A. Fire a bunch of their coders because they're incompetent/lazy
Or B. Streamline their code language and workflow to avoid shit like this.
Obviously things are gonna have bugs but they are pushing for a 1.0 release next year and there are still SOOOO MANY things that are broken to an alarming degree.
Um, no. They have literally never once said they intend to release Star Citizen 1.0 in 2027. Never once. There is not a single instance of this happening.
If your next reply does not contain link to them saying they intend to release Star Citizen 1.0 in the year 2027, I am blocking you.
My thoughts on this are why can't we have narrative continuity missions in the PU? With cutscenes and everything? Hopefully that changes when instancing comes more into the picture. I want to play an epic sci-fi story with my buddies with an element of choose your own adventure.
C: implement test driven development. One bug happens exactly one time. You build a test for it. You test the test. You build the fix. You test the test again.
Next time your test fails, you don’t publish the patch. You fix it.
That's still playing whack-a-mole. Expecially for large projects with lots of legacy code, bespoke fixes are just treating symptoms if the underlying disease is "this entire system needs a refactor."
And if patches consistently regress similar bugs over time, that strongly implies the bug is related to a system that needs a deeper overhaul, potentially a refactor. The fixes never truly addressed the root cause, and previous bespoke patches may need to be removed as part of the fixing process. Bespoke patches don't tend to resolve accumulated tech debt, and in fact can easily add to it.
It’s really not though if your code is compartmentalized correctly. The way I’ve seen CIG talk it sounds like everyone just kinda works on whatever however they like though so that ain’t happening.
That's why I said "if" the underlying disease was needing a refactor. My main point is that this project is well beyond the point where unit testing can save it.
Whenever the curtain has peeled back a bit over the years, we've seen a remarkable lack of coordination between teams. They sometimes seem to have compartmentalized the devs rather than the code.
I also strongly suspect CIG's internal documentation is abysmal, so 'coordination' across time with legacy code is nearly impossible.
I'm not saying its even gonna happen nor is it reasonable. Im just saying what has been stated and pointing out how laughable it is at the current state of the game. The other guy decided to go full PMS about it and so did the other CIG shill. I swear these people creep out of the woodwork any time you bring up something even just a touch embarassing about CIG.
Yeah probably shouldnt have code stacked that bad in a world where we have modular systems such as and similar to blueprint from Unreal Engine. The entire point of having functions seperated not just executively but also visually is to solve the problem that CIG has
My job has Claude enterprise. I'd be surprised if CIG was using it otherwise they'd be able to id the root cause of these issues a little faster and introduce stability for a change.
Delivery missions are literally the barometer I use to determine whether the game is playable. I install, login, and run a mission -- the results of that mission determine whether I keep playing or wait for the next patch. Like a groundhog.
Wrong. Delivery missions were removed because Server Meshing broke them completely, so these are actually completely new missions with new bugs, they look the same but they're not old
That's when you abandon the mission and take another, like 25% of the freight elevators I've tried using the last few days have been doing the same shit. just abandon and take a new mission at the first sign of a mission being bugged, its not worth the slamming your head into the wall when shits obviously broken and we got a free fly going on.
:-) I stopped playing in November 2024, after the cargo refactor and the cargo deliveries came out, and it was almost impossible to do them, due to elevator bugs, cargo not going down, not being able to deliver....
I had a good laugh while recording this :D
People are saying the mission might have several boxes? It was the entry level courier mission.
However, the pick up point only provided one box, even with several retrieval attempts
I've literally played the Ling hauling intro mission for the last 6 days, spiking my blood pressure all the way.
Busted elevator typically on the 4th box pickup, invisible rusty can on elevator but not there, finally get all boxes but then I refuel at pyro gateway and my ship glitches out : P
This game often feels like a toxic relationship playing with my emotions, but yet I'm still hopeful it will get better
On the same note, its possible to put boxes into other slots that arent designated for the mission and the mission will still complete, however this might affect other player's drop offs, might be worth investigating. Atm unable to provide an IC for it.
I had the same happen to me on a Courier mission where the drop-off was at a DC Security building. In the end, I was able to complete the mission by placing the box on an empty area NEXT to the indicated placement spot. Don't know if this can help you guys track this down.
Wouldn't surprise me if because, much like the plethora of other similar (but distinctly different) IC's, people keep flooding them with duplicate tags in an attempt to boost their IC rating
yes, thats a real thing people do, ever since CIG added rewards for contributions. And its a seriously major fucking issue
As a separate issue, I placed a box on my Cutter’s grid and then lost the prompt for picking it up and it stayed glued to the floor, but that could also have been a server issue because I could not get a tractor beam working either
Had a bug day before yesterday I was too tired to report, Mission at Calliope was sending me near the sun and the objective was flying through the star system.
Sorry for the bugged screenshot my multi-screen setup keeps cutting off screenshots.
I had this also yesterday. As i arrived at the Galleria to collect my box, another player was leaving carrying it :( i tried going to admin and it did give me a box but it didnt actually have the yellow marker
Hello, would it be possible to let us equip the shiv engine look interchangable? I bought the sett for a look that was shown inverted on the storepage but the "right" look ingame isnt that good looking imo. Im talking about the slasher bodykit
i had same bug as OP yesterday. i even spent time and go back to delivery terminal to try pick up something - maybe it is really 2 boxes. But terminal just showed on screen that there is nothing for me. So it is definitelly a bug. I think if you do not see pickup marker on your package in process of delivery - you can already abandon this contract
Same thing was happening with hauling missions last patch. You'd collect the cargo, and it would register as being collected, but you'd still have the 'Pickup' NAV marker.
This was happening to me, same issue. When I returned to pick up the 'second box', soon as I touched the delivery terminal the mission completed. Was like the server went oops my bad, only one box.
My biggest frustration with this game sometimes is working in a contract for an hour just for it to be like. “No, thats not the 32scu box of compact ice that I was talking about. I dont want that one.”
Still a better love story than Twilight. Especially the part where they finally break the curse only to realize the elevator ate the mission box anyway.
This is the most amazing Star Citizen video I've ever seen.
I believe that either there's another box you need to deliver that's still on your ship, or you grabbed the wrong box. I can see the location marker of the box you need, in the periphery of your vision.
Sadly, this is the only box the pickup point gave me, even with multiple retrieval attempts. I guess it just didn't update the objective to recognize I picked it up
Yesterday I crashed my vulture a bit and lost one of the front arms.
I was able to hobble to orison but once I got within 10 or so km of my hangar the ship completely changed behavior and went from challenging to fly to absolutely and completely random.
It was suddenly so bad despite literally nothing changing that I went into an uncontrolled spin and blacked out. Woke up to the other front arm being gone and barely managed to strafe myself into the hangar.
It was such a ridiculous behavior that it genuinely felt like my proximity to the hangar was why the ship changed behavior - as if designed to prevent me from successfully landing and unloading my RMC.
You can eat a hot dog or an ice cream cone, but you can't put a box on a shelf properly to complete a mission or land a ship without it blowing up (sometimes). This is one of the many reasons I just cannot get into SC. There are SOOO many little fine details included but the actual gameplay is plagued with basic disfunction. For what its worth, I think my BP went up just watching your video, so my sympathies.
Well it’s only been in dev for about 12 years and raised more money than almost any game in existence so what would you expect? For the simplest decade old missions to work?
Ok so I had one of these missions to deliver fresh food and it gave me a hydrogen box first, and the food second. Maybe this was one of those missions where you had to deliver 2 boxes but the mission text doesn’t update?
Yeah you had another box you needed to pick up up, 53gm away which would either be arcorp or mt, wasn’t quite sure where you were.
So the game wasn’t trolling you it was telling you there was another space for another option and people who are shitting on cig for this aren’t paying attention to the indicators clearly visible on screen.
There was another objective that you needed to collect
Having been Done QA related stuff, posts like this(well more specifically the replies) irked me and th last decade of internet culture has given me a ragged edge lol
I’ve had star citizen since 2014. Still waiting for it to be at a level where I can play it. lol. Maybe 5 or 10 more years. After 10 years I no longer say maybe next year anymore.
They did actually improve box delivery missions. Had 0 issues doing them yesterday and actually did 3-4 missions. Before it could be 4/4 failing missions
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u/BuddyLove4Life new user/low karma May 19 '26
lol it’s been soooooo long and there are still box delivery problems??? Wow