Devnote Tuesday: 1.2 Pre-release, the bug hunt and more!

[Francois424]

Thank you, a thousand thank youse !  I'm going to have to edit a dozen of my custom parts to fit the new categories but THANK YOU !!!!!!!

[Archgeek]

Mmmm, so tasty.  I was briefly worried at what could be under the...fire...tab, there, but radiators and friends make sense.  I can't wait to actually scrape together enough time to actually play around in the pre-release.

[pandaman]

I not had as much time as I hoped for 1.2 so far, but it's looking great. Awesome job all at Squad.

One of the best poems yet @sal_vager, thanks. 

[Arsonide]

1 hour ago, Alshain said:

Looks like he did most the ones I had suggested, except cargo but oh well.  We don't actually have that build in pre-release though so no certainty he did exactly what I had said, he could have come up with his own.

I came up with these, but cargo/payload would be a decent addition.

[KerbMav]

Yay for cinematics still being a thing! Welcome to the family, Leto! (No forum account yet? )

Decluttering the parts menu, new icons for vessels - quality of life changes for me! Up until now I had my comm-net satellites set as bases in orbit to see my real probes!
("Huh? Thermal category? So just for three heat shields? Oohh... right... radiators..." )
@Arsonide Are all wheels in the gear category or just the ones for planes?

@sal_vager That's some deep kerb, man, some deep kerb!

Edited September 21, 2016 by KerbMav

[orionguy]

6 hours ago, SQUAD said:

 Additionally, right clicking on the staging icon will now open up the part’s action window for the part it is staging.

Thank you for this!  I just started KSP within the past month and this was an intuitive motion that I kept TRYING to do without success.  Sounds like you guys not only make great programs, but you read minds too?

[Streetwind]

I'm loving it!

(copyright breach unintended)

[garwel]

Everything sounds cool, especially this:

6 hours ago, SQUAD said:

Lastly, Brian was able to break up the utilities tab a bit.

 

[Alshain]

49 minutes ago, Arsonide said:

I came up with these, but cargo/payload would be a decent addition.

Well it looks very close, so I guess great minds think alike

[WeirdCulture]

Thank to all testers and bur report fillers for doing an awesome job here! the iterations of releases show me that a lot of work is done after experimental

 

 

[kreutzkevic]

You guys are awesome! Keep it up

[T-Bouw]

Ah, the birds are finally getting some much needed rest at last!

So ehh, the crickets are going to take over the night-shift right? Right?

Seriously though, you're doing a great effort as always Squad!

[richfiles]

6 hours ago, Laguna said:

Oh yes, the huge unwieldy Utilities category has finally been broken down into sensible, more managable parts.  That was the first use of custom categories I did.

In fact, an "Electrics" custom category was one of the first I made.

And does that show that the antennas are in Communication now, instead of Science?

It took people actually talking about it for me to even realize the change... NIIIICE!  I blame... 2:46 am! Time for bed! 

That said... I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it! Jeb's about to lose control, and I think he likes it! 

[Jeast]

I am trying to get a pre 1.2 craft to load in 1.2. I end up with only 2 parts instead of the 15+ parts it should have. Is this a confirmed bug or am I missing something?

[Zoidos]

15 minutes ago, Jeast said:

I am trying to get a pre 1.2 craft to load in 1.2. I end up with only 2 parts instead of the 15+ parts it should have. Is this a confirmed bug or am I missing something?

Any mods installed?

[eddiew]

8 hours ago, SQUAD said:

two new vessel types have been added: Comsat and Plane, both with icons for the mapview

Aww. Yeah.

And stupid question; assuming I wait for all my vital mods to be available for 1.2, can I upgrade my existing career game? 

[severedsolo]

50 minutes ago, eddiew said:

Aww. Yeah.

And stupid question; assuming I wait for all my vital mods to be available for 1.2, can I upgrade my existing career game? 

I took a 1.1.3 save into 1.2 and it worked fine (this was a stock game mind)

[eddiew]

1 minute ago, severedsolo said:

I took a 1.1.3 save into 1.2 and it worked fine (this was a stock game mind)

Probably be fine then. I have a lot of things out in the wild that have modded parts, so I'll have to wait for those to catch up, but as long as there isn't a known game-breaker I doubt it'll cause any problems   Did you get an option to disable com net? It occurs to me that I'm going to lose contact with a lot of probes...

[Jeast]

1 hour ago, Zoidos said:

Any mods installed?

No.  Its a stock craft.

[severedsolo]

1 hour ago, eddiew said:

Did you get an option to disable com net? It occurs to me that I'm going to lose contact with a lot of probes...

You can disable Commnet from the difficulty options in-game. Roverdue specifically said this was one of the things they considered when adding it.

[Superfluous J]

1 hour ago, eddiew said:

Did you get an option to disable com net? It occurs to me that I'm going to lose contact with a lot of probes...

If you're updating a 1.1.3 save, you won't need to disable CommNet. It's disabled on upgraded saves for exactly the thing you're worried about

[eddiew]

7 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said:

If you're updating a 1.1.3 save, you won't need to disable CommNet. It's disabled on upgraded saves for exactly the thing you're worried about

Excellent, cheers ^^

20 minutes ago, severedsolo said:

You can disable Commnet from the difficulty options in-game. Roverdue specifically said this was one of the things they considered when adding it.

Perfect  

[SelectHalfling0]

"Broken up utilities category."

 

There are only two words to describe how I feel: "Is Good"

[Terwin]

Someone is making it very hard to wrap up my 1.1(.3) career before I start serious efforts on 1.2.

At least I am almost done(Eeloo scansat is enroute and Jool explorers are waiting in the orbit of Duna for the Ike fuel station to give them enough fuel to land and refuel on Ike(I messed up my Jool escape burn but was able to divert to Duna, barely)).  They(and their rescue) are my only kerbals still out, so once they get home I van abandon them and make serious 1.2 efforts.

Over 150K science(after finishing the full community tech tree).

 

[monstah]

11 hours ago, legoclone09 said:

Also @Arsonide could we get the Fuel Tanks icon made to look a bit more in-line the rest? The color on it looks weird with the rest of them which are one color.

Yes, that's a pet peeve of mine. Specially because it reminds me nothing of fuel when it's not selected.