Squadron 42 on Steam
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Enlist in the UEE Navy in a cinematic, single-player space adventure. Pilot combat ships, fight on foot, and explore capital ships, space stations, and frontier outposts. Live and work alongside your crew as you battle on the front lines of a galactic war.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system  
OS: Windows 11  
Processor: Quad Core CPU - Intel: i7 (Sandy Bridge or later), AMD: Bulldozer or later  
Memory: 16 GB RAM  
Graphics: DirectX 11.1 compatible Graphics Card with 8 GB VRAM  
DirectX: Version 12  
Network: Broadband Internet connection  
Storage: 150 GB available space
    • Schemen110676@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Idk man…Star Citizen is a famous resource hog… and i dont think they reinvent the wheel with SQ42

  • creamfresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    So 600 years into the future and the Earth’s army sounds exactly like the US Army of today, but looks a lot whiter? wow there’s been some ethnic cleansing in this Empire

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Yes, I think it would be way more fun to play if they spoke some language I don’t understand or at least said “frak” a lot.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Considering how bad his financial management is i doubt he has money left to finish his “magnum opus”.

    Game will probably cost 100$ for base edition and 500$ for day one dlc and 50000$ for ultimate edition and in game store of course.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      27 days ago

      There are so many things to actually criticize CIG for that it seems weird to come up with something like this out of nowhere. When they were last selling SQ42 as a standalone it was $40. Despite all of the entirely justified memes about expensive ships you can still buy the complete Star Citizen game for $45 and unlock all those ships in game. While CIG have zero problem shilling $5000 ship packages to overly eager whales, they’ve always kept their base asking price impressively low.

  • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I mean, I am a bit excited for the release. I am totally aware it might move or not live up to the hype, but star citizen has so many cool things that might just be easier in a single player setting.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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    28 days ago

    i should fucking hope so, those were state of the art when they started development.

    • uninvitedguest@piefed.caEnglish
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      27 days ago

      I’m not sure you could get an 8GB GPU in 2012 - could you? And 16GB of RAM wasn’t really a consideration for most.

      • AgentRocket@feddit.orgEnglish
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        27 days ago

        You’re correct. back then the standard was still 2GB with some cards offering 3 or 4 GB. 2014 the first 8GB was released, but that was one board manufacturer going beyond the chip manufacturer specifications. Another 2 years later, the RX 480 and GTX 1070 came out with 8GB.

        • uninvitedguest@piefed.caEnglish
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          27 days ago

          For sure. And while the CPU comment is valid (and funny), I’m suggesting that it’s also being carried by required minimum hardware that didn’t even exist during that CPU’s production run.

  • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldOPEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I am actually a big fan of Chris Roberts’ Wing Commander movie. Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows :) ; trash sci-fi, the space bulldozer, weird cat aliens, hiding your spaceship in an asteroid while getting hit by WW2 era anti-submarine bombs, this is top class stuff if you are a connoisseur of sci-fi b-movies.

    I still remember catching the movie on TV (I wonder why it was available on TV even in my country so close to the release), I tuned in during the scene in the early part of the movie where they were flying through some gravitational bla bla to get on the Tiger Claw. Fun times.

    Unfortunately PR contractors report that just the intro is 5 hours of cutscenes. I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode. 50 hours of scifi b-movie trash in video game cutscene form is a whole different proposition from 2 hours of laughs.

    I honestly wouldn’t mind if investor types were duped into giving Chris Roberts money for a Wing Commander II movie. I would even go to the cinema to watch it.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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      27 days ago

      50 hours of b-movie cut scenes it just every AAA game these days. Regardless of what some people really want to believe, no games are ever really on par with actual A-list cinema. That’s not to say no game has a good story. Being interactive provides cover for a lot of mediocre storytelling, but the reality of the situation is that actual Hollywood grade production, direction and writing simply isn’t making its way into game development. This may change as gaming becomes bigger than cinema, but I still thing the medium presents a lot of challenges.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
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      28 days ago

      I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode.

      I see you’re not familiar with the Hideo Kojima method of storytelling. He’s still got the Guinness Record for it.

      • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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        28 days ago

        The most common way to get a Guinness record is to do something so stupid nobody else has done it before and nobody else will try to beat it. I think it applies here.

        Also for most people it involves paying a very substantial amount to Guinness. They sell ego trips on one end and books on the other.

    • bryndos@fedia.io
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      28 days ago

      I dunno - Wing Comander III and IV with Mark Hammill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies - that’s a top (bottom?) tier trash sci-fi cast.

      I preferred them to the movie even just as a movie - well the story was probably worse, but at least you got to fly space ships in the gaps, and that was the first time I’d seen erm … “heavyset” middle-aged luke skywalker

      These two were how i revised for my school exams - without those, i dunno, I might have had to revise.

    • Schemen110676@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Thats not what they reported… they said its a lot of things to do and people did play at different speeds.

      Which means you can influence how the game plays out

  • 0xKesh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    28 days ago

    For background I’ve been a backer of Star Citizen since 2018, and am currently Concierge level.

    Since CIG did the gameplay Livestream (the one where Ollie made his debut with the company), I’m not holding my breath with SQ42. I know, 2 different games, but if that was the best case scenario showcasing Star Citizen, then how does SQ42 look?

    Here’s hoping it turns out to be an amazing game and a true spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series though!

    • Schemen110676@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      28 days ago

      The people that were allowed to play the game were very happy with it this weekend…better than anticipated actually.

      • 0xKesh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Oh cool!!

        I’m more than happy to be completely proven wrong by CIG! So it’s good to hear there’s positive feedback! Thanks

      • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldOPEnglish
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        27 days ago

        better than anticipated actually

        In what way? Genuinely curious? What was the expectation and why was it overcome?

        • Schemen110676@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          27 days ago

          Just go to Youtube and find the latest Squadron 42 videos.

          Basically, great story, compat and overall very playable game.

          Allegedly the new trailer on Steam only shows actually in-game graphics.

          Mind you that properly means a beefy CPU and a 5090 but nevertheless

  • NekoBeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    It would be incredible if they’re able to pull that off.

    I hate the trend of just pushing more and more graphics through up-scaling technologies. My electricity bill isn’t too happy either.

    • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Considering the game still requires a minimum of 16gb of memory and an 8gb graphics card I wouldn’t say it’s not pushing more and more graphics. All that the specs imply is that the bottleneck will be the GPU.

  • uninvitedguest@piefed.caEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I looked it up and I backed this thing in October of 2012. I’ve played 0 minutes of this game. Talk about return on investment.

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    I’m not believing it’s coming until it’s out. It’s been too long and Roberts gaslights people every few years to keep the money flowing.

    I really don’t think this is ever going to release.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Even as someone who is legitimately excited for this game to come out, this reaction is so completely justified. CIG have only themselves to blame for all the skepticism at this point.

      Of course, they’re also continuing to make money hand over fist, so I guess they don’t really care…