Do we have to finish our SoS playthrough before 1.6 or will there be a chance to "take them over to 1.6"?

the developers are finally free

Look like ship combat is completly missing from the DLC. Hope the DLC/1.6 add features to make sos2 easier to expand. It can be a big oportunity to add lot of content for SOS2 exploration wise.

love your work sos2 is excellent, dobby is finally free!

I feel like the SOS2 devs might improve the DLC rather than get rid of the mod completely because Rimworld's Odyssey as i read it sounded like the ship that you are making and flying isn't going to go to planets rather it's for going to abandoned stations, asteroids and etc. also it sounds like a resource intensive mount. I think SOS2 would require the Odyssey DLC if the Devs of the mod kept it

I don't think it would require odyssey. They would have to rewrite almost all of the mod's code and xml to align with odyssey, so it would be much more simple, and probably more appreciated by the community, if a whole new mod was made. I don't think they'd do that, so maybe they'd just make it compatible?

Originally posted by El Chupacabra:

Do we have to finish our SoS playthrough before 1.6 or will there be a chance to "take them over to 1.6"?

I don't think any of the major RimWorld updates have ever been save compatible, and they always break mods until those mods get updated.

Hoping Odyssey makes it much easier for the SOS2 team to implement all they have had to do manually up too this point. Having even a little bit more of it built into the game.

maybe sos2 can focus on space combat now?

People online like to blow things way out of proportion.

SOS2 was made by the great sacrifice of everyone in our community pouring countless hundreds or thousands of hours into this project. We always said something like SOS2 would be a great addition to the base game, and fans of SOS also said as much, so it was just a matter of time before Ludeon decided the same.

The DLC adding space flight in some capacity is not an existential threat. It's just another day in space, and we're continuing our commitment to keeping SOS maintained with the help of our community of volunteers. Special thanks to Boris, our current SOS Maintainer! For all his work this year, which has been phenomenal. I'm so glad he's onboard with consistent updates of incredible quality and a great attitude our community can rely on.

We just updated the long awaited 2.7.20, which was planned for this week anyway (literally requesting steam upload 2 days ago as you can see in ⁠sos-testing-channel.)

Give it a test. Play it. Enjoy a more stable, less janky mod. And we'll see you in 1.6!

The author is right, this mod can be an DLC Expansion mod, they now work with the core, we can just focus on expanding it more. We see many DLC before, they always have room to expand and improve, so this mod can never die even if the new DLC release

Such gigacha of the mod's author, i salute you, not for the mod, but for the mind set

Me personally aint gonna join the " o7 " train in the comment cause i know now this mod aint going no where but updated for year to come

Originally posted by Thain:

People online like to blow things way out of proportion.

SOS2 was made by the great sacrifice of everyone in our community pouring countless hundreds or thousands of hours into this project. We always said something like SOS2 would be a great addition to the base game, and fans of SOS also said as much, so it was just a matter of time before Ludeon decided the same.

The DLC adding space flight in some capacity is not an existential threat.

I think it must be people who haven't actually played SOS2 making those comments. They just see "Odyssey will add spaceships. SOS2 is the spaceship mod. SOS2 will be obsolete".

As someone that has been a huge fan of SOS2? I'm just looking at how the DLC might add a lot of base level support that makes the mod better and easier to maintain.

For example: Having zones follow the ship when moved, or pawns by default avoiding the environmental hazards of leaving the ship while in orbit.

Yea, i'm with you @Gilded Wraith.

I see this as a massive fan of most of the mods that are looking to become (atleast partly) baseline, and see the stability and streamlining potential, and the erasure of ALOT of incompatibilities considering mods will now need to be made with the baseline space-systems in mind, but in turn the game also makes that compatibility easier by having it baked in and conform to a standard.

SoS2 is about to have a substantially easier time managing compatibility, and stability/performance. allowing for more creativity now that less technical dev time is lost on creating systems from scratch.

The only thing i minorly worry about is that Ludeon might not be so happy about a flagship feature of a DLC being "attainable" outside of owning said DLC, but that sortof thing concerned me with races from biotech too, and we haven't really suffered from it.

Currently, one of the few redeeming qualities of that slop dlc is the framework for future updates and ideas of space related content. Because judging from the screen shot, they add so little content about space. (no space battle, they even have the default air conditioner stick out of the hull)

Originally posted by cree:

Currently, one of the few redeeming qualities of that slop dlc is the framework for future updates and ideas of space related content. Because judging from the screen shot, they add so little content about space. (no space battle, they even have the default air conditioner stick out of the hull)

how is it "slop"