Squadcast Summary (2016/01/14) - Squad have a doggy edition

[KasperVld]

25 minutes ago, MiniMatt said:

By the looks of things, for those wondering, it appears there wasn't a Squadcast this (last) week.

Due to tehcnical difficulties* Dr Turkey was unable to host one himself this week, so he went to JayS_NL's channel and talked about development there for about an hour.

 

* a test build of KSP ruined his steam installation beyond all repair about 30 minutes before the show was scheduled to start.

[magnemoe]

On 19.1.2016 at 4:14 PM, WWEdeadman said:

How does that make a difference? If the achievements turn out to be stupid, I'll just ignore them, as with 99% of my steam library. If they're fun, I'll go get them all. So, worst case scenario is you don't change anything by adding them, except for upsetting some completionists who think they'd HAVE TO get all achievements, or they'd die.

One benefit of achievements is to get an overview of player skill and focus. 
Better than forums who tend to mostly attract hardcore fans. 

 

[Elthy]

I have to wait for someone to summarise the squadcasts because Twitch is still using Flash, and that gigant mess of security issues wont get close to my hardware ever again. Also those Twitch streams were pure torture to watch (i just remember maxmaps), because it was 1 hour of terrible gameplay, (every child can get to mun after a few tries, but a ksp dev?) with a few sentences of information inbetween. Maybe it wouldve been worth 1h of my lifetime if it was a good player that perpared amazing things (not "what shall we do next? Ah right, more boosters") that are exceptional. The last one was about a dreamchaser, but do you realy need 1 hour to showcase one craft?

Suggestion to Squad: If you realy have to talk about stuff in videos instead of writting it down, condense it down to the 5min of dev-talk in each stream and upload those to youtube.

Edited January 25, 2016 by Elthy

[Dafni]

I have to agree with @Elthy, first time I was actually watching one of the Devs stream I was rather disappointed on the mission and craft he built, even doing some mistakes that I would not have expected from a Dev.

The guy who built the Dream Chaser looked like he knew what he was doing and displayed some serious editor skills, but I believe he wasn't even a Dev, just a famous streamer.

So yeah, a 5 min clip of pure Dev talk would definitely be appreciated here. The editor and mission tutorials belong elsewhere, where any player can pick the tutorials that match his play level at that point.

[Streetwind]

5 minutes ago, Dafni said:

I have to agree with @Elthy, first time I was actually watching one of the Devs stream I was rather disappointed on the mission and craft he built, even doing some mistakes that I would not have expected from a Dev.

Dr. Turkey is not a developer, he's a producer (as was Maxmaps). Those are completely different job descriptions.

The point of Squadcast is also not a one-way feed of information from Squad to us, but rather it's about interacting with the community.

[Elthy]

You mean by answering questions? Thats what a forum is for. The twitch chat isnt even recorded with the video, so this is useless, too.

[scribbleheli]

Will there every be the ability for a craft to have multiple attachment points?

Say a large booster with two decouplers as attachment points to the main rocket?