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[@PhilipHarts]

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[@khileemyers3059]

we Need More Extended fighting Short films. From you

[@TexanWolverine]

Check out cast in Wing Commander III. Is the whole reason i got into Star Citizen.

[@ShapeshifterOS]

Check out the older SQ42 Bishop speech trailer to see the cast list. Also a very epic speech by Gary Oldman. Though they've also added Henry Cavil to the roster.

[@ShapeshifterOS]

Yes they simulate actual fog and other weather conditions. Similar to how volumetric clouds are done I think. Even tiny details like a cup full of liquid. CIG went really deep into simulating everything. It's also a persistent universe, so everything stays as is. If you drop a box at a station, visit another planet and come back, it'll still be there.

[@FuriousImp]

Squadren?

[@sirtaron]

Squadron 42 is the single player game and star citizen is the open sandbox mmo of the same universe.

[@Brenelael]

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. Squadron 42 is the story driven single player game. The Story unfolds between missions which determine the Story. So your level of success during your missions will decide which Story path you'll be on. Star Citizen is as Chris describes it a First Person Universe. It's a huge crazy MMO Sandbox where you make your own story. There are Missions, some even with story lines to follow but there is no real Main Mission series. That Story is yours to write. They are however two completely separate games that just take place in the same Universe.

[@FulguroGeek]

CIG a great tech company, they still have to prove if they are able t create a great game! with all those actors, the hundreds of millions of dollars and 13 years of developpement SQ42 better be some game no one never saw before.. Im expecting, never seen before level of graphics and immersion! Im also expecting a great engaging story with emotions! and obviously good gameplay.... I just hope that for the single player campain they wont make us reload in an hospital bed every time we die.

[@qanniqtuq]

The female Captain is Gillian Anderson.

[@NiTeHaWKnz]

Henry Cavil is in there as well.

[@amrmoussa2490]

@@NiTeHaWKnz Ya but sadly very short role , hope I'm wrong when game come out

[@ccgod]

@@amrmoussa2490 Henry is really a guest star I believe he's in the end game.

[@_Spectre]

@@amrmoussa2490 it's only the first chapter and he'll have a small role, expect him to feature more in future ones

[@thePrisoner1000]

@@amrmoussa2490 He came late into the project. He is a big fan and a backer and asked if he could be in the game.

[@_Boldheart_]

As someone who backed the game(s) in 2013, I’m very happy and proud of the work that CIG has done

[@BakedHotdog]

It's come soooo far from just sitting in a cockpit.

[@ctzn3lack]

Same here! Now I’m feeling nostalgic about the hanger module and helmet flip days…😂

[@latech7671]

So glad a filmmaker finally reacted to SC Cinematics. For tech-background: This whole trailer was (CIG says) done with standard rasterized lighting (no ray-tracing or path-tracing). They are however working on Ray-tracing Global Illumination for the engine as we speak and it is very likely that will be finished when SQ42 releases. Path-tracing would probably not be possible with such a detailed game yet (specifically the scale of SC is the problem here)

[@streetrider1001]

yeah it really would be insane considering the sun would be the source of light and they would have to calculate all that distance

[@eltreum1]

They built their Star Engine as a custom fork of the Crytek/Lumberyard O3DE game engine and render all their movies in it and make all the planned games with it too. It has customized things like clouds from Houdini and their own light tracing engine with eventual Vulkan and DX12u support but what we see here is DirectX11a being stretched to its max with custom extensions. Squadron 42 is planned to be a 3-game single player war trilogy starring your character and a prequel 10 years before the state of the universe in their MMO persistent sandbox game Star Citizen. There is also Arena Commander, a Battlefield/COD/Ship Racing instant action arena experience both the main games will bundle with to tie them all together so there is something for everyone. That is why it has taken so long and cost so much because it's a whole platform of software and games made in parallel including custom MMO servers that will be unlike anything done today started by 5 people with nothing but a wild idea. All the characters are derived from nearly 180 real people 3d scanned and blended together as desired with their DNA character creation system. The Star Citizen MMO side does not have all the new fancy stuff Squadron 42 does but this year the patches are bringing all that over. They also are also doing DLSS/FSR/Raytracing and some in house custom lighting and upscaling to come in over this year. This is created by the guy that did the Wing Commander and Freelancer series in the 1980-90s and was a pioneer of putting Hollywood actors inside the games story with Mark Hamil and John Rhys Davies as the OG cast from Wing Commander 2 on. Seeing those actors together again is nostalgic AF. The games will play like a choose you own path movie between missions with all the possible lines and scenes fully mocap acted and voiced. As the teaser implies you start as a ship crew hand trying to become a pilot and after surviving the battle of Vega intro you get your shot and start the game as a rookie pilot fresh out of the academy with Mark Hamil as your wingman on your first duty ship. Liam Cunningham and Rhona Mitra are your first ship's captain and XO dealing with pirates attacking civilian miners on the fringes of border space exploiting the chaos of the war. If it follows the Wing Commander formula you will eventually work with the fleet officers again played by Gillian Anderson and Gary Oldman to deal with the invading alien warlord played by Andy Serkis. There are also numerous cameo bit parts played by other famous actors like Henry Cavil as a fellow navy pilot. IMDB has a pages long list and quite a steal for 50 million dollars total for the cast with another mil or so for an epic soundtrack by Pedro Comacho (World of Warcraft/Witcher) and Jeff Zanelli (Pirates of the Carribean/The Last Samurai). They are pulling out all the big guns for this.

[@vorpalrobot]

Check out "The War for Jumptown" by Bedbananas. Him and his crew recorded real pvp with strangers on public servers, and edited it together. It accidentally ends up being some very cinematic clips and the lighting is a big part of it. You can see the impressive lighting in-game, in footage from a few years ago, and they still haven't implemented their upcoming raytracing yet. Its still impressive!

[@McMovesdotcom]

this is one of my go to vids for showing folks the fun that this game brings. super well done

[@kalaninalak]

Also, Fat Bird (@ftbrd) and Cozy do a great job of showing off the cinematic capabilities of SC

[@SmokeWiseGanja]

also the prison break. Bedbananas is an absolute genius, those videos are so damn good.

[@Broccoli_32]

The first pilot talking is Henry Cavil

[@BakedHotdog]

I'm really glad you enjoyed this! I've been a backer of SQ42 and Star Citizen since 2015, and the the amount of progress they have made over just the last couple of years truly shows. There's no release date as of yet; however it is feature complete and in the final polishing phase. Development and testing of the Persistent universe has really ramped up now with devs moving from SQ42 over to SC and implementing these new systems into the live game.

[@robinrichards6275]

All those actors did more than voice work...they did the motion capture too!

[@kalaninalak]

Filmmaking was what got me hooked on Star Citizen (the MMO project associated with SQ42). The 3rd person camera is super fleixble and enables machinima like nothing else. I've got a couple videos out, but im excited for the story telling potential as they add more lighting effects.

[@Knort]

Well, building up a studio, and making a MMO and a 3 single player campaign series in 11-12 years is immpresive to me, and with this fidelity, depth and tech they developed...

[@dragonmanj]

So surprised that you nailed most of the cast though I guess im surprised you didn't notice Gillian Anderson the captain that you're character was talking to in the beginning, who if you forgot who that is, it's Dana Skully from the X-files.

[@occupationalobserver]

Squadron 42 is a story based of your military service, broken down into chapters. Star Citizen (MMO) is your life in the Verse, after you have served. Both games have been created by CIG in parallel. If you complete Squadron 42 it will give you access to additional features in Star Citizen.

[@Schimyping]

Squadron 42 is a linear stand alone game set inside the Star Citizen universe. So It's going to be a set story line. HOWEVER, in Star Citizen, you'll eventually be able to freely explore the system that Squadron 42 takes place in according to lore. It's kind of an inception type thing and it's gonna be super cool.

[@Psycorde]

All their tech is bespoke, I've been following development for years now and it's easily the most fascinating aspect for me. It's one of the reasons it's taking so long, much of what they do just hasn't been done before, so they have to figure it out and make it work

[@captbullship]

You totally missed Gillian Anderson from Xfiles (and quite a few other movies) as the captain at the beginning having the conversation with the pilot! :)

[@TrogART]

Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, Mark Strong, Gillian Anderson, Henry Cavill, Andy Serkis, Liam Cunningham, Rhona Mitra, to name but a few of the 114 actors!

[@fredforlautLP]

A bit disappointing that you didnt watch the whole thing. You missed the best parts

[@BakedHotdog]

Trust me, it was REALLY hard to pick just 10-12 minutes out of the whole thing lol. But I felt that for the type of content Phil produces showing the big name actors and cinematic moments was the best way to go, and it was just long enough.

[@SmokeWiseGanja]

They've been cooking this for so long it's being remastered before it's even out. I can't wait to play it though, Backed SC years ago and still play it with friends from time to time. It's just such a vastly different experience to most games, even in it's unfinished state.

[@artuno1207]

It technically already was from the version they made in 2016.

[@gregoriodia]

Most of games get such a "remaster" near the beta phase. It is usually when they get announced.

[@shapetw0]

If this trailer peaked anyone's interest, I cannot suggest looking into Star Citizen enough. I've been playing since 2016, and there has ALWAYS been a devotion to scale and immersion, even when the game virtually could not run because of it. Currently there is one star system, with 4 planets, each with 2-4 moons, and dozens of space stations. You can explore every inch (aside from various controlled city zones and environmental obstacles) of every single planet and moon. You will never once experience an in-game loading screen, even when you are quantum traveling across tens of millions of kilometers. This proved to be a huge challenge for many years, but in the last 2, the game has came leaps and bounds. You will never experience a game with a FULLY EXPLORABLE universe at the scale of Star Citizen. The elimination of load screens is almost unexplainable until you experience it like this. There are plenty of different ways to play the game, if any time one game loop gets old, you can dive into another that will allow you to progress your hangar and inventory while completely switching the way you play. Salvaging, mining, cargo hauling, bounty hunting (PVE or PVP, ground or air), mercenary FPS missions, the list goes on. Don't like to follow the law? You can just be a pirate and devote your time in Stanton to stealing others plunder. All of the scale and immersion you see in this Squadron 42 cinematic are shown in full display in Star Citizen. Its a cruel and unforgiving universe, but if you try it, there's nothing like it.

[@BakedHotdog]

o7 Citizen

[@shapetw0]

@@BakedHotdog o7

[@Asgar1205]

o7

[@flixelgato1288]

Well, technically there are Elite Dangerous and No Man's Sky as competitors. They're just both not doing quite the same thing, Star Citizen is the most detailed and by far (imo) most beautiful. On the other hand, it's lacking in playable content for now, is difficult to get into (no hand-holding, die constantly), and can pretty frustrating to play due to bugs & crashes.

[@caldarinavyfleet]

As a Genshin player and long time Star Citizen backer I honestly didn't expect to also see you do Star Citizen/Squadron 42 related content! But I'm super glad seeing this! BRAVO!

[@ronkrueger-capt_koron6112]

Phillip, I know you didn't mention it when you watched the "I held the Line", but the Captain was the actress Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully in the tv series "X Files". Yes, that was indeed Gary Oldman. Yes it was John Rys Davies and Mark Hamell in the game. A lot of cutting edge tech was invented for these games. Squadron 42 is a single player version of Star Citizen, and a lot of what you see in this video, is already in the game and It's still being developed. They currently have one complete solar system working, and they are just about to add a second. They have over a hundred systems planned. You should see the ships, both inside and outside that are currently available, as well as planets, moons, and space stations that are currently in the game, with lots more to come.

[@pirateradio8420]

Another incredible never before done aspect of this game is the fact that in SQ42 you walk through the scenes in first person perspective based on the pre-determined path / perspective, but while playing the game you can break away from the predetermined path and move to wherever you like and the characters will follow your path to continue talking and looking at you.

[@CNC-Time-Lapse]

Looking forward to SQ42.. hopefully in the next year or so.

[@Badkitty24]

Squadron 42\Star Citizen is the "Spiritual Successor" to the Wing Commander series from the 90s, which was created by Chris Roberts and also starred Mark Hamil and John Rhys-Davies.

[@omnipresencetv8929]

you'll also see Mo-cap form Andy Serkis as one of the Vanduul Alien dudes.

[@Dumb-Comment]

Chris has connection with hollywood, gary oldman wont even come to you even if you gave him EA money, the fact that he managed to get him into a video game is crazy, to quotes christopher judge: "video game is where actors go to die"

[@rausmusic4396]

to answer your question at 15:30 Squadron 42 will be pretty linear and story driven. It wont be open like a bathesda game or something. and then star citizen is just the open sandbox mmo.

[@chaadlosan]

You've taken your first step into a much larger world.

[@Winter_huntsman]

Can’t wait for this game. Been enjoying star citizen for a year now but this has always been on the back of my mind. Can’t believe it’s actually getting close. Don’t want to get to excited though😅

[@bigd4366]

Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davies were in the live-action Wing Commander games (3 and 4, primarily), which of course were Chris Roberts' old games that are the spiritual predecessors to SQ42. Their presence here is both nostalgia-bait and a perfectly-sensible decision, as both have ample experience in the kind of acting required for this sort of game. A couple notes: *SQ42 is the stand-alone single-player campaign. It can afford to have detailed cut-scenes, mocaps, baked everything, etc., because it can do traditional single-player stuff like temporarily taking control away from the player, putting the camera on rails, etc. Star Citizen is the multiplayer game, and will not be able to use all of the tricks that SQ42 does because it has to deal with all of the wild and crazy things that dozens of players connected to a set of meshed servers can get up to, with all of it running purely in real-time. The connection will be that SQ42 (which may be split into three or more "episodes") was your "day job", and SC takes place a few years later after you've left Active Duty. If there is another single--player campaign after the SQ42 story ends, it'll supposedly involve you being called back up from Reserve status for a stint. *The lighting in SC is not ray or path traced (yet). They're working on it, but want players to be able to use DLSS or FSR depending on which video card they have. I don't know that they've said whether or not the lighting in this video is traced, but given the circumstances, I suspect that it's baked. *Neither SC nor SQ42 is intended for consoles. For starters, there are far too many controls for anything less than a keyboard, and hardcore fans use a keyboard, mouse, and a pair of joysticks covered in buttons for flying (some even add rudder pedals). A gamepad just doesn't have enough inputs by itself to do the job well. Also, ten years ago consoles were still largely proprietary hardware that had trouble keeping up with the latest video card technology; with consoles becoming basically AMD PCs with a much smaller amount of proprietary hardware and software, it might be a little more feasible for a port to happen with the next generation of consoles (especially if the next gen allows for the usage of PC input peripherals).

[@FireHawkGaming]

John Rhys Davis and Mark Hamil were also in the old Wing Commander games too. They have history with Chris Roberts and jumped at the chance to be in SQ42. Henry Cavil is also one of the pilots, he is a backer, plays SC, along with other games, and directly asked to be in the game.

[@JonatanE]

you should definitely watch the Star Engine Demo video that was released around the same time as this video. It shows more about what Star Citizen (the multiplayer part of the universe) is and some stuff that is to come. It's a very impressive showcase

[@BakedHotdog]

That was the first one I suggested actually lol and it's the reason why there's a 10-12 minute time limit on the viewer choices now 😅 Here's the video to the live stream it was on - it was the last video of the night, you'll want to jump to 2:35:35 to the end :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZvNf6aAmtZ7qa8&ab_channel=PhilipHartshornGaming

[@VulpesChama]

Mark Hamill is actually an old contact of Chris Roberts. I think the first time they worked together was for Wing Commander, Chris Roberts first movie, in which Mark Hamill appeared in some role (don't remember what) and he also was part of at least one of the Wing Commander games, also created by Chris Roberts. So, they know each other for quite some time and Hamill was seemingly excited to have been asked to appear in SQ42 and he and Oldman both got hired very early in the development. I don't know what it is with Chris Roberts, but he has this excitment for what he does that is infectious. And I am not surprised he got a damn good cast for his project, I simply don't think you can talk with him and not get excited yourself. It's also the one thing I always so liked about SC as project and him as the one dreaming it up. His endless positivity. The industry, is somewhat dominated by a more negative, pessimistic view on everything, especially if it is big. SC on the other hand delivered an optimism that no other game project delivered, which is, as I think, the reason it is an ongoing success. It is a dream that is dared to be dreamed, with the hope that it'll become reality in some form or the other.

[@msbolan]

When this releases, it will set the bar so high that it will push gaming to stellar heights. It'll just take a while for everyone else to catch up.

[@FinalRepublic]

Chris Roberts the top guy making the game was a movie producer for awhile. He did Lord of War with Nicolas Cage. He isn't in the game, but the point being he has made a number of friends in the industry and so who knows who we will see in future chapters.

[@ccgod]

He'll have an MMO NPC the dred pirate roberts. And will be leader of a massive pirate faction.

[@pirateradio8420]

They had me at Gillian Anderson... how did you not recognize Gillian ;)

[@user-hj2yc9tf2d]

As a 7 year backer of CIG and Star Citizen....you aren't ready for a game like this. I follow development closely and it has accelerated greatly.

[@jobrosrock436]

The craziest part about this is that when they first premiered this video they did it at a live convention. I was in the room for it and let me tell you, even on a 40+ ft screen, it not only holds up but looked even better. Also, you are sleeping on the Adm. Bishop's (Gary Oldman) speech. For context, he KNEW they were going to lose the Battle of Vega II, but chose to fight in order to cover for fleeing civilians. This is the speech he gives to rally the fleet to sacrifice themselves. Bad***

[@nkxseal8398]

Been following the game since it start began fundraising when you could only look at your ship in a hanger. Its come a long way, they are about to have one of their biggest patches in years that should make it so much more stable and lots of QOL stuff, i know its taken a long time for development of this game but it really is my favorite space sim game.

[@nadjasunflower1387]

Squadron 42, and therefore Star Citizen is in the " expanse " of the old " Wing Commander " games. which Mark Hamill was the MC

[@puwaGT]

Fun fact: this game engine is based on Cryengine but they put max to everything and come out as Star Engine. There is no Ray tracing or anything

[@lights4bre890]

Its The Cry/Lumberyard engine but with years of development, R&D, patents and invention behind its tech, making it its own engine and unrivaled in some aspects by any other game engine with the world records to prove it. Ray Tracing is coming soon along with a bunch of other graphics and rendering improvements... Vulcan api, DLSS, Ray Tracing, Their proprietary LOD tech... etc. The latest version of the Cry Engine is capable of 32km x 32km maps - thats double vs the 16km x 16km it was capable of when CIG first got their hands on the engine - but StarEngine set a world record in 2023 with the longest spline travel EVER captured in Any game engine at 6 BILLION km.

[@paulnolin862]

Great video thanks, Not the first time Mark Hamill worked with Chris Roberts. New sub, John Rhys-Davies has worked with Chris too. Wing Commander 3.

[@RoxxSerm]

If you want visual spectacle, you should watch the preview/showcase of their StarEngine which they presented on the same event. Its on their channel too.

[@yogibaer84]

There is a KZbin video with the title "Star Citizen Squadron 42: Actors in real life vs Characters" !

[@-DarkFox-]

Check out the Star Engine 4K demo. Its the engine running Squadron 42 and Star Citizen. Squadron the single player game is broken up in Acts and isnt as open world explorable as Star Citizen. SC is the sandbox MMO.

[@SomostEwergarten]

I HELD THE LINE

[@syntafin]

Okay, I am 12 seconds in you use music from NieR Replicant, I like this video. I dont care what you are saying, showing whatever in the rest of the video... you got me with this beautiful bgm from the Forest of Dreams!

[@IceyJones]

careful. SQ42 is the single player, cinematic game experience like wing commander back in the day. but using the same tech as star citizen. star citizen is the open world MMO. playing approx 10 years AFTER SQ42 in the same universe.

[@Casey093]

Those bigger capships have only a tiny amount of interior, they are largely empty. Only the rooms and corridors needed for the singleplayer campaign are modeled at this point.

[@MrSolLeks]

Chris roberts did work on lord of war and a few other movies, so its not supprising its got good camera angles

[@petergunn7039]

The most important actor is Ian Duncan, he is us (player character)

[@simioncodrin4979]

This is a cinematic but this is how the gameplay looks like too.

[@gordonhowett7529]

This cast is very reminiscent of the casts that would do the Wing Commander Games. Mark Hamill and John Rhys Davies are both returning to work with Chris Roberts(head of CIG, producer of SC). There could be some other Wing Commander actors returning to work with Chris Roberts on SQ42, but I just don't know them well enough to comment, either the actors or the wing commander games lol.

[@MigukChelovek]

I've been wondering how they are going to get these actors to remember enough about production to answer questions meaningfully when the game finally releases.

[@Jussi138]

Didn't recognize Gillian "Dana Scully" Andersson from The X-Files?

[@do0ranfrump260]

I'm an old school 3d artist.. so many games have disappointed me via poor lighting or materials.. I'm glad there are some doing it well.

[@overcast80]

I’d love more SQ42 and SC reacts! ❤

[@RoswellCrash]

Was I the only one that was like Gillian Anderson! He didn’t even seem to know who she was 😂 Henry Cavill, Craig Fairbrass, Andy Serkis, Gillian Anderson, Rhona Mitra, Liam Cunningham, John Rhys-Davis, Mark Strong, Mark Hamilton & Gary Oldman just to name the super well known ones.

[@zakattak167]

While there is not a date, squadron 42 is feature complete so should be dropping soon

[@ccgod]

From the leaks we can expect an 80+ hour SP campaign in SQ42. There's also rumored 20+hr campaign for the MMO portion of the game to introduce people to the verse. As far as they've stated and shown this game uses zero CGI and is all in game footage.

[@logicalChimp]

FYI you've mixed up different sources talking about the same thing... the '20+hr campaign for the MMO' *is* SQ42... some people describe SQ42 as just being a 'long tutorial' for the MMO, because they like to dismiss single-player games and only care about the MMO side... As for being 80+hr for SQ42 - I suspect that's the time to play through the full trilogy (SQ42 is just the first game, should be around the 20-25hr mark, iirc... although CIG have been tweaking / tuning it since they last commented on the length, so it might be a little longer - or shorter - by the time it releases).

[@ccgod]

@logicalChimp sq42 is 26 chapters. Each one is 3+ hours. I didn't screw up anything.

[@kaejuka6249]

Here's the full list of well known actors that are in this game. Mark Hamill, mark strong, Gary Oldman, Gillian anderson, John Rhys-davies, Liam cunningham, Ben Mendelsohn, Henry Cavill, and Andy Serkis. it's quite the line up

[@keldornify]

I can't wait for SQ42 to come out, I think it will be loaded with epic cinematics on top of cinematic gameplay experiences

[@ChaosInFlux]

You missed out on the Captain in the beginning being Gillian Anderson from X Files.

[@arashiko_amai]

SQ42 is pland as a seperad story driven singleplayer experience and act as prologe for the open world mmo named Star Citizen what releases a bit later.

[@ShapeshifterOS]

Star Citizen will be PC only. They have everything from volumetric clouds to ray tracing. This'll be running on high spec PCs if you want the good graphics, even then it'll be struggling with frame rate until they finish optimization. You won't see a more beautiful space sim though. The single player SQ42 might come out by Christmas this year at the earliest.

[@danlewis2999]

If you're impressed by the lighting you should also check out the star engine demo. It goes into the lighting effects on game in great detail

[@YezaOutcast]

PS5? your console would go out in a supernova trying to run this ^_^

[@PhilipHarts]

Then I will go out with a bang 🔥🫡

[@HeWhoShams]

Have you thought about watching, "Jingliu Versus Blade Cutscene Animation | Baiheng Backstory In Companion Mission | Honkai Star Rail" It's a battle between Jing Liu and Blade, haven't seen you look at it and thought you might like it

[@jonathan4824]

This game has a cast better than most movies

[@Sunsura]

o7 Welcome Citizen

[@troyrarehale2517]

10:12 Is that Rhona Mitra i think her name is, wow.

[@JFrogy]

Really sad you didnt look at the last 10mins. Really cool shots in there you missed out on

[@SatoriSoul]

Backed for a few years, yeah it looks this good in game. The better your PC the better the graphics, though NPC's look less lifelike in the open universe alpha currently.

[@logicalChimp]

True... but in large part because the Open Alpha isn't running this version of the engine... yet (a large chunk of the new features should be coming in the next patch, including some of the lighting improvements... remains to be seen if it'll look this good though :p)

[@SatoriSoul]

@@logicalChimp i love what there is, even the "features"🫠. Dropped a couple K backing it, looking forward to 4.0, and salivating about 1.0👍 Anyone looking to play watch for free fly days. Cyu in the verse.

[@MG-ff7se]

1 day backer let's gooooo❤❤ sq42 will shatter records worldwide

[@UnknownMoses]

CIG said that video was in game footage and not pre-rendered but I don’t know exactly what that means.

[@twilink5810]

it means it's for m the game like a cutscen not a demo entirely made for the video

[@logicalChimp]

a pre-rendered demo could run at 1fps (or worse), and then played back at 30fps to make it look pretty and still perform... if it's recorded directly from in-game, then (with suitable hardware) this is how it will actually look whilst playing.

[@Muckylittleme]

Wish you had done the whole thing, but enjoyed it.

[@fwg1994]

Clarification, it's in engine, not in game. So it's close to they can achieve in game. Same models and stuff, but you can see with like the lighting passes how you present the models and scenery makes a huge difference. They can really push the fidelity when they have complete control over the shot. Not just from tweaking the lighting and animations to look better, but also because you don't have a lot of overhead from simulating the game. It's unclear how close it'll look actually in game. Probably pretty close, but we'll see. Also for clarification, the devs are making two games. Squadron 42 is a singleplayer, mostly linear game. Star Citizen is an open ended MMO. Both have the same setting, and apparently beating the singleplayer game is supposed to unlock an alternate start in the MMO, where you're a retired veteran with the civilian equivalent of the ship you primarily fly in the singleplayer. Squadron 42 is on final polish, so most of the teams are moving back over to Star Citizen to port features over to the MMO side while the remaining do final polish on Squadron 42.

[@JimCook]

This is in game, the engine tech demo video is separate from this.

[@ccgod]

In engine and in game are the same thing. This isn't isn't ubisoft where the trailer is 1000x better looking than the actual game. You'll have seamless transition from world to cut-scenes. When you play the game you'll get these lighting effects outside of cinematics as well.

[@logicalChimp]

@@ccgod Not quite... in-engine can include options that aren't available in-game, because you can record in-engine shots at e.g. 1fps (and then play back at 30fps) and still be 'valid', whilst doing the same and calling it 'in-game' is classed as cheating/lying (because you won't be able to achieve the same visuals whilst actually playing the game). That said, this is indeed in-game (as CIG rpesented it at the live show), as its shots from SQ42, not Star Citizen.

[@DieOrBeDead775]

How can one skip through this video watching it for the first time lol...

[@Adrian-ii1cc]

In the next Patch they are adding dlss and fsr (dlss ist in ideas way of Ai generating additional frames for their newest graphic cards and fsr is AMDs way doing it and If u have a too old nvidea graphics Card for dlss u can also install fsr to increase ur fps) to boost the FPS of Star Citizen and also are going to add Vulcan a preparation to add Ray tracing or even Patch tracing

[@Adrian-ii1cc]

*nvideas

[@prestiboi]

Bro joined the party half a year later what the fuck he tryna get 💀

[@r.daneel.90]

CiG is very cautious about dates (for obvious reasons), but the rumours are that they're trying to get a christmas 2024 launch. They will probably not achieve it, so a more realistic timeframe is Q2, Q3, 2025.

[@jhondidfool]

So... How do we tell him this is rasterized, not raytraced or raycasted? They are working on getting RT in, both HW and SW solutions... ;) The blood, sweat and tears is procedural, someone get him The Reunion and the Star Engine showcase...

[@BaronFeydRautha]

I love that you have no exp withe Chris Roberts career. This guy has been bringing in A list actors into his games since the start. He's basically been trying to make something like SC his entire career

[@ccgod]

But much like Howard Stark he was limited by the technology of the time....until now.

[@zedboy9999]

Bro's so confused lmao. Star Citizen is the mmo they're building alongside the single player campaign (SQ42)

[@SunnySzetoSz2000]

unexpected seeing you watch star citizen related content

[@SnakeEyes327]

"Is this on PS5?" Oh noooohohoho.

[@Casey093]

No, SC does not use Path Tracing... they love reinventing the wheel themselves. :D

[@derdox6720]

still torn on wether i like all the big actors in this. on the one hand it is any sci fi fans dream to see all those legends in one universe and whenever you spot someone it gets you excited for a second, but on the other it keeps me personally from getting really immersed into any scene when i am busy thinking about or getting excited over a face i recognize. it also risks the people responsible just putting these people in to distract you from a shallow story, although i obviously hope and don't expect that to be the case in squadron42

[@ccgod]

He likes games where you're playing a character in a movie. Which is what this is. It's also rumored to be over 80hrs long so definitely not shallow.

[@derdox6720]

@@ccgod who is "he"? 'he' chris roberts, the head of CIG or 'he' the creator of this video? either way though, the story is not about being an actor in a sci fi movie as far as i know, if that is true could you tell me were i can find that announcement? because then i would probably not buy the game. as far as i am aware the story is about being a pilot in a sci fi space game, not an actor playing one. also the length of a game has nothing to do with how shallow its story is, i don't see how that is relevant..

[@ccgod]

@derdox6720 Chris likes them. And no, you're not an actor like wtf? Chris likes epic storytelling. Yes, your character in the game is a member of the military. Chris likes using real actors in games just like he did in the original wing commanders.

[@derdox6720]

@@ccgodokay? i don't get why you added the wtf to be honest with you. i made a comment about how adding big actors in projects can kill the immersion for players or movie watchers and you answered with "he likes games where you're playing a character in a movie" so i think me being confused after that was pretty reasonable. but i got it, the director likes it epic. you can get epic without every other character having a face you see in every other big movie though, so that still doesn't change anything about what i said originally. oh yeah and as i said, using many well known actors often give writers and directors a reason to put less effort into the story, because everyone is distracted by the faces they love from other media. as i said already, i hope that doesn't happen here of course.

[@ccgod]

@derdox6720 you said the story is about how you're an actor in a sci-fi movie. That's what the wtf was for. You made it seem like the game is you being an actor in a movie. He likes immersion in cinematic. Also, everything was motion captured so they'd have to go in and make new faces for the people. Which is adding unnecessary work. I've never played a game and was taking out because a Hollywood celeb was in it. Even snoop dogg in true crime was good. They have several gameplay vids of sq42 you can watch and judge for yourself if you'll like it or not.

[@criticalchai]

all but the biggest ships have interiors. t Chris Roberts comes from the era around command in conquer where they hired a lot of actors for cut scenes. he still doing it although they are built in engine instead of as a video.

[@ccgod]

Those big ships have interiors as well.

[@criticalchai]

@@ccgod hadn't seen anything on the Bengals. Idris interior is looking amazing. Although I assume the Bengal might have an interior from sq 42. I'm going by the ones you can actually explore. Idris so far is only ones that can be.

[@ccgod]

@@criticalchai some of the Javilin has been shown off. They've shown diagrams of the bengal. They talked about having to install a train system in it because of how long it was taking to traverse. And there's lots complete they haven't shown.

[@warboybattles]

@@ccgod ooh nice. now i gotta go do some digging

[@Gwydion_Wolf]

Thsi game is most definitely a PC only game.. they have no intention of making it 'dumbed down' for Consoles, though you CAN play the game via gamepad/controller :)

[@blazemonger1]

While the cinematics are in-engine, they are not "in-game". These are (very likely/possibly prerendered) cutscenes which drive the story, as a player you do not interact with them in anyway and we really have not yet seen actual game play and/or how the gameplay will lead in to or come away from these cut scenes. Squadron 42 is a single player "on rails" story driven game which I expect will end with you being "dropped" into what we call the Persistent Universe, which is the multiplayer open world of Star Citizen. Realistically, Squadron 42 (which is feature complete) could enter beta this year and release maybe end of 2025. Star Citizen itself still has quite a long way to go towards being feature complete and beta, at best I'd say another 3-4 years.

[@pacoflyer]

Chris has specifically stated you are free to walk around in the cutscenes and even interrupt them, these are not pre-rendered. They took this approach on purpose.

[@Eggroley]

You can see it switch seamlessly from game-play to "cut-scene" in the scene with Mark Hamil walking down the corridor. You can also see this in previous showcases where they switch from cinamatic view to player-view seamlessly.

[@ccgod]

@@Eggroley yep so like in real life you can be looking at the ceiling during a mission brief lol

[@dog-tm6ru]

This game is the next Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, the story is going to be great!

[@varlmorgaine3700]

There is a difference between the multiplayer parts and the singleplayer parts. In the single player not all ships need to be fulld eveloped in the multiplayer not all clouds will be that bloomy.

[@khandragon7950]

from the git go you said "is that in game?" and the answer for all video from this game is YES.. everything shown from videos is with the in game engine, scripted camera and such, but the same engine as you will use playing the game so what you see is, what you will see.. :) that has been a big point they insisted on, that there would be NO "film" videos like most games, just what you see is what you get.. :)

[@alexanderdooley5833]

rumor is the single player game will get a console port, but the Sandbox MMO will stay PC only.

[@randlebrowne2048]

It'll probably have to wait for a new generation of consoles (with more powerful components) before SQ42 can be ported over.

[@FulguroGeek]

Squadron 42 13 years in the making! Been waiting the release of this game since 2014 the initial supposed release date lol...Cig is a great tech company... they are great at great art direction and architecture and graphics... they still have to prove they are a good gamingf company tho... Imagine if this game release and its a flop withh thatc ast, money and trime they put on it... plus they had us, millions of tester for the game for the past 11 years playing that buggy star citizen!

[@Striker427]

10+ years but it seems like its gonna pay off

[@dereisman5619]

maybe on the ps 10