Why are explosions so tiny?

[Zeblote]

Crashing a rocket of this size should cause an atleast 10x bigger explosion :v

I watched the earlier preview videos, and they had huge explosions, why were they replaced with these tiny particle effects?

(sorry large images)

[Awaras]

Yes, the current explosions are a but underwhelming, but they are made to fit the stock parts while you are using modded parts more than twice the size that the devs did not take into account when creating the particle effects.

The old explosion effects would drop the framerate to single digits on anything except the most powerful PC's... :/

[softweir]

Yes, the original explosions were default ones provided with Unity for First person Shooters, and didn't do very well with the huge number of parts KSP rockets get put into them!

[vexx32]

Oh boy, those old explosions were nuts xD

Spectacular, to be sure, but... some people's games would crash just fro, the explosions xD

[Galacticruler]

I miss those explosions.

such realistic smoke.

[mushroomman]

Yeah I liked them too. Though they were very laggy. They kind of looked like dreadlocks when a big rocket exploded