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Squadron 42: 2019 Visual Teaser
MaxBacon
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SQ42 just made an appearance with a visual teaser of some of the work done this year on the title
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The Glaive rework as well gg
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Based on what has been said:
SQ42 is using graphical assets developed for SC in addition to some unique SQ42 assets. (Maybe those assets will be folded into SC later.)
SQ42 is being developed on Lumberyard augmented with internal coding as is SC.
Players / testers of SC can check out how well their PC will run SC using a tool made available for this purpose. The tool is also being used to track performance gains / losses as development / changes are made. Other people can look at these results to see if a PC akin to theirs has been tested.
If, for those not involved, the tool indicates that their PC will play SC then it is reasonable to assume that their PC will also play SQ42.
Over and above that one has to consider that unlike SC Squadron 42 is a single player game. As such SQ42 should play better than SC. Also the fact that one of components embedded within Lumberyard is CryEngine (not the only "engine"!) developed for single player, not mmo games.
So - what I suggest @Erillion is saying is that if a PC runs SC there is no reason to believe it won't run SQ42. However if a PC won't run SC it still might run SQ42.
@Erillion will have to correct me if what I believe he meant by his blessedly brief comment - unlike this long form explanation.
What I found interesting though is that they didn't have the phrase: "Coming in 2020" in the trailer. I suspect, maybe wrongly, that that is deliberate.
The current schedule for SQ42 has the beta targeted for next year but they are late to plan. Now maybe they will recover - I am sure they would want to commercially - but I do feel that there is an "honesty" in not having that tiny phrase.
Botrytis makes comment saying all fluff no stuff.
Erillion comes in and tries to deflect from the topic by saying you can play SC right now.
I point out this is a thread about SQ42 not SC.
Erillion doubles down by saying they use the same engine.
Thats great they use the same engine. A game that hasn’t started development yet might use lumberyard but saying it shares the same engine as another game doesn’t magically make it appear.
The whole point is they have been showing fluff for years and lying to its fan base about how complete SQ42 is. If I were a fan and they released that video I’d be a little miffed at them for trying to distract me with visuals instead of an actual game.
I think they learned their lesson about putting release dates on products they have no hope of hitting and then the backlash from fans and critics alike. Or maybe they got smart and someone distracted CR so he couldn’t put a date on it
Why isnt Nvidia providing game engines that have all the necessary tools for example to make a game like SC?
How much money and time would SC/CiG save if such an option existed?
Isnt the Unreal engine good enough, for example?
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/241674-star-citizen-developer-chris-roberts-clarifies-engine-change-promises-move-amazons-lumberyard-wont-delay-game
Supposedly they were using CryEngine before, and now are using Amazon's engine.
To me the only reason why they would opt for these engines is due to royalty agreements, and how CiG benefits more in profits from release date, but comprising development time/development resources and final product to customer.
How can these engines compete with Unreal engine?
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The embarrassing thing about SC using CryEngine is that it was never intended for use with an MMO. And so, even after being heavily modified, it works like shit with what they originally intended to accomplish. They apparently chose fidelity over practicality. In fact, they are starting to act like getting to 100 people in one instance without extreme lag/rubber banding would be an accomplishment these days. I think some of the ships allow for almost 100 crew alone (making it obviously impossible for even 2 of these ships, fully crewed, to exist in the same instance).
The one area where I've always wondered why there isn't some library of generally accepted greatness is in human animations. Sure, there will always be some new dance/movement/whatever or some new skeletal model that needs some customization, but for the standard human physique, I would have thought that by now there would be amazing and accessible animations for everyone. Just play Outer Worlds and you will realize that this is just not true at all.
Also if you werent told it was an SQ 42 'trailer/teaser' how would you know? What actually identifies it as SQ 42?
It gives the idea of how SQ42 missions are meant to play, it's ofc as we know and can see on SC stuff like AI and so still has ways to go and that is the core of SQ42's gameplay.