Infos, Bilder und Kritik zu zukünftigen Updates

Felipe (HarvesteR): EDITORS NOTE - Felipe is on a personal holiday this week to recharge his batteries after some serious breakneck work to get the game to experimentals for our next update, but we wanted to share a quote from a conversation we had late last week before leaving. “But in a nutshell, yes, 0.24 is going to be released in 64-bit for Windows too.” (ED: We think that’s quite enough from Harv on an off week.).

Alex (aLeXmOrA): Still implementing new sound parts to the game. I think I have to explain this a little bit: I’m doing tests changing the actual sounds of some rocket parts (liquid engines, solid boosters, etc.) for new ones. Also, I’m working with Lalo and dealing with new accounting processes.

Mike (Mu): It’s been a long week of fixing bugs. QA and experimentals are going pretty smoothly tho. The build has been very stable and so have been implementing some of the modders’ requests and making things a little prettier.

Daniel (danRosas): Finally got to publish that last animation, I hope you liked it! Right now We’re fully into post-production of the new animation, getting some alpha mattes from the 3d scene into the composition for special FX, doing some tracking and lots of color grading.

Jim (Romfarer): I think we got the critical game breaking ui bugs out of the way. What remains now is mainly to make sure fonts are correct and other minor tweaks.

Miguel (Maxmaps): Working on the restructuring of KSP-TV as well as Squadcast. Diving into the experimentals forums and toying around with the build. Enjoying/Trying to survive the Steam Summer Sale and absolutely loving all your entries to the Kerbin Cup contest.

Bob (Calisker): I’ve been working with Nassault on a few upcoming videos - one which should be coming out tomorrow! He’s pretty creative so we’re very happy to have him with us. We’re also getting ready for the next update and think it’s so big it deserves its own name. One problem… we’re stumped on what to call it. Please take this brief SURVEY (which also will help me out with updated demographics information on our community!) with a chance to name our next update!

Ted (Ted): This past week has been spent finishing up 0.24 in QA and breaking it in with Experimentals. Additionally, QA has continued on a couple of other features that have come through the pipeline. Very pleased with how the Experimental Team are receiving the changes to 0.24, it was time very well spent.

Anthony (Rowsdower): If we properly nailed the point home here, you’ll know that 0.24 is in the experimentals phase right now. It’s the final phase of testing before release. Get stoked. Judging from early reaction, there’s no turning back this time Otherwise, I’ve been working on Kerbin Cup stuff, rule drafts and helping to restructure KSP-TV.

Eduardo (Lalo): Working with accounting on new processes and procedures

Rogelio (Roger): Out sick.

Hugo (The Intern): I’ve been addressing some simple issues with a couple of pieces. I also started the process of improving the aesthetics and behavior of several existing pieces inside the game. Looking forward for the new release and the upcoming work and news.

* Contracts:
You probably know about this one already. The Mission Control Facility at the space center now lets you take on contracts to earn Funds, Science and Reputation.

* Budget Essentials:
Career Mode is greatly expanded now by the addition of Funds and Reputation. Funds are required to launch vessels, and reputation is earned (and lost) by doing contracts (or failing them). In this release, your reputation is already used to regulate the level and amount of contracts offered you. Lower reputation means fewer and less prestigious contract offers, while high reputation means more and more ambitious proposals.

* Vessel Recovery:
Vessel recovery is also making its first appearance. Although still not complete, the new recovery system now lets you reclaim some of the cost of all landed parts, and any resources they still contain. The Science Summary Dialog of previous versions has been overhauled to also include information about recovered parts and crew.

* New UI Toolbar:
User interfaces in the game have been vastly overhauled, but the largest addition is the new app toolbar, which can be seen in most scenes now, and holds buttons to flip between the messages, resources, currencies and contract panels. Also, it’s mod-friendly.

* New MonoPropellant-Powered Engine and LFO-Powered RCS Thrusters:
The O-10 MonoPropellant Engine is a standard engine linked to main throttle controls, but powered by MonoProp. The Vernier Engine, conversely, is a Liquid Fuel+Oxidizer powered RCS unit. These should be interesting new additions to the stock parts set.

* Revised Tech Tree Layout:
To better fit the new engines above, we’ve updated the tech tree, giving the ‘flight control’ type nodes a much more logical progression, and added new paths to expand your way through the tree more freely.

* Repurposed Engine Nacelle parts:

Those grey, largely useless engine body sections are now given new purpose as combination air intake + fuel tank units, making them a lot more useful for building spaceplanes.

* Contracts:
Wie Ihr sicher schon wisst, könnt Ihr im Mission Control Gebäude eure Aufträge verwalten

* Budget Essentials:
Career Mode Ist im Großen Maße durch das Geld- und ReputationsSystem erweitert worden. Geld wird benötigt um Raketen zu Starten, und Reputation wird verdient (oder verloren) wen man Aufträge abschliest (oder eben nicht). In dem Release wird Reputation schon dafür genutzt die Schwierigkeit und die Menge an Aufträgen zu regulieren. Schlechter Ruf führt zu weniger prestigeträchtigeren Aufträgen während ein Guter Ruf dafür sorgt das Ihr schwierigere Aufgaben bekommt.

* Vessel Recovery:
Vessel recovery wird auch Ihren Sinn bekommen. Obwohl es noch nicht komplett fertig ist wird es möglich sein durch ein Recovertes Spacecraft einiges an Geld und Resourcen die noch darin vorhanden sind zurückzubekommen. Der Science Summary Dialog der vorherigen Versionen wurde auch überarbeitet und zeigt jetzt auch Infos über die recoverten Teile und Crewmitglieder

* New UI Toolbar:
Das User interfaces wurde großzügig überarbeitet. Die größte Änderung ist die neue App-Toolbar welche jetzt in fast jeder Ansicht zu sehen ist. Diese hat Buttons mit denen man zwischen Nachrichten, Resourcen , Aufträgen und Geldflüssen hin und herwechseln kann. Auserdem ist sie Super Mod-freundlich

*New MonoPropellant-Powered Engine and LFO-Powered RCS Thrusters:
Die O-10 MonoPropellant Engine ist ein Standardtriebwerk das über die normale Throttlesteuerung bedient wird aber mit MonoProp angetrieben wird. Das Vernier Triebwerk, hingegen, ist ein Liquid Fuel+Oxidizer RSC-Thruster. Das sollte einige interessante Änderungen für das Stock-Portfolio mit sich bringen.

* Revised Tech Tree Layout:
Um die oben genannten Triebwerke besser im Tech-tree unterzubringen wurde dieser auch ein wenig verändert dort gibt`s jetzt im ‘flight control’ Forschungszweig einen Logischeren Aufbau und auch neue Pfade um bei der Erforschung von Technologien weniger eingeschränkt zu sein.

* Repurposed Engine Nacelle parts:

Diese Grauen unnützen Teile sind jetzt eine kombination aus Fuel-Tank und Airintake was sie wesentlich nützlicher macht um Spaceplanes zu bauen.