So basically you're just making an assumption?

I would suspect investors are going into this knowing its risk and giving developers freedom. Even if the project did fall apart the studio would likely just declare bankruptcy.

Personally, I feel its best if there is no legal action if this project never gets completed in some form. That's ultimately the risk of investing. Many companies have lost money funding games that were never completed or just sucked.

No, you don't need to rebuild an engine for that. - Game engines tend to be fairly modular, it's not uncommon for engine developers to overhaul a singular aspect of a game engine... I.E. Physics whilst leaving the rest of the engine the same... Bethesda does it all the time.

But like I said... Lumberyard, the game engine that StarCitizen operates on already has support for voxel-based global illumination which is a form of Ray Tracing... And it has done so for years now. - Ray Tracing isn't a new thing... And just like everything else you listed, StarCitizen already supports it, it is literally the closest thing to a next-gen game today.

Can the op edit the title? I thought it was Soul Calibur, too!

My thoughts exactly. Suckers all around.

Star Citizen promises everything and almost never delivers. Loot boxes promise nothing and almost always deliver.

I'm going to be disappointed then next-gen as every new SC video looks a bit more dated to me :)

Of course you don't need to rebuild the whole engine, just the rendering pipeline... Chris Roberts won't let tech get ahead of his game and voxel-based whatever is not going to be good enough. Hopefully all the textures don't have to be redone for new material shaders.

Am I the only one that opened this thread cause I thought he was talking about Splinter Cell?

I am calling it now, SC will release on at least one of the nextgen consoles.

And a lot of console players will suddenly praise the game then after talking bad about the game for years. ;)

This game was one I remember hearing about...however long ago it was first announced...and thinking it sounded awesome, but then over time with little to no progress seeming to be made, I forgot about it, only occassionally remembering it when an article or forum topic about it would pop up. I've kind of given up hope in it. That said I don't think the game is a scam, the developers really are trying. It's just another case of an overpromising game going through development hell. Usually that turns out poorly, but not always. No Man's Sky overpromised and massively underdelivered, but then over time eventually became the promised game, more or less. Like an early development game that wasn't marketed as such, or a GaaS game that actually stuck to its roadmap. The Last Guardian took at least, what, 8 years? It became a running joke by the end, that game that everyone mentioned even though we all thought it was cancelled, but then one day it was done, and lo and behold it wasn't half bad. Frustrating AI at times, like all games with partner AI, but pretty good overall, and exactly what a lot of people were looking for, even though it felt a bit like something that belonged on the PS3 like it was originally announced for. I imagine Star Citizen could end up somewhere in between there, eventually reaching a passable point and being rushed out the door, looking not too much better than the beta, feeling a bit dated but still being a pretty good product that the fans of the project love, and then a few years down the line it'll be updated enough that it'll start to feel like the game that was originally promised. It'll never make the splash it could have if it had actually fully delivered on its ambitious original vision in a reasonable amount of time, but it'll still be an alright game in its own right.

And why do you think its a Scam..

Iv played the alpha, it exists.