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Space sim Squadron 42 is "feature-complete" and gunning for Starfield's lunch with massive new video (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 10 months ago by thingsiplay@kbin.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It's basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I'm still not confident; waited too long for that.

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[–] cambriakilgannon@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Backed the kickstarter, still excited. Even in its current state it's one of the more interesting games I've ever played. There's probably a reason no one else has tried to make star citizen before. If SQ42 ever launches, hopefully in a decent state, assets will start getting moved to the multiplayer side of things.

[–] GunnarRunnar@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What exactly is Star Citizen? And how does it differ from everything else?

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's a space MMO sandbox game that's been in development for like 11 years now I think? It's still in the alpha stage. I think at one point it was the highest backed Kickstarter in history. Some people think it's fraud and they'll never deliver, others think they're working on it just slowly. I think at this point universally though, people are just starting to give up hope. The game is available and in a playable state, it's just nowhere near the promised state.

It also doesn't help that a lot of ships in star Citizen can be bought with real life cash for pretty exorbitant amounts. A cursory Google search (haven't played the game) tells me that the "600i Executive Edition" is the most expensive ship in the game, available for $25,000 real life USD.

I've heard the best comparison for the game is the presently finished game Elite: Dangerous. Star Citizen is basically saying they're E:D but better.