JcoolTheShipbuilder Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I used infinite fuel and electricity on a craft with an ion engine.. It is a pod on top of the largest xenon tank with six more of those radially attatched and a single ion engine. Thrust warp kept stopping every 56km/s due to 'running out of fuel' despite infinite fuel being on... AND THEN I LEFT KERBOL'S SOI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparkyFox Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 8 minutes ago, Kerbalwerks said: Watched EJ_SA stream for a bit, it has potential and will defiantly get better with time, will buy soon. why not buy it now? so that when soon comes, you'll have it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JcoolTheShipbuilder Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) So what happened along the way... First there was the warping issue with infinite fuel and warping under thrust.. I found that just spam clicking the last arrow made it go the fastest... And then at some point, the altimeter failed and read 0m. at this point if I zoomed out to where the sun's SOI went edge to edge, my ship was barely beyond any of the icons.. but in reality it was between 10-100x the distance of Eeloo.. probably closer or beyond the latter. I continued on for a while until suddenly, slightly further away where it was just... idk.. 1/20th the way out, the engine stopped working, I went to ship view and found it vibrating from what I could only assume was floating point errors... so I coasted the rest of the 130 years out to the edge.. when I crossed the edge (shown in the video), an immense amount of lag hit, the orbit line glitched out, and the floating point errors suddenly became SO BAD, that it warped my craft... oh and also Tim cant EVA despite it being at 1x timewarp.. I have a feeling that I wasnt supposed to do this, but it is pretty neat finally being free from Kerbol's SOI, despite having no way of moving (engine long stopped producing thrust). On the top left, it looks like my craft is entirely independant of anything and is just... floating in the world Oh and also, before exiting the SOI, the floating point errors were ONLY at 1x timewarp... now outside of Kerbol's SOI, it has spread to all warp rates Edit: NVM timewarp straight up doesnt work... Neither does throttle, SAS, manuvering, EVA, or... really anything a craft can do... Edited February 25, 2023 by JcoolTheShipbuilder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerbalwerks Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, SparkyFox said: why not buy it now? so that when soon comes, you'll have it I will need to see if you can get that blue and white shuttle to fly with procedural wings first or it will be a deal breaker if not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JcoolTheShipbuilder Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) So yea.... I used an ion craft with a mk1 "explorer" pod connected to 7 xenon tanks and an ion engine along with infinite fuel and electricity. the reason I went with this setup is that thrust warp was that it kept stopping me due to low fuel when most of the stage delta V was used up.. still does it with inf fuel and electricity for some reason.. this setup allowed 50km/s increments.. I had throttle all the way and spam clicked the max timewarp button. A bunch of glitches occures before hitting the edge.. and they all happened looong before the 1/10th mark of the journey.. first was the altimeter failing and reading 0m, and then floating point errors caused the engine to not physically push the craft anymore so I had to drift for 132 years.. also the floating point errors were ONLY present at 1x timewarp in craft view while in Kerbol's SOI Yea literally nothing works now, everything has stopped working except for the game and maybe the velocity or something... its still running and didnt crash.. yea... the craft got warped, and the throttle, timewarp, SAS, movement, pretty much anything (including EVAing) just does not work beyond Kerbol's SOI.. I have a feeling that I wasnt supposed to do this before the interstellar updates lol... Has anybody else left Kerbol's SOI? Edited February 25, 2023 by JcoolTheShipbuilder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatsauce Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Had to try it. Played for a half hour. Refunded. I'll try it again when MP is out and they've made more progress. Sorry to say, but right now it's a turd at an insulting price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopinFRESH Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I did what I said I was going to do on launch when they announced early access. I bought it, played it for a bit over an hour, found the amount of broken things and terrible performance wasn't acceptable nor worth the $50 asking price, and refunded it through Steam. I was expecting it to be on the rough side of things when they announced it as EA after nearly three years of delays which had the tone of finishing / polishing a feature complete game; this launch however is worse than I expected even with my lowered expectations. Very disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PakledHostage Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I played it and I enjoyed it. I flew my minimal Delta-V design (8.6 tonne, 3328 m/s two stage rocket) and reached a 80 km ,x 110 km LKO with 200 m/s to spare. Seems I can still fly after years away from KSP. My kids and I will bring my Kerbal "John Glenn" home to Kerbin tomorrow some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunforge Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Put a satellite network into orbit between the Mun and Minmus with a great deal of trial and error. Crashed an Ion probe into the Mun testing out the acceleration under time-warp (it's wonderful). Rebuilt a few of my better plane designs from ksp 1 with the lovely procedural wings and paint and flew, enjoying how pretty Kerbin is. Also picked out a number of things that tend to repeatedly cause bugs (at least in my save). Weirdly, a large number of those revolved around the tracking station, which I've just elected to not use for the foreseeable future. Overall I rather enjoyed my time with it today, though it wasn't without hiccups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I flew my first rocket, staged at the wrong time, recovered the capsule, tried again with more boosters, went to the Mun with it, but a heat shield had snuck under the upper stage engine so I couldn't use it, reverted to VAB and fixed that, then flew the rocket again, happened to spot a Mun arch from orbit and successfully landed beside it. Bob returned to Kerbin safely after exploring the arch! Then I flew a plane around the KSC, buzzed a few structures, then crashed it in the ocean after trying to see how fast I could dive. Valentina bailed out at the last moment and survived unscathed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmyers831 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Did a quick orbit mission and then a Saturn 5 replica as a way to remember how to solve more complex building tasks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silent_prtoagonist Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Built an ion probe to try out the new persistent thrust, and since it's the only new planet added so far in KSP 2 I decided to fly it out to Dres. The rings and equatorial ridge were awesome! This new planet seems really interesting and not boring at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samamstar Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Made a satellite constellation around Kerbin before figuring out that the commnet system is broken. But hey, it's there for when that feature gets added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaussFlux Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Did a Mun flyby, made some rovers, and flew some planes. gonna try and get to Duna tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regex Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 South pole is pretty rugged... Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snafu225 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 16 minutes ago, regex said: South pole is pretty rugged... North Pole looked fine Spoiler https://i.imgur.com/CG5BAaX.jpg Spoiler https://i.imgur.com/QOk5Bev.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Kerman Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Standard inaugural flight stranding my first kerbal in orbit of the Mun. I can see the game is a little rough around the edges but I really love the Kerbol light effects and the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klapaucius Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I took this epic photo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandhobbit Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Built an oversized multi-stage lander to the mun, had trouble landing because when the legs extended (THE NEW LARGE LEGS!!!) it would throw the ship into an uncontrollable tumble unless I time warped while the legs where extending (which just reduced the tumble to something manageable). Made a successful landing with the LG sized ship, planted a flag and then went back to Kerbin. Almost made it sadly to the ground, but then the capsule just got suck in the air at about 10,000m, but the menu said I could recover the vessel, so that’s what I did. Overall, a terribly buggy experience but it was a blast. A lot of the new little changes, sounds, engine exhaust and flame out/on animations and more just made it exciting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sp1f Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) I only had an hour or so to try the game last night, so I launched a simple orbiter and left Jeb with it in orbit. KSP2 doesn’t seem to have much in the way of VAB tools to estimate your dv at different altitudes, so I ended up wildly overestimating what I needed to get to orbit, so now I’m pondering whether to take my simple orbiter to Duna or something tonight. Loving the game so far. I was pleasantly surprised that it runs smoothly on my old laptop with specs well below minimum. (Haven’t tried launching anything really large yet though). Haven’t encountered any bugs yet. The UI is going to take a little getting used to. Great first session overall. Edited February 25, 2023 by Sp1f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincalis Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 My first few flights in KSP 2 have been broadly positive. Not without the occasional glitch, but mostly usable: Got a simple 2 stage probe into orbit around Kerbin and back again Took 3 Kerbals to Minmus, planted a flag, and returned almost* safely Briefly tried to drive a rover around the runway *The Minmus return vessel had a 3-kerbal pod, which apparently doesn't slow much below 50m/s with the single parachute I had fitted. Oops! Positives I've seen compared to good old vanilla KSP1: Graphically flying over terrain is amazing, far more like a planet and less like a blocky ball. Kerbin and Minmus both have had incredible surface, terrain, biome and lighting updates. Also clouds A lot of the basic mechanics worked roughly as hoped - staging, launching, SAS for directions, accel/decel to change orbits, etc so for me at least the game was playable Putting spaceships into orbit and landing them places is still fun Map SOI enter/leave graphics are a nice touch Some of the glitches, oddities and Early-Access behaviours I've seen: Structural booster fixings/decouplers not playing nicely after launch leading to explosions - not sure whether this is game behaviour or if I just need to rethink some "standard" designs I've used for KSP1 in the new game Odd EVA jetpack behaviour where after turning on & off jetpacks on EVA and switching between a few kerbals their packs wouldn't reignite - thankfully jumping on Minmus works Had a couple of debris parts in the Tracking centre that I seem unable to delete Orbits after a change in SOI don't appear to always predict correctly - while returning from Minmus the path prediction suggested I was going to leave Kerbin's SOI until I had left Minmus' SOI I haven't found the thrust-to-weight ratio indicators for VAB design of stages yet and I miss them! The game is definitely Early Access, but also has a lot of the positives about it that made KSP one such a success. ~Vin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ave369 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 I tried to launch an asparagus staged rocket and the game turned into slide show because of the shoddy fuel flow optimization. I guess I'll have to wait for a couple more patches before I return. 6 hours ago, silent_prtoagonist said: Built an ion probe to try out the new persistent thrust, and since it's the only new planet added so far in KSP 2 I decided to fly it out to Dres. The rings and equatorial ridge were awesome! This new planet seems really interesting and not boring at all. Wait, what Dres? I haven't found any Dres in KSP2 either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tstein Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Klapaucius said: I took this epic photo! I saw that happen live in the stream and went.. ok.. it will be hard to topple that bug... I may very well stop trying to find my own big bug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinkledash Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) Got a space station into orbit. https://youtu.be/nNWrfUNoNws Edited February 25, 2023 by Dinkledash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zynar Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) Was orbiting low over Minmus and spotted this. Spoiler Edited February 25, 2023 by Dman979 Added spoiler :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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