Kerbal Space Program DLC: “Breaking Gound” Grand Discussion Thread

[Xavven]

28 minutes ago, Foxster said:

It is being released at 1pm EST = 5pm GMT = 6pm BST (current UK time).

Excellent! That's 11 AM my time. I'll have almost the whole day

(edit) and a whole night's rest and breakfast.

Edited May 29, 2019 by Xavven

[EchoLima]

The mod Stock Visual Terrain should go along well with the new scatter objects added in Breaking Ground. It adds colliders to the old stock scatter and also improves the ground textures

[Gargamel]

Sooooo.... who else is going to wait 2 days to see if there are any major bug reports?   Or are we all so giddy we're all diving in headfirst?  

[Geonovast]

6 minutes ago, Gargamel said:

Sooooo.... who else is going to wait 2 days to see if there are any major bug reports?   Or are we all so giddy we're all diving in headfirst?  

I'm probably going to have to wait 2 days anyway since GoG isn't too speedy with their Linux releases.

[MechBFP]

2 hours ago, Foxster said:

It is being released at 1pm EST = 5pm GMT = 6pm BST (current UK time).

Lol damn, that’s noon Mexico City time. I called that one!

[razark]

46 minutes ago, Gargamel said:

who else is going to wait 2 days to see if there are any major bug reports?

I have to work tomorrow.

My coworker took off Friday, Good Omens releases, Saturday is gaming night, and I've got the kids this weekend.

 

It'll be Sunday before I get a chance to install, much less play, the new version.

[magnemoe]

52 minutes ago, Gargamel said:

Sooooo.... who else is going to wait 2 days to see if there are any major bug reports?   Or are we all so giddy we're all diving in headfirst?  

Will download an play around with, probably wait an week before moving my exiting game as it looks like it will be significant changes to stuff like KIS 

[Xavven]

1 hour ago, Gargamel said:

Sooooo.... who else is going to wait 2 days to see if there are any major bug reports?   Or are we all so giddy we're all diving in headfirst?  

I'm jumping in headfirst. I took tomorrow off specifically for this release. 11 AM local time I'm gonna be starting a new career save. BRING IT ON!

[RocketSquid]

Are the surface features added to planets in existing saves or is a new save required to get the full experience?

[razark]

2 minutes ago, RocketSquid said:

Are the surface features added to planets in existing saves or is a new save required to get the full experience?

New saves, but there are ways to edit old saves.

[RocketSquid]

6 minutes ago, razark said:

New saves, but there are ways to edit old saves.

Is this just straight up editing the SFS file or is there a more elegant way? 

[klesh]

3 minutes ago, RocketSquid said:

Is this just straight up editing the SFS file

 

Yes.

[RocketSquid]

2 minutes ago, klesh said:

 

Yes.

Oh dear. Staring at that thing gives me a headache, but I suppose it's unavoidable unless I want to lose quite a bit of stuff. 

[klesh]

1 minute ago, RocketSquid said:

Oh dear. Staring at that thing gives me a headache, but I suppose it's unavoidable unless I want to lose quite a bit of stuff. 

 

Anything you'll lose can be done again, maybe even better.

[Pthigrivi]

1 hour ago, Gargamel said:

Sooooo.... who else is going to wait 2 days to see if there are any major bug reports?   Or are we all so giddy we're all diving in headfirst?  

Headfirst AF. I'll probably have to wait a few weeks to start a for-real campaign while Nertea and RD update their mods though. 

[Superfluous J]

5 hours ago, Pthigrivi said:

Me too. Maybe there's some reason why they can't be but I'd love to see a few of those things bigger. 

I can't think of one. The Tylo Cave is HUGE.

1 hour ago, Gargamel said:

Sooooo.... who else is going to wait 2 days to see if there are any major bug reports?   Or are we all so giddy we're all diving in headfirst?  

I'm doing both. Stock DLC game to play with robotics in sandbox, modded 1.7.0 career (that I likely won't play much) until all the mods work and I get ground scatter working.

Edited May 30, 2019 by 5thHorseman

[razark]

Do we have any word on if this is going to require a 1.7.1 or 1.8 release, or if the only download will be the DLC?

[Gargamel]

1 hour ago, razark said:

Good Omens releases,

Just finished that book a couple weeks ago, looking forward to this, along with KSP. 

 

[JPLRepo]

9 hours ago, Foxster said:

Yea, I don't think they are like anomalies. As I said, a bit more like rarer scatters.  

They are specific to planets and specific biomes on said planets. and they are random with each save game.

[Pthigrivi]

25 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said:

I can't think of one. The Tylo Cave is HUGE.

Wait is that one of them? I thought that was a one-off anomaly? 

And yeah like, don't get me wrong, all these things look great. I couldn't be more psyched for Breaking Ground. Just thinking the cryovolcano and Moho ridge and a couple others would have more visual drama if they had a bit grander scale (3-5x maybe.)

[theJesuit]

4 hours ago, Foxster said:

It is being released at 1pm EST = 5pm GMT = 6pm BST (current UK time).

 

4 hours ago, nestor said:

Yes, that's official!

That is 5am in NZ which is my hourish of game time!  Yippee!

Peace.

[RocketSquid]

33 minutes ago, klesh said:

 

Anything you'll lose can be done again, maybe even better.

Yeah, but I don't fancy doing five or six Mun missions again. I just got through that science grind. Of course, I can technically just... copy over the science and such. Or copy in the surface features. I don't know which one will be better.

[JPLRepo]

19 minutes ago, Pthigrivi said:

Wait is that one of them? I thought that was a one-off anomaly? 
 

Yeah I think people are confusing existing anomolies in the game vs the new surface features that are part of Breaking Ground Expansion.

[Superfluous J]

23 minutes ago, Pthigrivi said:

Wait is that one of them? I thought that was a one-off anomaly? 

Sorry all I meant was if they can make the Tylo Cave that big they could make a volcano that big.

Edited May 30, 2019 by 5thHorseman

[klesh]

24 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said:

Sorry all I meant was if they can make the Tylo Cave that big they could make a volcano that big. 

 

Hopefully they can be modded to be 3-5x bigger.