As I have already said, I would not count on this. The game compression and asset removal is unlikely to yield such high gains that we will be able to reduce our client size to 30-40gb. The size and number of assets that are left to deliver means that our client size is much more likely to be 100gb.
Also, yes we are optimizing game patching for speed and to only deliver diffs, but this is unlikely to reduce actual patch size. Again, each patch has 100s of assets, each of these assets are at times 200mb, this leads to 2-6gb patches, and if we end up doing a file type re-factor and have to re-download 30-40% of the assets on the hard-drive, then the patch will be 14-20gb.

– Ben sounds sad.  James sounds loud.
 
– Meeting at 11 AM Pacific to see if they can launch.  Some blockers, but they’ll know more later today.
 
– If not today, they’ll try tomorrow.
 
– Travis pulls Ben out for a meeting about 1.1.  Sounds like the patch is down to the wire.
 
– New subscriber flair is a plaque, essentially thanking subscribers.
 
– News about 3 year subscription rewards should be coming soon.
 
– Next Thursday – competition macaroni and cheese off. Everyone on community team making their best macaroni and cheese inspired dish. Intense competition!
 
– CIG needs their banner back.  PLEASE.  No questions asked.  If you happen to be at SXSW, just drop it off.  Say you just happened to find it.  They won’t care.  They just want it back.
 
– Sandi just walked in.
 
– Chris’ presentation stream on Star Citizen twitch at 6:30 CDT.
 
– SC HOTAS holdup is in legal.  Send all complaints to Toast.
 
– Tickets for CitizenCon will be up after SXSW.
 
– More character models coming. (including female)
 
– All ship access week starts today.
 
– Sandi will be in SXSW on Sunday for the party
 
– Sandi found a cool venue in Berlin, but she’s not sure when they’d have the event, as they already do Gamescom there.
 
– They’re asking if you prefer snap-back hats or velcro back.
 
– They’ll do a poll on the subscriber forums about it.
 
– They’re looking into how to do Jump Point year 2 book.
 
– Sandi really wants the HOTAS deal finished, but she doesn’t know if it’ll be ambidextrous.
 
– Next week interesting ship sale hoped to be up.  No ship sales for the SXSW weekend.
 
– Montreal in July for a party. (ERRIS) (I WILL BE THERE)
 
– Will there be swearing? Sandi: “Nobody fucking swears here.”
 
– Sandi thinks the Social module is right on target.
 
– James thinks the 100gig comment was out of context, but they’ll talk about it more another time.
 
– Ben was helping Years1Hundred find a place to sleep (because everyone loves Years)
 
– Chelsea and Travis working at Illfonic for the next little while.
 
– Mars landing zone in PU? Maybe.
 
– Functionality for expanding ship skins to all ships coming.
 
– Meeting for Ben… Ben: “It was a meeting… good news/bad news.” Travis will come talk in a moment.
 
– Bad news – 1.1 is a no go today.
 
– New PTU build going up (including Tali) later today.
 
– Blockers: Multiplayer Free Flight and landing mechanics.  Very complicated, right now there’s a bug where ships don’t land or take-off, they just vibrate.
 
– Chris will have a letter out today with some specifics and some SXSW stuff
 
– Next week we’ll have the formal 1.1 build.
 
– Hardpoint design post going up today, Even though the build that enables it isn’t up yet.
 
– Fly Free week won’t include the Gladius, but there will be a Gladius fly-free week very soon.
 
– Fly Free week working on PTU?  A strong maybe… unsure.  Requires work on Turbulents part, but they hope they can do that.
 
– No FPS release date today, but Chris’ Letter from the Chairman will address FPS release plans.
 
– It needs some polish first.
 
– ESP toggle is a thing.
 
– Travis is here too.
 
– We will not be able to disable ship VO’s
 
– You will only be able to access friends’ hangars when they’re online in the first release of the social module.
 
– MVP – Formal apology from Hydro Big Bang, who was responsible for getting into the Glaive.
 
– From Ben: The Vive is the ‘Valve-killus-Rift’
 
– No ETA on Avenger variant reveals (hard no)
 
– AC 2.0 will have docking/boarding mechanics.
 
– There is a lot of work behind the scenes making sure that they’ll eventually be able to make use of Google Cloud Computing to make sure that there are servers around the world.
 
– Re-releases of old merchandise are possible.
 
– New AC Maps are in the works.  Larger maps with interesting space obstacles, experiments with PU stellar features. (Asteroids, Nebulae, etc…)
 
– Once issues with new damage system are ironed out, it will be rolled out to the other existing ships.
 
– New mount system should be in place in the new PTU release.
 
– Starfarer is SICK – Travis.
 
– Xi’An Scout – modelling process underway.  Foundry 42 asked the Xi’An Scout be pushed back in favour of the Drake Herald. (Herald is needed more for SQ42 than Xi’An apparently)
 
– Merchantman – interior concepts being finalized.
 
– Vanguard/Bulldog – Travis calls it the Bullguard – It’s making good progres.  Will be premiering ‘soon tm’.  James had said it would be next week, but apparently that just changed in the meeting Ben went to.  So no idea when it’ll be.
 
– Scythe will be ready sooner… sooner than you’d think, but not as soon as you’d hope. Conversion to being human accessible is cool.
 
– P52 being redone as part of Constellation remodel.  In-house presentation today, work finished soonish.
 
– Anvil Aerospace Crucible (repair ship) will be done by George Hull. (Orion and Reclaimer)
 
– Hull series – Hullapalooza is upcoming.  In progress, nearly complete with the Hull C, they’ll extrapolate to the other Hulls from there.
 
– REC will not be in the PTU.  Won’t be able to REC it up till next week.
 
– Jim Martin doing the Hull series. (Freelancer)
 
– Idris has gotten bigger again.
 
– Ben: “By the time Squadron 42 comes out, it will eclipse the entire universe.”
 
– Cutlass variants – no updates on when Variants will be flyable.
 
– No update on new CCU system.
 
– Nothing currently in production that fits the bill of the ‘Firefly’.
 
– No update on melting Voyager Direct items.
 
– No information on Retaliator variants.
 
– Working on a friend referral system but Turbulent is uber busy.  System is prototyped out, and is coming.
 
– Carrack is confirmed to fit in most jump points.  Because that’s a question that people ask.
 
– FPS Module – Dragging and medical kits will be in the release.
 
– 1.1 delay does not affect FPS module.
 
– Smaller ships that are associated with larger ships (scout for Carrack, 85x for 890) will be done when their parent ship is done.
 
– FPS modes on release
 
– 8v8 counter-strike style, 2 teams 2 rounds, you die you’re dead.
 
– Astro Arena – “legally distinct from Enders Game” gameplay.  16 vs 16.  Will be like a sport.
 
– ESRB rating for SC/SQ42 will be either Teen or Mature.  Not going for a particular rating, will tell the story they want.
 
– No GTA Guns and boobs wherever they can, has to be relevant to the Universe.  Wing Commanders were T and M, so somewhere in there for SC.  They may not get a rating till they do a boxed copy anyway.
 
– Fly Free Week will NOT be in the PTU
 
– Stay tuned to the PTU for Gladius ship speed and weapons increases.
 
– 1.1 broken, which is why it’s not going live today.
 
– Herald does not have an asymmetrical design anymore.
 
– There will probably be some form of military variant of the mobiGlas.
 
– Squadron 42 it’s coming along, and they’re going to be doing more mo-cap for it soon.
 
– Chris will be out of the office for “quite a long time.” (directing performance capture shoot)
 
– The battlecruiser is “BIG”.  Can’t reveal name yet.
 
– Star Citizen business model: Disposable space diapers, $5 each.
 
– Real and in-game ones.  (they are joking.  Space diapers are a joke.)
 
– Don’t write in to Customer Service asking them when a concept is coming.  They can’t help with that.  They also can’t help when you ask 50 questions at once.  Be considerate.  Also don’t submit duplicates.  Or all caps.  Or ask them out.  They are humans too.  Please consider that.
 
– CS got through ticket mountain! *applause*
 
– There will be an AC manual update when 1.1 comes out.
 
– There will be a Star Marine manual as well.
 
– Dogtags are still in production, probably 1-2 months.
 
– T-shirts shipping in the next week or two.
 
– Clothing system will allow top hats and space helmets.
 
– 1.1 has new ESP tweaks that will help gamepads and such.  More of a predictive system than a reactive one.
 
– “HOTAS GOT NERFED. MOUSE AND KEYBOARD FOR LIFE.” (again they’re joking)
 
– Freelancer and Constellation finished whiteboxing and moved to greyboxing.

– There are no issues running SC on Windows 10
 
– Agent Smithing – it’s a PU thing, Tony will be working on it, and it will be balanced as they start to develop it.
 
– Tune into the SXSW Presentation in ~5 ½ hours
 
– Chris is appearing on the Geek Stage, more general presentaton.  Sunday is the actual Star Citizen event.
 
- And stream is done.

On Sunday, we’re hosting a SXSW closing party which will include a Star Citizen presentation. Anyone in the area is encouraged to attend, see what we’re working on and spend time with the team. It’s a good sneak peak at what we’re going to be putting out after Star Marine drops. [...]
 
Of course, we’re also pushing forward with our public releases of the game itself! As you know, we’ve been working in the week since PAX East to get Star Citizen 1.1 out the door. We sat down to review a build candidate this morning and have decided that it’s not ready for launch today. We’re doing some additional work to make sure that two of our big features are polished: the multiplayer free flight mode and the manual take-off and landing. Both of these are important prototypes for the finished Star Citizen game and both move us away from a simple combat game to a broader universe to explore and interact with. [...]
 
When it goes live next week (barring serious issues!) Star Citizen 1.1 will add the Retaliator, the Gladius, the REC system, multiplayer free flight, improvements to the flight model, manual and automatic landings… and then behind the screens it will premiere things like the 64-bit floating point that will soon allow us to create significantly larger maps. But perhaps the single most important thing about 1.1 is that it’s Star Citizen and not Arena Commander.: With 1.1, we’re doing a lot behind the scenes to set up rapid expansion that you’ll see over the next few months as we add Star Marine and the social module to the Star Citizen experience.[...]
 
Looking forward: our next major release is Star Citizen 1.2, which will add Star Marine to the mix.[...]
 
In honor of this achievement and the impending launch of 1.1, I’m going to go ahead and start everyone off with 5,000 REC. This should help us kickstart the new system, let our designers observe it in action for the next balance pass… and give you all some cool toys to play with!