Once you’ve broken out of the atmosphere the battle to get into a stable orbit begins. Managing your fuel and making sure your ships/satellites stage properly is immensely rewarding. Button placements and configurations still aren’t great but performing manoeuvres in your ship using the thumbsticks and triggers feels surprisingly natural. Getting a ship into orbit works surprisingly well on a controller. But giving it the benefit of the doubt I finally got a ship constructed after much blood, sweat and tears were shed.
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Having played Kerbal Space Program a significant amount on PC I was ready to just give up on the console version after a measly hour of play time. Rotation of parts is done via the d-pad and they hardly ever rotate in the direction that you want them to. But it’s not just UI navigation that is clunky, the building portion of the game suffers due to the lack of precision too, and the camera controls are a complete nightmare. There’s no precision to it and it becomes overly frustrating in a matter of moments. Using your thumbsticks to control an onscreen cursor like a mouse is awful. Scroll bars, tabs and other UI elements you’d associate with a PC version are here, untouched. It’s unwieldy, clunky and a nightmare to navigate. I was expecting the UI to have noticeable differences to accommodate console players and controllers – as most PC to console ports do – but that simply isn’t the case. I feel as if I need to address this elephant in the room as it nearly killed the entire experience for me before I’d even got into the game properly. But on the downside, it was hard for me to figure out how the game would be able to adapt to a controller when it definitely favours mouse and keyboard controls.Įxcitement and scepticism were definitely warranted as Kerbal Space Program is still fun on consoles but to get to the fun part you have to get past the monstrosity that is the UI and awful controls.
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On the plus side, it gives new players a chance to check out what is undeniably an interesting and unique game that brings out the creativity in most people that play it.
Upon its announcement for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, I was both excited and sceptical over Kerbal Space Program.
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