I think that the threshold for what passes as an acceptable early access release these days is very different from what it was, for instance, with KSP. “Now early access is much more of an established thing, and with that comes a much higher barrier to entry as well. “It’s kind of a difficult question to even think about right now,” he said. Felanghe says he hopes to move a bit more quickly to a final, 1.0 version than last time. It sat there unfinished - with a very healthy player base, mind you, but unfinished nonetheless - for the better part of four years.
Of course, Kerbal Space Program was in early access long before early access was even a thing. To run Kerbal Space Program on high graphics settings your PC will require at least a GeForce GT 230 / Radeon HD 6550D with a Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6GHz or Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+ CPU. Image: Floating Origin Studios/The Irregular Corporationįelanghe says that his two-man team has been working on the game for several years already, and that it will launch into Steam’s Early Access program. For instance, you’ll be able to adjust the size and shape of every wing, and then experience the aerodynamic changes it makes to your craft in flight. They’ll choose from a kit of parts, not unlike those offered in Kerbal Space Program, but with a hefty set of tools to modify each component in detail. It was that experience in part that contributed inspiration for Balsa, which will let players design and build a flying model airplane from scratch in virtual reality.
“I love flight simulators,” he said, “but it turns out I’m a bad pilot.” He declined to say how much money he lost on the minor disaster. “It just drifts off with the wind and crashes into the only obstacle in a 200-meter radius, and plops down into the only water in a three-mile radius,” Felanghe said.
A few hours later (after making it to the Mun having only done the rocket building and flying tutorials) I bought the full game and built some absurdly large rockets (there are some bigger tanks/engines in the full game) that didn’t exactly fly well. I’ve known of it for a good while, but I wasn’t doing anything else so I grabbed the demo. The biggest surprise of Microsoft Flight Simulator: it makes Bing cool I got into Kerbal Space Program last weekend.