Salz01
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The proper address for a superior female officer is “Ma'am”.
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Here are 25 minutes of gameplay footage from Squadron 42
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Mowcno
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Sci-Fi fiction has often had female officers referred to as Sir for a very long time. Star Trek TNG even had it.
JohnnyPhats
Member
Only if you’re assuming one’s gender. Officers must be required to have their pronouns listed on their uniforms otherwise it’s a hate crime.
YOU PC BRO?!
Member
I think it looks good visually. It would have looked great ~5 years ago. A real Crysis moment. You are aware it's been in development for > 11 years right? Expectations are high given the castings, lengthy development cycle and eye-watering budget. Also, the fact that this is a PC-only release.
Against what? Current AAA. Every extra year this takes to complete is another year the visual bar increases. We have already had numerous visual tour-de-forces in the past couple of years alone. Character faces and facial animations (particularly the mouths during dialogue) aren't the best we have seen. Does the game have RT? From the trailer, there does appear to be a lack of consistency... also a weird softness to the image at times. I don't want to say anything more; I think the game looks good and I hope they end up bringing Squadron 42 to console.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I imagine they are running this on 4090's?
If it ran decent years ago, I hope the optimizations passes help. Needless to say, I hope it has at least DLSS2 support.
If it ran decent years ago, I hope the optimizations passes help. Needless to say, I hope it has at least DLSS2 support.
clarky
Gold Member
Only CP2077 with path tracing currently looks as good as this does (if its real).
The games unfinished of course it looks uneven, if the implement everything they promised (lol) this will be as next gen as they come.
Trailer blew me away, i backed SC 10 years ago for £20 talk about ROI......
Buggy Loop
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Sci-fi has used sir for female superiors so many times. A little unknown sci-fi called Star Trek to begin with. To think sci-fi has to be held by real life military decorum is a new one.
Buggy Loop
posts unmerged back into this thread.
Buggy Loop
Member
Its Chris Robert's wallet now.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
No hope of then finding if he had any cash in it, rumors have it Chris Roberts can smell any money within a 5 mile radius and needs a constant intake to survive.
So I'm assuming each minute in video time relates to a year in polish time before release. I like the physics puzzles, I remember seeing the same one when I played Half-Life 2, I'm looking forward to balancing a weight on one end of a see-saw so I can use it as a ramp. The ground combat kind of sucked, destruction was nice, but it felt like when Starfield first revealed their shooting, I assume its because they don't have unique player and world models and just world models which are animated together for the guns.
I think the issue is they are closer to an ARMA in space, which I guess will draw some people, but when your after Freelancer/Starlancer experience it's not ideal. It's funny that the more focussed experience feels less focussed than the last time I saw it, its sterotypical feature creep.
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Games of Today
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I'm sucking these fucking cutscenes. If they give me a story like CoD: Infinite Warfare with these graphics I'm going to scream.
Dr. Wilkinson
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You have a lot of faith in a very cultivated, focused video that no doubt took an extremely long time to slap together. I do not. I’m going off of the overall terrible track record of this game’s development. And I use the term ‘game’ loosely.
Crafted/ edited trailers are one thing. Let’s see how the actual product turns out.
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AJUMP23
Gold Member
Give me a story like WC3.
I think Roberts has said SQ42 was meant to be an analog to the roman empire.
Drizzlehell
Banned
It's called 42 because it will come out in 2042.
amigastar
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Probably, lol
cripterion
Member
This project gets a lot of flak all over the web but you have to recognize the ambition. This video plus the one on the engine and I can't help but think about people going crazy over Starfield persistence or potatoe simulation.
This is a remarkable achievement on itself, it's what I dreamt of what games could provide as a kid, exploring worlds and the seemlessness of it all is just crazy. I hope they optimize it like hell, maybe the game will be bundled with Intel gen 15 or Nvidia 5000 series?
This is a remarkable achievement on itself, it's what I dreamt of what games could provide as a kid, exploring worlds and the seemlessness of it all is just crazy. I hope they optimize it like hell, maybe the game will be bundled with Intel gen 15 or Nvidia 5000 series?
AJUMP23
Gold Member
I would have preferred the game 5 years ago. But I will take it when I get it.This project gets a lot of flak all over the web but you have to recognize the ambition. This video plus the one on the engine and I can't help but think about people going crazy over Starfield persistence or potatoe simulation.
This is a remarkable achievement on itself, it's what I dreamt of what games could provide as a kid, exploring worlds and the seemlessness of it all is just crazy. I hope they optimize it like hell, maybe the game will be bundled with Intel gen 15 or Nvidia 5000 series?
MagnetoWasRight
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It's not a trope, it's literally part of the Navy (that they are trying to change now), but it has been forever that you call women officers above you "sir."
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
What percentage of NeoGAF discussion is based around excitement for future games?
Drizzlehell
Banned
Around 30%
Another 40% of threads are reposted Tweets and nothing burger news stories, and the remaining 30% is nostalgia posting.
alucard0712_rus
Member
Released but unfinished you mean
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Damn you! Leave me 1% for GAAS defense threads you swine!
Koenigssee
Member
I still remember when Freelancer almost never got out because it was too ambitious so Microsoft had to step in.
I'll believe when it's on my PC.
I'll believe when it's on my PC.
Buggy Loop
Member
Yesss. I'm now waiting, hopefully, for their direct feed StarEngine demo in ultrawide and 4k resolution. I really hope they upload the videos of the past 2 days of citizencon in direct feed.
Which is fine. Everyone has to kind of wait until its on their PC either way.
Croatoan
They/Them A-10 Warthog
That’s exactly what you are getting. This game isn’t a pure flight sim like star citizen. Squadron 42 is a Michael Bay like military spectacle, and while it retains its wing commander roots, it will give you a lot of COD campaign like set pieces intermixed with space combat, some light puzzling and social aspects (life on the Idris you are stationed on). It’s starts with you as a gunner at the battle of Vega and then follows your career of being a pilot during the subsequent fight against the Vanduul in the Odin system.
Knowing the lore behind what is going to happen in this game, y’all haven’t seen shit yet. Gary Oldman’s character is a complete badass by the way, and mark Hammel is your space buddy. I am surprised they didn’t show Henry Cavil’s character sense he is so popular right now.
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Buggy Loop
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Henry Cavil is in this? I didn't even know.
By the way, I didn't follow the whole thing that close even though I'm a backer, but I was pleasantly surprised at the alien races.
Fuck yes I want to fight these guys. They nailed it. Feels like what Halo sequels should have been.
Vanduul's capital ship
And their fighters
Huge Freespace 2 nostalgia from those.
nemiroff
Gold Member
It seems some people don't really know what Squadron 42 is, and the unfortunate thread merge added to the confusion. Now that the threads are separated again here's a couple of notes.
For one: Squadron 42 is not Star Citizen (edit: well, at least not SC "per se").
Squadron 42 is a story driven single player game and somewhat of a spiritual successor to "Wing Commander".
..While Star Citizen is a sandbox space game in a persistent multiplayer universe.
The two games are being developed concurrently using the same base engine/code.
Another interesting note is that Squadron 42 is what many of us actually pledged for on Kickstarter back in the days, not necessarily the multiplayer SC.
For one: Squadron 42 is not Star Citizen (edit: well, at least not SC "per se").
Squadron 42 is a story driven single player game and somewhat of a spiritual successor to "Wing Commander".
..While Star Citizen is a sandbox space game in a persistent multiplayer universe.
The two games are being developed concurrently using the same base engine/code.
Another interesting note is that Squadron 42 is what many of us actually pledged for on Kickstarter back in the days, not necessarily the multiplayer SC.
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Buggy Loop
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After putting 98 hours in Starfield and finishing it, it won't be hard to surpass for me.
Give me a Freespace 2 like campaign, against aliens, with the presentation they have showcased so far, including the seamless solar system that you can go from space station to space to planet to building to cave, etc, and that would 100% surpass Starfield for me.
This scene in the trailer where they go out of quantum drive and have this scene, puts a bigger boner in my pants towards SQ42 than the entirety of my Starfield experience.
I wish i could GIF that scene.
TxKnight7
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Majormaxxx
Member
Bah humbug. It is vaporware. I wonder how many backers died without having seen it released...
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Here's the presentation complete with standing ovation and reaction from a fan. You can tell this must be quite a moment for the die hards. I'm jumping on as of that presentation. It's unbelievable.
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LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Base building and personal hangars. Son of a bitch.
Rambone
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About as many that died waiting for GTA 6 to come out.
FalconPunch
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The art direction looks generic af. Like it's giving me strong Immortals of Aveum vibes due to how generic it all looks. Also lmao at the people saying they needed to get the physics and destruction right as the reason it's taking so long. As if the didn't have bfbc2, bf3, etc running with destruction physics on the ps360.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Sorry folks I'm catching up with everything, look at that seamless loading of the planets early one. Holy shit
Buggy Loop
Member
I need this in direct feed ASAP. I keep checking every 3 hours or so if the starcitizen channel uploaded it.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
That video showing the planet scale and jumping to the next area, this is what every scifi game has been saying but this has it all at that scale. It's hard to comprehend and I know some things are farther off than others but this is outstanding. Now you know where all their time and effort has been and is going. Epic is putting it appropriately for me.
I'm watching that seamless going from several planets and systems, the fauna and biomes, the flying whales, and then the jump. Wow.
I'm watching that seamless going from several planets and systems, the fauna and biomes, the flying whales, and then the jump. Wow.
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Gaelyon
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Well I really don't care for Star Citizen but I loved Wing commander back in the days and this reveal is awesome. I'm sold for a high budget solo space fighting game featuring as a bonus fps on foot, some puzzles and exploration. Now will it be available before I die of old age we will see, but damn I miss those games.
TVexperto
Member
lol where is the sandworm from 2016?
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
The last game from CR in this style (Dreamcast & PC versions). One of the lesser known games at that even though it's the precursor to Freelancer. Still well worth picking up and playing, not exactly a crowded field nowadays and you've probably played all the other classics like Freespace etc.