>Can the game be considered a full release? No, for all intents and purposes, KSP should be considered still in early access state. The game is nowhere near being able to stand on its own legs both from a gameplay perspective (career mode is definitely not ready and balanced) and a stability perspective. There are still major bugs and memory leaks that shouldn't exist on a finished game.
>Are there big issues with the game? Bugs and instability are still real and frequent problems, as with every product still in beta. Ask in thread for details.
>What are the devs doing? Modified versions of popular mods are being included in the stock game while the game engine is being upgraded to its latest version. The most recent update (1.1) was supposedly going to bring a complete overhaul of the GUI, be 64bit friendly, have a refined physics/heating/aero model and generally perform better. While achieving some of these goals, the game is now more unstable than ever, with many users being unable to use the game at all. An external team with heavily questionable experience (Flying Tiger Entertainment) is being tasked with porting the game to PS4, XboxOne and Wii U, with a release deadline that seems to keep slipping.
>Should I buy the game? KSP is very enjoyable at first, then it usually needs to be modded to retain some sort of longevity, but doing so may dramatically increase the instability of the game. You will be very familiar with the word "Oops!". The Developers, Squad, have shown many times that they can't handle the project and are trying to squeeze all the money they can with the least amount of effort and with controversial PR tactics. The general consensus at /kspg/ is that you should torrent the game, not because the game itself is unplayable, but because most of us agree that Squad does not deserve your money.
snek, BARIS, Orbiter, Space Engine, OpenTTD, Take On Mars, Project CARS, ULA posting, Aurora, TRUMP 2016, abu ali al-scatterer-khan, yuri, /agdg/, and planes are also welcome ITT. Turning the thread to shit and ruining the thread's comfiness is not.
In 2013, Maxmaps took the wheel, pretending to be a marketer / CM / dev to the fanbase, when in reality he was placed in charge of making sure the final product did not scale beyond the $5mil of our money Adrian and Ezequiel were actually allowing to be spent on the development of KSP.
So, with the cancelling of resources and DLCgate, we saw the future drastically narrow down to a point. This shift was embodied by Maxmaps' continually repeated statement that "sandbox is scope complete" -- we must deconstruct this statement to fully understand the multifaceted meanings. This will take time.
What is important is that in this moment a paradigm was created. A paradigm that suggested "sandbox" was a complete iteration of the game and therefore a major milestone. When in fact it was an arbitrary and artificial line in the sand designed to limit expenditure so that the majority of the invested money could be fraudulently embezzled.
By "moving on" to career mode, they created a false equivalency suggesting career and sandbox were two facets of an overall thing. When they failed to deliver career in a timely manner, science mode was added. Another one of Max's failed promises leading to a compromised feature in the game.
After resourcegate and the declaration that Sandbox was "scope complete," we saw all development begin to pace itself based on business deals rather than development capacity. Every update after this took 6 months, and failures to move the NASA deal along quickly enough led to completely mutilating .23 through .24, which would have been fantastic updates chock full of content if half the content didn’t need to be removed to satisfy an NDA.
And then of course, begins the true Max regime of .25 on.
Ending the false paradigm means returning to the mindset of 2013, reopening Sandbox’s scope, and, if the fanbase cares enough, scrapping and redoing career.
Levi Scott
>being this mad about replying to old posts
David Kelly
BIG
Blake Brooks
LONG
Henry Bennett
EMBEZZLEMENT
Jace Martin
BUTTHURT
Carson Rodriguez
EUROSLIME
you let the thread die. apologize.
Hudson Jenkins
This thread, and the white race in general, deserves it.
Charles Morgan
Server is online and I'm restoring from a backup I made. Once the files finish transferring and DNS propogates we should be back to normal.
Nathan Phillips
>the thread deserves it Remind us why you're here again?
Josiah Harris
To demonize MAN and drive all his friends away from him.
Alexander Rodriguez
>he supports the false paradigm
Julian Garcia
Jesus we get ded on the weekend.
Keep this up, and I'm going to start to believe that we're all paid shills that get the weekend off, or something.
James Gomez
Why did Harv quit?
Nicholas Ortiz
Probably because he's not allowed to work on his own game because that'd mean they'd have to pay him, and what little coding skill he has still manages to make their locally hired """talent""" look bad
Christian Brooks
I wonder when he started separating from the group. Pre-or-post-Maxmaps getting fired
Wyatt Jones
Probably either DLC-gate or when Max was hired
Aiden Clark
No no, I mean like when he stopped participating in the weekly devnotes
can you imagine reading this from the guy you trusted?
it's okay Max, maybe you'll reincarnate as something more sophisticated and useful, like a grasshopper.
Landon Wright
It's like everything I've told you just went in one ear and out the other
Jordan Lopez
/kspg/ no bully.
/kspg/ love each other.
Reeeeeee
Ian Sullivan
Ok guys, any tutorials to FAR and its gibberish built-in analysis ?
Jace Rivera
I just want to talk about Harv. He is the life force of KSP, its soul, its animating spirit.
And now he's gone. Just after Squad's veil fell and we all saw them for the cheating hucksters they are.
It's just so interesting. How much do you think Harv made off ksp? I'm guessing just his salary.
And the rest is Adrian's and Ezequiels to use on whatever they want! Record Labels, Movie Studios, whatever! And none of it has to be used on KSP. Hilarious!
Nathan Scott
Then go tell the subreddit or the fourms all about it. No one here cares.
John Price
>And the rest is Adrian's and Ezequiels to use on whatever they want! Record Labels, Movie Studios, whatever! What the hell are you referring to ? I've surely missed something here.
Alexander Murphy
user you and I both know all great KSP revolutions have started here.
Your self admitted purpose for being here is oppositional to your desire to be here.
You are an occupying force. I'm comfy at home. You don't even propose an alternative topic because all you can think to do is clumsily isolate me.
So let's talk about Harv. I miss him already. ;-;
Nathaniel Wood
Me too.
Jack Brown
Let's talk about medications and how you should take them.
Henry Barnes
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
/kspg/ must love each other forever no matter what.
Brandon Lewis
Where do you live yuri-chan ?
Jason Wilson
>user you and I both know all great KSP revolutions have started here i would pay money to know if you really believe what you're typing here
it's become a philosophical question for me
Ayden King
Is he MAN ?
Carter Butler
I live in North Texas. But I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
How about you, friend?
Benjamin Howard
Reporting
Christopher Turner
Hullo
Hullo
Joseph Thomas
Hiya raceanon.
Hey Snek, how are you today?
Bentley Turner
Just woke up after sleeping in with my qt husband, probably going to watch some animu but not biyori
Ian Evans
L E M A N S E M A N S
Camden Butler
Sounds like a good Saturday to me. :3
I'm still in bed, my qt girlfriend is still sleeping with her arms around me so I don't want to get up and wake her.
This afternoon we've got a date night planned though so I'm looking forward to that.
Jason Wilson
>but not Biyori Finish it.
Jeremiah Watson
I didn't like it user.
Jacob Clark
Why
Anthony Davis
They admitted 3 years ago that they were using the Early Access profits to work on setting up a record label, and producing a film that they had wanted to make.
Caleb Brooks
>sleeping in with my qt husband Are you a female, snek ? or just homosexual ?
Landon Edwards
It was slow
Hunter Foster
Wow. Yeah you need to stop watching it altogether so you don't stain it with your hot opinions. ;^)))))
>Squad is not becoming a publisher per se, rather an incubator for the passion projects of its staff. Ayarza has finished the script for his first movie, which will be produced by Squad. Goya is creating a record label and composing, all funded by Squad. And there are other projects in the works from other Squad members. Now that KSP has left orbit, the sky is the limit for the other members of the larger team.
They assumed their followup projects would be successful and they could use the money to keep everything gravy. Or they fully understood they could embezzle the funds by siphoning them off into "destined-to-fail" projects.
They spent our investments before they ever even completed sandbox mode. They committed a crime and they will be held accountable, due to their failure to deliver a complete, stable 1.0 game.
Samuel Rodriguez
It was boring user. I was not entertained and the story was not very original. :^)
Matthew Foster
Sounds like you pulled those out of your ass, though. It wasn't up to your alley because it's meant to be "healing" anime, it will obviously be slow as fuck because they didn't want to generate any tension to the viewer.
Angel Rogers
You're fingers are like fucking sausages. Wtf?
Carson Fisher
No bullying!
Brody Gomez
he is teh gay
William Hughes
>not being a literal fat faggot Come on it's 1437.
Hudson Evans
I was told it was 'better than nichijou' and it wasn't. That's the only reason I watched it.
Nice meme user!
Joshua Powell
Well, it is better than Nichijou.
Nolan Thomas
Anything is better than nichijou, including forced self-mutilation.
Benjamin Morales
I'm probably the only french guy on /kspg/. So, yeah, living in Paris.
Jaxon Clark
Nigga why don't you come to le mans?
Zachary Russell
It sounds like what you need is some 08th MS Team.
David Ortiz
Hey, that's pretty cool! I've always wanted to travel the world and Paris is definitely near the top of my list
Aaron Peterson
No bully please
Camden Ward
Never been there. Except for the annual racing stuff it's known as boring-as-fuck-town.
I'd like to visit the US someday and Chicago is one of my destination of choice.
Charles Murphy
Yeah...there is exactly that event in two weeks, you should come
Ayden Brooks
All bully. Boys should love girls. Girls should stop being so far up their asses.
Ryder Roberts
Loving one another is a meme.
There are two key philosophies when running a community: "Everyone's welcome" and "FIFO [Fit In or Fuck Off]"
While at first "Everyone's welcome" would appear to be preferable, leading to a less toxic community and less circlejerk-y attitudes, it actually ends up wasting everyone's time. When you make a post the community doesn't like in an EW community, it is simply ignored, but you're left with a question: is it being ignored because it's annoying the community, or because it's just not very interesting? If the latter, you can keep going until you find someone who shares your interest. If the former and you keep going then the EW community will eventually seek to FIFO you while officially maintaining the EW philosophy.
By comparison, a FIFO community like Veeky Forums often ends up tolerating more unusual opinions since the effect of "Kill yourself" posts is very limited anyway, especially when users are anonymous instead of pseudonymous. You can get quick feedback on what the community thinks of your views without worrying that they're just being polite.
EW communities replacement of an overt signal of disapproval seeks to make the community look good to the detriment of those not desired and ultimately to the detriment of the community itself as it becomes an increasingly cliquish circlejerk that chokes out new blood by ignoring their posts and personalities in favour of old established bloodlines. Compliments are nothing without insults to provide contrast. When someone in a FIFO community like Veeky Forums approves of your post, you generally know it's because they approve and not because they're giving the minimum reply necessary to be polite. [Sometimes while not "0 replies" ignored, you end up getting generic replies by those trying to look polite.]
This isn't really related to "loving each other" on KSP at all. It's just the easiest excuse to type this out since I thought of re-purposing the FIFO acronym while lying in bed.
Dominic Peterson
>FIFO LMAO
Luis Torres
/kspg/ is a LEOF [Love Each Other Forever] zone.
Chase Ortiz
Meds are required
Brody Diaz
this desu desu
Ryan Sanders
You say love each other, but eventually you will find someone unlovable.
And when that day comes, you have to decide: Do you ignore him, or do you tell him the truth? Either way, he suffers.
I'm not who you think I am.
Kevin Wood
>You say love each other, but eventually you will find someone unlovable.
>And when that day comes, you have to decide: Do you ignore him, or do you tell him the truth? >Either way, he suffers.
Truest truth. I can relate to this. I don't want fake words from people I don't know shit about. I just want to have some fun.
I think there's more to it than that though, that's dated from 2003... Do you really think things haven't changed since then?
Jordan Reyes
i don't know about that, i've read the first 2 points so far and they ring true for me both on Veeky Forums and in irl d&d groups i've dm'd or played in.
i think people assume geek culture has changed because its pop culture presence has skyrocketed and it's become a little political. geek cliques themselves though are the same as they were in 1995 with the exception of more fat girls.
That honestly looks like a 16 years old's diary entry.
Michael Clark
2003 was a different time for web design.
Nathan Taylor
i can only assume that's because you disagree with it. it's pretty rambling but that's because it was written by a sperg back in the golden age of shitty blogs, not because the writer was a teenager.
Nathan Bailey
POST BURD OR I WILL SHILLPOST KSP
Eli Perez
Well, I tend to disagree with groundless assertions in general. Here the amount of conjectures is off charts. To me it's just some random guy throwing out his feelings about a buzzword based on his personal life.
Liam Hill
here you go
Josiah Torres
You sound triggered.
Angel Barnes
Das not a burd. Are you trying to cheat me?
Anthony Cox
>To me it's just some random guy throwing out his feelings it's a blog you dense fuck, he's putting his thoughts out there so you can accept or reject them and thus adjust or reaffirm your own beliefs. this is literally how interpersonal communications in subjective areas of knowledge are supposed to work.
i hate how prevalent aspies are on the internet, they're so bad at anything that isn't a hard science.
Austin King
...
Brandon Sanchez
>tfw suspect I'm a sperg, but absolutely love ambiguity because it lets me hide things while still expressing myself: in one reading the words say exactly what I want, in another they say more vapid or incoherent but socially acceptable things. not sure i'll ever get a definitive answer to whether i'm a sperg or not though, since i'm pretty sure diagnosis just comes down to how i present myself.
Dylan Price
please don't die
Jeremiah Myers
>For one thing, it actively hinders the wider acceptance of geek-related activities Oh god what a tragedy this would be. However would geekdom survive without casual normalfags getting involved?
[Note that I'm well aware this reads as a specific attempt to ostracise normalfags. I very much understand that communities need new blood to survive, what I'm getting at is that while community structures should be flexible they must not be allowed go full September 1993* and get bent out of shape.]
*example chosen purposely because I'm not a wholesale anti-normalfag r9k REEEEEEE type. Taken as a whole group, normalfags are undesirable, but individual normalfags in an otherwise relatively abnormal community generally offer good insight and quality posting so long as they align with the overriding culture instead of trying to convert it into the culture of society at large
