{"id":8094,"date":"2023-10-23T05:38:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T10:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostgamer.news\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2024-01-03T05:57:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T11:57:58","slug":"squadron-42-is-a-lot-further-along-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghostgamer.news\/squadron-42-is-a-lot-further-along-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Squadron 42 is a LOT further along than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you had told me last year to expect a major announcement of Squadron 42 being in what is essentially a fully playable state and heading off to polish, I would&#8217;ve told you there&#8217;s no way that&#8217;s on anybody&#8217;s bingo card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you who aren&#8217;t aware, Squadron 42 is the single-player counterpart to Star Citizen; essentially a new Wing Commander game. They both share universes, functional gameplay, ships and more, but Squadron 42 is offline and has the standard singleplayer story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the announcement from CitizenCon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Squadron 42:  I Held The Line\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDtjzLzs7V8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything looks impressive, but then again, it should given the development time and the fact that this is all pre-recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, I see a lot of Star Citizen in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Star Citizen&#8217;s biggest plague on it&#8217;s own development is all the new emergent tech, such as server meshing, and just in general managing such a complex game&#8217;s online state. 90% of bugs encountered are related to online play in one way or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Squadron 42 strips that out, it makes a lot more sense that it&#8217;d be so much further along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that while they do note it is &#8220;feature complete&#8221;, that means there will most likely still be a fair amount of time left before release. 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