A new video surfaced yesterday, showcasing 9 minutes of brand new in-engine footage from Star Citizen and Squadron 42. This video was from an internal review, and its scenes are rendered on client (these aren’t pre-rendered scenes).
Basically, this video shows the current state of Squadron 42, the single-player mode of Star Citizen. And while we all agree that both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are in development hell, they at least look gorgeous.
As we reported in 2020, Squadron 42 was nowhere close to being complete at that time. Cloud Imperium also stated back then that it had no intention of showing the game to the public in the next couple of years. This explains why this internal review video didn’t see the light of day in 2021.
For what it’s worth, Cloud Imperium released the latest alpha version of Star Citizen in June 2022. Alpha 3.17.2 introduced the all-new Siege of Orison dynamic event, expanded explorable derelict ships and outposts, and implemented the first iteration of AI Planetary Nav Mesh.
Enjoy the video!
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The year 2030:
Cloud Imperium now up to 1.25 billion dollars in revenue taken in.
Squadron 42 is still in Alpha. But it looks really good.
Woow 2030?! that’s pretty optimistic
Right, more like 2050 and 5bn dollars!
Right, more like 2050 and 5bn dollars!
“So when are we going to finish our game and release it to the public?”
-well we could release it today, but then that would be it”
“What do you mean?”
-the narrative that we need more money for development no longer works when we finish the development
“So you’re saying the best business decision is to never release the game?”
-that’s right
“Won’t people notice that we should be releasing the game?”
-no, we just add more and more unfinished features
“So we are trying to undermine our own ability to finish the game?”
-now you’re getting it
“How long has this trick worked so far?”
-over a decade
“Are our investors and players so stupid that they don’t notice what we’re doing?”
-they are
I know people who bought in to Star Citizen many years ago who even today still support them and refuse to accept that Cloud Imperium Games is doing this.
Here you can find some of those just by looking at your downvotes. Stupid people are everywhere, and they get mad when confronted.
if you think this is stupid, this is how most of the biggest companies work. They get billions of dollars by large investment firms for promising things and when no one wants to invest they go woke for a high esg score so they get money from there like cd projekt is doing now. Most of the jobs in tech are fake.
720 vid looked a bit fuzzy on my end and I run 980Mbps (as of just now), now Im not a hater on this game but just kinda been observing this over the years. Wth? Am I missing something or does this game have merits if I just decided to try it?
You cant just decide to try it yet, SQ42 isnt released in any form. You can try Star CItizen though. which is an MMO being built alongside SQ42. There are free fly weeks every now and then, its buggy and often frustrating because of that. When it works it can be pretty amazing, even in its current form. Best played with Friends, the more the merrier. It wont be finished for a very long time though.
“which is an MMO being built alongside SQ42”
“being built alongside SQ42”
“being built”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
? You can play it right now Simon.
I can’t wait for 2014. Great games ahead.
all things considering how the industry is now i think this is better than starfield. But its never coming out.
Besides the poor low-quality facial Mo-Cap and poor model hyper-realism (it looks kinda alpha or years dated but a new version may exist today) it’s gonna to take a VERY powerful card to render this title to enjoy its full visual experience (4K@60fps, minimum, w/RT, etc. enabled without utilizing any reconstruction samplers) and those cards DO NOT EXIST today or in 2024.
Model faces look weird because of the in helmet lights.
There are several moc-cap quality. The best tiers is 4K and you can zoom in down to blood vessels eye, in game, right now not in 2024. Medium tiers is still a good 2K and all NPC’s are either tiers 1 or 2.
It looks fantastic to be honest, too bad no one will be alive in 2199
butter smooth 19 fps with stutter for volumetric fog and particle effects that float around between some spaceships, game of the year 2041 for sure.
Star Cit… no, just no. Not giving this scamware any more attention, no sir. Visually, it is already outdated, and by the time it comes out (IF it comes out) there would be low-budget indie games running on UE or Unity with RT that would have vastly superior visual fidelity, plus modern gameplay mechanics.
It looks bad for a 2014 game. Didn’t age well at all this one.
As usual, haters leave their traditional comments: outdated graphics, no gameplay, 10 years… meanwhile new backers join by hundreds thousands every year.
Anyone with eyes will see how outdated graphics are in Citizencon panels and how the game is losing hope with 1.7 millions backers despite being in Alpha, with more daily players than many triple-A, released and forgotten the same week.
4.0 is not years away but quarters away. That will add even more backers as this is introduction of new system, new gameplay and last core tech needed to switch to beta.
Remember prophecy from internet experts around: “collapse 90 days top for sure!”… that was in 2015 🙂
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Get a load of this mor0n! Do you really think that people who visit this site are stupid enough to buy these ctrl+c ctrl+v mor0nic tales you write?
Just tell me where the so called Squadron “game” is today, since it was supposed to be out in 2015? We know a scam when we see one.
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Never forget… that game scope changed back in 2015, approved through pools and support increasing every single year.
It is easy to pick a picture and use it out of context… much harder to swallow facts: more new backers every single quarter, more pledges, more gameplay and so on 🙂
6 studios, +850 developers, 1.7 million individual backers who joined after testing/playing several weeks per year for free. Worst scam ever dude 🙂