Star Citizen's Squadron 42 Will Release in 2026 with 30-40 Hours of Campaign; Gameplay Revealed

Cloud Imperium Games showcased the prologue of Squadron 42, the single-player campaign of Star Citizen, announcing a 2026 release.

[PrinceOfAnger]

Wow this indeed looks better than anything on Consoles, the new Crysis for PC ? :D
looks like a CGI movie!

BTW
their PC couldn't hold the line it seems...

[VenomUK]

TWENTY-TWENTY-SIX?!!!

Wasn't Squadron 42 'content complete' and just being tested for bugs and set for locked in 2024 release? Damn, this is not just a delay until 2025, it's a delay until 2026. This means possibly two years away until the release, if it actually happens then.

I mean I have high hopes that it is wonderful and that it delivers - but also I don't have high hopes it will release in 2026. And what about the main game Star Citizen? No chance of this coming out before 2030.

* Abriael, you're a prominent Star Citizen story submitter, is this because of a partnership or you're really on board this game?

[just_looken]

Just remember this squadron 42 was being made over 5 years ago they delayed the beta for testing from 2019 to 2020.

See here:
https://www.eurogamer.net/s...

EDIT: I found it a article from forbes there are more search for them but this is from 2016 squadron 42 single player campaign delayed. scroll down in the article for a video from 2016 from these devs talking about the campaign

https://www.forbes.com/site...

direct 2016 vid link about this campaign
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

So this game is over 10 years old holy crap

I am talking about squadron 42 here also not star citizen.

[vTuro24]

2026 release would mean it went through 3 years of polishing phase. That's not so crazy. Took CDPR a similar amount of time to polish Cyberpunk after releasing a broken mess.

[PrinceOfAnger]

Squadron 42 is the main game not Star Citizen.

[RaidenBlack]

oh boy ...
"Can it run Squadron?"

[Fishy Fingers]

Skip to 7h30min if you want to see Squadron 42.

[Abriael]

It should be already set there.

[SimpleSlave]

Over 10 years for that... Jesus H. Christ.

[just_looken]

Do not confuse star citizen to this one star citizen is over 14 years old still in testing the other squadron 42 will be 10 years of delay's that we know off.

Though both have stupid delays on them

[Jigga69]

Looks really boring : shoot, shoot, walk, shoot, shoot. What a waste.

[Fishy Fingers]

The player only has a gun for about 5 of the 80 minutes.

:/

[QuarkZ]

And it manages to crash.

[vTuro24]

That's the most retarded zero braincells way to criticize anything I've seen.

[GamingManiac]

Fingers crossed, will not partake in the early access scam, but can't deny how cool it looks!

[just_looken]

he he remember when the first rounds of man kickstater? was that even a thing back then no it had to be pateron i think i was in my teens when this company first asked for cash still waiting for the completed star citizen lol.

[MrBaskerville]

I think it's a full release in 2026, so if reviews turn out good it couldn't hurt to try it out. Star Citizen is the scam.

They probably should have just done Squadron and not the ever expanding mmo.

[LordoftheCritics]

LOL another sales pitch from Citzen Conned

[PRIMORDUS]

"It was originally announced for release in 2014 during the Kickstarter campaign, but was delayed multiple times"
2026 so it took 12yrs LOL. I going to bet it will not release in 2026 and be delayed again.😂 This will come close to Duke Nukem Forever which took 14yrs, and when it did release it wasn't really that good.

[MrBaskerville]

It looks good, but 2026? Really?

[badz149]

So they can rake in more money in this 2 years. WTF?

[anast]

Those that have a high end set up and want to play in the best sci-fi world are in for a treat. 42 looks like a lot of fun.

[RedDevils]

Why do people want to get scam for this lol and here I thought it gonna come out 3026 not 2026.

[TheNamelessOne]

*cough* game still has more content than most of the haters even realize *cough*

Really though, it's easy to just sit back and call this game a "scam", but there really is a lot, and I mean a lot, of content on offer despite not being officially released. It's an easy game to hate on when you haven't actually sat down and looked at what's actually on offer.

There's no denying that it has been a mismanaged project, but that also doesn't change the fact that it is constantly updated with new content, and they're still aiming for a experience that far exceeds what most games aim for.

[thorstein]

It doesn't even have what Starfield has.

Ooh, CIG just released a new ship.

It looks better, but it's empty, empty, empty.

[PhillyDonJawn]

Was calling the woman. Sir intentional?

[DazaMc]

I would happily watch a tv series of this. Very impressive.

[darksky]

10 years of 'development' to give only 40 hours of playtime. What a waste of time.

[RaidenBlack]

So you were only waiting exclusively for this game for the past 10 years?
If not, I don't see how its a waste of your time?
Should just be a game for you releasing in the 2026 schedule like any other game unless you've been involved with the project somehow for the past 10 years.

[gigoran8]

Just sit and think, people have literally died waiting for this game to release.