Kerbal characteristics

[jimmymcgoochie]

Every Kerbal has two characteristics- bravery and stupidity- and digging down into the options in the pause menu I found the Kerbal creator which also has two other checkboxes for 'veteran' and 'badass'. Do these actually have any effect on the game at all?

Does a brave but stupid badass Kerbonaut react differently in any way to a fearful but intelligent veteran? Or is it something that got added for future expansion that never got expanded/something that used to matter but got ditched along the way and only exists for backwards compatibility?

[Fierce Wolf]

Nope, those just regulate the facial expressions the Kerbals have, and has no impact in gameplay.

[linuxgurugamer]

Some mods actually do use some of those attributes.  Breaking Ground science and inventory uses them, as does the mod Deployable Batteries (made for Breaking Ground)

[MaxwellsDemon]

"Veteran" determines if they appear in an orange suit or not.

The one I wonder about is "Hero"...

[bewing]

Courage actually does have a bit of an effect on G force tolerance.

[Srpadget]

I believe (though I haven't verified explicitly) that the "hero" attribute allows a Kerbal to use a parachute even at Level 0.