Soda Popinski Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Space Odyssey: Our first big look at Kerbal Space Program 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) And the images are different from the ones on the paper magazine! Mining them right now! Edit added all the pictures into a spoiler: Spoiler HD Version of the HUD! Is that a new cockpit or just a rework? Different scren of the VAB! Loving this Eve shot! Planetshine on this orbital shipyard. Edited July 1, 2020 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aziz Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 I must say, while I like the new GUI, I am not sure about the digital-clock-esque style of the font. You know, someone could have broken contrast on their screen and instead of 8 they would see 0. Or one example that really caught my eye - MET there, I had to look twice to understand that it's 2Y 7D and not 2Y 70. Font used on the top of the screen in VAB looks perfect for the job, and I think it could be used elsewhere. Quote You save an entire workspace instead of a specific ship, so you can create variants, with parts and boosters that are easy to swap out for different types of missions. Oh my yes, no longer need to have 13 different files for 13 iterations of the same rocket with minor differences between them. Quote Flight tools are now clustered together in more logical ways, with navigation on the left and time controls in the centre I said that many times and I will repeat - YES THAT IS GOOD. It's pure ergonomy. There was something about hard size limits of the rockets you can build, but that sounds like author's freedom, not the word from the developer. Quote that ship wouldn’t be possible to construct on the planet’s surface (its engine would take up most of the Vehicle Assembly Building, which places hard limits on the size of whatever you’re building). What I think they meant was that some ships would be literally too big to be constructed and launched on Kerbin, like too big to fit in the launchpad, which would be annihilated in a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanRising Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) I never took the time to read through the original article whenever it showed up, and in doing so I missed the phrase “kerbal orgy.” I kind of wish that was still the case. In other news, I like the Mk1 cockpit shown here a lot more than the Mk1 cockpit we have! I know Kerbals don’t do the whole “fighter jet” thing on account of being generally peaceful, but it’s got that “higher, faster, better” look to it that the business jet looking piece we have now doesn’t really evoke. Eve’s surface is harder to make out, good! I liked having to pick landing spots via scanners because my cloud mods made it impossible to see if I was landing in an ocean or not, and though that doesn’t seem to quite to be the case with this Eve, I suspect it will be on some other world out there. Those internal view shots are nice to have, and I hope we’ll get something more to internal activities than just looking around in your seat, though that is all they’re doing now. I kinda doubt it. Edited July 1, 2020 by RyanRising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SingABrightSong Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Quote New studio Intercept Games, which has taken the reins on KSP, is busy crafting a sequel, coming next year, that includes intergalactic travel, multiplayer and helpful tutorials for science-challenged players like me. Quote intergalactic travel Quote intergalactic Quote galactic *twitch* Interstellar! INTERSTELLAR! Aaaaaaaah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 1 hour ago, The Aziz said: What I think they meant was that some ships would be literally too big to be constructed and launched on Kerbin, like too big to fit in the launchpad, which would be annihilated in a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisjosh2711 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) Good article if you make it past the first paragraph. [snip] Edited December 30, 2020 by Vanamonde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Kerbal eyes look to be the same size. It's like it's not even in the same genre anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropian Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Those kerbals look way too cartoon-y and 2-chrome. The KSP 1 kerbals look much better. 3 hours ago, The Aziz said: I am not sure about the digital-clock-esque style of the font. Agreed. Look at the "GO" in the lower right in the first picture. It looks like "6O." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shdwlrd Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, Master39 said: Loving this Eve shot! Isn't the crew section the same model used for the rovers in the introduction video? Yes it is... 1 hour ago, Entropian said: Those kerbals look way too cartoon-y and 2-chrome. The KSP 1 kerbals look much better. They look fine. It's that something is off with their eyes. Edited July 2, 2020 by shdwlrd answering my own question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klesh Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 I quite dislike the artstyle of the UI. Its like someone was let loose with neon highlighters to accent things or something. Very brash and gaudy. Seems like alot of wasted space. I too dislike the digital clock fonts. Am I the only one not planning on painting 1/2 of my rocket purple? In order to not be completely negative, I am happy to see Kerbin finally has clouds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid_Burn9 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, shdwlrd said: They look fine. It's that something is off with their eyes. 5 hours ago, Entropian said: hose kerbals look way too cartoon-y and 2-chrome. The KSP 1 kerbals look much better. This is nothing to do with design. It's just lack of shadows and ambient lighting on their models. Graphics is still WIP. This is one of the things, that will definitely improve before the release. Edited July 2, 2020 by Acid_Burn9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FleshJeb Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 That UI is worse than the article, and that's saying something. I hope that it be heavily modded (discarded entirely), and that it's not reflective of the general competence of the dev team. Although by the sounds of Adventure Mode, I expect they've spent their time feature-creeping and not focusing on core design. Based on what I've seen so far, I expect I'll delay my decision to purchase for a year or two after release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) Cor blimey that's pretty. Edit: also, impressive space station. If they can make things with those kinds of part counts work without bringing the computer to its knees, that is Very Good. Edited July 2, 2020 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid_Burn9 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, Master39 said: Loving this Eve shot! That's not Eve. Description below this picture in the article explicitly says: KSP2 promises many unique new planets to discover (Image credit: Private Division) Edited July 2, 2020 by Acid_Burn9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Acid_Burn9 said: That's not Eve. Description below this picture in the article explicitly says: I'm pretty sure it's Eve. The description must be a mistake. Edit: this makes me very happy, there is at least some degree of automation for milk runs: Quote The same goes for the planets you’ll explore and the types of challenges you’ll face landing on them in adventure mode. Simpson says they don’t want to mess with the Kerbol system, which fans know intimately at this point, so much of the environmental work must be going into other parts of the galaxy. There’s also an entirely new game system, called delivery routes, built around connecting your colonies. “We’ve heard this concern many times from fans, and it’s something we wanted to address really early on in the design, ‘Once I’ve successfully performed a resource delivery between two distant locations, I’m not going to want to do it again’. So you establish those footholds and then let them run automatically,” Simpson says. “The thing that makes it an interesting experience, as you’re setting up all these individual resource collection operations, is the puzzle of successfully landing on and extracting the resources on every celestial body is ideally different enough that you’re having to solve a new set of physics problems with a new vehicle design. That’s even more the case with the new celestial bodies we’re bringing in on some of the other star systems.” Edited July 2, 2020 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid_Burn9 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Brikoleur said: I'm pretty sure it's Eve. The description must be a mistake. You are right actually. I've just checked the Eve biome map on KSP wiki and all the craters match. I wonder what else PC Gamer took wrong. Btw i hope final version of Eve will be a bit more purple. This one doesn't look purple enough for me. (Unless there is some scientific reason behind this color) Edited July 2, 2020 by Acid_Burn9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 1 hour ago, FleshJeb said: Although by the sounds of Adventure Mode, I expect they've spent their time feature-creeping and not focusing on core design. "Adventure mode" Is their new main progression system to replace career and science, it is core design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Aziz Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 2 hours ago, FleshJeb said: That UI is worse than the article, and that's saying something. I hope that it be heavily modded (discarded entirely), and that it's not reflective of the general competence of the dev team. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtemisAZ Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) [snip] also the UI looks like crap and despite it's minimalist aesthetic, that every game seems to be going for, they somehow ironically made it even harder to pick up on really important material and it all around looks just so bland and bubbly. I feel like a good way to remedy this would be to incorporate a few different select-able presents for UI or even make it so you can directly edit some of the elements such as fonts, opacity, and layout. Edited December 30, 2020 by Vanamonde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 ME? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtemisAZ Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, Master39 said: ME? Guess it means *ME*thane as in Liquid Methane, seems kinda like a bad way to convey it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Krulliam said: Guess it means *ME*thane as in Liquid Methane, seems kinda like a bad way to convey it though Yeah, "CH4" would take just one more character, and there's a lot of free space for it. Can even make it "CH4/O2" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisjosh2711 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 17 minutes ago, Krulliam said: I for one am onboard with this entirely. What is there not to fantasize about? Whatever floats your boat my dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bej Kerman Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 41 minutes ago, Krulliam said: also the UI looks like crap and despite it's minimalist aesthetic, that every game seems to be going for, they somehow ironically made it even harder to pick up on really important material and it all around looks just so bland and bubbly. I feel like a good way to remedy this would be to incorporate a few different select-able presents for UI or even make it so you can directly edit some of the elements such as fonts, opacity, and layout. It's not a bad UI, it's much better than the scattered, disconnected UI belonging to space yandere sim KSP 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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