Ballanced reaction wheels

[Sirrobert]

So today I noticed something nifty

I rememberd that we had 2 reaction wheels that were identical, except one weight more than the other, so I wonderd if Squad did something with the price to justify that.

I was pleasantly suprised to see that, instead of the lighter one simply being more expencive, they actually changed the vallue of torque each one gives, with a cheaper version giving 8 torque, and a twice as expencive one giving 15 torque (I didn't unlock the other wheels yet, though I asume they'd follow a similar trent).

Did I just miss this in the anouncements, or is this another one of Squads little bonus updates that they leave wrapped for us to find?

Either way, I like it

[montyben101]

Yeah they did this in .24 with little talk about it, in my opinion reaction wheels should, like in real life, be much less powerful so most spacecraft require RCS. Though this would make it MUCH harder for beginners (actually with simple configuration edit I could do that....)

[Mister Kerman]

If you look at the torque ratings, the larger one has 30 in all aspects instead of 15. I think all of them used to just provide 15 before the update. Plus it only makes sense something large will cost more than the small ones.

[quantumpion]

Also the probe cores have differing amounts of torque as well. The ones higher up on the science ladder have more torque.

[LethalDose]

I don't think they addressed the changes to the torque wheels directly, but they did say lots of parts were getting tweaked. These changes basically fell under that.