Hello,

Before beginning my post, I wanted to say congrats on releasing the game on the Playstation. Reading the devlog was really insightful and showed the efforts put to get the game on PS4/PS5.

While I don't own any of those consoles, it's still great to see this milestone being reached and to know more people will get to discover the game.

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I am making this post to know it it would be feasible for Steam players to get access to the Unity 2020 version of Distance that runs on PS4 as well once the console version releases on July 19th.

As mentioned in the devlog, this version isn't on par with the current Unity 5.5 build so I am of course not asking for the Unity 2020 to become the main PC version.

Instead, the Unity 2020 build could work akin to Starbound's Unstable version and Terraria's tModLoader.
By this I mean that it would appear as a separate library entry with its own installation path as to not conflict with the Unity 5 version.

I won't be lying: the main reason this would be cool to have is for modding purposes as the current Unity 5 version runs on .Net Framework 3.5 through the Mono runtime and is limited in what it allows. Having access to the Unity 2020 version would unlock more possibilities.

I can understand if the interest of doing that seems limited as it could bring confusion to PC players seeing 2 library entries and not much point to get a more limited version feature-wise.

Again, if doing this doesn't involve putting too much time and effort to pull off, it would be a really nice addition.

I'd like to add that if you considered doing this, I'd recommend putting a disclaimer (either in-game or as a custom EULA before installing) saying that Refract provides this version "AS IS" without any support of any kind or something about it being untested and only for people who know what version they're using by installing it.

Finally, if you give this feature request a shot, it would be understandable if leaderboards, achievements, the workshop and other steam-specific features are not included.

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Thanks for reading this post. I really want to apologise in advance if this post's tone sounds bad in any way shape or form*. I am not ordering anything and do not feel entitled to anything. I just felt like posting a request here as if throwing a bottle into the sea.

*While my english is decent, I am not a native speaker and some of my sentences could be poorly phrased.

PS: I understand your priority right now is the Playstation release and potentially sorting bugs after that and that PC feature requests might have to wait a bit befre being considered or not.

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Sincerely, a fellow Distance crustacean (with oddly specific requests).