Mark Hamill joins Gillian Anderson, Gary Oldman, John Rhys-Davies, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Craig Fairbrass and fellow Star Wars actor Andy Serkis in the trailer for Squadron 42. Entertainment.ie take a look at the game and its development.
The game’s development as part of ‘Star Citizen’ – which really would take a huge article to summarise, never mind explore in any kind of detail – has been ongoing for the past seven years, beginning with a huge crowdfunding campaign and has now become a self-sustaining enterprise with players happily forking over money for new ships, skins and so on to help the game’s development.
‘Squadron 42’ will be a single-player campaign that’ll be set within ‘Star Citizen’ and is expected to be released in various episodes rather than one, single game as such.
Of course, the question remains whether ‘Star Citizen’ and ‘Squadron 42’ will ever see the light of the day in the first place.
PC Gamer took a look at the reaction to the trailer, which saw significant funds pour in to the development of the game.
On Wednesday, when another star-studded trailer for singleplayer spin-off Squadron 42 was unveiled, the game received nearly $380,000, according to its live funding tracker. Fans backed it for a further $325,000 on Thursday, and roughly $190,000 on each of Friday and Saturday. To put that in perspective, it raised a total of $171,582 in the previous week.
That brings total crowdfunding to more than $195 million, and it could well hit the $200 million mark before the end of the year.
And here’s the official details from the Star Citizen YouTube channel.
Join the brave men and women of the 2nd Fleet as they stand strong against the greatest threats the UEE has ever faced. Will you answer the call?
Roberts Space Industries is a spacecraft manufacturer within the persistent-world game “Star Citizen” and its companion single-player spaceflight sim, “Squadron 42.” RSI is also your portal for information, updates, and purchases of your very own spacecraft with which to trade, plunder, and protect the citizens of Star Citizen.
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