Squadron 42 Receives a 2026 Release Date, Will Have 30-40 Hours of Gameplay
Squadron 42 has received a 2026 release date at this year's Citizencon and has been confirmed to have 30-40 hours of gameplay.
Yeah because Chris Roberts is so well known for reliable release dates
They played it live wasn't perfect but a 2026 release is completely plausible
Man, you young folks must not have been around for E3, or all the various leaked E3 presentation builds of games over the years.
You can pull off some amazing looking stuff with just scripting the hell out of everything and only showing what you want people to see. Toss in some obviously unfinished stuff to make it all look more legit.
Gameplay "demos" that are not open to the public to mess with are just ad reel by another name.
I heard the same bullshit about a 2016 release of SC. It's nothing but copium. It's laughably easy to show "gameplay" of a prepared show demo, even if nothing of the actual game actually existed. Roberts has done this so many times already.
wasn’t perfect
The “feature complete” game tech demo crashed
https://m.youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?si=W0VjpxSoLALspDzk&t=8h0m50s
Hasn't SQ42 already had multiple release date announcements? This is a joke, right?
It was originally supposed to come out in about 2016 I think.
They said it was nearly complete in 2016, so that makes sense to be honest. I don’t know why everyone is bitching about this.
Surely nearly every other game in existence has also required ten years of polishing after development is finished!!
Yes, but this time they recently showed off a whole hour of gameplay from the start of SQ42... Which mostly consisted of cutscenes.
Don’t forget the fucking thing crashed when they tried to demo it lmao
https://youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?si=W0VjpxSoLALspDzk&t=8h0m50s
I look forward to the delay announcement in two years.
I still have my pledge to SC, ~$25 so not a big one, but I’ve all but lost hope on a release of the full scope of the game as it was set out years ago thanks to the massive amount of feature creep and mismanagement.
I hop in every so often, fly my Cutlass around, blow some shit up, check out the ground game and then go back to Elite. I got my money's worth. Still need to check out 3.24
Yeah I'm similar, I'm in for about $45 or so from the Kickstarter. I wrote it off and stopped paying attention about 6-7 years ago (it was already pretty far behind then!) but I figure, I've wasted more money on dumber stuff before, and if an actual game ever does happen to materialise then I'll give it a look.
I've also got the cheapest possible pledge. Played the game with friends a bunch, was a lot of fun when it worked.
Honestly, I feel like I got my money's worth. If it comes out, nice, if it doesn't, oh well.
If you want to play a space flight combat game, Everspace 1 and 2 have both come out in less time than Star Citizen, and I'd bet my life Everspace 3 will also be out before Star Citizen.
I think you meant Squadron 42.
Star Citizen is an MMO while Everspace and Squadron 42 are single player games.
Is there a Lemmy community for people who don't just shit on the game? Tired of just hearing about how it's a scam. Does anybody play this and enjoy it?
I play it and enjoy it. Haven't spent more than $45 and have put in hundreds of hours with friends.
There is a Lemmy SC community but it's pretty dead unfortunately
You mean something like r/LowSodiumCyberpunk?
I really enjoy Star Citizen as it is right now. They push out huge updates every quarter so it's getting better and better. I paid $45 and have hundreds of hours of fun. The energy people spend hating this game, inventing conpiracies, and circle jerking misinformation is super irritating. The hive mind's assumptions are wrong, the lived experiences of a growing number of players is fact. This game would have gone bust long ago if it wasn't fun, a scam, or not making steady progress. Instead it's revenue and player counts go up every year. The people who try it stick around more often than not.
You can always make one if there isn't, but you will likely need to heavily moderate it.
I thought of that, but I don't think I'm the best fit for that kind of time investment.
There was a big convention recently where they dropped details and a demo.
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