Star Citizen/Squadron 42 a new Chris Roberts game.

[KJakker 892]

Chris Roberts, the creator of games like Wing Commander, Strike Commander, and Freelancer, after a ten year hiatus from making games, is back with a new project.

 

The project is called “Star Citizen” and is planned to have both an online persistent world trading, exploration, and combat component in the pattern of games like Freelancer and Privateer and a single player with optional co-op play component in a military setting in the pattern of Wing Commander called “Squadron 42”. Both are set in the same Star Citizen universe. Chris Roberts is not relying on big name publishers to support his project but instead is using a combination of crowd funding and private investors.

 

Below is the "Squadron 42" trailer and three links to where you can learn more about the project. The first link is to the home page of "Roberts Space Industries" website . The second link is to the "Star-Citizen" page of that site detailing what the project is. The third link is to the RSI YouTube channel for some videos on the project.

 

 

Link to the RSI website.

 

Link to the Star Citizen page at RSI.

 

Link to the RSI YouTube Channel.

[Mirtma 0]

Almost at 1.000.000 $! Maybe you should also post this in SF Forum

[FalconC45 162]

The enemy ships look like the Kilrathi Drathi class... Does this mean we'll see another Terran/Kilrathi war?

[KJakker 892]

The enemy ships look like the Kilrathi Drathi class... Does this mean we'll see another Terran/Kilrathi war?

 

 

Electronic Arts owns the right to the Wing Commander IP so no there will not be another Terran/Kilrathi war. The enemy ship in the trailer belongs to the Vanduul who are supposed to be the United Empire of Earth's biggest adversary. However the developers say that it will not be so much a total war like Wing Commander but a setting more like the late Roman Empire where, at least in the Squadron 42 military service component, you are staving off the alien barbarian hordes.

 

I would recommend reading all of the Time Capsule entries from oldest to newest as it fleshes out much of what is so far known about the universe the game will be set in.

 

Also of note is that they have passed the $1,000,000 mark today and so are over halfway to the minimum funding for the project.

 

They also have in response to community request open a Star Citizen page on Kickstarter as an alternate method of pledging.

 

[Nixou 25]

Yes the power of the internet is incredible. The guy almost only did blockbuster games out of not much, much in advance for the era, wing commander, starlancer, freelancer, he proved everytime he knows his stuff so when he asked funding help by PC players who are considered by many producers as a "secondary" market, he gets one freaking million dollar in player donations in not even a week.

 

And more money coming every second. If you go on his page and refresh every 20 seconds you will see everytime more money being added to the pool.

 

Amazing.

Edited October 19, 2012 by Nixou