Is that this year's Hold The Line?
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"Wait won't specifying a release year come back to haunt us if we inevitably don't release it that decade"
"no no. Our backers are a special kind of fool"

Is that this year's Hold The Line?
Pledge, so that your grandchildren may profit...
I have close to zero confidence the rest of chapter 1 is anywhere near feature or content complete.
Also you forgot to mention one minor but also very annoying thing and that is that from some reason geniuses from CIG put "work in progress" overlay and subtitle when Vanduul speaks EXACTLY on the very same spot so that is almost impossible to read so if you don't speak Vanduulese you have no idea what they talking about....Quick summary:
00:00 min
25 min
- Pre rendered cut scenes
- Some turrets thrill
- Bishop speech again
30 min
- More turret thrill with vanduul flying in straight line
45 min
- Crash
- More cutscenes, now with torpedos
- More turret thrill (jesus f christ)
60 min
- More cutscenes with vanduul shooting now
- more cutscenes, no actual player flying gameplay
- Crash
- Chris excuses, sponsored PC
- Cutscenes played back again because of crash
80 min
- Still more cutscenes
- 65 min FPS barely, crouching plus cutscenes
- Some combat with vanduul, looking quite pre cooked
- Push pull?
90 min
- More cutscenes / "piloting" an Idris, the only ship "piloted" in over an hour and a half.
- Gilian glitching when vanduul arrive
- Shooting some vanduul
- Gilian glitches again with no weapon, crash
- Bugged, load next section
All in all, barely 15-20 min of "gameplay", highly precooked at that: turrets mostly, then some crouching or shooting at targets not shooting back.
- More cutscenes
Surprisingly underwhelmed. Seeing this demo with so little gameplay, using parts of the tutorial only, and then Chris saying 2026 (!!)... I have close to zero confidence the rest of chapter 1 is anywhere near feature or content complete.
As for Chris latest 2026 announcement... this time is 2026 for sure, for real, trust me bro.
Hey, CR says he can bring the rest of it up to this standard![]()
Levelcap nails it
So you did not go to CIG University and learn Vanduul? Noob /sAlso you forgot to mention one minor but also very annoying thing and that is that from some reason geniuses from CIG put "work in progress" overlay and subtitle when Vanduul speaks EXACTLY on the very same spot so that is almost impossible to read so if you don't speak Vanduulese you have no idea what they talking about....
But that has been CIG´s modus operandi since day 1 with any content? Come on guys, like, wake up?Levelcap nails it
Ah, but this time is 2026 for sure for real, trust me broA 2026 release date. Did they delay it again?
Son don't you know that I am "SC-Heretic" since 2015.....I spit on their university and "they" tried to burn me on stake because of that.....So you did not go to CIG University and learn Vanduul? Noob /s
Needs a Joker laugh![]()
Well, can't accuse CIG of not trying. They definitely tried their best.
Whose excited for Squadron 42 in 2026?
Reminds me of what Star Citizen fans said when Call of Duty Space came out and Star Citizen/Squadron 42 will be 1000x better.
I am disappointed at Mark Strong.