Back After Nearly 2 Year Hiatus!

[Hanoj]

Hello!

About two years ago, I had lost interest in the game, and uninstalled it. Fast forward to now, I saw the demo for KSP on steam and wanted to give another crack of the whip!

How do you recommend getting back into the game, knowing nothing of its development for two years?

[Endersmens]

Just run it. Play with it. If you're still confused after a while, look for release notes and tutorials and such

Welcome back!

[Starwhip]

Two years ago... wow. The difference is going to be astronomical. (Hehehe... )

I'd suggest poking around at some of the tutorials, or making a new Sandbox game and loading up some of the default craft. They don't function all that well, but re-learning the controls and such will help. I would then suggest either sticking to Sandbox and making some rockets or going into Science mode and learning from the ground up. Career is challenging and has more aspects to manage than it's worth for a new player IMO.

And as Endersmens said, go check out tutorials online and on the forum, you'll be sure to run across some information that will help you. Glad to see you back!

[Araym]

Learn here in the forum a bit about science and career funds/contracts development.

Start an easy-mode career, to get accustomed to the changes by using initially few parts, in the different enviroment (now Kerbin has a sort of proper atmosphere, so flying in it is different) and practice with basic of rocketry by fullfilling the starting contracts: it could help you to focus on playing, rather to build enormous craft with the whole lot of new parts you could find in the simple sandbox...

... once you get back the grasp on the game, then play as you feel, with newer saves.

For me, career-mode is the challenge worth of the real trying: managing funds, upgrade my KSC, research an BUY the new researched parts (I added the fund spending option, beside science point spending, to unlock new parts), but just because I'm playing constantly from version to version, and i wanna a challenge...

... but in between, my sandbox mode is where I build the "absurde-humongus things" without bothering (For example, my last 0.90 sandbox MIR in my sig... or actually more spaceplanes than before, cuz I like buzzing around with replicas*like planes, more than rockets).

The science-mode is a mild way: no money to worry, but still science gathering around to unlock nodes in the tech-tree. Maybe the right initial playground for you should be there (once you gather science, no funds costrains and no contracts let you to gather more science fast as you like, going faster to be a sandbox mode with science points/tracking of achieved explorations)