Star Citizen Broadcast Shows Bugs, Awkward Sign-Off
The broadcast, intended to reassure backers after a postponement, instead highlighted the ongoing instability of a 14-year-old alpha, with developers openly acknowledging unfixed bugs and an awkward on-air sign-off.
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Cloud Imperium Games' August 6 'Star Citizen Live' broadcast, meant to showcase the reworked 'Siege of Orison' event, was marred by persistent bugs and awkward developer exchanges. The event, postponed from Alpha 4.9.0 to Alpha 4.10, still showed issues like weapon-switching failures and invisible items. The broadcast ended abruptly after a character wipe, with content director Jared Huckaby telling a colleague to 'wrap it up.'
The August 6 broadcast of 'Star Citizen Live' was meant to show the reworked 'Siege of Orison' event working as intended, but bugs persisted on screen. Developers encountered a weapon-switching failure, items invisible to some players, and a bug they believed they had fixed. The session ended with all characters downed and an off-camera call to stop, leaving content director Jared Huckaby to tell YouTuber-turned-content-manager Olli, 'It's your show. Wrap it up.'
The event had already been postponed from Alpha 4.9.0 to Alpha 4.10, scheduled for mid-August, after complaints from testers on the Public Test Universe. Cloud Imperium Games updated its roadmap on July 1 to reflect the delay. In closing remarks, the team again acknowledged remaining bugs.
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