Kerbal Space Program is a flight simulator, but this time you're not flying around on earth, but to space! You construct space rockets or space planes and send them into space to research the solar system. At the beginning, you struggle to leave the atmosphere, but later, you'll be doing trips to the Mun and beyond! That's right a Mun not Moon.
The game has multiple modes and tutorials to get you going. I do recommend doing all of the tutorials so you understand how to play, some mechanics you won't be able to figure out otherwise. It also has some scenarios available for you to check out, like wrangling an asteroid, or avoiding collision with the Mun.
In Kerbal Space Program you can build whatever size and complexity of rocket you want, it may not even lift off the ground and explode horribly, killing all crew inside, but you just built your dream rocket and saw that it quite doesn't work as expected. No worries, you're now having something called fun!
Lets talk about career mode, the mode you should mostly be playing. Sandbox may be fun, but in this mode you don't get all the parts straight away, that way you can become familiar with every single part and figure out what they do. But don't make your first rocket over complicated or heavy for that matter, you don't have that many parts either for something better then a single stage rocket. But it lets you get familiar with all the new parts as they come in by stages. Also it gives the game meaning, I know from experience that without an objective it can get boring quickly. In career mode, you get these missions to do, simple things like reach space and land on the Mun. The game has more planets and stuff too, but first you gotta get that tech up. Also I would recommend that you use 32bit launcher, as 64bit has a few bugs that will cripple your career game.
If you look at your space centre, you may notice that the buildings can be upgraded for extra functionality. By right clicking on say, the launch pad, it will tell you that it can only support a weight of 18 tonnes for your rocket, upgrading that will increase it, and when you hit level three you get an unlimited weight limit. Build the heaviest rocket you can imagine, but you're going to need to upgrade the rocket hanger too, to unlock unlimited rocket parts, you start off with only thirty, not enough for something nice.
You have three resources you have to manage. Money and research being the important ones, while reputation is mostly for show. Without money you can't build that fancy rocket, without research you can't get those high tech parts for your rocket. Money is obtained by doing the missions, a side reward is research too. While the main way to get research is by doing experiments in space. For example; landing your rocket safely back on earth gives research because the parts were in space which is worth points. Soil samples from the Mun are also worth some points. The idea being, you keep doing new fancy things and you get more points. The first soil sample will be worth the most, while the tenth will be worth near nothing.
Later on you also get to launch satellites, space stations, buggies and loads of other stuff. You get to visit planets on the edge of your solar system and crash horribly because of the unexpected pesky gravity. The amount of new parts you get makes your life much easier later on, at the start you don't have any auto piloting modules, you get to use it in the tutorials and it makes controlling the rocket so much easier.
Conclusion:
If you have never played a flight simulator, make this your first. It is clearly the most fun out of all the flight simulators I have tried. Space is always more fun then our little Earth. Do get Kerbal Space Program, the greatest flight simulator that still isn't finished, but they are almost there!Get it here!
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