{"id":1593727,"date":"2026-05-31T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6kzxKi2ri6jRDyxANnufDc"},"modified":"2026-05-31T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:55:15","slug":"star-citizens-single-player-component-is-in-the-closing-stages-of-development-according-to-chris-roberts-as-rumours-of-another-squadron-42-delay-circulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/star-citizens-single-player-component-is-in-the-closing-stages-of-development-according-to-chris-roberts-as-rumours-of-another-squadron-42-delay-circulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Citizen’s single-player component is in the ‘closing stages’ of development according to Chris Roberts, as rumours of another Squadron 42 delay circulate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, Star Citizen<\/a> surpassed $1 billion in player funding<\/a>, an eye-popping milestone that inevitably raised all the same questions about Cloud Imperium Games’ wildly ambitious space MMO. Is it a scam? (no). Is it playable (yes). When will it be finished? (no idea). What’s the situation with its single-player component, Squadron 42?<\/p>\n

The last we heard, Squadron 42 was on course to release sometime this year<\/a>, but the breadth of the release window, combined with the fact that Squadron 42 has been delayed numerous times already, made it difficult to take this too seriously. However, it might just be that Squadron 42 is <\/em>nearly finished after all. In a recent interview Star Citizen’s creator Chris Roberts said the single-player game is “in the closing stages” of development.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Variety<\/a> during Star Citizen’s recent DefenseCon event<\/a>, Roberts shared some fresh details about Squadron 42’s current status. This started with him reiterating the pitch of the game, which takes the technology created for Star Citizen and uses it to build an “authored” single-player campaign.<\/p>\n

“My pitch is, basically, you’re the star of this huge blockbuster event movie, and it seamlessly goes between the storytelling and the cinematic moments to you being in control and [in] first person,” Roberts explained. “It feels pretty epic. I’m actually very excited for when people\u2014because we’re right at the end now, we’re in the closing stages and it’s coming together really well.”<\/p>\n

Roberts added that “the heat is being turned up for Squadron”, in reference to the game’s marketing, implying that we’ll start seeing promotional material for it soon. He added that this was a “difficult thing to deal with” because of how closely he says CIG communicates with the community. “As we get imminently closer to launch\u2014and I say that in game development language\u2014it’s very hard to keep it under wraps.”<\/p>\n

It certainly sounds like we’ll be hearing more about Squadron 42 soon, though it might not necessarily be news we’ll want to hear. Following Roberts’ statements to Variety, rumours began to circulate that what CIG will be announcing will be another delay rather than a release date.<\/p>\n

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