5 Predictions for CitizenCon 2954

[@John_Krone]

Best wishes for your family member. Hope he fully recovers.

[@LoudGuns]

@@John_Krone thank you very much John. All appears well so far 🤞

[@Kaelistar]

Good luck and god speed to your family member. I'm just excited to be attending this year, after watching all of the fun via livestream from last year lol. So so many folks to finally meet in person!

[@LoudGuns]

@@Kaelistar thanks Kaelistar! Yeah honestly the thing I’m looking forward to most is just getting a chance to meet folks!

[@doctorno3912]

The up and coming Pyro system!

[@LoudGuns]

@@doctorno3912 nearly there! Citcon 2955: nearly there…. 😂

[@andrewfanner2245]

Argo salvage, we wants it we wants ir Precsiousss. In the new worold of recoverable compnents and weapons the poor old Vulture is just a bit too small

[@jasonmcclure5491]

I would love a Argo medium salvage ship. I would love a medium any brand salvage ship to be honest

[@LoudGuns]

@@andrewfanner2245 I’m sure Jon Crew will be receptive to our ideas if we get to chat to him. I’m also sure he will have heard about 9000 such pitches that day!

[@shaddouida3447]

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[@andrewfanner2245]

@@LoudGuns we could feed him beers...

[@ThanatosGrimm]

lotsa prayers to your fam my man speedy recovery. Welcome back LG.

[@LoudGuns]

@@ThanatosGrimm cheers Thanatos. It sucks but thankfully he seems to be through the worst of it and on the mend!

[@garrycopeland6149]

Good Vid as always, good to see you back. Going to Manchester, 1st Citizencon, really hope they'll deliver something concrete and ready to go, not more visions of a future far far away! SQ42 would do nicely!

[@LoudGuns]

@@garrycopeland6149 first one for me too!

[@THEDAVILAK1]

Thank you not only for looking out for us in regards to Star Citizen but also our health! We appreciate you LG

[@LoudGuns]

@@THEDAVILAK1 cheers mate!

[@SolarWindsRider]

These will be the topics: - SQ42 is almost ready, coming soon (no dates, of course) - Pyro is almost ready, coming soon (no dates) - 1.0 is actively worked on, coming soon (you guessed it) - here are 3 brand new ships and 5 new jpegs, ready to buy here and now

[@mweb586]

Unfortunately, I think I you've captured the under and the over.

[@sgtmajorbuzz]

Don't forget- The new ships will be OP until nobody is buying them anymore, then CIG will nerf them to the point everybody will melt them down for the next FOMO ship

[@kennethjensen730]

Exactly LOL, they can start with delivering what they told us last year, and the last time before that, and before that. Dumbfks

[@shaddouida3447]

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[@Farrister]

Will be interested to see how close you are! Also looking forward to whenever we get refining and engineering!

[@LoudGuns]

@@Farrister refining would very literally float my boat! You heading to Manchester?

[@Farrister]

@@LoudGuns I hope so!

[@falcon758]

I appreciate you raising awareness and linking to the prostate cancer site. I am not quite old enough to get the checks done, but it worries me in life in general and people need to talk about it more

[@LoudGuns]

@@falcon758 the big C is scary and so we don’t talk about it, but we really should. 👍

[@Voss44]

Cheers man, hope the family is doing well, and glad you guys caught it early.

[@bjordan429]

9:00 - As a Reclaimer owner and lover....your point is very true.

[@marcfenix148]

much love and hope you're doing as well you can mate, glad we got another LG exclusive prediction vid :)

[@matthewfletcher4627]

A mid sized salvage ship is on the top of my list, and Argo using the RAFT/MOLE frame is right on. So huffing away there. I really can't imagine they will touch on Pyro at all, but will release 3 other systems to make up the Fab 5 for 1.0 release. Also, the crafting system that has to be in Pyro has not been talked about at all, so I think will showcase as well. The last will be Death of a Spaceman, I think they have the final idea for it, and will tell us all about it.

[@rtek777]

Tech Preview for Server Meshing and RMQ is supposed to go up sometime later this week. Their hopes are for all backers. That's the first step. I'm guessing that will go on for a couple weeks before 4.0 goes to EVO. They have a little over a month till CitCon. They can do 4.0 on EVO for a month, then announce at CITCON that it's going Wave 1 after the event. Then they have about a month till IAE to take it through all waves to LIVE release.

[@haynkokanut]

Praying for you and your family member!! Hope all goes well!!🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@LoudGuns]

@@haynkokanut cheers mate!

[@the_steamtrain1642]

Apparently Nyx has been mostly completed by the art team so we'll probably see some of that, a lot of sq42, some Pyro and a deeper look into basebuilding

[@LoudGuns]

@@the_steamtrain1642 yeah Nyx is a largely dead system and the main asset (delamar) used to be in Stanton before they added Orison. That said a system with a bit more life would be welcome!

[@Jezato]

I'll give my 5 predictions, sprinkled with a bit/alot of hopium lol 1. Medium Salvage - Not sure what I want more MISC, ARGO or a Drake version.. 2. Constellation Mk5 (or 6..not sure what it's up to)- it's due for an update but i'm hoping they do a redesign with modularity for the rear. Plus it's one of the oldest ship models. 3. A 3rd System Announced, maybe Hadrian because of it's low population and it being a main shipping hub. Could add alot of long range cargo hauling missions through Pyro to Stanton. 4. Maelstrom v0.5 in tech preview 5. New Xi'an ship - compeitor to the Freelancer, cutlass and Zeus.

[@Volf1916]

This year's citizencon will be about all the things they can hype and not deliver, will have nothing to do with anything that will be even vaguely deliverable this year. They will completely ignore the state of the live servers or pushing a patch that is broken out. Everything they show will have absolutely NO timeframe or delivery time line. Just a massive amount of how what they are doing is innovative, groundbreaking and leading edge. For everyone in the real world and not emotionally tied to the project in an unhealthy way, that equates to CIG working on mechanics and features already found in games for the past ten years but all the white knights would have you blindly believe that because its in a space sim/mmo, or whatever name you want to give it, that is in some fantasy land way made "new". Persistent modular bases, not new at all. NPCs that have specific conduct and patterns of actions, not new. Destructible terrain and features, not new. Fire effects, not new(but it will massively tank graphic performance and crash servers). Repair and replacement of vehicle or parts, not new. But it will be rolled out like a cartoon on a laptop and everyone will be "told" how great it is. Like last year, look here on this laptop and accept what we tell you is happening and we will even provide a graphic with made up labels that could in fact represent nothing at all, but "wow! Look over here!" so you don't see anything but what we tell you to see. This year CIG has fallen flat. QOL patch ups and redesigns of huds and maps great, finally got in, that is not massive, it is standard evolution of basics already in. We are not closer to multiple system than we were at the beginning of the year, people played on test servers in Pyro, cool, but where is the mechanics to get ships to and from each system? Where is the needed tech to make it so the play base is just not simply diluted by spreading the same player pool size we have now over more than twice the area? Everyone talks "Player to Player interaction" without acknowledging the simple basics like 100 players in one system is so spread out you never have to interact or see each other, even those like Pirates looking for the interaction have to work hard just to find others. And no, throwing out the term "server meshing" does not make it relevant. A functional multi server overlapping mechanic that does not degrade massively with increased numbers of attached clients has to be in existence before it is a thing, not "soon".

[@hwgusn]

I’d personally really like a mid-sized salvage ship from one of the more polished manufacturers. I’d buy a mid-sized Origin salvager on the spot, or even one from Crusader.

[@trevtrev45555]

Thanks for the PSA. Best wishes for that family member!

[@Maegriss]

road to stable 3.24 is what I'm expecting to see at citcon

[@thomasinlondon2849]

Medium salvage would be great, large ground based mining vehicle with 500 capacity. Arrastra release date would be good.

[@theadventuresofjimmycrapol8827]

Always great content.

[@zpilot4523]

A medium argo refuel vehicle would fill a nice niche for pyro

[@piedpiper1172]

Will it? They expanded the number of stations and outposts so much you hardly need a Q Drive, much less mobile refueling

[@LucidStrike]

Good PSA. Nothing specific to 4.0 is likely to be featured at CitCon tho, as it would be far too embarrassing to continue the Road to 4.0 at yet another CitCon. That's the point of covering 4.0 in ISC / SCL this season. 4.1-1.0 is the only range they're interested in showing.

[@LoudGuns]

@@LucidStrike in the words of John & Paul it’s a long and winding road 😂

[@arethunessamsonsen6245]

Looking forward to meeting up in Manchester!

[@mayflynut]

Thank you for all you do. And do well. aka Patron "Troutbum".

[@sirberticus3815]

The recent MISC sneak peeks could be a new medium sized salvage ship.

[@LoudGuns]

@@sirberticus3815 this is true and tbf I’d settle for any manufacturer!

[@124thDragoon]

Related to your comments about base building and Star Citizen's need for an "end game" that actually makes all of this UEC actually worth something - I've hoped for years that Star Citizen would eventually implement some mechanics similar to that of Eve Online's "Nullsec" or "Wormhole space" systems. Basically a lawless area of the game where people are incentivized to claim a piece (because it's valuable, either due to passive income or extremely lucrative active PVE content), but are also forced to be self-reliant and defend their territory. Eve has always implemented "reinforcement timers" as a way to make it impossible to lose everything during a single night raid; Fights over territory are forcibly spread out over ~3 days at a minimum, but can last weeks. Also, ever since CiG announced refining gameplay, I've found it hard to believe that such an activity would be done on a space ship. I like my sci-fi to be at least somewhat rooted in reality, and that seems to me like something that would be many times more efficient to do in a station, or on the surface of a celestial body. And if getting refining gameplay into players' hands requires the base building loop to be more established, so be it.

[@jamess405]

Some refining ships would be real nice

[@Chaos-gu3yc]

A Corsair variant would make a good salvager. It can make The salvage , then clean it up

[@funnysword1414]

im just hoping to see or hear anything about orion -.-, and any real progress that they can show about sq42 so they can go full blast on sc.

[@piledrive]

man i would love the RAPTOP in game

[@mattp1337]

Refinery gameplay is in my Top 3 most wanted game features in SC. It might even be #1.

[@LoudGuns]

@@mattp1337 with all the other stuff we have in now it would really cement the whole mining loop together

[@hurtfixer_]

Best Prediction for Citizen Conjob, is an even Bigger Conjob this year!!

[@demonbaby8490]

CIG gives you more JPG and bugs to make you crazy.

[@Terran0va_Plays]

My prediction is that they announce pyro for 2025 and I’m SO EXCITED!! 😃

[@elliotstephens5261]

I love my reclaimer (The Drunken Otter) but this patch has really shown how unoptimised it really is and it’s in dire need of a gold pass!

[@LoudGuns]

@@elliotstephens5261 yeah I’ve got a lot of love for the aesthetics but as a practical salvager it is severely lacking, particularly when you try and do anything in a bigger group.

[@elliotstephens5261]

@@LoudGuns 100% trying to get 16 scu boxes out onto the cargo lift is like playing pinballs off the bulkheads!

[@ArtemisTGM]

I'm hyped for the Mirai Guardian but il be holding off unless it cost a tiny bit more then the Apollo then il upgrade to it 💯🤟🏼

[@rubentaiartinger2640]

I want more "star" and less "citizen"; put something scifi related in like gravity grenades with a small blackwhole effekt, a hoverboard like silversurfer has, a spaceship which is really fast like full nav max boost velocity 10km/sek

[@Sams911]

would be nice if they at least got some of the long over due capital ships done.... even if the damn servers can't handle it... it's not like it could get any worse, but at least we can feel some progress is being made

[@LoudGuns]

@@Sams911 tbf if Squadron gets out the door then the Idris is fair game surely

[@CBadger]

My prediction: overhyped features we won't see for decades, all in an attempt to get new players to buy into the game, as well as make the disillusioned whales spend more in the Pledge store.

[@james64983]

Look forward to it but don't like how late cig leveing it hotels booked there taken payment for tickets but cig have sent them yet we still don't know layout or finish time on Sunday so cant book return tickets

[@LoudGuns]

@@james64983 I wouldn’t worry too much unless everyone else has their ticket (I don’t). As long as you’ve got your receipt it’ll be alright on the night

[@White_Glint]

1000% agreed with the Reclaimer. I love it, but the whole inside needs to be gutted and reworked. only section that's salvageable(huehue) is the mess/crew/captain areas

[@Observer_Custos]

Several of the other older ships need a complete fitting and reworking of their interiors. The Freelancer and Constellation series both need reworking...also the Aurora and Mustang series could use a touch up since they need to be brought up to be on par with the usability of the Cutter and other newer starter ships.

[@thomasinlondon2849]

Totally disagree. I love the interior. Also the cargo elevator brings a perfect grind aspect to earning millions from this beautiful beast.

[@piedpiper1172]

@@Observer_CustosMustang needs to have a jump seat behind the pilot so bad lol. It’s already modeled in game, just let us use it 😭

[@jaide1312]

What I'm really hoping for is no more new RSI ships, I've got some real RSI fatigue at this point. It's time to focus on another manufacturer with a big backlog! Start work on the Hull B, Expanse and Odyssey, or finally deliver the Merchantman! And let's not rig the ship vote this time, putting argo and misc up against RSI is just unfair, and the Arrastra is a horrendous concept

[@rubentaiartinger2640]

I want to relax from work when in the Verse, not feeling like joining my second work when in the verse; less Labor more play 😊

[@LoudGuns]

@@rubentaiartinger2640 tbh this is where I’m steering clear of the hauling missions. I honestly just find them to be a drag.

[@Snigadin]

I'd pay good money for an alien mining/salvage ship!

[@LoudGuns]

@@Snigadin ah as would many of us 😂

[@Maximus98351]

I would like them to demonstrate that can make a functional playable game.

[@Terran0va_Plays]

Woah!! Slow down now. It’s only been 12 years. Let them cook. In all seriousness, CiG has a head team of really really great technical engineers and artists. They don’t know the first thing about making a game fun. No offense to them really. They need to bring in a mission designer.

[@OZtheW1ZARD]

I have only one but it is 100% certain. Nothing they show will be true 👍

[@TheStumafoo]

My prediction sc goes bankrupt

[@huhu63uk]

2954 the planned release year?

[@MSFTJustice]

I tempered my expectations and going into this year CitizenCon as just a rehash of last years. If I am wrong, at least I will be happily wrong.

[@LoudGuns]

@@MSFTJustice happiness equals expectations minus reality!!!

[@Vioblight]

Prediction. Delayed

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Sandworms!

[@narosushi]

i've a good prediction!! They wont deliver anything they promisse this year, just expecting on the next 4 years!

[@csdigitaldesign]

They already did deliver stuff they promised. What are you going on about?

[@narosushi]

@@csdigitaldesign for sure! A lot of bugs and a new cargo play where u can't do cargo missions hahahah

[@csdigitaldesign]

@@narosushi you forgot 3.23 and cargo missions are already fixed

[@narosushi]

@@csdigitaldesign maybe we are playing different games

[@csdigitaldesign]

@@narosushi nope. They fixed the cargo missions with a hot fix.

[@silentone11111111]

I expect almost nothing . The will be some pixel ships to earn more money. The spice must flow. There will be empty promises like the war multiplayer game that never gestated. There will be more time sink mechanics. A promise of a new star system that’s years off. Just. More shit. You know. The usual 😀

[@lilpandacub]

🐼

[@yasinzeydulusoy]

Would be nice if they demonstrated something like 10,000 player (with server meshing)on a planet where portion of them having a big ass battle and the rest are socializing, even better if they do that on a new star system like Terra

[@RicoZaid_]

LoL no way. PlanetSide can do about 1k without all the SC collision and overhead

[@Stormyy6310]

If that happens you probably won't be alive to see it sadly

[@Hobbs_Gaming]

I have another prediction. CIG will NOT have removed this horrible, unreasonable, sickeningly ugly, immersion-robbing green skybox by Citizen Con 2024.

[@davewills148]

How about a prediction on the current state of the game improving?. No one can play atm, ASOP/Hangars are borked, numb nuts keep going on about CitizenCON, SQ42/4.0/1.0..........no one is interested in these distractions. Access to a newly preleased patch is the only consideration for the game. How much fresh gameplay content is being made or pimped.....NONE, that is a sign of how severe the situation is, how after multiple patches there is no FIX. 3.24 is a content rich, feature rich patch with game breaking issues that will get fixed, but no one is interested in more techno babble, waffle and distractions about phantom patches. You make excellent content, yet this verbatim nonsense doesn't help the current situation. PS: Roll on Space Marine 2 tomorrow.

[@LoudGuns]

@@davewills148 so honestly I have a whiteboard of video ideas that I divide into 2 sections; SC now / SC future, because these are the 2 areas people are interested in (personal opinions aside - raw analytics). This one falls in the future camp. Future videos are admittedly quicker and easier to make and I select from my ideas based on the time I have. 3.24 videos are in the works but just for reference I’ve already sunk 2x the amount of time into one for next week than this video took me, and I’ve barely scratched the surface. Also yes, space marine 2!

[@modusponen1447]

Still salty about you calling SC pay-to-win.

[@LoudGuns]

@@modusponen1447 And I will never understand why some people are so willing to defend a corporate entities products to the exclusion of other people’s (well reasoned) opinions.

[@modusponen1447]

@@LoudGuns maybe you should be aware I unsubed on 2 accounts based on that opinion

[@LoudGuns]

@@modusponen1447 You do you pal.