[HN Gopher] Kerbal Space Program 2 Early Access Is Out Now
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       Kerbal Space Program 2 Early Access Is Out Now
        
       Author : skibz
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-02-24 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (store.steampowered.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (store.steampowered.com)
        
       | nylonstrung wrote:
       | Looks like a strictly inferior version of KSP1.
       | 
       | Unfortunately seems very unlikely that they can deliver on
       | promises of multiplayer interstellar colony building when it's
       | still so feature light after 3 years of delays
        
         | remarkEon wrote:
         | Probably won't have time to play this until next weekend. would
         | definitely love a round up on what features are missing,
         | relative to KSP1.
        
           | ericbarrett wrote:
           | It's only sandbox mode at this time; there's not even a
           | career mode. I'm not as skeptical as some about the roadmap,
           | but there's definitely not a full game there yet.
        
         | dkarp wrote:
         | It's too early to say. The devs have said they considered
         | extending KSP1 but chose to rebuild the game from scratch to
         | enable things that never would have been possible in KSP1.
         | Namely, acceleration during time warp.
         | 
         | So I think it's fair to expect that KSP2 today will be lower on
         | the y-axis of features than KSP1, but has a greater slope and
         | will pass it and keep going at some time in the future.
         | 
         | It's anyone's guess when that time in the future will be
        
       | NoraCodes wrote:
       | The lack of Linux support really bums me out. I know it's on the
       | roadmap, but c'mon, the most prolific modder for KSP1 literally
       | had "linux" in their name. They're leaving behind a lot of
       | people.
        
       | onnnon wrote:
       | Well done on the trailer!
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STTTp9nDFOE
        
         | PM_me_your_math wrote:
         | The problem is that none of that stuff is in the game. The
         | price sets the expectation and they are asking $50 for what is
         | essentially a tech demo with performance issues.
        
       | technion wrote:
       | Ksp1 occupied me for three times the played hours as elden ring
       | if that says anything.
       | 
       | I've been excited for this for a long time and have it
       | downloading now, but a large part of what i enjoyed was the
       | community around their own forum. I did a huge write up on one of
       | my journeys and people commented on it for years. I have no doubt
       | in 2023 even if they run such a thing, most players will choose
       | reddit or discord with a very different experience.
        
       | fnordpiglet wrote:
       | The VAB CAD interface is materially worse than KSP 1, it's
       | basically unusable. It has modes that make no intuitive sense and
       | you can't break out of the modes. The flight interface is
       | difficult to use - it's hard to know what altitude you are, which
       | was up at the top of the screen and clear before.
       | 
       | I know it's early access but it's disappointing that it's a UX
       | regression when the UX was so obviously hard
        
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