Not a fan of the contrails

[Klapaucius]

It was a cool idea, but I would like to be able to turn it off. I find them distracting, they interfere with  getting good screenshots, and they come on at far too low speeds.  A vintage aircraft flying at 27 m/s should not look like this:

 

[BowlerHatGuy3]

They should only happen at high gforces. It would also be pretty cool if there are only contrails on the ends of a wing chain instead of occurring on every flight surface.

[pandaman]

I do like them, but would agree  they need some tweaking.   They certainly seem to appear at too slow speeds.

[dr.phees]

Somehow KSP 2 does not know if it is a goofy game or a simulation. These flight-surface contrails don't show up at low speeds and only at wingtips. If they can't make that work, they should leave them out or give the player a way to activate them per-part. Default should be off.

[Superluminaut]

@Klapaucius

I agree that contrails are strange at the moment. The dev team says they take an iterative approach to elements in the game, so it may be that the current implementation is an early iteration.

Somewhat on topic, I pray to the kerbal gods that ksp2 fixes the shock heating on launch oddity from ksp1. It's one of the biggest issues that dampened my love for ksp1,

So yes, these small visual effects have a massive impact on the game experience and I really hope that the developers don't sidelines this detail. If the devs do recognize these effects as the low hanging fruit that they are, we may see a nice spike in ksp2 quality sooner than later.