Star Citizen Progress Report July 2018

At SC Focus Organization we bring you the first ever progress report about the Star Citizen game. This article is intended to provide our org with information about the current status. Eventually we will release the Star Citizen and Squadron 42 Status pages and this report helps pave the way for our internal progress estimates. We hope you enjoy the intel.

Update: September 26th 2018: Since this progress report we have made a page with major features and completion for Star Citizen & S42 -> https://scfocus.org/star-citizen-s42-features-complete/

To simplify things, we take the full list of stretch goals on the RSI website and list our evaluation of their progress. We provide only 3 states to help keep things basic - Not Started - In Progress - Complete. We also use - Not Scored - for any stretch goal that involves noteworthy mention but that doesn't affect significantly the overall game completion in the opinion of the writers of this article.

By "complete" we don't mean the feature is polished and fully implemented. Due to the current Early Alpha stage even any feature that seems "finished" will still need polish or even could need rebuilding from scratch. We have seen CIG completely rebuild from flyable ships to armor sets to locations like Arccorp Area 18.

By "complete" we mean that the technical solution has been crafted and and the feature is "solved" for gameplay purposes.

Note: This list only looks at the stretch goals listed on the original Star Citizen Funding Goals page that only apply to Star Citizen (not Squadron 42, nor cosmetic items). In the future, for our Star Citizen release date estimate we will be using a different set of features but for this category we are looking at specifically Stretch Goal completion. We understand many goals / features were added after the $65M Stretch Goal and therefore this series will not cover those features (but our future section on Release Dates will).

Status: Not Scored
There are other Stretch Goals relating to the community updates. Since this article aims to provide a status update on the game, the community updates are and have been frequent, that's enough to mark it as complete as a feature. The community updates have only provided rough time frames so the work provided by SC Focus organization helps to estimate dates and progress in general. We also keep a complete history of release dates on our Star Citizen Release Dates page. This is an example of a worthy mention that isn't scored towards tracking game progress.

Welcome To The SC FOCUS Progress Report

Stretch Goal Completion List

Stretch Goal Completion Scoring

Report Results & Conclusion

Stretch Goal Completion List

Regular community updates

Citizens with appropriate packages will get to play in the multiplayer dogfighting module.

Citizens with appropriate packages will receive access to the 30-mission Squadron 42 campaign upon release.

Star Citizen will feature an additional flyable ship, the Anvil Gladiator.

Increased community updates at the RSI website.

Squadron 42 will feature 35 missions.

Citizens with appropriate packages will receive access to the Star Citizen universe with 40 star systems for persistent online play upon release.

Star Citizen will feature an additional flyable ship, the MISC Starfarer.

Cockpit decoration

Ship boarding

Star Citizen will feature an additional flyable ship, the Aegis Dynamics Retaliator.

$3.1M: Odin System

$3.2M: Tyrol System

$3.3M: Kellog System

$3.4M: Goss System

$3.5M: Orion System

$3.6M: Ellis System

$3.7M: Cathcart System

$3.8M: Tal System

$3.9M: Geddon System

$4.0M: Chronos System

Professional mod tools will be provided free to all players.

Squadron 42 will feature a richer storyline and 45 total missions.

Star Citizen will launch with 50 star systems

Star Citizen will feature an additional flyable ship, the Drake Interplanetary Cutlass.

Star Citizen will launch with 60 star systems.

Star Citizen will feature an additional playable ship class, the cruiser.

All backers before October 29, 2012 will start Star Citizen with a Class I Repair Bot in their garage.

All backers before November 8, 2012 will start Star Citizen with 500 additional credits.

Extended hardcore flight sim controller support: Flight Chairs, multiple monitors, Track-IR, MFD (Multi Function Displays) and more on launch.

Star Citizen will feature the Idris class corvette

Star Citizen will feature the Origin M50

Star Citizen will feature the Drake Interplanetary Caterpillar

Star Citizen will feature destroyer ship classes

Star Citizen will feature Vanduul trading posts

Star Citizen will feature hidden smuggler asteroids

Star Citizen will feature an additional alien race, the Kr’Thak.

Enhanced boarding options: melee combat, heavy weapons, zero gravity simulation, suit HUD options and EVA combat.

Increased ship customization.

Increased ship customization.

Tablet companion application to check on your inventory, commission or find missions and get the galactic news feed.

Squadron 42 will feature celebrity voice-acting including at least one favorite from Wing Commander and 50 total missions.

Star Citizen will launch with 70 star systems.

Star Citizen will feature an additional base type. Can you discover the alien derelict?

Professional motion capture for the Squadron 42 cutscenes.

Exclusive RECORD BREAKER ship skin and 1000 additional credits on launch for all backers who pledge before the $5.5 million stretch goal.

Star Citizen will feature the Bengal carrier as a playable ship class.

Star Citizen will launch with 100 star systems.

The Bengal carrier will be unlocked for persistent universe play.

Star Citizen and Squadron 42 will feature a full orchestral score.

The first Squadron 42 mission disk, Behind Enemy Lines, will be available for free to all backers who pledge before $6 million upon release.

All backers who pledge before June 28, 2013 will receive a Roberts Space Industries Class II space suit in their hangar.

Cloud Imperium Games will build their own mocap studio to improve the quality of Star Citizen and Squadron 42’s cutscenes.

Move Wingman out of the basement! Move CIG Austin to a larger facility that will support expanded development. More room for employees means more man hours spent developing the game.

Move Wingman out of the basement! Move CIG Austin to a larger facility that will support expanded development. More room for employees means more man hours spent developing the game.

Build professional sound studios.

The Hangar Module will feature Oculus Rift support.

Star Citizen will feature an additional ship class, the frigate.

Command and Control Center

Hibernation Mode: for the explorers we will add the ability to save and resume while you are out in space

Professional-quality feature-length “Behind the Scenes of Star Citizen” documentary film.

Star Citizen will feature a fourth landout option on Earth! Where will it be? London? Berlin?

Star Citizen will feature an additional ship class, the escort carrier.

Every backer will get a free digital 42-page Upgrade Handbook manual with their game which goes through the process of customizing and overclocking ship systems!

Arena mode: The next generation of Wing Commander’s TrainSim

Every pledger who backs before $16 million will receive a laser pistol. Keep your ship safe from boarders with a pistol by your side.

Every pledger who backs before $17 million will receive a ship upgrade package containing an engine modifier.

Star Citizen will feature an additional flyable ship class, the battlecruiser

Exclusive star system for pre-launch backers

Know your foe with a Jane’s Fighting Ships style manual free in PDF form to all pledgers.

Manage Space Stations – Players will compete to own and operate a limited number of space stations across the galaxy.

First person combat on select lawless planets. Don’t just battle on space stations and platforms… take the fight to the ground!

Salvage Mechanic: Salvage isn’t an aside: it’s a career, with its own mechanic, story tie-ins and universe-shaping endgames.

Facial Capture System. We’ve researched a technology that uses a series of cameras to capture real heads and import them into the game.

Xi’an Scout Unlocked! The Khartu is the light attack craft of the Xi’An military.