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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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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
No it wont.
LectureMaster
Gold Member
Ribi
Member
But what if
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
2026. 
Just another kick the can down the road timetable to get people off their backs for awhile.
I knew in 2014 this whole thing was basically a giant fraud just to continually make money but never deliver a game. It just reeks of fraud.
Just another kick the can down the road timetable to get people off their backs for awhile.
I knew in 2014 this whole thing was basically a giant fraud just to continually make money but never deliver a game. It just reeks of fraud.
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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Ill eat crow then.
Comandr
Member
How can anyone actually say things like this? They just showed an hour of actual on stage gameplay and the game looks excellent. 2 more years to polish it up and it’s going to be something really special.2026.
Just another kick the can down the road timetable to get people off their backs for awhile.
I knew in 2014 this whole thing was basically a giant fraud just to continually make money but never deliver a game. It just reeks of fraud.
Like… how far up your own ass does your head need to be to just ignore everything they showed at the convention today?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Because they’ve been working on it for….how long? Come on, use your common sense. It’s never coming out. Mainstream press have been running articles suggesting fraud for literally a decade. This is not even my original idea, I’m just agreeing with it.
It was announced in fucking *2012*. Don’t get on my ass about how I’m somehow being the ridiculous one. Let’s look at the facts.
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asdasdasdbb
Member
Yeah. The game is a running joke.
Because their primary concern is driving crowdfunding revenue, not shipping a good game.
diffusionx
Gold Member
I'll believe it when I see it. They've said things before.
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Devs ain't getting their paid leave any time soon lmao
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
This.
%. I remember an article about this game suggesting the same thing from nearly a decade ago, and looking into it myself. It clearly seems like a long-running fraud to me. I would expect criminal charges at some point, but the charges always come after the shit really hits the fan. The longer they can prop everything up, the longer they can get away with it and keep making money off it.
Chupanibre
Member
When/if it comes out I'll buy it.
Comandr
Member
Game development takes time. I don't understand how anyone can question this. FFXV was in development for 10 years and that game has a significantly smaller scope than the TWO GAMES that CIG is developing side by side. Like.. what's your point? Prey took 11 years. Duke Nukem, famously, 14 years. Shit happens. Games take time to make. That doesn't just automatically make them scams.
Flotsam, for instance, entered early access just over 5 years ago, and was a massively smaller game in scope back then. Today, its at version 0.8.5, and basically a completely different game. It's still not a scam.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Right… When did Mark Hamill mocap his scenes, 8 years ago??
Good grief. How anyone still gives money to this scheme is just mind-boggling.
ClanOfNone
Member
What type of rig will you need to run it?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
The difference is, FF XV *actually came out*. Not to mention it was confirmed to have not always been in active development that entire time. It also began as PS3-era game.
This isn’t rocket science. Read up on Star Citizen if you’re truly not skeptical.
Star Citizen's Squadron 42 campaign won't release this year
Cloud Imperium Games still has some work to do.
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FUBARx89
Member
Devs ain't getting their paid leave any time soon lmao
Sucks for them that shit won't fly in the new fancy office they've built in Manchester or whatever.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Ubisoft, Insomniac, and EA take each release 3 games in 15 years that are all sheeeeiiit. No one bats an eye.
Star Citizen exists.
OMG look at that scam!
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Was final fantasy 15 crowd funded?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Wow. You clearly have come into this not knowing what you are talking about.
Squadron 42’s planned release date was *ten* fucking years ago. Maybe go do your research.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
I don't care about delays. I care about ambition.
diffusionx
Gold Member
The idea that a 30 hour Wing Commander spirital sequel would need 14 years of development is just totally ridiculous. As ridiculous as the idea a FPS as shitty as DNF needed 14 years. I said it in the other thread but the entire Wing Commander series, start to finish, was released between 1990 and 1997.
Most of the time spent was not on this game and everyone knows this. You listed three projects that were total disasters and claimed that's the norm. Get serious. I don't know that Flotsam is but sounds shitty.
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Comandr
Member
I'm disappointed in this comment. You of all people should know that, as a spiritual successor to Wing Commander, of course Squadron 42 is going to have a lot of big actors. Wing Commander 3 famously had quite a lot of big actors, including Mark Hamill, Tim Curry, and John Rhys-Davies. There is no way Chris Roberts wouldn't bring big names for his big spiritual successor.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
If the development of game outlives your lifespan, you won’t either.
This is not a typical “good games take time” situation. Again, strongly suggest you maybe look into it a bit more.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Is it just me or is that gameplay video tearing like crazy?
why would you demo a game without vsync enabled? wtf?
why would you demo a game without vsync enabled? wtf?
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Star Citizen's Squadron 42 campaign won't release this year
Cloud Imperium Games still has some work to do.
This was published in *2016*. C’mon. Acknowledge how completely ridiculous that is. At this point it’s far beyond reasonable.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Because it’s been in “development” for 14 years and it’s likely nowhere near as close to release as they are trying to make it appear. Given that originally they were planning to release in 2015.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
And sucks.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
A) doesn’t matter, not applicable in this context
B) so you acknowledge it did indeed come out
C) Sold 10+ million copies and is by no means considered a bad game
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Comandr
Member
Okay. Well GTA6 has been in development since 2014. That's going to be 11 years. Is that game a disaster? Starfield started predevelopment in 2012. That's 11 years. Dev cycles are just longer now, because games are bigger than they used to be.
It's not just you. Awful screen tearing for the whole presentation, can't watch.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
A) GTA6 isn’t being crowdfunded
B) GTA6 was never promised to come out and then took another 14 years, only to find out that yet another far-off release date for two years from now is now the next promised date. With no reason/ precedent whatsoever to assume they would be able to meet that date.
You are conflating things that are not even remotely similar. That’s why your thesis is so bad, because it’s inherently based on a false premise.
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diffusionx
Gold Member
GTA6 isn’t crowdfunded, it’s coming off literally the biggest game of anll time, and besides, the devs there have earned the trust of players in a way this group hasn’t.
It’s crazy how defensive star citizen people are over this products. It always devolves into this. Yea bro people have a reason to doubt this project, they’ve been squeezing whales for over a decade and the game they pitched in 2012 isn’t even close to out yet. We are long past the point where the only thing that will shut people up is if the game comes out and is actually awesome.
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Reizo Ryuu
Member
That was stupidly boring, I set it to 2x speed and was still bored out of my mind, nothing happens for 25+ minutes.
Then 45 minutes in the damn thing crashes mid cutscene, they restart and then 15 minutes later there's some on foot gameplay again.
0 flight gameplay in the whole thing.
Then there's all the jank and screen tearing, just an awful demo/presentation.
Also this lmao wtf
Then 45 minutes in the damn thing crashes mid cutscene, they restart and then 15 minutes later there's some on foot gameplay again.
0 flight gameplay in the whole thing.
Then there's all the jank and screen tearing, just an awful demo/presentation.
Also this lmao wtf
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
A) Matters if this don't suck.
B) Doesn't matter if this comes out.
C) I, as a consumer, don't care.
Halo is Back
Member
I'll believe it when it actually comes out. It's still a far-off and vague date. They could easily delay it again just like the past decade of development.
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
None of those games were in full production during those years since they were busy with other games they've already released.
Keep trying champ
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Comandr
Member
And you have to understand that the game is massively different in scope than they originally pitched. Jesus, look at the original squadron 42 teaser. It's laughable compared to what we got today. It's not like they have just been sitting on their thumbs and letting the money pile in. At the end of the day, it's just a fuckin video game. I pledged 40 bucks ten years ago for the package that contained SC and SQ42. I would rather have today's game, than whatever they were showing in 2012 as their pitch.Star Citizen's Squadron 42 campaign won't release this year
Cloud Imperium Games still has some work to do.www.pcgamer.com
This was published in *2016*. C’mon. Acknowledge how completely ridiculous that is. At this point it’s far beyond reasonable.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
We’re so far off topic now (due to your post attempting to be a counterpoint to my arguments), that it’s best if we just end it here. It’s not productive.
Radical_3d
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