The Spiritual Successor to Wing Commander AND Privateer!!!!

[moose42]

HOLY FREAKING COW! I've waited since... the 90's for this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QDv7DFfxk

Squadron 42 is the Wing Commanderesque game and Star Citizen is the Privateer part.


More here.

http://starcitizen.robertsspaceindustries.com/

[slowpoke]

I'm a recovering EvE addict, I really don't need that....

[Kommander]

Good ship captain games are hard to find, be they based at sea or in space. I'm not sure if this is going to go more towards a flight sim or captain style of game. Most people seem to want to fly the fighter, I want to command the carrier. Eve was good for this.

Edit: I should add here that I never played Wing Commander as it was a bit before my time. I have played Freelancer and liked the concept but found the execution shallow. As I previously mentioned I have played EvE and while I respect it's accomplishments I could not get into it hardcore and I found running missions to be a bore after a while.

[Jericho941]

Nice find! Last space sim I tried was a fan-made Battlestar Galactica mod for Freespace. It was... well. Good effort. But borderline unplayable.

I'm a recovering EvE addict, I really don't need that....

I didn't see any Excel spreadsheets in the trailer.

[mekender]

I "sign up to sign up" months ago, on the first semi-announcement.

HUGE wing commander fan here.

See, I never really played WC... I played the hell out of X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Descent, etc...

Sadly the last really good flight game for the PC was the Battlefield games... And those are mainly FPS games.

[mekender]

Saw this today...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Star-C ... 18310.html

My concern is that he is sitting there playing the game with a controller. Frankly, if they do the same thing that MS did with freelancer and make it so you cant use a flight stick, I wont even bother with it.

[moose42]

Joystick, gamepad, mouse, keyboard are all supported.
We've all got our preferences, so why be forced to choose?

Plus later in the video it shows a stick and throttle.

[MiddleAgedKen]

I had some fun with Beyond the Red Line (the BSG mod Jericho941 referenced above). This looks interesting; doubt my hardware is fully up to the job, but I'll keep it in mind.

[mekender]

Joystick, gamepad, mouse, keyboard are all supported.
We've all got our preferences, so why be forced to choose?

Plus later in the video it shows a stick and throttle.

Ya, saw the stick later in the video after I unpaused it...

[Yogimus]

Served a few tours aboard the tigerclaw, myself