{"id":5735,"date":"2022-05-16T22:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/kerbal-space-program-2-delayed-into-2023-devs-blame-complexity\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T22:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:40:33","slug":"kerbal-space-program-2-delayed-into-2023-devs-blame-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/kerbal-space-program-2-delayed-into-2023-devs-blame-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerbal Space Program 2 delayed into 2023, devs blame complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">Kerbal Space Program 2 delayed into 2023, devs blame complexity<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div>\n<p ><em>Kerbal Space Program 2<\/em> is delayed again. The game\u2019s development team <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com\/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F208209-release-date-update-from-the-ksp2-team%2F\">updated fans<\/a> on the progress of the long-delayed project Monday, saying that the sequel would be ready for launch in early 2023 on PC and on consoles later that same year.<\/p>\n<p >\u201cWe are building a game of tremendous technological complexity, and are taking this additional time to ensure we hit the quality and level of polish it deserves,\u201d the team explained in the post. \u201cWe remain focused on making sure <em>KSP2<\/em> performs well on a variety of hardware, has amazing graphics, and is rich with content. We\u2019ve built a spectacular team at Intercept Games \u2014 a team that includes, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com\/index.php?\/topic\/204167-kerbal-space-progam-1122-is-live\/\">as previously mentioned<\/a>, key members from the development team behind the original <em>Kerbal Space Program<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p >Creative director Nate Simpson also released a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PjE_YCl5xcg\">video explaining the new release date<\/a> and the delay, though it didn\u2019t include too much additional information.<\/p>\n<p >The original <em>Kerbal Space Program<\/em> was designed by Squad, an unconventional international team headquartered in Mexico City, only to be acquired by Take Two in 2017. The sequel was announced in 2019, with Star Theory Games (formerly Uber Entertainment) charged with development. That team was swapped out for Intercept Games the same year. It\u2019s this transition \u2014 along with the COVID-19 pandemic and the overall complexity of the spaceflight simulation \u2014 that has resulted in multiple delays for the game according to developers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/LciFxq24mjWkpm82uDIiDJRDnzs=\/752&#215;0:3776&#215;1583\/fit-in\/1200&#215;630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23477323\/image_2022_05_16_153512558.png<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23076648\/kerbal-space-program-2-delayed-2023-release-date-pc-console<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerbal Space Program 2 delayed into 2023, devs blame complexity Kerbal Space Program 2 is delayed again. The game\u2019s development team updated fans on the progress of the long-delayed project Monday, saying that the sequel would be ready for launch in early 2023 on PC and on consoles later that same year. \u201cWe are building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}