I'm not really following this game but I'm surprised to hear this was scheduled for 2016.
It was scheduled for 2014, according to Chris Roberts, the main guy behind it, who rode this kickstarter project on a wave of nostalgia driven space game enthusiasts money to a 125$Mio. dollar campaign with ongoing funding of them selling .jpg spaceships for hundreds of dollars apiece. Yet, the project has shown little beyond tech demos after now four years of development post kickstarter. Did I mention that also all the most expensive and big space ships are not playable?
The Squadron 42 campgain (single player part) is a no-show beyond some cringeworthy scripted sequences that were shown last year.
I've been vaguely following this game. Is it ever coming out?
Why, but you can help them! There's a sale for a 750$ spaceship (892.50$ in Germany, due to taxes I assume). This all benefits their funding, because with 125$Mio. dollars of backer money and at about four years since the kickstarter they really need all the money they can get from you to progress past prototype stage.
As exchange, they'll show a scripted fetch quest or some explosion tech demos and promise some updates for their playable alpha tech demos that may or may not come.
Is the flight model good you ask? Does it have depth? Let Chris Roberts handwave for himself: