Chris Roberts' upcoming single player magnum opus, Squadron 42, now has a Steam page, the company's focus on optimization will allow the game to run on early 2010s era CPUs such as AMD Bulldozer and I

a day ago by Agent_Karyo to c/games

Enlist in the UEE Navy in a cinematic, single-player space adventure. Pilot combat ships, fight on foot, and explore capital ships, space stations, and frontier outposts. Live and work alongside your crew as you battle on the front lines of a galactic war.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system  
OS: Windows 11  
Processor: Quad Core CPU - Intel: i7 (Sandy Bridge or later), AMD: Bulldozer or later  
Memory: 16 GB RAM  
Graphics: DirectX 11.1 compatible Graphics Card with 8 GB VRAM  
DirectX: Version 12  
Network: Broadband Internet connection  
Storage: 150 GB available space

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Agent_Karyo 5 points a day ago

I am actually a big fan of Chris Roberts' Wing Commander movie. Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows :) ; trash sci-fi, the space bulldozer, weird cat aliens, hiding your spaceship in an asteroid while getting hit by WW2 era anti-submarine bombs, this is top class stuff if you are a connoisseur of sci-fi b-movies.

I still remember catching the movie on TV (I wonder why it was available on TV even in my country so close to the release), I tuned in during the scene in the early part of the movie where they were flying through some gravitational bla bla to get on the Tiger Claw. Fun times.

Unfortunately PR contractors report that just the intro is 5 hours of cutscenes. I don't know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode. 50 hours of scifi b-movie trash in video game cutscene form is a whole different proposition from 2 hours of laughs.

I honestly wouldn't mind if investor types were duped into giving Chris Roberts money for a Wing Commander II movie. I would even go to the cinema to watch it.

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Schemen110676 2 points a day ago

Thats not what they reported.. they said its a lot of things to do and people did play at different speeds.

Which means you can influence how the game plays out

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