Squadron 42 on Steam
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Enlist in the UEE Navy in a cinematic, single-player space adventure. Pilot combat ships, fight on foot, and explore capital ships, space stations, and frontier outposts. Live and work alongside your crew as you battle on the front lines of a galactic war.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system  
OS: Windows 11  
Processor: Quad Core CPU - Intel: i7 (Sandy Bridge or later), AMD: Bulldozer or later  
Memory: 16 GB RAM  
Graphics: DirectX 11.1 compatible Graphics Card with 8 GB VRAM  
DirectX: Version 12  
Network: Broadband Internet connection  
Storage: 150 GB available space
  • Agent_Karyo@piefed.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I am actually a big fan of Chris Roberts’ Wing Commander movie. Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows :) ; trash sci-fi, the space bulldozer, weird cat aliens, hiding your spaceship in an asteroid while getting hit by WW2 era anti-submarine bombs, this is top class stuff if you are a connoisseur of sci-fi b-movies.

    I still remember catching the movie on TV (I wonder why it was available on TV even in my country so close to the release), I tuned in during the scene in the early part of the movie where they were flying through some gravitational bla bla to get on the Tiger Claw. Fun times.

    Unfortunately PR contractors report that just the intro is 5 hours of cutscenes. I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode. 50 hours of scifi b-movie trash in video game cutscene form is a whole different proposition from 2 hours of laughs.

    I honestly wouldn’t mind if investor types were duped into giving Chris Roberts money for a Wing Commander II movie. I would even go to the cinema to watch it.

    • Schemen110676@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Thats not what they reported… they said its a lot of things to do and people did play at different speeds.

      Which means you can influence how the game plays out

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode.

      I see you’re not familiar with the Hideo Kojima method of storytelling. He’s still got the Guinness Record for it.

    • bryndos@fedia.io
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I dunno - Wing Comander III and IV with Mark Hammill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies - that’s a top (bottom?) tier trash sci-fi cast.

      I preferred them to the movie even just as a movie - well the story was probably worse, but at least you got to fly space ships in the gaps, and that was the first time I’d seen erm … “heavyset” middle-aged luke skywalker

      These two were how i revised for my school exams - without those, i dunno, I might have had to revise.