CloudlessEchoes

I agree that this can be annoying, and an option to disable it would be great!

The original still works I think, although I haven't tried it in the most recent version.

Loving the rock-steady trajectories!

That explains it. As for getting it to face down, I could rotate it twice, but it doesn't end up perfectly parallel. I'll try working with that some more. I also found another work around for my example: attach it to one cubic strut the way that it insists defaulting to, then attach that strut to another and I can have it the direction I want to. Cubic struts seem to default one direction towards surfaces, but you can flip them when attaching to a node point.

I'm noticing that when you place landing legs, you you can't rotate them around the attach surface, but on some strange angle to it. I don't recall this issues prior to 1.1. For instance, if you put a cubic octogonal strut on the bottom of a tank let's say, and then try to put an LT-1 landing strut on, it will face straight upward and attach properly. But no matter what I do, I can't get it to face down. I could rotate the octogonal strut 180 deg into the part but that's not what I wanted to do. Is there a way around this?

If someone makes a mod and the mod crashes, it has nothing to do with being able to "safely" mod KSP. I'd say KAC is crash free, as I've never seen it cause any issues. But it's still a mod, and accesses the game through methods defined for modding, it isn't directly integrated into the game. The other problem is that while a mod might work standalone, combinations of mods might cause each other to have issues. There is no way for KSP devs to prevent this, or for individual mod makers to prevent this. All the above said, I've never had a crash I would attribute to a mod, unless you count going over the memory limit back in 32 bit. I've only used popular, well vetted mods though.

It doesn't count as stock because it isn't stock. Which means it can break something in ways the devs don't know about.

I'd like to know too. All that is going to happen due to bugs/stability/whatever is already happening, because they've been reported and are being worked on. The reason to keep harping on about it is a mystery to me. I'm surprised all the polls/redundant complaint threads aren't nuked immediately. If you don't like the way 1.1.2 works, then you have two choices: use a previous version, or wait.

I voted for the first choice, but I don't have any issues at all so it doesn't quite cover it.

It's clear, people just read what they want to read, and can't be happy. Thanks for the update and the continued work! KSP continues to be the best game purchase I've made, and 1.1 has been the best performing version to date. And new bugs have been outweighed considerably by new capabilities in my opinion.

There is definitely drift that didn't exist in 1.0.5, and it happens with encounters also. The periapsis will move (drop I think) around when approaching a planet/moon. This is at 1x speed. I've never had that happen in previous versions, at all.

Yeah wheels are really touchy at being close to anything right now.

I'm a big fan of the Heinlein also. And of course the modular bases and deployment units!

I've always wanted to fly this ship since I started in 0.9, but it's been buggy since things have changed a lot in KSP. So I set out to do a re-creation! I constructed the ship from scratch to guarantee parts were together correctly. The only changes are in the lander and the rover. The rover had to be re-built to fit into the stack-up properly, and I needed to adjust the spacing on the connections so the rover would drop down from the lander. It also disconnects differently and ejects a portion off the rover after deployment on the surface. Wheels and landing gear are pretty explosive right now, so it was dangerous! I also had to add 3 liquid fuel tanks clipped into the lander, it just didn't have the dV it used to. This means you have to transfer fuel into them before the Duna landing. Perhaps a few tweaks are needed here and there, but it's pretty much complete. Thanks to Mulbin for originally designing this ship, it's a blast!

It does look nice, you do have to get over it looking "different" though I think. Once you're past that it's good. I installed SVE (ultra res) and Scatterer and it runs great. I couldn't do that before because of memory and performance issues.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. mcirish, you've hit on something important with a completely clean install. I'd bet a lot of issues are because of layered installs/settings and updaters doing strange things. I prefer the ksp store download because I know what I'm getting is good.

Calvin, since you are heavily modded, you really should remove all mods and see if it still happens before doing anything else.

If we're talking about two windows installs (and I realize there are linux and mac users out there too, and that could very well be different) then the game should work the same if the installs are identical. Performance issues aside due to hardware, unity 5 is unity 5 and the bugs should be the same. I download my copy direct from the site, maybe there is a difference in how an install ends up between that and a steam update? I personally don't like "updaters" as you don't know if you're getting a clean slate, or all the settings right, etc. I would also be weary of using an old save with this new version, I'd expect tons of bugs doing that.

If you are too lazy to properly quote them in context (about them being lazy, ironically enough), why should they listen to you? You do realize that using a different game engine essentially makes it an entirely different game from the ground up right? Perhaps graphical assets would be re-used but that's it. The game wouldn't look, feel, or act like the KSP we know. And then people would complain about that! In the "ideal" world the best solution is probably a custom engine built from the ground up. That way everything works exactly as you want it to. But that's no easy task. They probably wouldn't have the expertise, or resources to do that. Once again this community is disappointing, complaining constantly instead of enjoying a great game. I've been playing and haven't run into most of these bugs that make the game supposedly "unplayable". The worst thing I've seen is having a kerbal touch a landing gear and spontaneously combust. I F9'd and moved on, thinking "well they'll have that one on their fix list!" It's likely a lot of the bugs are caused by mods also, it's not like there has been a lot of time for those to be perfected yet. Sit back and enjoy the game, and give constructive bug feedback so the game can be fixed/tweaked as soon as it can. That's all you can do. Having the memory limit lifted is worth a painful migration.

KSP is definitely worth $40.

I actually thought that was stock too, good to know!

I too think something is different with this release. I tried for a while to find the "perfect" transfer window to Duna using the minimum dV, and no matter what I did I was always in front of or behind it. I ended up having to waste some fuel to intercept it properly. Some transfer tools seem very broken too (kac was way off for instance). One thing I noticed when doing interplanetary transfer nodes was that if I put the periapsis at Kerbin, the path seemed crooked. In the past the most efficient burn puts the planet you are leaving at periapsis and the arrival point at apoapsis (which makes sense). It seems "off" to me somehow.

It seems to work in release too, great mod I was so sick of expanding it every single time!

Another minor bug: the KAC window doesn't hide when pressing F2. Everything else seems good (I didn't try to replicate the bug above though).

Wait, so only people on Steam can want to report bugs? What kind of logic is that? Personally I don't do Steam because I'm not for the drm schemes and general bloatware/spamware approach they have. But I don't have any problem with people who like it. I'll stand by my statement that a subversion server or similar would provide an easy way to get access to at least the kerbal site purchasers easily. With the added bonus that installing a svn client is so much easier and faster than working with Steam.