Having slipped the surly bonds of Kerbin, Kerbal Space Program’s former lead developer Felipe Falanghe has been quietly engaged on a new-but-similar flying craft creator, Balsa Model Flight Simulator. It shares a few of Kerbal’s DNA, letting the participant construct and fly mannequin plane, however provides multiplayer and fight to the method.
BMFS (get used to that, I’m committing to it) seems to be much more swooshy than KSP within the trailer, and it seems to be much more forgiving. That may simply be as a result of it’s within the palms of the developer, however I think about controlling a gentle, wee, distant management aircraft is less complicated than making an attempt to fly to a different planet in a bin with wings. As the title suggests, you possibly can management the planes from the bottom, however you can too take direct management from the mini-cockpit and in third-person.
That construct part seemed moderately acquainted, eh? Snapping bits collectively, tweaking stats. All very Kerby. Though it’s moderately cute, there’s nonetheless a critical, physics-based flight mannequin underpinning all of it, so crashes and smashes will nonetheless occur. The addition of multiplayer means your planes must survive below the crosshairs of different gamers, do you have to select to take them on-line.
Here’s an fascinating factor. The game has been out for some time now, however solely on the Oculus store. This is one thing of a reboot to take it out of the VR-only realm and right into a wider viewers.
It’s out summer season of 2020, and might be arriving on Steam’s Early Access store “in the near future”.
