Kerbal Space Program

[potatojohn]

Yeah I'm waiting for 1.0. Then I will finish the campaign/scenarios/challenges/whatever and never touch it again.

 

[Ulminati]

 

[Hellraiser]

0.21 is out, also the website got a facelift.

 

[The Vanished One]

Didn't expect it so soon after the latest Weekly.

 

[Ulminati]

Site down
And no torrent on the bay either. FFS Squad, don't make me register the game on steam

 

[Absalom]

0.21 is out, also the website got a facelift.

Site down
And no torrent on the bay either. FFS Squad, don't make me register the game on steam

Ha. Also I already got the update

 

[The Vanished One]

Site works for me. Ironically, I don't have enough bandwidth left to download the update right now. Try to wait awhile then reload.

 

[Absalom]

You're not missing much. I just got in to the game and it's buggy as hell. I couldn't leave a flight unless I left it throttled up which invalidated the inclination change I was trying to do. It's also a lot slower.

Ulminati I'd wait until the hotfix's come out and your mods are updated.

 

[Ulminati]

Ulminati I'd wait until the hotfix's come out and your mods are updated.

Yeah... Guess I'll go play some Gen XTH with the NON-LET'S PLAY party

 

[Ulminati]

"Why play alone, when you can play alone together?"

Kerbal LiveFeed is a plugin, client and server that lets you see other players are doing while you play KSP. You can see their vessels and orbits in Map View, read live status updates of their ships, chat and share screenshots and craft files.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com...ssive-Multiplayer-Plugin-Client-Server-v0-6-7

Looks cool.

 

[Hellraiser]

People are a bit complaining about the new SAS but outside of some roll that should not be (probably caused by vector thrust engines) I didn't have any problems. My VTOL flew fine yesterday and successfully crashed into the new VAB a couple of times before I decided that precision rocket VTOL flight in an atmosphere is ass.

BTW since they improved terrain on a few planets apparently some have sharp mountains now, most noticeably Laythe.

 

[Ulminati]

Yeah. I noticed more than Mun got overhauled. And the rotation is a bit annoying in SAS. But I've flown enough wobbly death traps to work around it.

 

[Hellraiser]

The torque overall seems to be less aggressive than it was so the solution in most cases is to add more reaction wheels.

 

[Ulminati]

I'm waiting for Kwantum Struts and Mechjeb to hit .21. Then I'll probably try for a surface base somewhere. I'm thinking Duna, Moho or Eve. I'm still not using Kethane.

 

[Hellraiser]

The sea surface is actually animated now, noticed as I was cheating a recreation of my laythe space station into laythe orbit (fuck sending all that stuff to jool again, also kerbal alarm clock is broken so I wouldn't be able to do it now even if I wanted to). It's still flat but has a simple animation to simulate waves, it could use another layer on top of it randomize the shading a bit since the tiling is still pretty obvious. Also it got a few new islands on the previously empty hemisphere which used to be all ocean.

 

[Absalom]

o wow am i the only person whos having problems with it?

 

[The Vanished One]

Nope. Performance is worse across the board for me, and in one simple test launch I noticed two new bugs. Was hoping for a bit more polish

 

[Hellraiser]

Biggest issue for me is that the VAB to launchpad loading times seems to have increased. Performance seems to be better in orbit though. They need to hotfix reaction wheels onto the large ASAS (it only provides SAS functionality which probe cores do not have unlike manned pods), personally I copypasted the module from the smaller ASAS myself and just multiplied torque and power usage by 2.

Can't do shit though since I need KAS and the B9 aerospace pack to recreate most of my stuff (that 2 man cockpit is so snazzy). Also I downloaded the spherical fuel tanks mod, man those look so nice. If only there was a spherical command pod to go with those as well, or a bunch of biodomes.

EDIT: Hotfix is out.

 

[Ulminati]

 

[Burning Bridges]

Biggest issue for me is that the VAB to launchpad loading times seems to have increased.

The old problem, with every version it was getting slower and it crashed too. I'd think though that they really improved that with 0.20.

 

[Hellraiser]

The old problem, with every version it was getting slower and it crashed too. I'd think though that they really improved that with 0.20.

The out of memory crash will possibly be fixed since it's a unity bug that got fixed in an engine update, it is possible that the game will be ported to the latest unity build in 0.22. The issue I and other have is separate and will probably get fixed in a hotfix soon, unless they figure to do the unity upgrade in 0.21.2 as well which would delay that.

Anyway the big feature planned for 0.22 is revealed to be R&D and the tech tree, not a finished tech tree since some parts will have to be added in the future (most notably resource mining/processing). The current plan of the devs is to have research points or the equivalent granted via doing stuff actively as in flying stuff and collecting science data, rather than just time warping and doing nothing but spending money. I think that could imply we'll get more science parts with the update, stock telescopes would be nice (but they need to do that procedural skybox first since the current texture looks like gray goo when zoomed in). Either now or in the future, but doing actual science to advance up the tech tree is a good idea.

Speaking of money in the future career mode launches will cost cash based on individual part costs with VAB designs being as pie in the sky as you please.

Oh and we'll get VAB/SPH editor improvements for 0.22, probably sub-assemblies (finally). Looks pretty good so far, better than the last 2 updates as far as gameplay changes are concerned. Still probably two months away though.

 

[Ulminati]

Just a shame most of the game will probably be dead easy for us now. We already know how to design and fly rokkits way, way better than Joe average. If they tailor the campaign difficulty to please the Disciples of Manley, noone else will be able to progress anywhere in it.

 

[Hellraiser]

Hopefully difficulty modes will take that into consideration. A hardcore mode is something that the lead developer said he would like to implement.

 

[The Vanished One]

Yeah, difficulty modes are a must. Better if customizable: I'd activate all the aerodynamics they end up implementing, life support and the like, but I'd rather keep the option to roll back flight states. Even if there's still the sandbox mode to experiment in, I really need to go through trial and error multiple times per mission.

 

[Tzaero]