anyways, the real reason i came into this thread - a recommendation mostly for Chris.
Reentry: An Orbital Simulator.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/882140/Reentry__An_Orbital_Simulator/
fly in accurate versions of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (CSM and LM) spacecrafts. every switch and dial and circuit breaker works (unlike microsoft flight sim). in the future they're going to add the space shuttle too.
this is where i got that dumb P52 jargon post from in the other thread - P52 is a program in the Apollo Guidance Computer. it's still in early access so there are still quite a few bugs, but considering that this whole game is basically one dutch guy's side project for fun it's pretty forgivable. and if you find a bug and post it on the game discord it almost always gets fixed nearly immediately.
i've done all the mercury missions, the gemini missions, and the apollo missions up to the moon landing. it took me about 4 months to get through it all and finally landing on the moon on friday was by far the most difficult, and most satisfying, thing i've ever done in a video game. way way WAY harder than anything in KSP. i actually had to print out the CSM/LM flight manuals and study them lol. but, like i said, when i finally landed on the moon i cheered about as hard as i did when bryce hit that home run in game 5 of the NLCS.
now i just have to get my boys back home. the rendezvous and docking with the CSM is going to be complex and very difficult so i fully expect it to take many tries. it's gonna be fun.
11/10 and it's only going to keep getting better. if you're at all interested buy it now before it comes out of EA and the price goes up.
