KSP2 should have a space race gamemode against other players.

[Fearless Flier]

KSP2  should have a space race gamemode against other players. You would find other players to play with online, and race to see who could complete tasks like landing on the Mun first. 

[kdaviper]

1 hour ago, Fearless Flier said:

KSP2  should have a space race gamemode against other players. You would find other players to play with online, and race to see who could complete tasks like landing on the Mun first. 

Multiplayer is one of the items on the roadmap

Edited March 18, 2024 by kdaviper

[Presto200]

I would be interested in seeing a gamemode specific towards multiplayer once it comes out that encourages speed or other competition between players 

[jastrone]

yhea this has been confirmed. but i dont think its against random people you have to make a server

[Lowi_Sace]

The DEVs talked about space races being a thing in multiplayer in an interview once. They said that there will be an competitive mode (everyone separate agency) and a mode for working together (as one space agency) in multiplayer

[magnemoe]

1 hour ago, Lowi_Sace said:

The DEVs talked about space races being a thing in multiplayer in an interview once. They said that there will be an competitive mode (everyone separate agency) and a mode for working together (as one space agency) in multiplayer

Yes, now I assume you can cooperate even in completive mode but its not default and stuff like science is not shared unless you actively share it like letting another sides kerbal enter your ship to get copy of science. 
Working together let one fly the carrier and the other the spaceplane it drops  

[Presto200]

3 hours ago, Lowi_Sace said:

The DEVs talked about space races being a thing in multiplayer in an interview once. They said that there will be an competitive mode (everyone separate agency) and a mode for working together (as one space agency) in multiplayer

From what I took away from interviews that I saw with the devs, I dont think they were talking about specific game modes rather than just playstyles that they assume the community would partake in. They were saying in multiplayer you would have the option of trying to grow your agency faster than others or to share resources to try to grow your agencies together.

[Fearless Flier]

Guys thanks for telling me because I do not really follow KSP2 news and all the info for updates I get are from here thanks to you guys.

[Jaypeg]

Cool idea !
Maybe a mode where people start on different planets, too?

[Fearless Flier]

Eh, Idk about the planets. but the idea itself that people are racving to construct better models and launch rockets is cool.

[Fearless Flier]

Ooh, you could also make a race on who makes the most colonies or something like that

[Darta01]

On 3/19/2024 at 12:51 PM, magnemoe said:

Yes, now I assume you can cooperate even in completive mode but its not default and stuff like science is not shared unless you actively share it like letting another sides kerbal enter your ship to get copy of science.

Reading your comment, a scene popped up in my mind: a scene ala The Expanse, where a player would do a hard deceleration burn towards another player's spacecraft in deep space, then jumping on EVA at high velocity to reach it and copy the science, and returning to its own ship before the other player could react... And then burning hard toward Kerbin before the adversary could launch a conter-mission to stop the science-pirate kerbal...

Competitiveness in KSP could lead to very interesting interactions 

[magnemoe]

6 hours ago, Darta01 said:

Reading your comment, a scene popped up in my mind: a scene ala The Expanse, where a player would do a hard deceleration burn towards another player's spacecraft in deep space, then jumping on EVA at high velocity to reach it and copy the science, and returning to its own ship before the other player could react... And then burning hard toward Kerbin before the adversary could launch a conter-mission to stop the science-pirate kerbal...

Competitiveness in KSP could lead to very interesting interactions 

This one being the old guy who did that long ago, bu not so long ago I had it written on the wall of my tomb  in hieroglyphic. 
Rather an imugr 

Short version, I was to rescue an kerbal who manage to be in retrograde orbit between Dress and Jool. This was the tool. 
But I made an mistake kerbal only had 100 days of life support. So I made an trajectory who would intercept kerbin in 95 days but at 7 km/s. 
And the tool above solved the problem just launch another intercept have kerbal transfer and deorbit. 

With 18K dv most orbital problems are simple unless interstellar. 
KSP 2 I'm  not even trying 

And I launched an tanker to support the landers. 

[Jaypeg]

1 hour ago, magnemoe said:

This one being the old guy who did that long ago, bu not so long ago I had it written on the wall of my tomb  in hieroglyphic. 
Rather an imugr 

Short version, I was to rescue an kerbal who manage to be in retrograde orbit between Dress and Jool. This was the tool. 
But I made an mistake kerbal only had 100 days of life support. So I made an trajectory who would intercept kerbin in 95 days but at 7 km/s. 
And the tool above solved the problem just launch another intercept have kerbal transfer and deorbit. 

With 18K dv most orbital problems are simple unless interstellar. 
KSP 2 I'm  not even trying 

And I launched an tanker to support the landers. 

yes, but heating from that engine and also recources aren't added yet.