A new Kerbal Space Program 2 update 0.1.3.0 released on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox one. According to the official Kerbal Space Program 2 patch notes, the latest update 0.1.3.0 addresses some bugs and crashes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Kerbal Space Program 2 patch 0.1.3.0 will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Kerbal Space Program 2 Patch 0.1.3.0 Notes – June 22, 2023
Flight & Map
- Added ability to toggle visibility of some 3D map elements
- Added multi-joint system for wings that places a scalable array of four joints along the length of the wing root
- Added new IVA Kerbal animation to show reaction to and recovery from non-catastrophic impact events
- Added player setting to allow toggling of Navball in Map view
- Added settings for toggling tooltips and for setting default throttle
- Fixed: Activating or staging an engine causes decouplers and fairing shrouds below that engine to stage
- Fixed: Brake activation applies to multiple vessels simultaneously after undocking
- Fixed: Camera drifts away from recently-decoupled vehicles
- Fixed: Changes made to landing gear friction level settings in the VAB do not propagate to flight
- Fixed: Countdown does not pause when time warp is paused
- Fixed: Gantry positioning code produces errant event registrations
- Fixed: Imprecise cloud shadow masking causes aura when shadow appears behind vehicle
- Fixed: In-cockpit Kerbals sometimes show T-pose due to corrupted fidget animations
- Fixed: Inline drag calculations use incorrect facing directions when calculating cross sectional area
- Fixed: XM-G50 Radial Air Intake intake drag cube oriented incorrectly
- Fixed: Instances of decoupled sections remain linked when decoupling a non-command root part that is separated from a command part by an engine mount
- Fixed: Kerbal flag-planting and flag object animation de-synchronize when time-warp is used
- Fixed: Landed EVA Kerbals disappear when a vehicle time warps into their physics range
- Fixed: Inactive crash course warning is fired when vehicle is placed on the launchpad or when player returns to KSC from flight
- Fixed: Inactive crash course warning occurs when a Kerbal performs EVA at the launchpad
- Fixed: Landed vehicles cause torrent of VesselLandedAtRest spam
- Fixed: Launch gantry does not adjust position to accommodate wide vehicles on launchpad
- Fixed: Launching “Jumping Flea” vehicle causes null states
- Fixed: NaN displayed in the drag/lift ratio value
- Fixed: NRE errors occur when parts get destroyed
- Fixed: Out of Electricity message event fails to trigger when EC depleted
- Fixed: Some docking ports fail to release when undocking
- Fixed: Structural tubes don’t occlude aerodynamic drag
- Fixed: Strut joint is misclassified as “lingering” and automatically destroyed when loaded to launchpad
- Fixed: Symmetrically-attached radial decouplers eject with different forces
- Fixed: Thermal indicator generates log spam
- Fixed: Undocking docking port destroys vehicle if it has wheels or wings attached to it
- Fixed: Undocking vehicle sections that are connected with struts fails to detach struts
- Fixed: Ground parts remain attached to the main assembly when their parent part is destroyed
- Fixed: Vehicle falls through terrain when returning it to focus after launching another vehicle outside its physics range
- Fixed: Vehicle teleports inside Kerbin when partial fuel depletion event triggers during time-warp
- Fixed: When loading a second vehicle to launchpad after first vehicle has been destroyed, launch button shows “No Stages” and is not clickable
- Fixed: Wingtip vortices display incorrectly due to incorrect case handling for contextual events
- Planetshine adjusted to improve reflected lighting on vehicles above the Mun, Minmus, and Eeloo
EVA
- Adjusted over-reflectivity of Kerbal eye materials
- Fixed: “Bobus” ladder does not provide seamless transition to adjacent ladders
- Fixed: Bill’s and Bob’s eyes have incorrect symmetry and color settings
- Fixed: Placeholder notification text displayed when Kerbal performs an EVA
- Fixed: Time warp keyboard shortcuts are still active when typing in details for planted flags
Optimizations
- Added new compute kernel to improve terrain performance by reducing rendering of non-visible detail
- Optimized cloud shader algorithm to improve GPU performance
- Implemented job system to handle per-part water detection (for 150 part vehicle, CPU time reduced from 10ms to 1.5ms)
- Optimized and improved quality of lens flares by using a commandbuffer
- Optimized cloud rendering when camera is below cloud layer
- Optimized GPU and memory usage for water rendering by using stencil buffers and new shaders
- Optimized KSC instancing to reduce draw calls
- Optimized Part Manager by removing several layout groups
- Optimized per-engine point lights by turning off shadows
- Optimized PQS terrain textures to reduce memory usage
- Optimized rendering of 3D UI elements in VAB and flight
- Optimized scatter object performance by using more compact scatter spawn buffers to reduce GPU memory usage
- Optimized tesselation factor for medium and low quality water to improve GPU performance
- Optimized water tesselation factor for water viewed from high altitude
- Optimized runtime CPU performance for water rendering by updating some properties less than once per frame
- Reduced GPU memory used by local space shader by 75%
- Reduced low and medium quality cloud texture sizes for Kerbin, Duna, Eve, and Laythe
- Removed unnecessary logging for time warp interpolation
- Updated Eve’s shorelines to reduce visual blockiness and improve CPU and memory usage
- Fixed: Cloud shadows are broken on Eve
- Fixed: Clouds have dark edges
- Fixed: Memory leaks triggered by loading saved games, loading tutorials, and reverting to VAB
- Fixed: The game crashes when attempting to view the EULA and Privacy Policy in Russian
- Fixed: Trees vanish before they are completely off-screen
- Fixed: Scatter objects render at first level of detail at all distances
Saving & Loading
- Fixed: TravelLog Manager causes runaway save file inflation
- Fixed: Vehicle spawns beneath terrain when loading saved game with EVA Kerbal in focus
- Fixed: Interstage fairing size does not persist correctly when loading a workspace
- Fixed: After launching a vessel, loading into a different game save with a flight in progress, and then reverting to the VAB, an incorrect vehicle from another game save is loaded
- Fixed: Descriptions disappear when making new workspace save from a stock vehicle workspace
- Fixed: Log fills with autosave spam
- Fixed: Autosave cooldown timers don’t trigger
- Fixed: Thumbnails for saved games sometimes incorrectly display transparency
Parts & Stock Vessels
- Added A.I.R.B.R.A.K.E.S part
- Added Clamp-O-Tron Inline Docking Port, Clamp-O-Tron Shielded Docking Port, and Mk2 Clamp-O-Tron Docking Port parts
- Added Coronet, Trumpet, and Tuba engine parts
- Added S3-28800 Methalox fuel tank part
- Adjusted MEM-125 Engine Mount color mask and part size to match similar parts
- Added auto switching for multi-mode engines like the Rapier
- “Sustainer” descriptor added to appropriate engine subtitles
- Increased breaking force for wings, control surfaces, and stabilizers
- Methane engines are now surface-attachable
- Fixed: RTC “Rottweiler” truck chassis has incorrectly-oriented stack attach node and low texture resolution
- Fixed: “Statistics” header not properly localized in VAB
- Fixed: Air intake parts display unnecessary sliders in VAB Part Manager
- Fixed: Gimbal animation code causes log spam
- Fixed: Intake air listed as a transferrable resource in the Resource Manager
- Fixed: Mesh for SRB-KD25k “Kickback” Solid Fuel Booster is 7.5 degrees from correct rotation
- Fixed: Non-convex collision mesh for RF-AD 2000 Mk3 to Mk2 Methalox Adapter causes error message
- Fixed: Small nosecone base diameter does not match small stack parts
- Fixed: Stack node position on Mk1 “Explorer” Command Pod slightly misaligned
UI / UX
- Added flight HUD UI scaling in player settings
- Added player-controllable splash screen bypass ability
- Added description to the “Tab Away Audio” player setting
- Added notification when F5 is used to quicksave
- Added player setting to toggle visibility of Vessel/Object labels
- Added stock vessel filter to KSC launchpad menu
- Game View UI element is hidden when there is no active vessel
- Updated section names in input settings
- Updated settings menu user interface
- Updated UI for VAB header, launch assembly icon, fairing construction icons, procedural editing icon, fairing visibility icon, and root part icon
- Enabled configuration of unique spawn points for tutorial dialogs for each tutorial lesson
- Fixed: Code error in main menu when trying to access a deleted object
- Fixed: Implementation of localized File Date/Time is incorrect for regional formatting
- Fixed: In some languages, incorrect capitalization used in text for Pause Menu options
- Fixed: In wing editor, text has incorrect linebreak in some languages
- Fixed: Insufficient campaign save window height causes text overlap
- Fixed: Large values in the Tracking Station’s Celestial Body Information panel are too long due to absence of large-magnitude unit conversions
- Fixed: Launchpad location button selection state does not change when deselected
- Fixed: Normal/anti-normal markers on Navball don’t match SAS icons
- Fixed: Not possible to re-bind “E” key in input settings/controls
- Fixed: Part info tooltip text overlaps in some languages
- Fixed: Part tooltip appears behind part icon
- Fixed: Passive notifications remain visible when UI is toggled off using F2
- Fixed: Stage numbering reverses after switching focus between decoupled vehicles
- Fixed: Staging stack drop line indicators appear in the middle of stages instead of between them
- Fixed: Text layout for burn timer does not accommodate long text
- Fixed: Trip planner layout does not allow longer localized text
- Fixed: Users cannot back out of the Privacy Policy window after exiting to the Main Menu from gameplay
- Fixed: VAB part module text extends beyond info panel bounds in some cases
- Fixed: When an vehicle is destroyed via the object picker in Tracking Station, parent celestial body list entry does not close
Construction
- Fixed: Fairing editor button stays on the cursor when moving fairing in the VAB
- Fixed: Fairings don’t properly get out of the way in the VAB internal/exploded mode
- Fixed: Fairing length slider gets stuck after reverting to the VAB from flight
- Fixed: Lower stage Delta-V displays 0 when adding an empty stage above an engine in the VAB
- Fixed: Changing radial symmetry count after placing the first part of a strut causes the strut to break
Fixed: Log error in some situations when selecting the visibility mode icon on an interstage fairing - Fixed: Toggling control surface in wing editor fails to remove control surface when editing multiple wings
- Fixed: VAB becomes unresponsive after clicking the fairing edit button and doing an unrelated action
- Fixed: When holding ALT and hovering over part in the VAB, part asset name shows instead of part name
- Fixed: Wrench icon appears before placement of procedural wing
Environments
- Adjusted PQS transition range for Vall
- Integrated KSC trees into mesh scatter system, reducing lines of code and improving performance
- Added level of detail to aviation lights at KSC
- 🚀 Fixed: Some lights have missing textures when viewed at KSC [1]
FX & Audio
- Adjusted VFX for launch clamps
- Adjusted VFX positioning for procedural engine plate shrouds and interstage fairings
- Fixed: Log spam every frame when air intake makes contact with the ground
- Replaced raycast-based lens flare occlusion with depth-based occlusion
- Added pixel-count solution to correlate lens flare intensity with nearest star’s visible area
- Updated VFX for stack separators and decouplers
Tutorials
- Enabled dragging tutorial windows by headers
- Fixed: Fail state dialog does not properly display when failing some tutorials
- Fixed: Feature image for “Orbital Transfers” tutorial is incorrect
- Fixed: Player-adjusted position of tutorial message box does not persist
- Fixed: Subtitles missing from various sections of Orbits are Weird tutorial
Localization
- Fixed: “Go” button text field too small for some translated text
- Fixed: Bold text illegible in some Asian languages
- Fixed: For some languages, anti-aliasing settings have incorrect localization
- Fixed: For some languages, non-localized celestial body name appears on SOI entry
- Fixed: In some languages, “Fly Safe” placeholder vehicle name not translated
- Fixed: Incorrect word order on burn timer UI
- Fixed: Localization missing from Kerbal EVA controls window
- Fixed: Orientation cube text obscures 3D vehicle icon in some languages
- Fixed: Pre-made vehicle information in Save/Load window is incorrectly localized
- Fixed: Some text in Settings menu not localized
- Fixed: Part description for HFT “”Spherotron”” Hydrogen Fuel Tank not localized”
- Fixed: The Enter Text text box for the Campaign Name is displayed in English while creating a new game in a foreign language
- Fixed: The Velocity tab’s ‘Target’ text is not translated when observed in any language other than English
- Fixed: Tutorial dialogues have minor bugs in some languages
- Fixed: Unlocalized strings appear in staging stack
Modding
- Fixed: LoadByLabel not properly respecting assets in addressables in mod asset bundles. Labelled addressables should load properly now
