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Will Squadron 42 Release in 2026? | Clip · Open Comms Radio | A Star Citizen call-in show

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  Quadrant 42 could be the make or break for Star Citizen.
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  I think the one thing it has going forward is it's, I mean, I
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  know they want to put it on a console release, so it's going
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  to have to compete with GTA6 at some point.
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  Now GTA 6 was delayed again to this year to to the summer of of
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  of 2026. So who knows if that's even
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  going to if they're still going to release it.
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  That's been delayed several Times Now, but they're supposed
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  to come out in the summer. Any game that releases anywhere
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  close to to the behemoth of GTA is is is is stupid to release
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  anywhere close to them because all eyes will be on will be on
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  GTA. So they have to make sure that
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  they do not release the same month.
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  Well, but I would say. Within two months of it.
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  Isn't a caveat to that is that GTA isn't going to be on PC for
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  at least a year past it's released?
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  Yeah, but Robert, Chris Roberts always said that he wanted to
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  make sure Squadron 42 is playable on console.
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  Yeah, he did too. Yeah, well.
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  Well, let's think. I mean that that was maybe a
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  little bit weird before, but now with the RAM crisis and
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  everything like that, I mean Constable is kind of your only
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  profitable Ave. after a little while.
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  I don't know if that's still the the goal, but obviously we know
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  from playing Star Citizen that the the the the the hardware
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  requirements to have a good looking, good playing game right
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  now because it's unoptimized are very high.
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  Yeah, although I would say that if, if, if Squadron 42 is going
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  to release no later than December of 2026, let's, let's
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  give them that big buffer. They have the whole year to
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  release it, right, Because they didn't give a firm date of
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  anything. They just said the year 2026.
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  So now they have 12 months to release it.
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  If you don't start seeing a bunch of hype trailers and a
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  bunch of marketing happening starting I'd say in February,
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  latest March, it's not going to release this year because you
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  want to build that hype. You want to start building that
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  hype. If they were smart, the Gillian
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  Anderson's, the Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill.
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  What's the other dude? Reeves Roths or something, I
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  forget. There's so many actors that
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  played roles in in the making a Squadron 42.
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  If they don't have them, if they don't have them on the hype
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  train, Yeah, if they don't have these folks on the hype train
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  pumping out support for this title this year, I don't think
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  it's going to happen. They'd be stupid not to.
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  They need to spend that money to that make it happen.
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  They need to build excitement for this game like nothing else.
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  And I think all that right, all that good graces of Squadron 42
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  releasing and having a mag, you know, a mag.
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  A giant success, basically bigger than anything they could
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  ever dream of. If that happens, it's going to
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  be nothing but a boon for us and, and, and Star Citizen,
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  because then there's going to be so many people that want to
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  continue the journey, right? And not wait for chapter two or
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  three of Squadron 42 that they've talked about.
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  Who knows how long that's going to take to happen, But in the
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  meantime, you can play the MMO Star Citizen, and that's where
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  you need that new blood to come in and play this game that we
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  all love and enjoy. So all of us can prey upon the
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  bobs. Well, I wouldn't say that, but
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  you know, you need, you need to help, you need to constantly
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  have new blood in your game or the game just becomes stagnant
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  and dies over time. Yeah, yeah.
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  I mean, you look at a game of this scope, I mean, the Squadron
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  42 with that kind of star power, you're seeing it, you know, as a
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  panel at Comic Con, you know, San Diego Comic Con.
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  And I could see that, You know, hopefully they do do that.
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  I mean, they have the budget for it.
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  They can, and it deserves that. But Star Citizen is really the
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  title, you know, because your average gamer doesn't know
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  Squadron 42. They know, Star Citizen, they
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  know. They don't know it yet, Star
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  Citizen. That's what gets point to this
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  is their chance to use all those actors who they already spent
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  tons of money on. They've got to use this
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  opportunity to get people playing the game.
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  You know, if they're smart, they're going to be, they're,
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  they're going to set up booths at Comic Con, they're going to
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  set up booths at, at whatever conventions there are.
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  They're going to put little playable demos in front of
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  people. You know, if they can just play
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  for 5-10 minutes and it has to be fucking flawless.
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  So the word gets out that holy shit, this is like next damn
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  level. Des Moines Library Con.
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  If, if, if they, if they can do something like that and, and,
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  and bring that to bring that level of excitement to the
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  table. This is nothing but a good thing
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  for us. If it doesn't happen or it gets
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  a slow roll and it gets a slow head of steam, it's going to be
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  a death knell to, to, to the Squadron 42.
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  And it may be even to us because we're not going to get what
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  we're wanting or we are going to get it and it's just going to
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  take even that much longer. But if they get the hype out
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  there, if if the machine churns and that churn starts generating
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  income and generating new eyes and new, new experiences for new
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  players and the word gets out, you know, it just takes a couple
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  of decent content creators on on the Internet to to to find this
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  title and, you know, last it, you know, signal boost like
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  crazy. And next thing you know, you
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  know, you're going to have all this, all this new blood into
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  the, into the, into the universe of Star Citizen.
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  And that's only a good thing. It's going to, there's going to
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  be some negatives along with it also, obviously.
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  But overall, I think it's a net positive.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  So 2026 ahead of us. We're all.
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  Let's just, let's just put it out there.
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  Do you think Squadron 42 will release in 2026?
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  We'll go around. I'll start off.
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  I'm going to say no. I'll be a negative Nancy about
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  it. I don't think it will.
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  Lord Anubis, what do you think? I think I have the correct
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  answer which is yes. OK, wicked, what do you think?
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  I think also yes, and I think it has to release this year.
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  OK, hobo. I'll agree with Wicked.
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  Yes, and it has to release this year.
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  Lots of positivity. For another gauntlet.
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  Duke. I'm going to shirk the
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  positivity and instead say that it has to release this year like
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  it has to the you know, Chris is going to be in there chaining
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  people to their desk if it's looking like it's not going to
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  happen. Crotch mullet.
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  Chris Roberts, The Big Bad and Swan, 42.
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  Yeah, he plays a vandal. He he has a vandal.
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  He, he, it has to, I really do think.
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  He's a grimandi. I think so.
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  See even they they didn't do citizen Khan and I, I have a
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  feeling it just they just wanted to pull everyone waste less
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  time. You guys are Manchester.
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  Murphy. Hell, I say no.
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  There we. Go.
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  Sensible person. Wow.
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  Yeah, I, I, I just, I have a feeling and nothing against
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  them. I just, I can, I, can I give a
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  percentage? How about a percentage?
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  I say. Say whatever you want.
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  I'm at 60% no, 40% yes. Right now he's.
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  Hedging his bets already. Right now, Why?
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  He's the Guild leader. This is why he's the Guild.
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  Leader, but I'd actually take it 6040.
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  That's not a bad. I'm not a bad.
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  Take I'm not as strong, no, but I'm leaning towards no, I'm
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  leaning towards I, I well, I just say I see it early spring
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  2027. OK.
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  Yeah, just. Hold on, we got.
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  One more. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I'm sorry. Sorry, I'm going to have to say
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  I think it releases this year you.
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  Mean tomorrow. Oh, that would be.
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  Damn. OK.
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  That's awesome. All right, Yeah.
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  I'll take that bet. Yeah.
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  Hey, man, those those odds are going to be long, but the payoff
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  is going to be. Big they they they got that
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  ChatGPT super account that just like enables the entire the
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  entire global AI for the. If if I may 2026, I think it's
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  gonna happen late 2026. Is it possible for them to not
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  release it in 2026 and still technically meet their promises?
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  I. Mean early 20. 27.
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  Twist. That's why.
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  That's why I say that. But.
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  Would that still meet their promises?
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  What, like, what's the wordage that you're using to twist
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  around and say what, what could Chris say and release then and
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  be like, no, we, we did exactly what we said.
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  The holidays there's. Not any really reasonable.
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  OK, that's what I was just trying to think of it where
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  there's some weasel words. Because they've said explicitly
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  2026 on more than one occasion. Yeah, but did they say release?
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  I mean, maybe they maybe it's done, you know, the end of
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  262026, they could be like it's done.
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  This is a feature complete. Argument.
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  It's ready. To be it's ready to be released,
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  but we're not going to release it yet.
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  It's ready to be tested if you buy a ship.
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  Well they did have to redo the graphics for the game because it
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  has been so long since they did the mocap that the engine has
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  changed and the textures now could be updated and they did
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  redo all of that. I I don't want to be negative,
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  but who's excited for Squadron 42?
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  I am that would. Be cool, yeah?
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  I'm great I. Want to?
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  Feel the lore of this. Universe.
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  I've been playing in for like a decade and the best way to do
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  that is a single player game. Like, we've seen bits and pieces
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  of it, and you can read plenty here and there, but I want to
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  feel the universe. I want to have like
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  organizations, names and characters that I'm like, Oh
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  yes, cool. I just want to make a sense.
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  Of if I'm. Crazy if they properly implement
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  controller support. I first started playing.
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  Yeah, Robert's games Super Wing Commander one on the computer
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  like a 360X2 a long time ago and I bought a Panasonic 3D O.
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  It's because they were the Super Wing Commander on it in the 90s
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  at some point. I don't even remember which year
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  it was. And we were the other person
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  with the 3D O. Yeah.
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  And Wing Commander Armada and and Wing Commander the mercenary
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  one. I mean, just every game that
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  Chris Roberts has put out a Blade, Star Lancer, whatever.
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  So I'm really looking forward to watching 42 personally, you
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  know, and that was before I even knew there was going to be, I
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  was never really excited about the, the, our citizen, the, the
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  multiplayer game. I was always more concerned with
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  the single player game. That was before, you know, I
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  started playing Star Citizen and, you know, met a lot of
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  these nice folks here and really started enjoying it.
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  But as far as I'm concerned, that's that was one of my main
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  reasons for even being here, yeah.
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  OK, so we get Squadron 2026. It it comes out then we are, we
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  are right on the precipice of Star Citizen releases.
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  It's it's Christmas time, they released Squadron and Chris
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  Roberts has a big announcement. It's well received.
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  Everybody cheers and fucking nerds smashing soda cans on
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  their heads. Everyone's stoked.
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  And Chris Roberts says on our next project in 2027, Squadron
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  42, Chapter 2. How do you?
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  React goes wild. I'll be annoyed.
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  I'd be annoyed. I would say that that would be
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  suicide for the game project because again, Squadron 42, I
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  will play for a week, maybe a month, right.
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  But you know, our citizen is my 1015 year game.
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  I could see it being that, you know, I mean, it's it's a
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  forever game. It's the place where I get to
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  see my friends. It's more than just a game.
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  And that's where the money is. I hope they do continue to sell
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  ships forever, you know, and then they release them a couple
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  months later to buy with a UEC. OK, cool.
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  But I do hope that they do keep, you know, the incentive to keep
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  it funded, to keep it updated and to keep it live.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  Any any other takes on that? The next goal should be at one
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  point O. Yeah.
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  It should be one point. O need to end.
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  Yes, they announced that. I think a lot of people will be
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  upset. I mean, it's, we've been being
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  told for years now that development of Star solution is
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  held up because everyone's working on Squadron and I think
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  we're all sort of expecting, you know, to some extent the
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  floodgates to open up for, for progress to be a little easier
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  and a little more impactful. 1 squadron is done and for them to
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  announce we're, we're still going to keep just five people
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  working on Star Citizen while everyone else works on, you
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  know, chapter 2. Now people be pissed.
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  Chapter 2 after Star Citizen goes to one point O awesome.
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  I I look forward to it, but not before.
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  On one point O's release, I want Chris to come out and say well
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  and crying, of course we did it, we did it now onwards and he's
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  like Squadron 42 Chapter 2/20/20 I don't know 8.
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  No 20/30/20 Be be honest. That's David.
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  Beckham meme with. With his wife.
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  Be be honest. Yeah, be honest.
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  Quadrant. 43.