All this talk of SQ42 is pointless, the game is vaporware. My resoning? Look at SC, its only at alpha, but all the ads and sales CIG put out to get people interested outweighs actual game content.
SC42 however had been said to be near completion for years and there's nothing to market it. The excuse was they didn't want to spoil the story, but you don't need to show missions. Flight model, ship paint schemes, even character creation and uniform options are things CIG marketting could have put out to Gardiner interest, if it exist, but nothing. Not so much as expected release date. This is not SC's never ending scope. SQ42 has a scope, its a little story that was supposed to lead to SC, so there should have been a well defined list of content for the project.
Also the way SC and SQ42 were supposed to use the same engine and assets shows SQ42 doesn't exist. How can there be a working SQ42 when SC is still in perpetual Alpha using the same flight models, ship models and things are still stuck at Tier 0. Most importantly ships are still getting remade. Nothing in SC is nailed down and final, how is the prequeal to SC supposed to exist if the assets the share aren't finished? Has SC shown space combat AI that is worthy of a single player game? Something that is able to keep player engaged for 11 Chapters?
TLDR: SQ42 is vaporware, it only exsist on forums and webpages. Not even Chris Roberts knows what SC42 is otehrwise he's be blannering rubbish all about it.
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