[Video] Where is Squadron 42? Chris Roberts AMA response

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Yup. This.
SQ42 is a pipe dream to be delivered anytime soon, even in 2021 with the rate of change that we are experiencing in the PU. I say, strip SQ42 - cut down the chapters and get rid of the roadmap to the roadmap - its all bs anyway, and send resources to the PU. Give us SQ42, lite version, and call it what it is... a bad decision to "say" SQ42 is the pregame to the PU. In a perfect world ok... linearly speaking it makes sense, but CR has shown he may be creative, but he knows or knew nothing about the engineering required to make a huge online universe. If he just said SQ42, no PU, ok and we'd have another low budget game.
 

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Have you ever seen Montoya and your wife in the same room before?
No, but I have never seen her in the same room as Garry Oldman or Gillian Anserson either D-: My wife might be Garry Oldman?!
 

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SQ42 is a pipe dream to be delivered anytime soon, even in 2021 with the rate of change that we are experiencing in the PU. I say, strip SQ42 - cut down the chapters and get rid of the roadmap to the roadmap - its all bs anyway, and send resources to the PU. Give us SQ42, lite version, and call it what it is... a bad decision to "say" SQ42 is the pregame to the PU. In a perfect world ok... linearly speaking it makes sense, but CR has shown he may be creative, but he knows or knew nothing about the engineering required to make a huge online universe. If he just said SQ42, no PU, ok and we'd have another low budget game.
He may not have understood the engineering, very true. But I think that's something that has changed. I think the work they been putting into both games - which are intrinsically tied together, is going to be groundbreaking for the entire industry going forward. I firmly believe that our patience will pay off.
 

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Pretty scary looking at these road maps tbh. Like how are we working on throw mechanics 7-8 years in? Even worse when CIG is describing systems, lore, or mechanics in videos like they haven't even started them yet. If you had writers working on lore for 8 years, you'd think they would never say "we hope" "we think" when talking about it.
 
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