@@adamczechowski614 looks about 12 years old. They'd probably be better off just making with modern tech at this point. The fans are just gonna be thinking these are PS3 graphics by the time the game actually "comes out".
pathetik. when they announc it 12 years ago thing you will play this moloch in 10 years :-D look at Veilguard developed 10 years and what a materpiece... stupid rage babys noting more
I think one of the best things about this battle is that we actually get to see commanders issue understandable orders and then see the effects of those orders play out. This is unlike the vast majority of Hollywood space battles where anything beyond "focus fire on that target" is little more than gobbeldygook.
It is rare to get a good look at actual tactics in this type of space battle. I think Hollywood and others could learn a lot looking at some of the military sci-fi that comes out of Japan. Legend of the Galactic Heroes is the obvious one, since it has those awesome fleet engagements. Then there is stuff like Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars that utilizes ftl within the tactics of a battle itself, not just at the operational or strategic levels. Audiences don't need things to be super detailed, but so many battles are the exact opposite. Relying on nothing more than the rule of cool. (and to be fair, sometimes that is all you need)
Bruh Star Imperium earned almost half a billion USD from all the whales they've been milking for the past decade+. They could've make SEVERAL movies by now if they actually cared about finishing any games LOL
I hope it has an epic single player campaign I’m not into online garbage. I don’t have the time to fight against GUYS who sit next to their mountains of Cheetos and candy bars and spend hundreds of hours perfecting their skill. I just want to go back to the old days where I can just go through a chapter or more then stop and come back for more later. I’m so over the online experience.
@@spankyjeffro5320 Hey it’s my opinion. I just don’t get into online gaming. I am a casual game right now and I am in my 50s. I’ve been gaming since the first Atari came out. I am also very busy so I don’t have all the time to perfect all the little nuances that someone that spends hours and hours and hours online perfecting. With a single player campaign, I can take my time over long period of time and never have to worry about going up against someone that has a garbage cans full of empty Cheeto bags and a Mountain of soda cans piled up because he’s done 20 hour marathons day after day on the game for months.
Squadron 42 is exactly what you're asking for :) It's only single-player, and if you decide you do want to play the online side of Star Citizen, you get rewards for it, for completing Squadron 42. From What I understand, Sq42 is going to have a nice, long, and cinematic story. I can't wait for it!
Well it is a movie game. Chris Roberts worked in Hollywood for ten years, so he wanted to incorporate what he learned about attention to details into this game. I'm not quite sure if there will be less of a focus on cinematics as the game progresses though, and more focus on active cinematics where you can move around in the scene.
he was pretty patient ill give him that, made sure his fleet wasnt going all in against an enemy they’re unsure on how much is waiting in the cloud, got them all to line up in range and baited their small fighters to go into a killzone reducing their numbers and causing disarray for squads to clean up
What else could you do? You wouldn't know how many there are, how many of which ship class and your own ships would not see anything in there as well, so it would most likely end up in a lot of collisions
@ doesnt matter cause bullets in space dont drop, they just keep going at a accelerated speed until it hits something so even of they moss the line theyll hit whatever else is hiding, the best targets are usually the ones in formation in these engagements
Squadron 42 was the reason I bought the game nearly a decade ago (god that's ridiculous) so I'm happy to see it's actually something finally. Honestly, I think I lost my login and password it's been so long. Which is absurd. It's crazy how the graphics aren't nearly as impressive as they were when this game was announced haha. They still look great but...
Yeah it's been a decade. But honestly after looking a 2016 footage... this game is substantially way better looking than I ever thought possible. I'm about to make a retrospective video that shows the old SQ42 footage vs new
And it's more impressive when you consider they did the motion capture back in 2014 at Andy Serkis' studio (he plays the Vanduul characters). They didn't have nearly the massive budget back then (still under $100M). I recommend watching the "Admiral Bishop Senate speech" video from CitizenCon 2015. It's a good follow-up to this video.
The first two I know, or should know, well. Mr Strong I've seen far less of. Honestly I don't think I've seen Gillian since the last X-Files movie. And I have a thing for red-heads so with her blonde I couldn't place her. :D
As someone who grew up with Wing Commander and Privateer, I want to play this game so bad but sadly my computer just aint up to par for what's needed. Time to start saving up >.
this game is the reason i got into building PCs. i saw what Chris Roberts wanted to do and went out and learned how to build a PC to be ready for when this game was released. that was over 10 years and 4 PC upgrages ago.
@@drchops No and I said "I believe" but I am not sully sure if he plays it. But it would make sense he does because I understand he is a big PC game player.
Yeah but she was probably likely to bleed out before they got anywhere was her thought I'm sure. Plus a good warrior wants to die in battle, not in a military hospital. ;)
This looks like a love letter to all things sci-fi/space and I am here for it. I grew up on Egosoft's X3 games and later X4 + Elite Dangerous. Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse were also large parts of my childhood and my love for space centred media. I hope to see more games like this in fututre that are just as visually spectacular and cinematic. Hats off to Cloud Imperium, this game looks incredible!
For the same reason the capital ships use WWII style cannons on their decks and are all arrayed like line infantry from the Napoleonic Wars despite being in space: it looks badass.
Attempts to confuse enemy counter-fire that are likely controlled by predictive algorithms. If something constantly travels in one direction, then you know where it will be and are able to hit it. More difficult in space battles when the vast distances means time has transpired between what you are seeing "over there" and what is really going on "over there". If you are constantly shifting your direction of travel, then it's much more difficult to anticipate where you will be for the arrival of the shot. You are limited to the cone of approach though. If you want to engage the enemy, you're not going to head away from them, nor even parallel. You have to get closer eventually. This narrows your options. Eliminating those options is the goal of the predictive algorithms.
dampeners that simulate flying in an atmosphere to make it easier to fly in space and ensure the pilot doesnt snap their own neck or some shit trying to manuever
@@SargeRho how can you call it a sim while also arguing that it's unrealistic because of the way it is? Sims are supposed to be realistic. That's where the name comes from. Simulator.
@@staffsargemobuto I dunno man. I wouldn't assume anything. Ive had a license to an SaaS website called speechello since 2018 which used early implementations of AI generated speech which sounds quite natural. And there was a company called Dragon Naturally Speaking which goes back to the Windows 3.1 days.
after admiral bishops speech...........if someone would have yelled charge, i swear i would have fought....fought hard!!!!............this game is really something else, we havent had a game evoke that kinda feeling for quite a long time now
I wish this single player campaign took precedence over the MMO aspect. Give me a sweet, cinematic coop game I can play with my bros, and you have a winner!
My Initial thoughts - Oh my gosh, they look like the units you build with SnapShips. This is so cool. My children's thoughts (ages 7-13) - Are they going to make toys of these? Because these ship designs are really cool.
not really, these look more like ships made for atmosphere, not space ships, i wish guys that made these things where a little more well read. take a battle seen out of a good sifi book series like Dahak or troy rising or honor Harrington or something, even folmak wars would be better than this. i tuned out of this after 7 or 8 minutes cuz there was no tactics, no physics, no worth wile dialog (half of it was gibberish)
I'm not saying they look like they'd function well, I'm just saying that they look cool for the intention of looking cool, it's a video game so I'm pretty sure they hit a home run for what they were going for.
I mean they could have come up with something better than "I held the line," but whatever. Something like this would have done better "When they ask you what you did at the Battle of Vega, you won’t just say, 'I was there.' No, you’ll say, 'I stared into the depths of hell itself, into the very eyes of the evil that stood before me. When others faltered, I held my ground. When hope seemed lost, I became the shield that turned despair into victory. I stood between chaos and hope, and together with my brothers and sisters, we turned the tide of history. I didn’t just fight - I endured, I persevered, and I triumphed.'"
crazy part is they only showed the Vanduul here, there are other alien races that we can expect to encounter, such as the Xian, Banu, Kr'Thak, and Tevarin
So that in 40 years from now, when your grandchild is downloading the latest update for Star Citizen beta 5.8 and ask, what did you do at the battle of Vega? You can proudly say, I funded The Line!
Am closing on 70 years old ,have been a gamer since i was 14.The whole thing looks and sounds awesome , some deja vu to star wars intro scene, and Mass E3 end fight scene, tactically not a good idea to fight with what you are defending right behind you as any thing that misses you will hit the planet. will start saving for it now , this one like BG3 i will pay release price, had been 20 years since i paid full price before BG3, good on ya for this work .
I have to agree... that you are pretty much full of Shyte... The very first arcade game wasn't until 1971 which would be a year too late... the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was another year later in 1972... Even the famous Atari Pong was not even released until very late 1972....Your math is not 'mathing'... unless you are more like 65 years old in which case you are barely squeaking in.
I wish there was a video game just like this you can build yourself a fleet and click on any ship and you wanted to pilot at any time you want it you could almost fight the whole battle that way that would be a cool video game
ok the game has a serious engine bug! Objects even characters spawing after the scene is already drawn. Example at 23:34 or 28:45. First example is really noticeable.
@@beron22 it's a part of their object container streaming tech, it optimizes seamless performance but has the downside of sometimes having pop-ins, worth trade imo especially since they're working on fixing it
"Work in progress" indeed. But none the less, a good result so far... Farmiliar faces. Glitches. And strong dialog. Especially loved the Admirals speech... Honestly, and in some way, sadly enough... Far better than anything Hollywood has churned out the past decade... All in all, well bloody done...
This is astonishing. I've never seen a video taken from within development hell. Didn't know it looked like space. If they hurry and fire up the afterburner, they may make it out of there in the next ten years. Btw., the graphics are (very) good, but not breathtaking.
I still got a fleet of ships from 2012-2015. Back then they said they would eventually have NPC's that would help you fly big ships. Apparently that is scraped so most of my ships will just sit in hangers forever. I have been waiting since then to install and play this game. Still seems like a tech demo to me.
Well it better be fucking good, considering that it was supposed to be released in 2014 and that as of May 2024, SC has crowdfunded roughley 700 Million (!!!) Dollars!
CGI have come along way. The detail of the ships, alien movements and textures, the debris, and the human features of showing age around the eyes, and individual facial hair too.
Even in the future you cannot escape tons of spam 2:36 Also I hate it when I get stabbed in the stomach and the blade doesn't touch my spine but somehow I lose all control of my legs. Also Also I thought this was a giant movie, didn't know there would be gamplay. This is pretty cool though.
It could've pierced all the way and hit the spine, but I'm also sure that being stabbed by a pretty wide spear is pretty painful and disabilitating. lol.
Havok if you ever read this message pls on your next video about the Polaris remember to check also the repair, rearm and refuel feature that it should have on the hangar pls. All the tester so far forgot about this very important topic
As far as devs have said, it will be a manual process. There are connectors for fuel hoses etc in the landing pad platform itself, and there are no external equipment you can connect to it yet.
I loved how this prologue for SQ42 gets inspiration from many different sci-fi universes. It definitely has a mix of star wars, star trek and even some 40k, but it definitely has heavy Wing Commander vibes as well. Which makes sense because of Chris Roberts being the mind behind a lot of it.
All these giant space battles with ships ontop of each other. I understood why Star Trek in the 1960's with practical effects . A grander scope on battles would be nice.
It really feels like whatr Wing Commander would look like if they were making it nowadays ;-) (yes, I know that's a coincidence but *this* hits the right spot)
That's not the definition of coincidence, it's 100% intended because it is the same guy who made Wing Commander. A coincidence is something that happens as a result of chance or "improbable concurrence or near-concurrence of seemingly related events or circumstances that have no causal relation"
Something that REALLY bugs me about all simulated small spacecraft is the need to show them banking to turn. That is a manoeuvre designed for atmospheric flight, where aerodynamic forces like lift and drag influence movement. In space, there’s no atmosphere to create those forces. I know, i know its a game and there needs to be some suspense of disbelief but its just something I see time and time again.
the main thrustors on the fighter you seen in the gameplay dont have full 180 traverse. it does have smaller thurstors with full traverse, however to change orientation quickly, it is fater to bank the craft to an orientation where your main thrusters can engage, versus just relying on the smaller ones. there are other Xian (another alien species) ships in the snadbox of this game which are quiped with thrusters capable of full traverse so you dont need to bank to turn. its the a featrue uniqure to those ships allowing them to gimbal around a target.
Why is he calling Gillian Anderson sir? Shouldn’t he be saying ma’m? 4:58 Am I having a stroke or something? 😅 and why does Gary Oldman sound like an old man?
@@RoySATX Yeah, 100% agree. I hate "gendered" speech in military games, especially from "The Future!!" and *sir* works perfectly fine for any officer. I think it might have been the Honor Harrington novels that turned me on to that. Anyway, cheers, glad someone pointed this out, seen a few other comments mention this. Cheers!
i really wish some day there will be a star citizen mod or competitor with a lore more akin to alien prometheus / raised by wolves / the expanse compared to the star trek ish lore we have now
There's another big name you may not have noticed... When SQ42 starts their run on the king ship @ 21:17 ... that's Henry Cavill who tells Cal to take point :)
I'm so happy that my grandchildren will one day be able to enjoy this game. o7
Great Grandchildren*
You're both optimists lol.
@@arielfetters5662 lol 😁
I've been playing EVE Online for the past 13 years.
Actual Space Warfare with Aliens will be possible before this game is finished.
I would rather watch this than anything coming out of Hollywood.
For real
Exactly... Hollywood is nothing but woke garbage with bad actors
No doubt!!
@@SGTDread12 I've always loved The Expanse, but this would be a close second for me if it was made as a live action show.
@@Hav0k I get some Battle star Galactica vibes and I LOVE IT!!
4:55 When the news is so shocking you become a whole different person.
i WAS ABOUT to write the same thing! but saw your post first. lol
@@RealTanku war will change you.
Exactly. Shocked me as well and I became a different person.
He was on that perc 30😂😂
let me see your war face! No, not that one. That's your bored face. Try again!
that looked really good cant wait to play it in 25 years
Optimist
its more like 30 years maybe
I was excited about this game... 12 YEARS AGO!!!!!! .. bloody hell.
glad they spent all are money on non gameplay....
@@adamczechowski614 looks about 12 years old.
They'd probably be better off just making with modern tech at this point. The fans are just gonna be thinking these are PS3 graphics by the time the game actually "comes out".
'WAS' lol
@@Vanpotheosis That looks 12 years old for you? wtf are you playing?
pathetik. when they announc it 12 years ago thing you will play this moloch in 10 years :-D look at Veilguard developed 10 years and what a materpiece... stupid rage babys noting more
I think one of the best things about this battle is that we actually get to see commanders issue understandable orders and then see the effects of those orders play out. This is unlike the vast majority of Hollywood space battles where anything beyond "focus fire on that target" is little more than gobbeldygook.
It was pretty amazing to see those scenes, I agree.
95% of SF films and TV: "Battle formation!"
Ships: continue doing exactly what they were already doing, usually clumped much too close together
Why would two fleets just face each other head on like this? It seems so strategically dumb.
It is rare to get a good look at actual tactics in this type of space battle. I think Hollywood and others could learn a lot looking at some of the military sci-fi that comes out of Japan. Legend of the Galactic Heroes is the obvious one, since it has those awesome fleet engagements. Then there is stuff like Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars that utilizes ftl within the tactics of a battle itself, not just at the operational or strategic levels.
Audiences don't need things to be super detailed, but so many battles are the exact opposite. Relying on nothing more than the rule of cool. (and to be fair, sometimes that is all you need)
Idk why that weapons officer wasn't relieved of duty and a replacement officer called up
As bubble gum for the brain/entertainment, I enjoyed it. The engineer in me gets in the way. Almost all the physics was atmosphere based.
@@suunto61 yeah nearly every single part of this was wrong. It's purely for entertainment and 0% realism.
THIS
Well we got hard realism games too. This was billed as a Wing Commander succesor from the get go.
There's a game called Infinity Battlescape and there's nothing that really compares to it. The developers must have been geniuses to code it.
Yeah, space battles would be 3 dimensional, not 2 dimensional...
My goodness. Agent Scully, Merlin, and Jim Gordon, all in one video. this is epic
Luke Skywalker and Gimli too.
don't forget superman
Mark Strong too. And Kilrathi fighters from Wing Commander 2. This game is a time machine.
The "Warning, Impact immanent" sounded like Michael Dorn aka. Warf.
If this game gets a full feature movie tie-in, then I'll definitely want to see it in cinema.
Same!
dream more..Id love a series, its time to show the "military" in a better light, I get that in this game..well done
its most likely gonna be what happened with the Old Republic games, make a movie out of the cut scenes, etc.
@adriannn1180 legit i wouldn't be against a full CGI movie lol
Bruh Star Imperium earned almost half a billion USD from all the whales they've been milking for the past decade+. They could've make SEVERAL movies by now if they actually cared about finishing any games LOL
I hope it has an epic single player campaign I’m not into online garbage. I don’t have the time to fight against GUYS who sit next to their mountains of Cheetos and candy bars and spend hundreds of hours perfecting their skill. I just want to go back to the old days where I can just go through a chapter or more then stop and come back for more later. I’m so over the online experience.
They're making two games side by side. Squadron 42 is the single player campaign. Star Citizen is the MMO.
Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.
@@spankyjeffro5320 Hey it’s my opinion. I just don’t get into online gaming. I am a casual game right now and I am in my 50s. I’ve been gaming since the first Atari came out. I am also very busy so I don’t have all the time to perfect all the little nuances that someone that spends hours and hours and hours online perfecting. With a single player campaign, I can take my time over long period of time and never have to worry about going up against someone that has a garbage cans full of empty Cheeto bags and a Mountain of soda cans piled up because he’s done 20 hour marathons day after day on the game for months.
@JOERANSTRAIGHT the multiplayer is perfectly fine for casual players. Also majority of the backers are over the age of 40
Squadron 42 is exactly what you're asking for :) It's only single-player, and if you decide you do want to play the online side of Star Citizen, you get rewards for it, for completing Squadron 42. From What I understand, Sq42 is going to have a nice, long, and cinematic story. I can't wait for it!
Screw the game, I want this as a movie!
🤣🤣 I mean i still want the game, but I'd love a movie!
@@Hav0k MEE TOOOOO
Well it is a movie game. Chris Roberts worked in Hollywood for ten years, so he wanted to incorporate what he learned about attention to details into this game. I'm not quite sure if there will be less of a focus on cinematics as the game progresses though, and more focus on active cinematics where you can move around in the scene.
You can play it now as a PowerPoint presentation
If I was in command, I would not have waited for them to emerge from the stellar cloud.
This was awesome
he was pretty patient ill give him that, made sure his fleet wasnt going all in against an enemy they’re unsure on how much is waiting in the cloud, got them all to line up in range and baited their small fighters to go into a killzone reducing their numbers and causing disarray for squads to clean up
What else could you do? You wouldn't know how many there are, how many of which ship class and your own ships would not see anything in there as well, so it would most likely end up in a lot of collisions
@ doesnt matter cause bullets in space dont drop, they just keep going at a accelerated speed until it hits something so even of they moss the line theyll hit whatever else is hiding, the best targets are usually the ones in formation in these engagements
@ I never would have entered the cloud. I would have fire a full volley into the cloud then targeted the impacts.
Squadron 42 was the reason I bought the game nearly a decade ago (god that's ridiculous) so I'm happy to see it's actually something finally. Honestly, I think I lost my login and password it's been so long. Which is absurd. It's crazy how the graphics aren't nearly as impressive as they were when this game was announced haha. They still look great but...
Yeah it's been a decade. But honestly after looking a 2016 footage... this game is substantially way better looking than I ever thought possible. I'm about to make a retrospective video that shows the old SQ42 footage vs new
It’s something… unfinished still
i flew with68 squadron years ago. Had 320 kills. Retired now. We won by the way. This documentary brings back memories
You never wish professional warriors, "Good luck." You wish them, "Good fighting."
Bros speech was inspiring AF
I am so inspired right now 🫡
I had to skip that sentimental rubbish 😂
Not even six minutes in and you already see Gillian Anderson, Gary Oldman and Mark Strong 😍 The budget for this production must be legendary.
And it's more impressive when you consider they did the motion capture back in 2014 at Andy Serkis' studio (he plays the Vanduul characters). They didn't have nearly the massive budget back then (still under $100M). I recommend watching the "Admiral Bishop Senate speech" video from CitizenCon 2015. It's a good follow-up to this video.
The first two I know, or should know, well. Mr Strong I've seen far less of. Honestly I don't think I've seen Gillian since the last X-Files movie. And I have a thing for red-heads so with her blonde I couldn't place her. :D
As someone who grew up with Wing Commander and Privateer, I want to play this game so bad but sadly my computer just aint up to par for what's needed. Time to start saving up >.
Give it time. By the time it's out we probably won't need as powerful of a computer as we need now
this game is the reason i got into building PCs. i saw what Chris Roberts wanted to do and went out and learned how to build a PC to be ready for when this game was released. that was over 10 years and 4 PC upgrages ago.
@@MarAntTheOG where's the titanic meme when you need it? 😅
@@MarAntTheOG lol - so, whatcha saying is...I got time then ;)
Oooh Wing Commander damn I loved that game
Henry Cavill asked to be part of this game and I understand he is a big fan of Star Citizen and I believe a backer too.
@stormfire962imastarcitizen5 he's also slated to do the Warhammer series for Amazon prime.. if it's still a go
@@stormfire962imastarcitizen5 making this up?
@@drchops No and I said "I believe" but I am not sully sure if he plays it. But it would make sense he does because I understand he is a big PC game player.
he is literally an actor in the game
i heard he did his role for free too.. maybe its his way of being a backer?
That was everything I ever hoped for. Reminds me of the Dominion wars in DS9. Thank you!
I was in this star system back in 1994 :)
1991 for me...
@@gilgamesh7138 1983 for me. BBC model B. Got the Deadly status on Elite. For a 6 year old, not too shabby.
The game came on a tape cassette. Took about 10 min to load up 32kb. Gave you all the flashy colors and a screech like ISDN on steroids.
“Just leave me!”
“But the escape pod is like right there.”
its literally 20 feet away, i think i can spare the time to drag our ass that far
Yeah but she was probably likely to bleed out before they got anywhere was her thought I'm sure. Plus a good warrior wants to die in battle, not in a military hospital. ;)
The mythical game mode RSI promised backers about 14 years ago but never delivered on? Fascinating!
This looks like a love letter to all things sci-fi/space and I am here for it. I grew up on Egosoft's X3 games and later X4 + Elite Dangerous. Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse were also large parts of my childhood and my love for space centred media. I hope to see more games like this in fututre that are just as visually spectacular and cinematic. Hats off to Cloud Imperium, this game looks incredible!
This looks amazing. But.. why were the fighters jinking around like in atmosphere flying IN SPACE
Because rule of cool always applies
And this is not The Expanse, it's a 'classic' space sim.
For the same reason the capital ships use WWII style cannons on their decks and are all arrayed like line infantry from the Napoleonic Wars despite being in space: it looks badass.
Attempts to confuse enemy counter-fire that are likely controlled by predictive algorithms.
If something constantly travels in one direction, then you know where it will be and are able to hit it. More difficult in space battles when the vast distances means time has transpired between what you are seeing "over there" and what is really going on "over there". If you are constantly shifting your direction of travel, then it's much more difficult to anticipate where you will be for the arrival of the shot.
You are limited to the cone of approach though. If you want to engage the enemy, you're not going to head away from them, nor even parallel. You have to get closer eventually. This narrows your options. Eliminating those options is the goal of the predictive algorithms.
dampeners that simulate flying in an atmosphere to make it easier to fly in space and ensure the pilot doesnt snap their own neck or some shit trying to manuever
@@SargeRho how can you call it a sim while also arguing that it's unrealistic because of the way it is? Sims are supposed to be realistic. That's where the name comes from. Simulator.
Quite the cast!! Mark Strong, Gillian Anderson, Gary Oldman, Michael Sheen.....Anyone else in there?
Mark Hamil, John Rhys-Davies, Rhona Mitra, Mark Cunningham, Ben Mendelson and i think one more, but I'm not sure
@@Hav0k I hear Worf @ 37.49. 'Warning Impact'.
Lol that's the ship computer. But it definitely isn't worf. Just someone who sounds kinda similar
@@Hav0k You forgot the king nerd, Henry Cavil
@rada660 you're right! Damn it how dare I forget the OG himself
Mark Strong is in there too. Wow, they really got a good cast for the voice acting.
That will all be AI voice replacement. They probably pay royalties to license those. The actors don't even have to be alive to use them.
@@TerenceKearns These lines were very likely recorded long before AI became as 'advanced' as it is now. So, these would all be authentic voice lines.
@@staffsargemobuto I dunno man. I wouldn't assume anything. Ive had a license to an SaaS website called speechello since 2018 which used early implementations of AI generated speech which sounds quite natural. And there was a company called Dragon Naturally Speaking which goes back to the Windows 3.1 days.
@@TerenceKearns They a mocaped actors, they show them play out the scenes in other videos.
Chad Cavill as a wing commander? He def is our god emperor
Henry Cavil is a straight G.
Is that Gillian Anderson?
Yes
Yes , and Gary Oldman and Mark Strong.
@martiedoherty5765 100%!
@martiedoherty5765 playing the good guys for a change lol 😆
@@martiedoherty5765 Hollywood leftists all...not one dime to feed the beast.
after admiral bishops speech...........if someone would have yelled charge, i swear i would have fought....fought hard!!!!............this game is really something else, we havent had a game evoke that kinda feeling for quite a long time now
100%! Last time a game made me really feel something like this was Mass Effect 3
Reminiscent of General Patton's speech. Still was good.
@@JohnnyMan316 100%!
Very heavy St Crispin Day from Henry 4th there. "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!"
14 years and 700 million dollars, it'd better be good.
I wish this single player campaign took precedence over the MMO aspect. Give me a sweet, cinematic coop game I can play with my bros, and you have a winner!
Merlin, Commissioner Gordon and Dana Scully, those aliens don't stand a chance!
@@billcarson9565 think the ships computer voice was ‘Worf’ too
Looks really good! Both main actors, Gary Oldman and Mark Strong were in Tinker, Tailer Soldier, Spy by John le Carre. Great movie and game!!
4:40 strong independence day feeling..
@@texxstalker 4:55 Bethesda character feeling...
My Initial thoughts - Oh my gosh, they look like the units you build with SnapShips. This is so cool.
My children's thoughts (ages 7-13) - Are they going to make toys of these? Because these ship designs are really cool.
The designers of all the ships are AMAZING.
Agreed!
@@Hav0k Disagreed. Look at a wing gun pods on intro fighters, they have restricted movement by those curved wing ends for no reason.
@@Helloverlord Those are replica of Guristas ships in Eve Online
not really, these look more like ships made for atmosphere, not space ships, i wish guys that made these things where a little more well read.
take a battle seen out of a good sifi book series like Dahak or troy rising or honor Harrington or something, even folmak wars would be better than this. i tuned out of this after 7 or 8 minutes cuz there was no tactics, no physics, no worth wile dialog (half of it was gibberish)
I'm not saying they look like they'd function well, I'm just saying that they look cool for the intention of looking cool, it's a video game so I'm pretty sure they hit a home run for what they were going for.
4:56 I see the Skrull have infiltrated the fleet already. Them xenos work fast...
I assumed he was gonna day " when they ask you what you did at vega... you can tell them 'we kicked their ass'."
I mean they could have come up with something better than "I held the line," but whatever.
Something like this would have done better
"When they ask you what you did at the Battle of Vega, you won’t just say, 'I was there.' No, you’ll say, 'I stared into the depths of hell itself, into the very eyes of the evil that stood before me. When others faltered, I held my ground. When hope seemed lost, I became the shield that turned despair into victory. I stood between chaos and hope, and together with my brothers and sisters, we turned the tide of history. I didn’t just fight - I endured, I persevered, and I triumphed.'"
@@Hav0k That is my headcanon now. Also, beautifully written,
@@Hav0k Pretty sure that line is straight out of Babylon 5.
@@iGame3D Never seen it. Was just something I started writing that was in my head tbh.
"Held the line" had me thinking of Captain Kirrahe from ME1 and "We held the LINE!"
Way better than anything on TV today!!! Where are these shows??? Hat's off to the creators!!! Awesome job!!!
The alien species in this game look Awesome, and actually have a feel of fear to them…Well Done
They definitely are well done
crazy part is they only showed the Vanduul here, there are other alien races that we can expect to encounter, such as the Xian, Banu, Kr'Thak, and Tevarin
they look a bit like evil versions of turians from mass effect.
@ImperialDiecast yeah I can see that lol
This is awesome!!! I see Skully is the captain....guess Mulder is working in the scullery!!! Lol!
Make this movie already, I know this is a game, but the Movie would be Awesome. A.I.
I like how the one large ship @ 1:32 has curb feelers. Keeps the driver from scratching up the edges.
So that in 40 years from now, when your grandchild is downloading the latest update for Star Citizen beta 5.8 and ask, what did you do at the battle of Vega? You can proudly say, I funded The Line!
Gary Oldman’s character “bring me everyone”
“Sir?”
“EVERRRYONEEEEEE..!!!”
Am closing on 70 years old ,have been a gamer since i was 14.The whole thing looks and sounds awesome , some deja vu to star wars intro scene, and Mass E3 end fight scene, tactically not a good idea to fight with what you are defending right behind you as any thing that misses you will hit the planet. will start saving for it now , this one like BG3 i will pay release price, had been 20 years since i paid full price before BG3, good on ya for this work .
gotta call you out on this one, pong wasn't even a game in 1968 when you say you were 14 ;-p unless you're referring to snakes & ladders ;-p
I have to agree... that you are pretty much full of Shyte... The very first arcade game wasn't until 1971 which would be a year too late... the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was another year later in 1972... Even the famous Atari Pong was not even released until very late 1972....Your math is not 'mathing'... unless you are more like 65 years old in which case you are barely squeaking in.
Shout out to the Dune-style bagpipes in space music, that theme at 7:34 is so pleasingly epic
The music was pretty epic for sure!
That speech was something. Good writing and acting.
Agreed! But truthfully it's Gary Oldman thay delivers a stellar performance
"Work in progress" - love the new name! ♥🤣
Today! WE WILL HOLD THE LINE!
4:55 when you play co-op but your bro is still in character creation
Incredibly well done. If they can get the bugs under control this has game of the year potential for sure!
Agreed!
I wish there was a video game just like this you can build yourself a fleet and click on any ship and you wanted to pilot at any time you want it you could almost fight the whole battle that way that would be a cool video game
ok the game has a serious engine bug! Objects even characters spawing after the scene is already drawn. Example at 23:34 or 28:45. First example is really noticeable.
@@beron22 it's a part of their object container streaming tech, it optimizes seamless performance but has the downside of sometimes having pop-ins, worth trade imo especially since they're working on fixing it
So in 40 years from now when you're surrounded by everything and everyone you love you might be able to play this game.
I cant wait to play sq42 when its finished in 10 years
Here's a 🍪 for unoriginality.
Just one hammerhead flown by all human players and those vanduul are toast.
hammerhead is a fighter defense not a capital hunter
"Work in progress" indeed.
But none the less, a good result so far... Farmiliar faces. Glitches. And strong dialog. Especially loved the Admirals speech...
Honestly, and in some way, sadly enough... Far better than anything Hollywood has churned out the past decade...
All in all, well bloody done...
Agreed! I can't wait to get my hands on the game
I Love these VID'S There just enjoyable to Relax and Watch Who doesn't Love a good Space Adventure Battle
This is astonishing. I've never seen a video taken from within development hell. Didn't know it looked like space. If they hurry and fire up the afterburner, they may make it out of there in the next ten years.
Btw., the graphics are (very) good, but not breathtaking.
I still got a fleet of ships from 2012-2015. Back then they said they would eventually have NPC's that would help you fly big ships. Apparently that is scraped so most of my ships will just sit in hangers forever. I have been waiting since then to install and play this game. Still seems like a tech demo to me.
Who else wants a real movie from this game ?
Yes please 😄
One word… AWSOME!!!
Well it better be fucking good, considering that it was supposed to be released in 2014 and that as of May 2024, SC has crowdfunded roughley 700 Million (!!!) Dollars!
Nice to see Zorg from the 5th Element is still in action!
Fall of -Cadia- Caliban
For the emperor!
Caliban stands!
Wow this is better than any movie I’ve seen in a while lol. Hard to believe it came from a video game.
Where's Maniac and Blair when you need them.
I would not be surprised if we actually had them pop up as an Easter egg or something.
I can’t wait to play this in my next life!
CGI have come along way. The detail of the ships, alien movements and textures, the debris, and the human features of showing age around the eyes, and individual facial hair too.
@@centaur1a That shape-shifting at 4:55 was pretty impressive...
@@centaur1a That's actually in engine, not CGI.
10+ years of cinematic. Let’s see them produce a playable game.
Even in the future you cannot escape tons of spam 2:36
Also I hate it when I get stabbed in the stomach and the blade doesn't touch my spine but somehow I lose all control of my legs.
Also Also I thought this was a giant movie, didn't know there would be gamplay. This is pretty cool though.
There is indeed gameplay. I just cut it out to focus on the cinematics.
I would say I recommend seeing the gameplay attached as well if ya haven’t, great flow between the gameplay and the cutscenes
It could've pierced all the way and hit the spine, but I'm also sure that being stabbed by a pretty wide spear is pretty painful and disabilitating. lol.
"We need to kill an enemy macrocapital."
>forgets to bring cruisers built around a spinal weapon
>forgets basically every mass effect cruiser
Havok if you ever read this message pls on your next video about the Polaris remember to check also the repair, rearm and refuel feature that it should have on the hangar pls. All the tester so far forgot about this very important topic
On it!
As far as devs have said, it will be a manual process. There are connectors for fuel hoses etc in the landing pad platform itself, and there are no external equipment you can connect to it yet.
@@thedangerzone9399 Correct, but supposedly you can use your mobiglass to repair, rearm and refuel right now. I'll be testing today
What would blow me away is the game getting released
This ist like in the old Days in Cinema, when i see the great Sci-Fi Movies like Star Wars or other. Just epic.
100% best space combat in a long time. The Expanse is definitely included too
Gillian Anderson, Gary Oldman and Mark Strong. DAMN!
Amazing edit of an amazing story. This is a perfect mix on 40k and Star Trek.
I loved how this prologue for SQ42 gets inspiration from many different sci-fi universes. It definitely has a mix of star wars, star trek and even some 40k, but it definitely has heavy Wing Commander vibes as well. Which makes sense because of Chris Roberts being the mind behind a lot of it.
Great job, honestly. I work in the movie industry and I’m impressed…but I have to ask if Gary Oldman and Mark Strong have seen this?! 😂
OMG this is fantastic feature length movie pls pls pls pls 🙏🙏🙏🙏
All these giant space battles with ships ontop of each other. I understood why Star Trek in the 1960's with practical effects . A grander scope on battles would be nice.
can you imagine if they put this kind of effort into making some kind of video game?
It is a video game. Squadron 42 coming out in 2026
This is basically Freespace 3 with significantly tame audio. Should have hired me CIG!
It really feels like whatr Wing Commander would look like if they were making it nowadays ;-)
(yes, I know that's a coincidence but *this* hits the right spot)
Because it was the person who made wing commander also with recurring actors
your in luck, cause Chris Roberts, who made Wing Commander, is making this game
@@jordy1278 you're also not in luck, because chris roberts is behind this game
That's not the definition of coincidence, it's 100% intended because it is the same guy who made Wing Commander. A coincidence is something that happens as a result of chance or "improbable concurrence or near-concurrence of seemingly related events or circumstances that have no causal relation"
It's no coincidence
The last thing I saw Mark Strong and Gary Oldman in was the film version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Not sure about Strong, but I have to watch Fifth Element and Bram Stoker's Dracula every couple years. And I just watched Gotham a few months ago.
Something that REALLY bugs me about all simulated small spacecraft is the need to show them banking to turn. That is a manoeuvre designed for atmospheric flight, where aerodynamic forces like lift and drag influence movement. In space, there’s no atmosphere to create those forces. I know, i know its a game and there needs to be some suspense of disbelief but its just something I see time and time again.
the main thrustors on the fighter you seen in the gameplay dont have full 180 traverse. it does have smaller thurstors with full traverse, however to change orientation quickly, it is fater to bank the craft to an orientation where your main thrusters can engage, versus just relying on the smaller ones.
there are other Xian (another alien species) ships in the snadbox of this game which are quiped with thrusters capable of full traverse so you dont need to bank to turn. its the a featrue uniqure to those ships allowing them to gimbal around a target.
Kinda jealous my grandkids will finally be able to play this on their ancient computer.
Why is he calling Gillian Anderson sir? Shouldn’t he be saying ma’m?
4:58 Am I having a stroke or something? 😅 and why does Gary Oldman sound like an old man?
Sir is correct. Sir is respect. Ma'am is what you say to your mother, not a naval officer.
sadness , overcome with it, 2 of the worst back to back thoughts in this comment section
@@RoySATX Yeah, 100% agree. I hate "gendered" speech in military games, especially from "The Future!!" and *sir* works perfectly fine for any officer. I think it might have been the Honor Harrington novels that turned me on to that. Anyway, cheers, glad someone pointed this out, seen a few other comments mention this. Cheers!
This almost makes me want to come back and try it again...almost. Best footage yet thought 👍🏼😊
*Tries to stay calm*
"HOLY FUCKING SHIT"
*hypium overdose*
Not gonna lie, it felt like a pretty amazing moment to see it come this far.
@ The bagpipes always go hard for these scenes
@EXRAY479 some of the best bagpipes ever!
I’m extremely impressed.
i really wish some day there will be a star citizen mod or competitor with a lore more akin to alien prometheus / raised by wolves / the expanse
compared to the star trek ish lore we have now
I'd love a mod for the expanse. That would be sweet!
What a great idea!
@@Hav0k if you play space engineers search up Sigma Draconis expanse it is basically a bootleg version of that.
@@barryr.9354 there is nothing Star Trekish about this. The Expanse was boring.
@@timesthree5757 all the weird aliens are super star trek, squadron 42 might as well be called star trek 5
Why just hang there in space and wait for the enemy to position? Maybe good for drama, but stupid.
Nice to see that 650 million of the 3/4 of a billion pledged for SC bought some great cinematics.
Is that Gary Oldman?
yes
We had 3d scfi movies in 2001. Great progress...
does the guy not only look like gary oldman but have his voice?
Because that's who they hired to play the part :)
@ love it :-)
Yeah, it's pretty crazy that they managed to snag him for the role. The guy is an amazing actor.
There's another big name you may not have noticed... When SQ42 starts their run on the king ship @ 21:17 ... that's Henry Cavill who tells Cal to take point :)
@@G1itchN definitely can't forget him either!
Although I enjoyed that 30+ mins, my brain got SOOOOOO MUCH TO COMPLAIN ABOUT!
"arch" angel? Really?
it's pronounced Ark-angel.
Nothing to do with pergolas...
They're British. It's how they talk. 🤦♂️
@@Hav0k It is not how we speak. The voice actor made a mistake.
@Naptosis understood! I stand corrected 😃
@@Hav0k To be fair, I don't blame the actor. English is NOT consistent.
4:55 look at my man casually living the Skyrim character creation dream.
🤣🤣