Yes of course there is more slop, but there are also SO FUCKING MANY indie and early access projects these days that are accomplishing a lot of what used to be out of reach for small indie devs.

Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. We are in a indie golden age and here you are calling it all slop lol

Yeah but the doesn’t make OP wrong, the devs said in 2016 that sq42 was essentially down and needed some final polish and now we learn it won’t be ready till 2026.

Safe bet squadron 42 will miss yet another promised date

Did those games you’re talking about take gamers money first, and then subsequently failed to release much of anything for the next thirteen years?

Kinda sorta not the same at all.

wasn’t perfect

The “feature complete” game tech demo crashed

https://m.youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?si=W0VjpxSoLALspDzk&t=8h0m50s

Don’t forget the fucking thing crashed when they tried to demo it lmao

https://youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?si=W0VjpxSoLALspDzk&t=8h0m50s

Yes, because the problem is the OS it runs on and not that the devs can do nothing but lie.

Squadron 42 was nearly complete and needed polish in 2023 and now we learn a year later it’s delayed till 2026.

Just like the game itself started production in 2011 and has since missed date after date after date and produced an expensive and constantly broken tech demo mess.

But yeah if only it were on Linux and has nothing to do with the misuse of funds and said broken promises

They said it was nearly complete in 2016, so that makes sense to be honest. I don’t know why everyone is bitching about this.

Surely nearly every other game in existence has also required ten years of polishing after development is finished!!

Yeah because everyone knows once a company drops LTS the software becomes completely unusable!!!

I’ve literally had zero bugs while playing, have you? Other commenters seem to agree with my experience as well. Have you even played the game?

Oh no, not a free psn login, whatever will we do?

Oh yeah, set a free account that takes 30 seconds just like we did for steam/origin/uplay/etc.

So many good games being avoided for this reason alone like the pc release od god of war ragnarok.

I agree but I’ll also add WITH A CO-OP OPTION

Wish they would instead use it to create NPCs with actual depth and the ability to respond more naturally instead of the same lines over and over

It’s a free account. You can’t play Star Wars outlaws or whatever from Ubisoft, same with EA’s origin.

A free PSN account? Ah hell no, fuck that critically acclaimed game I can’t possibly enjoy it when I have to sign in with a free account first!

Wow they managed to not create a free account. Think of the seconds of their lives they saved

Man, I just can’t give a fuck about this.

Origin, Ubisoft, etc. all forced us to do the same thing. Most things on the fucking internet require a free account. Yeah it’s annoying (in the 2-3 mins it takes to create one) but who the fuck lets FREE ACCOUNT CREATION stand in the way of a critically acclaimed game???

Seriously who fucking cares just play the fucking game or move on with your life jfc

Interesting video but it seemed a bit one-sided. There is so much generality that it seems like he’s trying to paint most games that include any sort of soldiers and warfare as recruitment paths completely hand waving huge swaths of games and communities that focus on milsim for its complex tactics and strategies.

I realize that’s what you’re pointing out in your comment here, that it’s not all under one umbrella but I watched that entire vid waiting for him to add actual context instead of correlating any attempt at realistic simulation as an attempt to build a vehicle that paints real life war as if it were a video game. He specifically says this in the video, about how modern day games try to paint real war as if it were just like a video game when in reality the chasing of simulating reality as accurately as possible to increase the complexity and difficulty to create harder challenges is essentially the exact opposite. Maintaining a gun and ammo is one thing, but what about managing hunger, hydration, bleeding, etc.

There is a bias in his position, you can see it when he mentions how playing a game that puts you in a gunship made him sick. This theme persists throughout the examples given for modern games with war/fighting. The framing here somewhat places these games in a sort of taboo, and thus those that play them.

I too have bias of course, but we aren’t being trained as monsters either. My friend and I play a lot of milsim games because to us it feels like the ultimate challenge, but neither of us have any interest in joining a military or even hurting anybody. Warfare is a part of life on earth, it’s not all a mil psyop.

Lastly, propaganda is everywhere and it always has been, this idea of promoting the image of The Soldier and a Just Fight is as old as time itself, I don’t know why in that video the framing is such that the modern era is so far divorced and more insidious feels out of sync with history

Obligatory anti cheat means gaming on Linux isn’t straightforward

Saying “we finished” doesn’t equate to them believing in their product, you know what shows they don’t believe in it? Canceling the play test. They’re gold with two months to go, yet no beta and we’re supposed to take that as “the devs believe in their product!!!”??

I too hope it is a success but come on now

Who asked for this

I’m guessing this means main stage announcement(s)?