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Kerbal thread?

I was always interested in this flavor of autism. If I want in is there a older version I should torrent or can I just use the most recent build?

>>14469949

Its a top-tier game. Its worth paying money for imo. Even if the developers are dirty spics.

>>14469949

To answer your question though, its made with Unity and there is no DRM so you can pirate it pretty easily.

>>14469798

I use mechjeb to automatically sync my orbits and then dock manually (which is fucking easy as long as you’re not mentally ill). Real world rendezvous maneuvers are handled totally by computers, so I’m not going to waste my time doing that shit manually. I’ll do what the astronauts do.

You have to match your spin with the retro thrusters

>>14469949

Why not just use the most recent one? I haven’t played in a few years because the spics refuse to update, so I’m going to download 1.4 (which just came out), throw a few mods on and get back to building.

>>14470001

arent they working an an expansion set to release this month?

>>14469935

Once you're at that point you can ignore the rendezvous nodes in the map mode. Just focus on the gimbal and the normal view.

If you want to do it the easy way:

>find the retrograde marker on the gimbal

>accelerate along it until your relative speed with the target is (close to) zero

If you want to do it slightly more difficult (and likely fuel efficient) start here instead:

>(1)

>find the Target icon on the gimball

>thrust until your prograde velocity icon lines up with the target icon

>(be ready to decelerate)

>once you get close enough or if you miss the target significantly, decelerate so your relative speed is (close to) zero

>if not close enough, goto (1)

Once you're really close, you can set the docking port as target. Also "Control from here" on your ship's docking port if it's in a weird place. Then you just approach slowly, preferably in a straight line, until the docking ports touch and the two ships connect. A straight approach is when the target icon, prograde vector icon and you ship's direction (the dot in the v shape in the middle) are all on top of each other.

>>14470566 (checked)

Yaaay threads over.

What are you going to do to celebrate anon?

>>14470006

>>14470195

>>14470135

>>14470038

>you should do by hand what computers do in the real world because autism is good

Nah. You’re suffering from genuine mental illness.

>>14470575

eat dinner?

my entire day was wasted on this

>>14470566

Keep your part count as low as possible when building space stations anon.

Unless you have supercomputer your framerate will plummet when there is a lot of parts loaded at once.

I came back to it a month or two ago and was surprised to find how much new content was added. I started a new campaign and got hooked all over again. I figured they'd give up after 1.0. I guess NASA keeps chucking shekels at them.

I still don't like career mode, but science mode is much more challenging with the new shit (stolen from mods) they added, like communication relaying, mapping, and heat modeling. No more shooting a single probe out to the depths of the solar system to earn half your tech tree, but at the same time it forces you to earn science doing the gayest shit like running a vehicle around the KSP headquarters every time you get a new sensor. It really needs to be balanced better. There's no good reason why the flagpole is its own biome while 80% of Kerbin's land is the same 5 biomes. I'd like to see them model it more like the Mun, where there are separate biomes for unique features.

>>14470577

Please take this weak bait back to cuckchan where it belongs.

Do the orbital rendezvous tutorial. In fact, it's worth doing all the complex tutorials because it's gonna be a bitch trying to trial and error that shit.

Even when you know how to orbital rendezvous properly, it's still a bastard.

>>14471397

Do the tutorials anon, and practice practice practice. There's a tutorial specifically on going to the Mun. Getting into orbit of Kerbin is the hard part, after that you just need enough fuel. The game is kind enough to let you rewind and correct any errors in your craft. Re-entry can suck too, so don't fuck around with a large re-entry pod when you're learning, just the command module with some heat sinks on it.

>>14470566

Why'd you make a giant space crossbow?

>>14469798

Do it the way they do in space:

Slow down to put yourself in a tighter orbit, which will cause you to fly under the target object. You're going slower, but you have less distance to cover, which allows you to overtake the target.

Then, you speed up to pull yourself into the target orbit and intercept.

Orbits: you speed up to slow down and slow down to speed up.

>>14471566

that's pretty much what i did on the successful attempt

i was going higher orbit before that, because the current orbit is already so low that i can't skip enough time, and ironically this made me waste more time because it was even harder to get close that way

>>14471593

And you can always use the orbit planner tool to make sure you're on the right track. That makes orbital manuevers pretty much foolproof, at least in the Kerbin system. Just remember to change your orbital inclination if you're targeting Minmus.

Interplanetary is a little tricker. You should use a calculator to find the optimal start position and angle for the planet you're trying to intercept.

>>14471552

>KSP DS9

Nice.

>>14471593

I remember when they first added the Mun, they hadn't yet implemented Kerbin's rotation. So the Mun would always be in the same place at the same time on the mission timer. You could basically plan the encounter without using the map at all, just based on a strict timetable.

>>14472291

If you wait for the Mun to be in the correct spot, you can just burn straight up and get a perfect encounter with it.

>>14470566

I really, really suggest getting the Docking Port Alignment Indicator mod. Once you work out how to read the fucking thing it makes docking so much easier because you don't have to fuck with the camera endlessly.

>>14472506

Moreover, it makes it feasible to do the entire final approach from the cockpit view. Especially if you have the enhanced IVA mod that lets you use a proper docking camera.

>>14472661

Eventually I gave up Career mode and just started to fuck around in Sandbox with hyperedit for the same reasons.

>put science base in orbit around Minmus

>timewarp

>win

>build a relatively small, nuclear-powered vehicle with a mining drill meant for travelling to moons, refuelling, then returning to the kerbin space station

>haha, now I can never run out of fuel

>run out of fuel attempting a Gilly encounter

Fuck you, Gilly.

>>14469994

> I’ll do what the astronauts do.

Whatever, diaper man.

>>14469798

>1. instal machjeb mod

>2. engage randevous autopilot

>3. engage docking autopilot

>4. ?

>5. profit

>>14476475

>1. Install mechjeb mod

>2. Engage rendezvous autopilot

>3. Engage docking autopilot

>4. Watch it piss all of your RCS out into space by moving around randomly

Anyway, a rare KSP thread? And the day before the first ever DLC releases? Seems shilly to me.

>>14476514

whats the content anyway?

i saw some saturn V parts and some sojuz R7 parts

anything else?

>>14476514

>Seems shilly to me.

In what reality is it shilling to not talk about or even hint at the thing supposedly being shilled? I didn't even know there was a DLC coming until this post; don't you think that's just a little bit at odds with the entire concept of shilling?

>>14476549

It's those new Saturn and Soyuz parts as well as a mission creation tool. Doesn't seem worth $15 to me. I'm sure some people will create some interesting missions with it (looks like you can schedule parts to fail at certain points of the mission), but still…meh.

>>14476549

for parts, a few pointless """historically accurate""" engines, few capsules, a solid rocket booster, and another pointless middleground radius fuel tank. the big thing is that it adds a mission/scenerio maker-editor thing, although it's kind of pointless within itself. not worth the 15 bucks, it's essentially a crappy stockalike mod they want to charge you for.

>>14476514

Wait, there's new content for KSP coming tomorrow? Nice. I hope I won't have to wait too long for a Linux torrent.

>>14471379

>>14475101

>fact is bait

>I have literal autism

Just kill yourself.

>>14472354

Don’t get me wrong, I do everything else by hand. Launches, landings, docking, transfer burns, etc. I just don’t rendezvous by hand. Because fuck that shit.

>>14476587

>I’m sure some people will create some interesting missions with it

I bet they’ll be limited to stock part requirements, which is a damn shame. Still, I hope to find a “one month to Eeloo” mission and beat the shit out of it.

>(looks like you can schedule parts to fail at certain points of the mission)

Apollo 13 Simulator 2018

>>14476672

>I do everything else by hand. Launches, landings, docking, transfer burns, etc. I just don’t rendezvous by hand

I happen to think you're a great warrior anon ;3

don't let other mean people tell you what you can and can't do >:(

*wugs you* ΟωΟ(wuv+hug)

But the DLC is already out..

I got the GoG version from goodolddownloads.

>>14472661

If you farm all the biomes on Kerbin and the Mun, it's probably enough to unlock the entire tech tree.

Here's someone (not me; I fucking WISH it were) getting nearly all the science possible to get, back before most places even had as many biomes as they do, and it's already absurd overkill.