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    One month and counting

    in KSP2 Discussion

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    3 hours ago, Izny said:

    The forum moderators moderating the KSP2 section should recuse themselves from handling anything until they and the community has gotten the info we all need.

    Sounds like all you really want is to gripe and moan and insult people without fear of the mods banning you.

    3 hours ago, Izny said:

    Right now, they are enablers. Part of the problem. Participants in something that smells like a rotting fish in a pile of manure.

    How, exactly, are they enabling anything?  They have ZERO to do with the development of the game, they aren't employed by Take Two/Private Division/Intercept Games, and are just as in the dark about what is happening as we are.

    3 hours ago, Izny said:

    They should be ashamed of even volunteering ANY activity regarding KSP2.

    Why, exactly?  Evil-Corp is the one to blame, not the volunteers who are trying to keep this community alive in spite of that.

    3 hours ago, Izny said:

    The only alternative is to remove the whole KSP2 section of the forum until this is resolved.

    Again, why, exactly?  I agree completely that this section of the forums isn't in a good state, and it needs cleaning up.  But why advocate for shutting it down when we don't know what is going to happen?

    1 hour ago, Devblaze said:

    Wish the moderators here would liquid off, seriously. Let us express ourselves in the little time we have left too.

    Much like with Izny above, it just sounds like you want to whine and complain without fear of being warned or banned.

    55 minutes ago, MARL_Mk1 said:

    I seriously don't understand why aren't there any efforts to back up all of it somewhere, somehow.

    This I can get behind.  Someone should be taking the time and effort to back up the forums...but who is going to pay for it?  And when should they do it?  Like, right now, which would mean multiple back-ups until/unless the forums shut down?  Or should they wait until we have a firm answer as to what is going to happen?

    47 minutes ago, Gargamel said:

    Trust me, and while I speak for myself, I assume other mods are in the same boat, we’re just as disappointed and unhappy about all of this as you guys are.   

    Someone's gotta ask, so...

    ...why aren't you guys more vocal about it?  I'm not asking why you aren't out here whining or complaining about it.  But I get why some members are angry at the mods when you guys simply haven't been here since the announcement.  Vanamonde is here daily, but this is the first time I've seen you on the forums since April.  And what happened to Starhawk, and 18Watt, and the rest?  Have you just simply moved on?  Or do you no longer wish to be involved here?

    One month and counting

    in KSP2 Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Vanamonde

    8 hours ago, MechBFP said:

    I am not sure what makes you think IG is somehow doing branch management correctly when *waves hands around*. 

    [snip] Let me break this down for you, ok?

    HebaruSan was talking about people getting the latest batch of fixes.  You decided to state that people needed to update them to Steam for other to get them due to remote work.  Which, as I pointed out, is not entirely accurate because they could just use IG's internal network and access their own internal source control for that.

    Now, if you want to put words in my mouth about IG not doing branch management correctly, I'll ask you to at least point out where I even mentioned anything about them doing it correctly in my post.  Can't find it?  Right - because I never said it. [snip]

    Does anyone else feel as if they saw this coming?

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    To directly answer the OP's original question, which is "Did anyone see this mess coming":  Yes, I did.

    To be fair, I wasn't really paying attention to much during the original development period.  I didn't know much about what happened with Squad, or Star Theory, or with creating a new studio that poached some of the original ST developers.  I didn't really get on the hype train, or do any deep dives into trailers or news articles or even dev blogs here on the forums.  I was aware that KSP2 was coming, and I was pretty stoked that we were going to get a sequel to a game I love.  But during that lead-up, I kind of just let things fall where they may, knowing that I'd be on-board the day it dropped.

    The day it dropped, I picked it up about 2 hours after initial launch.  I wanted to let the internet cool off from everyone buying the game, and I had meetings that morning anyhow.  But I picked it up, and I started playing it...and I was more than a little disappointed.  Poor performance, no heat management, no career mode, no science.  Wobbly rockets, major bugs, and (in my own opinion) horrible graphics/UI.  Sure, I could launch and get into orbit...but not much beyond that.  I had to fight with the controls to keep a rocket on a steady course, for SAS was of no help.  And we were told that this is how it was going to be - rockets would wobble, SAS would no longer correct for you.  We were given a whole sub-forum here to point out bugs and issues, and one of the users (I think it was @linuxgurugamer?) crafted a bug reporting add-on that grabbed up all of the relevant information you needed in order to submit a bug report that was useful.

    And then the real problems started.  The bug reports sub-forum was a mess to sift through, the search function wasn't responding as it should, and the amount of bugs in initial launch made it really difficult to play the game.  We got a couple posts from the devs, and an AMA with Nate that left me a bit...underwhelmed, I guess is the right word.  They used Howard Jones' "Things Can Only Get Better" as the backdrop music for that AMA, and it was during his Q&A in this thing that I knew right away that this was not going to get better, and things were only going to get worse.  I tried to keep hope, but something in me said things weren't going well, and that it would either be a really long time before they got better...or they simply weren't going to get better at all.

    It took 2+ months from initial launch to get the first patch, and things didn't get better.  It was after that patch that I literally started posting out here that things were bad, that they weren't going to get better, and I started asking what happened to all that development time and money they spent, and where was all the stuff they promised us.  In fact, the roadmap they gave us said they would be giving us updates and patches and stuff quickly, but they were now dragging their feet.  And to top it all off, it seemed like the bug reports subforum wasn't being monitored, the biggest bugs always needed "more research", and all we started to get were pictures of shiny graphics and animations that may or may not make it into the game.  I think it was grid-fins that people thought "Wow!" over, but I literally posted "Quit giving us the shinies; just make the game work".

    So yeah, it was right around that first patch, 0.1.1, where I said "this is going nowhere".  Didn't help that they decided to put the game on sale shortly thereafter.

    Did you Upgrade or Buy to be able to play KSP2?

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    My rig was only like 2 years old when KSP2 dropped in EA, so I figured I didn't need to upgrade anything on it.  It runs all my other games just fine, so I didn't think I needed to upgrade.

    And then the game dropped, and I watched my FPS go down the drain when running it.  I've got a 12 core processor, 32 GB of RAM, and a decent - not high-end, but decent mid-range (at the time) - graphics card.  Sure, the graphics card could probably stand to be upgraded, and maybe I could drop more RAM in there.  But what I've got ran every other game I play just fine.  But the performance in KSP2 made me think I should have upgraded.

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