TLTay
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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.
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5 minutes ago, poopslayer78 said:
Do we actually get dust clouds like this when landing on the Mun!?! Can't wait to see what Duna landings look like.
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.
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How long before the content creator embargo lifts?
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11 hours ago, CytauriKerbal said:
This is legitimately in the trailer of the game.
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.
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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.
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11 minutes ago, MARL_Mk1 said:
WILL THERE BE A MOHOLE?!?!
You know they can't not have one.
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27 minutes ago, Admiral Fluffy said:
I am Hyped for KSP2, like everyone else, but I don't know if my PC can run it. What are the requirements?
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.
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4 hours ago, MARL_Mk1 said:
Clouds looking fine
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!
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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.
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4 hours ago, poopslayer78 said:
New screenshot from Discord
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.
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6 minutes ago, Missingno200 said:
I wish they'd use a bump map or something on the terrain to give the texture a bit more depth, but it isn't terrible.
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?
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On 2/4/2023 at 4:59 AM, Vl3d said:
Mr. Scott Manley built a new PC before the KSP2 release. I'm sure he'll be playing everything maxed out for the videos. He optimized for single core clock speed.
CPU: Intel i7 13700K
Motherboard: Aorus Z790
SSD: 2TB
RAM: G Skill Ripjaws S5 DDR5 64GB
Graphics: GeForce RTX 3070
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.
On 2/4/2023 at 5:30 AM, The Aziz said:There's more recent example than Crysis
And what you're seeing here has, at most, great graphics - not epic, just great, as the open world there leaves a lot to be desired. And it's not a surprise that it effectively limits the amount of potential customers, and all of a sudden, people who've been playing everything on max settings are faced with purchase of RTX4080, only to get 4k60. Plus 720p shouldn't even appear in this day and age (unless it's NASA broadcast lol)
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.
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Unrestrained opinion follows... skip if you're upset by forum posts.
Every time I see one of the screenshots released recently, it feels like a bit of an insult.
First it was spring 2020, then delayed, then another, now we're delayed nearly 3 years to get an early access release for 50 bucks of a half-complete game where the planets would be inappropriately barren in a circa 2004 mmo. Compare the nonthingness of the planets surfaces to the scenery of world of warcraft (2004) or morrowind (2002). Go on, have look. The textures here are better, but the emptyness is insulting. Don't tell me about rover gameplay and rock collisions. There's nothing worth roving to in those scenes. Why bother? Looks like KSP1 with marginally better textures.
I just watched the eve probe tiktok... I hope that's potato-mode scenery on the surface for the integrated graphics customers. Zero hype generated by that. I'm more discouraged than anything else.
When you expend a bunch of time and energy to get somewhere, you should be like: "WOW! This is freaking amazing!" Not: "Meh. This looks like the last repeating-texture undulating-mesh I just landed on, but with a slightly different color."
The clouds are ok, and may be an art style choice. I'm hoping they hear this since the game won't be done for another probably 2 years. You'll hear about it on steam reviews too (from a number of people) if it releases looking like the recent screenshots.
The "graphics don't matter" crew won't care if you make them better, but the "graphics matter" crew will.
I've moved from the "definitely buying on day one" group to the "I'll watch some videos first" group, and if it looks like this on release, I'll sadly have to nope out until my first experience with KSP2 won't be a disappointment.
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1 hour ago, Yellowburn10 said:
I just don't get it. What is it about these clouds that has rustled everyone's jimmy's? Maybe I'm just some blind sap who has no artistic taste, but these clouds look pretty serviceable, great even, and look no different to the clouds we've seen before. But everywhere I look I see nothing but criticisms about them. Am I missing something here?
Also wow that plane looks pretty.
Those coulds look like the raised area you get around a line of stitches. You can't unsee it now.
Also, howdy, rustled jimmies frend! I was just thinking of that term for the first time in years earlier today, and here it is now on the forum. Is it making a comeback?
-forever unrustled.
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Just now, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
Because not sarcasm.
It. Will. NEVER. Be. A. MMORPG.
? I don't want it to be.
But I'm literally not understanding why so many people are upset about others wanting better graphics.
Graphics don't make the game, but they can make it better. People were hoping for "WOW" and got "ok, these are perfectly servicable graphics, what really matters is the gameplay, and besides, all of my favorite games have serviceable graphics..."
The real question is, would anybody here be disappointed of they pulled a fast one on us and it ended up looking like a major publisher put out a AAA title released in 2023?
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12 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
This will never be a MMORPG with RDR2 level atmospheric rendering. It is Kay Ess Pee Too!
Why not? /s?
But seriously, the devs decided on an art style. It looks like they went with cartoon-meets-realism to reach a wider CPU/GPU audience.
For those of us who prefer the uber-modded KSP1 scene, it looks like the decision has been made and we'll have to beg the KSP1 modders to pay some love to KSP2 to get that noncartoony-realism fix we crave.
It is what it is.
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Anybody else going to buy day one, fiddle with the game a bit, and shelve it until science/progression is released? Just curious.
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1 hour ago, Snafu225 said:
Does it mean graphics in KSP 1 were bad? No.
They were bad on day one. Basic to the supreme. They checked the 3D graphics box, but that's about it.
People just want to be as wowed as they should expect to be from a 2023 release from a major developer of what will end up being a full-price game.
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18 hours ago, The Aziz said:
I heard recording the closed showcase was not allowed, but here we are.
And yeah this guy just makes views on showing old footage all the time.
The fact that it wasn't leaked until a month before release tells me this may well be a planned leak. Companies sometimes "leak" things on purpose. I can't imagine someone prone to leaking sitting on a video for 3 and a half years and then suddenly, when the marketing starts, deciding to leak it just then.
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47 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
So... we are all about the visuals, not the performance?
Nobody knows anything about the performance yet, just the visuals. All we have to do is microanalyze every single picture and video for the next month.
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5 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
I'm actually annoyed by people comparing KSP2 with heavily modded KSP.
Maybe they're trying to say something - but there is so much wrong with the comparison I don't even know where to start
It's the expectation that a new game released in 2023 for new game pricing by a professional development team should look like it. If some modders can hack together code for a decade old game and make it look better than the new hotness... that is... ...unfortunate...
It's a perfectly valid gripe. You shouldn't have to take a step down graphically to play a newly released game just to satisfy the 750ti crowd.
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Can you divulge what graphics settings these are taken at?
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We'll find out in a month. I fear the level of detail and graphics was turned way down to play well with potato computers for a larger market.
KSP2 System Requirements
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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.