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> Nearly perfect labour of love I wouldn't go that far. Its not KSP2, but KSP1 has plenty of jank and bugs.
It has jank, but I don't know anyone who stopped playing because of it.
Everyone seems to love shitting on KSP2, when the same people forget what KSP1 was like in Alpha. No science, shitty graphics, excessively wobbly rockets, inconsistent orbits, (other than graphics) seems familiar? It took a looooong time for KSP1 to get where it is now, it will also take awhile for KSP2 to be as polished. Chill out.
We could even just look at reentry heating, which was supposedly almost done, over 6 months later and even just that is nowhere to be seen. If that's taking them so long, how are they ever going to deliver the rest of their promises? Many of which there are serious technical questions about the feasibility of (eg multiplayer).
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It's far worse than that. Take-Two bought Squad and KSP along with it. Soon after they took Squad's original IP from them and gave it to Private Division to develop KSP 2. Then they poached staff from Squad. It's not like KSP 2 is developed in some innovative way, I was expecting that game like KSP 2 should have been developed in it's own engine since it's so unique among other games. But nooo. KSP 2 still uses Unity…
Not sure, but isn’t unity in this case covering your need for some tools, like rendering, assets management and so on, but maybe not all - i.e deferring to them the physic. Or so would I say assume ?
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It has jank, but I don't know anyone who stopped playing because of it.
I stopped playing because I could no longer figure out how to install mods. There's a mod manager, but it doesn't seem to work.
KSP2 had all the warning signs of being a disaster ever since the initial delays and controversies with the original studio. Unfortunately, as usual, the community put on hype blinders until it became impossible to ignore.
Even the youtubers that got to play the prerelease version pulled out every excuse in the book to not present what they saw objectively.
KSP2 had all the warning signs of being a disaster ever since the initial delays and controversies with the original studio. Unfortunately, as usual, the community put on hype blinders until it became impossible to ignore.
I knew it was going to be a disaster as soon it became obvious that it was a continuation of the old code base, which has a lot of fundamental issues.
KSP2 is really becoming the premier example of "Nearly perfect labour of love's legacy ruined after being bought by a larger company." More on topic: I have no idea why one would want to use the registry to store this information.
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Not sure, but isn’t unity in this case covering your need for some tools, like rendering, assets management and so on, but maybe not all - i.e deferring to them the physic. Or so would I say assume ?
I heard from someone who actually works in the industry (as engine developer) that companies usually don't use Unity out-of-the-box and write their own tools and extensions (e.g. memory management) and change parts of the engine as the needs vary greatly depending on the game they are making. Not sure how common that really is though.
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Not sure, but isn’t unity in this case covering your need for some tools, like rendering, assets management and so on, but maybe not all - i.e deferring to them the physic. Or so would I say assume ?
I heard from someone who actually works in the industry (as engine developer) that companies usually don't use Unity out-of-the-box and write their own tools and extensions (e.g. memory management) and change parts of the engine as the needs vary greatly depending on the game they are making. Not sure how common that really is though.
FWIW my experience in gaming has been that Unity is exceptionally powerful and allows game developers to create games that would otherwise require an entirely separate dev team to support the engine. When I first learned game dev, the code sections were almost entirely devoted to interacting with the underlying graphics libraries (OpenGL or DirectX) and hardly any to creating powerful features in a game. Now, using something like Unreal or Unity is akin to using a web framework like Ruby on Rails or Laravel.
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