Squadron 42 - Star Citizen : Wing Commander Style Space Sim

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I find it crazy the amount of money some people have already spent, I backed the original kickstarter ( £35 option) that's definitely enough for me for the time being. Did I hear that there might be a combat beta later in the year?
 
MikeTheNative said:
I find it crazy the amount of money some people have already spent, I backed the original kickstarter ( £35 option) that's definitely enough for me for the time being. Did I hear that there might be a combat beta later in the year?
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Yeah the Dogfighting Alpha will be coming in December - allowing you to simulate Arena style dogfighting.

This will be done on a simulator within the Hangar module, that will allow you to test out the dogfighting ships (300i and variants, Hornet etc.) Larger ships may come later.

They wont be your own ships, so you dont have to worry about loosing them etc and it will be thr first real taste of how the game will feel and play.

Cant wait.
 
Appartently there some hoo ha about the $20 million goal, which is an instanced fps on select planets - I think PvE. Sounds like a brilliant idea to me, but some blowhards are crying mission creep, like going big is a bad thing. Pffft. I cant wait to hear what the $25 and $30 million stretch goals are. What else can there be????
 
MikeTheNative said:
I find it crazy the amount of money some people have already spent, I backed the original kickstarter ( £35 option) that's definitely enough for me for the time being. Did I hear that there might be a combat beta later in the year?
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I backed after. Only got the 315p as i want to start faraway from the core planets. Still really to much for a game.
 
Devlish said:
Appartently there some hoo ha about the $20 million goal, which is an instanced fps on select planets - I think PvE. Sounds like a brilliant idea to me, but some blowhards are crying mission creep, like going big is a bad thing. Pffft. I cant wait to hear what the $25 and $30 million stretch goals are. What else can there be????
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Most of this is what was already planned... Reaching the goal means they want to launch the game with these features.
 
$21 Mill stretch goal announced

A dedicated salvaging mechanic with its own storyline/goals and profession and the first female avatar art.

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Glaucus said:
I like the sound of salvage mechanic, any more info?
In fact any info on different clases and trainng/skill will work.
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lol oh dear someone hasn't been following very well :D There are no great details on the salvaging mechanic as its still to be designed

This is from the comm update:

Salvage Mechanic: Salvage isn’t an aside: it’s a career, with its own mechanic, story tie-ins and universe-shaping endgames. Search the galaxy for a host of valuable and interesting secrets using both the flight and FPS components. Discover the secrets of the ancient Hadesians, locate valuable components and cargo… or go down in history the first to make contact an entirely new alien race!
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There are no skills or professions as such in the multi-player universe. The only skill will be your personal ability to fly your ship via HOTAS, game pad or keyboard and mouse.

There are no professions other than what you decide to do ingame. So far the ones people have came up with which the game will allow are as follows (to the best of my memory)

Mercenary
Pirate (you can board and steal ships but it will be hard)
Trader
Hauler
Bounty Hunter
Explorer
Salvaging
Smuggling
Miner/refiner
Hired turret gunner

You will be able to take over some manufacturing nodes and space stations but i imagine this will be territory of large fleets
 
You can unload the files in Cryengine and have a look lol

The option to visit peoples hangers should be here at the end of October roughly
 
Just make sure you check. The packages tend to be a few more $ than the actual ships and have more role based names, i.e. Arbiter, explorer etc.
 
so under pledges

game packages / new backers / Digital scout

it contains amongst other things:

"Star Citizen Digital Download" & "Squadron 42 Digital Download"

Is this the actual game?

Again, apologies if a dumb question
 
Yes it is. Original backers have access to life time insurance (don't have to pay to keep the basic ship); effectively the more expensive the ship, the more valuable the LTI becomes... for example, my 325a is insured so that I don't have to get the addons to a 300i in game to make it become a 325a. To get the LTI, you simply have to ask a nice original backer to 'upgrade' it by gifting it to them, they then 'melt' the package in to store credits and then buy the new package with their bonuses. They then gift the package back to you. You have until the 26th November to do this sort of business.
 
Old Wino said:
so under pledges

game packages / new backers / Digital scout

it contains amongst other things:

"Star Citizen Digital Download" & "Squadron 42 Digital Download"

Is this the actual game?

Again, apologies if a dumb question
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There are no dumb questions :) Yes as long as it says "Star Citizen Digital Download" & "Squadron 42 Digital Download that package contains the game. eg MP (star citizen) and SP (Squadron 42).

But the digital scout $30 option doesn't have the Alpha and Beta access for that you will need the Digital Mercenary for $40 (see below)


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Also if you get someone like myself (original backer) to buy it on your behalf and gift it to you, you would get lifetime insurance on your pledge ships hull + the alpha and beta access for $35 instead of $40. If you're not fussed about the lifetime insurance or the Alpha and Beta then by all means pull the trigger on the $30 option :)
 
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