KSP 2 is Dead, Long Live KSP 1! 

One of the best parts about KSP1 is you can make it KSP2 with enough mods

“. . . telemarketing people arriving at my door . . . .” If the telemarketing people are visiting in person, the organization might have a fundamental misunderstanding of telecommunications that no amount of infrastructure is going to fix.

I upgraded my PC nearly 3 years ago in anticipation of ksp2. I am now sad.

He says he is the ssto man but truly we all know he is the rambling comedic voiceover guy 😂😂

Rip KSP 2, was definitely looking forward to the base building mechanics that were promised

Nothing will happen at all with KSP2. Its not the first time Take Two closed a studio, told everyone they are still working on it, and you never heard of it again.

I was convinced to go into Aerospace engineering after seeing the KSP2 trailer. I am now a few exams away from getting my 1st level degree in aerospace engineering and KSP2 as was promised still basically doesnt exist and likely never will.

Now that KSP2 is gone, it would be great for you to use the timeslots planned for KSP2 on a real solar system + realism overhaul + realistic progression one playthrough

I just hope that another studio takes over KSP2 and finishes the roadmap given to us. It had such good potential

I love the mental image of the kerbals discussing going on EVA - "Do you wanna go out and do a moonwalk now we've landed?" - "Nah, can't be bothered. Let's just go home"

This game and cities skylines two should serve as a kind of lesson. Making the same exact game but with insurmountable performance issues isn't exactly making a sequel. Just keep updating and supporting the game you have.

I'm just mourning the inter colony resource trading, as a factory game player that's what I was really looking forward to. Logistics

We need a mod that adds KSP2 sounds to KSP1. If any mod devs see this, I would gladly pay for it

i dare you to name your next video "British guy rambles about random stuff with space game in background"

I was so excited for multiplayer and interstellar travel. Oh well, at least we have KSP1 modding.

I'll be honest, I expected this to be a KSP1 blunderbirds episode to rescue Bill and Valentina from the Duna mission he left behind in KSP2

Your last KSP 2 video should be a grand tour of KSP 2 system.

I've played KSP for years and coming back to modded KSP 1 after playing KSP 2 for like 6 hours was so refreshing. Like everything works, and it runs smoothly. The only thing I miss from KSP 2 is the wing building system. Long live KSP 1!!

Those volumetric clouds look better than any other I've seen. When you were on the ground I was thinking "theres no way that's not a skybox"

I never stopped playing KSP 1 on my crusty MacBook and its still as great as it was when I was a kid..

Returning to monke is objectively the better option, we have tons of mods to make the game on par with what KSP2 could have been

Matt Lowne in 1996: "When I'm an adult there'll be flying cars and robots..." Matt Lowne in 2024: I can stream the predecessor of a £50 tech demo in 720p..."

17:45 - Also possibly getting a Universal here- hopefully that doesn't have the same fate as KSP2

honestly stoked to see full modder focus go back to the one true KSP

"you can't name every rocket untitled space craft" Me :

This is probably gonna sound weird but I'm kinda glad you're back to KSP1? Hard to explain without sounding extra selfish, but while KSP2 looks better visually (for the most part, anyway, not counting mods) and is obviously the newer game, your videos got me to go back to KSP1 after years of just assuming I'm too stupid to ever get anywhere other than "explode on the Muns surface". Now I can get to the Muns surface only exploding maybe 50% of the time! KSP2 was a visual treat and fun to watch/listen to, but I personally feel much more involved and able to try things out myself now that you're back to KSP1. Keep up the great work man, I truly enjoy watching your videos and learning new things from you and also stealing your old craft files and just taking a gander on how to build things and fly them around in possibly the most inefficient way imaginable (please post your craft files again if you're going back to KSP1 :V)

A new studio needs to just make KSP 3 and just start from scratch

One thing KSP1 got spot on is the in-space music. Feels like "2001 a space odyssey"

I knew we would come back to this, even before the KSP2 release, which was released on "early access" for a reason.

ksp should become public domain with open source code and be maintained by volunteers

Quite unfortunate to see a game with so much potential suddenly die

Welcome home. For the future I'd be interested in modular construction of large interplanetary colony ships from components that fit in mk3 cargo bays.

I spent $40 for nothing

My god I love the fact that he's back on this game.

KSP got me into the space world (rockets, spacecraft, space race history) and I finally decided to study Aerospace Engineering. I currently work at my university's rocket team, playing KSP IRL lol. I am devastated about the state of KSP 2, hopefully it all ends well, despite not looking good now. Nice vid, back to the roots! You should play RP-1, best modpack I have ever played for KSP, I am currently consuming it viciously after the sad KSP 2 news.

Let this be a lesson to everyone: Don't buy Early Access games. Make the developer finish V1.0 before getting paid, at the very least.

I think maybe a lowne aerospace 3 is in order, but this time with mods, more parts, more destinations, maybe even interstellar?

You should use Rocket Sound Enhancements. It adds better engine sounds than waterfall, supersonic cones of sound, and vacuum sound dampening. By the way, the mod you’re looking for at the end of the video is called Z theme.

For a final video, perhaps doing that final boss "10 Kerbals to Eve and back" mission?

Excellent video! Was so happy to see you pick up KSP1 again, really brought back memories of your other work. I’d love to see a modding tutorial to do the graphics mods and gameplay features to make KSP1 “remastered” like you discussed.

ShadowZone did a great deep dive on the history of KSP2, worth a watch, if not a bit depressing

hay look at the news, 'The head of Take Two Interactive assured that neither the devs of Kerbal Space Program 2 nor OlliOlli were closed. He also admitted that the company saved 165 million dollars (instead of the planned 100 million) under the previously mentioned cost reduction program, which has just begun to be put into effect. However, "nothing was shuttered."

Developers made mods for KSP 1 because of how much fun and passion they had for it. KSP 2 is lucky if people even acknowledge it's existence in a few years.

For your final KSP2 Video you should do an opposite of the blunderbirds. Fly a monument to Eeloo as a final grave and resting site for KSP 2, with no way to return

KSP2 situation is sad but at least we have the good ole KSP1! 😁

I can imagine the astronauts watching the antics of KSP2 and laughing, knowing full well about their growing pains early on. I think we can officially say that KSP is a game which does the impossible

Others have kinda alluded to it but until we get KSP2 development I really want to see a 'standard' pack of mods developed for KSP that basically 'turn it into' KSP2 and I'd love to see you specifically on board and leading that as a project. Ideally it should push the game's graphics quite a lot, but it should *also* add fundamentally new mechanics in a balanced and 'Kerbal" way. Obviously you can already achieve this right now by piecemealing your own mods together, but having it become much more standardised would allow it to be polished a lot more and make it much easier for people to install. There are lots of great examples from past games of 'supermods' or 'epic mods' that are basically this concept, they start as separate mods/parts then get put into the same pack, developed and refined *together* to become greater than the sum of their parts and then the whole thing is offered with an installer for convenient use.

I haven’t watched a Matt Lowne video in so long. This felt right. Love your commentary style

KSP2? Never heard of it. You must've hallunicated those last few years.

The worst part about all of this... KSP 2 poached so much of the KSP team away... then fired them. Nuking Squad's staff.

The devs should have waited to release KSP 2 when complete

We need a latest and greatest must have mods list video for KSP1!

RP-1 playthrough would be amazing

The thumbnail looks so old-school-Matt-Lowne that I nearly checked to see if it was actually a new release. I love it!😄 Loving the unique spaceplane! I always like new & different things. At first, I was wondering what all the lander cans were for, but having all those windows as a ceiling makes a lot of sense. It's easy to imagine these different layouts when we can't see inside. ShadowZone's video is good, yup. A skeleton crew pushing out one last update is what I'm expecting too. Part of me is hoping they'll open-source what's left, I lived through the Netscape open-sourcing; that was wild, and several other incredible things followed. I doubt it'll happen though; the corporate side of the KSP debacle is completely different to what happened with Netscape and business fashion seems to be turning against open source right now. I think a bit of closure would be good for many of us, even those like myself who never bought the game. There's the real Minmus! 😃I'm being silly, -KSP2's- _the other_ Minmus is great too, but this Minmus looks like a part of Mercury's terrain. I can just imagine an April Fools scientific paper considering what would happen if a moon really were made out of mint ice cream and placed in Earth orbit, likely concluding that _the sublimation of various volatiles_ (etc. lol) might make it look like that strange terrain on Mercury, and probably not edible too. 🙂 I certainly like the conversational tone and relaxed style of your KSP voiceovers, Matt. In the _dark times_ before RU-vid, I used to prefer books with a conversational tone too. And books don't even have a comment section! I'm all the better for hearing you, Matt! 😉 Fiber-optic isn't that great except for very long-distance cables. Besides, fiber-optic cable is one of those things where it's much easier to manufacture a poor design than the good stuff. Up here in Derbyshire, I was happier with Vodafone's ADSL than Virgin's fiber. Definitely a kerbal touchdown! 😆 I wonder if Ludble Kerman is a composer? I hope he doesn't go deaf. Oh LOL! The log flume! Sorry to _laugh at your agony,_ Matt, but I can just imagine doing the same myself! 🤣 And then going on all the roller coasters afterward. Swooshy supersonic maneuvering! 😀 Words! 🙄 -pilar- pillar

SOMEONE will mod the KSP 2 sounds into KSP 1. Probably.

Fun Fact: The ribs and the collarbone are the quickest mending bones because they cannot be immobilized.

Rip KSP2

Matt Lowne just casually built something better than I understand just warming up to get back into the game.

So glad I waited and never bought 2. As soon as Take Two got control I knew it was over. Major studios don't have the patience for this kind of game.

What I'll miss the most is the UI and the menus and the music. I'm gonna be eaten alive by saying this but I think its way better than the base KSP UI and fits the theme very well.

KSP2 was never going to live up to expectations. KSP2 would have been just fine with an engine and graphic overhaul, along with new parts and missions. I was never sold on the interstellar part traveling to new systems. Those flights would have been extremely slow and boring. Filling out the Kerbin System with all kinds of new things would have been fine. There were too many things promised that sounded nice in theory. The development team also seemed to lack competent leadership and direction. The lead dude reminded me so much of Todd Howard. That should have been a red flag for everyone. It just works...barely. 16 times the bugs. This is all fine to me. Long live the real classic, KSP 1.

I've taken to the RSS mod. It's a whole new level of challenge but really fun. Honestly, with the modding scene, KSP 1 can be KSP 2.

23:00 for interstellar mods, I'd recommend kerbal star systems 2, kcalbeloh system and outer planets mod.

Man I can't believe I wasted $50 on KSP2. Thanks to all the troubleshooting I had to do, I went beyond Steam's refund time limit and never got my money back.

the only reason why i still have hope for ksp2 is because there were 4 development branches added to steam yesterday

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Your KSP mod video should be titled: How to Develop KSP2 Better Than the Dev Team. Then just present all the mods and modders they should have imported and hired 5 years ago.

I never even knew there was a KSP 2, but then again I haven't even played KSP 1 in years

If KSP2 is dead they should at least release what they have done with colonies, interstellar etc. for the modding community to complete the game

The orange tanks are actually not just for visual flair in real rocketry, they are orange because of the insulation

It sucks. I was super excited to build all sorts of moon bases and colonies everywhere. It's a shame the entire team was laid off, but with the Early Access product they sold and stuff behind the scenes, it was going to happen.

Don't forget to save a clean KSP copy somewhere safe and leave it unmodded. It's only a matter of time before Take2 does what corporations always do... KSP1 Revolution! Let's make it bigger than it ever was. Make our own KSP2.

I'd love to see you do a proper modded science/career mode playthrough. I've never really seen you do a whole lot with any (non-visual) mods, so that could be something cool to explore. It'd be really cool to see you do some content with the USI suite of mods (Plus other supporting mods like EPL, CTT, and Near Future mods by Nertea). Maybe have a look at the outer planets pack or even one of the interstellar planet packs like the kcalbeloh system.

Great vid. You should give a list of mods so someone could recreate this visual effects! Thanks, Matt!

Stealth is another one at Thorpe Park you should try, Loggers Leap the iconic log flume was removed to make way for Hyperia.

"you couldn't live with your own failure, where did that bring you? Back to me" -KSP1, probably

Your best videos are always ones you can be passionate about or have fun with. You recently did some videos rescuing 'famous creators' in KSP2... What would you think of another one doing that with KSP1 creators (might have *some* of the same faces, but a collab is always fun!)? Perhaps let them design some of their scenarios they got into trouble with, to surprise you. Would be nice to have some collaborative cheer to spite the current situation's vibes.

I would recommend doing a series with a custom system with many more bodies and interstellar travel. Maybe throw in principia, which makes many more types of orbits possible. custom systems and principia don't always go well together: some if not most are unstable, although that could be a feature. Imagine making a rendevous to a moon that is about ot be ejected from the system. The more annoying aspect of that is some missions become unfeasable or not worth the rewards.("land on Duna" becomes "chase after the wandering Planet")

I never liked* KSP2 much because it took Matt away from KSP. He is now my favorite RU-vidr again. Thank you, Matt❤

I will never be as good as landing back on the same runway lol. that is just mindblowing to me lol

You could try the mod rocket sound enhancement, gives some really nice realistic-sounding rockets over waterfall sounds!

Holy crap. That's just sad but you know what, at least we got a good trailer out of it.

One time at a school trip to the Valleyfair park in Minnesota (end of the school year thing), my brother and one of his friends smuggled a chessboard with some of the pieces glued on onto one of the rides so that when the souvenir camera started shooting he could pretend to appear to be pondering his next move.

Would love to see you using the Outer Planets Mods (OPM). And nice to see you back in KSP1!

It's nice to hear Matt also does that thing where you gesture while talking in a purely audio format which I'm a swine for.

With the uncertainty of KSP 2’s future, I think you should start a new planet coaster series!

this was all part of a big conspiracy to get matt to play real solar system

one suggestion i have for things you can do in ksp1, check out different planet packs. Outer Planets Mod, Minor Planets Expansion, Quackpack, and even bigger stuff like Kcalbeloh (my beloved). it'd be really cool seeing one of your SSTOs breach the skies of Efil, with the gas giant Anehta in the background, and the black hole Kcalbeloh visible off in the distance. just an idea

10:55 I'm just terrific, thanks! Glad you're doing well :)

People have forgotten how extremely varied and unique the mods of KSP1 are. You can basically make the game into anything you want.

Here's an idea. Blunderbirds in KSP2. I enjoy watching the Blunderbirds episodes.

I wonder if the code fixes from that failed mod Take Two was funding called 'KSP2' can be somehow integrated into KSP?

10:54 I'm great thanks Matt, I just launched my very very mission to the Jool System with a probe for each planet, and another first time mission to Duna. 5 rockets launched one after the other to Duna: 1st with communication network, 2nd small sat network for easter egg hunting using the Kerbnet, 3rd for ore scanning, 4th with rover for crew, and the 5th is the Apollo Style crew mission once everything else is set up. Can't wait! How are you?

Matt , thanks to YOU and Scott Manley . I got KSP 1,I WAS going to get ksp 2 ( they now don't deserve capitol letters ) and have enjoyed making my own stuff.

has a problem with the word 'glided' and proceeds to say, "snazzens it up..." without a second thought. XD i haven't played in years, but after watching this i think i'll try reinstalling. i miss KSP. thanks for the vid!

I look forward to the "How to turn KSP1 into KSP2" Video!

Hey Matt, I've been watching you for a while so I know that your main thing is vanilla KSP. With the death of KSP 2 i would love to see modern videos from you expanding your horizon, trying some futuristic/interstellar mods or Kerbal scale real solar. I am aware that vanilla is more accessible to the "average' player base but you could help introduce people to new mods and ways to play and I'd love to see your take on those, I think it would be refreshing!

That awkward moment when you never stopped playing KSP1 because you didn't get KSP2.

As we’re coming back to KSP1, the KSP2 dream will be missed 🥲

I was actually getting worried this might have become your main income but glad to hear you still have eyes.