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Just give it the score you think it deserves for the money it costs. A review of the game isn't a review of your fanhood, or of your support for the project, or of the developers. It's a review of the product in current state. I'll skip reviewing it since I won't be playing soon. Performance issues or not, it lacks the features I wanted in KSP2, so I'll wait until it has them. Let's not conspire to throw the honesty of the reviews, please.

They made the choice they made and it's too late for do-overs. Not everyone thinks the manner of speaking was the best way to appeal to the widest audience. There's no need to to throw around talk of bias of any kind unless it's overt. People are reacting to a manner of speaking, not a gender. I'm pretty sure the the voice actor is Paige from one of the feature videos. Voice and name both fit. Nobody was commenting "ew, gross voice" anywhere for that video. It's not the person the people are reacting to. It's the method of delivery, and more specifically, for age groups very recently removed from media that used similar method of speaking. I politely ask people to refrain from passively accusing others of unwitting sexism over a simple disagreement of delivery style.

I guess I should check out the discord? Lots of drama on there too?

It's not named after Paige from the feature videos is it? The voice might fit.

This has been a disappointment, OP. I don't really know what else can be said that hasn't been said somewhere already.

I'm preparing myself for news of cancellation if sales and reviews are bad enough. I recommend you all do the same.

Watched a couple videos, looks like even on the absolute beast of a computer they were playing on it was borderline unplayable with parts counts that are perfectly reasonable for average players to use in KSP1.

Perhaps someone capable can make an ultra-low texture resolution mod to reduce RAM/VRAM usage?

It's possible that a lot of wings and control surfaces got the ax in favor of procedural, so I doubt even a simple craft converter would be useful.

I don't see why the developer can't just include a built-in benchmark like many other games have. Given the high spec requirements, it would end up getting added to a lot of YouTube hardware reviews and benchmark videos. Nearly free publicity over the course of the years.

It exceeds the minimums, so yes, it should provide a playable 1080p experience at low or better. (Assuming CPU is ok)

GHz is not the relevant factor, as a 1 GHz processor from 10 generations ago will perform wildly differently from a modern processor locked to the same speed. It's not like the torque rating in a car where the number actually means the same thing 10 years ago as it does today. You'll have to compare your processor with others via some kind of benchmark scores to tell where you stand.

The big issue with the system requirements isn't even how high they are, it's that they were completely unexpectedly high. People who have been closely following the promotional material would not have guessed this high at all for the GPU by the looks of the game. Judging by the terrain and the visible flat planes on a rounded object, I would have personally guessed a 1050 or so to be the "minimum" target for a good experience. Nothing shown so far seems to warrant a 3080. Nothing. At. All. Not to mention the 3080 is the target... not for 4K, but for 1440p? Yowch. I've got a system that almost makes recommended specs, but man. I thought I'd be running ultra at buttery smooth framerates based on the promo stuff. For requiring hardware like this, you should be getting cyberpunk-grade visuals, not whatever they've been showing us. TLDR: People are mad because specs don't correlate with the visual quality at all.

I've been reading both here and the reddit, and I've got to say that the hype is off the charts. As you can clearly see, the commenting metrics are indicating strong customer engagement. Our test subjects fitted with blood pressure and heart rate monitors are indicating heightened levels of excitement. Emotional language analysis of customer posts indicate optimal customer engagement. Customers are so excited by the product that many are planning to build or upgrade their PC to the tune of hundreds or even thousands of dollars. This will surely be great success.

It didn't appear to come from the craft when it touched down. Looks like an effect added to the screen and not a 3d effect.

How long before the content creator embargo lifts?

That video was 0% in-game footage, fya. Some parts assets were transferred to people who made the video, but it was cgi and not game footage. You can't reference the announce video for proof of anything to be in the completed game.

Everything promised in the roadmap is included in the cost and the finished product is yours to keep after development has finished. Anything that is currently unannounced or delivered after the promised features in the roadmap may be DLC and would be purchased separately as an add-on. Don't expect a KSP1-style free DLC situation.

You know they can't not have one.

We don't have that info, but I do know that Scott Manley from YouTube made a video a few days ago in which he stated that he realized he needed a new PC "about a week ago." That would coincide with the rumors from discord showing content creators using KSP2 beta. A forum member who may have seen the whole video indicated it was being built targeting single-thread performance, which may indicate KSP/KSP2 as the cause of "needing" a new computer. Today, a reddit post from another content creator who was present at the "insiders" event indicated that they were also building a new computer. Does this mean it's demanding? Unfortunately, it's very possible. We will have to see.

I've been pretty crusty about the clouds so far, but these are looking good. These look like a good fit for the chosen art direction without being overly cartoony. Only a bit over two weeks left... I only have to drag my decaying carcass to work and back 10 or so more times before the wait is over!

Distant looks good. I will use this as an excuse to once again beg for a parallax-style ground implementation to hide the flatness up close.

This is some quality work, no sarcasm. That looks fantastic. Some more bright light from the blast might be the only suggestion I can think of.

These graphics are truly stellar. The terrain textures look very 3d to me! The footprints and rover tracks really add to the realism. The lighting and shadows are top notch stuff. I don't know if my GPU will be able to fit all the textures into VRAM. There's a lot of polygons in those terrain scatters, so I might have to turn the settings down, but BOY HOWDY is this gonna be a fun ride. Don't worry, they won't release it looking like this, right?

He says "about a week ago I realized I needed a new PC." That's about when the youtubers allegedly got hold of KSP2 beta. I guess it's taxing? He built for single thread performance... same priorities as KSP1. I wonder how this bodes for KSP2 multithreading and physics compute. Forespoken is a terrible example of what it takes to put a pretty picture on the screen. There have been MUCH better looking games that ran well with far lesser systems requirements. The devs just used DLSS as a way to skip optimization and chuck a terrible product on the market for 90 bucks to grab as much cash as possible. System requirements =/= good graphics.