Star Citizen vs Squadron 42.

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As we all know, Squadron 42 is now a standalone game and first part of the trilogy. Other entries that were originally announced as Expansion Packs are now full fledged games.

1. Squadron 42 (full game. 21 Chapters/71 missions)
2. Behind Enemy Lines (Sequel)
3. Yet to be Announced- Game 3

We all know Squadron 42 will be linear, character driven campaign, with branching paths and multiple endings. It will offer over 20 hours of gameplay just like its sequels. Now on Other hand we have Star Citizen itself, which is Open world MMO and gives you freedom to do whatever you want and go wherever you want. You can be merchant, pirate, healer, mercenary, explorer etc. Your actions can affect the shape of the different sectors in the galaxy. Explore new star system and you'll see people forming new colonies there and system will be named after you. Be a bad guy and you'll see sector get corrupted due to your actions. Smuggle goods,,, get illegal weapons from black market and sell them for higher price in civilized cities or gather your party and become Han Solo and so on. Possibilities are endless.

So my question is,,, Are you more excited for the Campaign or MMO part of the game. And why?

I'm excited for both but I'll vote for Squadron 42 because I think it will be my gateway to the persistent universe part of the package. I like Single Player story heavy games more than Online stuff. It's also coming out before Persistant Universe so basically Squadron 42 will be my first experience with Star Citizen universe. It'll make me more exited for MMO part of the game. What about you? Discuss.

the PU online. Why? Story based games have a hard time holding my attention these days. I wanna fly wings with my buddies and explore space on my own and make up my own roleplay story with my own character like I do in E:D

So has this just been released?

I uninstalled SC a while ago

its still only the arena

I would say I'm even surprised it has a singleplayer campaign, nice.

You didn't know that before? Well, Squadron 42 is standalone game now, and will be release later this year. But I expect a delay... I expect it to release early 2016. You can play Offline + LAN + Online Co-op.

It got LAN as well? sweet, not many games today are allowing LAN.

and player run servers with a mod kit

If it's got LAN then Squadron 42.

Well it looks like Mark Hamill is going to be in squadron 42, i kind of expected it :P

https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/601348416598315008

Chris roberts is at Imagnarum at Ealiing studios in the UK filming Squadron 42 at the moment.

does not make sense though as SC have nothing to do with WC

Yup, saw this tweet 2 days ago. It's pretty obvious that he's talking about Sq42. Both Chris and Mark are in UK right now Sq42 is designed as true successor of Wing Commander. Not to mention stretch goal that said they'll bring back Wing Commander celebrity.

Maybe will see maniacs kid in this universe lol..How awesome would that be...The fps will be shown at e3 than released its my call on this one..So this new mod will be very soon..

Would be nice to have someone like Maniac.

I just want Freelancer 2 ... -_- Can't we get both games to have a baby ? I think that would get us pretty close ...

Looks lke there has been a leak of assets from Star Citizen, a 48gb file is on the internet (note: it's just assets from the game not an early buiild off the game!)

Does not seem to bad a leak though,its many outdated models running on the basic verson of the cryengine that no longer supports many of the features of the assets that CIG's versiion of cry engine runs, so it's obviously no representative of the actual game quality

Somebody at CIIG is going to have to stand in the naughty corner.

http://www.pcgamer.com/48gb-of-star-citizen-assets-leaked/

pretty sure microsoft has that IP. maybe they're already planning something to counter star citzen

So Squadron 42 is the Single Player campaign for Star Citizen ...

Why is this a "versus" thread? Can't you just get both?

I'm not really a backer I just chose Star Citizen as one of my three free games when I got my AMD card and I'm just interested in Squadron 42. I just want something similar to the old WC games also I'm not much into multiplayer stuff.

But it won't be as good as Freelancer was... Let alone better (if it ever happens). It'll typical dude bro game.

Yeah, saw these. Looks awesome but I didn't see full album to avoid spoilers but somewhere saw the UEE Dreadnought despite being careful not to see everything... Oh well.

I'm quite frankly shocked at the poll result. I gaurentee that while it maybe flashy, it will be a generic western-military "We all speak with incredibly deep voice like every other tired western military cliche game" against generic agressive aliens.

Compared to a sandbox with emergent gameplay...

I'l be blunt, this poll ... will be the opposite when the time comes. right now though... its all fantasy... they can't even get 2 Q1 modules out on time.... and I feel making SQ42 a priority now is partly to blame.... they havn't got the gameplay sorted yet but the big man is off playing director ... doesn't strike me with confidence.

a significant numbers of backers (me included) are older gamers who tasted and loved wing commander, why is it surprising?

and having tasted elite dangerous too, I can say that I'm not that into MMO, it can be fun under correct circumstances, but sooner or later I'm forced to interact with unpredictable human at unpredictable times and I can't say I'm constantly looking forward for such event.

MMO and today MP games, one way or another, ultimately force gamers to be competitive no matter how small it is (or rather... forced to play at the progress and pace like everyone else or risk behind and become potential cannon fodder to be bullied), and for mainly us who grown in the old days, it's not that pleasant.

as far as i know, it's the MMO part that caused all the fuzz in the firstplace... so, that.

@MBirdy88: Sq 42 is coming out before Star Citizen. So, that's another reason to be excited more about it for now. It'll also be first look.... Like gateway for many to embrace PU later,,, so Sq42 is very important for them. Once people are done with Sq42. Hype for PU will increase dramatically.

@napo_sp: I prefer SP too.

I'm looking more forward to SQ42. I haven't played a good SP space game since Freelancer all those years ago. I am excited for the online component but I don't want to be let down. So no Arena commander this year.