Really old KSP trailer still surprisingly relevant

[Norpo]

"How hard can rocket science be anyways?"

Relevant, asides from the whole "coming soon" postfixed on basically everything.

Since we're in Beta now, perhaps we should look back on some of the old features, trailers, videos, and media in general?

*e.g that launch tower which I hear shredded many ships to pieces*

[Nitrous Oxide]

"Realistic flight simulator"

So they plan on paying Ferram?

[StrandedonEarth]

Wow, that looks really old. I want those X-wing wings!

[Rithsom]

Huh, why does the video say "moon" instead of Mun? maybe this was before Squad had an official name for it...

Edited January 10, 2015 by Rthsom

[FlyingPete]

Huh, why does the video say "moon" instead of Mun? Maybe this was before Squad had an official name for it...

When I first played 0.13 and saw that the moon-analog was called 'Mun' and given the proportions of the Kerbals, I immediately thought of this and actually burst out laughing

[Camaron]

I find the explosion graphics in this video to be better looking than they are now. They had dynamic physical particle sources spawning on death? why abandon that?

[SkyRender]

Okay, now I feel properly like an old-school KSP player. I remember that trailer being released! Heck, I remember playing that version of KSP. Never used most of the featured mods, though...

I find the explosion graphics in this video to be better looking than they are now. They had dynamic physical particle sources spawning on death? why abandon that?

Those are stock Unity effects. They're very memory-inefficient. The game used to chug like crazy every time something exploded, and looking at the water was an invitation to Low-FPSville.

[Captain Sierra]

and looking at the water was an invitation to Low-FPSville.

Wait, that changed? I still drop 10-15 FPS every time I look down mid-launch. Yes it is better but they REALLY need to address ocean lag more comprehensively.

[God]

The water used to look like mountain dew back in my day

[djnattyd]

I'd forgotten just how awful looking KSP used to be.

[Norpo]

Huh, why does the video say "moon" instead of Mun? maybe this was before Squad had an official name for it...

I'm going to imagine they didn't want the youtube commenters to say

"u said mun y not moon" ad infinitum.

[AlexMBrennan]

Or, you know, they could be referring to the moon called Mun.

[problemecium]

Now that I think on it again, I think it'd be nice to bring back the launch tower in the form of a part you can tack on the side of a ship - something supplementary to the launch clamps, which don't really count as a "tower". In fact it can even reuse the old launch tower model xD

[Fiddlestyx]

Why was K.I.A. removed?

[SkyRender]

Why was K.I.A. removed?

Because of how crew seat management is done now. The game would have to remember what Kerbal-carrying parts it has destroyed and which Kerbals were sitting in them to show the KIA portraits. Back when you could only have one occupied command module, this was not an issue. Though it did lead to an amusing situation where all of your crew will die any time any command module explodes in those early versions, even if the rocket still has an operational command motule still attached.

[TheScareCake!]

We still need a new one, remember that new Eve online trailer "this is eve"? It attracted very big number of players, it was very good as it actually shows real people and real gameplay. Squad could think of something original... I dont know..

[Wjolcz]

Dem brick wheels. Classic.

I remeber all that stuff well, and used most, if not all of the mods showed in vid.

Edited January 12, 2015 by Veeltch