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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Squadron 42 is feature complete and is in optimization and polish phase. 30-40 hour campaign. It looks amazing. This was released this weekend, played live not prerecorded.

https://youtu.be/1H-0x4xk2Xk?si=Q3SmA_skltVVUkiy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They released the game to the public this weekend? That is amazing.

Ohh, they didn't? This is still not available? The FPS spin off that isn't even the main game? They said it was played live but don't show anyone playing it live? They just made more promises, the thing they are still doing after 700 million dollars and more than a decade has passed?

Okay then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"didn't show anyone playing it live." Uh. Clive was literally playing on stage during the showcase. Complete with yearly CTD and all.

I'm all for shitting on CIGs trash practices, but you don't need to lie to get there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm just working off the video linked above. No video of the player, no commentary, no indication a person was actively playing it.

If they actually played it live, well bully for them. One point goes to star citizen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The video is a redo from the guy who did it live at Citizen Con, because the demo crashed when they were onstage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Okay, so they got the game "somewhat working" live? Well, that's something I guess.

I guess that explains why the commentor above posted a pre-recorded video instead of the actual live video that undermines his argument that the game is nearly done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I posted that video because it was the first one I found, it's not a grand conspiracy to trick you, jesus. Get over yourself. Watch the actual live one then, I don't care. Still looks like a fun game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Looks like a fun game isn’t what is being discussed here.

What IS being discussed is if this so called “feature complete” game is ever gonna come out. If its feature complete how is it crashing in the first demo they show? 2026 is a long ways away for a feature complete game.

As a dev, I realize feature complete doesn’t mean done but it also doesn’t mean an extra two years lead time before release either.

Just like the rest of Star citizen, aspirational date after date with no serious commitment. What they do release is either a little or a lot broken. This shits been going on for over a decade, but yeah it’s totally different now (but like, not now, but in 2026!)

….but it lOoKs LiKe A fUn GaMe!!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They claimed it was feature complete in 2023. And now they claim it is two years away from release. You really think polish and optimization takes three years? Of course, they've claimed it is just two years away every year since 2016.

They are lying to you.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Lol, one of us certainly has been lied to. Your last point is blatantly false, your first is based on your guess about how AAA game design works. Maybe it does take 3 years with a game this big, I don't know. I'll trust the many, many game devs who actually play the game and roll their eyes at comments like yours.

I've actually played the game, bought it and have no regrets. Hundreds of hours, new friends, new experiences. You passively absorbed the groupthink. I don't care if it ever finishes, I've gotten more than enough fun per dollar out this game already. Cry about it if you want, just do it quietly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've played the game since 2015 when all we could do was walk around a hanger. When it comes to where SQ42 is at, we are being lied to about where it is. Them saying at Citcon that SQ42 is just 2 more years away is a dead giveaway that they are absolutely no where near a release, and the 2026 year is pure fiction. Like I said, they've been saying 2 years away since 2016.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember that one hangar! Oh nostalgia. You should try it again there's a game there now.

They haven't been saying two years away every since since 2016. It's a running joke that they say it every year, but it's not actually happening. That one in 2016 made everyone facepalm, even employees. Chris Robert's is pathalogically optimistic about a lot of things, lol. Even in the Star Citizen community, we make fun of that sort of thing. We paid for Star Citizen early access, we have Star Citizen early access. If we get Squadron 42 as well, great! If not, it's not that big a deal. Disappointing, but the world will go on.

I think they believe their times when we say them. The scope of things said after the 2 years thing in 2016 increased by quite a bit when their funding had another boom. They aren't intentional lies so much as just being wrong an feature creep making dust of previous plans. But they have a lot more to show now than they did before, it is being made in good faith. It's just had a slow start to build the studio from nothing and a lot of budget increases.

It's definitely got a Duke Nukem Forever type problem. We will see a finished game one day, but the development has seen a lot of design changes partway through. We'll see if we end up with a mess, but we will end up with something, I believe. And again, if not, it's still just a videogame. We'll live.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

You've played Squadron 42???

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Hey look, it’s one of those gullible marks.

“Feature complete” but they can’t release it for another two years? Hmmm…… 🤔

As a dev myself this shit is hilarious