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Star Citizen’s Slippery Squadron 42 Delayed Yet Another Six Months To Make Sure It Really Avoids GTA 6

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Star Citizen’s Slippery Squadron 42 Delayed Yet Another Six Months To Make Sure It Really Avoids GTA 6

<i>Star Citizen</i> at this point feels far more likely to result in an industry-changing documentary than a completed video game. The project, which has raised a ghastly billion dollars from its fanbase, recently broadcast a stream that went so disastrously that the presenters were publicly shamed by their boss as it was going out. And now its single-player campaign, Squadron 42, has been delayed yet again to at least April 2027, bumping its late arrival to a full 11 years. Why? Because, um [quick, something think of something], er, oh yeah, GTA 6 is coming out in November!

This is, rather brazenly, the latest excuse for not releasing the game from Roberts Space Industries boss Chris Roberts. As PC Gamer noticed, a new update on the game’s official site from the once-legendary Wing Commander developer explains that—after 1,600 words of other excuses for other undelivered promises—that “there is no way I want to launch my spiritual successor to Wing Commander, a game that has had twelve years of blood, sweat and tears invested into it…launching into the buzzsaw of GTA6.”

Squadron 42 , the single-player campaign set in the very unfinished open-universe space sim of Star Citizen , was originally slated for a 2016 release. Then again, Star Citizen was promised for 2014 after it raised $2 million on Kickstarter in 2012. With its fundraising now the small matter of over 500 times larger, the larger project still only exists in disconnected parts, or one deeply limited conjoined whole currently a hundredth of the promised size.


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