About to play this for the first time, what am I in for

About to play this for the first time, what am I in for

Youre going to fail a lot, then once you learn how to build and fly properly youre going to fail again

You're gonna fuck up and after a while you might learn how to actually do shit or you will never learn at all if you're a retard. I've seen people claiming to have played for ages and still can't even get into mun orbit.

Delta V is the most important stat

Do the tutorials, then do science sandbox. Best way to learn how to play.

Also install Kerbal Engineer. Godsend.

Do career mode for the best overall experience, unless you just want to make shitty exploding ships, in which case just play sandbox mode.

Expect to fail a bunch and slowly learn. Don't be afraid to watch some videos on how to orbit and shit.

Get ready to understand more about orbital mechanics than you thought you ever would. Playing this game is required if you have any interest in space exploration.

>Get the game in 2011
>I had no idea what anything meant
>Could always get to the mun but always fail the landing
>Land on the mun but ship is in pieces but its the most intact it has ever has been
>Take a screenshot of it and make it the desktop background of my old laptop
>Laptop dies and I lose the picture forever

Don't be afraid to look around for mods already, game is barebone as fuck.

My greatest achievement is crash landing on the moon before they added the orbital map.

It's aerospace science minecraft, OP.
Shit is sooooo fun, I've been playing it since 2013.
Seek mods, there are a literal shitload of them

>mfw early build atmo mechanics were broke
>mfw build an infinite cruise glider
It was a triplane that took off with a small liquid fuel engine so i could get some real speed without tear apart at takeoff. then i blew that and fired up a solid fuel booster to get to high altitude. The early builds atmospheric density was messed up so all i had to do was dive and climb at the high alt boarder and I circumnavigated the globe with no power.

It's been a while since I played this. Is autopilot a thing or do you still have to get a mod?

MATH.

or installing addons that do the math for you like a because you're a fucking pussy.

Like this faggot.

You still need mods.

You have discovered a powerful way to canalize your autism OP, use it with caution
Cheese your first science points by experimenting inside the complex. Each different building is a different biome. When you launch a ship (or before), you can do an EVA clicking on the button that's in your character portrait and you can way get more science points that way. Shit isn't in the tutorial.

Isn't this the game that had anons go so autistic and retarded that /vg/ banned the game from ever being allowed to even be spoken of ever again there? I think it's the only game banned from being discussed there forever currently.

Doing it all by hand is part of the fun at first, then it gets tedious.

Yes.

There is a reason even Scott Manley uses Kerbal Engineer.
And it's exactly what said

I find it amazing that in a board that discusses FN@F, Undertale, several MMOs, engineer autism games and a billion pieces of waifushit, that this is the game that goes too far with autism for the entire board to handle.

That just shows how great it is.
Now if only they'd do it to stale and stagnant generals stuck in a porn/waifu/discord/"other assorted cancer" loop.

And to also think a general for map painting was too much for the jannies to handle.

An amazing game that could be on a whole other level if it's devs would do half the things suggested in the forums instead of leaving it all up to modders.

Not an orbit, that's sure.

>Isn't this the game that had anons go so autistic and retarded that /vg/ banned the game from ever being allowed to even be spoken of ever again there?

What? You're telling me Katawa Shoujo can get thousands of threads but KSP was too autistic for them to handle?

>tfw orbiting for the first time
>tfw making it to the Mun for the first time, horribly dying in the process
>tfw actually landing on the Mun for the first time, stranding your poor Kerbal
>tfw returning to Kerbin after landing on the Mun for the first time

Fuck, I have to reinstall.

Meant to quote

wha the fuck
how did this happen?

I once found an anomaly on Kerbin I wanted to investigate. Realizing I had all the right parts to do so, I built an SR-71 with a tiny bomb-bay with a single seat inside. The thing flew wonderfully and was able to get across the ocean to the target extremely fast. I let the guy in the back fall away, and then turned around. My plan was for the guy to parachute down, then hike to the anomaly. However, since this was in a mountain range, the parachutes never opened. I decided to try and limp the plane back home, but just before I could leave the mountain range, the thing destabilized and exploded for some unknown reason. I'm still mad.

A desire to talk about the game and then a sad realisation that it's banned from /vg/.

Give a proper explanation without using buzzwords like autism. Why was it banned from /vg/? That sounds retarded as fuck.

Autism.

The game became so over-discussed that everything interesting had been done, so all that was left was bitching about the devs and Reddit. This too got stale, so it became offtopic about nothing at all. Then they started raiding other generals.

Bear in mind this process took several years.

People actually played the game and had decent discussions without any "BLOCKS UR PATH" "I love [INSERT WAIFUBAIT]" [I want to fuck [INSERT WAIFUBAIT]".

You can get to every single planet without cheating, using vanilla without doing a single math equation.

I never did any math with it really, I didn't think there was math to really do. I just built rockets bigga and redder to go faster

>get to the moon for the first time ever
>barely stick the landing
>play the ducktales moon song while walking arround
>well time to go back
>run out of fuel halfway though, stuck in an orbit millions of kilometers around the earth

woah

There was a webm of a guy spending hours making a rocket and custom flag for it. When it landed on the Mun(Moon)
He revealed the flag and it was a picture of his pet snakes penis.

Then people would start posting cat penis.

I didn't do any math either, even though I like math. You don't need to do any external calculations to use the in-game interface and determine how to pilot and use fuel the most efficiently.

Trust me, it's better this way. /kspg/ was a terrible place.

Every time I play KSP I get caught up in dicking around on Kerbin instead of going to space. Rate my mobile science lab delivery craft.

Can you essentially fuck yourself in the campaign and end up with not enough resources? Did they patch this shit? Ever since one big update, it still felt very unpolished.

I spent all my time trying to fly a ship to the north pole, that could eventually land and drive there. But when I got to the north pole, my ship went straight through the textures and blew up. Bullshit and never wanted to play again.

>tfw the fun is sucked away when you realized large space stations get laggy as fuck due to so many parts

Yes you can. That is why I whored the shit out of tourism missions.

I made a super cheap Launch system that sent 4-5 passengers into LEO for just 19,500. It usually got me around 50K for a full pod. I just grinded doing that till I had enough money for deep space missions that can provide funding.

Sat missions are also piss easy once you get the hang of it. But the exact path you have to put them on is annoying as shit sometimes as they can be fickle.

What I would do if you are not sure is just play sandbox mode with the exact rocket you made in campaign to test it so you can reload the launch and save,etc. Assuming you are playing on normal anyway.

I think they had a mod where you can make space stations that count as only a few parts(ports have to be counted separate I think)
But yes it does suck because I made a giant Space Colony in Vanilla (Bankrupting myself doing it) and I had to destroy it because it would super lag.

Build that shit anyways.

>All those mini RC tanks
>All those ports
>All those batteries

It was my first station-turned-spacecraft back in 0.18.

I've not gotten any better.