Squadron 42 is Still Another 1-2 Years Away, Developer Says

Cloud Imperium Games 'COO Carl Jones recently said that the company’s boss Chris Roberts is still overseeing the development of Squadron 42, which he admits could still take another year or two to finish (which means we probably aren’t going to see any gameplay anytime soon either)

[got_dam]

That sounds like a pretty generous estimate.

[Eonjay]

That's 10 years of development hell. With the amount of money and time that has gone into this project they could have hired a team of hundreds. Only the government and maybe James Cameron could throw so much money into a project for this amount of time and still not finish it.

[Si-Fly]

They do have a team of hundreds, 700 as of November last year!

[Eonjay]

Um oh wow. That is unbelievable.

[Si-Fly]

Yeah it’s ridiculous 😂

[Angelin]

Welcome to development world. A small team can finish a project in one year. A big team can finish in two… 😂

[Azurite]

Also; they aim for 1000+ employees within a few years.

[anast]

They need at least a 1000 or more devs for a project like this.

[Godmars290]

@Si-Fly:
What's the team size on Elite Dangerous. How long did it take for them to not only put out a working game, but then make improvements that effectively make it a new one?

[antikbaka]

development?

[thorstein]

Don't worry. They have a 5 year plan! Considering release will be in 2014, that means everything will be set by 2019!

[LordoftheCritics]

Squadron 42 roadmap is Still Another 1-2 Years Away.

/fixed

[Vithar]

lmao this scamaz

[VenomUK]

Quick, donate some money so it can be finished quicker.

[PrinceOfAnger]

If it is a scam why did sony send them a dev kit ?

"Sony chased us down to give us some dev kits to play with but we've been very clear on what it would take to get Star Citizen onto PS4."

[Destiny1080]

maybe sony can send them a dev kit for the PS6

[ecchiless]

did they send ps5 dev kits?

[PCgamer98]

But zyloh said he already played through the whole squadron 42 years ago. Lol!

[SimpleSlave]

1-2 or 3-4 years, who's to say? What's the different anyways if it was actually more like 5-6 years? Am I right fellas? So, just to be clear, it'll be more like 7-8 years away. Just so you guys don't get lost and can follow the process closely let me write you a Roadmap...

Outstanding.👍

[Hofstaderman]

Shouldn't authorities be investigating them? Surely it's against the law to accept huge sums of money and not produce a complete product?

[Tacoboto]

They put out progress updates for Star Citizen and no one is forced to pay into it. Supporting something with no release date isn't illegal, just stupid.

[JackBNimble]

But they are producing a product and they are also employing 700 people.

It will be done when it's done.

[maelstromb]

Wrong. As long as fools exist, the charade will continue. And those same fools are the first ppl on the scene when it comes to defending CI's blatant abuse of its community and backers.

[justsomeoffdude]

only?? /Sarcasm

[dolfa]

After they release their game, i would like to know, how many of their backers died before seeing the full game.

[CorndogBurglar]

Holy crap, I was coming here to say exactly this!

Sadly I think the answer will be "all of them", before it's all said and done.

[Terry_B]

Sure he didnt mean "never"?

[Tankbusta40]

This is comedy gold...they should hire Psaki to spin this for them

[Aloymetal]

She'd have to circle back lmao

[DeputyB]

Not even surprised anymore. I'm just surprised they haven't started selling their ships as one-off NFTs lol

[phoenixwing]

They'll read your comment and do just that. Each nft will be a slightly different color to make it unique

[Elda]

LOL! Smh.

[Vengeance1138]

Squadron 42 is still another 10-20 years away, Developer says // Fixed!

[DFresh]

By the time this game does come out it will look and play outdated compared to games of the future.

[ANIALATOR136]

Wasn't this originally supposed to release during the PS3/360 era?

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Yup, lol

[antikbaka]

AHAHAHA FOOOOLS

[BABI-PANGPANG]

Probably by the time this releases their "revolutionary" gameplay has become the norm for many other companies.. Let's just pull out the IV

[IanTH]

Wasn't part of the reason for this existing to get something complete out quicker to backers? I at least remember it was teased as coming out in 2016. I mean, good gravy. It seems like everything suffers from endless feature creep over there lol.

Something tells me it was chaos over there the first few years before that Crytek studio shut down and they were able to hoover up all those developers. Man, did they luck out there. I feel like maybe things are on track now? At least some kind of track. Who knows if this track actually has an end though.

[rataranian]

Is that Mark Hamil?

[quenomamen]

Translation: 4-5

[Deathdeliverer]

This is literally the most in your face robbery I’ve ever witnessed. They are brazen as hell. Don’t try to hide it or nothing. Just hey, give us the money.

[maelstromb]

At this rate the original backers will be dust by the time we get the first official game... what a joke. For those of you who feel the need to argue that "well, they're doing something really special and unprecedented here." I say to you, three words: No Man's Sky. Very few ppl actually give a sh*t about a company that vacuums money for a living and placates backers with lofty tech demos which rarely come to fruition. Let's be real. It's been nearly 8 years already!! PUT UP OR SHUT UP!! The game still feels like a tech demo all these years later. Yes, it's made progress, but in the years of development, progress is laughable and embarrassing. "Development Hell" perfectly describes this project and the company's lack of proper direction...