Minimum Requirements:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system  
OS: Windows 11  
Processor: Quad Core CPU - Intel: i7 (Sandy Bridge or later), AMD: Bulldozer or later  
Memory: 16 GB RAM  
Graphics: DirectX 11.1 compatible Graphics Card with 8 GB VRAM  
DirectX: Version 12  
Network: Broadband Internet connection  
Storage: 150 GB available space

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[–] 5 points 9 hours ago* (1 child)

So 600 years into the future and the Earth's army sounds exactly like the US Army of today, but looks a lot whiter? wow there's been some ethnic cleansing in this Empire

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  • [–] 41 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    It’s not optimization if you just never upgraded the hardware you started production on

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  • [–] 79 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Chris Roberts' upcoming single player magnum opus, Squadron 42, now has a Steam page, the company's focus on optimization will allow the game to run on early 2010s era CPUs

    Yeah, I believe this Chris Roberts guy, he seems to be very trustworthy.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yeah, fucking what?

    Star Citizen?

    Optimized?

    Its notoriously a horrifically buggy and unoptimized branch of literally the Crysis engine which was famously memed into oblivion as being quite hardware intensive.

    ... on the very hardware specifically mentioned.

    That's made basically no progress in terms of optimization for about a decade now.

    This is delusional.

    Like did nobody see the recent 'hey guys this is our dev branch you can see how much more optimized it is - woops its buggy laggy and crashes all the time' live stream?

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  • [–] 9 points 21 hours ago

    "Focus on optimization" = normal people can not get close to affording shit beyond their existing 10 year old hardware.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I looked it up and I backed this thing in October of 2012. I've played 0 minutes of this game. Talk about return on investment.

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  • [–] 93 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    i should fucking hope so, those were state of the art when they started development.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I'm not sure you could get an 8GB GPU in 2012 - could you? And 16GB of RAM wasn't really a consideration for most.

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  • [–] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    You're correct. back then the standard was still 2GB with some cards offering 3 or 4 GB. 2014 the first 8GB was released, but that was one board manufacturer going beyond the chip manufacturer specifications. Another 2 years later, the RX 480 and GTX 1070 came out with 8GB.

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  • [–] 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    A list of things that will happen before this game actually comes out:

    • Trump Dies
    • Putin apologizes and withdraws from Ukraine
    • Netanyahoo declares a Palestinian state
    • my ex wife stops being a bitch
    • My current wife converts to Christianity.
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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Minimum 8gb vram is not 2010 level...

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    [–] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I'm not believing it's coming until it's out. It's been too long and Roberts gaslights people every few years to keep the money flowing.

    I really don't think this is ever going to release.

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago

    Even as someone who is legitimately excited for this game to come out, this reaction is so completely justified. CIG have only themselves to blame for all the skepticism at this point.

    Of course, they're also continuing to make money hand over fist, so I guess they don't really care...

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    [–] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Considering the persistance and severity of bugs in Star Citizen I would expect this one to be delayed about 5 more years. There is no way they get this out the door in a working condition any time soon.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    It would be incredible if they're able to pull that off.

    I hate the trend of just pushing more and more graphics through up-scaling technologies. My electricity bill isn't too happy either.

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    [–] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Considering how bad his financial management is i doubt he has money left to finish his "magnum opus".

    Game will probably cost 100$ for base edition and 500$ for day one dlc and 50000$ for ultimate edition and in game store of course.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    There are so many things to actually criticize CIG for that it seems weird to come up with something like this out of nowhere. When they were last selling SQ42 as a standalone it was $40. Despite all of the entirely justified memes about expensive ships you can still buy the complete Star Citizen game for $45 and unlock all those ships in game. While CIG have zero problem shilling $5000 ship packages to overly eager whales, they've always kept their base asking price impressively low.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago

    Q2 2027? So they're finally admitting it won't be this year. Or 2016. Probably not next year either.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, you'll find a person who runs Bulldozer with a 8GB GPU. /s

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    For background I've been a backer of Star Citizen since 2018, and am currently Concierge level.

    Since CIG did the gameplay Livestream (the one where Ollie made his debut with the company), I'm not holding my breath with SQ42. I know, 2 different games, but if that was the best case scenario showcasing Star Citizen, then how does SQ42 look?

    Here's hoping it turns out to be an amazing game and a true spiritual successor to the Wing Commander series though!

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    [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Holy shit finally. I was one of those idiots who pledged $40 way, way back when Star Citizen was first announced, solely because I wanted Squadron 42. I've maybe logged into Star Citizen twice.

    Will be extremely surprised if there's a playable game next year but I'm into it.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I think it will start and "run" but won't be playable...

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