Not a day goes by when thebudding spacefarersaround the Kerbol sun do not mourn theKerbal Space Program 2. disaster.
The sequel to the legendaryKSPspace flight simulatorexploded harder than a supernova, leaving only heartbreak and resentment in its wake.
For the first time in a year though,the cosmos may be within reach again thanks to an unlikely hero: say hello to Kitten Space Agency.
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Dean Hall has been quietly cleaning up the mess left behind after parent company Take-Two killed off Intercept Games, the originalKSP 2developer.
The studio was one of the many victims of a colossal wave of layoffsamong Take-Two underlings, putting indie heavyweight Roll7 underground.
Hall, better known as the mastermind behind zombie survival hitDayZ, is now the CEO of RocketWerkz.
The studio’s foundations are core members of theKerbal Space ProgramandKSP 2teams, and Hall says the new game will incorporate a lot of ideas that Take Two rejected forKSP 2.
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KSPisthe world’s prime space flight simulator, and people have been calling for a sequel since it first came out in 2015.
What they decidedly did not want was the unmitigated disaster that wasKerbal Space Program 2, released in February 2023.
The game incorporatedmanyhighly requested mechanicsmissing from the original, butthanks to publisher pressure, it came out in a sorry state.
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The developers at Intercept Games spent the better part of the following year trying to fix the mess Take Two had put them in, butall that effort came to naught when the parent company announced it wasclosing downthe studioin May 2024.
There is solace in the fact that the originalKSPmodding scene is so vast and talented that, with the right workshop picks,you can have a game that looks and feels better than its much-maligned sequel.
This is only a bandaid, of course, as there are still core limitations aboutKSPthat are hard (or impossible) towork around without making a new game.
TheKSPfandom has learned the hard way to control any hint of excitement about a new unproven project, butit is not a sin to hopeKitten Space Agencywill finally fill the voidKSP 2left.
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