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Kerbal Space Program free on Epic
- hersko 4y agoKSP is a popular rocket sim that can teach you the basics of orbital mechanics and beyond.
- naillo 4y agoThis feels like a gpt-3 auto reply
- rkapsoro 4y agoGPT-3 definitely ups the ante on the old "I will replace you with a very small shell script" quip.
- NineStarPoint 4y agoNah, GPT-3 doesn’t sound quite that much like a bot.
- codetrotter 4y ago[flagged]
- John23832 4y agoI can't wait for KSP2. Looks very interesting.
- alphabetting 4y agothe cinematic trailer we got 3 years ago had me so excited. hopefully it will live up to most of what was shown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc
- capableweb 4y agoThere is some more recent videos showing actual clips from KSP2, here is the latest one: " Kerbal Space Program 2: Episode 6 - Early Access " - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAL3XaP-LyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAL3XaP-LyE
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI've been playing KSP since early access, but I have concerns about the new direction. Nothing really tangible, but stuff like requiring a launcher. That's not needed, but doesn't have that plucky KSP feel anymore to me.
- atomicnumber3 4y agoSame. I loved KSP and have hundreds of hours in it, but I feel like what I really want it to be is a base builder and orbital mechanics simulator, instead of just the latter. High hopes for ksp2. Multiplayer is interesting as well, there's certainly enough space for a few friends out there.
- gregsadetsky 4y ago@dang, I think that https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kerbal-space-program https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kerbal-space-program would be a better link for this
- 3vidence 4y agoJust to add on here, the link just takes me to the main Epic Games page and I can't see anything about KSP. Edit: The current link.
- dang 4y agoChanged from https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/ https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/. Thanks!
- SquareWheel 4y agoThere's two free games this week, so https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games would be even better. Not sure why the submitter only mentioned one of them.
- btdmaster 4y ago[flagged]
- iso1631 4y agoThat looks like a very shady site generated automatically, unlike a well known 10 year old game with millions of users
- btdmaster 4y agohttps://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog https://codeberg.org/shadow/SpywareWatchdog
- okasaki 4y agoIt's all true? I've played plenty of KSP, and when you launch the game the first time there's a popup where you have to agree to have your privacy violated (there's a link to iirc unity analytics where you can supposedly opt out, but it always gave me a page error when I tried to go there. In Linux, it wouldn't even launch the browser and it doesn't give you the URL, so it would be impossible to opt out even if it worked). Their integration with the redshell spyware is well documented too.
- opensores 4y agoI can confirm it's true. In particular, it tries to connect to two google cloud servers at: from port 59946 to 35.190.78.8 from port 54192 to: 35.227.244.186 Furthermore, btdmaster's original comment regarding this was censored, which lends even more crediblity to claims, and that something very fishy is behind this.
- its-summertime 4y agofrom the site that lists brave browser, firefox, netsurf, all as spyware also lists VLC as potential spyware also lists the entire HTTProtocol as potential spyware
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- Hamuko 4y agoI do wonder about the economics of throwing this many free games at consumers. I think I have around 160-170 titles on my Epic Games Store account and I have never spent money on the service.
- p0pcult 4y agoThe more free games you have, the less time you have to spend on games you bought on Steam, slowly decoupling you from the Steam ecosystem. Maybe this isn't a money play, but an attention economy play, in the short run?
- shadowgovt 4y agoIn the new economy, attention is the real currency.
- yamtaddle 4y agoYeah I have a couple hundred and have bought... like... two. That's just something you can do when you have a money-printer (Fortnight) and want to buy market share, I guess. Worked in my case—sorta—since I'd only ever have bought a couple exclusives and wouldn't have it set to start-on-boot if not for the frequent free games. But, if I'm looking to buy a game, I still check GoG and Steam first, and if it's not there give a hard think to whether I really want the game, though. Which is why I've only bought two games. I'll even pay more, or defer until a sale, if Epic has it for cheap and it's more expensive on the other two services. The only price they're winning my "business" with is free (except a couple exclusives).
- shostack 4y agoIs it just market share? What do they do with your data?
- yamtaddle 4y agoThey're trying to buy being the other store that all gamers have and leave open and look at pretty often. They're trying to go head-to-head with Steam—others have tried with exclusives (e.g. EA's Origin) but it's never been enough, so they're trying with exclusives and giving away like a hundred games a year, hoping that'll do it. I dunno how everyone else is treating them, but for me, they've gotten me to leave it open and look at it pretty often, but haven't managed to get me to ever buy non-exclusives, so... partial victory?
- opportunist 4y ago[dead]
- Loughla 4y agoI like this game, but I still can't even get shit into orbit. Pardon my language. It makes me feel like I'm just an idiot. I don't think I am. But maybe I am. Who knows. All I know is that I feel bad for killing all of those little guys. They didn't even die in the pursuit of knowledge. They just died for my own hubris and naivety.
- smoldesu 4y agoFor me, I found a lot of satisfaction building space planes. Much different takeoff/landing procedure and completely different craft design, but a lot easier to maneuver. As for killing all those little guys, consider adding a final-stage parachute that decouples the crew cabin from the rest of the craft. It might take them a few hours to hit the ground, but you'll despotically murder less space goblins that way.
- Moissanite 4y agoMoar boosters!
- iso1631 4y agoAre you building your own rockets? Building a rocket to give you enough delta-v to get into low Kerbin orbit, or even to Mun, isn't terribly hard, just throw more boosters and more struts, go up for a bit about 80 degrees to the east, about 20k high start burning pretty much due east. Remember you pretty much have to go up and sideways to get into orbit.
- HideousKojima 4y agoPoint the navball about 45° east a little bit after lift-off (and then straight east after you leave the atmosphere) and use a lot more boosters and you'll get into orbit easy
- plandis 4y agoYou’re not an idiot, the game requires you to understand some rocketry and orbital mechanics concepts which has a learning curve —- the concepts are not difficult but if you don’t understand them you the game can be rough. Thankfully there are plenty of YouTube tutorials that kind of summarize the basics.
- thot_experiment 4y agoCannot recommend this game enough if you haven't played it before. It gave me an intuitive understanding of orbital mechanics. Few things more satisfying than nailing an orbital insertion by the seat of your pants.
- drivers99 4y agoI had a lot of fun with it by landing a guy on Duna (Mars basically). But then I felt like I should rescue him, so ended up going on the even harder mission of bringing him back home, which required being able to land and then take off and make it back, as well as landing in a specific spot on the planet vs just landing anywhere.
- thot_experiment 4y agoExactly! This sort of emergent gameplay is the bread and butter of KSP, I love how a story just forms in my head every time I play it.
- slothtrop 4y agoI still refuse to support Epic no matter how many free games they try to entice with.
- kamikaz1k 4y agowhy?
- sombragris 4y agoWell, for example this: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_unreal_games_unreal_tournament_2004_ut_goty_unreal_2_the_awakening_special_edition/ https://www.gog.com/forum/general/delisting_unreal_games_unr... " due to the publisher’s decision, Unreal Tournament 2004 Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal 2: The Awakening Special Edition, Unreal Tournament GOTY, and Unreal Gold will be delisted from our catalog on December 23rd (Friday), 2 PM UTC." A complete a*hole move, if you ask me. I understand they might want to release an UT-like "remastered" MMO, but Unreal? Unreal 2? Those are very good single player games. Currently there's no legal way to get those games anywhere. Should you want a copy, you should resort to ask the people with the casette tape and the crossbones, if you know what I mean. It's despicable when the rights holder of a game closes all avenues for a legal license, in my opinion. I'm a cheapskate, I buy things from Epic because sometimes the offer or the price is too attractive for me, but they are fully deserving of any hatred they get. I buy from them only when their price is the lowest (or free). If their price is equal to somewhere else, I'd buy from that other place.
- lgl 4y agoI'll have to say, very few games gave me the combination of extreme frustration as well as extreme satisfaction as KSP. Highly recommended if you're willing to spend some time learning it while failing a lot.
- knorker 4y agoAnd if you fail, you get to send a rescue mission!
- wincy 4y agoI have gone to the moon several times in Kerbal Space Program. Going to the moon is super easy. Not smashing into the moon at 1.5KM/sec, on the other hand, is pretty difficult.
- capableweb 4y agoOnce you learn to use and read the map, together with the guidance/markers you can put manually on the map, it gets relatively easy as long as you have a good ship.
- scubbo 4y agoI'm a big fan of the recent Hitman trilogy, and I remember there being _outrage_ when the 3rd installment launched first on Epic. So far as I could tell, the primary criticisms of Epic Games Launcher were 1) it didn't have as-good social features as Steam (for a game that doesn't support multiplayer, who cares?), and 2) it didn't have a cart to which you could add multiple items before checkout - have you _ever_ bought more than one item from Steam at once, not counting game-and-DLC (which would typically be available as a single-purchase bundle)? I mention this here because it's a valuable reminder that not everyone uses or experiences software in the same way as you. These people weren't wrong, they just had different evaluations of the "point" of a launcher than I did. EDIT: and this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34265872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34265872) lists a third reason - "exclusivity is bullshit". To which, uhhh.....sure, philosophically, I would _prefer_ for all content to be available on all platforms so I can pick-and-choose exactly the platform that I prefer. But if a) the platforms are all free, and b) the platforms all hit a minimum-bar of quality, such that being forced to use one of them doesn't majorly impact my experience, why would I care that "the icon to launch Hitman results in a different under-the-hood launcher than the icon to launch Half-Life"? (Note this is _different_ from disliking fragmentation of shows across Netflix/Disney+/Hulu/etc., because those aren't free)
- kemayo 4y agoI think the main objection I remember seeing was around exclusive games, with the rest of the complaints being largely nitpicking. (Which I get. Having to remember which launcher I need to run to find a game I want to play is a pain, albeit very much a first world problem.) > have you _ever_ bought more than one item from Steam at once, not counting game-and-DLC Yes. Generally during sales, admittedly, when I'll sometimes pick up a few games at once. As I recall it felt a bit strange that Epic lacked it, because they were promoting themselves at launch with a lot of heavy sales, which really maximized the odds that someone might want to pick up a few games at once.
- ChoGGi 4y ago> have you _ever_ bought more than one item from Steam Last weekend, I keep a wishlist and check it when sales happen. Nothing personal against epic (I like the freebies), just not a fan of exclusives. Plus I leave steam open in background, epic I have to open and wait for a 100+ MB update (crap internet around here).
- adra 4y ago** epic. Wow, I was hoping to say more but I guess that's it. Waiting on their exclusivity bs to dry up so that we can get games through other stores without lockin (same reason Ive sworn off certain consoles for similar reasons). Theres no perfect solution but I may as well have a principled stand against something.
- wintermutestwin 4y agoThe Epic launcher is obnoxious trash that is constantly popping up ads overlaid on my desktop. "free" games aren't really free.
- ChoGGi 4y agoYou can turn them off, steam also has pop-ups that you can turn off.
- hot_gril 4y agoI'd like to use neither Steam nor Epic. Looks like there's a direct download for KSP.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoHeroic launcher works great. Saved game syncing is still in development, but if you have one gaming computer, this is not a problem.
- shadowgovt 4y agoKSP is an amazing game. More important than anything else, what it gave me is an intuition of orbital mechanics. There's a lot about orbiting craft that's hilariously counter-intuitive to ground-based intuition (favorite example: to approach something, in front of you, you turn opposite to your current trajectory and burn. It shortens your orbit, which decreases your orbital period, which means you'll catch up to your target).
- kamikaz1k 4y agomy goodness this site is struggling hard... login page loading took many attempts (one resulting in a CF 5XX page) and not it is stuck on the confirmation....(I have no given up). Also, why is this store page fully client side rendered? the layout thrash is really noticeable. Is the store in the middle of a rewrite or something?
- fathyb 4y agoNote that it also works on macOS even though it only shows Windows in "Platform". The Epic Launcher and KSP both run through Rosetta on ARM.
- klipklop 4y agoGreat game, but I won't really sign up for a gaming service that is controlled (in part) by Tencent. Don't get me wrong, Epic makes great stuff. The Unreal engine is amazing. You can argue Tim Sweeney is the CEO, but any meeting at a high level with Epic includes Tencent. You are not talking to Sweeney alone, it's Tencent and Sweeney. The way Fortnite targets kids for Vbucks and skin sales is pretty gross too. Many stories of Mommy's credit card being ran up. A game that is essentially banned in China. No thanks. No amount of free games will have me install the Epic Games client.
- scohesc 4y agoA law firm in Canada has won a class-action against Epic Games for something to do with LootBoxes/VBucks - if you're eligible you get $25 bucks! I only got it because it's somehow related to Rocket League drops as well. Thankfully I have Rocket League on Steam before they removed it and migrated over to the Epic store to get that sweet sweet microtransaction money https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/fortnite-c5719335176219/trending-topics-c5719357839387/epic-games-canadian-v-bucks-settlement-a11209772448411 https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/fortnite-c5719335176219...
- wy35 4y ago> The way Fortnite targets kids for Vbucks and skin sales is pretty gross too. Many stories of Mommy's credit card being ran up. This isn’t exclusive to Fortnite, by FAR. Singling out Epic isn’t really fair when the same exact thing happens with Roblox, Clash of Clans, etc.
- klipklop 4y agoIt's fair because Epic is part owned by a company (Tencent) that is owned/ran by a government (The CCP/CPC.) that bans such things for their children, but are OK with it in the West for their profit. But yeah, Roblox and CoC are gross too. However you should not trust Tencent and Epic. Just go pay for Kerbal on a better platform. A ranking CCP member must be on staff at a high level to carry out the interests of the party. I believe more than few of their upper management positions are headed by high ranking CCP members.
- xeonax 4y agoWhat are everyone's views on KSP or other games use of analytics software's like RedShell?
- deafpolygon 4y agoI envision a future where this game becomes standard educational software for kindergarten children.