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KSP Loading...: No Place Like Kerbin
Another orbital period has completed, and as human tradition has it, its a good time to reflect on past achievements as well as look forward to goals we set for ourselves during this new decade. 2019 was a great year for us: We released several major updates and a content-filled expansion on PC. KSP Enhanced Edition also got some deserved attention with the History and Parts Pack and the Breaking Ground Expansion, as well as a considerable amount of free content. Not too shabby, right? And 2020 is looking great for KSP fans, too! For starters, were kicking off the new year with update 1.9, which will not only include performance and graphical improvements, but some new neat features that were excited to show you. Not to mention Kerbal Space Program 2 and some other stellar surprises we have currently in the VAB for you. For the time being, and for this KSP Loading in particular, were going to focus on some of the stuff that is going to roll onto the launchpad in Kerbal Space Program 1.9: No Place Like Home! So buckle up:
In addition to the revamps of Moho and Dres that weve shown you already, Kerbin has received major visual improvements. With detailed high-quality texture maps and (because there is no place like home) an Ultra Quality shader option, the Kerbal home planet is looking better than ever. Check it out!
Click here to see the full high-res gallery.
Kerbal Space Program 1.9: No Place Like Home! will also include a new part that works as a release valve for parts with drainable resources, such as monopropellant, ore, liquid fuel, oxidizer or xenon. This part will also allow you to set the drainage over a specific amount of time, a feature that will undoubtedly come in handy.
Click here to see a high-res image.
One of the heaviest and most powerful large-diameter Kerbal engines is getting a well-deserved makeover. Were talking, of course, about the Rockomax Conglomerates RE-M3 Mainsail Liquid Fuel Engine. With its new geometry, textures and emissive map, this humongous engine has never looked so good. Additionally after listening to your feedback, were including Mid and Bare variants.
Click here to see high res images.
Rockomax Conglomerates RE-I5 "Skipper" Liquid Fuel Engine has also been modernized by our art team. Brand new geometry, variants, textures and emissive maps have given one of our favorite medium sized engines a befitting fresh new look! And after listening to your feedback, well be including Bare and Truss Mount variants.
Click here to see high res images.
With reliable performance at a good price, the Rockomax Conglomerates BACC Solid Fuel Boosters have always been a popular choice to get the massive bulk of large multi-stage rockets off the ground. This large SRB is finally getting a physical renewal to better match its place in our SRB lineup. Check it out!
Click here to see high res images.
Additionally, Kerbal Space Program 1.9: No Place Like Home! will include several quality of life features, mostly drawn from our players feedback. Some of the inclusions are: an adjustment to the time warp system that removes restrictions on warping at certain altitudes; a new cheat menu option that will allow you to place your craft above the surface of any celestial body; a search box for the R&D Tech Tree; and a new Screenshot Mode that will allow you to pause the game, move the camera and take the best shot by hitting the Escape key and then F2. There are several more QoL features were sure youll appreciate, too!
Rotor blades in the Breaking Ground Expansion are getting some improvements by adding cyclic and collective deflection controls. This will ultimately help players have better control of their bladed vehicles, whether it is a traditional single-rotor helicopter or a drone-like quad-copter. Therell be a Devblog explaining the details about these improvements coming up soon, so stay tuned.
With this update, we are also including a few new stock craft that take advantage of Breaking Grounds parts and demonstrate how we used the new blade functionality! Weve also added easy access to some of the historical craft from Making History. So, if you just want to pilot cool crafts or retro-engineer the heck out of them to create your own, youll surely enjoy these; we certainly had a lot of fun building and testing them! Remember, you can share and download crafts and missions on Curse, KerbalX, the KSP Forum and the KSP Steam Workshop. Thats it for this edition. Be sure to join us on our official forums, and dont forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Stay tuned for more exciting and upcoming news and development updates! Happy launchings!
[ 2020-01-23 20:04:37 CET ] [ Original post ]
Welcome to our official newsletter, KSP Loading! If you want to learn about all the current developments of the KSP franchise, then this is the place to be!
Kerbal Space Program Update 1.9 on PC
Another orbital period has completed, and as human tradition has it, its a good time to reflect on past achievements as well as look forward to goals we set for ourselves during this new decade. 2019 was a great year for us: We released several major updates and a content-filled expansion on PC. KSP Enhanced Edition also got some deserved attention with the History and Parts Pack and the Breaking Ground Expansion, as well as a considerable amount of free content. Not too shabby, right? And 2020 is looking great for KSP fans, too! For starters, were kicking off the new year with update 1.9, which will not only include performance and graphical improvements, but some new neat features that were excited to show you. Not to mention Kerbal Space Program 2 and some other stellar surprises we have currently in the VAB for you. For the time being, and for this KSP Loading in particular, were going to focus on some of the stuff that is going to roll onto the launchpad in Kerbal Space Program 1.9: No Place Like Home! So buckle up:
Terrain Revamp for Kerbin
In addition to the revamps of Moho and Dres that weve shown you already, Kerbin has received major visual improvements. With detailed high-quality texture maps and (because there is no place like home) an Ultra Quality shader option, the Kerbal home planet is looking better than ever. Check it out!
Click here to see the full high-res gallery.
Drain Valve
Kerbal Space Program 1.9: No Place Like Home! will also include a new part that works as a release valve for parts with drainable resources, such as monopropellant, ore, liquid fuel, oxidizer or xenon. This part will also allow you to set the drainage over a specific amount of time, a feature that will undoubtedly come in handy.
Click here to see a high-res image.
Part Revamps
RE-M3 "Mainsail" Liquid Fuel Engine
One of the heaviest and most powerful large-diameter Kerbal engines is getting a well-deserved makeover. Were talking, of course, about the Rockomax Conglomerates RE-M3 Mainsail Liquid Fuel Engine. With its new geometry, textures and emissive map, this humongous engine has never looked so good. Additionally after listening to your feedback, were including Mid and Bare variants.
Click here to see high res images.
RE-I5 "Skipper" Liquid Fuel Engine
Rockomax Conglomerates RE-I5 "Skipper" Liquid Fuel Engine has also been modernized by our art team. Brand new geometry, variants, textures and emissive maps have given one of our favorite medium sized engines a befitting fresh new look! And after listening to your feedback, well be including Bare and Truss Mount variants.
Click here to see high res images.
BACC "Thumper" Solid Fuel Booster
With reliable performance at a good price, the Rockomax Conglomerates BACC Solid Fuel Boosters have always been a popular choice to get the massive bulk of large multi-stage rockets off the ground. This large SRB is finally getting a physical renewal to better match its place in our SRB lineup. Check it out!
Click here to see high res images.
Quality of Life Features
Additionally, Kerbal Space Program 1.9: No Place Like Home! will include several quality of life features, mostly drawn from our players feedback. Some of the inclusions are: an adjustment to the time warp system that removes restrictions on warping at certain altitudes; a new cheat menu option that will allow you to place your craft above the surface of any celestial body; a search box for the R&D Tech Tree; and a new Screenshot Mode that will allow you to pause the game, move the camera and take the best shot by hitting the Escape key and then F2. There are several more QoL features were sure youll appreciate, too!
Blade improvements
Rotor blades in the Breaking Ground Expansion are getting some improvements by adding cyclic and collective deflection controls. This will ultimately help players have better control of their bladed vehicles, whether it is a traditional single-rotor helicopter or a drone-like quad-copter. Therell be a Devblog explaining the details about these improvements coming up soon, so stay tuned.
New Stock Craft for Expansions
With this update, we are also including a few new stock craft that take advantage of Breaking Grounds parts and demonstrate how we used the new blade functionality! Weve also added easy access to some of the historical craft from Making History. So, if you just want to pilot cool crafts or retro-engineer the heck out of them to create your own, youll surely enjoy these; we certainly had a lot of fun building and testing them! Remember, you can share and download crafts and missions on Curse, KerbalX, the KSP Forum and the KSP Steam Workshop. Thats it for this edition. Be sure to join us on our official forums, and dont forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Stay tuned for more exciting and upcoming news and development updates! Happy launchings!
[ 2020-01-23 20:04:37 CET ] [ Original post ]
Kerbal Space Program
Squad
Developer
Squad
Publisher
2015-04-27
Release
Game News Posts:
76
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Overwhelmingly Positive
(101530 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
- Kerbal Space Program - Linux [2.36 G]
- KSP Steam Controller Test [123.97 M]
- KSP Steam Controller 1.2 Linux [720.39 K]
Available DLCs:
- Kerbal Space Program: Making History Expansion
- Kerbal Space Program: Breaking Ground Expansion
In KSP you must build a space-worthy craft, capable of flying its crew out into space without killing them. At your disposal is a collection of parts, which must be assembled to create a functional ship. Each part has its own function and will affect the way a ship flies (or doesn't). So strap yourself in, and get ready to try some Rocket Science!
The game offers three gameplay modes: Sandbox, in which you are free to build anything you can think of; Science Mode, which lets you perform Scientific experiments to advance the knowledge of Kerbalkind and further the available technology; and Career Mode, in which you must manage every aspect of your Space Program, including administration strategies, Crew Management, Reputation, as well as taking up Contracts to earn Funds and upgrade your Space Center Facilities (or repair them).
Add to this the ability to capture asteroids (a feature done in collaboration with NASA), Mining for resources out across the furthest reaches of the Solar System, Constructing Bases and Space Stations in and around other worlds; plus literally thousands of mods from a huge active modding community, all add up into the award-winning game that has taken the space sim genre by storm.
The game offers three gameplay modes: Sandbox, in which you are free to build anything you can think of; Science Mode, which lets you perform Scientific experiments to advance the knowledge of Kerbalkind and further the available technology; and Career Mode, in which you must manage every aspect of your Space Program, including administration strategies, Crew Management, Reputation, as well as taking up Contracts to earn Funds and upgrade your Space Center Facilities (or repair them).
Add to this the ability to capture asteroids (a feature done in collaboration with NASA), Mining for resources out across the furthest reaches of the Solar System, Constructing Bases and Space Stations in and around other worlds; plus literally thousands of mods from a huge active modding community, all add up into the award-winning game that has taken the space sim genre by storm.
Key Features
- The Vehicle Assembly Building and the Space Plane Hangar allows players to build spacecraft out of any imaginable combination of parts.
- Fully-fledged, Physics-based Space Flight Simulation ensures everything will fly (and crash) as it should.
- Take your Kerbal crew out of the ship and do Extra Vehicular Activities.
- Fly out to Moons and other Planets.
- Procedural Terrain delivers detailed terrain at a vast scale. The Kerbal Planet is 600km in radius!
- Mod-enabled, allows players to create new content and modify the game.
- Ship systems. Keep an eye out for engine temperatures and fuel levels, and try not to explode.
- Build ships with multiple stages, and jettison parts away as they burn out.
- Full control over the ship’s setup allows for complex ships and advanced functionality.
- Dock spacecraft together to build Space Stations, Massive Starships, or even surface bases on other worlds.
- Manage your crewmembers, hire them, and send them out into space and make them into heroes.
- Research and Develop new technologies to advance your Space Program.
- Take on Missions to attract interest in your Space Program.
- Discover new worlds and expand the scientific knowledge of Kerbalkind.
- Extract valuable resources from all over the solar system.
- And a whole lot more!
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04+ 64-bit
- Processor: Core 2 Duo Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: SM 4.0 512MB VRAM Hard Disk Space: 3 GB HD space
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Processor: Core i5Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: SM 4.0 1GB VRAMHard Drive: 4 GB HD space
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