Over the past twelve years, fans of Chris Roberts’ space epics have invested more than three-quarters of a billion US dollars in “Star Citizen,” which doesn’t even have a release date yet. The 500 million mark was broken only two years ago.
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In the last week alone, nearly 5 million were added crowdfunding status page appear to. The virtual event has also been going on since then.”iae 2954“, an image event during which you can play the current development state of “Star Citizen” for free. However, a video shown as part of the actual event “CitizenCon” at the end of October 2024 contributed even more Maybe the latest hype about the game was a time of crisis for the developers.
In the clip, the producers show over an hour of gameplay from “Squadron 42,” a solo game offshoot of the Star Citizen universe. It’s not finished yet, but according to Studio CIG, it’s slated to be a full feature by 2023. CIG does not specifically state how long bug fixes and optimizations should take. The last concrete date was announced in 2019, when it was said that the beta version of “Squadron 42” would be released in late 2020. This did not happen, now this game is going to hit the market in 2026.
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Gameplay from “Squadron 42”
in which on youtube published videoThe game, lasting over an hour, consists of a prologue to the game, which was played live at CitizenCon according to media reports. However, there were two crashes that can’t be seen in the video – so bug fixes are clearly more than appropriate. What appears to be a lengthy cutscene is a mix of video in the game engine and player interactions, which makes up only a fraction of the video.
Nevertheless, the integration of virtual actors including Gary Oldman and the environment can be described as successful. Even if you are not a fan of the famous games of the “Wing Commander” series (Parts I to IV from 1990-1996), you can easily get carried away by space fever with great drama about characters and battles in space. , Of course, none of this is really new, but this combination of a well-told story and active room-based shooting is hard to find on PC these days. However, it is not clear from the video whether the strategic elements of the Wing Commander series, such as choosing the right spacecraft and weapons, affect the development of the story in the same way as Chris Roberts’ previous games did.
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