Is The Game Hard?

[wilmer007]

was looking at some gameplay and it looks hard.

also which of the 3 modes would be easier to get the hang of the game?

[Нагризолич]

If you compare it to an average modern fps - it is hard, other than that it's not harder than most sandbox games.
Career is best, as it forces you to play from very basic rocketry to more difficult orbital mechanics.

[The_Mell]

In its core it is quite similiar to a flight simulator - having seen an artificial horizon before helps.
Try the demo to get an idea yourself.

Science mode is best: No overwhelming number of parts like sandbox and no money constrains like career.

[=BB= Misophist]

Originally posted by The_Mell:

Science mode is best: No overwhelming number of parts like sandbox and no money constrains like career.

I completley agree. Even >300 hours in, I still prefer science mode... If only it had contracts

[maj.solo]

It is a flight simulator. Have you played flight simulators before?
Everyone can become a pilot. All you need is training and experience.
Then one need get experience with each game itself that one buy.

You have to give the game time. Confusing at start. Like .. aha I have a new game ... how did they put together this game?

It is like a builder game, farming simulator game also , if you play the game fully and play career it will consume your IRL personal time. Like all strategy games tend to do. Or you just check the game out build a few rockets, fly around a little around Kerbin then the game don't suck so much of your time.

I thnk you get A LOT of game for the money. It does not look that great. But this game is more about YOUR imagination and dreams. YOU will decide what this game is.

Instead of running a course that someone else laid out. This game is more ... like someone drove by with a truck, stopped, emptied the trailer, said "good luck kid" and drove away. And now you have 200 parts on the ground infront of you with little instructions.

But you get a lot of game fro the money you pay.

[Venorek]

The game can be a little intimidating at first, but once you get a hang of orbital mechanics, you'll really enjoy it.

Good luck! Let us know if you decide to buy it. :)

[GeneralVeers]

Is the game hard? Depends on what you're doing. KSP isn't really a "game". It's more of a sandbox. It basically just gives you a spaceport and a bunch of rocket parts and from there you can do whatever you want.

If you play it as a straight-up "explore the solar system" game, yeah. It's tough. Sometimes it's REALLY tough. And the learning curve can be pretty BLEEPing long.

IMO the best play mode to start with would be Science Sandbox. This gives you some goals which get you doing space exploration the "right" way: advance your science, build better rockets, explore more stuff, get more science. It gets you thinking "what can I do with the parts available" when you're designing rockets. It will turn you into a very effective rocketmaster, and once you finish up the tech tree and have all the parts, you'll be ready to push the envelope and start doing very ambitious projects. And getting them right on the first try, rather than having things explode on the launch pad 20 times before you get a successful launch. :)

[thorman123456789]

i would suggest the training missions as they are extremely helpful... then after that i would suggest science but go to the difficulty options and go to advanced and check "kerbal experience" to on as that makes you have to level them up and not start with full experience... hope this helps

[NecessaryWeevil]

I find that I need a little help to get the most out of the game; the one indispensable modification (for me) is called Kerbal Engineer Redux; it calculates your delta-v (roughly, what you can accomplish with the amount of fuel you're carrying). Also check out community guides (such as Scott Manley on YouTube).

[Docsprock]

Ive got over 2200 hours in this and less than 20 of those hours are in 'career'.

Try Science mode to learn the parts and the basic functions. Then, if you are really needing direction, play career.

[BanDHMO]

There are two kinds of "hard" games: ones where you need skill and ones where you need to learn. Basketball is skill-hard, chess is learning-hard. KSP is the latter.

It's not hard once you know what you are doing, but it does take some time to figure out how to do things. You will have to read up or watch youtube tutorials. The good news is, the stuff you are learning is not arbitrary and it all makes sense. Some of it even applies to the real world, so it's not a waste.

You won't be able to fly to the Mun(or even to orbit!) right away, but once you learn what you need to do to achieve that, you will be able to repeat it pretty reliably without much difficulty.

[brontok28]

YES IT IS HARD,



HARD TO KNOW THAT YOUR REAL LIFE IS GONE SOON LOL

[Pvt. Stash]

This game is difficult, yes.

KSP will make you jump for joy around the room or make you want to strangle a helpless kitten depending on your results.

The failures in this game are soul crushing, but the victories are soooooo sweet!

[Fr8monkey]

Not much of a learning curve...more of a learning wall. Still, you will never have as much fun failing in a game than KSP.

[El Rushbo]

Simple enough to be fun, difficult enough to be interesting. And yes, the extreme difficulty makes success all the more rewarding.

[GDRRiley]

It can be hard to start out but after about 150 hours I do get the game well, most were a long time ago. Now that I rerembered how to do stuff in under 50 hours I got back to doing crazy projects. Not always finishing them or getting the done cleanly.