You Week in Review is the primary place I come to get the SC news for the week. Thanks for consolidating all this info presenting it in a way that is easy to follow. Keep up the great job!

The real reward from the overdrive missions is the friends we made along the way! (But, like, literally!)

The Distribution center sneakpeak had the caption "All roads lead here" Makes me wonder if they're teasing roads.

@RestrictedHades

3 ай бұрын

maybe teasing the road map release

@twelvewingproductions7508

3 ай бұрын

Well.. if they are, then they are going to have to get busy fixing the jank that currently affects ground vehicles. They (at least the lynx as that is the one I've been testing) are getting better but are currently still nearly un-drivable.

@afewpickles768

3 ай бұрын

@@twelvewingproductions7508i spent a few hours driving around the racetrack of daymar in the racing 4x4 (name’s eluding me) and so long as you don’t have the throttle at 100% the whole time, they work really quite well. harder to do on keyboard though.

@SideQuestStories

3 ай бұрын

Nah it's just that they have exterior roads.

@BR1ZZO

3 ай бұрын

Rivers, roads... where's the lava?

This new Reasonable Mike, love it man. Thank you for evolving the way you have. New videos have been really awesome. Looking forward to these each week now.

We did spk on a server with around 40 players. We made it albeit ripped up pretty bad. It excited us all seeing just how well the AI did. No teleporting, no mystery wall shots, taking cover, and relentless! We got great use out of medical gameplay and it was insane how many mags we were tripping over when exiting.

Man everyone bitching about the reward, I just like having a goal to work on every week. Been having a blast.

@CitizenScott

3 ай бұрын

How dare you have fun.

@blackmamba___

3 ай бұрын

If you engage with SC community, then you better get use to the bitching 🤐

@Turican76

3 ай бұрын

use your brain. the majority plays solo.

@Crittek

3 ай бұрын

The second part was a surprise and that was awesome. I can’t wait until we see more dynamic events or even game master type things just showing up out of nowhere.

@ShadzDash

3 ай бұрын

I used to be a solo player, but the game has gotten so much better now that Overdrive Initiative has pushed me to play with my org-mates.

P.S. I like the quality of your Videos, Hats off to your editor.

Good overview of the week. Thanks Mike!

Server FPS was 15 when my group did the SPK mission and we BARELY made it through. When the AI is working it is brutal! Thankfully Star_Rider and their crew came in to revive us so we could complete the mission.

@timteeling7348

3 ай бұрын

When a Group of us did the series of missions the SPK was brutal the first time FPS I heard in chatter was about 11 to 15. In my opinion the SPK was the best part of the series. The second time still helping people through the series of missions. When we got to SPK someone in a A2 HERCULES dropped a bomb on the station and killed us all. The third run was short when we just landed at the station and got out the mission completed by some other people.

@CitizenScott

3 ай бұрын

Hmmm… is it maybe a skill issue?

@Cab8819

3 ай бұрын

When they ai desyncs and instantly kills you through walls it's definitely worse. Loved the Intel missions, things seemed to work. But the last 2 weeks have been inconsistent as fuck

@ingeonsa

3 ай бұрын

Feel they need to look at the ratio between PVE and PVP at SPK and dynamically adjust the AI spawn rate. This or the servers were just loosing their marbles on some raids we did as they just kept bulk spawning in very short intervals

@theninedivides6851

3 ай бұрын

haha A2 bombed

Editing is awesome, great job!!!

The Karea mission AI was working flawlessly for my friend and I today. We were woefully unprepared and got smoked. We're gonna try again tomorrow.

(Monday) We are currently putting together a new 3.23 build for an evocati publish later today. We will assess this build further overnight for possible opening to further waves if the build meets criteria.

@Lucky-Seven_

3 ай бұрын

they are still missing so many of the scheduled features of 3.23 I don't expect a PTU until late this month. - they haven't even tested the Cargo Elevators for feedback yet..

@damaddmann

3 ай бұрын

@@Lucky-Seven_not to mention master modes

@CitizenScott

3 ай бұрын

Love seeing ppl act like this says, "3.23 is going LIVE today!"

@damaddmann

3 ай бұрын

@@CitizenScott it won’t even be going into PTU anytime soon

@Velthus

3 ай бұрын

​@damaddmann At least master modes is "in" for all ships, but there are a lot of things that need tweaking still. Probably why it isn't ready for feedback. Cargo is just missing altogether.

Very nicely put together videos, super slick work.

Yes, definitely anxious about freight elevators and personal hangars. FPS, map, and elevators and hangars have been my most anticipated features.

I've been enjoying the quality of the Week in Review. Good job Mike and Bigs👍

It's been a long way since you were in UEC uniform with the ship graphic mate. Solid video and rundown as always. Dance the dance you dance. Don't dance the dance those that dance dance. ✊🗿

I can confirm, the Kareah part is really hard when the Ai works. When they see you you're dead, and they would see you more often then you would see them. This was on a 5 player server, we were those 5 people. When everything's running on the intended 30 sfps, Star Citizen will be a completely different game.

Thanks for the video SaltEMike. I am glad they took the time to listen, as we are all along for the ride in the development of this game, as active participants investing time and money to get it created. I would like to see players get the choice to color swap default to choice colors for text overlays for points of interest on the maps, and maybe we can color code POEs for races as pings to follow on the maps too, not just point A to Z but up to 10 Nav Posts between A to Z. I like it when they work and talk about the game. For the health updates, what about Parasites? Bio threats, worms? Plague! as that was mentioned throughout the years. Plus there is a Helmet displaying an infection. We already have disinfection gates.

Video quality and content has been on the up for awhile. Probably the best weekly show by a big margin.

I don't know if they saw my suggestion and took that inspiration, but I was commenting that they could make a map like Metroid Prime, which is the style they like. It shows everything from the places you've been. Finally, they are doing something similar, and what I've heard is that discovery will be similar, or even expanding parts of the map through a computer, like in Metroid Prime. Good job CIG.

1:31 and there it is

Quality, content, speculation all superb. Thank you so much for these reviews!

Thx for the update dude :)

I've been really enjoying the Overdrive missions! Didn't expect there to be an SPK mission.

Been really enjoying the informative formula.

Cant wait to see my ship ascending in the hanger lift. So cool

Might be a bit of a hot take, but the Hangar update is such a important update to the game, taking SC from a game with 1 server with no instances to multiple instance is a very big deal, and if any of the updates of EVO have indicated, a lot of the features coming in are coming in under-cooked or too fresh out of the oven. We may see the Hangar getting pushed to a 3.23.1 patch and I would be okay with that due to how instancing could break the game if implemented haphazardly, especially since the TWISC "announced" a Wave 1 patch could be coming this week, that being said who knows maybe they will release Wave 1 and the Hangar update soon! Fingers crossed 🤞🤞🤞

I don’t know if this is new or not, but the panel rotation effect on the still images in the video is cool!

Thank you Mike. Your week in review is my goto sane and balanced source of SC news.

As someone standing on the sidelines for this game, This is the only channel I watch Star Citizen news on. Thank you bigs for your great editing.

After data mined information reveals. Karea is second last mission. Last Overdrive mission is a Retrieve and deliver mission. Unless there's a patch to slot in the last mission into the game files.

I thought it was cool that shooting the mines really showed you the difference between your sight's reticle and your laser pointer. An Arclight with a laser pointer could clear the entire Comm Array, but an SMG, AR, or LMG with a sight would struggle. But I loved the final Phase 4 stage at Kareah. I ran it with a PUG on Friday and we got absolutely bodied. Wiped twice. On the second time, the other three grouped up and went in while I was landing my C8R... and were all downed before I even had my door open. I got taken out trying to tractor their bodies to safety. But our med beacons were answered by a pair of combat medics who healed me, then we healed the others, and the group of six was enough to finish it. On Saturday, I did it with the Yacht Club. We had 35 people by the time we hit Kareah. We had 1-2 people on every single spawn closet. It was fun. I wore Morozov just for the backpack so I could loot more Fortifier Helmets. I *_really_* wish the Quantanium water bottle was available separately. When I sub, I normally sub at the Centurion level... I subbed for Stella Fortuna like I usually do. I love the stupidly bright glow effect on the Quantanium bottle... but I'll never own a Hull-C so I'm not buying a Hull-C paint just to get the bottle.

I love your week in review Mike! They’re the highlight of my week! I didn’t miss the EVO updates this week, I think it’s more than fine if you simply skip them and condense them with a little bit more detail into the week in review :)

what is the background music you use? It sounds so nice especially near the end, also the quality is very high. Been loving it!

Mike a whole set of armor for free for doing the event is a good reward. Not a helmet or just chest piece, it’s a full set. I thinks it’s a great reward and hope they keep giving us in game items we can use.

Medical tool diagnostics are now going to be to diagnose others which I think is pretty cool

Thanks for putting in the effort to make these clear and concise, Mike! Glad you're putting in content that isnt an hour plus of the same old naus. Be awesome dood

I was surprised. When i did the spk mission with my team, two other teams showed up and we all worked together to get it done without any pvp haha. The game was running real smooth when i did it and the AI were actually rushing the main room to fight attack. The only issue was one AI got stuck in the elevator and started shooting us through the wall but other than that it was great

Really enjoy these weekly reviews. I hope they get the hangers and the lifts into evo. Its probably my most excited feature for 3.23 along with the distribution centers.

3.23 looks to be amazing... If they added modules to the Caterpillar I'd have to buy a couple of Fury ships for the proposed mini hanger modules.

Good update again, @SaltEMike - the pacing is spot on. Of concern is the current absence of Personal Hangars from ETF. If it makes the next ETF build, this is moot, but the concerns are: 1. This is a workpiece on the Twilight Zone team, prior to them being restructured into the Turbulent-led NAPU team. Twilight Zone team have a history of delivering very late. 2. Seeing that CIG are making noises that they're now looking at putting 3.23 into first-wave EPTU, there's a risk that Personal Hangars might get cut from 3.23.0 ... Then it's a case of: _When_ will we get Personal Hangars? Something CIG billed as one of the key features of 3.23

Thanks for the Monday goodness

While we're getting a lot of cool additions to the starmap, I'm still seeing the #1 pain point that holds the PU map back: Janky 3d moving of a planet/moon around to look at the landing points. Doesn't look like that is getting fixed at all.

@Brandon-bd8fk

3 ай бұрын

It’s a good start, the search function alone is a major change

Yo SaltE production quality is on point, and you put in just the right amount of salt to be tasty but not spoiled. It's ok to put in your opinion about stuff, but the week in review as it is now, is way more informative and condensed than it was back then and I am back watching you regularly. About the Health App, I don't think it is redundant with the medi-tools, because it matters what you take with you on an excursion and to know your health at all time is still essential even if you cannot treat every single issue on site, but at least you know if you caught a cold and should get a hot tea with rum. ;) Cheers

The thing I am looking forward to most is the fixing of the F7C-Mk. II cargo box issue, because I hope it will fix my Mk. I Tracker and Ghost issue…

Only thing I wanted from updates to the contracts app is some way of daisy-chaining box missions so that I can pick up something while dropping something else off... even if its not the exact same location but if I have a few delivery missions accepted and I'm heading for Lyria say I should be able to take care of any Lyria business in 1 trip. Maybe that's something the Map app will help with.. It looks great to be fair.

I had a good server. Man this one was fun! You def see the improvements in AI. Good Job on improvements CIG. There was the heightened level of tension such as "are these players gonna kill me?" Plus everyone working together having random people revive my buddy and me. It was a nice surprise for it to pop up.

We are gonna tease sq42, Pyro and Server Meshing again for the 7th year in a row thanks for coming to Citizen Con

@Gm-ce5kg

3 ай бұрын

pyro and sm arent teased anymore, they've been played by backers

Phase 4, part 4…. I was on security post kareah on a server with 30 FPS…. Those NPC’s were snipers and super aggressive. They would occasionally res a downed NPC, they res’d my team mate and then immediately killed him. Myself and 5 other teammates were unable to complete the event. They spawned so many NPCs and we were over run quickly. The NPCs are no joke…. Scary good on a working server.

I'm confused, do I have to do xeno threat intrl raids and the other xeno threat stuff to get the ship upgrade or do I skip the Intel raids?

Would be nice if the Health App is just accesible when using a "Medical Helmet/Visor"

I bet we don't see those Elevators in 3.23 😂

About the 10$ flair, the Magnus IV bottlle is supposedly refillable how do you do that in game?

Have you found any bugs with the star map not letting you plot a corse? If not thank God

Real talk - I'd be satisfied if the AI fighters (and authority ships , lets be honest) didn't suicide ram every chance they get.

WiR looking pro!!

Release them Hangars already! ;) Seriously most excited about them than anything else.

a question i have about those hangars with the ship elevators....... what about grim hex? how is that going to work as they are stacked in a grid (apart from the XL pad)

@Sebastian-co9jg

3 ай бұрын

Personal Hangar will be in your home location. Gh can't be picked as home location

really needed this 2.23 update, it's better late than never.

Hanger: If you have friends in your hanger and you fall into the pit and die what happens to your friends? is it like when friends are on a ship you store they get transported to the station? (I hope) lol

Enjoy these weekly updates. 👌 There's a lot to track lately, even if things are still on Evo or waiting to get on. I have a sinking feeling that half of what has been promised for this patch will be pushed to the next. Still, though, that would mean a lot of quality of life improvements. o7

Sometimes in digital devices text go unreadable. Even in your mobile.

1:16 THOSE WERE BOOBY TRAPS??? I JUST FLOATED THROUGH THEM EVERY TIME.

I’m happy to hear about AI combat improvements. The only really I look for PvP is because PVE is stupid easy.

I'm gonna start a channel for people like me who love star citizen. There seems to be a TON of people who have sunk like tens of thousands of dollars into SC and that's all well and good. Good on you guys. But me, I'm just a dude who spent $45 2 years ago on SC. For my 40th b-day i got like a hundred bucks and immediately sunk that into Star Citizen. I've never really known how to play with other people so i've done everything on my own and i've grinded so hard i have a fleet of about 15 ships, however all those will disappear when they wipe the system since the were bought in game. I have a pituitary brain tumor, and i am still employed but i can't even afford medication for my brain tumor let alone money to sink into SC. As i write this, i have about 50 pennies in a jar next to me. I"m not even joking. But going about starting a new channel for people like me isn't easy especially with no camera and shitty equipment. So, if anyone has any pointers, i'm more than willing to listen to them.

Mike, i think you implied the premium ticket gets the Gala ticket, I do not believe this is the case.

I can't wait for 3.23 to drop!

When you realize the engineering overhaul will give players the ability to set all doors to stay open

And mastermodes and UI elements still not totally in…

There is so much wrong with the Freelancers, and they barely scratched the surface of it?! I was hoping they did some major work on that ancient ship, god damnit

@aden6427

3 ай бұрын

Idk about the others, but my MAX is great.

@Dorm_

3 ай бұрын

@@aden6427 Flight model is borked, it flies like a brick, the middle storage like Mike mentioned is hard to load, living compartment is cramped, back turret should be remote and not to mention that "bulge" that blocks the turret from shooting at targets in the front! Side door that kills you half of the times you try to enter or exit. Can barely see out of the slit you call a window.

@jasonbritt2497

3 ай бұрын

Yes, that ship and Connie’s both need serious updates

Map app remains a key feature in 3.23 to me. Mini map and new space map will be so useful

I think that the amount of work it takes to get the medium armor is what gives it value. I'd be happy with pretty much any in game item honestly. I'm dreaming here, but it'd be amazing if in the future wearing one of these faction armors gave some kind of positive rep with in-game NPCs/mission givers, maybe just unlocks slightly different voice-lines/dialog.

@Gm-ce5kg

3 ай бұрын

it could allow you to disguise in faction/rep locked places

Played overdrive on a 20+ FPS server... It was nightmare fuel (in a good way). Had over 10 guys and still got dropped a few times by the A.I. Also by day 2, SPK turned into PVP land as expected lol

Great video thank you. Imo the Overdrive drama was blown hugely out of proportion. The original reward was fine...

@afternoondelight6322

3 ай бұрын

It’s not a reward if you can’t use it..if they make it work for ships purchased in game then it’s absolutely fine.

The reward is awesome the amount of time taken for the reward that i dont like, waiting a week for another mission that takes just over one hour

When we´ve done the kareha mission we only was 4 guys on a server with nearly 30 server fps constantly ... it was hard. Lastly i was the only one who could shoot xD

5 mins later and they confirmed wave 1 ptu for this week!

@SaltEMike

3 ай бұрын

They confirmed trying…

At the very least they could give us a set of BOTH medium variants (one's logo is bigger than the other and one has more cannisters and hosing than the other) and at least one of the unique helmet that the heavy dudes wear.

I no longer cared about the modularity of ships when the Cutlass was split into different variants. Why? To make more money.

The quality is great for your WIR, kinda disapointing we're not getting yet another SCL this week either after them bumming about giving us more videos and here it is only April and that's two weeks in a row we aren't getting them, so typical CIG all talk and no action, lets see the patch crumble now too as things miss the deadlines, also in typical CIG fashion.

i have it done solo

Can't wait to find out it was april 2025 they meant to release this update

They dont learn lol. CIG will do their usual of getting stuff into waves, remove key parts of each feature as not ready. Then marketing will get them to release whether its ready or not for ILW and we will put up with a broken patch and freefly that cripples the servers until the point one patch comes out. Happens every ILW and IAE

starmap - still hard to read (text is fuzzy), and still cant see markers against a bright backgound like a moon;

You get a set of the same armor you could stockpile like 50 sets of in the Kareah mission, granted you get that one on your account so if we even ever get the lost and found feature for account items (I highly doubt it at this point) this could be usefull granted friendly fire in xenothreat events will be guaranteed when people wearing these and the markers stop working again. Certainly not worth fighting through the abysmal server performance for the last 5 weeks tbh, especially with all the rubberbanding and completely unresponsive AI which certainly makes all the missions very soloable but takes away the fun in them.

Honestly, I am busy with Dragons Dogma 2 and I still have Horizon Forbidden West to start. 3.23 can take its time and bake. However, there are many this is their main game. So CIG needs to deliver sooner than later.

getting spicy

we need mining Contracts an we needa time line for when our Arrastra is going in to prodution is alot of money to have out there with no timeline

Given all the overdrive missions need coordination with multiple others to do it, my org have ended up giving up even bothering as we’re fairly small and all busy. It’s a shame because if I could do this solo I’d have been down for it, but they’ve opted to make it compulsory group and impossible to do solo, which is a shame but I get it. Anyway the rewards are laughable: an upgrade for a bad ship that nobody largely wants or needs with the F8C in game, and a cosmetic suit of medium armour that you can pick up all over the place anyway and isn’t rare. It’s cool though, nice to do this as a pilot, I’d like achievement unlocks that aren’t about paying to get, so the armour is a step in that direction, but not something I could care less about.

@BizzMRK

3 ай бұрын

ironically the abysmal server performance lately actually works in your favor with these missions since the AI takes like 30 seconds to wake up. The Ares Inferno and FS9 really hardcarries in these event missions if you are solo because of this since the NPCs will be dead before they even show any signs of life. I managed to solo every mission (phase 1 to 4) this far because of this, granted that takes away most the fun of the missions, which is a shame but can't really do anything about the server performance either.

@Libertas_P77

3 ай бұрын

@@BizzMRK If you get a dead server I can imagine it would work. I tried the final phase 1 overdrive and we failed it due to the hostiles combined with trying to find the codes in time and losing four of the eight serves to overheat. Stopped playing them after that as I’ve not had a chance to coordinate with others so given up on trying to get the rewards off this. It’s way too much over too long for those of us with with busy lives and limited time to play haha

@BizzMRK

3 ай бұрын

@@Libertas_P77 yeah the 1st one can be tricky. You really can't camp the serverroom in there and have to keep moving between the monitors until the code pops up there and then b-line straight back to the server and clean out the NPCs in the meantime to prevent them from building up a force. Phase 1 is by far the worst mission out of all of them imo.

i can't not hear "copium" for "kopian" ... that can't be a coincidence

im still waiting for the 600i rework

Everything gets wiped when the final game is released?

@Gm-ce5kg

3 ай бұрын

not everything

If you kill the Xeno fellas, can you loot and keep their Armour, that way you have all the sets?

@BizzMRK

3 ай бұрын

yes of course. You could stockpile entire sets for a lifetime doing the Kareah mission, granted the rewarded one will be on your account so when (or better if) they ever add the lost and found feature you can recover them if you lost them due to a bug like falling through the ship/planet.

At least the pirates made spk worth doing

I'M FREAKIN OUT

QUESTION: How are Star Citizen's servers set up? I've read that the current server set up only allows for 100 per server. Is this true? What is the highest concurrent online player count does anyone know?

@Gm-ce5kg

3 ай бұрын

it had been at 150 players a little while ago, now it is set at 100 but there can be occasionnal 120 , then from the server meshing tests, those were of 200, 300, up to 800 but it was solely for testing purposes, and the pyro/staton server meshing test was set at 200

@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248

3 ай бұрын

@@Gm-ce5kg How many people would you guess are playing this game daily at peak times? Does Star Citizen rent their servers or do they own and operate their own?

ISC this week shows we are about to hit a drought

The only things I care about are persistent hangars and master modes, and of course, not in the patch. A bunch of polish, yay, don’t care. How about MM so I can actually start getting into PVP, how about some kind of gameplay? Nope, just some holo blue stuff, congrats great patch

woooo

FFS It can't be that hard to add an effing opacity slider.