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Yes and no. There's a sort of playable game there. But Chris Roberts is sort of infamous for his feature creep.

So more and more gets added to the game and then parts of the base code have to be rewritten to support the new additions, and then you get a 13 year development cycle with no actual end in sight. I think that the feature creep is currently under control, but with everything that's been planned, it's still going to be a couple of years before the game releases.

I am assuming that it will eventually release... Which is a large assumption at this point.

But until then, you can play a game that feels a bit like a first person shooter, and has some ship to ship combat, and some missions, and some other stuff, but isn't as fleshed out as any of those things could be if the focus was strictly on that one thing. Basically it's too many things at once to be really good at ony one of them.

Well, you see, a story-driven singleplayer campaign just isn't as good of a platform for selling whales $1000 jpegs of spaceships, so unfortunately it had to be put on the back burner.

There was a time in something like 2016 (or 18? I dunno at this point) when they were hyping a Vertical Slice of it being just around the corner. Then they quietly cancelled that and communication on the project has been extremely thin ever since.

I eagerly await investigative journalism efforts to one day learn what's been going on behind the scenes these last few years!

wow this game has cool raindrops. they should have released this in VR that would at least make it comparable to elite dangerous in it's anemic state