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Squadron 42 Will Release in 2026 for PC with 30-40 Hours of Campaign, Prologue Gameplay Revealed
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Comandr
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Me too babe. But until you stop haunting SC every thread, I'm never going to stop counter arguing your points.I’m looking forward to our GAF date!
Buggy Loop
Member
Then they better finish SQ42 ASAP because the cash only comes from MMO for years now. You cannot buy SQ42.
What's the point of even showcasing something you can't buy?
And that
You want safe games that take 5-6 years to develop with $200M budgets and don't revolutionize anything nor bring anything to the genre? Open any game store and it's brimming with those.
This game crash and burns? Then so be it, but I respect the ambition. Shooting for the stars ain't easy.
Starfield comes to mind with 8 years (beyond if you include work on the concept of it), $400M, from a team of veterans, known hierarchy and leadership, known inhouse engine for years and the delivered that fart in the wind. Nobody even cares for that game after 6 months.
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rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Maybe because, unlike GTAVI and FFXV, we can try Star Citizen and see what it is about.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
You have like a core, fundamental misunderstanding of the situation, here.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I'm not sure but they've been very hesitant to announce release dates over the last 8 or so years for both Squadron 42 and Star Citizen. Announcing this suggest something has changed within CI.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
I understand more than you that don't touch the game.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
The abandoned roadmaps and the fact it’s a husband/wife + husband’s brother operation cause me to be concerned. Could ultimately be nothing but there was a major story posted back in 2016 about how something didn’t seem right, and true, there hasn’t been much since. I’d like to be wrong, so that millions of people aren’t defrauded, when/if any actual product actually ships.
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Dr. Wilkinson
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FFS, man. Like you are comparing games that have nothing to do with this, at all. SC is crowd-funded. It was promised back in 2014. It’s not on me to prove the fraud, it’s on them to prove it’s not, after 12 years of abandoned roadmaps and false promises. Like for real, pull yourself together and come up with something substantive, or just go do your blustering all sizzle/no steak thing with someone who cares. That’s really it
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Buggy Loop
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You can't buy Squadron 42 on a store for years now
But please think of the children /s
Strong freespace 2 vibes with the vanduul kingship. I want an epic space opera. Nothing like it on the horizon,
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Yeah but for alllll those years that you could, though.You can't buy Squadron 42 on a store for years now
But please think of the children /s
Snake29
Banned
FFS, man. Like you are comparing games that have nothing to do with this, at all. SC is crowd-funded. It was promised back in 2014. It’s not on me to prove the fraud, it’s on them to prove it’s not, after 12 years of abandoned roadmaps and false promises. Like for real, pull yourself together and come up with something substantive, or just go do your blustering all sizzle/no steak thing with someone who cares. That’s really it
For someone that doesn't care like you, what are you doing here in this thread then?
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Like a game that we can play now. That is Star Citizen now. But keep parroting fraud/scam.
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Dr. Wilkinson
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Never said I didn’t care. Oh, am I not allowed to be here? I didn’t see a sign on the door. Do you just want people here to sing koom bay yah and hold hands and talk about how great everything is? C’mon.
I’ve been following SC and CI Games (or lack thereof) since a major story suggesting fraud and other things was published back in 2016. It’s a fascinating story. Why people would be interested is not rocket science.
Buggy Loop
Member
Yeah but for alllll those years that you could, though.
" think what concerns me is how many people still are buying this anymore,"
Nice try to change your "concerns"
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Oh, did all those people that bought it when they could all get a refund? Like the ones who were promised it in 2016?
Dr. Wilkinson
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I remember being in our first house telling my bud I was gonna start a PC upgrade and VR nest egg to play this game at max settings when it came out. I sold that house in 2014
Snake29
Banned
This shows your already misinformed, because they did not.
Buggy Loop
Member
There's plenty of ways to get a refund. There's dedicated subs for that. You need to get a refund?
But I sure hope you can sleep at night knowing that nobody who saw this trailer today can go and buy the game. Thank god
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Flash Junkins
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Hey tough guy.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I'll believe it's released when it's actually released and I can buy it on Steam
Otherwise Chris Roberts can go suck a dick idc
It's been 12 years which is longer than Duke Nukem Forever took iirc
Otherwise Chris Roberts can go suck a dick idc
It's been 12 years which is longer than Duke Nukem Forever took iirc
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
It’ll be hard, but I’ll try!! PhewThere's plenty of ways to get a refund. There's dedicated subs for that. You need to get a refund?
But I sure hope you can sleep at night knowing that nobody who saw this trailer today can go and buy the game. Thank god
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
You’re splitting hairs, and his general sentiment is accurate. But you know that, of course.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
And that game actually came out, too. It sucked hard, but it came out. We’ll see if this game ever reaches that milestone.
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Snake29
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Duke Nukem lol. That game is miniscule level of scale compared to what CIG is creating with Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Looking at the scale of both games...you shouldn't be shocked at all.
willothedog
Member
2026? Didn't one of the devs say he played through the campaign years ago and they were polishing?
Snake29
Banned
Yeah mean last year. The game is content complete so it is playable from start to finish. Doesn't mean the game is finished because after content complete, polishing fase and optimasation fase starts.
Edgelord79
Gold Member
“Its fine, but it’s not complete.”
What I say every year when I reinstall the RSI launcher and fire up the game. I don’t know. At this point I’ve written this off as there is just some much other complete stuff I haven’t played.
That’s store is something else though. Meh a fool and their money type of thing.
What I say every year when I reinstall the RSI launcher and fire up the game. I don’t know. At this point I’ve written this off as there is just some much other complete stuff I haven’t played.
That’s store is something else though. Meh a fool and their money type of thing.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Haha. How long has that guy worked there?
Comandr
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That's what the beta phase is for in a game. It's "feature complete" and generally the game can be completed- though it may be a test of will power. Beta is the polishing phase. In case you're curious about the dev cycle, I did a write up about it a few months ago.
Let's talk briefly about what game development looks like.
Prototype:This is an image of Horizon Zero Dawn's prototype phase. Looks pretty different, huh? At this point they are just testing things to see what works, what feels good, getting a better idea of how they want the game to feel to play. The "game" is probably little more than a small demo area to run around and mess with stuff.
Pre-Alpha:Here's Control in pre-alpha. It's rough. It's coming together though. Assets are still missing, designs aren't final, it looks and runs like ass. The game is overwhelmingly unlikely to be considered "playable" at this point. Of course you can control the character and do stuff, but many triggers, quests, objectives, etc probably don't really function at this point yet.
Alpha:Now we're really cooking. Alpha is when a lot of systems and elements start to come together and the developers are pushing for a complete product. Some assets are in, many placeholders are still in use, but the game should be playable to some extent. You might be able to play one or two levels. You're still going to find areas that lack collision, you're going to fall through the world, or suddenly get launched four hundred feet in the air when you get attacked. Think Skyrim. At some point during Alpha is generally when a company will release a game to their internal QA team for testing and bug hunting/reporting. Each build of the game will have many iterations, Alpha 1, 2, 3, and depending on the game or developer, you might move through these pretty fast. It might only be a day or two between versions as massive game crippling bugs get ironed out and features implemented.
Beta:Here's a beta screenshot of GoW2018. Beta is a tough one, because the word means different things to a lot of different people. Typically, a beta is when the game is considered "feature complete," and can be played start to finish. In Dad & Boy of War's case, a lot of things can still change and improve during this period. Entire models might change or details added to characters and environments where there weren't any previously. This is the stage where everything really cooks and becomes pretty. Beta is when QA testers will push the limits of the game, doing all sorts of weird shit to try to break it. They'll open and close menus as fast as they can, mash every button on every screen, run and jump endlessly into every seam and piece of geometry they can find to try and fall through the world. At this point, the game should be fully playable from beginning to end; generally all quest triggers and flags should work, the game has minimal crashing, and should operate as expected. Many graphical bugs and oddities will persist during early betas, for which there are many. A game will typically be in a "beta" phase for several weeks to several months, before entering the final phase
Release Candidate. After the poor QA team has hammered this game as hard as they could and reported every minor nitpicky spelling error, geometry seam, game crash, freeze, stutter, unusual character traits like a character having hilariously large hands... The game finally moves to RC1, then 2, 3, and so on. These RC builds will be pushed hard, and everyone on the development team is trying to break the game any way they can so that it holds up in the hands of players. After a period where no major bugs are being found the game can finally, jesus, finally...
Going Gold: The approved RC build of the game is submitted and considered "good enough," to ship to be pressed and sealed up in boxes and put on shelves. At this point, the developers will go home and binge drink and try to forget all about those horribly large hands, god, those hands haunt them so. The following Monday, the team will get started on any day one patches or upcoming fixes that have been found since going gold and that build being shipped off. If a devastatingly critical bug is found during this time, the whole process is halted and a new RC will have to be submitted and approved for printing. This is expensive and time consuming and no developer, or publisher, wants to have to go through it.
And that's basically active game development in a nutshell.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
They never announced a release date in 2020.
The last time they announced a release date was in 2018, 6 years ago. This doesn't happen that often.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
This was amazing to read, I learned a lot. I also laughed out loud when I got to the binge-drinking part.
willothedog
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Comandr
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Thank you. I will never forget Martha Man-hands.This was amazing to read, I learned a lot. I also laughed out loud when I got to the binge-drinking part.
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StueyDuck
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i'll believe it when it happens...
but either way I'm in no rush. SC brings me back every 3 or 4 months with hours upons hours of gameplay that sucks me in every year, so if they need time to make the campaign perfect then take it.
who cares about the whiny scam weenies, they aren't going to buy the game anyway, just make the campaign GOTY and i can wait.
if they can deliver an extremely polished optimised campaign with what they already have available to play in SC right now then it's already gonna set a new bar for action adventure games. Actual interactivity is basically unheard of in most AAA games Barring anything Rockstar makes.
but either way I'm in no rush. SC brings me back every 3 or 4 months with hours upons hours of gameplay that sucks me in every year, so if they need time to make the campaign perfect then take it.
who cares about the whiny scam weenies, they aren't going to buy the game anyway, just make the campaign GOTY and i can wait.
if they can deliver an extremely polished optimised campaign with what they already have available to play in SC right now then it's already gonna set a new bar for action adventure games. Actual interactivity is basically unheard of in most AAA games Barring anything Rockstar makes.
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CompleteGlobalSaturation
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30-40hr campaign? Fuck that, no longer interested.
Give me a polished and memorable 16-20 hour experience instead of prolonged junk and filler.
Give me a polished and memorable 16-20 hour experience instead of prolonged junk and filler.
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FIREKNIGHT2029
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Here come the SCAMCitizen posts.
In this age of GAAS trash and "modern audience" gaming, I'm glad there is a AAA studio like CIG still making games like Squadron 42 and Star Citizen.
I don't care how long it takes them to make SC. I've been waiting 10 years for Squadron 42 when I started backing it a decade ago, and I'll easily wait another 2 or more. I have the SC Alpha to keep me occupied in the meantime and other games as well in backlog. The important thing for me is that the game is being worked on. It's a very ambitious game and from what I've seen today, an amazing game that isn't vaporware. I'd rather have this than another mindless open world game or dogshit hero shooter targeting an audience that doesn't exist.
In this age of GAAS trash and "modern audience" gaming, I'm glad there is a AAA studio like CIG still making games like Squadron 42 and Star Citizen.
I don't care how long it takes them to make SC. I've been waiting 10 years for Squadron 42 when I started backing it a decade ago, and I'll easily wait another 2 or more. I have the SC Alpha to keep me occupied in the meantime and other games as well in backlog. The important thing for me is that the game is being worked on. It's a very ambitious game and from what I've seen today, an amazing game that isn't vaporware. I'd rather have this than another mindless open world game or dogshit hero shooter targeting an audience that doesn't exist.
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