0.1.3.0

0.1.3.0 is a patch update to KSP 2 released on June 22nd, 2023, which fixes a significant number of bugs and performance issues. This update also added new parts to the game, the first patch to do so.

Fixes/changes

Construction

• Fixed: fairing editor button stays on the cursor when moving fairing in the VAB [1] [2]
• Fixed: fairings don't properly get out of the way in the VAB internal/exploded mode [1]
• 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]

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 [1]
• 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 [1] [2] [3] [4]

Flight & Map

• Added ability to toggle visibility of some 3D map elements
• Added multijoint 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 [1]
• 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 [1]
• 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 launcpad
• Fixed: Launching "Jumping Flea" vehicle causes null states [1]
• Fixed: NaN displayed in the drag/lift ratio value. Still future work to do here.
• 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 [1]
• 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 [1]
• 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 [1]
• 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

FX and 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

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" [1]
• 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

Optimization

• 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 tessellation factor for medium and low quality water to improve GPU performance
• Optimized water tessellation 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 [1]
• Fixed: trees vanish before they are completely off-screen
• Fixed: scatter objects render at first level of detail at all distances"

Parts and 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 in-flight 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 transferable 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 [1]

Saving and Loading

• Fixed: TravelLog Manager causes runaway save file inflation [1]
• 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

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

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 [1]
• 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 [1]
• Fixed: stage numbering reverses after switching focus between decoupled vehicles [1]
• 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 [1]
• 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 [1]
• 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