Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has said Squadron 42, the single-player portion of its controversial space sim, is finally “feature complete”, over a decade after it was announced.

Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN::Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has said Squadron 42, the single-player portion of its controversial space sim, is finally “feature complete”, over a decade after it was announced.

  • Scrof@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1435·
    11 months ago

    Reminder that Starfield was in development for 8 years by an experienced gigantic team with a AAA budget and it still wasn’t half as good as indie crowd founded Star Citizen alpha version.

    • shartedchocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      11 months ago

      Reminder that starfield is playable and enjoyable, with decent performance and a complete game with a shitload of missions. Can Starfield be better? Yeah, and I think it probably will be with a bit if time. Is the space combat a little bit dogshit with really nice audio design? Yeah, it sure is. Is it actually out, playable, with boarding and ship building? Yep, sure seems like it.

      I don’t even know why you threw this example out there for a single player game that’s pretty much what everyone expected from a AAA studio in the current “optimize every dev hour per dollar” bottom line focused game dev style.

        • shartedchocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          11 months ago

          The second half I don’t dispute, people play it and enjoy it. The first part though I’m not sure about for myself, I don’t think I can play SC, certainly not the SC I paid for god knows how long ago. I can play a tech demo right now, and that’s just not enough.

          I hope I cream my pantaloons when SQ42 actually lands. Until then, SC as a whole is far from what’s been promised.

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Played SC 2 years ago and it was extremely extremely buggy and a seriously hardware straining experience. I really wanted to enjoy it, because traversing the city by metro and seeing the ship’s interior is pretty cool, but like on every 2-3rd mission, a bug killed my run.

      • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Got to love the classic of buying some trade goods and then randomly exploding en route, so you lose all your credits.