Squadron 42 CitizenCon 2954 Live Gameplay Reveal Reaction! | Marine Officer Reacts

[@CaptainKells-zx8gx]

The joke was that Chris Roberts the one that was filled in as Emergency contact is his boss. It's the owner of CIG (the company behind Star Citizen and Squadron42). So the live joke was that he hovered over "wife".

[@Qwarzz]

I wonder what the emergency contact is about in Sq42. I'd expect it'd be who you'd continue playing as in star Citizen once permanent death is in but that wouldn't make any sense in Sq42.

[@Sylar0n]

@@Qwarzz I think its purely cosmetic. Make it look like official-ish.

[@ZaneDragonBorn]

@@Qwarzz Mostly just a cosmetic detail. The name will be used in UI and other components as a form of "Easter Egg". Check the Mobiglas at 9:10 to see how it is used in the Prologue (see who the message is sent to)

[@mymaudlincareer]

@@Qwarzz barring it hasent changed that next of kin/ emrgency contact is supposed to be part of the online mmo for SC so that when your character dies to many times to be revived your ships and money are sent to the new Character and other than a loss to rep and a death tax you get your shit back, why its in squadron is is anyone's guess but maybe just done for continuity between games

[@dekulruno]

@@QwarzzThe opening scene is sending a letter home so I’m assuming there might be some back and forth communication with whoever you put down.

[@TheCorgies]

22:15 it because it's not pre-rendered. so it's real time rendering. if there're too many things to render, this always happen. the game still need a lot of polish and optimization.

[@Ratswallow]

Hmm... looks more like they had swapped out the character and didn't quite update all of the numerical head values throughout the entire scene. Still falls under polish and optimization, though. 🙂

[@r.daneel.90]

@@Ratswallow still not as fun as that bug in assassins creed where your character gets swapped with a bird

[@ZilothGamer]

saw someone comment on the original video that the guy got scared so bad he changed character and thats hillarious

[@Sharky1986]

@@Ratswallow Absolutely, but lets not forget Cyberpunk's release. The entire opening cutscene would switch to T-poses and unloaded assetts with every camera cut! :D Honestly, I'm really impressed with what CIG has done here, I only pray it isn't some vertical slice nonsense and the rest of the game holds up to these standards, or better.

[@LykosMenon]

God, I can't get enough of that demo. So much fun seeing your reaction, man! To my understanding, it's supposed to be a pretty good mix of FPS and flight, like CoD Infinite Warfare like you brought up earlier. Keep it up man, love it. For the escape pod on if it got hit or not when you first get knocked out of your turret, it does get hit. An enemy fighter rams right into it, but the person doing the demo moved on a bit early. This demo was done twice, with the live one crashing twice so one of the devs ran back to the studio and got a clean recording to upload.

[@randlebrowne2048]

It was actually the same Dev who played through during the live presentation. He was frustrated and wanted to get it right for the audience.

[@GuilhermeLPC]

The game is indeed going to be a mix of Mass Effect and other games. Mass Effect, like most space games, was inspired by games like Freelancer and Wing Commander, which were created by the same director that's currently making Squadron 42. This game is basically dad coming back home with the milk and cigarettes after 20+ years missing.

[@FrenesyTv]

Love your reaction man, you really try to understand the context and give interresting feedbacks and comments, keep it up !

[@WarriorHumble24]

Thank you, I appreciate it! 🙏

[@Grim-HEX]

the Sir part is a British Navy thing and the CIG the Company that makes this game is British

[@dayman888]

That's interesting. When are they going to translate the game to American?

[@NonStopEpik]

@@dayman888dumb 😂

[@adjbutler]

@@dayman888 I don't think that they are doing foreign language support on dialogues.... it hasn't been mentioned so no luck i think on that....

[@benbowman6995]

@@adjbutler I mean the game translates alien languages so......

[@eltreum1]

Yup old British Navy traditions. Officers were addressed as Sirs and non-officers Misters. Star Trek used it sometimes like ST2 where Captain Spock addresses a female tactical officer trainee as Mr. Savik.

[@AlbandAquino]

A couple of precisions... First about the Javelin's turrets. The 2 upper guns are ballistic gatlings, think of them as a supped up GAU-8. The lower are basically 155mm naval guns (like the AGS for the US Zumwalt class destroyers). Slow but powerful and they are firing AP rounds. Second, the languages. They literally hired a team of linguists to craft at least 3 "alien" languages. Banu, Xi'an (pronounced Chi'an) and Vanduul. Complete with grammar, vocabulary and written form.

[@NikeSXT]

Upper: paired AD4B ballistic gatlings (the same guns as on Redeemer's pilot-controlled defaults), S4. Lower: paired M9A laser autocannon, S7.

[@MrMcbear]

25:05 INSANE seeing how small a Hammerhead looks next to a Bengal Carrier.

[@geerstyresoil3136]

Yes,, and the fact that every ship there is physicalized and not faked is absolutely unreal.

[@ccgod]

And The king ship is 3x the size of the Bengal lol

[@adilsagadiyev5090]

@@ccgod good thing huamns have 1 ship just as big if not bigger

[@ccgod]

@@adilsagadiyev5090 it's a tad smaller but supposed to have a much bigger gun

[@adilsagadiyev5090]

@@ccgod pretty sure it’s just a big gun with thruster attached

[@AcheliusDecimus]

I was watching your Jumptown reaction and decided to check if you uploaded this one. Awesome reactions... As you now realize UEE is the United Empire of Earth, but mainly United Earth Empire, and in your last video you asked what is UEC, it is simply United Earth Credits. When humanity realized there were hostile aliens in space, all countries joined together and created one government. There are still ongoing political strife, as some want earth to be the command world, while others want New Earth or Terra to be the command planet.

[@randlebrowne2048]

Way back during the early days of development, before we had anything playable in Star Citizen, Chris Roberts said that a major influence on the universe was the history of the fall of the Roman empire. During that time, there were two competing capitols (Rome and Byzantium/Constantinople) and, the Vanduul are named after the Vandals (the tribe that eventually sacked Rome and gave us the term "vandalism"). I wonder if at some point during the Squadron 42 trilogy (or even during the life of the Star Citizen MMO) the Vanduul will eventually make their way to Earth, causing the capitol to shift to Terra?

[@SonosAzai]

​@@randlebrowne2048wouldn't Terra be the main planet now then? Because of the fact the sq42 is like 10 years prior to star citizen

[@randlebrowne2048]

@@SonosAzai Squadron 42 is supposed to be a trilogy of games. I'm not sure if all of those segments take place before the "start" of the Star Citizen game. Also, Earth is likely *far* down the schedule of planets to be added to the game. Perhaps, after/if we see Earth get attacked at some point during the trilogy, CIG will then update the galaxy map for Star Citizen. Potentially, they could be avoiding telling us about Earth's fate to avoid spoiling SQ42. Alternatively, Earth being invaded by the Vanduul could happen in the MMO (as a live event) with later episodes of SQ42 potentially involving it as well. The part of SQ42 that we know about *is* , essentially, a flashback as far as our MMO characters are concerned, after all.

[@SonosAzai]

@@randlebrowne2048 bruh a live event of sar and defense for earth evacuation would be insane

[@randlebrowne2048]

@@SonosAzai It would be crazy on the scale of "Operation Pitchfork". That was an early plan by the community for orgs to flock to Vanduul systems to try and take them back from the Aliens.

[@Gwydion_Wolf]

Gunner: I bet this is a drill Commander: Shut it and stay off coms! Gunner: it'll be a drill *Admiral of the entire fleet comes on coms* ---- yea.. you know its not a drill now.

[@TheWhiteWolves]

1:05:22 - Yes controller is supported, I use it in the main SC side to play when I want a chill time without using the KB+M or Sticks and assuming it is the same in SQ42 (which is reasonable as they share the same codebase) the controls are all fully customisable so you can set the buttons to whatever you want

[@TheKillerspartan716]

In my way of thinking, I actually love when the character's face is not shown. For me, it helps me immerse in the game a little more. For example, Dead Space 1 (OG) and Halo with the main character being helmeted. Also, fellow Marine here bro. Im definitely subscribing to help a brother out.

[@WarriorHumble24]

RAH!

[@Julian_0500]

22:18 he had a little midlife crysis going on there haha they will fix that ofc

[@WarriorHumble24]

@@Julian_0500 🤣 it was funny

[@ctzn3lack]

He's an amongus 😂

[@HoJSimpson]

They Actually hired linguists to make the Laguages somewhat plausible. I think you can even write in one of therm they came up with lol

[@Kimtroverted]

They're all made by one of the guys who came up with Na'vi, so it's an actual learnable language...And you're right! Xi'an is fully scriptable and speakable. :3

[@mactan_sc]

same person made the klingon language for the kelvin timeline star trek movies

[@Chooie6]

Keep in mind this is just the prologue. There's a lot yet to see and do. That big enemy ship is the kingship and it is the largest vanduul ship we have seen calling it a dreadnought is accurate but as shown it also a lot of fighters so it's also a carrier the Bengal that Bishop was on is considered a carrier too, as Bishop says not many humans have seen a kingship and lived to tell about it that's how scared people were. I would say yes it's more heavy on the flying aspect but it's really an everything game sq42 is story driven narrative of your service to the military as a combat pilot so you are mainly gonna be flying and shooting but of course Star citizen is the MMO and what you can do there is vast I'm sure there will be broken down segments of the rest of the presentations later but this demo was just one of those. They are not very willing to discuss dates due to past mistakes so for them to actually give a date year says a lot because that know they will be held to it. This video was the one without any crashes that Richard tyer the dev who was playing the demo later recorded and uploaded this but when it was being showed live it crashed like 3 times and at the end scene where you hand Captain McLaren your gun that part bugged out and it was ended there so we didn't get to see the last portion during the event so I had to watch this to see the end, that's how much of a live demo this is. On controls I play Star citizen with a stick and throttle for the flying and mouse and keyboard for the shooting and a head tracker for my view I have heard of people using a gamepad such as a Xbox of PS5 controller but it's not supported and you would have to set up and memorize a lot of button combinations because there is not enough buttons and not enough axis for just a gamepad. If you wanted to play Star citizen in the meantime however find a friend to help you learn and join a player organization or at the minimum make use of the guide system and get somebody's referral code too when you make an account you can use mine if you want. Assuming they drop videos of the presentations the number one I recommend looking at is on Star citizen 1.0 as it's laying out the future and the goals of what everything will be like. Coming next month is an event where you can play for free for a couple weeks called intergalactic aerospace expo aka IAE. As someone who's been following this game for a long time I can say it's a good time to be following it and playing because of how soon sq42 is coming and where we are with Star citizen which is we are getting a 3.24.3 patch for that IAE event at some point but also very very very soon is 4.0 which of course means it's a major major major update. If you got any questions feel free to ask.

[@ccgod]

RICO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!

[@Borrick29]

Subbed. Watched all of your Bed Banana video reacts and now this. Nice work.

[@BlueEtherium]

The videos about Citizencon are livestreams

[@eltreum1]

It looks like the wait is going to be worth it. I have watched this intro a few times. Lots of easter eggs hidden in there as SQ42 is going to be a love letter to classic sci-fi space operas and games. Halo and Mass Effect vibe hard with this game.

[@geerstyresoil3136]

The "batman" Vanduul fighters are actually derivatives of the OG Wing Commander games from Chris Roberts, the Kilrathi, which were a cat-like race.

[@ccgod]

I was hoping we'd get to fight panther people stupid EA.

[@T4R3K111]

1:09:50 Dead Space did Zero G gameplay before everybody.

[@WarriorHumble24]

Oh, I didn't play Dead Space so I didn't know that. Thanks for the info!

[@ccgod]

And what's odd is that this is the only main line space game that actually has space lol

[@folkeberglund7588]

Fantastic video, I really appreciate the way you talk and actually think about the things you are reacting to, definitely earned a sub. If i could recommend a video about star citizen it would be the "the stars my destination" video from citizencon, they talk about what the actual game is and explain how you will play and progress, so it'll be great for someone new to the verse like u and it also is great fun. Thanks for the great video!

[@Julian_0500]

gonna enjoy watching this!

[@Hawlsey]

I'm hoping for late 2025... hoping for CitizenCon 2025 (Oct), but yeah... might end up 2026, but I think it'll be worth the wait (no matter how frustrating the delays!) This is the long awaited follow-on of Wing Commander from way way back! Those were great for the time, and this looks to be even better than those were, even with the rediculous dev time. (imho)

[@TonViper]

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is the "we have Squadron 42 at home" version of a space game.

[@TheAgaeti]

I remember in 2014 when I backed up for SC and SQ42. These were only dreams. And now here we are with a year of release. I'm so glad I stuck to these one of a lifetime projects. Like so many, I Held The Line and I'm proud of it. Just subscribed to your channel. I like your content :)

[@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n]

sq42 was planned for release in 2014 initially and back then you were two years from release at best and you arent asking any questions?

[@TheAgaeti]

@@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n You are right but you forgot the most important part bro. The devs actually asked the community if they (the community) wanted the release as promised or expand since the backing went berserk. And guess what, I took the gamble and ticked the "yes" button. I do understand that many questions should be asked about the delays, bugs (in SC) and the content that's not here yet. But, I take the part and continue to be a support for, let's remember, a studio that had to be created for these two games, which had to create the tools (which needs an incredible amount of engineering in itself, etc...). To answer your question, yes, of course, I ask questions (and trust me, I asked Todd Papy and CR in person in previous CitizenCons)! But also, as I stated, I believe that we'll have the next generation Wing Commander, and that's enough for me. So to quote your sentence, I "arent asking any questions" anymore and give my trust to those who continue to work so hard and keep me in the loop.

[@ccgod]

@@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n The community that funded this game voted over 70% to expand both games into much larger better looking games. The tech invented that's already in this game is insane and hasn't been thought up by any other company. All the big devs said what they wanted to make was impossible yet here they're doing it. To give some reference Skull and Bones was in development for 11+ years and is absolute trash with nothing new and even worse than black flag. CIG has been pushing the game to it's limits for years.

[@tomorrowduong4914]

Best react ever!

[@andrea913]

love your energie mate =)

[@FulguroGeek]

SQ42 have first person and 3rd person view. If its like Star citizen, you cannot really fight in 3rd person because there is no Ui and no crossair, but when you walk around or during dialogues you can put your view in 3rd person.

[@sickmit3481]

Man this felt like watching a movie and its only the intro mission or something like that imagine the whole game.

[@NonStopEpik]

Like how you don’t just react to the video but also add your personal knowledge to your reactions.

[@NikeSXT]

On 53:58 - no subtitles were given. But, the second in command vanduul said: "See what your bloodlust cost us!" 😎

[@Medic_Medulla]

Bengal Carrier that Bishop is on essentially the flagship for the second fleet is 990m long The Vanduul Kingship that shows up is "estimated" somewhere between 1500-3000m long In comparison to Halo ships that's somewhere between a Human (Autumn Heavy Cruiser 1435m) > (Punic Heavy Carrier 4000m) or Covenant (CCS Battlecruiser 1782m) > (DDS Carrier 3000m) However ships in Star Citizen/Squadron 42 have highly detailed interiors that for the most part make realistic sense Halo does not in most cases

[@Warsheep2k6]

There is also the retribution super dreadnought of the uee navy lore wise they build only one it's around 2km and was build to have a face of weapon against the king ships afaik it comes with a spinal rail cannon wonder if they will build that and bring it to sc with a full interior

[@Medic_Medulla]

@@Warsheep2k6 to my knowledge it's being built during the events of Squadron 42 but will not be present possibly until the end of it. But eithercase i was just commenting towards the ships present in this battle to which the bengal is their largest and flagship

[@Medic_Medulla]

@@Warsheep2k6 quick search battle of Vega ii 2945 when this prolouge takes place and first appearence of Retribution class is Operation Mandrake March 2946

[@ccgod]

@@Medic_Medulla Episode 2 of the game the retribution is finished. Gonna be crazy just hope the wait isn't as long.

[@Medic_Medulla]

@@ccgod Indeed i made a second comment but youtube seems to of nuked it. Squadron 42's Prologue Battle of Vega ii October 2945. Retribution class debut fight "Operation Mandrake" Battle of Oberon takes place March 2946. Which CiG's plans were for that to be the highlight of Squadron 42 Episode 2

[@Mgl1206]

2:30 from what I hear, Henry asked to have a small role in Squadron

[@UAF_ViVi]

Awww.. so it is likely he will only be in the prologue only. Hopefully I'm wrong.

[@mymaudlincareer]

@@UAF_ViVi you see his f8 slam into the king ship when the vandal second in command gets into his fighter and kills the retaliator bomber

[@codys1528]

on the Ma'am v Sir debate, my headcannon is that efficiency is important, and so all officers are "Sir" because it's one syllable less and technically faster lol

[@j.d.4697]

In the UK navy, female officers are often addressed as "sir". Chris Roberts is British.

[@RonJeremy514]

That's only because of habit. They're not taught to adress female officers as "Ma'am" like elsewhere. They are not taught multiple ways to adress a rank, given that private is private, sergeant is sergeant, lieutenant is lieutenant and so on... But Sir is specifically gendered out of all. A bit like you can't tell apart a female fish from a male fish by calling those what it is: fish. Except cows and bulls. Also statistically and traditionnaly, officers are males so there is that. They stuck with one word for all: "Sir". Which is peculiar in a way. In other languages or armies, a female officer would be referred to as her precise rank for instance, or "chief", "boss" thigns like that which is convenient.

[@saelfaer]

what are you saying, 2026 is really soon, we are waiting for this game since announcement and kickstarter in 2012 lol. now till 2026 is peanuts compared to that.

[@SirV3nt]

It's cute that you think it won't get pushed back further than that. Ill make you a bet: let's reconvene in 2027. If the game is out, I'll apologize. If not, you will acknowledge here that you were naive and will never repeat that error again. Sound fair?

[@saelfaer]

​@@SirV3nt So, boy, what seems to be your problem? if anything i was merely stating that i have no problem waiting for 2, implying 2,5, 3 or 4 years won't be to bad of a wait either. i've been waiting for 12. so you can't hurt me with your words. So, if you end up not apologising i won't know as im enjoyin my life untill it does appear in my upcomming releases list. yet don't expect an acknowledgement from me for anything as there is nowhere you can find where i state it definitely will come out in 2026. i was just relaying the words of the developer itself, which is totally find in a situation like this. that in itself has nothing to do with naivity. so get a life and stop attacking people in comment sections for things they didn't say.

[@PepicWalrus]

Also just to give some lore insight the reason it's 2954 is because Star Citizen is set 950 years in the future! So Citizen Con and the In-Universe time of Star Citizen will always be 950 years from our current year.

[@hollywoodguy70]

They dropped so much news over the weekend. When SQ42 comes out, version 1.0 live of the MMO should be close to release and there will be so many jobs for players to participate in. The community has an equal share of veterans and industrialists frothing at the mouth for there to be the gameplay to tie everything together. Also, SQ42 is only the first in a series of single player campaigns they're developing over the coming decades. The Citizens of the Verse are happy to have you onboard when your schedule allows.

[@timothyhaynes-lz1we]

How I hope Starcitzen will be come a Movie

[@TheCorgies]

keep it up bro!

[@joeswanson420]

Yooo I'm a real one 🎉 lol great take on the gameplay

[@ctzn3lack]

They clarified in the live demo but you'll be able to customize your characters appearance later. I think they meant after this prolouge, but maybe they meant later in development they will get the character customizer ported into the start of the prolouge.

[@randlebrowne2048]

It would make more sense for them to have it before the prologue, so there isn't a jarring change to your character's look during the story. They'll probably keep the choices shown as default options for those who don't want to mess with character creation though.

[@Ratswallow]

@@randlebrowne2048 I think it would be cool if they let us pre-generate the character and then take the selfie that you pick from as your character save.

[@randlebrowne2048]

@@Ratswallow Given that we can now save the character creation file in Star Citizen's character creator, I'd imagine that it'd be easy for CIG to incorporate that feature into SQ42 for future playthroughs.

[@SonosAzai]

​@@randlebrowne2048I'm assuming we can just pull the file over from sc when sq42 drops

[@Medic_Medulla]

I'd imagine they will do like a saints row 2 in escaping the battle or in the timeskip that follows this prologue we then create our character leading into the main core of the game. i personally would of preferred it before but ehh not that big an issue and still workable to the setting.

[@AdolfoWWolf]

Man, I knew you would gonna like this, this demo is spectacular, those cinematic shots where so well done, I'm really waiting to see the rest of the game, and I'm happy to know it will have a big story, I played Battlefield 3 years ago and was so disappointed when the campaign simply ended almost outa nowhere, felt like the game was cut in half, and here seems like it will be the full experience and more. Great that you liked it, and good luck with your training man.

[@djsnoopmike]

SAR after this battle would be an insane operation, then comes all the salvagers to reclaim anything useful and scrap the rest

[@Sakisaka_Rei]

There will be controller support

[@WarriorHumble24]

@@Sakisaka_Rei YES! That's what I want to hear! Thank you! 😊

[@randlebrowne2048]

@@WarriorHumble24 Even the Star Citizen Massively Multiplayer Online game (MMO) *already* supports using a controller, keyboard and mouse, as well as Stick and Throttle (HOTAS) and Dual Stick (and even rudder pedals) for those who want to get fancy!

[@Ratswallow]

@@randlebrowne2048 and DDR pads 😄

[@randlebrowne2048]

@@Ratswallow What are those?

[@CordovanSplotchVT]

@@randlebrowne2048 Dance Dance Revolution floor mat.

[@DraconX3]

I love the Kingship design in this Reminds me heavily of the Shivans Lucifer class Super Destroyer in Freespace. Equally as terrifying lol

[@Mgl1206]

8:00 all this ships will or already have full detailed interiors 😅 9:00 that had multiple different characters as it was showing off the character customization 9:40 that large ship out the window is a Bengal carrier, a ship that’s almost a kilometer long 18:53 those are dual turrets actually, a turret on top a turret, dual gatlings atop dual ballistic cannons 24:35 you missed Mark Strong the bald guy lol 27:55 that is a Kingship (a kilometer long ship), and in lore until this battle, it had never been beaten by humans and its arrival always meant the loss of that system to vanduul 35:15 Bruh why’d you call it exactly 😂 36:18, yeah it was a railgun shot from a nose size 10 railgun form the Idris 42:30 the Vanduul have an obsession with melee combat to the point that they will ram. In fact that’s what their ships are designed for, that’s why it has those sickles 49:50 yeah those where missiles 54:00 looks like the subtitles where broken for that one but he basically says looks what your pride or bloodthirsty has cost us iirc. 54:50 it’s weird though, the Occuri has so much more armor when as far as we know in Vanduul culture the more senior and powerful you are, you wear less armor. 1:00:16 what doesn’t get shown is that the escape pods gets rammed and destroyed moments later 1:13:20 looks like the trigger for O2 was bugged since it should have gone back up with gravity turning on

[@DB-vl9ob]

My thought when i saw the king ship: "Luzifer!" If you know, you know.

[@rio20d]

CIG did a very good job with the cinematics, sound and music, you can really feel the suspense and tension build up as the UEE 2nd fleet cautiously waited for the Vanduul's armada to arrive, I know it's just a game, but still, it must be quite terrifying to be in the situation where mankind needs to defend their species against such terrifying enemies, I mean just look at that Kingship lol

[@ccgod]

And they're the first to be victories which is why he thought it would be bigger because they've only heard stories because the vandul don't leave survivors. So they're the first ones to live to tell the tale.

[@TheJpf79]

50:00 "Go" In comes the cavilry. There is a lot going on in this that some folk think are easy to do and that any other game engine can do it, you see it more with the star engine demo than this one, though the fact they've made it look easy to do is impressive. Like when you said "I've never seen a game do this, well kind off, but not like this" exactly my point. I think it might be the start of the second mass effect game, there is a bit where the normandy is broken open and you're trying to get to pods, It's all happening in a really tiny box with static pictures outside, Ship in the vid has been opened and you're actually outside and jumping over parts of wreckage and transition into the interior of another ship and never once had to load a new area. that's all happening in one area and at the end of it Gillian Anderson is standing there talking to you, seemless transitions from there into cut scenes. Xbox One Xbox 360 DualShock 4 DualShock 3 Switch Pro Joy-Con Stadia Steam Any modern USB game controller should work with Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Though I can only see plans for release on PC.

[@gryphonosiris2577]

Lore dump: so the UEE Marines are chosen from Navy and Army personnel rather than specifically enlisting to that branch. Their recruitment standards are left intentionally vague because they are looking for those who are adaptable and have that "X' factor. The Marines are also referred to as "The Imperators Own", and besides their shipboard detachments also have their own battlegroup of ships run exclusively with Marine crew members, including their own Bengal carrier. Earth is still classified as an Empire, though the position of Imperator is an elected one. Formerly under the Messer regime it was essentially a monarchy under the Messer family line for about 300 years before a popular revote overthrew the ruling family and a constitutional republic was reestablished. Also, the chatter between the gunners and the petty officer telling them all to shut up is so on the mark for the military. Also, the Captain of the destroyer you are on is the daughter of Admiral Bishop, fyi.

[@xenocore01]

Come on LT, if you can handle a Marine Platoon, you can hack keyboard and mouse!

[@vikingblairgaming2609]

Yeah i don't fall in to hype very easily but the music the voice acting pulled on my patriotic heart strings I am so hyped for SQ42 and 4.0 and just the future of star citizen and you can play in the pu right now I assume you have a community that can help you in star citizen

[@strikeformatik]

Also, the mam / sir part. This is not the US Navy. Its certainly modeled after it as well as other navies, but its United Earth’s navy.. so rules might vary anyway. Next to the 900 years in the future part.

[@ccgod]

It's a sci-fi trope. Star Trek has been doing it for a long long time. Even the Orville continued the tradition.

[@NovelDragon199]

love you content ^___^ keep it up.

[@Gwydion_Wolf]

"ooh i like that, it shows their native language, and then we understand" They actually hired a few linguistics to quite literally 'create' the "non-human" races languages. There's 3. Vanduul, Xi'an, and Banu. Similar to how Klingon from Star Trek is an actual language you can learn if you wanted.

[@knightzing]

The calling woman "sir" is a reference to older sci-fi novels predating women being accepted to traditional military service. The novel writers felt that "sir" would and should be used instead of "ma'am" simply because it sounded tougher and cooler.

[@chieffalley4955]

1:55 if only😂🤣

[@serrethindustries9468]

The most interesting part about this is that all these mechanics exist in the sandbox. They actually had to "narrow" the game for the cinematic experience, rather than add to it.

[@TheInsaneupsdriver]

you can play the persistent universe now. the multiplayer one. also the arcade ones for pvp and fighter combat. you really never need to fly if you really don't want to either. just being crew is a blast.

[@SonosAzai]

On one hand i really enjoy when the character i made speaks but i on the other i absolutely love the writing in New Vegas and the way the npcs reacted to exactly what i clicked to make my character say. Some games give you a choice of what to say and when you click it the character says nothing even remotely close to it.

[@ccgod]

Later in the game you're given dialog choices.

[@Mgl1206]

SQ42 Is scheduled for 2026 release

[@CordovanSplotchVT]

Which in CIG terms means 2027-2028.

[@seraphuziel]

i recommend a vkb neo stick set (virpl is russina/belarus made, nuff said on that), the xbox pro & ps5 pro controllers are ok in a pinch, mouse n keyboard is possible, but many consider it a challenge; for ground keyboard n mouse is just fine, some have tried a controller with mixed results, its slowly improving. sq42 might go to console

[@FlashyJoer]

SIR for a female officer in this game world could be two different possibilities. 1) Maybe in the UEE, the standard is that an officer, regardless of gender, is addressed as “Sir” to distinguish rank, without regard for their being male or female. 2) Or, maybe in the UEE, she is called sir because the highest ranking officer in the fleet is a male (Gary Oldman) and its a reflection of that.

[@eltreum1]

Chris Roberts likes to use the old British Royal Navy honorifics. All offers are Sir's and all non-officers are Misters. Star Trek did it sometimes like in ST2 where Spock addresses a female trainee as Mr. Savik during the undocking scene.

[@FlashyJoer]

​@@eltreum1 Thanks for clarifying the origin. I knew it had a historical antecedent, just wasn't sure what it was. :)

[@JMcIntosh1]

If you grab the game. Let someone know that's willing to teach you and show you the ropes. I normally grab new homies and teach them.

[@Qwarzz]

Definitely have someone guide at the beginning and currently the game is more fun with friends anyway. Apart from telling how the game works a guide can also help you thru all the bugs :)

[@ineptxpython3501]

They use sir in the navy i believe.

[@ronnincollins7375]

December.... should I tell him?

[@troyrarehale2517]

The enemy's are fast because the game is running at 12 fps here.1:19:35.

[@morgothbloody7181]

mass effect are goated games

[@WarriorHumble24]

gameplays of mass effect 1-3 are on the channel if you're interested

[@Mecha_Gear]

There is no 'mam' in addressing a military rank

[@jsvrs]

1:22:45 sounds like star trek soundtrack

[@Julian_0500]

thought the same thing and i LIKE IT!

[@T4RC]

Yea noticed that too. Loved that soundtrack

[@randlebrowne2048]

@@T4RC The music for both Squadron 42 and Star Citizen (they have different composers) is uniformly amazing!

[@WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot_YT]

Calling female officers sir is an old school sci-fi trope. The idea is that so far in the future the idea of acknowledging an officer would be more in the form of an honorific or gender neutral term which the word sir becomes in a lot of that media. It's lost on more younger folks who never watched that media from the 70s and 80s. I only learned about it from my Dad who is an old Trekkie and a retired leatherneck.

[@eltreum1]

It's the way the old British Royal Navy did it, since the creator is from the UK it makes sense. Officers are Sirs and non-officers are Misters.

[@ccgod]

Exactly even The Orville does it. The XO is a woman, and they call her sir throughout the series.

[@puwaGT]

Chris Roberts said it going to be out 2026 but that might be delay other year or 2

[@ccgod]

I don't think he can hold off his private investors that long.

[@puwaGT]

@ccgod bro, he held it like from 2016. Why its not might be another year

[@ccgod]

@puwaGT generally loans have lengths in which they must be paid i doubt these were hand shake deals for 20+ million lol.

[@puwaGT]

@@ccgod it over 500m

[@ccgod]

@@puwaGT the 700+ million is from backers they also have 70 million from private investors that isn't part of that

[@So1othurn]

Salvage for years.

[@ConnorEllisMusic]

Cav-ill not Caville. Cavill like Gravel.

[@myrchantkobold8268]

What are you training for?

[@ccgod]

One thing I disliked which watching for like the 100th time at 1:04:35 how easy he moves the grate. He just one arms 200lbs of dead weight I hope someone points that out and fixes it and makes him struggle to get it open.

[@Revixy]

10:50 honestly I always assumed you called someone of a higher rank "sir" despite their gender. but I can see that isn't the case.

[@mx-gaming87]

So this comes in 2026 so for 1080p and Max settings i think you need a 4080 super. I cant think that a 4070 RTX is enough for this , maybe with DLSS but how knows. I mean DLSS 4.0 is coming with 5000 RTX series so if we dont get 3.5 DLSS minimum than RTX 4000 series is cooked.

[@adilsagadiyev5090]

I mean its still 2 years away, computers will get better

[@RonJeremy514]

RTX 5xxx are expected early next year so... That said you'd be surprised how I can still run some unoptimized UE5 games with a RTX 3070 Ti on 1440p UW pretty decently regarding the settings. I just lack VRAM because 8 Gb is quite a low amount now. So when it's there, I'm getting a RTX 5080.

[@WFKO.]

2026 is not that far lol

[@j.d.4697]

07

[@scottfoltz699]

Faceless and speechless main characters are not as good as fully developed and uniquely voiced main characters