This was from STN's Discord quite recently:
"kPlug... again -.-
Hi there... let's do this again... I have been informed that kPlug doesn't work perfectly with RX8... yeah, I imagine so, that's no news, a lot of stuff doesn't work with kPlug... This time the reason is... a optimization to how the game deals with several scenarios! As some of you may have noticed, a very rare update to the ingame version occurred with RX8, this is the game optimizations in question. Due to how core to the game this optimization is, it couldn't be done as a plugin, so it's a very rare Hardmod. Soooooooo, what is the real effect for you as an end user? What is so important that I decided to apply a hardmod to one of my modern packs? Even though I have stated on several occasions how bad an idea that is? Simple, game is less prone to crashing randomly, it doesn't have as many random freezes throughout gameplay (Especially studio users should want this, as timeline usage is a bit more smooth). The pros far outweigh the cons for doing this. The maker of kPlug, as usual, has slept in class, and not caught on to changes happening in the modding community. He now depends on a dead framework, IPA, and a outdated game build. If for some reason you want to rollback to the official illusion code, that's fine, as I've included said files in the repack. Just copy these folders to the base game folder and it's back [Not recommended] Again, I don't recommend using kPlug with my pack, in my opinion it's not a worthwhile tradeoff, but you're free to do with your game as you wish if you disagree on the math here
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STN should really take their own advice though, their latest Repack is not exactly the most stable ever released and there are issues with RX8 that just does not seem to be getting addressed and sorted out. Quick to point out kplug's flaws, not so for their own ones.
The question is though,
what is the new content added to the latest version of kplug and is it actually worth going through the hassle of trying to make it compatible to work with the pack?