Give me a brake

[SpacedCowboy]

In my current career just opened up rover wheels in the tech tree. (Why they have rockets and haven't invented the wheel yet is a mystery to me, but that's a whole different thread.) I've made a couple of basic, simple rovers using both the M-1 and whatever they call those little probe wheels. In either case the brakes don't work! I know how to adjust the torque and all that but can't get them to work. The landing gears for planes perform great but the rover wheels,,, no, uh uh. Neither the "B" key or clicking on the parking brake have any affect. Is this a bug? or something I'm doing wrong? No mods, totally vanilla Appreciate any help or suggestions. Moderators please feel free to move this to stock support if needed

Edited July 29, 2015 by SpacedCowboy

[Frank_G]

Maybe you havent unlocked the action-groups yet, by updating the VAB or SPH?

[SpacedCowboy]

Nope, both are totally upgraded

[SalehRam]

I believe I read somewhere that the rover wheels are bugged, and in order to brake while moving, you need to reverse until you stop...

[magico13]

The brakes and torque in general on the rover wheels are basically non-existent. I know you probably don't want to use mods, but I find rover wheels to be completely useless without the fix provided in the Stock Bug Fix Modules.

[SpacedCowboy]

Yeah, I've been doing that a lot! Problem is Iv'e got a contract to fulfill (seismic scanning) over very hilly, mountainous terrain and really sucks not to have a parking brake. Oh well, I'll just have to deal with it. Hopefully this will be corrected in the next update. Thanks for your input.

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Ok, thanks for the suggestion but think I'm going to wait for the next update. Can't believe something like this is going on this far into the development of this game. AFAIK this problem didn't exist in previous versions.

[FancyMouse]

Right it was a recent regression, and I've heard 1.1 will redesign all the wheels. Seems this is one of the reasons they didn't fix it in 1.0.3/4

[Claw]

The crux of this bug is that the brakes break when you right click on the wheel to bring up the tweakables. If you can avoid doing thatm the brakes will work fine.

This means you can never click on the wheels. Not in the editor, not in flight. Once you right click, then save that .craft or the game save, the wheel in question will forever be broken. The only stock fix after that is to remove the wheel and replace it with a new one. No ALT-copy, or simple remove-replace. It must be brand new.

The ModuleWheelFix in my stock bug fixes will allow you to fix the brake torque for ships in-flight if you aren't opposed to add-ons.

Cheers,

-Claw

[pincushionman]

Reverse power has always worked better than brakes. If you have reaction wheels, it will also apply torque to keep you from flipping out.

[cantab]

The only stock fix after that is to remove the wheel and replace it with a new one.

Is it not possible to edit the save or craft file to fix the fault?

[SpacedCowboy]

Okay, but to be honest, do you think this will be fixed by 1.1? Not holding you to it but, what's your best guess? Not to say your fix is useless.

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Sorry but I have to disagree to your first statement. In previous versions the rover wheels brakes have worked fine. Reaction wheels?...On a rover?... Like tits on a bull. It's the lack of brakes that are making me "flip out!" I do appreciate your input.

[legoclone09]

Okay, but to be honest, do you think this will be fixed by 1.1? Not holding you to it but, what's your best guess? Not to say your fix is useless.

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Sorry but I have to disagree to your first statement. In previous versions the rover wheels brakes have worked fine. Reaction wheels?...On a rover?... Like tits on a bull. It's the lack of brakes that are making me "flip out!" I do appreciate your input.

It will be fixed, wheels will be completley redone in 1.1. Including brakes.