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Will I be able to play 1.5 before the end of 2018?

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How did Sims solve this problem? As far as I remember, EA released lots of addons with new clothes/pets/furniture/etc that could also be easily copied as mods.

That's a very informative post, thank you! I was very disappointed by the recent news but now it seems to me there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

So, now we finally know what happened to the rocket parts overhaul... To say honestly, I am not surprised.

I hope we'll see new rocket parts in vanilla KSP as soon as possible, they look fantastic!

What happened to the new rocket parts by Porkjet and Porkjet himself? Does he even work at Squad? I am asking because we haven't heard anything from him for a while, and the last time the developer went missing on the forum C7 left the team.

I won't be surprised if the part revamp was shelved just like the famous barn.

Yeah, I would like to take a look at the reworked rocket parts.

The only thing that worries me about the auto strutting is that it might affect the spacecraft exchange scene. The ship that uses auto strutting may no longer be stable without auto strutting, that means all the people who want to share their crafts will have to specify if they use auto strutting or not. And since the data about auto strutting is most likely not preserved in the craft save file, you'll also have to manually enable auto strutting every time you want to use someone else's ship.

I personally think auto strutting between vessels that dock (or auto strutting between two connected docking ports) is a very good idea because vanilla docking ports do not provide strong enough connection. As the result, they shrink under load and that just look weird.

Yeah, I am personally disappointed because there was no mention of new rocket parts lately. It looks like rocket parts overhaul was postponed to 1.3.

It looks like we won't see reworked rocket parts in 1.2.

According to a anonymous member on the local ksp forum, it has already been stated by the devs that reworked rocket parts won't make it into 1.2. Is that info correct?

What about rocket parts overhaul?

According to the previous devnotes, graphics overhaul for rocket parts was planned for KSP1.2. Unfortunately, I don't see any mention of the reworked rocket parts in today's devnotes. Is this feature still planned for 1.2? Thank you!