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When Scott said "who cares about the tutorial, I'm flying this sucker" I can only imagine him just yeeting the rocket to the island while skipping the countdown and killing all of the kerbals in one swift blow
Oh yeah. Even though I was experienced, I still sometime forgot to check the staging and ended up with opened parachute even before launch (and several time didn't notice it until I realize I couldn't open the parachute on the way back)
Personally, I think that KSP 2 should have both the parts manager and the ability to right click stuff. Cause there's definitely a use case for the manager as you said, but right clicking is both more intuitive and convenient if you ask me.
@@particle_wave7614 Yeah, I do, but thanks for the tip. Still think it'd be beneficial to have both though, just for the sake of a pop up menu being mode simple. And plus, I'm not too keen on how big the manager is and that it displays over other menus too. Hopefully we'll see it get improved over EA at least, I mean, that's the whole purpose of EA at the end of the day.
I'm sure matt isn't the only person who stranded some kerbals. That would be a fun little thing though, missions you can take to rescue kerbals. They give no money, but tons of reputation. Maybe reputation should also be made more important? Like maybe there's a crowdfunding mechanic where kerbals across the world can give 'donations' that just manifests as essentially a monthly income, and the higher your reputation, the higher the income?
tbh i kinda wanna be able to see other players flags and read their plaques and see the date and time the flag was planted. its not "multiplayer" but it might be a nice feature. maybe like the blood pools in dark souls. and also allow you to filter player names, or steam friends or something. would be nice to see a forest of flags on the mun after a year or so (and obviously be able to hide them, or even have them turned off by default).
I saw that too! To be honest that does make sense, since it is technically just a stylized solid rocket booster desgined to be put on the front of the rocket than the back.
I love the fact that the exhaust plumes spread out as you go further into vacuum. Its not an important detail, but one that really gives it the edge visually
Too bad there are no atmospheric rocket contrails (yet?), small details like these get ruined for me when there are bigger and more evident effects missing at the same time.
@@xdgamerabdo8518 It seems like a lot of the core stuff is in place, and the devs seem relatively prepared to fill in the existing gaps. Considering how much COVID messed stuff up for other games, we can at least say that there aren't many game-breaking bugs right off at the start.
God. They did it. Its KSP, not some Frankenstein monster. Props to the team, great job! My worst fear was they would ruin the feeling, but it’s… KSP, but better. KSP 2.
@@space__idklmao It's going to be that way until we get a little down the roadmap. Once we get to colonies and interstellar travel, the game is going to feel huge lol
@@boydrobertson2362 BETTER?!? This is complete dog crap. This is the video that has convinced me to not even bother getting KSP2 or even check back years from now to see if they fixed it.
@@Thorgon-Cross chill mate, i don't want to be a customer service employee here, but i am quite happy to know why you hate KSP? Like there are issues with KSP2 but this is an early access and the bug/imperfect stuff is normal :)
47:29 Seeing Bill dancing while you're leaving him behind cut my suply of oxygen LMAO You better do a rescue mission once the game comes out! Poor guy :(
@@Euer_Hochwuergen Why does that matter? All the same mechanics of KSP are present, and unchanged for the most part. It's just wrapped in a prettier coat of paint, nothing wrong with that. It breathes more life into the feeling of getting into space for new and old players and gives the game more personality while retaining the same core design. Of all the flaws that the current Alpha has, I really do believe sound design is the LEAST of them entirely.
yeah, the voices for me justify buying KSP2, turns every mission so more imersive, looks like the music tone changes too when you are doing something tense
when you right click a part it should use the ksp1 menu, and there should be a separate button to open the parts manager. And then if you have the parts manager opened and you right click a part it should just open in the parts manager. This is the best of both worlds I'd say. Because when needing to quickly transfer fuel or kerbals whilst the craft isn't spinning around or anything, opening the parts manager and finding the correct parts seems like it'd be quite the hassle. I also liked how you could pin the menus in ksp1, so you could monitor specific fuel tanks etc.
i was thinking exactly this. ill often want to monitor multiple parts at once and have them sitting in different areas of the screen while driving/flying. having to scroll down a list of parts and look at one at a time is a MASSIVE step backwards
@@ICKY427 Exactly! Though I'm not that worried, either the devs also add the old system back in or modders will do it. Because we can't be the only ones who liked the old system I assume
I know its a coincidence from this stream being from a special event, but during assembly, have matt's, scott's and other content creators commenting as ambient noise is kind of awesome. It matches the ample assembly building sound profile. Amazing.
Doesn't look all that promising 3 weeks before launch. I'm glad people like you can test it, the devs have time to fix it, and I can buy it a year later in a solid state. Thanks for that.
Jeb when he flies untitled space craft in ksp1: I’m gonna die again aren’t I, LETS DO THIS Jeb in ksp2 when he flies fly safe: I’m gonna die again aren’t I, LETS DO THIS
Hands Lowne(down), this was the best video to have come out of the ESA event. Love how Matt takes time to share details about what he saw and what he played over an hour whereas the videos released by the other attendees were like 15 minutes and didn't show much.
I have watched a few of the special preview event videos but yours was the most informative, it has taught me to lower my expectations (I am still getting it on Friday!). Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this footage with us to help us get a better idea about the game. Ngl it was smart from your part to do a Apollo style mun mission as your first video, not only is this one of the first thing people do in ksp this also showcase docking, rendez-vous, landing, re-entry and basic orbital mechanics. After watching i've got a much better idea about what to expect from the initial release.
The developer team must include the memorials for all the Kerbals that died on the pre-release event, at the locations they died, as their sacrifice is instrumental to the science!
24:51 i remember a video years ago where the devs claimed they played many hundreds of hours of KSP, yet they left out that crucial right click node feature. I find it hard to believe that they really put in the hours that they claimed.
i have been playing KSP since the beta, and have put so, so much time into it. I have been holding so many reservations on ksp2, thinking they couldn't possibly be so many improvements and changes and now... i cant wait to get it.
@@Thorgon-Cross Use different landing gear or different engine if it's too difficult for you to press 2 and use the move tool. But that would make sense given your braindead comments all over this place
@@nicazer Yes I know how to use the move tool. The point is you should not need the move tool to have your landing gear floating in air just to reach past the short engines made for landing. Before you go calling other peoples comments braindead you should check your own...
Hey Matt, the thing that caused you to start spinning in your lander was trimming, in KSP1 thats when you hold ALT + WASD. It trims towards whatever you pressed at the time. My guess is you wanted to use physical timewarp and had ALT pressed while also pressing S and D from what I can see.
I've never personally played the first KSP. I just love the videos you and the community make in the game. I've been wanting to play it lately, but I decided to wait for KSP 2 because by the time I would have learned how to actually play the first one, this one would already be out.
Honestly the graphics can wait, and are the first things to be modded anyway. This video really showed me that we're working from a strong foundation of QOL improvements that, I think, I will carry KSP2 well into the future as a worthy successor!
Honestly I fear that the game is too poorly optimized to allow for some larger mods. Even with just the base game with just about the most powerful computer you can reasonably put together assuming you aren't spending tens of thousands of dollars the game looks laggy. This is a HUGE red flag for adding other large mods (god forbid modpacks) as there is a good chance that 90% of the computers people have out there just cannot handle KSP2 with additional mods at this point
By far my favorite KSP player. 🙌 The Vanilla experience of KSP2 is Night and Day! Most console players don’t even have those mods! Definitely getting KSP2 on February 24th! 🥳
I'm excited to watch this video- AFTER I do my first KSP2 Mun landing. But your videos never disappoint so I'm commenting and giving it a thumbs up now.
@@maxv9464 AFAIK it basically is, the sphere around a body where it is the primary gravitational influence. I’m no expert lol that’s just how I remember it
@@maxv9464 Actually isn't, infact the sphere of influence works only as a two body problem where the primary is the massive body (Planet/Moon ecc..) and the spacecraft mass is irrelevant, while Hill regions (like Hill spheres) are a result of circular restricted three body problems, specifically are the zero velocity surfaces and curves where the spacecraft motion can take place. Those comes by an inequality with the Jacobi integral, but the answer will be too long. Substantially Hills regions are much more complex and realistic , giving in 3D the whole points a spacecraft can moves between two primaries, one less massive than the other kne, (like earth-moon problems), while the sphere of influence Is used with Patched conics approximations for interplanetary trajectories , and describe the region where the gravitazional pull of the body is greater than the one of the sun, and that's why It can be approximated as a two body problems instead of three. The sphere of influence Is quite good for preliminare design of interplanetary missions, while earth-moon missions or in general moons (like Io, Callisto ecc...) require quite more attenction as the distances between the massive bodies are too small to garantee a good approximation. Hope my answer is understandable !
Hey Matt! Can’t wait for this to come out. Also I’m happy to announce I finally landed on the Mun for the first time in KSP since I got it in September!! 🎉🎉
KSC looks absolutely amazing... almost a mini Atlantis with the concentric ring of water 😅 Kerbin looks really good. Crazy to consider them visuals and "Stock" in the same context.
Considering that the heat shield is on the other side of where the landing module is coupled, I guess you could have try to bring the lander with bill inside and try to land it on Kerbin. Maybe Parachuting bill out after the atmosphere ingress and decoupling it before opening the capsule chutes.
5090, a card that doesn't exist. What CPU did they use, RAM? Which is also important. Especially when calculations going on in the background. It's an early access release it will have performance problems and bugs and missing content. How good of an early access title it will be ? We have to wait for the first couple of days after release and upcoming weeks/months. I wouldn't set my expectations insanely high for the very first early access stage.
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@@BrikkTopX it was a ryzen 9 7950x, rtx 4080, 64 gb of ram. The game was running 20 fps when launching a rocket with 151 parts
I prefer the right click menus, I don't want to have to scroll through all of the parts on my craft when I only care about one part. And since you can pin menus you can have multiple things open at the same time, when flying an ssto you care about your intake air, fuel levels, and rapier thrust, with the new parts manager do you have to be constantly scrolling between them? The ship spinning out of control problem is a non-issue when you can pause the game with time warp 0 and still interact with things. I hope they can add right click menus back as an option in the future but at the very least right clicking the part should open that parts entry in the parts manager to cater to the old players
Fully agreed. I use the pin feature a lot, for complex crafts you absolutely need to. It doesn't help every element of the new UI is massive. Looks gorgeous, but if this is how it looks in 1440p, I dread having to try playing on my 1080p screen. There's some rough edges, but I'm sure they'll work out the kinks in due time. Not like I have to buy the game before it's in a state I'd play it in.
I can say with certainty, that the "Lowne Lazy Method of Docking" is absolutely something that many of us did within minutes of the SAS target modes being introduced (it's also nearly the docking procedure that was used for the Lunar Apollo CSM/LM docking). It's probably one of those things like auto strut that is obvious if you have a problem, but without a specific problem to solve, you wouldn't be able to figure out how to do it. Like, someone that doesn't rendezvous much (a lot of people still can't because it _is_ challenging) wouldn't try to figure out how to dock quickly, or someone that mostly docks large station pieces together, probably wouldn't want to have the large construction constantly adjusting its attitude.
40:27 Whenever my craft tumbles for no apparent reason, I assume it's because I held down the ALT key at some point and accidentally trimmed the pitch or yaw. ALT+X to zero out trim if that ever happens to you.
When they announced that they would start early access with basically just a sandbox i was worried that we would get a half-finished mess because the funds ran out. But this looks like a very fun experience as is! very nice.
Ksp2 really separates Kerbin from Earth because the Kerbals really have fun with space exploration and they're all just happy to be part of the crew :D
I'm so stoked for this game, one thing I've always had a curiosity about though with the design, typically these maneuvers are very planned out in execution prior to a rocket ever being built, because they would need to build the vehicle to fit the mission, but in kerbal space program, it's more like, build a rocket, make maneuvers up on the fly, and hope it works
I absolutely love the design. I think this will end up like Red Dead 2 in the sense that it was designed for next gen hardware in order to bring out the game's full graphical potential. I can already feel the thousands of hours I'm going to spend in this game slipping through my fingers. Good health and fortune to the developers, and may they continue to work on the game with the same passion they have so far until it is done!
I think you've summed it up perfectly as to why its performing poorly, but that doesn't really work with a game with such a low number of users in comparison. Lets just hope it doesnt go the way of RDR2 Online and end up abandoned by Take 2's demands.
I've always found this length of video a lot more 'natural' for KSP and I have no issues skipping around the video if I feel the need to speed something up.
Super excited for the game! I am worried about how much they are promising to do later though, I realize that this is a beta but no AutoStrut is worrisome for how many other small things that I use on my crafts wont be there on launch...
I'm not optimistic. It doesn't seem to be very well optimized based on the specs he listed just to run at 1440p 60fps. It's also weird in my opinion for a sequel to have less content than the original at launch.
@@aethlred7380 Remember that this isn't at launch. This is Early Access, which means the game is still in development. Don't think of this as a completed game, think of it as them sending it out and asking "Hey, this is what we have so far, what advice do you, the player, have before we finish it?" Early Access isn't the same as a game on launch
@@matthewdossantos1414 The game is also $50 for early access which is pretty steep for how little we are really getting. I'm just approaching this with as little hype as I think I should. too many games have released recently where they have been huge disappointments
@@Xollll tbh im more optimistic about this game than other games like cyberpunk due to the much higher transparency from the devs. i wont be blinded by hype, but i am hopeful that this game will turn into something great.
@@matthewdossantos1414 yes I'm aware of what early acess is. But I'm not paying to be an alpha tester. It's a sequel it should launch completed. The fanbase is very specific with no alternatives it will still be there if you had to delay another year to actually finish the game or to atleast have the first ones content fully transferred. I understand a stance of dripfeeding stuff like multi-player and interstellar travel but to be missing stuff from the original just isn't acceptable. And stuff like optimization is a pain to improve so that likely won't change much just more powerful computer parts will launch making the game run better.
So glad that you saw the tumbling as well. I tried 3 Mun launches and ended up tumbling on every single one and my fuel mysteriously disappeared out of my current stage. Glad it's not just me!
I am quite excited about KSP2. however I am a bit puzzled about what happened. The game really feel unpolished for the number of development years that they spent on it. This demo really feels like a development build you would provide to QA for early comments. I think that I will wait until next fall to order it. The bugs pointed out by Matt are super basic and should not have been there in an early release. This is weird and feels rushed out. I do believe that in the end, the community will make everything works.
I absolutely agree lots of bugs and horrible performance on several parts. And wheel physichs and ground physichs even kerbal physics leaves alot to be desired compared to the first game.
I take it you haven't actually seen what "dev build for QA's early comments" really looks like. It's also so weird to hear someone talk about "polish" based on the number of development years.
@@NACLGames LOL SBG, I am an R&D Director at a software development firm (dead serious). So yeah ... I do know what a dev build and QA are. And yes, I do still think that the build that they provided to the youtuber is unpolished. They knew for fact that these clips would be all over youtube, and they took the hard decision to let them play on that build, knowing that delaying the release would have a nastier effect on the community than showing it unpolished. It is fine they did it, but after 4 years and all the features kicked out (Science, multi system, mp, colonies ...), I would have expected something cleaner so close to the release date.
@@steph4050 absolutely too many people talking about them playing on an old build and such and it will supposedly be better😝. The build in the video is the very best they had on offer 3-4 weeks ago. And it will be very very similar to the release on the 24th not enough time to fix major issues. Whole thing is being pushed out top down way to early by 2K financial guys.
@@Infernal_Elf Indeed, the publisher push is a strong possibility. I know the game will be awesome in the long term, but I am afraid that they could create bad publicity by releasing too early. Changing a community opinion on a game is extremely hard to do. We all know the Cyberpunk story ;)
The rockets look good, but the clouds are extremely low resolution. Kerbin in general looks much worse than modded KSP1. But the worst thing is not that, but the optimisation. The game feels extremely slow at times and we're talking about a 4080. To top it off, the game has no content after a lot of years of development. I understand that people get caught up in the excitement of a game we love, but realistically, things don't look good. Disappointment is on the way.
Yep. It's why I'm pirating it when it launches. When you have a sequel with 0 extra content and actually missing stuff from the original is a bad start. Also needing a 4080 for 1440p and 60fps is insane. That's something a middle to upper tier 30 series should do.
The ships and plumes look really good but the clouds are on a 2d plane after you fly above them and look pretty flat and have that odd tiled look to them. Not a patch on the proper volumic cloud mods in ksp1. The ground looks very basic compared to that parallax mod and doesn't even have collision meshes on anything. The lack of reentry heating is disappointing as well. And yeah, it will take them a year or more to get the feature set up to ksp1. I know ksp1 was pretty barebones when it first launched but it wasnt 50 quid and wasnt hyped like this. Releasing the game in this state so your customers can pay to be your bugtesters is a bit of a cheek tbh. Im gonna hold off getting it till its got more content.
@@aethlred7380 Well I'm running Microsoft Flight Sim in a way better graphics fidelity in 1440p @ 40 fps on GTX 1070. This pixel art running @ 60 on 4080 is just a no go.
that hour felt like nothing... i never looked at your channel before even tho i love KSP1, and youtube must know that i came back to it for KSP2 launch because it suggested this video to me, and i loved it ! I would have absolutely loved to have the opportunity to play it early access, but i'll be happy enough once it releases, what i've seen from your video already makes me all excited and hopefull for it ! :D
Great video. I enjoyed watching. KSP2 looks like a hot mess. Very bummed seeing they've over promised and are basically going to release a glorified tech demo. I was hopeful they would at least deliver a game equal in features to KSP1. Thanks for the video Matt. I will be staying with modded KSP for now. I look forward to seeing your next KSP2 video's.
They did rebuild the game from the ground up. To redo everything that took years to implement in KSP1, WITHOUT the community feedback KSP1 had thanks to being in early access, would make the game worse than it is now. That's... the point of releasing it in early access.
@@MirrorHall_Clay KSP wasn't a $50 early access release. It was $8 when I bought it. KSP2 is still in a horrible state after the updates. If you're happy with the state of KSP2, good on you. I'm not. I stand by what I said. After 5 months it's still a featureless tech demo full of unfulfilled promises. I hope your optimism is rewarded with a good game with all promises kept. Have a beautiful day. I hope all your dreams come true.
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SYSTEM SPECS for this gameplay:
CPU: Ryzen 9 7900X
GPU: RTX 4080
RAM: 32 GB
1440p resolution, I am unsure what the graphics settings were beyond this as it was setup beforehand and we were advised not to change anything.
I have been following you for 4years or something
You are incredible keen up the good work
WAIT YOU DIDNT SAY IT WAS ON KSP2 OMGMGMGMGG AND ALSO AN HOUR LONG VIDEO ARUGEZUZEGIUE
yeah i can't run this game with my rx 580 ngl
Thats not a good sign
Attleast some of us have enugh juice in their PCs. Anyway when do we get footage of you playing with someone else?
Bill Kerman:
- first kerbal to step foot on the mun
- plant a territorial flag
- hit the griddy
- is left to die
giga chad
hit the kriddy*
the griddy caught me off-guard 💀
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I would like this comment but its at 420 likes rn and I am not going to be the guy that ruins that, so consider the following: 👍
Matt playing KSP 2 for first time, and he already needs a Blunderbirds mission
To be fair he didn't kill any kerbals like many of us have on our first mission.
Edit: guys I was wrong.
@@Anvil1137 yeah he did, he just loaded the quick save
@@Anvil1137 you can clearly see at 43:01 he killed two of them
Okay yes. You're both right. It would appear that I'm not exactly that eagle-eyed part among Matt's audience. 😅
Lets hope the people who hosted the convention can provide the save file lol
When Scott said "who cares about the tutorial, I'm flying this sucker" I can only imagine him just yeeting the rocket to the island while skipping the countdown and killing all of the kerbals in one swift blow
upon watching his video, you predicted it pretty much 100% 🤣
bro did you see his video or did you genuinely just predict all of that
thats EXACTLY what he did lol
@@CallsignJubilee I AM TOO GOOD AT THIS
@@OmerFlame U legend
"I should have checked all of this before I pressed launch." The most Kerbal way to launch a space craft.
Oh yeah. Even though I was experienced, I still sometime forgot to check the staging and ended up with opened parachute even before launch (and several time didn't notice it until I realize I couldn't open the parachute on the way back)
Personally, I think that KSP 2 should have both the parts manager and the ability to right click stuff. Cause there's definitely a use case for the manager as you said, but right clicking is both more intuitive and convenient if you ask me.
and way less cluttered!
You probably know this by now, but you can still right click on parts. It just goes directly to that part in the parts manager.
@@particle_wave7614 that's useful information, thanks
@@particle_wave7614 Yeah, I do, but thanks for the tip. Still think it'd be beneficial to have both though, just for the sake of a pop up menu being mode simple. And plus, I'm not too keen on how big the manager is and that it displays over other menus too. Hopefully we'll see it get improved over EA at least, I mean, that's the whole purpose of EA at the end of the day.
Okay, hear me out. Devs should immortalize this, by placing Bill on the Mun to be resuced by default
This would be so cool!!!
Absolutely. It should be the first rescue contract from the surface of the Mun
@@vicroc4 and it should be mandatory 😂😂😂
I'm sure matt isn't the only person who stranded some kerbals.
That would be a fun little thing though, missions you can take to rescue kerbals. They give no money, but tons of reputation.
Maybe reputation should also be made more important? Like maybe there's a crowdfunding mechanic where kerbals across the world can give 'donations' that just manifests as essentially a monthly income, and the higher your reputation, the higher the income?
Abso-fucking-lutely
WAIT! I DIDNT KNOW YOU WOULD BE DOING THIS WITH KSP 2! HOLY SH*T! THIS IS AWESOME! AND ITS AN HOUR LONG! OH MY GOOOOOOODDD!!!!!
GHEOZGHZIOUGH I THOUGHT IT WAS ON KSP1 TOO I CANT WAIT TO WATCH IT THANKS GODDD
He play at a game event
ME TOO I DINDT THINK IT WAS GOING TO BE WHIT KSP2 IM FREAKING OUT SO MUCH HIPE SJSJSJDJSJSKQKAISLWLFLOCLCLENABWBEKGLVODOQJEVRVAGGAG
same haha
Hello
Okay but hear me out Matt:
Building a rollercoaster park next to your colony in KSP 2
(once you're able to build colonies of course)
rollercoaster? seems like "adventure woods" but in KSP 2
@@spaceflight001 exactly, that's the point. "Adventure Mun"
We need to include all the variety of "Tycoon" games bundled into KSP 2 eventually.
Because someone's gotta pay for our space programme!
"I have complete faith in the development team." Well that didn't age well.
25:46 don’t be scared to say that the new plumes are better than Waterfall - the person who made Waterfall is on the KSP2 dev team!
The physics look like Danny is going to have a field day with this game.
God Danny will unleash the Kraken the second he plays it lol
The game is gonna say “harder danny” at the end
The KSP2 devs: “We want to kill the Kraken, and that also means that if your name is “Danny”, you are not allowed to play this game”
I can't wait.
Danny2462?
I WILL NEVER skip the countdown. Fricken adorable
I wonder if it was one of the devs kids
lol say that in a year. lol
Say that in a years time
@@abaani8554 Challenge accepted, I will never skip the countdown :)
Yes you will
22:40 they announce successful separation AND we can hear cheering in the background!! This is so sweet haha
Now imagine the crashes 😂
On a technicality, Matt has built the very first Kerbal Kolony on another planetary body in KSP2.
No one said the colonists have to survive.
Imagine if the devs put a gravestone on the Mun where matt left Bill
that would be awesome
@@CallMeLudwig NO, THAT WOULD NOT BE AWESOME. BILL Don't you worry buddy im coming for you!!!!
Kerbals live off of nothing im sure he will be fine! Definitely lonely but fine.
First Mun contract on career mode: A munstray Bill surviving on ice?
tbh i kinda wanna be able to see other players flags and read their plaques and see the date and time the flag was planted. its not "multiplayer" but it might be a nice feature. maybe like the blood pools in dark souls. and also allow you to filter player names, or steam friends or something. would be nice to see a forest of flags on the mun after a year or so (and obviously be able to hide them, or even have them turned off by default).
10:26 There is your launch escape system right? Under the solid fuel booster tab
completely right!
I saw that too! To be honest that does make sense, since it is technically just a stylized solid rocket booster desgined to be put on the front of the rocket than the back.
Nice catch!
I saw it too!
I love the fact that the exhaust plumes spread out as you go further into vacuum. Its not an important detail, but one that really gives it the edge visually
Was already possible in KSP 1 with mods but yes, it's neat.
@@lb2791Sure, it's possible _with_ mods.
But I consider it more impressive when it's actually done _by default_ in an unmodded game.
Too bad there are no atmospheric rocket contrails (yet?), small details like these get ruined for me when there are bigger and more evident effects missing at the same time.
I just realised this is the video we’ll all come back to in 5 years as ‘Matt’s first KSP2 video’ and it gave me chills
See you in five years!
Lol hopefully it gets better its trash now
@@xdgamerabdo8518 dont worry, it will. That’s why its an early acces!
@@thespacepeacock yeah I know but I was still disappointed it shouldn’t even be on early acess
@@xdgamerabdo8518 It seems like a lot of the core stuff is in place, and the devs seem relatively prepared to fill in the existing gaps. Considering how much COVID messed stuff up for other games, we can at least say that there aren't many game-breaking bugs right off at the start.
God. They did it. Its KSP, not some Frankenstein monster. Props to the team, great job!
My worst fear was they would ruin the feeling, but it’s… KSP, but better. KSP 2.
It looks like KSP but shinier and Discord-themed
@@space__idklmao It's going to be that way until we get a little down the roadmap. Once we get to colonies and interstellar travel, the game is going to feel huge lol
@@boydrobertson2362 if that stuff works out
@@boydrobertson2362 BETTER?!? This is complete dog crap. This is the video that has convinced me to not even bother getting KSP2 or even check back years from now to see if they fixed it.
@@Thorgon-Cross chill mate, i don't want to be a customer service employee here, but i am quite happy to know why you hate KSP? Like there are issues with KSP2 but this is an early access and the bug/imperfect stuff is normal :)
47:29 Seeing Bill dancing while you're leaving him behind cut my suply of oxygen LMAO
You better do a rescue mission once the game comes out! Poor guy :(
They didn't give him the savefile :(
@@VORASTRA not like he wouldn't be able to re-do it
@@xXCursedWorgenXx
Matt: _Strands Bill on the mun_
Devs: "We can't let you keep this save, sorry"
Matt: "I'll fuckin' do it again"
somebody swapped your O2 tank with an N2O tank.
Love the cute cheering when stage separation is confirmed
idk thats one of the things that makes me nervous that it could be just too much mainstream focus in the end
@@Euer_Hochwuergen Why does that matter? All the same mechanics of KSP are present, and unchanged for the most part. It's just wrapped in a prettier coat of paint, nothing wrong with that. It breathes more life into the feeling of getting into space for new and old players and gives the game more personality while retaining the same core design.
Of all the flaws that the current Alpha has, I really do believe sound design is the LEAST of them entirely.
yeah, the voices for me justify buying KSP2, turns every mission so more imersive, looks like the music tone changes too when you are doing something tense
when you right click a part it should use the ksp1 menu, and there should be a separate button to open the parts manager. And then if you have the parts manager opened and you right click a part it should just open in the parts manager.
This is the best of both worlds I'd say. Because when needing to quickly transfer fuel or kerbals whilst the craft isn't spinning around or anything, opening the parts manager and finding the correct parts seems like it'd be quite the hassle. I also liked how you could pin the menus in ksp1, so you could monitor specific fuel tanks etc.
i was thinking exactly this. ill often want to monitor multiple parts at once and have them sitting in different areas of the screen while driving/flying. having to scroll down a list of parts and look at one at a time is a MASSIVE step backwards
@@ICKY427 Exactly! Though I'm not that worried, either the devs also add the old system back in or modders will do it. Because we can't be the only ones who liked the old system I assume
I know its a coincidence from this stream being from a special event, but during assembly, have matt's, scott's and other content creators commenting as ambient noise is kind of awesome. It matches the ample assembly building sound profile. Amazing.
Love how the kraken is still in ksp2 with those fairing separations. Always loved physics jank
Doesn't look all that promising 3 weeks before launch. I'm glad people like you can test it, the devs have time to fix it, and I can buy it a year later in a solid state. Thanks for that.
Bill: *Gets abandoned on Mun*
Also Bill: They're groovin'
Jeb when he flies untitled space craft in ksp1: I’m gonna die again aren’t I, LETS DO THIS
Jeb in ksp2 when he flies fly safe: I’m gonna die again aren’t I, LETS DO THIS
Hands Lowne(down), this was the best video to have come out of the ESA event. Love how Matt takes time to share details about what he saw and what he played over an hour whereas the videos released by the other attendees were like 15 minutes and didn't show much.
The size listing in the top corner of each part alone makes my heart feel the sweet release of joy
Man, seeing this feels like when I first saw gameplay from KSP1 when I was like, 17 browsing YT for games. The same feeling of awe and "wow"
Congrats Matt, we’ve been looking forward to this for so long🎉
Matt, the launch escape system was under the solid rocket boosters tab
if this was a ad it would be the best ad the world has ever seen, I loved KSP 1, buying KSP 2 rn cuz of this video
I have watched a few of the special preview event videos but yours was the most informative, it has taught me to lower my expectations (I am still getting it on Friday!). Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this footage with us to help us get a better idea about the game. Ngl it was smart from your part to do a Apollo style mun mission as your first video, not only is this one of the first thing people do in ksp this also showcase docking, rendez-vous, landing, re-entry and basic orbital mechanics. After watching i've got a much better idea about what to expect from the initial release.
The developer team must include the memorials for all the Kerbals that died on the pre-release event, at the locations they died, as their sacrifice is instrumental to the science!
"Doesnt that inspire you to just murder- i mean launch kerbals into space?"
-Matt Lowne 2023
Two of the same thing after leaving Bill on the Mun.
24:51 i remember a video years ago where the devs claimed they played many hundreds of hours of KSP, yet they left out that crucial right click node feature. I find it hard to believe that they really put in the hours that they claimed.
i have been playing KSP since the beta, and have put so, so much time into it. I have been holding so many reservations on ksp2, thinking they couldn't possibly be so many improvements and changes and now... i cant wait to get it.
I love how Matt landed on the engine bell on Mun because he put the landing gear too high up
Because the landing gear is shorter then the engines STILL, man they are not fixing/improving anything.
@@Thorgon-Cross Use different landing gear or different engine if it's too difficult for you to press 2 and use the move tool. But that would make sense given your braindead comments all over this place
@@nicazer Yes I know how to use the move tool. The point is you should not need the move tool to have your landing gear floating in air just to reach past the short engines made for landing. Before you go calling other peoples comments braindead you should check your own...
@@Thorgon-Cross LT-2 + Terrier engine. I have never had an issue with this, no move tool required.
I can not describe my extreme excitement when I saw the notification for this video pop up on my screen. Oh Lord, it’s almost here!!!
Hey Matt, the thing that caused you to start spinning in your lander was trimming, in KSP1 thats when you hold ALT + WASD. It trims towards whatever you pressed at the time. My guess is you wanted to use physical timewarp and had ALT pressed while also pressing S and D from what I can see.
I've never personally played the first KSP. I just love the videos you and the community make in the game. I've been wanting to play it lately, but I decided to wait for KSP 2 because by the time I would have learned how to actually play the first one, this one would already be out.
That launch gave me chills.
Dude is like: "I am not in tutorial, Skyler.
I am the totorial!"
"I'm the one who commandeers!"
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🕶
like one wise man once said "it always leads back to breaking bad memes"
so damn cringe
“I AM THE ONE WHO SAYS Hullo there Scott Manley here SKYLER!”
“I’m Matt Lowne yo!”
Honestly the graphics can wait, and are the first things to be modded anyway. This video really showed me that we're working from a strong foundation of QOL improvements that, I think, I will carry KSP2 well into the future as a worthy successor!
I especially like the fact that the navball doesn't hog the entire center of the bottom of the screen.
@@vicroc4 you can move and resize the navball in stock ksp 😆
Honestly I fear that the game is too poorly optimized to allow for some larger mods. Even with just the base game with just about the most powerful computer you can reasonably put together assuming you aren't spending tens of thousands of dollars the game looks laggy. This is a HUGE red flag for adding other large mods (god forbid modpacks) as there is a good chance that 90% of the computers people have out there just cannot handle KSP2 with additional mods at this point
@@can_opener755 yeah lucky I upgraded recently... but I can't imagine the usual ksp player who doesn't field a monster machine playing this thing
@@can_opener755 I'm absolutely sure it will be optimized over time!
I would have left Bill in orbit in the lander, at least he would have had life support, comms, some snacks! You are a monster, Matt!
I'm an Aerospace student and the rocket plumes are perfect, expanding as they go to higher altitudes. Such a cool small detail
By far my favorite KSP player. 🙌 The Vanilla experience of KSP2 is Night and Day! Most console players don’t even have those mods! Definitely getting KSP2 on February 24th! 🥳
That countdown bit is wonderful, and those gauge displays look awesome
I'm excited to watch this video- AFTER I do my first KSP2 Mun landing. But your videos never disappoint so I'm commenting and giving it a thumbs up now.
I guess he just overlooked it in the heat of the moment. Dont blame him though!
i really like how the game shows the Hill spheres of each body. I think that will be very helpful for new players and also just satisfying to see
Is a hill sphere the same as SOI?
@@maxv9464 AFAIK it basically is, the sphere around a body where it is the primary gravitational influence. I’m no expert lol that’s just how I remember it
@@Sharpthingy Cool, thanks!
@@maxv9464 Actually isn't, infact the sphere of influence works only as a two body problem where the primary is the massive body (Planet/Moon ecc..) and the spacecraft mass is irrelevant, while Hill regions (like Hill spheres) are a result of circular restricted three body problems, specifically are the zero velocity surfaces and curves where the spacecraft motion can take place. Those comes by an inequality with the Jacobi integral, but the answer will be too long.
Substantially Hills regions are much more complex and realistic , giving in 3D the whole points a spacecraft can moves between two primaries, one less massive than the other kne, (like earth-moon problems), while the sphere of influence Is used with Patched conics approximations for interplanetary trajectories , and describe the region where the gravitazional pull of the body is greater than the one of the sun, and that's why It can be approximated as a two body problems instead of three. The sphere of influence Is quite good for preliminare design of interplanetary missions, while earth-moon missions or in general moons (like Io, Callisto ecc...) require quite more attenction as the distances between the massive bodies are too small to garantee a good approximation. Hope my answer is understandable !
25:20 that's so awesome to hear, and kinda what a playtest should be.
"hey, this game is great, here's like 20 minor things that would be nice"
I love that they added the older yellow texture for the Terrier engine! I always liked that version better!
I can’t wait to play KSP 2!!
This was what I needed to relieve myself from the spec crisis
yea whats the situation with that? i know it recommends a rtx 3080 but is there something you can turn down? i have a rtx 2060 lol
@@theepicraccoon4589 pretty sure they said 2060 will net you 1080 60fps on low settings!
He said he had a 4080
Go look at everyday astronauts video lol
@@giantryan660 so the lowest possible settings, great 😅😓
Love the countdown, put a child like smile on my face!
I love the countdown because it shows that the kerbals still use backwards Spanish as a language
As a Spanish speaker, I confirm that it is very noticeable that he is saying numbers in Spanish backwards, epic
I love that you ditched him on the surface instead of leaving him in orbit in the perfectly good lander craft.
The launch countdown/music/sfx is so wholesome 😭
I cant get enough of the countdown tbh, its so awesome
I personally think there's a lot on screen during flights, a lot of info to take in and all that. I like 2's build UI but prefer 1's flight UI.
I believe they said pretty early on that you'll be able to move different ui elements around where you want them. Not sure if that's changed
I hope they add right click menus back, I agree the parts manager comes in handy in some situations, but there's no harm in having both available
Hey Matt! Can’t wait for this to come out. Also I’m happy to announce I finally landed on the Mun for the first time in KSP since I got it in September!! 🎉🎉
Good work! It isn't as easy as I thought it would be. Took me ages to pull that off.
@@waylanddavick9459 yeah it’s tough. I also just sent a rover over there and managed to land in the dark, I wasn’t expecting to need lights 😂
Have you pulled off the return mission yet? I found it quite the special moment to bring a Kerbal back from a Mun Walk
@@MediumRareOpinions I have actually, using a few save files I managed to return him to the capsule before returning them home
the game looks so cool, I’m so hyped for the game
Still?
I’m happy I ever started watching this man play ksp
KSC looks absolutely amazing... almost a mini Atlantis with the concentric ring of water 😅 Kerbin looks really good. Crazy to consider them visuals and "Stock" in the same context.
This is by far the most comprehensive review of KSP 1: Console Edition. Well done Matt!
46:45 bro started getting sturdy on the mun
Considering that the heat shield is on the other side of where the landing module is coupled, I guess you could have try to bring the lander with bill inside and try to land it on Kerbin. Maybe Parachuting bill out after the atmosphere ingress and decoupling it before opening the capsule chutes.
I am so excited to play this game. Watching you have a great time makes me even more excited for the release. See you at launch!
You better have an rtx 5090 because I've seen people testing the game on a 4080 and it was 20 fps 😐
5090, a card that doesn't exist.
What CPU did they use, RAM? Which is also important. Especially when calculations going on in the background.
It's an early access release it will have performance problems and bugs and missing content. How good of an early access title it will be ? We have to wait for the first couple of days after release and upcoming weeks/months. I wouldn't set my expectations insanely high for the very first early access stage.
@@BrikkTopX it was a ryzen 9 7950x, rtx 4080, 64 gb of ram. The game was running 20 fps when launching a rocket with 151 parts
I prefer the right click menus, I don't want to have to scroll through all of the parts on my craft when I only care about one part. And since you can pin menus you can have multiple things open at the same time, when flying an ssto you care about your intake air, fuel levels, and rapier thrust, with the new parts manager do you have to be constantly scrolling between them? The ship spinning out of control problem is a non-issue when you can pause the game with time warp 0 and still interact with things. I hope they can add right click menus back as an option in the future but at the very least right clicking the part should open that parts entry in the parts manager to cater to the old players
Fully agreed. I use the pin feature a lot, for complex crafts you absolutely need to. It doesn't help every element of the new UI is massive. Looks gorgeous, but if this is how it looks in 1440p, I dread having to try playing on my 1080p screen. There's some rough edges, but I'm sure they'll work out the kinks in due time. Not like I have to buy the game before it's in a state I'd play it in.
@@plebisMaximus Agree with both of you, except of the word 'gorgeous' ;)
Absolutley in love with the new score, and how it syncs up with the countdown end, it's so cool!!!!!!!!!
I can say with certainty, that the "Lowne Lazy Method of Docking" is absolutely something that many of us did within minutes of the SAS target modes being introduced (it's also nearly the docking procedure that was used for the Lunar Apollo CSM/LM docking). It's probably one of those things like auto strut that is obvious if you have a problem, but without a specific problem to solve, you wouldn't be able to figure out how to do it. Like, someone that doesn't rendezvous much (a lot of people still can't because it _is_ challenging) wouldn't try to figure out how to dock quickly, or someone that mostly docks large station pieces together, probably wouldn't want to have the large construction constantly adjusting its attitude.
0:40 The fact that the kerbal didn't smash the solar panel is proof that it's not in-game footage on the menu screen.
Looks more like KSP 1.5 than KSP 2. With a few mods you can get almost equally good graphics in KSP 1 and you can get way more parts.
''Woah! Theres another bug you probably won't encounter!''
yeah... About that.
40:27 Whenever my craft tumbles for no apparent reason, I assume it's because I held down the ALT key at some point and accidentally trimmed the pitch or yaw. ALT+X to zero out trim if that ever happens to you.
When they announced that they would start early access with basically just a sandbox i was worried that we would get a half-finished mess because the funds ran out.
But this looks like a very fun experience as is! very nice.
Ksp2 really separates Kerbin from Earth because the Kerbals really have fun with space exploration and they're all just happy to be part of the crew :D
Really looking forward to the implementation of the science systems, which will be the point I pick the game up. Hope everyone enjoys the game :)
Why is the Lowne Aerospace flag not included as standard? Words must be had!
Been waiting for a LOOOONNGG time for REAL footage of KSP2, thanks Matt great video !!!!
I'm so stoked for this game, one thing I've always had a curiosity about though with the design, typically these maneuvers are very planned out in execution prior to a rocket ever being built, because they would need to build the vehicle to fit the mission, but in kerbal space program, it's more like, build a rocket, make maneuvers up on the fly, and hope it works
I absolutely love the design. I think this will end up like Red Dead 2 in the sense that it was designed for next gen hardware in order to bring out the game's full graphical potential. I can already feel the thousands of hours I'm going to spend in this game slipping through my fingers. Good health and fortune to the developers, and may they continue to work on the game with the same passion they have so far until it is done!
I think you've summed it up perfectly as to why its performing poorly, but that doesn't really work with a game with such a low number of users in comparison. Lets just hope it doesnt go the way of RDR2 Online and end up abandoned by Take 2's demands.
I've always found this length of video a lot more 'natural' for KSP and I have no issues skipping around the video if I feel the need to speed something up.
Hold the phone. You never said you would be doing this with KSP 2!!!!! I have to go to work Matt! I'll watch in 9 hours I guess. 🙃
I am sooo late for work due to watching this lol
This is THE KSP2 review I have been waiting for!!!!!!!
watching this with a huge smile on my face rn
Super excited for the game! I am worried about how much they are promising to do later though, I realize that this is a beta but no AutoStrut is worrisome for how many other small things that I use on my crafts wont be there on launch...
I'm not optimistic. It doesn't seem to be very well optimized based on the specs he listed just to run at 1440p 60fps. It's also weird in my opinion for a sequel to have less content than the original at launch.
@@aethlred7380 Remember that this isn't at launch. This is Early Access, which means the game is still in development. Don't think of this as a completed game, think of it as them sending it out and asking "Hey, this is what we have so far, what advice do you, the player, have before we finish it?"
Early Access isn't the same as a game on launch
@@matthewdossantos1414 The game is also $50 for early access which is pretty steep for how little we are really getting. I'm just approaching this with as little hype as I think I should. too many games have released recently where they have been huge disappointments
@@Xollll tbh im more optimistic about this game than other games like cyberpunk due to the much higher transparency from the devs. i wont be blinded by hype, but i am hopeful that this game will turn into something great.
@@matthewdossantos1414 yes I'm aware of what early acess is. But I'm not paying to be an alpha tester. It's a sequel it should launch completed. The fanbase is very specific with no alternatives it will still be there if you had to delay another year to actually finish the game or to atleast have the first ones content fully transferred.
I understand a stance of dripfeeding stuff like multi-player and interstellar travel but to be missing stuff from the original just isn't acceptable. And stuff like optimization is a pain to improve so that likely won't change much just more powerful computer parts will launch making the game run better.
An hour isn’t long enough!!! I need a full 24 hour stream!!
Where reentry effects? 🤔
So glad that you saw the tumbling as well. I tried 3 Mun launches and ended up tumbling on every single one and my fuel mysteriously disappeared out of my current stage. Glad it's not just me!
ksp2 looking gorgeous man
edit: why don't we wait on the menu screen shown in this video until the kerbal hits the solar panel xd
I am quite excited about KSP2. however I am a bit puzzled about what happened. The game really feel unpolished for the number of development years that they spent on it. This demo really feels like a development build you would provide to QA for early comments. I think that I will wait until next fall to order it. The bugs pointed out by Matt are super basic and should not have been there in an early release. This is weird and feels rushed out. I do believe that in the end, the community will make everything works.
I absolutely agree lots of bugs and horrible performance on several parts. And wheel physichs and ground physichs even kerbal physics leaves alot to be desired compared to the first game.
I take it you haven't actually seen what "dev build for QA's early comments" really looks like. It's also so weird to hear someone talk about "polish" based on the number of development years.
@@NACLGames LOL SBG, I am an R&D Director at a software development firm (dead serious). So yeah ... I do know what a dev build and QA are. And yes, I do still think that the build that they provided to the youtuber is unpolished. They knew for fact that these clips would be all over youtube, and they took the hard decision to let them play on that build, knowing that delaying the release would have a nastier effect on the community than showing it unpolished. It is fine they did it, but after 4 years and all the features kicked out (Science, multi system, mp, colonies ...), I would have expected something cleaner so close to the release date.
@@steph4050 absolutely too many people talking about them playing on an old build and such and it will supposedly be better😝. The build in the video is the very best they had on offer 3-4 weeks ago. And it will be very very similar to the release on the 24th not enough time to fix major issues. Whole thing is being pushed out top down way to early by 2K financial guys.
@@Infernal_Elf Indeed, the publisher push is a strong possibility. I know the game will be awesome in the long term, but I am afraid that they could create bad publicity by releasing too early. Changing a community opinion on a game is extremely hard to do. We all know the Cyberpunk story ;)
The rockets look good, but the clouds are extremely low resolution. Kerbin in general looks much worse than modded KSP1. But the worst thing is not that, but the optimisation. The game feels extremely slow at times and we're talking about a 4080. To top it off, the game has no content after a lot of years of development. I understand that people get caught up in the excitement of a game we love, but realistically, things don't look good. Disappointment is on the way.
Yep. It's why I'm pirating it when it launches. When you have a sequel with 0 extra content and actually missing stuff from the original is a bad start. Also needing a 4080 for 1440p and 60fps is insane. That's something a middle to upper tier 30 series should do.
The ships and plumes look really good but the clouds are on a 2d plane after you fly above them and look pretty flat and have that odd tiled look to them. Not a patch on the proper volumic cloud mods in ksp1. The ground looks very basic compared to that parallax mod and doesn't even have collision meshes on anything. The lack of reentry heating is disappointing as well. And yeah, it will take them a year or more to get the feature set up to ksp1. I know ksp1 was pretty barebones when it first launched but it wasnt 50 quid and wasnt hyped like this. Releasing the game in this state so your customers can pay to be your bugtesters is a bit of a cheek tbh. Im gonna hold off getting it till its got more content.
yeah, it looks about equivalent to modded ksp1 and I run that on a 1650. plus all the bugs/missing features/regressions in the ui.
@@aethlred7380 Well I'm running Microsoft Flight Sim in a way better graphics fidelity in 1440p @ 40 fps on GTX 1070. This pixel art running @ 60 on 4080 is just a no go.
that hour felt like nothing... i never looked at your channel before even tho i love KSP1, and youtube must know that i came back to it for KSP2 launch because it suggested this video to me, and i loved it ! I would have absolutely loved to have the opportunity to play it early access, but i'll be happy enough once it releases, what i've seen from your video already makes me all excited and hopefull for it ! :D
36:13 loving the content. Of course can’t wait to see the real game. Thanks for doing more then just a 15min video.
Great video. I enjoyed watching. KSP2 looks like a hot mess. Very bummed seeing they've over promised and are basically going to release a glorified tech demo. I was hopeful they would at least deliver a game equal in features to KSP1.
Thanks for the video Matt. I will be staying with modded KSP for now. I look forward to seeing your next KSP2 video's.
I tottaly agree
They did rebuild the game from the ground up. To redo everything that took years to implement in KSP1, WITHOUT the community feedback KSP1 had thanks to being in early access, would make the game worse than it is now. That's... the point of releasing it in early access.
@@MirrorHall_Clay KSP wasn't a $50 early access release. It was $8 when I bought it. KSP2 is still in a horrible state after the updates. If you're happy with the state of KSP2, good on you. I'm not. I stand by what I said. After 5 months it's still a featureless tech demo full of unfulfilled promises. I hope your optimism is rewarded with a good game with all promises kept. Have a beautiful day. I hope all your dreams come true.