. Some code bugs remain.

RSI Aurora

    This is an updated version of the Aurora. We previously didn’t think that we would have the time to complete this rework for 3.0.0, however, with the movement of our release dates we are now able to include this rework with 3.0.0.
    Feature complete Bugfixing and polish remain

Behring P8-SC

    Feature Complete

Apocalypse Arms Scourge Rail Gun

    A shoulder mounted railgun capable of providing high levels of damage at a long range.
    Feature Complete. Some minor polish remains

Klaus and Werner Gallant Rifle

    Feature Complete

Arrowhead Sniper Rifle

    Rework of the legacy weapon.
    Feature Complete Some minor polish remains.

KSAR Devastator-12 Shotgun

    Rework of the legacy weapon.
    Feature Complete Some minor polish remains.

Klaus and Werner Arclight Pistol

    Rework of the legacy weapon.
    With the moving of our release date, this weapon rework has been signed off to be included for the 3.0.0 release.
    Feature Complete

Gemini L86 Pistol

    Rework of the legacy weapon.
    Feature Complete. Some minor polish remains.

Behring P4-AR

    Rework of the legacy weapon.
    Feature Complete

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3.0 Production Schedule Report
Our schedule for the next Star Citizen Alpha releases, up to date.
Welcome!

Below you will find the latest roadmap for the development of the Star Citizen Persistent Universe. While the bulk of this schedule outlines our tasks and estimates that you can expect to find in the upcoming 3.0.0 patch (as well as some of the tasks that we’ve already completed), we are also including projections for the remainder of the year so you can have some visibility into the upcoming Persistent Universe features and content. These are the very same schedules we update daily and circulate internally on our intra-studio hand-offs with a few exceptions: the individual developer names assigned to the tasks will be omitted (for obvious reasons), we’ll remove the JIRA details, and we’ll modify the technical wording to make it readable for a wider audience.

Also note, this schedule does not represent everything CIG is working on, but more the functionality and content we feel comfortable committing to at this time. Outside of the work on Squadron 42, we have a few research projects that, once validated, we would move into production and add to this schedule. Otherwise, when something changes, slips or is completed, you will know.

What you are seeing here is the result of our scheduling and planning process. We have a high level feature and content set that we want to achieve for Star Citizen and Squadron 42. The first step is to break these features into higher level tasks with which we populate Microsoft Project, JIRA and Shotgun (the three tools we use for project scheduling and tasking). Then, as we approach a task, Production works with the relevant developer(s) to make sure the task is broken up with enough detail to allow completion. Sometimes this means adjusting the initial task estimate, as things tend to come into a clearer focus when coming up on a task, but it almost always means breaking down the big task into a bunch of smaller tasks that have their own individual sub tasks that possibly are distributed to multiple developers.

Both tasks and sub-tasks get created in JIRA, linked under an Epic (which is a high level task or feature) and are then pulled into Microsoft Project to manage with granular detail providing us global visibility through Gantt charts and visual timelines. No developer works on a task unless it has been created in JIRA, prioritized and assigned by a lead or a member of the Production Team.

Then as the developers work on the tasks, Production will adjust the schedule and JIRA tickets to reflect the work being done.

In the schedule below, you will first find a master schedule that covers the broad departments/disciplines that are being developed. Each department will then have its own dedicated sub-schedule, briefly explaining the various features that are being developed and their current status.
CAVEATS

But also, we would like to establish some ground rules before proceeding:

I.Quality will always be our number one goal. We set out on this journey by looking at the gaming landscape and asking: can we do better? We continue to ask that question about everything we do. As a result, we will ALWAYS extend timelines or re-do features and content if we do not feel they are up to our standards. The freedom to fight for a new level of quality in game development is what crowd funding has allowed us, and we will continue to fight to make sure Star Citizen is the best possible game it can be.

II.The estimates we provide are just that: estimates. They are based on our knowledge and experience, but there are many aspects of game development that are impossible to predict because they literally cover uncharted territory. You will see the same estimates we use in our internal planning, but it is important to understand that in many cases (especially with groundbreaking engineering tasks) these estimates are often subject to change due to unforeseen complexity in implementing features.

III.The time expected for bug fixing and polishing is also very hard to estimate, increasingly so in online and multiplayer situations. The complexity and the difficulty in testing at a large scale make it harder to reproduce and isolate bugs in order to fix them. We base our estimates, again, on our experience, but we also know that it’s possible for a single bug to cause a delay of days or weeks when a hundred others might be fixed instantly.

IV.Internal schedules, the ones you will now be privy to, tend to have aggressive dates to help the team focus and scope their tasks, especially in the case of tech development. Every team, even a team blessed with the kind of support and freedom you have allowed us, needs target dates in order to focus and deliver their work.

V.This schedule doesn’t cover everything being worked on across Cloud Imperium Games, but is meant to highlight our aims for the remainder of the year on the Persistent Universe.

VI.This schedule doesn’t include every audio, vfx, tech art, etc. task. Those are detailed in our departmental sub-schedules.

VII.Although technology is shared between the two games, this does not reflect the Squadron 42 schedule. That will be released at a future date.

VIII.These aim dates are determined based on our current staff. Additional hiring will potentially allow us to bring in some dates below.
WELCOME TO THE PROCESS

The community has always been integral to Star Citizen, so we will be updating this page weekly to keep you informed about our development. We hope that this page will not only help explain our latest status, but also provide some explanations in the event that updates are delayed.

Last update : Sep 1st, 2017

3.0.0 Overview
Bug Progress

Our Gamescom team is back from a successful showing of Star Citizen in Cologne. Thousands of people got to experience one of the moons of Alpha 3.0 firsthand in our show floor booth and many also got a chance to see more at the Gloria Theater in downtown Cologne Friday night. Essentially those attendees at the show were our first external “testers” for 3.0 and while they were busy having fun flying and adventuring around the new areas of Star Citizen, they also helped us identify more bugs in the game as we continue efforts to bring 3.0 to its live launch. As a result of all the “play testing” at Gamescom, our bug count has taken an upward swing this week as more issues were discovered during the demos in our booth. Last week the must-fix issues totaled 68 and this week saw a jump up to 94. While that seems like a large increase, it is very much a part of the burn-down process in game development. Also these bugs were discovered much quicker due to the sheer numbers of players who came through our booth (2,000 +). The process also showed us that the build isn’t quite ready for a wider test, just yet. Since Gamescom, the SC team has been hard at work to bring those numbers to a level where we can “go wider” with the Evocati, the PTU and the entire player base.

One other news of note. This week, we’ll be pulling down the various project timelines on our weekly dev schedule as our bug burn down numbers become even more critical to our launch and are much more of a driving force in our ultimate goal: getting 3.0 in your hands.
Remaining Must Fix Issues For Evocati:

What you see below is a numerical representation of issues the team are focusing on to close-out (Burndown) to get to an Evocati release candidate, so you can see the progress of work we’re doing on a week-by-week basis.
Bugs fixed in the last week

(Please note: This is an overview of fixes made this week and not a complete list.)
Crashes

    Fixed a crash in CDeviceBufferManager::Destroy
    Fixed a crash in CSkyLineComponent::InitializeStarMap
    Fixed a crash in CrashHandler: CSCItemQuantumDrive::PrepForJump
    Fixed a crash in CInteractionPoint::GetLocalBounds
    Fixed a crash in CNetwork::SyncWithGame
    Fixed a crash in CRenderMesh::~CRenderMesh
    Fixed a crash in CSkyLineComponent_WD::Enter
    Fixed a crash in CZoneSystem::MoveToZoneData_Impl
    Fixed a crash in CZone::UpdateObjectsBBox_ZonePartition
    Fixed a crash in CXConsole::RegisterString
    Fixed a crash in CrySystem.dll!JobManager::CJobManager::WaitOnSemaphore
    Fixed a crash in QSortFilterProxyModel::parent
    Fixed a crash in GASMathCtorFunction::Pow
    Fixed a crash in CThrusterManager::clampToGrid
    Fixed a crash in CPlayer::ShouldFilterOutHit
    Fixed a crash in CFrontendController::SetCameraMode

UI

    Fixed an issue where closing the StarMap would cause the game to close.
    Fixed an issue where the button to confirm your Quantum Travel destination didn’t appear in the StarMap.
    Fixed an issue where the player could not open the StarMap if the ship was in motion.
    Fixed an issue where the targeting markers would not always show the focused target.

Stanton

    Fixed an issue where the delivery mission types would display a “No Mission Entry is Active” message.
    Fixed an issue where elevators in the hangar at Levski would not respond.
    Fixed an issue where AI ships had non-functioning weapons.
    Fixed an issue where dead bodies appeared in a “T-Pose” position.
    Fixed an issue where players could not land at Levski.
    Fixed an issue where players would not be able to spawn ships via the ASOP terminals.
    Fixed an issue where mission markers would not appear in certain missions.
    Fixed an issue where the player could be teleported into space and back again if they ejected while in a planet’s atmosphere.
    Fixed an issue where a mission critical item was being spawned in the middle of an asteroid and was impossible to pick up.
    Fixed an issue where the Levski elevators didn’t have buttons.

Arena Commander

    Fixed an issue where vehicles would not load in a ‘flight ready’ state, which required the player to cycle the flight ready status.

Vehicles

    Fixed an issue where the Rover would not take damage after falling from a great height as long as it landed on its wheels.
    Fixed an issue where the Herald didn’t have any shields.
    Fixed an issue where the Cutlass Black was missing external side doors.
    Fixed an inclusion issue that caused the cockpit glass to display as a placeholder texture on the Reliant.

Game Code

    Fixed an issue where using the ladder from the cargo bay of the Constellation would kill the player.
    Fixed an issue where the game would use planetary gravity to orient the player when they’re in a ship.
    Fixed an issue where carried items would only be attached to one hand.
    Fixed an issue where crossing a physics grid would cause the Armistice Zone status to update.

Network

    Fixed an issue where clients received a serialization error after a vehicle is destroyed.
    Fixed a 30033 disconnection.
    Fixed an issue where exiting the pilot seat of a ship after using certain nav points would cause the player to be teleported back to their journey origin.
    Fixed an issue where clients could take an excessively long time to connect.

AI

    Fixed an issue where the AI Vanduul ships in Vanduul Swarm would not move.
    Fixed an issue where AI would cause an “Unable to Locate Helper” warning spamming the server logs.
    Fixed an issue where all NPC’s would be “T-Posed” and stationary.

Misc

    Fixed an issue where some clothing items were missing from NPC’s.
    Fixed an issue where the wake up animation was offset when spawning in Grim HEX.

User Experience Polish Pass (On-going):
Improvement of Our Overall Framerate

    We have decided to spend time increasing performance on the client and server side.

Player Count & General Stability

    Currently, performance and stability drop sharply once the active players in a server reach 12-15 players.

Space Landscaping

    We are working on some extra Graphics code for the GPU particle system to support the creation of new VFX to implement space dust at points around Stanton. This will continue to be iterated on to create some more elaborate assets.

Basic Ship Security

    With the gameplay we’re adding in to 3.0.0, we’re conscious that there may be some other players that would love to kill you and take your ship. To help prevent this, we wanted to implement some basic security that will allow you to lock the ship, so only you have the ability to pass freely through its doors. Part of this work includes adding destruction for external ship doors to allow for the other half: basic breaching / boarding.

Rotating and Orbiting Planets

    We are very keen to make the Stanton map feel more organic as a real environment and having the planets rotate and orbit will really help with this.
    This will also introduce a proper day/night cycle when you’re on a planet surface which in turn opens up further gameplay possibilities.

Player Interaction System – User Experience Improvements

    We want to give players the ability to more intuitively interact with items and objects within the game, but also find ways to indicate to the player what type of interaction they would be performing (pick up, start conversation, push button, etc).

Race Tracks on Planets

    To give our planetary environments extra points of interest, and also an excuse to drive ground-based vehicles around at high speed, we thought the best way to do this was to build some rudimentary race tracks on the planets that would have been previously used by the research teams as a way to blow off steam and have fun.

Remaining work required for 3.0.0 Release

The following lists and charts show our progress towards releasing 3.0.0, with all remaining major tasks listed.

Tasks are either feature complete, or have an ETA for completion.

Some tasks may require further QA, bug-fixing and iteration.

Tasks that delay beyond our target dates might cause the release of 3.0.0 to be delayed, or might be excluded from 3.0.0 if appropriate to maintain the release date target.

3.0.0 work is separated into Subsections: Persistent Universe Content, FPS / Space Gameplay, Engineering, UI, AI, Graphics, Backend, Network, and Ships & Weapons.

The 3.0.0 Procedural Planet update marks a major advance in the Star Citizen Persistent Universe.


Planetary Update

Yela

Yela is the most frigid of the Crusader moons. Those bold (or careless) enough to step outside without a spacesuit will be killed instantly by its freezing temperatures. If the cold doesn’t kill you, then any of the treacherous crevasses that crisscross the planet might. Cyrovolcanos have been known to erupt unexpectedly from such crevasses, so be wary when flying at low altitudes. Despite all its danger, there is much beauty to be found on Yela, like the underwater caves hidden beneath the moon’s crust.

Cellin



Burning with volcanic activity, Cellin is the counter to her icy sister. Although the volcanoes have been dormant for hundreds of years, the surface is dotted with thermal geysers that erupt without notice. The largest of such geysers can destroy heavy vehicles. Highly corrosive clouds of gas are regularly released from the moon’s surface, creating low visibility and damaging anything caught outside.

Daymar

Daymar’s surface is like a harmonic blend of Yela and Cellin. It’s mountainous surface is reminiscent of Cellin’s volcanoes, while its craters share a warm likeness to Yela’s frozen crevasses. Known for its dense atmosphere, thick fog and a loose dirt surface makes travel difficult. Lightning storms can help illuminate the fog, just don’t get struck by their flash.

Persistent Universe Content

Improved Lighting for Fog Tech

    We have implemented a new fog system in the game to improve the overall feel in various environments such as ships and shops. In doing this, we need to convert the old fog volumes to this new system and do another sweep through existing lighting to ensure the new fog works with the lights correctly. This work is still being estimated due to cross-discipline dependencies.
    We have started the task of relighting all the environments and ships to incorporate this new feature. However, due to the volume of work, it is likely to be an ongoing process and extend beyond 3.0.0, so we will relight everything we can up to the live release and then address whatever remains in a future patch.

Mission Givers

    We’re introducing Miles Eckhart (first seen in the Gamescom video) and Ruto to provide missions to players.
    We’re aiming to complete Ruto’s initial setup in Subsumption today, but there will be further support needed from both Gamecode Engineering and Graphics Engineering after this point.
    ETA is 8th September

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    Modular Room System for procedural generation of planetary outposts
    Official Outpost Spawning System ready for mission designers
    Integrated Outpost distribution to PlanetEd
    Single outpost Object Preset
    Cluster of Outposts
    Crash site mission
    Interface to hand place modules and save to Layer
    Interface to teleport the camera to the closest outpost
    Area boxes created by artists (all room sizes are now usable in the outpost procedural system)
    Entrance Room system working (stairs and ramps are now available as initial rooms)
    Rooftop Prop system working for Solar panel
    Wall prop system working for additional prop variations
    Material Wear/Dirt on props using Layer Blend done and actually working
    Developed Outpost “feet” system
    Set random rotation and offset caps on planet editor
    Start documenting 3 possible map layouts looping system (using 2 or 4 meters metrics * system; using connection additional corridor pieces; using spline skinned corridors)
    Support Aircon/solar panel system on outposts
    Added color tinting to Outposts
    Added color tinting interface to Planet Ed
    Created material distinction for interior / exteriors
    Group elements offset in Planet Object Preset to be able to offset landing pads
    Moons
    Surface Outposts
    Additional Surface Outposts
    Surface Outposts Lighting
    Basic Derelict Ships
    Inhabited Derelict Ship Sites
    Debris Fields
    Delamar / Levski

    New Assets:
        Heavy Marine Armor
        Explorer Suit Armor
        Cloth and Clothing simulation on various assets old and new
        Updated helmet interiors and exterior for updated art, FOV tech and standardization
        Armor converted to work within modular customization structure
        Finalized delivery of ALL facial assets from 3Lateral.
    Ships:
        New Skinning and Rigging tools for landing gear on ships.
        Constellation Cargo Bay/Elevator extensions
        Light Group entity optimization

Gameplay

Cockpit Experience

    The Cockpit Experience sprint team focused on improving the overall player experience in the cockpit by refining the cockpit geometry, character placement, g-force/hit reactions, VFX, Audio, UI, as well as code support for things like camera shaking and hooking into ship health systems to display proper damage.
    ETA is 5th September

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    Crusader Converted to Object Container Setup
        With the transition to Object Containers, the Crusader map was completely re-designed. Each Point of Interest is now an object container laid out via the Solar System Editor. This is in preparation for Object Container streaming and seamless transitions from different POI’s and between Star Systems. Mission Flowgraphs are converted over to use Subsumption and the new Mission System.
    Mega Map for Persistent Universe
        Mega Map tech (also used in Crusader for seamless loading between different gamemodes) is now possible in the new PU map, which is setup in the Solar System Editor. This allows the utilization of Mega Map technology.
    Revamp of Power Plants / Shield Generators / Coolers and the Heat & Power System for improved gameplay and conversion to Item 2.0
    Player Manned Turrets
    Pick Up & Carry
    Item 2.0 Ship Conversion
    Item 2.0
        Operator Seats
        Radar System
        Light Control System
        Fuel / Refuel
        Power Supply / Pipes
        Quantum Drive
    Insurance
    Stamina
    Doors & Airlocks
    Cargo
    Commodities
    Kiosk Support
    Atmospheric Entry Support
    Persistent Damage, Ammo, and Missiles
    Repair
    Inventory System Support
    Rover and Dragonfly in Ships
    IFCS Performance Improvements
    Hint System

Core Tech

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    New Radar Databank
    Subsumption Base Functionality
        This is the initial release of the foundation technology that drives all of the AI, mission, dynamic content, and conversation logic. The mission content previously created with FlowGraph has been replaced and the implementation time to achieve a desired effect has been cut dramatically.
    Various Performance improvements
    Planetary Physics Grid to support orbiting and rotating planets
    Multi-Function Display implementation for Item 2.0 Components on ships
    IFCS improvements to support AI & Takeoff System
    Unified Visor for seamless Ship 2.0 / FPS transition
    HUD/Visor integration for new Radar Databank
    Object Distribution
    Terrain / Object blending for soft natural transition of objects intersecting with the ground
    Video codec updated to Bink2, providing higher fidelity at lower bitrate
    Vehicles no longer use Lua
        This is a huge step forward on the code side.
    Skeleton Extension support for Item Port Offset overrides per item
    Numerous types of physics simulation for all Item 2.0 attachments including hair, weapons, grenades and more.
    Destructible component for items, props and environment assets
    Nested Physics Grids support for vehicle transportation inside large ships, i.e. DragonFly & Rover
    Physics simulation gravity vector now respects planetary gravity
    Modular loadouts rule sets and support for up to five loadouts
    Animation driven facial audio implemented
    Updated Spacebox Editor Python integration.
    Zone culling on all character assets and layers, system complete and mesh markup complete supplemented with tools to easily support new assets.
    Solar System Editor
        A tool that will layout entire solar system with their astral objects (sun, planets moons) as well as space stations, etc.
    New Light Controller for runtime light switches
    New network message queue (current in QATR) to reduce network bandwidth and network thread time.
    Light Entity Render node merging.
    Dynamic Physics Grid to support sparse space areas vs. dense areas like space stations.
    Highly optimized vertex and position format for all geometry
    Texture memory usage reduced across the project
    Unified material libraries for use across all departments
        Comparing and finding all duplicated normal maps and albedo maps in the LayerBlend texture library
        Clean up LayerBlend Material Libraries, Resolution Adjustments, Renames to Lower Case
        Follow-ups on list of unused textures and materials
    Massively improved LOD computation and average face sizes for ships
    Shared hair assets (instead of bespoke asset per head) for character creation
    Automated facial asset LODs, skinning algorithm per LOD updated.
    Reworked mesh setup of facial assets for optimal performance and reduced drawcalls.
    Unified helmet and character mesh into singular render proxy for better performance and visuals.
    Various portal and culling improvements.
    Improved Animation Data Base collection and build process for optimized animation data streaming also added external tools to manage this.
    Deprecated thousands of legacy and test assets including animations, geometry, libraries and more for reduced build size.
    Automatic Asset Error collection and tracking.
    Reworked itemport layout for characters and character items
    Updated all assets using HumanSkin to highly optimized HumanSkinv2 shader. This saves upwards of a 100 megs of texture memory per face.
    Vastly improved memory allocator which allowed massive reduction in runtime allocation count
    Several significant optimizations to entity update code
    Planetary Tech
    Solar System Tool
    Entity Update Component Scheduler
    Entity Owner Manager

UI

Character Customization

    Players will now be able to customize their characters’ heads, hair, eye color, and skin color.
    This feature has been impacted due to the team helping support other bugfixing needs.
    ETA is TBD

Vehicle Customizer App

    This app will allow players to customize their ship via the ship customization screen, so edits can be done without locating the exact port on the ship.
    During recent gameplay reviews with the directors, additional items of polish and general feature feedback has been received and incorporated into the schedule to achieve the desired level of polish we require before releasing.
    ETA is 4th September

Ship Selector App & Insurance Claim

    This app would exist alongside the Ship Selection Terminals in the Persistent Universe, allowing players more freedom to spawn ships at designated locations.
    During recent gameplay reviews with the directors, additional items of polish and general feature feedback has been received and incorporated into the schedule to achieve the desired level of polish we require before releasing.
    The date has moved out slighty due to extra debugging and support.
    ETA is 4th September (was 29th August)

Comms System UI

    We are adding the initial implementation of the Comms System in to 3.0.0 which will allow players to hail in order to request landing while at the various space stations in the PU.
    During recent gameplay reviews with the directors, additional items of polish and general feature feedback has been received and incorporated into the schedule to achieve the desired level of polish we require before releasing.
    ETA is 6th September

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    Kiosk UI
    Item 2.0 Multi Function Displays
    Field of View Slider
    Personal Manager App
    Mission Manager App
    Cargo Manifest App
    Heavy Armour for Star Marine
    Inventory System
    Mission Board App
    StarMap App
    UI Owner Component
    mobiGlas Overhaul

AI

Mission System

    The overall system that will be used to create mission flows when we start building missions like Patrol, Assassination, Smuggling, etc.
    Progress on this feature is currently under Director review. Any feedback received from this review that could result in further work will be evaluated and estimated.
    ETA is 1st September

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    AI Turrets

Graphics

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    RenderTarget refactor
        This saves over 50% of the video memory previously used for dynamic textures.
    Physically-based area lights
    Shadow map caching system
        This allows for many more shadow casting lights at once and avoids the need for baking shadows.
    Revamped decal rendering system which renders fully deferred, instanced decals with aggressive overdraw optimizations
    Render to Texture
    Environment Probe
    Atmospheric Entry
    Volumetric Fog
    GPU Particle Foundation
    Engine Trails & Contrails
    Asteroid Physics
    Exposure Improvements

Backend

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    Diffusion Subset for 3.0.0
    Solar System Shop Service
    Solar System Mission Service V1 “Mission Broker”

Network

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    New Message Queue
    Physics Serialization
    Persistent Data Refactor

Ships & Weapons

Already complete in the 3.0.0 branch:

    Drake Dragonfly
    Drake Cutlass Black
    RSI Constellation Aquila
    RSI Ursa Rover
    MISC Prospector
    RSI Aurora
    Behring P8-SC
    Apocalypse Arms Scourge Rail Gun
    Klaus and Werner Gallant Rifle
    Arrowhead Sniper Rifle
    KSAR Devastator-12 Shotgun
    Klaus and Werner Arclight Pistol
    Gemini L86 Pistol
    Behring P4-AR.