Squadron 42’s New Footage Proves It’s Better To Be Skeptical Than Critical

It has been a long time since we’ve seen or heard anything substantial about the game that’s intended to be our first, single-player taste of the Star Citizen universe. It felt, for the longest while, like the silence on Squadron 42 was the surest sign yet that the entire Star Citizen enterprise was nothing but vaporware.

Then, at this weekend’s CitizenCon, a lengthy developer-led video threw the game back into the spotlight. Between its gorgeously rendered fleets of ships and immaculately digitized, star-studded cast, the new footage is genuinely and undeniably jaw-dropping; something that is made all the more exciting by the accompanying statement that the game is now “feature-complete” and “into the polishing phase”.