Valentina enters the fray!

[White Owl]

Weird thing is, I really like this version but will probably not see her ingame very much. Long ago I asked video viewers to name my kerbals, and I started keeping a list. I still have several hundred names that have never been used... and I think only three or four are female.

[Commander Zoom]

Thoughts:

I am dismayed that so many people are apparently unable to tell lashes from brows.

I'm pretty sure the eyes are that wide apart on the current, male kerbals as well. They've always had that wall-eyed stare.

I hope that modders will come up with ways to modify or remove the topknot.

[Special Agent Sigvan]

Or remove the model all together.

And nothing of value would be lost.

[RainDreamer]

Wonder what kind of trailer they would do for her arrival. I hope it will be funny like the previous ones. I really like what they did for their trailers, really fleshing out the personalities of character and the whackiness of the kerbal world.

[Ival70]

The design is really nice, similar to how I thought it would look. Anyone have a clue what they will give her for stats? Let's make bets. I say, 75% courage, 33% stupidity.

[r4pt0r]

If she has more than 50% stupidity I fear there will be folks who don't understand kerbal yelling MISOGYNY!

[DunaRocketeer]

Can't wait to launch missions with more diverse crews. Sending a mission up with a mix of males and females feels more realistic and I reckon I'll be more invested in their flights as a result.

[Frozen_Heart]

Looks really good Pretty much how I pictured it.

[Or remove the model all together.

And nothing of value would be lost.

No point removing it now. The development time has already been spent...

[Deathsoul097]

I think Val and Jeb will be my go to duo for many missions in 1.0, they seem like they both have that crazy badSness that makes KSP, KSP.

[Felsmak]

I like her. She looks pretty much exactly like I imagined.

[Yukon0009]

Reminds me of Alex from Minecraft (the relase blah blah blah, not the look)

[Darnok]

I know it is someones work and that work looks nice and graphics is important for most people, but that is just few new animations and little different textures... it won't add anything new to game for me.

[Parkaboy]

It adds enough to the game to make my wife want to play it, and she never shown any interest in KSP other than finding kerbals cute.

[Mr Tegu]

It does broaden the possibilities for role play (I kinda like that my Duna colony will no longer be a bro-fest, there is going to be more than one female Kerbal, I hope....) but we're not supposed to discuss such things on this forum.

[Torquemadus]

Valentina definitely needs to be a "badass" flagged pilot.

[Frank_G]

A lot of complaining about the eyelashes here. I personally like them, but i think a similar effect could be achieved when darkening the area above the eye with a darker green. Would be worth a try to make her even more kerbal. (To me she is a kerbal for sure right now).

[Whirligig Girl]

Oh you KNOW every chance Jeb, Bill and Bob and other Kerbals are going to hit on her every chance they got. poor girl is going to have a nervous breakdown...

Well give her some credit, for all you know she'd love the attention, not care, or beat the heck out of whoever disrespects her. One of the three. Maybe even depending on who's who.

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No, not really. Derpiness as in retardation (for the mods - ......: a slowness or limitation in intellectual understanding and awareness, emotional development, academic progress, etc.).

Again, a trait which all Kerbals share. Except some of them are geniuses in their specific area of research. For instance, even Bill, who's so stupid he just keeps walking into walls and doesn't quite understand why he stopped moving forwards, he's great at engineering. But Bob is a genius. He knows how to use beakers and science instruments and he can even figure out why walls stop him! But when you try and pit him against trees, he'll run away screaming that "we've been invaded!!!" Jeb meanwhile is truly badS at piloting, flying, jetpacking, fighting, and being a badass, but he really can not see danger when danger is obvious. A rocket with moar boosters but no struts? He's the first one aboard!

Jeb is derpy in intellectual understanding.

Bill is derpy in awareness.

Bob is derpy in emotional development.

Valentina therefore is probably derpy in academic progress.

Valentina knows things. She knows how to tie a shoe, for instance, something that has baffled every single Kerbal engineer and scientist that she's met. She knows how to fold that one really really cool paper airplane that flies really far. She knows how to catch and fry a candied cockroach with her bare hands (and a grill). But she doesn't know what F=M/A or E=MC^2 means. She never paid attention. She can fly a rocket into space just as you tell her, fly it back down, and she'll know how orbital mechanics works intuitively. But, she still has no idea what delta-v means, or any of the math behind orbits whatsoever.

My guess for Val's stats:

BadS=True

Courage=70%

Stupidity=50%

Profession=Pilot

Edited February 21, 2015 by GregroxMun

[Red Iron Crown]

Perhaps we shouldn't define Valentina's personality in terms of how she reacts to male kerbals' attention.

[Norpo]

Perhaps we shouldn't define Valentina's personality in terms of how she reacts to male kerbals' attention.

Which really begs the question.. What will Val be like in the animations/forum profile/steam card if that becomes a thing?

We already have a BadS, insane pilot... Any more insaneness and that's not a kerbal, that's something that needs help. Maybe she'd be more cautious while piloting.. You know, for a kerbal. Cautious is a relative term.

Perhaps like this Calvin and Hobbes strip?

[Whirligig Girl]

Perhaps we shouldn't define Valentina's personality in terms of how she reacts to male kerbals' attention.

If you look again, I didn't. Well, I did, but only in response to someone else. I did the other thing, a bio. That's what it's called I think.

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Which really begs the question.. What will Val be like in the animations/forum profile/steam card if that becomes a thing?

We already have a BadS, insane pilot... Any more insaneness and that's not a kerbal, that's something that needs help. Maybe she'd be more cautious while piloting.. You know, for a kerbal. Cautious is a relative term.

Perhaps like this Calvin and Hobbes strip?

http://assets.amuniversal.com/f788d0a0dec9013171a6005056a9545d

Yeah. Actually let me go ahead and paste it.

Valentina knows things. She knows how to tie a shoe, for instance, something that has baffled every single Kerbal engineer and scientist that she's met. She knows how to fold that one really really cool paper airplane that flies really far. She knows how to catch and fry a candied cockroach with her bare hands (and a grill). But she doesn't know what F=M/A or E=MC^2 means. She never paid attention. She can fly a rocket into space just as you tell her, fly it back down, and she'll know how orbital mechanics works intuitively. But, she still has no idea what delta-v means, or any of the math behind orbits whatsoever.

[r4pt0r]

Valentina knows things. She knows how to tie a shoe, for instance, something that has baffled every single Kerbal engineer and scientist that she's met. She knows how to fold that one really really cool paper airplane that flies really far. She knows how to catch and fry a candied cockroach with her bare hands (and a grill). But she doesn't know what F=M/A or E=MC^2 means. She never paid attention. She can fly a rocket into space just as you tell her, fly it back down, and she'll know how orbital mechanics works intuitively. But, she still has no idea what delta-v means, or any of the math behind orbits whatsoever.

Other than that roach business, she is me.

[Red Iron Crown]

We already have a BadS, insane pilot... Any more insaneness and that's not a kerbal, that's something that needs help. Maybe she'd be more cautious while piloting.. You know, for a kerbal. Cautious is a relative term.

Yeah, I think she should be fearless, but calculating. Jeb is more of a "slap more boosters on until it works" type, Valentina should be "if you want me to fly that thing you better make sure it's well built". Ties in nicely to the engineer report/delta-V calculation features that are coming in 1.0.

[KerikBalm]

I'd still like to know if stupidity is just a mislabeled intelligence bar... and if a full bar means they are less stupid than an empty bar...

Thats an important thing to sort out before assigning a value... unless its 50%...

[r4pt0r]

An empty stupidity bar means smart.

[Renegrade]

If you think it's weird it might be because of the larger gap between her eyes than the males have.

http://i.imgur.com/DAVoe4J.jpg

Yeah, I concur; the smaller gap one looks better.

I'd still like to know if stupidity is just a mislabeled intelligence bar... and if a full bar means they are less stupid than an empty bar...

Thats an important thing to sort out before assigning a value... unless its 50%...

I'm with r4pt0r on this one - I don't think it is mislabeled at all. Full=idiot, Empty=not an idiot.

To give it some imaginary gameplay purpose, I try to pick pilots with high stupidity and scientists with low stupidity - I imagine that those are the ideal states for those jobs (I treat engineers like they were sorta in-between, but leaning towards the scientist side). The low intelligence of the pilot helps him (or her!) not worry about how insane control's orders are, and just focus on the piloting.. whereas we don't want the scientists' report to be like, "Uh.. it's a rock? It's.. round..ish? .. possibly grey? not very tasty..."