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Kerbal Space Program 1.0 Released After 4 Years of Development
hampton2600 writes: The beloved space simulator game Kerbal Space Program has just hit version 1.0 after four years in development. It has risen to prominence in public beta, but the full release brings a host of new features: "The flight model has had a complete overhaul, meaning the lift is now calculated correctly to all lift-generating parts, which includes lifting bodies. The drag simulation has also been completely revised, and uses automatically pre-calculated data based on the each part’s geometry, to be finally applied based on not just the orientation of parts in flight, but also taking other parts into consideration. ... A new heating simulation has been implemented together with the improved aerodynamics. Now, not only temperature but also energy flux is considered when making heat calculations, meaning radiative, conductive, and convective heating and cooling are all simulated and all parts have their individual thermal properties. Parts will emit a blackbody radiation glow if they get hot enough." To the mun!
Everything that I know about orbital dynamics, I learned from KSP. Thank you!
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Now I just need all my mods to update for compatibility.
Supporter of the +1 Over Dramatic mod option. In memory of apk.
Herbal Space Program
Only the x86 version for now. The x64 version has actually been pulled from 1.0 because it doesn't.
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The Steam version is also DRM free; Steam is just used as a downloader. Once downloaded you can move it to another directory or even another computer, and even uninstall Steam.
You could always buy directly from Squad as well and just download a ZIP file.
KSP has never had DRM.
"Now, not only temperature but also energy flux is considered when making heat calculations, meaning radiative, conductive, and convective heating and cooling are all simulated and all parts have their individual thermal properties."
But, in typical Squad fashion, they gave us the ability to overheat - but failed to give us the ability to cool off.
They also gave us a more advanced (and accurate) aerodynamics and engine performance model - but at the cost of the game's much vaunted simplicity and user friendliness.
Seriously, I love KSP - but the developers don't always think through the consequences of their design decisions. With the 1.0 update to the aerodynamics and engine performance, I'll no longer be recommending it to friends. The part of the game you spend the least amount of time doing (launching into Kerbin orbit) has now become a wearying slog with a steep learning curve and a roadblock to the fun parts of the game.
Thus ends the single known example of Early Access done properly. Truly, this was a bitter-sweet moment in gaming history.
You don't archive games by storing the installation folders. GOG gives you the full independent installer which is the proper way.
Whats the difference? I let steam update it, and then copy it off to another directory for mod installs so I can keep a pristine copy around. Sometimes I make two copies so I can run different mod sets.
I see no issue here, plus I have steam already so why go anywhere else if I already use it? Don't really need an installer.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Seriously, no one complaining about that but me?
Well, this is Slashdot .... people use NoScript around here.
Sounds? Forced Ads? I have not seen any of it in a long time.
Yeah, me too. I wish the games industry would go back to the stagnant iterations of the same game with ever-shinier graphics that characterized it throughout the last decade. All this crowdsourcing indie stuff is bullshit. Like Minecraft. What the hell is that? I mean I know you can build pretty much anything you can imagine inside it, but 16x16 textures on meter cubes? What the actual fuck?
And while I'm on the subject, what is up with this non-linear emergent gameplay wank? Who the hell has time for that? I just want to be led by the hand through a sequence of pretty levels. Is that really too much to ask? Sandboxes are for kids.
Just give me my Call of Battlefield and stop confusing me with all this new shit.
I realize your post is intended as a troll somewhat.
I don't know, for me it's about games like Ori and the Blind Forest or Grand Theft Auto V (on ultra). Good game play, good graphics, good fun.
It was a game that was promised to be a fully featured RPG and originally based on opensource code, then became a derivative which was created without a clean room implementation, which would still make the new code subject to the opensource license it fails to adhere to and genuinely it's popularity is not based on the base game at all, but the massive modding community.
Honestly, it just looks shit to me even on ultra settings and mods to provide higher resolution textures mods.
I have to admit, I frequently find that storylines aren't as in depth as linear story progression. On the other hand, some games have noticeably less fluff because of this.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
They stop making floppy disks, bugs eat your manuals, your hard drive crashes. Oh no!
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The moon comes crashing to earth, the sun explodes and the spark of life on earth is extinguished
Then restore from the last save and add more struts.
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You don't archive games by storing the installation folders.
Maybe you don't, but I do, when they don't depend on registry entries. I got tired of installing Civ and AlphaC on every build via the installer, then the official patches, then the unofficial patches, so I just 7z-exe'd the directories.
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Use a real browser.
One that forces you to click-to-play any plugin (option in Chrome, for instance).
It's probably the Twitch one that's playing for you, on that page.
Human sacrifices! Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
It's not rocket science ... oh, wait ...
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
It's Been an amazing ride.
If there's no registry crap, then all the installer is doing is inflating files into a folder. Who cares if it's InstallShield or 7Zip doing it?
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Right, but you still have to do the research if the game has "registry crap". It's more relaxing to just have the installer take care of all that.
No, it really doesn't. I'm someone who spent a lot of time developing tech that made use of normal, specular maps, generated 3d terrain procedurally etc. As such, I have acquired an eye for numerous details. I can unfortunately very quickly identify poor meshes, poor use of lighting, poor use of shaders etc. Calling such things 'nice graphics' seems a bit of a stretch to me.
No doubt, my particular taste tends to be good graphics mixed in with good game play and/or storyline.
Going back to my original point, I won't buy this product because the graphical quality does not meet my expectations in a game.
I am perfectly fine not being their target audience, however that means they have to be perfectly fine with not receiving my money or interest. Which they probably are because they seem to be making a good chunk of money at the moment.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Crap, my disk 4 of The Humans won't read....
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Man, did 1 AC post all 3 in an effort to start a negative diatribe?
I downloaded the installer from GoG, so I can install as many times as I want. The Steam one isn't an installer. So, you have your game directories backed up - yay for you. You're still running from the original install. Pay attention and read the GPP for all that it says. And do try to "install" that backup to a new PC without Steam.
Note, I do have some Steam stuff, but if I can get it on GoG vs Steam, GoG always FTW. Hell, I'll get it on GoG even if I have it on Steam, because then I can make an actual physical copy that is installable whenever and wherever I want.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
I just built my first halfway decent space station, got a quad nuclear rocket transfer vehicle docked to it and was preparing to outfit it with probes and landers for a round trip to one of the gas giants for a multi-planetary expedition. Oh well it'll be worth having to start over if I get some decent flight dynamics. Every aircraft I've ever built has been un-flyable at some point in its flight profile for no apparent reason and some of my rocket designs have had to have some "interesting" modifications to make them behave.
Can't you buy it anymore directly from them? Back when I got it there was no Steam or GOG support (and the snow was THIS high and we had to walk uphill both ways, and without shoes...)
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Wrong answer. Allow me to correct:
Well, this is Slashdot... nobody RTFA.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Temptation is not needed to tell the truth - ion thrusters are deliberately overpowered. They even received a buff a version or two back.
I'm 52 years old - quite a bit older than the modern "everyone gets a gold star" generation.
None of your scenarios are all that likely
It really depends what timescale you look at.
Is steam likely to go away in the next few years? no
Is steam likely to go away in the next few decades? far more likely
I have already backed up the installs for all of my games, in fact that's a feature of Steam
"backups" made with the steam backup tool require steam to restore and installing steam on a new machine requires a connection to the steam servers. AIUI even on the same machine offline mode has a limited duration and can be unreliable. So all steam "backups" really do is save you download time they don't save you if steam goes away.
The other option is to copy the installation directory manually. That may work for some games but for others it's likely to fail either because of steam dependencies or because the application needs installation procedures beyond simply copying the files from the games directory. Steam doesn't provide any information on which games this procedure will work for, so the only way to find out is to test (and make sure you test on a clean install)
gog OTOH provide standlone installers as their default option.
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That's something else, unrelated to how Infiniminer sources were used with the first variant of Minecraft.
I don't care.
True. But this is unrelated to Minecraft's initial rise to popularity.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Even if there is registry crap, can't 2 registry exports and diff take care of that? Just run the diff'd registry hunk and you should be golden.
The only other thing to watch out for is those shared libraries, like VC, VC++, MFC42, DirectX 9.0c (June / July / etc...) and so on that are added by the installer, and maybe compatibility settings, such as when the game requires admin. Might be a good idea to backup what the MS DirectX WebInstaller installs, just to be on the safe side.
So add a few mods that put more displays and controls inside the IVA screen (sitting in the cockpit), tack some unreliable cameras to the outside of your craft, and feel the joy of flying a ship by squinting at computer monitors inside your computer monitor. Docking maneuvers are even hairier than normal, though if you manage to shear off a camera somehow, I guess you always have the old fallback of "send someone outside on EVA and have them radio you that you need to shift left a couple of centimeters". Reentry is exciting because all you have is flames visible through your window (if you have a window), your altitude and descent gauge, and a little icon of your ship over a topo map.
And do try to "install" that backup to a new PC without Steam.
You just copy the directory over and it runs just fine. You can even package the game directory up in your own executable zip file, if you absolutely must have an "installer".
DRM on Steam has always been optional.
Indeed, and I don't like playing games that look like shit.
I am not paying for something that looks like shit, nor do I want to play something that looks like shit.
I don't get why people like you think the fact I don't want to do something I don't like is some how owed because you've got lower standards.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I stand corrected. Thank you for the new insight and correcting my misinformation.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
721MB?
"If you install games to your systemdrive, it may be necessary to run this game with admin privileges instead."
Be honest, what else has been packaged with that torrent? Because that's larger than the genuine zip file, and I've been running KSP from drive C: since forever.
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