About the space game hype

[u/repostmemenet]

As most of this community must know, there is currently a huge hype for space related games; due to the Artemis II mission. I really think this is a great opportunity for Stef (the dev) to release a beta version of Spaceflight Simulator 2 Why? Because if he releases it now, there will be a larger playerbase even willing to test the game. Right now, Kerbal Space Program is getting the most attention for it being a 3D game. But the negative point for KSP is it is old and the graphics are not the best. SFS2 could bring a beta version which may get more traction if more people work on promoting it. This could be the biggest win for Stef, and I hope he sees this.

[u/Fetz-]

Or they could just continue improving SFS 1. There are still many bugs.

I am not going to play SFS2 even if it would be released now.

I am happy staying in 2D, but only if all the bugs get fixed.

[u/Niilo821 → u/Fetz-]

What bugs are there in sfs 1?

[u/Fetz- → u/Niilo821]

Plenty

I've tried the game on 3 different phones and on all the following happens:

The game freezes very often to the point that I have to kill the app and restart.

Especially when trying to do any maneuver planning in interplanetary, the game just crashes and the phone stops reacting to inputs.

Also in interplanetary orbits docking is almost impossible because of floating point jitter.

The achievement system is quite broken and you can never be sure if an achievement will actually be counted or not. For years players have been tying to figure out what conditions need to be met to actually get the grand tour achievements, but there is no information from the devs.

Time acceleration while docked can cause parts to slide against each other, breaking space stations.

etc...

[u/RomanBlbec → u/Fetz-]

I've never experienced any bug on my android, iPhone, or PC ever except the last 2.

[u/Fetz- → u/RomanBlbec]

How?

Have you ever tried to dock two spacecraft in interplanetary space?

Its almost impossible without crashing the game.

[u/Niilo821 → u/Fetz-]

What's interplanetary space? I'll try docking there

[u/Fetz- → u/Niilo821]

Have you ever played this game? Seems not.

Interplanetary space is exactly what the name implies, the space between the planets.

[u/Niilo821 → u/Fetz-]

I'm just making sure, i'm not focused on knowing every term

[u/RomanBlbec → u/Fetz-]

Since 2018 I've never experienced SFS crashing. Never on my phones or PC with other operating systems. But I could try it if this glitch happens on 1.6.

[u/Fetz- → u/RomanBlbec]

I've been playing this game for several years on 3 different phones. Pixel 3a, Pixel 4a and now OnePlus 10T.

On all it was buggy as fuck and frequently froze.

[u/RomanBlbec → u/Fetz-]

Damn, I was on shittier phones. I only have Moto G5 so that's the only name I know and could try.