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  • The most important part is that they’re building the game from scratch with an engine suitable for the purpose. As mentioned numerous times by Harvester who created KSP: There are so many hacks and workarounds to make Unity work the way they needed it to, and in retrospect Unity was not a suitable choice for a game of that scale. And it is doubtful that any general-purpse engine is.

    Rocketwerkz are making their own engine, doing away the Scenes/Actors limitation that are detrimental to how a space game would work. This removes a ton of abstractions resulting in an alpha that runs incredibly smoothly almost independent of part cound. It is worth noting that Rocketwerkz were among the original bidders for developing KSP2, but they lost the bid as they were more focused on having a solid foundation over flashy graphics updates.

    As for specific features:

    • Physics during time warp.
    • RCS has a realistic (but automatic) thrust curve instead of instant on/off
    • Physics simulation on multiple vessels at once. There is no “current vessel” or physics distance. Everything is treated the same. It’s just a matter of where the camera is pointed.
    • Multiplayer has been confirmed as an upcoming feature
    • dust storms
    • multiwindow/multiscreen support

    I try to update !kittenspaceagency@sh.itjust.works as often as I can, so there are some more specifics in there.








  • Norwegian here. I don’t think it’s “trust” in the literal sense, but more in line with “viewing them as a neutral yet benevolent institution with integrity”.

    The latter is more or less the image they’ve tried to portray for ages, and with reasonable success, since they don’t really have much de facto power. However, the recent stupidity have caused many people to question what purpose they serve to begin with.

    And just for the record: I don’t really care that much about them, neither for nor against. Bigger portions of my taxes go to stupider things.