The dragons are coming you'll see they're on their way and it's going to be amazing.

At least they finally said something. A few extra months of bug fixing and polish can't hurt but they must also know how this looks. They made themselves into a joke already. I just hope it's actually amazing when it finally comes out to make all the waiting and delays worth something.

Zero footage for more than a year, almost no info beyond "we're still working on features for this feature complete game" in monthly reports and a 6 month+ delay but "it's totally because of GTA you guys!" Sounds legit.

Not that I expected anything else. I'd be more surprised if they actually hit their deadline for once.

That said, I'm way more worried about another thing:

(...) Towards the end of 2024 we decided that couldn’t continue so we shifted the balance back. In these final months on Squadron 42 that split is now 55% to 45% in Squadron’s favour, to ensure we get Squadron 42 bug free, polished and optimized.

For the last few months (possibly up to 2 years) 45% of the development teams has been actively working on SC - 45%! Seeing the state both PU and their internal builds are in, I find it rather troubling. It's baffling how despite this number of devs the game still feels like it's run by a skeleton crew.

This does not inspire confidence.

Sounds like it's delayed until Summer of 2027, mostly blaming GTA 6.

They will at least open it up so that a small group of players can test it out, and it sounds like we'll get the official release date locked in soon after that:

We are allowing a small number of original backers and long-time Star Citizen content creators an opportunity to play Squadron 42 this October 9th and 10th. We’ll be making further announcements about our release plans during this time and a specific release date shortly afterwards.

Suuuuure, that's the reason.

Hah! Yeah fucking right - we ALL know their vaporware just isn't ready yet and this the best excuse they can come up with!

They always find a new excuse.

It was originally announced for release in 2014 during the Kickstarter campaign, but was delayed multiple times.[48][49] In mid-2019 CIG stated that a beta release was planned before the end of Q2 2020, then an estimated Q3 2020 on a now abandoned roadmap.[50][51][52] In December 2020 Chris Roberts announced there will be no official release date or gameplay footage at this time. "I have decided that it is best to not show Squadron 42 gameplay publicly, nor discuss any release date until we are closer to the home stretch and have high confidence in the remaining time needed to finish the game to the quality we want".[53][54] At CitizenCon 2024, first gameplay parts of Squadron 42 were shown and a release in 2026 was suggested.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen#Squadron_42

Never let a good crisis go to waste

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