I have only had about an hour to play around with the alpha yesterday. And I gotta say I am still hyped for it. It has a lot of promise.

I definitely liked seeing the ship whip around to a new target during warp. That’s a QoL feature I’ve been wanting from KSP since forever.

I’mma be honest?

Even if this is comparable to KSP1 in terms of gameplay… I just cannot cause even a fraction of the hell and suffering that Jeb Kerman has experienced to cute little kitty cats.

Which, in all seriousness, actually IS a problem. Kerbal was a lot like Dwarf Fortress in that the vast majority of “users” bought it, failed once, and never touched again. But they DID buy it because their favorite youtubers/forum posters wouldn’t stop gushing over it. Whether it is Scott Manley or Matt Lowne doing truly amazing things or just Austin Walker screaming “VINNY!!!”.

But when the explosion because nobody checked their staging or the little guy drifting off into the unknown makes you want to hug YOUR little guy?

I played it for a bit, it’s a tech demo through & through. Looks good, ui & other features such as controls need dialing in but they’ve stated for it they’re just getting the ground work in. Can’t really say to much about it because it’s just a tech demo but what I can say is I’m a little sceptical about how this game will fund itself.

Now I need to prefix this with I really don’t care Dean left dayz, some people really latch onto this but either way the best thing that happened to dayz was Dean leaving.

What bothers me is how much work has been put into the “Donation” website, feels like it’s been really engineered so they can capture 100% of the “donations” because Dean hates the 30% store fronts. The website itself feels really gamified, with daily, weekly & monthly “donations” & a banner vomiting out live donos & analytics & total raised. I’m just skeptical this isn’t an attempt to tap into a niche market, Robert Space industry style.

Dean Hall. All you need to know that its going to be abandonware.