Star Citizen single-player spin-off boasts planetary flight, destructible cover-based gunplay and Half-Life-style puzzl…

Squadron 42 is the single player campaign of Star Citizen, that is supposed to launch as a separate game. It’s basically a small portion of Star Citizen, but with a story and ending. I’m still not confident; waited too long for that.

  • Stillhart@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    According to the game’s original pitch on Kickstarter, it would be a space sim with a co-op multiplayer game, an offline single-player experience, and a persistent universe. It’s since become a massively multiplayer online game and a separate single-player game with first-person shooter elements called Squadron 42, which RSI originally pitched as “A Wing Commander style single player mode, playable OFFLINE if you want.”

    This is what bugs me the most about this whole fiasco. I paid into the original Kickstarter because Wing Commander through Freelancer were my favorite games and I wanted more of that.

    The current project, even if we were to VERY charitably call it a game and call it playable, is nothing like Wing Commander or Freelancer.

    If they were still making an actual Wing Commander type game after all this time, my copium might still be in full effect. But this current… THING… isn’t even the game they promised in the first place. It’s so disappointing.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      8 months ago

      I didn’t really enjoy it, but did you play Elite: Dangerous?

      And I guess that there’s the X series, X4 now, though the focus isn’t really dogfighting.

      Everspace 2? I disliked one of those, can’t remember if that was it, but it is fighter-ish space combat.

      There are also atmospheric fighter combat games.

      • Stillhart@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I played Elite for a little bit, maybe a month or two, before it got to the point where it just felt like a job.

        I love the X series. I have hundreds of hours in X4. It’s definitely my favorite of the bunch.

        Everspace 2 was fun, but never hoked me for some reason.

        The most “Wing Commander” game in recent memory was Star Wars: Squadrons, IMHO. Shame they decided to make it CoD in space though… I’m not big on the multplayer aspect and the single player campaign was super short.

        Starfield was a huge disappointment. etc etc

        I believe they said the last expansion for X4 was the last one. Here’s hoping there’s an X5 coming.