Submitted 2 weeks ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to games@lemmy.world
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4045720/Squadron_42/
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
Chris Roberts’ upcoming single player magnum opus, Squadron 42, now has a Steam page, the company’s focus on optimization will allow the game to run on early 2010s era CPUs
Yeah, I believe this Chris Roberts guy, he seems to be very trustworthy.
Yeah, fucking what?
Star Citizen?
Optimized?
Its notoriously a horrifically buggy and unoptimized branch of literally the Crysis engine which was famously memed into oblivion as being quite hardware intensive.
… on the very hardware specifically mentioned.
That’s made basically no progress in terms of optimization for about a decade now.
This is delusional.
Like did nobody see the recent ‘hey guys this is our dev branch you can see how much more optimized it is - woops its buggy laggy and crashes all the time’ live stream?
You don’t get it. It wasn’t buggy. Sure, they delayed the game again, but that was totally because of GTA6. Trust
this isnt star citizen the multiplayer game but the single player story. no network code. star citizen has been more if a test bed fir thus game
Also, Windows 11 minimum. On a Bulldozer. That doesn’t sound quite right.
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.
For him it seems fine 😁
Oops, same, I paid 37 dollars back in 2012. I did NOT remember this at all, though I occasionally watched news about Star Citizen, thinking what idiots would buy the game lol
That was star citizen, the mmo, this is squared 42, the single player game
Squadron 42 is included in whatever I backed.
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.
Can’t say for certain, but I think voice acting contracts with famed actors were already announced. So the money has likely already been sent out and something will be released, one way or another.
A list of things that will happen before this game actually comes out:
Plot twist: Crackhappy converted after bitch ex wife and is now happily married to his husband
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.
I imagine the 100+ fps crowd will complain that the game’s hard.
i imagine the 10fps crowd to be quite mad as well
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.
Funny enough in SC its definitely the CPU in many cases
Considering the persistance and severity of bugs in Star Citizen I would expect this one to be delayed about 5 more years. There is no way they get this out the door in a working condition any time soon.
They let around 100 people play the game throughout the weekend.
All reviews where very favorable.
So,.I think sq42 is pretty close to release
Just a bit more polishing everything is basically ready any day now trust
Minimum 8gb vram is not 2010 level…
Yeah at the time I had a Radeon HD 5850, which I think was a decent price-value balance, and that had 1GB.
I’m sure you could fit 150GB of uncompressed assets on a CD though right?
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.
They are getting more money each year…
Damn. Wing Commander II on the Miggy is one of my favourite games of all time, and I really wanted to love this - but I just watched the trailer and the Gee-Whiz Top-Gun Yankee Navy Saves The Universe aesthetic is just nauseating. That’s a hard pass, then.
You guys need to learn nobody thinks you’re The Good Guys any more.
Ignoring the political context (which I actually agree with), Roberts has always had those pompous militaristic themes in a space sci-fi setting posture. It’s almost what makes Wing Commander the movie so good (it’s so bad that it’s fun sense).
This…all his games were like that… dont except something else.
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!
The people that were allowed to play the game were very happy with it this weekend…better than anticipated actually.
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
better than anticipated actually
In what way? Genuinely curious? What was the expectation and why was it overcome?
I think it will start and “run” but won’t be playable…
It will run surprisingly well.
Like Cyberpunk 2077 on the PS4.
“Focus on optimization” = normal people can not get close to affording shit beyond their existing 10 year old hardware.
Q2 2027? So they’re finally admitting it won’t be this year. Or 2016. Probably not next year either.
Holy shit finally. I was one of those idiots who pledged $40 way, way back when Star Citizen was first announced, solely because I wanted Squadron 42. I’ve maybe logged into Star Citizen twice.
Will be extremely surprised if there’s a playable game next year but I’m into it.
Me too, though I was dumb and also bought a ship in one of the first ship sales. I kinda wanna load it back up and see what it looks like now
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
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.
Yeah, you’ll find a person who runs Bulldozer with a 8GB GPU. /s
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 you 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 the 50 hours cutscenes even in second monitor mode. 50 hours of scifi b-movie trash 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.
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.
My goodness
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.
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
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.
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.
Some games beat out the vast majority of Hollywood. A small selection (with a focus on more indie titles, because that’s I play):
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Citizen Sleeper I (and to a lesser extent II, albeit if II was released first it would beat I) Lone Survivor Cloudpunk Don’t Escape Consortium Age of Decadence Roadwarden
I believe it when I see it.
We already have angels fall first Fuck Roberts
Recent reviews: mixed 64%
And not even the same genre.
I VERY much doubt this game will run well on anything but a somewhat recent CPU.
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.
Meanwhile, I’m over here playing Space Rangers HD like its 2013
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
i should fucking hope so, those were state of the art when they started development.
uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 2 weeks 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.org 2 weeks 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.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
no, i was mostly talking cpus.