The Grand 0.25 Discussion Thread

[Superfluous J]

Hard to say. It's hard to top the difficulty settings but the new explosions are really sweet too. Havne't played with the plane parts yet.

[Oafman]

I'm glad the Cupola has become more practical. It was always hard to justify that weight and drag for one kerbal, even though the part always looked good

[mastershotgun]

Hi Guys,

No offence, but the "Economic BOOM!" do not beat the "First Cotract"... Looking forward to next update

[nine_iron]

The fact is it is beginning to feel like a finished game, the career mode is really coming along.

Fantastic job done by the Dev team, I really hope more people buy this game to keep up development!

I urge everyone to try and buy at least one relative KSP for Xmas! (One way to contribute to KSP and get another person addicted!)

EDIT:

Now I am really concerned about funds I recover as much of the vessel as close to the KSC as possible...

Landing of my Kontract Kompletor Testbed was a little TOO close! (did bring me plenty of cash though for recovery and contracts complete!)

Edited October 9, 2014 by nine_iron

[Shisouka]

Difficulty Settings <3

SP+ parts, used them before, now they are stock .. KUDOS to Porkjet!

[LordFjord]

Mostly the difficulty settings, hardmode is fun and of course SP+

The strategies would need some adjustments before they would "work" properly without being completely over the top ( as they are right now ).

[KingPhantom]

Difficulty!

[Cirocco]

the difficulty option and the fact that I now have spaceplane tanks that hold both liquid fuel and oxidizer. Thank GOD for that one.

[KingPhantom]

anyone else who lost all the settings with this update?

all graphic settings are gone. i did the settings againg and now have the feeling that the GUI is not "sharp" and a little bit blurry... probably my eyes...

[Sky_walker]

SP+ parts

Difficulty settings

[Sky_walker]

anyone else who lost all the settings with this update?

all graphic settings are gone. i did the settings againg and now have the feeling that the GUI is not "sharp" and a little bit blurry... probably my eyes...

Yea, I did.

Had to set everything over again and restart the game to see a change. Otherwise game looks horrible.

Hi all.

Sorry if someone was discussing that already in the forum, but I am curious what happened with terrain textures. They seem to have another one level detalization now.

I would also like to know, after the last pair of patches I have small size of letters in the GUI. Too small. No one cares of that?

I had the same problem. Luckily: you can change GUI scaling in a settings.

My first download for the x32 version took 11 hours stating at 5pm (7 Oct 14) Pacific Coast time,

Hehehe, for me it was 11 minutes (nice coincidence)

Edited October 9, 2014 by Sky_walker

[KingPhantom]

ah ok. so its not only me.

it's not a big deal for me because i removed all mods and saves and start from new like a fresh install (backuped saves on a external drive )

[bonyetty]

The ability to turn off quick saves and the Mk2 parts. It gets my heart pounding again. Loving it.

[KerbMav]

Does the "kerbonaut flings up the capsule ladder when exiting or grabbing" only seem to be worse than before?

[boa3532]

Oddly enough the explosions so far. I accepted a contract to test a radial decoupler while landed on kerbin. "Rocket" had only two parts, capsule and decoupler. Hit the space bar and watched the decoupler fly 250m and land in a giant fireball. Laughed my butt off.

[timsfitz]

Does the "kerbonaut flings up the capsule ladder when exiting or grabbing" only seem to be worse than before?

I noticed that too. Sometimes Jeb flies right out of the door now. I wonder why.

[MiniMatt]

Not being able to revert is certainly making for some interesting gameplay

Booster separation shortly after launch didn't go cleanly, destroying half the lifter stage - do we dump the expensive payload in the sea? Nah, we land it with a tiny unbalanced payload parachute and the interplanetary nuke engine

(was a mission to put a rover and a satellite on and around both Ike and Duna - rather panicked as that represented around 3/4 of my available funds)

[Fingal]

I noticed that too. Sometimes Jeb flies right out of the door now. I wonder why.

Yes, I get that as well. It seems to be a bit random as well, sometimes it's okay, other times it's like he's been thrown out at high speed.

[soulsource]

Oh dear, the radial decoupler bug is still there. I wish I had checked that before starting a hard career mode; I just assumed it would be fixed.

I really hoped that annoying issue would be fixed with 0.25... Does the old workaround still work?

[TimberWolffe]

my favourite feature is definitely the runways and launchpads that crumble under spaceplanes and rockets that are a little bit too heavy. Definitely a feature, not at all an oversight. Nope, not at all.

[Overfloater]

Definitely the exploding launch pad :-]

[soulsource]

For me it's difficulty as well, or, to be more precise, the combination of hard difficulty and the strategies available in the admin building.

For instance, I'm now really looking forward to gathering enough science to start the patent licensing program, in order to earn a little bit more funds, so I'll finally be able to afford the entry purchase prices...

[Levelord]

My fave feature? The fact that you can now toggle this to open in the VAB:

[RizzoTheRat]

Even then you need to land somewhere. I just played around and at 80 tons with around 13 m/s vertical speed touchdown and it's kaboom-time. I didn't even have any horizontal velocity, that was just an 80 ton VTOL. Sure it was a tad rough landing but it shouldn't make the pavement explode...

At first thought I'm not that surprised that 80 tonnes hitting at 30mph causes some damage, but you wouldn't expect it to blow up the whole runway. The shuttle touched down at about 3m/s, Soyuz capsules kit the ground at 3-4m/s and the Orion capsule has been tested at 7m/s. However a quick calc suggests that's only about the equivalent of 1.6kg of TNT

Luckily I don't have this problem as I rarely manage to get my space planes to land on the runway rather the nice flat grass surrounding it

[Jon Tash]

For me it would probably be the new spaceplane parts. I have been using SP+ for a long time and I always liked it. Now that it is stock it's even better. The more parts in stock we have the better!