Dakota

Hi all, If you've been paying attention around these parts over the past weeks, you might have seen us making a few changes to this subforum. This has been a part of our initiative to overhaul our bug reporting process and to centralize these reports on the forum. Below is a changelog for this subforum to help you all keep track of the changes being made and the reasoning behind them: ---- Changelog: - Added Bug Reports archive for pre-v.0.1.2 reports. Some reports may be pulled out of the archive if still relevant, but the majority will remain untouched. - Added recommended tags/prefixes: Hard Crash, Construction, Environments, Flight & Map, FX & Audio, Performance, Parts & Stock Vessels, Saving & Loading, Tutorials, UI & UX, and Other. These categories will greatly assist internal bug tracking, but also helping players find relevant threads to what they may be experiencing. - We've added a new Member Role: Bug Hunters. These are hand-picked members of our community who have contributed heavily to bug reports thus far. These members are given a special title, as well as permission to help us organize this subforum - including archiving, merging, adding tags/prefixes, and highlighting messages as solutions. Our first Bug Hunter is our very own @Anth12- who I've been working closely with since I started making these changes. ---- There's more planned, but there are some technical roadblocks for now that we're working on getting past, so I can't share anything past the above for now. But rest assured, we're working diligently to improve this workflow to ensure we get the best information we can and you all are able to stay up-to-date on bugfix progress. If you have any questions or suggestions on how to improve this subforum from a user standpoint or to make it easier to submit your own bug reports, feel free to reply to this thread. Thanks, Dakota

I'll answer this one: yes. We really enjoyed the last ones and we want to keep doing them. We're looking at a new more approachable format for some of our comms, and the AMAs would most likely appear that way compared to just doing them on Discord again. No timeline, but we have a list of team members ready-to-go - so expect one sooner rather than later.

Just highlighting this line: This is a big priority for us and we hope to have more details to share soon to ensure y'all are stayed up-to-date and are providing us the information we need to get bugs fixed. Happy Friday

Within the KSP community, we have a myriad of contributors that have gone above and beyond showcasing their love for the game. @Anth12is definitely one of those people and the team has been very appreciative of his bug reports and involvement thus far.

Will fix.

.ipsEmbeddedVideo { max-width: 700px; } Hey all! Welcome back to another amazing round of Community Highlights. Today we're featuring all of the incredible submissions we got for Weekly Challenge #6 - Build a Capybara! We LOVE all of the amazing creations the community made of our little fuzzy friends and are ecstatic with how well received our little joke was by everyone. Will the Kapybaras return? Who knows? But, for now, we can enjoy their presence within KSP2 via these outstanding community creations: --- @rnt_hank Rozcats Adventures NetEmmaGaming gti KSP2 @Little 908 @S_Coriolis handsome eg (Discord) TNTFortress (Discord) Pupper (Discord) squidplaz (DIscord) jclovis3 (Discord) Porg (Discord) Adament117 (Discord) Kerbob (Discord) Beans (Discord) RiS!bLe (Discord) zectarius (Discord) Stingreh (Discord) Chimoshi (Discord) Browi (Discord) juanos (Discord) TheFactoryMustGrow (DIscord) @rnt_hank Xulfitar (Discord) TheFactoryMustGrow night_beast (Discord) CyanAstro (Discord) lerlec (Discord) @XavBell Jonnyflash (Discord) @rnt_hank Inyxia (Discord) ChickenLentilSoup (Discord) Okapi_ipakO (Discord) BeeKeeper (Discord) Hamerific (Discord) AWK (Discord) RamoschnitteYT (Discord) The Space Peacock (Discord) Brodawg (Discord) Happy3D (Discord) Vectorr (Discord) Allen (Discord) GamingMoose (Discord) Stone (Discord) ---- Thank you to everyone who participated in the build a Capybara challenge! Have a good one! - Dakota

I just didn't see your additional context until after I posted! And nah - I appreciate your kind words towards the team. Members of the community like yourself have been pretty clear about their disappointment so far, and (speaking for myself) it's somewhat cathartic to see we're slowly improving sentiment. Maybe not changing minds, but building trust and bringing people back into the fold. Still work to be done, but feels good!

I misunderstood @regex's previous comment so just went ahead and deleted it to not derail the thread. Always happy to engage with all members of our community - don't have much to add to this conversation right now past what we've (as a community team) said previously.

who what where it's @Ghostii_Space's time to shine, right?

Glad to hear it. We make it a priority to keep up-to-date with the conversations going on on each platform - and definitely want to use these dev updates to address those discussions and concerns.

.ipsEmbeddedVideo { max-width: 700px; } Hey Kerbonauts, Hope you all have had a great two weeks! We've been super busy over here at Intercept but we continue to be astounded by all of your community contributions! From incredible screenshots to realistic crafts to very weird recreations, your amazing creativity is on full display below. Thank you all for your incredible submissions to our recent design challenges: Starship, Dragon, and Sci-Fi. We'll be highlighting the best of these creations in a separate format soon! Until next time, Dakota Suppise (Discord) @purpleivan Strait_Six (Discord) Diana Gearhead (Discord) @LoSBoL caerbannog (Discord) floodop Zyfle (Discord) The Space Peacock (Discord) sodor Blade (Discord) @Klapaucius DibzNr (Discord) @Heretic391 not jack (Discord) Kapybara (Discord) Askari (Discord) QUAKDL (Discord) @cvusmo Avoidance (Discord) MasterChef117 (DIscord) Well (Discord) Little Earl (DIscord) /u/MorphoZRU032 /u/blacksheepcosmo Awesomer the 3rd (Discord) TreeLostInACrowd (Discord) @QuinartL Buyez (Discord) BeanyBob (Discord) hidearimjosh (Discord) @GregBurke83 @hautecommetrois @lavie154 jmEgjCBA4WgY596m.mp4 @Jatwaa the_quest_for_propeller_powered_flight-laypl20rxwua1.mp4 /u/just-uh-whale @FeeshyArtist

It's important to note how much the team is focused on staying true to "KSP = game about rockets." Shana mentioned this a few times, but new additions/features/parts will extend functionality and gameplay in that area - not replace it. As Shana said, if a player wants to get to Duna, they shouldn't have to do 30min of colony overhead before getting started, which is why automation will play a factor in the colonies/exploration milestones. There's plenty of amazing colony management games out there (personally my favorite is Rimworld), but we want to stay true to KSP and focus on building some cool rockets.

Answers here.

What is a design director? (enjoyer, Discord) What has been your favorite thing to work on so far? (Epic, Discord) What is the planet you are most proud of that we have not seen yet? (ThatOneGuy, Discord) What is your favourite celestial body in the Kerbolar system? (Little908, Forums) What has been the process of bringing a solid gameplay foundation to player progression in KSP2? (StarHawk, Forums) What's the teams approach to converging on a design choice? I'm sure not everybody on the team agrees on how every system / mechanic is supposed to work. How does the team eventually reach a point that everyone is happy with? (KCreate, Discord) How do you and the Team learn about and imitate real world rocket and spacecraft systems, to ensure the realism of the game? (LeroyJenkins, Forums) What was the most difficult decision thus far with designing the game? Alternatively, what was the easiest? (bradtaniguichi, Discord) What is the most important change in design of KSP 2 from KSP 1 that you feel is overlooked by the community? (viccie211, Discord) Most players don't know how do reentry and land precisely. How will you teach players to land precisely near colony to deliver resources there, or will we get instruments to predict landing site for delivery paths? (Vortygont, Discord) How long does it take to design a real world technology for Kerbal technology and still be realistic? I love all that you do the game looks amazing. (the_tunnel, Forums) What are your goals with regards to balance for these new technologies? Is the intent for late-game parts to essentially replace early parts, or for lower-tech solutions to still be viable and necessary in the late-game? (I don't know how to forum, Forums) Hi Shana, I was wondering how the KSP team balances the stats of parts. As KSP has many parts that arent exact recreations of real rocket parts, or are future technologies that dont exist yet, determining what stats like thrust and specific impulse should be sounds a lot more involved than just looking it up on google. Could you give an overview of the process the team uses to determine the stats for, say, a metallic hydrogen engine? (pschlik, Discord) Are new planets scale more scientifically accurate or have you kept the 1/6th size for gameplay reasons? (Spicat, Discord) Will there be any additional things to do or challenges on planets? Like wildlife, exploring cave systems, weather, etc? (/u/thehomelessman0, Reddit) Will there be more incentive to going to other planets in the future? Like special resources or things like the mun arch? (iwantbread, Discord) Will previous science parts from KSP1 be in KSP2? (Krzysztof, Discord) How will the resources be distributed across so many planets in order to give the player a reason to explore every world? If resources aren't the catalyst for exploration, how else do plan on motivating exploration? (Astr0Guy5, Forums) With resource management, are the resourses we gather raw materials that we need to convert into useable resources? Will we need to build a refinery system? (CVUSMO, Discord) When it comes to the resource systems, how many resources did you eventually decide to settle on (or are still working on settling on)? Should we expect something like one unique resource per celestial body? (Tyco, Discord) In the previous AMA it got said that colonies will be built using resources, but the resource gathering update comes after the colonies one, how will that work? (ArturShow, Discord) Will there still be an equivalent to the Mobile Processing Unit in Science Mode? Why or why not? (/u/Master_of_Rodentia, Reddit) At the moment in KSP2 (and KSP1), activating time warp halts all craft rotation. Was there any consideration given to making rotation persist through time warp? Is this something we'll see in a future update? (Colm, Discord) Will we get more clues or backstory to the kerbals, the kraken, or the easter eggs around the kerbolar system? (Buyez, Discord) Are there any plans to add the klaw and asteroids into KSP2? (link12313, Discord) Will the Rover Cockpit get new modules? (spacenerd1235, Discord) Will there be just slightly more advanced tutorials, like going to other planets? Because I'm pretty new, and so far the tutorials for ksp2 are the easiest to understand. (NoKerbalSky08, Forums) Are variants of engines and tanks like ksp1 planned? (Spicat, Discord) Will we get part size categories larger than the 5M parts, like 7.5M? And will the 1.875M parts from the making history DLC make a return? (/u/Combatpigeon96, Reddit) Are there plans to increase the complexity/fidelity/variety of volumetric clouds in future updates? (L, Discord) Will there be scaling, like the wings now, for other parts? (o0King_Martin0o, Discord) Alternate atmospheric engines. Referring back to Eve, will we have engines that can run on other atmospheric gasses without a need for oxygen? Will we be able to collect gasses from an atmosphere as part of the resource harvesting system? (jclovis3, Discord) Do you plan on adding first person EVA so we can see the true scale of our kraken inducing heaps of metal? (ghil, Discord) Will colonies feature automation gameplay(with-in the colony, so not the delivery route system)? It can look something like: 1) Resource extractor building mines a raw resource, 2) Resource refinery building makes a useable material out of it, 3) Assembly (Acid_Burn9, Discord) With interstellar technologies and travel on the roadmap, is relativity a thing in KSP2? Will KSP2 handle time dilation effects when traveling at high velocities to the target star system? (Angelo Kerman, Forum) What new fuel types will be available throughout early access, and will different biomes on planets yield different fuel types? (PleySU, Discord) Considering recent events, will we be getting more parts based off Starship, such as gridfins? And what about telescopic landing legs like Falcon 9? (NovaRaptor, Discord) Is there a possibility we will see the PAW (part action windows) returning? (CheetahGamer587, Discord) If you can tell us, will probe stuff be before crewed in the tech tree? So are the first missions in science mode more likely gonna be uncrewed or crewed? (Datau03, Discord) Very much looking forward to the prospect of colonies! Will adding to orbital colonies be similar to how we already make space stations etc. or how will that work differently? (SamBretro, Discord) Will there be Procedural trusses? (chair, Discord) Will there be dedicated parts for building boats and submarines? Underwater bases? (KCreate, Discord) Is the team at IG/PD happy with the current state of the game? (Sunny54Games, Discord If you have any feedback about the AMA, feel free to include it below or in Discord. Here is the audio recording as well: ShanaMarkhamAMA_20230420.mp3

.ipsEmbeddedVideo { max-width: 900px; } Hey all! Another two weeks have flown by and y'all have been busy! Incredible crafts, space stations, rovers, and even a goose! We're happy to announce that this Community Highlights post is sponsored by Papa Jeb's Pizza - now delivering to the Mun! Thanks to @S_Coriolisfor helping us build this partnership! Below is an amazing incredible of creations from the community from the past fortnight for you to enjoy. Did we miss anything? Post it as a reply and make sure to credit the creator! Thanks everyone, Dakota ------------- Siphax#4708 on Discord Firetooth#0420 @Fejjeu @goldenson Lyneira#6870 Matt Lowne kbtrains#0865 @AJ_Dodgestar @PaddyPatrone UncleJack#9406 ChickChicken#2331 oddmaxf2#6532 on Discord Benjamin#9931 on Discord Yim_The_Muon207#0425 on Discord <[I Flaze I]>#4935 on Discord Chaotic#1024 on Discord @railgunmu DibzNr#7136 on Discord @ImpovPiano Rainyfuzzball2#9376 on Discord @Starhawk Mr. Monocle#4986 on Discord GhostInTheBot#5833 on Discord @Syvwlch Ghosthunter2876#2876 on Discord Riff#0454 on Discord Diana Gearhead#4603 on Discord @Gummel Spaverse#6996 on Discord CVUSMO#4728 on Discord The Beesechurger Hotline#4338 on Discord <[I Flaze I]>#4935 on Discord @Little 908 Stingreh#5128 on Discord Octokid09#4343 on Discord @LoSBoL Spaverse#6996 on Discord Zephyr#8868 on Discord @Klapaucius Riff#0454 on Discord @Heretic391 Lyneira#6870 on Discord @Kaa253 Flying through the parking garage at 250m_s.mp4 /u/sodorpoppers Taking the parking lot challenge to a whole new level (minus a tail).mp4 /u/Roixiong /u/nerdhelpdesk

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I believe I got this fixed. Had to do some css overrides in the theme backend, which was more difficult than I thought. Should be readable in both themes now. Feel free to follow-up some syntax highlighting is still messed up. Thanks for the ping @bigyihsuan

Pay no attention to the forum administrators behind the curtain.....

While members of the team are continuing to squash bugs and tackle performance issues, we're also fully focused on our first milestone: Science. We hope to have more to share on the milestone's features and development in the future.

@Nerdy_Mike"why can't I add a purple heart emoji to the forum post" @Dakota"the forum doesn't natively support emoji. i guess i could figure out how to add a custom purple heart..." @Nerdy_Mike

Try fully exiting Steam and relaunching it. That usually triggers the updater.

We've seen the issue a few times from a few other users and the workaround I mentioned above should work.

delete icon was moved to the left side!

You could also try changing the LanguageKey line in the settings.json file to "en". The bug is with the privacy policy in Russian, but once it's accepted you should be able to play the game normally in the Russian localization.