Star Citizen's Squadron 42 - Feature Complete Announcement

MaxBacon

After 6 years of mostly silence, Star Citizen's campaign shows up again, and boy did it show up flexing, with an outright impressive and GIGANTIC upgrade from when we saw the game last, announcing the game as feature complete and in the polish phase towards a release, a specific date hasn't been announced yet.

Video is absolutely worth a watch, because well, it was often said most of the things developed these days are done in the campaign, then moved to Star Citizen, if this video shown something is how the campaign makes SC look, feel and play dated, until all of this work is implemented on the MMO.

I was never hyped for the campaign, but seeing the quality and general gameplay approach they're achieving with it, it's looking good, and hopes are that they can pull off a decently polished release with it.

Kyleran

SQ42 is where /when? 

What is Campaign's relationship with the recently announced Pyro (or whatever it's called ) environment?

FrodoFragins

I'll pat them on their back when they ship it. We have to see how long it will take to polish their "feature complete" game.

BTW, I hope it's great.  I just don't trust snake oil salesman who are still asking for your money.

MaxBacon

Kyleran said:

SQ42 is where /when? 

What is Campaign's relationship with the recently announced Pyro (or whatever it's called ) environment?

Star System.

SQ42 takes place primarly on the Odin system, Pyro is the 2nd star system to be added to star citizen itself.


Pyro was announced it will start allowing testing on a test preview channel at the end of this month. The full release is to release with the ability to transition star systems, and with it, servers, aka the looooong talked server mesh that is to be the MMO infastructure of the game.

MaxBacon

FrodoFragins said:

I'll pat them on their back when they ship it. We have to see how long it will take to polish their "feature complete" game.

I already had such discussion bunch of times, a lot of people seem to percieve polish as just bug-fixing passes and such for some months and ship it. But it's not a short proccess at all.

If we look at Starfield that was at least 1 year, if not 2 years on polish phase, to get it released, on a somewhat lesser wonkier state than other BGS titles.

As much we can read this announcement as hype towards release, gotta also ground expectations that it's not going to be a short trip.

Kyleran

Thanks for the update Max, definitely would agree 2 more years isn't unlikely.

Slapshot1188

This is the game I want.  Not Star Citizen.

I liked what I saw.

I really loved some parts.. others were just OK... but it at least feels somewhat REAL.


Music: A+
Cinematography: A-
Ground Combat and vehicles: B+ (But I really would prefer more focus on space overall)
Space Combat: C (it looked.. kind of arcade like)
Space visuals: A
Gary Oldman Speeches: A+
The Hype that it's in in "polishing" but no date estimate: C-

Babuinix

Happy for You Slap

Kyleran

Slapshot1188 said:

This is the game I want.  Not Star Citizen.

I liked what I saw.

I really loved some parts.. others were just OK... but it at least feels somewhat REAL.


Music: A+
Cinematography: A-
Ground Combat and vehicles: B+ (But I really would prefer more focus on space overall)
Space Combat: C (it looked.. kind of arcade like)
Space visuals: A
Gary Oldman Speeches: A+
The Hype that it's in in "polishing" but no date estimate: C-

OK, if Slap watched it, guess I will too.  Starting to sound pretty promising.

Slapshot1188

Kyleran said:

Slapshot1188 said:

This is the game I want.  Not Star Citizen.

I liked what I saw.

I really loved some parts.. others were just OK... but it at least feels somewhat REAL.


Music: A+
Cinematography: A-
Ground Combat and vehicles: B+ (But I really would prefer more focus on space overall)
Space Combat: C (it looked.. kind of arcade like)
Space visuals: A
Gary Oldman Speeches: A+
The Hype that it's in in "polishing" but no date estimate: C-

OK, if Slap watched it, guess I will too.  Starting to sound pretty promising.

Well... the fanboy part of me in squealing inside.

The rational part of me goes back to Frodo's post above and the prior times we were told it's close.

But given it's been YEARS since we saw stuff like this... Im letting the fanboy out a bit.

Kyleran

Slapshot1188 said:

Kyleran said:

Slapshot1188 said:

This is the game I want.  Not Star Citizen.

I liked what I saw.

I really loved some parts.. others were just OK... but it at least feels somewhat REAL.


Music: A+
Cinematography: A-
Ground Combat and vehicles: B+ (But I really would prefer more focus on space overall)
Space Combat: C (it looked.. kind of arcade like)
Space visuals: A
Gary Oldman Speeches: A+
The Hype that it's in in "polishing" but no date estimate: C-

OK, if Slap watched it, guess I will too.  Starting to sound pretty promising.

Well... the fanboy part of me in squealing inside.

The rational part of me goes back to Frodo's post above and the prior times we were told it's close.

But given it's been YEARS since we saw stuff like this... Im letting the fanboy out a bit.

Well deep down, who isn't a bit of a fanboy for the original Wing Commander games?  

Some of Chris's later work, not so much.

MaxBacon

Kyleran said:

Thanks for the update Max, definitely would agree 2 more years isn't unlikely.

Yeah 2024 is like please please but it may need to be rushed, and we know how "cyberpunky" games get when that happens.

The positive bit to me is more that, feature complete should start free developers to focus on SC more, as we can visibly see how much SQ42 is ahead of SC in literally every category, be it on graphics, audio, AI, UI, movement, etc.. much to still to implement on SC.

Slapshot1188 said:

Well... the fanboy part of me in squealing inside.

The rational part of me goes back to Frodo's post above and the prior times we were told it's close.

But given it's been YEARS since we saw stuff like this... Im letting the fanboy out a bit.

I gotta day as we had discussions on this for years here, I generally never cared for SQ42 but this showoff with gameplay approaches with physics puzzles, open sandbox ended on how you approach any given situation, it pretty much got hype for the campaign going.

Stuff I wouldn't imagine I'd ever say 72 hours ago lol

Babuinix

Ready when it's ready boys. Trust Roberts and Old Bab's and Let it cook!

It's not like we have a choice anyway

FrodoFragins

Slapshot1188 said:

Kyleran said:

Slapshot1188 said:

This is the game I want.  Not Star Citizen.

I liked what I saw.

I really loved some parts.. others were just OK... but it at least feels somewhat REAL.


Music: A+
Cinematography: A-
Ground Combat and vehicles: B+ (But I really would prefer more focus on space overall)
Space Combat: C (it looked.. kind of arcade like)
Space visuals: A
Gary Oldman Speeches: A+
The Hype that it's in in "polishing" but no date estimate: C-

OK, if Slap watched it, guess I will too.  Starting to sound pretty promising.

Well... the fanboy part of me in squealing inside.

The rational part of me goes back to Frodo's post above and the prior times we were told it's close.

But given it's been YEARS since we saw stuff like this... Im letting the fanboy out a bit.

I have a feeling they are actually going to release it in the next year or two this time.  Based on nothing but gut feeling.

Slapshot1188

Well... the fanboy part of me in squealing inside.

The rational part of me goes back to Frodo's post above and the prior times we were told it's close.

But given it's been YEARS since we saw stuff like this... Im letting the fanboy out a bit.

I gotta day as we had discussions on this for years here, I generally never cared for SQ42 but this showoff with gameplay approaches with physics puzzles, open sandbox ended on how you approach any given situation, it pretty much got hype for the campaign going.

Stuff I wouldn't imagine I'd ever say 72 hours ago lol

SQ42 was why I pledged. It seemed quite reasonable that Chris could produce a game like Wing Commander, in a reasonable amount of time, with a high degree of success. I really hope this isn't just another false hope.

By the way, what is the latest on the Squadron 42 Mission Disk?  Last I saw they were saying that it would be it's own stand alone game, the equivalent of Wing Commander 2
LINK  
Does that mean another 15 years?  Is it in development?  Did this plan change again?

MaxBacon

Slapshot1188 said:

SQ42 was why I pledged. It seemed quite reasonable that Chris could produce a game like Wing Commander, in a reasonable amount of time, with a high degree of success. I really hope this isn't just another false hope.

By the way, what is the latest on the Squadron 42 Mission Disk?  Last I saw they were saying that it would be it's own stand alone game, the equivalent of Wing Commander 2
LINK  
Does that mean another 15 years?  Is it in development?  Did this plan change again?

SQ42 the one that's shown here and is to release is still Part 1 of the trilogy. 

We know SQ42 evolved from mission disks, which would be the dlc too it, into sequels. So the 2nd game, which early backers should get for free per stretch goal, I think Behind Enemy Lines, is supposed to be the next installement of SQ42.


The initial SQ42 is where they been creating all the engine tech, tools,  assets/etc, the sequels are realistically and easier and faster to pull off by instead focusing on building with/upon what they already created.  We just don't know how will they prioritize it attm, will they focus the sequel right away, or focus on SC, that's more the question.

Arglebargle

This reminds me of the kickstarter era, where all the WC/SQ42 fans were all enthused and bubbly.