Mjolnir Suit

[Leafbaron]

I just had a thought today that includes different suits for the kerbals. It would be sweet to be able to change their space suits, possibly even an iteration of the Mark series Mjolnir powered assault armor from halo. 

[Wjolcz]

Power armour for Kerbals? What would you need that for?

[Leafbaron]

2 minutes ago, Veeltch said:

Power armour for Kerbals? What would you need that for?

just to make them look bad ass!

[Wjolcz]

1 minute ago, Leafbaron said:

just to make them look bad ass!

I thought going to space or being a pilot was badass enough.

[Dman979]

At the risk of saying, "there's a mod for that..." there's a mod for that.

 

[Leafbaron]

2 minutes ago, Veeltch said:

I thought going to space or being a pilot was badass enough.

Typically it is, however I think Jeb would be particularly excited about power armor, and maybe if used with KAS it could increase the inventory size of the astronaut, or save Kerbals on a re-entry trajectory outside a space craft.

2 minutes ago, Dman979 said:

At the risk of saying, "there's a mod for that..." there's a mod for that.

 

Perfect! a mod is pretty much what i was looking for, however that texture replacer doesn't really change their suit rather just the hair color and suit color. Pretty cool mod though!

[Dman979]

11 minutes ago, Leafbaron said:

Perfect! a mod is pretty much what i was looking for, however that texture replacer doesn't really change their suit rather just the hair color and suit color. Pretty cool mod though!

Well, you can change the texture on the suit, including any pipes, holes, lines, etc.

[Snark]

46 minutes ago, Leafbaron said:

I think Jeb would be particularly excited about power armor, and maybe if used with KAS it could increase the inventory size of the astronaut, or save Kerbals on a re-entry trajectory outside a space craft.

I think that both of those cases belong in a  mod, not the stock game.

For the inventory thing:  that clearly doesn't belong in stock, it's about an interaction with a mod.  So perhaps you could make a feature request for KIS to allow a different kind of suit with a bigger inventory system, or something, but it has nothing to do with the stock game.

As for the "save kerbals on an EVA reentry trajectory":  I would argue that the absence of that is a feature.  Kerbals aren't supposed to be able to reenter while on EVA.  They actually used to be able to, and then that got fixed, and frankly I was pretty happy about that.  The point of the game is to make things interestingly difficult (otherwise, why even require heat shields for spacecraft?)

There's an interesting design tension in KSP:  on the one hand, it needs to be realistic enough to give folks the feeling of "I'm flying a rocket ship!" rather than "I'm playing a video game!"... but it needs to make enough playability compromises to make it fun.

Drawing that line can be tricky, so of course opinions can differ about just where the appropriate place is to draw it.  But I gotta say that for myself, I really think that EVA reentry really shouldn't be a thing, at least in the stock game.  If folks want to add a mod for that, great. 

[lajoswinkler]

It's isn't a Kerbal thing. It's like asking for Jebediah's head to be replaceable with Superman's. This is purely a thing for mods.

Edited September 15, 2016 by lajoswinkler