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Adding Fast Travel to Star Citizen?! | SCL React
⏱ 130 min video · 3 min read8 May 2026
TL;DR
SaltEMike reacts to a Star Citizen Live episode featuring vehicle director John Crew, assistant design director Torsten, and lead vehicle designer Richard, covering TSG (Tactical Strike Groups), fighter role differentiation, missile/torpedo reworks, and the new flight model direction. Mike provides critical commentary throughout, questioning CIG's vagueness on ship roles, their ship sales model, and whether CR's 100% player-skill vision is achievable.
Key points
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Tactical Strike Groups (TSG) are arriving in May 2025 as the first major coordinated multi-ship PVE content, requiring different ship archetypes to complete layered sequential objectives
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CIG is planning incremental flight model changes starting with bullet speed reductions and increased weapon ranges in 4.8, aiming for a more cinematic, close-range, agile combat feel that CR wants
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Fighter role differentiation (light/medium/heavy) is acknowledged as unclear, with CIG planning adjustments to make each archetype feel distinct rather than serving as a progression ladder
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A major missile rework is planned: slowing missiles down for predictability, improving lock-on visual feedback, making countermeasures more readable, and building toward dedicated stealth gameplay
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The Anvil Odin battle cruiser was announced as the largest player-flyable ship ever, twice the volume of a Javelin, with multi-crew coordination improvements planned via social system overhauls
Key updates
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Missile users: a visual lock-on confirmation indicator fix is coming; currently the UI shows a static lock state even when lock is incomplete, which is a known bug on the fix list
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Small ship pilots: missiles currently bypass armor checks and deal full damage, making them the best tool for cracking armored targets even from a small ship
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Light fighter pilots: CIG explicitly states light/medium/heavy fighters are not a progression path but parallel tools for different jobs - though what those jobs are remains vague
Notable quotes
“You guys suck at explaining this sh*t. And I think you do on purpose because it sells spaceships, but I think you also do it on purpose because you don't like the criticism.”
“It has been 14 years, and they have been unable to achieve it. So you can agree all you want, but it may never be fun. It may never be a game.”
“We never really focused on making sure our combat was fun. We just kept selling spaceships.”
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